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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
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P1s. 81 Board Of Health.
What sAAA ! eat?" is the daily in
quiry tb NDician is met with. l
do not sssatab to say that in my judg-
ment, a ArU percentage of disease is
caused by pssrly selected and fmprop-
erly prsIareA feod. My personal expe-
rience Nt1h the fully cooked food,
known as Grpe-Nuts, enables me to
speak AeeIy Of its merits.
From everwork, l suffered several
years with Ralnutrition, palpitation OF
the heart, and loss OF sleep. Last
summer l was led to experiment per-
sonally with the new food, which I
used In con1unetion with good rich
cows niR. In. q short time after I
commenced fts use the disacreeable
symptoms disappeared, my hearts &C
ton becane steady and normal, the
functions q the stomach were prop
erly carried sut and I again slept as
soundly 9d as we'll AZ In nay youth.
81 Iosk upsn 0rape-Nuts - q perfect
food, ana 70 one can gMEsay ut that
it has a most promiaent place - 4 ra-
tional, scientific SYSTEM Of feeding. Any
one who usas this food will sem be
convinced q the soundaess Of the prfn-
ciple upen which 1t is manufactured
and may thereby know the facts as to
its true worth" Read, The Road to
WellvF1e," In pkgs. There's q Rea-
SON.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
A, Bold Step,

n ovorcoma the yyolI-crov,doa -.
~ ovIiSomo .uo "~easioonueu ana
reasonable ob1ectlons OF the more intel
!igent to the use of secret, medicinal com
pS,nds Dr r " pierca ~ Rnfrolo ~
pSoAu'' - ouhuio, n.
T., some time ago, decided to make a bold
departure from the uslSl course pursued
Nv tho r,Irore ~ n,,t.nv, ,oo5;o;nas $3.50
" a. n 10y nnIusLus toI 40
pnes1ic USE So mas puoiisnea broad
OkSt n Openly to the whole world, a full
ord com.hte LIST NJ all tho i~ngredIonts
60 SIsuiSn.S
entering MSSthec 9nposltiono OF MS widely
celebrated AedieSheS. Thus he has taken
his nnmersXs Rtrons and natients inta
10 HNin Tto. thto
BIS luli EOnY0cn 1HS TOO ne mas re-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. from among secret
unstr,En,<of dsubtful uerits and mado
tLnr.E ~ 49, - K,.,~n Ton,oa.ttaa
nenaS!.e"'o1 ~ LA'Se.on CoHtPoSttOft.
Ry Ibis ROLE sion III. wlarce has shown
tEIL hIR tDraapIaS ~ ~ such eXceIlence
that bs rs moi nfIH3 Subfsct them IL
TIE fIfTcsf. scrSTinV
~, ~. 49, ~ s,S.,.or -, oror,, 49,.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
Alcohol the Future Fuel.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in a
recent address before the Americas Club
ut Pittsburg, referred at considerable
length to the work the department is do
ing toward the development of the pro-
duction of alcohol for industrial uses. He
said: mo more coal is being made. Our
wood fuel is getting scarce, and the sup
ply of mineral oils will some day cease.
It is high time we were looking about for
sources of light, heat and power. Other
countries are doing this. Alcohol meets
the requirements. and starchy plants yield
alcohol. One of our explorers last year
found the Siberians at Tomsk growing a
large variety of potato for the alcohol it
yields. He brought back half a ton of
them, which will be distributed this
spring among the experiment stations"
He made the further statement that corn
cobs made II gallons of alcohol to the
ton, and sweet corn stalks and that
alcohol could be made from unmarked
able fruit and vegetable matter and many
refuse plants, and thought the time was
surely coming when the people remote
from wood, coal or oil would arrange to
grow plants rich in starch for their sup
ply of light, heat and power.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
Shamrock Used for Food.

According to old Irish historians the
shamrock was q staple article Of food
"a ireland before the introduction of
for the strength and Ieetness Of foot
that has always distinguished the sons
Of that tight little isle" Campion l n
his "Histery of Ireland" dated 1871,
says in speaking Of the food of the
common people: "Shamrocks, water
crosses and other herbs they e upon !;
oatmeal and butter they cram to-
gether."
Levbel, the Flemish botanist, who
was the first botanist writer to mention
the plant, after enumerating the vari-
Gus trefons, purple and white, says of
the latter: "The Irish grind the flow
ers and leaves into a meal, which they
knead with butter when vexed and
madaened with hunger" The nourish-
ing qualities Of the plant are also
fathered from the statement Of the
Earl of Antrim during the siege Of
Munster By the Duke Of Argyle, to the
effect that as long as shamrocks were
available there need be no apprehen-
sion regarding the food supply.
While authorities differ as to
whether the edible shamrock of those
stirring times was the wood sorrel, the
watercress or the little Irish sham
rock, trifolium repens or triofolium
minus is immaterial. The fact remains
that something In the national diet has
contributed to give it's women complex
ions Of roses and cream and its men
daring ara strength.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
MEXICO.

