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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26
THROWS SELF IN
FRONT OF TRAIN
BECAUSE SICK

Aberdeen, S. D.. July Pc. A.
Poore, employed as stenographer by
Paul, threw himself in front OF /.
Northwestern train at Columbia, nea,
here, this morning and his body wa.
cut to pieces.
Ill health preyed on his mind until
it resulted in temporary Insanity. II
was clear case of suicide He wa.
visiting his wife's parents at Columbia
He leaves Il Wife and two children.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26
SWEDISH MISSION is
LEFT $4,000 BY DAkOTAN

Vermillion, S. D., July 22.-By the viii
OF Charles Swanson, Of Clay county.
which is being probated, the Swedish
Mission society OF America gets SO, 900.
All OF the Swanson estate, except $1,000,
is given to the society to use as its gov
erning board sees fit. South Dakota
will receive about S1OO as Inheritance
tax. ~
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26
BOY BROWNS WHILE
SWIMMING AT 500 FALL S

Sioux Falls, S. D.. July 24.--sever
Berdahl, aged lt adopted son of res
dents of Sioux Falls, was drowned in
Pickerel pond, in the northwestern part
Df the city. While in swimming with a
number of other boys
The lad got into deep water and al
though he could swim little. he was
not able to save himself and disap-
peared before the frightened compan-
IONS could summon assistance or go
to his aid themselves
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26
TEMPERANCE FOLK POST
REWARD FOR ENInENcE

Castlewood, S. D., July 25.-,The
Christian Mems association of this
place, by its president, Fl. H. Curtis,
has offered a standing reward of 500
to any person or persons furnishing
evidence to the states attorney that
will secure the conviction of any per-
son or persons for violating the laws
prohibiting the sale or giving away of
Intoxicating liquors. The reward APP
plies only to the town of Castlewood.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26
DEETs, OF DEs MONIES,
CHOSEN VICE PRESIDENT

Detroit, Mich, July ao.--The Ma
tional Travelling Mems Protective as
eociation today elected the following
officers:
President, Louis LaBeaume. of ST.
Louis.
Vice president. L. c. Deets of Des
Moines, Ia.
Secretary treasurer, A l.. Shcetz,
Omaha, Neb.
The 1905 convention viii be held at
Lake Placid. N. Y.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26

HE TRIES TO WRECK A
TRAIN. BECAUSE DISCHARGED

Washington. Ia. July 2o.-Henry
Hillar, a section hand. is in Jail here
charged with attempting to wreck a
Burlington passenger train on the Os-
kaloosa branch. He has confessed to
having laid a plank across the track
on a bridge because he was discharged.
The train struck the plank and was
partially wrecked, but no one was in
jured.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26
is HIGHEST STATE LEVY
I'm TEN YEARS. SAVE ONE

Des Moines, la. July 2O.-An increase
of the tax levy for state purposes from
mills to 3 and 4-10 mills has just been
declared by the executive council, to
meet the act of the last leg1slnture
This is the largest levy in ten years.
with the exception of the year 1902.
The tax levied by the state for ten
NearS has boon as folloWs:
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26
HEARTS REUNITED BUT
RAlLP DAD BLOCKS WAY.

the price Of a railroad fare to :
Tacoma, WASH. stands between !
Mrs Lena White. of this place, and I
her husband. The couple are anx- !,
.ous 10 effect a reconciliation but !
each is too poor to go to the other :,
and Mrs. White mas appealed tc the :
Lawrence county commiss. on.rs 20 I
pay her fare to Tacoma She de- !
clares that her husband deserted :
her some time ago but has re- I
pented. He has Just recovered =
from a severe Illness and mas no (
money and she has been suffering :
from throat affection that pre- :
vented her from working. l is I
proba BILE that the con1liss oncrs !
will aid in reunitias the couple. :
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26
BAPTIST PASTOR TO
GO TO MINNEApOi ia

South Shore, s. D.. July 25.-Rev. L.
z. Viets. who recently resigned the
pastorate Of the Baptist church at this
place to accept the pastorate of the
Baptist Tabernacle in Minneapolis will
assume his new duties about Septem-
Der l. Rev. Mr.. VIets has made a fine
record during his stay here
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26
DELEGATES TO PRISON

