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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-07-19

Does anyone know anything about
Henry Hanson? We haven't seen
anything OF him for a long time. He
isn't out playing foxy in the shadows
OF the moonlight is he? We hope to
know something more definite about
Henry in the near future. We
hope he wasn't In the rain storm
Sunday evening. r.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-07-19

DoosTlMe boozE PRICES.
Goorgia Legislature Will Make
DrlnkIng Almost Prohibitiye.

Special telegram from Atlanta
says:
~ bill Is pending In the legislature
which, should II pas, and the most
skeptical belisve Il will, win be q sad
blow Tor the most picturesque figure
81 tbs old south-the Georgia colonel.
This bill would make the common
ct variety Ofrye IS expensive as cham
payne, and n embarrassing to procure
= : marriage license.
The rsform Legislature has met.
The first day 1t sat II considered 800
bilh, and not one spared the corpora
'ttons. Among them was q prohibit
tion bill. IL is . double-barrel act.
Ono section seeks to drive the sale Of
liquor from tho State, and the other
seeks 10 put obstacles In the way Of Its
shipment here. The latter section pro
poses to make the consumer take his
shipment to the clerk at the superior
court, nave It stamped, and pay .
tax 81 10 cents : pint. This would
make rye whisky cost nearly 80 q
gallon.
There II : probability that the bill
Will pam. The Colonels have lost
hope, for there are 148 counties In this
6tate and leas than 70 are wet. Re
aGRictlOna have been growing tighter
md tighter about the liquor traffic
~ Atlanta. on July I the dealer be-
- M$ - E1+at@rfN - nAN - -
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-07-19

Ths Canton correspondent Of the
Argus Leader hrs found aSiOux Falls
citlzsn who says that Senator Kilt
rsd1ge = going 70 have Minnehaha
county behind him. This Is indeed
alarming news.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-07-19
Riverside.

July II. 1907.
Again begging pardon for our fire.
quent absence we send in a few items
U readers will understand
that the Riversider is far too busy to
write every week.
As we cast an eye over the Leaders
correspondence columns we note with
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-07-19
Grant Township
July II, 1907

Road work has been In progress for
the last week or so.
Melvin Sundvold and L. Larson
drove q pair of colts to town the other
day and all came home alive.
There has been quite a little corn
Smelling done around here lately and
there is a whole lot more to do.
The families of N. o. Nelson and
Gust Aulwes went to Canton Wednes-
day to attend the assembly as it was
children's day.
We are real sorry that the Grand
Valley correspondent of the LEADER
Miss-did not come out when the
strawberry season was on, but call any
way. When our new potatoes get
ripe, If you will let us know, we will
send a good looking young gentleman
to meet you at Worthing. The boys
out here are handsome and have fine
rigs.
The Ladies' Aid Society met last
Thursday with Mrs. Hill. Next
Thursday the ladies will meet with
Mrs. A. Brandhagen.
Christ Hanson and wife, who are
both deaf mutes, attended the deaf
mute celebration at Canton on the
4th. Mrs. Hanson felt highly pleased
with the trip as she won a good many
OF the prizes hung up at the party.
The bridge that the county bridge
gang put up late last fall near L. Lar
sons has not been in very good shape
to cross until last Thursday when the
road boss made a number of us hay
seeds scrape dirt around it and 1t is
In good shape to cross now.
Some Of the young ladies claim that
Ole Hegge and Henry Fodness have
am expanding appetite for strawber-
ries as they got away with most Of
what the girls picked the other day.
Henry and Ole ought to be ashamed
to rob the girls thusly.
Rosa and Curtis Ness we're visiting
at Lewis Larson's Sunday.
Chris Hanson and wife give a din
e to several of there relatives Sun
day. Among others we noticed Mary
Hanson and son Theodore, Frank
Neauman and family and Mrs. Syvert
Hanson and daughter Mabel.
Adolph Brandhagen came over Sum
day afternoon and helped the boys
play q game of ball. Adolph pulled
of his shoes and rolled up his pants,
and the way he lined out the ball and
stole bases entities him to be In a
league team.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Fodness called on
Lewis Larson Sunday. Their son Al
bert Is getting along fine from the
effects Of the hot coffee on the 4th.
He Is not quite we'll yet but he is SO
full Of play that he don't think any
more about It.
Gunder Ness had three boys and
two girls In his single buggy when he
left the ball ground Sunday night. A
buggy that will hold up such a load
safely IS safe for two isn't it Gunder?
We have heard of q new way to
break cattle to lead and 1t 8 said to
work fine. anybody Interested call
on Wiley Brandhagen or Sigvard
Ness for information.
We are informed that Leroy, the 4
year old SON Of K.O. Nelson, got his
arm mt, ont, ar i0int. last week We
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-07-19
ANNUAL STATEMENT
the Year Ending December 31st,
A. ID. 10OG,
OF tha coT2'.'nns and affairs of the
QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY OF
AMERICA.