American Farmers Are BenehtinE
Themselves and the Greasers.
More than a hundred families from
the United States have gone into the
republic of Mexico during the last thirty
days to develop farming lands along the
northern border.
They took their household effects and
went to live just like they have been liv-
ing in the United States. This is some
thing of a departure from the plan here
tofore followed with but Indifferent sue
cess by people from the States who have
gone to live on farms in Mexico.
The old plan was to form colonies.
The colony proposition was not a great
success. 1t was due more to the failure
of the colonists to agree and adapt them
selves to their environment than to any
otOr cause that the colonies were not
successful.
1t has been discovered by the pioneer
Americans on farms of Mexico that con-
ditions in the republic are stable and
there is no need for colonies. So indi-
vidual American families are now locat-
ing themselves on haciendas in Mexico
lust as they used to do in the West.
They are becoming %neighbors to the Mex
lean families and each is learning some
thing to advantage from the other.
So far as the experiment of individual
effort at farming in Mexico by Americans
has gone, it has proven successful. The
cotton-growing possibilities of the repub-
lie nave never been appreciated by the
people beyond the Rio Grande, and in
this one line there promises to be great
profit for the American farmers who I'M
aerstand growing the staple. The high
price of cotton is an inducement to these
farmers to plant cotton.
The Mexicans are learning the Ameri-
can style of agriculture from their neigh
bors from the States, and the general
result of immigration of families of farm
ers from the United States to occupy the
cheap lands of Mexico promises to be
very good.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
WAGES ON THE CANAL.
Secretary Taft Affirms Rates of Pay
and Hours of Labor.

secretary lAIt AulTH1s NAtcS O1 u
and Hours of Labor.
The decision of Secretary Taft affirm
ing rates of pay, hours of labor, etc., for
men employed on the Panama canal work
applies especially to steam shovel men,
construction train engineers and conduc-
tors. The shovel men wanted higher
wages, as follows: Engineers, from 500
to $500 a month cranesmen, from $1S5 to
$3.50; fremen, from $s3.33 to $11O. The
Secretary rules that the present rates are
high enough latter comparing the advan-
tages which the isthmian shovel men have
over their brothers in the States, with
the disadvantages which they have to bear
in living on the isthmus." He explains
that the present basis is from % to IS
per cent higher than the average in this
country, while the canal men get steady
work twelve months in the year, six
weeks leave with pay, twenty days sick
leave, lodging free, and the married men
water, fuel and light at the public ex-
pense, free medical attendance and an
eight-hour day. He says further that
yellow fever has been stamped out and
the sick rate greatly reduced. Although
denying that the contracts with the men
contain any promise of a gradual increase
of pay, he has recommended a yearly in
crease of 3 per cent to skilled men.
The wages of the construction train en-
gineers are advanced to $21O, as re-
quested.
As to dismissals, the Secretary has ap-
proved a plan whereby fnal and summary
action will rest with a committee consist
ing of one representative of the craft con-
cerned, one of the foremen and one of the
commission.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
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A May queen in lannels and furs-

A May queen in ~f1annels and fur-
bah
Ellen Terry has become a bride at So.
Terryble!
This years spring weather was ship
ped to US by slow freight.
France is going to examine our meats
by microscope. Another case of SEEM
things.
A Hoboken divorce suit hinges on the
quality of the wife's ~doughnuts. They
were not like mother used to make.
The new San Francisco is reported to
be ..twc-thirds finished" Boss Ruef was
caught before he could quite complete it.
Growing a garden should properly be
classed as one of the luxuries, rather than
one of the economies, Of modern civiliza-
ton.
The Hon. Abe Ruef doesn't believe he
can get a fair trial in San Francisco,
but hardly anybody will blame San Fran
cisco.
Suburban gardening is again impress.
ing itself upon the public mind al one Of
our most ponderous national extrava.
gances.
Commander Pcary has succeeded IN
loading his proposed North Pole expedi.
ton with everything except tho fund.-
necessary to make it 80.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
FIENDISH WRECK PLOT.
COnst Line Limited Hurled from
TrestIc Near Los Angeles.
Gn,J;oh +r,i -u-raalri,p nlpt was