Pierre, S. d., July Ex-Governor
Crawford has appointed as delegates
to the national prison congress to meet
In Chicago September IA. H T. Parm-
ley, Sioux Falls; S. E. Young. Plank
inton; d. G. Thomas. Watertown; Rev.
ID. +. Desmond Huron
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26
DOG GOES TO TRAIN
EACH DAY IN HOPES
MASTER WILL COME

Dea iwood, S. D., July GA rare
instance of canine Intelligence is
daily displayed in this city by the
fine setter dog of DR.. Coburn which
each day visits the Burlington rail-
road depot at the time of the arrival
of passenger train from the east.
in the evident hope that his absent
master will ai!ght and once more
ION him.
DR.. Coburn departed number of
days ago for his former home in
Canada. His dog followed him 10
the depot and ii was with difficulty
that the animal couid be prevented
from following his master into the
sleeper.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26
KILLED HIMSELF ON
HIS new HOR7ES7SEA.5

Sioux Falls, s. D.t July 25.-sSh@:.sl
Sam Sheldon, of Lyman county, ms
sent message to Coroner l.. ID. Miller,
of his city, of the finding of the body
of Thomas +. Thompson, formerly
resident of Sioux Fails, i'm a barn o.
the Thompson claim near PreSho. ly-
man county. Thompson :eft Sioux
Falls some time ago for The puinose
of making entry of Il homestead in L.y-
man county While the telegram az
Sheriff sheldon did not give any par
ticulars. in view of the finding of the
body hanging IN the barn ii is believed
to be Il case OF suicide.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING
WHILE DRIVING cCWS
Pukwana, S d., July 25.-Framls
johnson was struck by lightning ana
instantly killed during terrific rain
and thunder storm which visited this
section Saturday afternoon. iIe Ia!
been employed for some time about the
Larson hotel and had gone to a pas
ture at the edge Of town to drive home
a couple of COWS. When near the gate
on his return. lightning struck him and
1T is presumed that he was killed in
stantly. Another lad going into this
pasture on the same crrand shortly
after, found him and gave the alarm.
Johnson was not married and has no
relatives here. johnson left a proved
up homestead near town valued at
$4,000
H G. Heard, agcf, so, we'll to do
farmer near Pukwana, died Sunday
morning, the result primarily OF an
accident. He had for some time been
subject to fainting spells and on two
occasions, while about his duties on
the farm, had fallen once from a wag-
on and once from a p!ow, each time
striking on his head. causing para.y-
sis and Il complication of derange-
ments which finally resulted in his
death. MIR. Heard came to !3rule coun-
ty about two years go from Iowa,
and with two sons-in-iaw bought a
large farm.
AX HURLED STERiOUSLY,
NEARLY SEWERS BOYS LEG
Sioux Falls s. D., July 25.-While
playing near the Sioux river. Roy
Nicholi, aged II, the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Nicholi, Of this city, was
the victim of a serious and mysterious
accident
The boy. according to his story. was
passing some ice houses near the river
In the southeastern portion of the city
when, without the slightest warning,
an AK came flying through the air,
striking him about three inches above
the ankle and nearly severing his leg.
No one was seen about the Ice houses
ard these who have Investigated are
at q loss to know who coM'i have
hurled tlle,ox. The boy in SOHO MAN.
ner unknown 10 himself managed to
make his way home short distance
away, where the wound was promptly
bandaged. He was then hurried to a
he will recover unless blood poisoning
sets in
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09
HAILsTONEs.

The formation of hail through cleo
trical action, according to the theory
Of scientists attached to the weather
bureau at Washington, is an interest
ing and even wonderful process.
The wind draws out cloud into a
long narrow strip. In that form,
owing to the great amount of sur
face exposed to the air, the cloud
evaporates rapidly, and the rapid
evaporation produces intense cold.
Dry particles of snow are then formed,
and these, by friction with the water
drops, quickly become charged with
negative electricity. But the water
drops themselves carry positive cleo
tricity, and, since negative attracts
positive, a film of water is formed
upon each snow particle and is in
stantly frozen into layer of ice.
At this thickness its outer surface
remains moist, the water not freez-
ing there so rapidly, whereupon the
electrical charge changes from mega
tive to positive, and the particle is re-
PEELED by the water drops aud driven
to the outer parts of the cloud. Here
the increased cold covers it with snow
again, and friction charges it anew
with negative electricity. Repulsion
is now once more changed for attrac-
ton, and the particles rush back into
the cloud, receiving upon their sur
faces another film of water, which is
turned into second ice layers.
Thus the growing hailstone darts
zigzag through the clouds, pilling up
its alternate layers of snow and ice
until gravitation gains control and
sends it, with jingling crowd of its
fellows, spinning to the ground
M;nneabolis Journal.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09
srOREHOUsE FOR ACORNs.