Organized under the laws of the State OF
New York, made to the Commissioner of
Insurance Of the State of South Dakota,
pursuant to the laws thereof, Presi-
Nevett S.. Barlow. Incorporated Sept.
II, 1891. Commenced business, Sept. IL,
1891. Home office, 43 Cedar street, New
York City, New York.
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
Monument to Late Pope Leo.

and the Church. The latter is symbol
lied by a woman bowed down in grief.
Her right arm flung across the sar~
cOphagus is meant to express sorrow at
the pOpes death. while the cross In
her left hand represents Christianity.
The figure of the Church rests her
foot on the terrestrial globe. The in
scriptiOn underneath reads as follows:
"Ecclesia ingemuit comprolante orbe
universe"
The figure of the pilgrim is shown
in a laborers blouse. He holds a pair
Of rosary beads in his right hand and
on his knees impl0Tes the pOpe's bless
ing. The following is the inscription:
''Ad patrem fill ex omne regione ven
eTatuTi cOnyeniunt."
The center of the monument con
sists of a sarcOphagus of verd antique
or green pOrphyTy with decorations in
gilt bronze and the plain inscription
Leo XIII" The entire monument
rests on a sober architrave of granite
adorned with the pontiff's coat of arms
and two festoons in bronze that run
across the whole front
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
GETS BEAVER WITH FLY.
Fisherman Makes the Queerest Catch
on Record.

Bangor, Melville w. z. Dill. Of
Eustis was fly fishing on the Dead
river, near Ledge Falls, he noticed q
young beaver suddenly come to the
surface of the water within so feet
of where he was casting from a rock
in the stream. Not having had many
rises that day and being ready for any
diversion from the monotony Of the
constant casting and only occasional
strike, in pure sportiveness he decid-
ed to try his skill in tempting the
beaver to taste his white miller.
Making one of the best casts he
had ever made, the fly dropped just in
front Of the inattentive animal within
two feet of its Jaws BY the careful
maneuvering of the leader and a quick
Jig az the right moment the beaver
was soon firmly grasping the white
fly.
When completely tired out by his
struggles of 20 minutes. the beaver
consented to be captured, and after
exhibiting him at the Shaw house for
a few hours Mr.. Dill carefully return
ed him to his native home. He did
not seem to be very wild, and would
not offer TO bite, as some of the women
and children held him in their arms.
Mr.. Dill thinks he is the only man
who ever landed a beaver on a split
bamboo fly rod. Any one at Eustia
will vouch for this.
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
FARMERS BUY AUTOS
NEW SIGNS OF PROSPERITY OBJ
SERVED IN THE WEST.
Manufacturers of Motor Cars Cannot
Make Machines Fast Enough TO
Supply Demand from Tillers
of the Soil.

Lincoln, Neb.-Western agents of
automobile factories assert that if the
machines could be obtained hundreds
of autos could be old this summer to
the farmers of Nebraska and Kansas.
AS 1t is, the residents of the country
towns and the farmers are buying
more OF the benzine buggies than the
cities, and there is scarcely a country
town in Nebraska in which there are
not more automobiles in proportion to
the population than in Lincoln or
Omaha.
The prosperity of western farmers
has become an old story, and this pros
perity is going to be augmented this
year by another big crop of wheat and
corn and oats Most of the farmers in
the state could buy a medium-priced
machine just as luxury if they want
ed to, but the manner in which they
have amassed their money does not
] lead to extravaganza of that kind.
When a Nebraska agriculturist adds
to his machinery collection he buys
only that which will be of use. That
Is why he is just now turning to the
automobile. The favorite farm type
is the runabout, largely because of its
low first cost. The prudent farmer
| figures that with good carriage horses
bringing $3.50 to $3.50 each in the mar
ket he is foolish to utilize them in the
! pleasure jaunts and his journeyings to
| and from church.
If he uses his work horses TO go to
town or about the country, he deducts
| just that much from their working
capacity on the farm. BY using an
/ auto he saves the horses fresh for the
| farm work, he can transact his busi-
ness quicker and get back to the farm
/ in a short time, to his financial better
/ ment.
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
INVENTs sELF-HANGlNe DEVICE.
Former Baseball Pitcher Tests New
Plan on Negro Murderer.