Const Line Limited Hurled from
TrestIc Near Los Angeles.
A fiendish train-wrecking plot was
oerpetrated near Los Angeles, Cal,
that resulted in the death of n man
and the injury of twenty-five persons.
four of whom are dying.
Train No. 20, one of the Southern
Pacific's coast line flyers, Tuesday
night was hurled from the tracks on a
trestle at West Glendale by the delib-
crate work of murderous train wreck
ers. Seven cars plunged off the tres
tie, while the train was making forty
miles an hour, falling sixteen feet to
the bottom of a gulch.
In accomplishing the wreck of the
train, which was the Coast Line
Limited" a devilish ingenuity was ex-
ercised. At a point on a trestle over
the Arroyo Seco the f%ishplates and
bolts of two connecting rails on the
south-bound track had been removed,
were taken strands of heavy wire were
fastened at the end of each rail. From
the appearance of the track after the
wreck it was evident that some person
hidden on a hillside close to the tres
tie had pulled the wire as the train
approached and spread the rails out
ward toward the edge of the trestle.
The train, three hours late, was
travelling at a rate of between thirty
five and forty miles an hour. The en-
CINE wheels were first to leave the rails
and the engine took to the ties, trav-
cling nearly 100 yards before it was
brought to a standstill.
The tender, the diner, two Pullmans,
the buffet, mail and baggage cars
plunged over the edge of the ~trestle,
falling a distance of sixteen feet. The
buffet car the xpress car, and one
of the Pullmans were turned upside
down and the others landed on their
sides. All were badly crushed and
splintered.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
MOB STAYS WOMAN AND CHILD.
Lives Lost in Race Conflict in Geor-
gia-SlOts on Both Sides.

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gia-SlOts on Both Sides.
AT Reidsville, Ca, a mob included a
colored woman and children among
it's victims at Il "lynching.' One white
man and four colored persons were
killed and seven are IN the injured list
as a result of an effort to capture a
colorcd man who attempted to attack
Mrs. Laura Moore, a widow living near
Manassas.
Fifteen persons surrounded the
house of Sam Padgett, whom they sus-
pected of harboring the colored man,
and demanded to be allowed to search
the home. Permission was given, u
when within thirty feet of he house
those inside the building opened fire on
the posse, instantly killing Hare and
wounding Pierson, Daniel and Ken
needy. The posse then returned the
fire, killing Padgett and his 1O-year-
old daughter and wOunding two other
girls, aged Sand 13, and two of Pad
gets sons, aged 20 and %.
The colored man who shot Hare was
started for .Reidsville Jail, together
with Padge:t's wife and son, who also
were caught. IN the way the officers
were ovcrtakcn by about seventy-fve
men. who took the prisoners from
them. The woman was told to run,
and as she did so she was riddled
with bullets, her son being shot to
pieces where he stood. The other pris
Oner was jailed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
BABY iTcteD TERRIBLY.

Face and Neck Covered with In
famed Skfn-DSctOrs No Avail
Cured by Cu1lcara Remedies.
MY baby's facs and neck were COW
cred with itching skin similar to &C.
zema, and she suffered terribly for
ever a year. I took her to a number
Of doctors, and also to different COL
leres, to no avail. Then Cuticura
Remedies were recommended to me by
Miss c.. I did not use it at first,
as I had tried so many other remedies
without any favorable results. At last
I tried Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Oint-
ment and Cuticura Resolvent Pills, and
to my surprise noticed an improvement.
After using three boxes Of the Cuti-
cura Ointment, together with Cuticura
Soap and Pills, I am pleased to say
she is altogether a different child and
the picture Of health. Mrs. A. G.
Brestlin, III N. Lincoln street, Chi
cago, ILL.,, Oct. 20 and 80, 1906"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
Nenbexy smith,s Cbief Heir,

The fortune held by the late James N.
Smith, known in Wall street as "Silent
Smith, which was believed to be near
S%5O,OO0,OOO, has now been divided among
the heirs by the will probated at New
York on the day of the funeral. The real
value of the estate is found to be net
over $25, 100000. Of this the largest
piece goes to George g.. Mason, a nephew,
who has worked his way up from the
shops in the service of the st. Paul rail-
road. He gets S12,OOO,OOO. A third goes
to another nephew, William Smith Mason,
a young real estate man of Evanston, ILL.,,
while $4,000, 900 is left to the widow, ST.
100000 to a titled sister, Lady CooperSof
England, and smaller amounts to other
relatives.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
r.. Danger. OF the mines.