"Many mammals, chiefly rodents,
store quantities of food against sea-
son of scarcity, but it is worthy of
note that very few birds have &C
quired the habit" says a writer in
the Scientific Amerioan. I'm Cali
fornia, however, where there are
long, dry summers in the valleys,
shining example of thrift has been
developed among the woodpeckers.
This bird is a handsome California
woodpecker (melanerpes formivorus
Bairdi), closely related to the red
headed woodpecker of the eastern and
middle states. 1t is one of the most
industrious creatures in California,
and to the casual observer its rrinci-
pal occupation might seem to be the
boarding ofacorns. Our woodpecker
does not go about its work in the off
hand, slipshod manner of the Cali
fornia jay, which pounds its acorns
into the ground, with guilty air,
and then apparently forgets all about
them. Instead melanerpes drills
neat round hole in the bark of tree
and into this wedges the acorn, which
fits so tightly that one has to use
penkrife to extract it.
1.-The birds are most active during
the autumn and winter, when they
store many acorns for food. Whether
the birds particularly desire grub
which lives in the acorn is not known,
but we do know that they eat the
nuts. The habit of fitting them so
tightly into holes in bark may have
been acquired for protection against
the depredations of ground squirrels.
Although scattered acorns are found
in telegraph poles, in fence posts, in
the sides of houses or wedged under
shingles, the woodpeckers seem to
prefer live oaks in the valleys. In
the mountains conifers are used also.
Leaky roofs often result from the
wedging of acorns under shingles or
from holes drilled into them, and
many a rancher has been provoked
to profanity by having his house per-
forated.
GA characteristic of the woodpeck-
ers is their fondness for certain indi-
vidual trees. They store their acorns
in the same tree and use the same
holes year after year, adding new
holes as time goes by and the old
ones wear out. A few of these trees
must have reputation among wood
peckers for miles around, judging by
the way they are visited and the
number of acorns deposited in their
bark. Such a tree-a large oak,
now somewhat famous, at least local.
ly-stands IN front of President David
Starr Jordan's residence at Stanford
University, California. It's bark is
closely studded with acorns even out
onto the smaller limbs. -
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09
THE HUMBLE cLorHEsPrN.

In the baking powder tin, which is
nailed to a post at the back porch near
our stationary wire clothesline, keep
half dozen clothespins-always at
hand for the daily drying of the tea
towels.
When rapidly boiling water is re-
quired for tea and coffee making, ETC.,
use an inverted clothspin to hold the
ball of the teakettle at the angle,
which will prevent its becoming too
hot to handle.
l gather up and save the split
clothespins dropped by a careless
laundress, and when planting my
kitchen garden, the pins at each end
of cord mark the rows. l push
them down to the head, and with the
slower terminating seeds they are
left in the ground as a guide until the
plants appear.
At every window in each sleeping
apartment 1 have one of these single
pronged clothespins, gilded OF
stained. After the wood has been
beveled where the prong was broken
off, and the tip of the remaining
prong sharpened, a half-yard Of
baby-ribbon or cord is fastened to the
head with a carpet tack /; the other
end of the ribbon is tackled to the
window casing, where it hangs out OF
the way when not in use, but when
the wind rises at night and the sash
rattles, the nervous members of the
family know just where to put their
hands on a wedge to drop between
the upper and lower sash as silen'
cer.-M r. d., in Ladies' WoyId.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09
THE RAKrRG OF THE GREEN.