Pittsburg.-To save the nerves of
tender-hearted officials, Sheriff A. c.
Gumbert, formerly a pitcher on the
Chicago National league baseball
team, the other day successfully put
into use a self-hanging device of his
own invention. The device was tried
on Bowling Green, a negro wife MUIR
derer, who went singing to the gal
lows.
While the deputy sheriff stood on
the trap placing the moose about the
condemned mans neck the sheriff
stood with a wire held tight in his
hand. The action of the deputy in
stepping off the trap Ioosened the wire
and the weight of the murderer sprung
It
Green's body darted through the
opening in the floor of the gallows and
death, the physicians said, was almost
instantaneous, the mans neck being
broken. It Is claimed for this device
that no one person bears the odium Of
being a hangman, the condemned man
doing more than his part
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17

years ago by the directors of the COM
pany with MI Kelley and his asso-
ciates when the directors were look
ing for an active man to take the pres
idency. Mr Kelley formerly was first
vice president
1t is asserted by those familiar with
the affairs of the concern that Mr.. Kel-
ley stepped into the breach when the
company was in a bad financial way
and brought it ont of a deficit of $780,
900 TO the present sound financial foot
ing guaranteed by S2,500,000 net earn
ings for one year.
Mr.. Kelley was born at Greenville,
Ohio, Al years ago. While attending
school he assisted his father in the
hardware store. 1t was while working
in the hardware store that young Kel-
ley conceived the idea of entering the
railroad equipment business. He came
| to Chicago nearly 20 years ago and en-
| tered the service of the Charles Scott
Spring company. 1t was not long be-
fore his salary was $4,000 a year.
Later he started plant of his own
at Hammond, Ind, whick he sold out
to the American Steel Foundries COM
pany and accepted an executive posi-
ton with that concern. Since then his
| rise has been rapid.
Besides being president of the Amer
! lean Steel FOundries company, Mr..
Kelley is president of a steel car and
railroad equipment concern at Mon
/ treal, Canada The plant of this con-
! cern occupies 40 acres and is one Of
the largest industrial enterprises in
the dominion.
Mr.. Kelley was married in Chicago
| u years ago to Miss Lillian Phelps and
they live at 1919 Ellis avenue. They
have three sons. William V, Jr., Rus
| sell Phelps, and Phelps Kelley.
Mr.. Kelley is fond of playing golf
and is an enthusiastic mOtOrist. He is
a member of the Midlothian, Exmoor,
Glen View, South Shore Country, the
! Chicago, Union League. Kenwood, and
Kenwood Country clubs, and several
| leading New York clubs
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
LITTLE COIN BLOCKS CARS.
New York Motornan Searches Tracks
Fifteen Minutes for Quarter.

New York.-There was much excite
ment on the Bowery the other day
when a mOtOrman on a south-bound
Third avenue surface car tied up the
line for nearly 10 minutes trying to
find a 25-cent piece he had spied in
the center of the track The coin was
lying in the groove of the rail When
he brought the car to a stop the
wheels of the truck were directly over
it.
This the motOrman did not know,
and he crawled under the car to
search for the coin. A large crowd
soon gathered thinking something was
wrong. The discovery was made at
Grand street, just at the time when
the streets were badly congested and
traffic was at its height. Several po-
licemen soon arrived and wanted to
know what all the trouble was about.
It wasn't long before the crowd learn
ed what the motorman was after.
Several men and boys, including a
couple of STRENGTHENING sweepers. i'm
mediately joined in the search. After
crawling about for ten minutes in vain
the motorman had an inspiration that
the coin might be under the wheel.
He told the conductor to start the car
on about a foot Then there was a
scramble. Boys, men and street-clean-
ing sweepers made a rush for the bit
of money at the same time The mo-
tOrman, who was the nearest to it,
after hard struggle, knocking the
men and boys aside. finally got it.
BY this time the street was blocked
and the drivers of trucks were yelling
like madmen. A string Of cars ex-
tended back almost to Fourteenth
street. A crowd of nearly. 1000 per-
sons had gathered and the police
had their hands full in dispensing it.
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
Flies, Baths and Fountains.

PITY, don't hate the fly" said the
professor. when he buzzes so per
sistently about you on these sultry
days, when he sticks to your moist
skin with Incompatible courage, re-
spect rather than revile the little
creature.
For he is thirsty. He is mad with
thirst, mad with heat And your wet
fesh-your moist nose, your dripping
bald spots the most refreshing
thing in the world to him. 1t is at
once a bath and a fountain IN your
juices-if I may use such a term-he
laves his burning frame, and of your
juices he drinks thirstily.
when the thermometer is high, the
perspiration bubbling cut of our red
skin, and the flies buzzing stichly
over our hands and faces, what a con-
ISOLATION il is, or at least should be,
TO think that a kind providence has
made us at once Turkish bath and
a drinking trough for these interest
ing insects"
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
osTRIcH is A HUSKY BIRD.
Horse Trainer Tries to Held Escaping
Biped, But Fails.