~ EAE AA
Great and mystfcaIly dreadful is the
.earth from a mines depth. Man is In
1.-THE fmpiacabfe grasp OF nature. It has
only to tighten slightly and he is crush
led like a bug. His londest shrek of
iagony would be as impotent as his
l1nal moan to bring help from that fair
liand that lies like heaven over his
Head. There is an insidious silent enc
tmy In the gas. If the huge fanwheel
ION the top of the earth should stop for
q brief period there is certain death,
tand Z panic more terrible than any oc-
where the sun has shone ensues
down under the tons Of rock. II a man
inay escape the gas, the foods, the
squeezes" OF falling rock, the cars
shooting through little tunnels. the pre-
tcArious elevators, the hundred perils,
there usually comes to him an attack Of
SINNERS asthma that slowly racks and
shakes him into the grave.-Stephen
Crane.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
TOO Rapid Growtn.

The minister's 6-year-old son Is OF q
very critical, literal turn of mind, and
his fathers ermon sometimes puzzle
him sorely. He regards his father as
the embodiment of truth End wisdom.
but he has difficulty In harmoniziyg the
dominie's pulpit u%tterances with the
world as 1t really is. His parents en-
courage him to express his opinions
and clear up his doubts as much as pos
Nible. So one Sunday at dinner, after
q long period of thought, they were SUR
sprised when he said gravely, Papa,
you said one thing in your sermon to-
day that / don't think is so at ali
well, what's that, my boy?' asked
the clergyman.
why. pops, You said, The boy of
to-day is the man Of tomorrow That's
too soon.''-pittsburg Post
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
SEARCH FOR kRUGER's GOLD.

Thousands of Pounds Already Spent
in n South African Hunt.
Since the late Boer val a new phase
of treasure hunting has been in vogue.
Some one started Il rumor that ere
his departure from the Transvaal the
late President had a quantity Of bar
gold, variously estimated at a value
ranging from Il to several millions,
conveyed up country and buried, says
Chambers Journal. The story received
so much credence that the British gov
eminent at Pretoria has provided spe-
cial permits and police assistance to
various persons who professed to be
able to guide a search party to the
hiding place.
The degree of g~ullibility that even in
telligent and educated men can attain
when excited by treasure mania was
amusingly illustrated by a well-known
instance. A young Boer from the dis
trict supposed to contain the treasure
called upon a doctor near Johannes
burg and told a strange story. He
said that one night while riding in a
wooded kloof or gorge, and %reconnoit-
ering cautiously he saw a party of
men removing boxes from a wagon and
burying them.
Carefully noting the spot he got
away unobseryed and returned next
day, when he unearthed Il box which
on being broken open he found to con-
tain bars of gold and quantities of
Kruger sovereigns minted on one side
only. In confirmation of the story
he produced three discs of gold which
appeared to have been struck on one
side with an imperfect die.
His object on calling on the doctor
was to borrow ESQ in order to procure
a wagon and Ken to remove the treas
ure. He was asked why he did not
bring away the portable coin and thus
make himself independent Of outside
financial air. His explanation was in
genious. He feared to bring more lest
he might be found with them upon him.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
BY a BARRETT

ness said |: lat present l can distin-
guish nothing. You must be my eyes" |
was silenced for n minute or so by a
feeling of utter helplessness in the OBJ
security. Psyche filed up he interval
with some little noises of her own.
prompted doubtless by the same motive
that had led me to speak whatever came
into my mind.
Yes, that's very true, Psyche" said /.
when she stopped. but where are we?
Shall | ever be able to see through the
darkness? Heaven help us, what are we
to do? There's the Ratchet in the bucket
might as well hack away at something
directly as stand here idle. But how can
l find the way to the tunnel, or make
you understand that l want to 90 there?
Wait a bit-Bom, bonn, BON Psyche
do you understand me-bom. bonn, BON :"
She replied in a cheerful rome and led
me carefully along until | felt the brick
work of the passage; advancing with
still greater care | reached the shaft and
got the Ratchet and knife out of the
bucket, and | thought it as we'll to take
the bucket and ropes in case I might find
use for them. Psyche helped me TO haul
the ropes along, and to amuse her | sang
a chant that | nave heard at The capstan
as the sailors heave UP the anchor.
Psyche was in ecstasies over this, and
to hear us singing and laughing as we
hauled the rope along one would have
thought we had not a care in the world.
We'll, now, where are We and what
are we to do next?" / asked, as Psyche
to a standstill. "Oh, my child,
mt laugh. l can't stand it." The
.ppeal came from my heart ~involuntarily,
for our mirth in the midst o. this terri
BILE obscurity overcame me like the sing
ing of a bird in the presence of death.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
why Not Breed Donkey..