Many years ago there was observed
a unique custom in the little town of
Guilford, Connecticut. On one day
in the fall of the year the women of
the town assembled on the village
green. Each carried wooden rake,
decorated with her favorite color, and
each was dressed In white, decked
out with colored ribbons. 1t was a
day of fete, and it was called "The
Raking of the Green"
Then with song and laughter and
with many jest this band of women
cleaned the village green of all the
leaves and refuse and dirt of years
accumulation. When the job was
done, they adjourned to the Town
Hall, where they were joined by their
husbands and brothers and the village
fathers. A public banquet celebrated
the occasion.
While this was not the first charter
ed Village Improvement Association
in the country, it was probably at that
time the most enthusiastic, and had
perhaps the largest attendance. New
Haven, Connecticut, can rightly claim
the first effort in village Improvement,
while Stockbridge, Massachusetts,,
should be remembered as offering the
second. W
More than hundred years ago
James Hillhouse, of New Haven, or
gauized what he called the ''Public
Green Association. He raised
81, 500 for grading the green and for
planting elms. One man is said to
have donated five gallons of rum for
this purpose. James Hillhouse was
also United States Senator for twenty
years. Almost every one had forgot
ten what he did at Washington, but
no one is likely to forget his services
in making the city of New Haven
classic by the beauty of natures Goth
ic architecture. The whole country
owes him debt of gratitude that can
only be paid by planting elms in his
memory.-H. D. Ward, in W0man's
Hon,ze (0nnb1nfOn.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09
THE CARDINALS WIFE.

Cardinal Gibbons, the venerable head
of the Catholic Church in America, is
one of the most democratic men in
the country. He also enjoys a good
Joke, even when told at his own ex-
pense. He once related how a Bal
timore newspaper man who may have
been more jealous in journalism than
learned in religion called at the car
dinal's house one day to ask his en-
inence for information concerning
some church matter.
"The cardinal is out of the city, "
said Father Fletcher, who received
the caller.
"Then may 1 see Mrs. Gibbons 7"
was the startling request that follow
ed.-Li1bfneoRs.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09
BURNING UP WEEDS.

How to rid Its right of way of
weeds so tall, rank and troublesome
as to interfere with the operation of
trains has been solved on the Union
Pacific Railroad by the invention of
machine that does the work of 800
men day.
The new gasoline weed burner
turned out by the Omaha shops of
the Hartman road covers twenty five
miles in twelve hours, while hereto
fore it has required gang of sixteen
men, working full day, to cut the
weeds from a single mile of track.
The weed burner is built entirely
of steel, with regulation trucks. At
one end is a gasoline engine, used for
propelling the Car and pumping the
air which forces gasoline to the burn
ers, spreading out near the ground.
When at work the weed burner runs
three or four miles an hour, but can
make a speed of from twelve 10 fifteen
miles, and is handled on the road un-
der regular train orders.
Tanks carried on the car platform
contain enough gasoline for days
run. Through rowso Of burners spread
ing well beyond the rails, the flaming
gasoline is forced downward into the
weeds, killing root and branch, while
the old process did not stop future
growth.
It is not uncommon on Western
branch lines, sidings aud commercial
tracks to see weeds from three to
seven feet high, which form great
obstruction to train movement, cause
slippery rails and make operation diff
cult. The Union Pacific weed burner
is therefore solution of a serious
railroad problem. General Manager
Mohler conceived the idea, which has
been developed by w. R. McKeen,
superintendent of motive power of
the Union Pacifc.-Boston Globe.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09
THE GENERATION is PASSING.

We are in the seventh year of the
new century and we must soon be-
gin to realize that the much vaunt-
ed nineteenth century" is slipping
away into history. A time there was
when it were not difficult, among the
ranks of living men, to find those who
discussed the great events of the last
century "as of yesterday" We our
selves (born In the last half of that
great century, recall old men who
dropped into narrative with this pre-
liminary II remember when the
news came of the battle of Waterloo"
or 1.-THE same year that Lord Castle
reagh cut his throat"
We have met men who knew Tom
Moore; men who saw the Pope that
preceded Plus TX pensioners of the
war of 1872, and men who participa-
ted in the rousiug Presidential cam
paign of 1870.
Now there are few living who were
in touch with these episodes of the
last century. The man of sixty-five
can barely recall the events of the
early SOS the man of seventy can go
no further back than the '4o's; and
the really old man, who has reached
four score years, who was born in
I825-may have seen the Duke of
Wellington or heard O'Connell or
lived through the might of the big
wind" but even then the century was
well along towards its middle age.
And as the years go by, those who
remember our great civil war as par
Elephants therein, will become fewer
and fewer, so that when we meet a
soldier of the battle of Gettysburg, we
and our children will eagerly listen
to voice as from another age. The
youngest soldier of the war of 1905
will ten years hence, be over seventy
years of age.
We shall always have old men.
But the men relatively are passing
and past. We shall be the worlds
old men ourselves in few years.
Tile Mew Century.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09