Because Frank Geissier, a horse
trainer, tried to use on an ostrich
the same tactics he would on a frac-
tious horse he is nursing many So
we're bruises, says the New York Tele-
gram. He was in the Lackawanna
railway yards in Hoboken the other
day when a full-grown ostrich, with
4O-horse-pOwer legs, on the way from
Hamburg to Cincinnati, broke from
a crate and dashed up and down the
platform. Everybody else fed in ter
ror, but GeisSler stood firm.
When the ostrich passed the horse
trainer on one of it's sprints for free
dom Geissler made a flying leap and
throwing his arms around the big
birds neck tried TO bring it to earth.
But the bird had other plans and for
ten minutes so much happened to
Geissler that he says he cannot re-
member half
His cries for help brought a number
!, of drivers to his aid and at imminent
risk of being killed by tie powerful
bird bound its legs together and
dragged it back to it's cage Almost
every particle of clothing was torn
of Geissler during the struggle and
his bruises led him TO the decision
that it was bad policy for a horse
trainer to seize an ostrich by the neck
and so leave its armor-plated toes
free
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
HOMEMADE cURFEW.
Guaranteed to Cure the Worst Case
of Street loafing.

Every family should have a curfew
which should positively ring to-
night" and every night If needed.
These curfews are inexpensive and
can be homemade.
Take a piece of siding two feet
long and whittle one end down to a
handle; then take the child that needs
the curfew and bend him over a bar
rel. Now take the piece of siding
IN the hand and use it for a clapper.
Put it on hot Divide the strokes
evenly and see that none miss. Good
for a boy or girl up to the age of 16,
and applications are warranted to
cure the most pronounced case Of
street loafng that exists.
The music this curfew makes is
finer than singing Where Is My Wan
dering Boy To-N1ght?"-POpular Ne
chanics.
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
CHlcAGoAN GETS S2Ao, ,ooO FOR
ONE YEARS YORK.
VIM. v. Kelley, President Of the Amer
lean Steel Foundries Company,
Places Concern on a Strong
Financial Basis.

Chicago.-From a clerk in his IA
ather's hardware store ar Greenville,
Ohio, to one of the highest paid men
in the world is the career of William
Vallandingham Kelley. of Chicago.
Mr.. Kelley. who VIII receive $340, 600
for a years work, is president of the
American Steel FoUndries company,
which he has placed on a sound and
paying financial basis in the two years
he has occupied the chief executive
Office.
In dispatch from New York it was
stated that contest has been started
in Wall street to compel the directors
of the American Steel Foundries com
pany TO pay a dividend on the pre-
ferred stock It was through this con
test that the amount OF Mr.. Kelley's
earnings became known.
In going over the financial affairs of
the concern it developed that the COM
pany will make a distribution of more
than $4,000 in bonuses to four Off
cials, including Mr. Kelley, whose
bonus Will be $320.000 in addition to
his salary of $4,000 as president.
The other three officials who each
will receive a bonus ranging from
$165,O0O to $4,000 in addition to his
salary for the fiscal year are First
Vice President Robert P Lamont, Chi
| cagO; Second Vice President w. w.
Butler, New York, and Third Vice
President George E. Scott, Chicago.
The disclosures came as a result Of
! the discovery of a contract made two
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
'IDl GIVEN PENSION RECEIVES BIC BONUS
.sois WOMAN NOVELIST LlW-
ING IN soUALoR.
..b,I.ssly Threw Away Great
'S-s ~..-.,s Made from Sale OF
e,,ks-How She Got Her
Nom de Plume.