In this country a donkey costs 800.
II their breeding we're undertaken sys-
tematically one could be bought for S.
or $40. London Is full of donkeys.
The costers use them. Every tiny buck
ster cart is drawn by a tiny gray
donkey. The animals are bred in Ire
land and in Wales. and it is possible
to buy little ones for 81, So, 81 and so
on up to 500 or more for the fancy
grades. The donkey is doclle, intelli-
gent. Industrious, moral. He never
runs AWAY. He never loses his tenn
per. He is an ideal pet for children,
and, II he were bred here, he would be
within the reach Of nearly all. Think
how nice it would be IL you could do
here what you can do In England
give a child a nice little donkey that
only costs IS.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
STORM AND TIDAL WAVE.

Immense Loss of Life fron Hurri-
csne that sweeps Caroline Isles.
A dispatch from Sydney, N. s. W.,
says a report has reached there that q
hurricane and tidal ave swept over the
Caroline Islands. Immense damage was
done to property and 200 persons are
reported killed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31

To - - good terms with human ma
|ture, u Welt Garfield Tea purifies the
Mood. sradicates. disease, requisites the
digestive organs and brings Good HEALTH
Manufactured BY Garfield Tea Co,
s.Broeklyn, N. Y. Sold BY druggists.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31

Every married man haa a grievance
and 50 has his wife until she becomes
6 widow.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31

Probably the undertaken never would
get some people If they could live until
they acquired wisdom.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-31
Not the

Mr.. Mitten-Perhaps your refoaai Of
me was prompted merely by the fact
that I am a vegetarian.
Miss Bosting-Yeur inference IL
quite As a matter Of fact.
I invariably prefer ~herbiverous to car.
niverous animals. Philadelphia
Ledger.
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We have no difficulty now In UNDER
standing what is meant by "persecu-
tion Of capital" So much has been said
adverse to the railroads and so many
states have felt 1t their duty to trim
their receipts that all the companies
are in straits for means to carry ON
ordinary extensions and improvements
under way. Instead Of the customary
loans they are compelled to issue short
short term notes at a high rate of in
terest. The railroad that settles down
is lost. Tney must go ahead and they
are doing 1t at considerable cost.
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conditions hereaboat, that means The
long,deferred application Of all attri'
butes that We contend belong to us, and
among them the realization Of Astorias
marine supremacy, the final establish
meut Of that for which she was or,
dained BY the God Of Natures and this
will come, at some propitious hour,
Portland and all other powers TO the
contrary notwithstanding.
Our faith Is ample to keep us warm
with hope, despite the attitude Of the
oregonian and the good people OF Port
land, No cause il 50 hopeless that Il
can be argued down or talked out, We
are, still In the ringl
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ALL HoNoRs PAID.

The American world has paid It's lie.
votion to the dead of the nation and the
family, according to the beautiful Gus
toms appropriate to Memorial Day,
Here at Astoria the sun, the air, the
flowers, the sea and the hills, were all
ideal, and the last soul in the commun.
ity was abroad, save those detained in
doors by illness. Every business door
was sealed for the day and all was
given over to the sacred and sad obliga.
tions that were paramount.
There Is much to be thankful for in
these grave intermissions in the feverish
schedule of our daily lives; the oppor-
tunity 10 call our thoughts back to the
happier and holier quests Of life; the
demand upon the deeper and better in.
spirations OF our natures, and the &C.
quirement Of newer and better impulses
to actuate us and change the trend Of
our purposes; the barking back to the
lives and histories Of those in whom our
pride and faith are centered, and whom
we honor as We rarely honor the living.
1t is well to check the swift course Of our
eager careers and think Of something
beside the dollar, absorbing, and ab.
scrbed. We are all the better for the
momentary halt, and Il there is no
other refreshment innuring. we may
count the largess of duty done, to
our credit, at least.