"WHAr do you most enjoy about
automobiling?"
"The sense of relief" answered
Mr.. Cumrox, "when l get to the
end of a trip and find that nobody
has been hurt.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09
For "THE UNION"
DUB HISTORIC GUNS.
Lines Suggested by the Presentation Of His
toric Guns at Fort McHenry to the
City Of Baltimore.
BY EDWIN HIGGINS.

Come. a royal welcome give to our historic
guns:
Their silence is more potent than the music Of
their tongues;
For the love Of country they have borne their
wounds and scars;
Today, ia peace we greet them, beneath the
Stripes and Stars
Long live their deeds deep written in Freedoms
battle storyI
And every deed so written is chronicle Of
glory.
We greet you, valiant Veterans You stood on
guard through night.
And toiled and fought through tempests and
triumphed for the right.
Meier can we forget our sires, who bravely
manned the guns:
Their lives into our being in a crimson current
runs,
And though beneath the flowers they slumber in
We cherish their eternal fame and in their God
we trust.
And now with heads uncovered. we rejoicing
bout you stand
Rich tributes we have brought you-the tribute
For you. our own dear city. fragrant with death
less fame
Doth pledge loving care. and invoke the Holy
Name.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09
THE BREAKFAST PROBLEM.

Every one, no doubt, has planned
for himself breakfast which he takes
morning after morning without any
essential variation. One follows the
European plan for the first meal of
the day and takes only coffee and
rolls. Another adds to this fruit, an
other eggs, meat, cereals, etc. If
an acid fruit is eaten the sugar should
be omitted from the cereal, as its ac-
ton on the fruit juice may produce
fermentation and increase the burden
of the digestive powers. A good
breakfast is the best capital upon
which people who have real work to
do in the world can begin the day. If
the food is we'll selected and well
cooked it furnishes both cheer and
strength for the daily task. Good
food is not rich food, but such as
provides the requisite nutriment with
the least fatigue to the digestive
organs.
It is reasonable to suppose that the
man or woman of sedentary occupation
does not require as much breakfast as
the laborer. The former person rises
but a short time before the morn
ing meal, after which he very proba-
bly, takes a car to his work and is
in an Office all day breathing foul air.
Surely light breakfast would per-
NIT of better working of his brain
and his health would be improved.
The theory of no breakfast is not one
to be advocated, as the building up
of the tissues goes on while we sleep
and the food is used to that end, con-
sequently new supply is needed to
start in the day. From the variety
of fruits, cereals, hot breads and ways
of preparing eggs 1t appears simple
matter to have a change in the break
fast, and that in itself is a stimulus
for the non-hungry class.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09

You couldn't broaden out some
men by running over them with a
steam roller.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09

THE cost of experience is generally
money well invested.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09

"L,Er me kiss those tears away |"
he begged tenderly, according to the
Hiawatha Democrat. She stood for it
and he was busy for the next fifteen
minutes, and yet the tears flowed on.
"Can nothing stop them1 7" he asked,
breathlessly. Nope" she murmur-
ed, sits hay fever, you know. But
90 one with the treatment.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09

A GIRL doesn't need fountain pen
to write a gushing letter.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-09

In TOLEDO, Ohio, recently, an
Irishman was hard at work painting
the top of a telephone pole bright
green, when suddenly the pot of
paint slipped and splashed on the
sidewalk.
Not more than few seconds later
another Irishman, also an employee of
the telephone company, came along.
He looked at the paint, then at his
countryman on the ladder coming
down the pole. Then, with affected
anxiety, he called.
"Mulcahy, Mulcahy! How ye had
a himorrhage?"
A CHINESE proverb: A druggist
who buys and sells drugs should have
two eyes, a physician who gives drugs
to patients should have one eye, and
a patient who takes drugs, should be
blind.