-s,,-Ouida Miss Louise de Ia
b-L bO-- fine writer of erotic French
lAl-,,' az has been granted a pension Of
9,S W, s-,r, the civil list. much to the
4'V' -.Er,arr of the public. Ouida
ST. --ssrrhv for many years, but is
va 20 ,oyerty-stricken that she is
|,,5,rg 1I% in a m-lkman's squalid cottage
8 ~ I5,-gs-7ss. Italy. supported by q
former maid.
W - venerable writer, now 7S
= ,5 has even gone hungry at
I 80 in recent months and has suf-
.--a4 I greatly. Her maid has at
- bsan compelled to beg for food
for her
The Florence correspondent of the
,.grv Mail wires that until two
,sgrs ago Miss de la Rance occu-
led suleudid villa at Lucca. She
Tss known as the lady of the dogs"
,s she invariably had 80. Her in
.srsa fonduess for dogs caused her
=, one occasion TO give a meal Of
milk bread and meat to every dog
h Lucca. She paid the bill for the
extraordinary banquet willingly, al
,bougl heavy debts were crowding
sDon her, through her utter ignorance
,f the value of money.
Ouida is not the sort of woman
Ast she always wrote about-half
ugel. half adventures and startling
y beauuful-as many of her readers
imagined. She is a decidedly plain
boxing woman, with grotesque taste
n dress. Photographs Of her are
ARE as she always said the cam
sra only caught the hard lines Of her
tce. Her clear, cold eyes possessed
N attraction that never could be put
into a picture.
"Oudas nom de plume. with its
strange photography, has provoked
snv amount of curiosity as to its
origin. The fact is that a tiny pratt
tier of whom Mile. de la Rance was
exceedingly fond had for years lisp
ngly corrupted her given name,
Louise into 'Weeda,'
In 1861, when the writer was cast
ing about for a psuedonym to af1x
TO her first story, Idalia, she was
suddenly inspired to hiding her iden-
.ity behind the Old-time pet name, for
Nile. de Ia Rance mOrtally dreaded
the criticisms of the fashionable
world. in which she then was NOV
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17

ing, far more than the slings and
Arrows of literary critics.
These early breads have long
been swept away. In America Ouida's
books have a sale of $4,000 volumes
q year. On the continent she is read
enOrmOusly-her fantastic and eXag-
gerated ideals of vice finding cham
Dions in all circles"
Ouida must have made an immense
fortune from her pen, for there has
been a constant demand for her
books since Under Two Flags" and
Puck made her famous 40 years
ago and she has been a most prolific
writer She has written nothing for
the past six years, and but for the
pension which the BritiBn nation has
granted her she would have had to
end her days in the pOorhOuse.
ouida has never married because
she never found her ideal of a man.
Her ideal was the English officer in
Under Two Flags. a being who was
more of a demi-god than a man, so it
,s little wonder she never met his
like in the flesh.
While scarcely any information has
ever been obtained as to Ouidas par
eu-s. it is known that she is partly
English partly French. partly Span
.a She was born near Bury St.
-amunds. England in 1910 Her
mother was an Englishwoman, said
TO have been the daughter of a cler-
syman who married on the continent
a dashing French-Spaniard of good
.amily and bad morals. Ouida's IA
her came from one of the towns in
ne Pyrenees and met her mother
somewhere in middle Europe. Of
Juidas young life and her educa-
ION nothing authentic has been given
10 the world.
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17

a pair of long tongs with short spikes
within the extremity, such as are
shown in our illustration, the unlucky
animal was firmly gripped and dragged
bowling down the aisle. Specimens OF
these tongs are carefully preserved in
Bangor Cathedral. The accounts Of
our parish churches contain many en-
tries relating to this curious cU stom.
Thus at Tavistock fourpence was paid
for whipping dogs owt of the
churche. and at Trysull church, in
Staffordshire, Ell per year was left
so late as 1725 to pay a man to drive
dogs out of the church, and to go
round during the sermon and wake up
the sleepers.
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
Julia Ward Howe's Optimism.

In a review OF the events in the life
of Julia Ward Howe on her eighty
eighth birthday it is said that Mrs.
Howe always keeps on her dressing
table a copy of Kant, which is her
daily companion, and she recites to
her grandchildren "StudentenIeider, 4"
learned years ago from her brother.
Her latest word to her friends is:
THE world grows better, and not
worse: but it does not grow better
everywhere all the time"
The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
Rurke,s MemoriaI to wm. PItt.

burkGS NcFfOfiai 10 W.T. FlLLs
II is often asserted that the epitaph
written by Edmund Burke, upon q
monument erected by the merchants
of London to William Pitt, is the moss
eloquent and elegant example Of mos.
tuary literature. II reads as follows:
In grateful acknowledgment
To the Supreme Disposer Of Events,
Who, intending to advance the nation.
For such time as His wisdom seenssh
good,
To an high pitch of prosperity and glorYs
BY unanimity at home;
By confidence and reputation abroad:
BY alliances wisely chosen and faithfully
observed;
By colonies united and protected.
By decisive victories by sea and land.
BY conquests made by arms and gen
erOsity
In every part OF the globe:
BY commerce.
For the first time united with
And made 10 flourish by war;
Was pleased 10 raise up as
Principal instrument in this memorable
work