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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-16

FAIRBANKS. Aiaska. MAJ ia
one Of The largest nagssgs found
In the Taaana district has ben
picked ~ on noae creek. The
nugget waa found yesterday and
Ia worth $1,000
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-16

/ raza meeting ~ the citizens
VI = held Fri1AY afternoon AZ
ttnat The city BAL. 20 dlsenEs
N tzzala,s plans for che eela
tzsn u the aafluaAi holiday
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-05-16

Bur your Hat Of Z. y. Brooks Z
Co. I11i end ave
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26
lido Mrs. Giles.

"Your young wife appears to be
rather blue Of late" ventured the
country doctor to Farmer Giles.
"Yaas," drawled the old farmer with
the bunch Of rabbit skins under his
arm; "she Is one OF those city gals,
and I'm afraid she hasn't enough to
occupy her mind"
Think not7'
"Waal, no. After she has MIXED ten
COWS before breakfast, and cooked
breakfast for the plowmen, and fed
the pigs and chickens, and started
washing, and put dinner on, and put
Up preserves, and shelled a bushel Of
peas, and done some ironing, and put
supper on, and done the darning, and
patched for the household. and peeled
a couple of pounds of apples for to-
morrow's dinner, why, she hasn't any
thing more to do until bedtime. !
think I'll l'arn her how to make our
own oil cake for the cows, so her mind
will be more occupied. Yes. Stree,
the only way to keep a wife smiling
and happy is to keep her mind occu'
pled."-Tit-Bits
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26

State Superintendent Ustrud In an
interview in the Sioux Falls Press
states that it is a little too early to
give any thought OF his becoming a
candidate for governor, bis name
having been mentioned in that con-
nection recently. He believed that
IL the people demand 1T that Gov
ernor Crawford should serve another
term, but admitted that the gov
ernor would make an ideal United
States senator, and that a worthy
successor could be found to carry out
the policies of the new administra-
tion. Mr.. Ustrud said further that
II lis conduct OF the office OF state
superintendent of schools met with
support Of the people that he would
be glad to serve in the position again.
It does seem to be rather early to,
pick out candidates for a year and a
half hence.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26

~ seEsse aAa @S4M $ aFNas
-s IL tasls A44 W :
AZ AZ 4sEsy ahsa ss san rs "a 2xaSS
Naaqies ta aAls cay FMS scAif
has MAS lsugeft4as ttsa t~iaaeVi
s. sumn7eg s6ith \
rarftef ~ tbs saius sato Dhip to
-@IAng coHAaes at> sa aaisn
ard ~c ara iucllned 10 ths belief
that T4ts friends can tase Of his
canvass ,ails as we'll sith hiu asay
for people as u general rule Axe
fan play, aud with Foraker aud his
crowd hsating The secretary behind
MS hack will not DC relished 10 any
great extent and then it is believed
that Mr.. Taft's standing will not
be Injured.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26

Perhaps the greatest interest CEN
tered In any n town in the state
as to how 1t WOULD so on the license
question was Aberdeen. a series
of religious revivals had been voiug
on a mouth before the election. and
u ST on the eve OF the election a
rnlupus occurred between the re>i al
leaders and the manager OF the opera
house, with the saloon element back
ing him upon closing the auditorium
TO the revival meetings The people
were aroused to what they considered
an inoignity. and the feeling ran
nigh over the act. In view Of the
fact that over 800 people bad been
converted during the meetings that
question arose that a fair proportion
iof the converts were voters ar that
if they voted their religious convic-
tions. Aberdeen would 90 against the
saloon license. 1t has never been
stated in Aberdeen what proportion
OF the converts were men. but it is
evident that there were very few.
from the fact that Aberdeen carried
license by a majority of over BOO.
If sufficient men were converted and
they failed to vote thier convictions
they did not have a very high con-
ception of what the revival leader
tried to teach them. 1t is only fair
then to suppose that so per cent of
the converts we're women and child
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26
His "Rieht" Name.

From queer names and description,
Of things there follow as a natural
sequence queer names and descriptions
Of people. Among a number Of racy
Instances is ono quoted by Mr.. Fox
Davies. the we'll known authority on
nomenclature, from Blackwood's Mag
azine, of April, 1912. In one of tho
Buchan fishing villages a stranger had
occasion to call on a fisherman Of the
name Of Alexander White. Meeting q
girl, he asked, Can We tell me far
SAMMY Fite lives?' Fix SAMMY Fite?'
quoth she. Muckle SAMMY Fite? said
he. 'Filk muckle SAMMY Fite? 'Muckle
lang San~y Eite.' Fix muckle lang
SAMMY Fife" 'Muckle lang gleyed
SAMMY Fite.' shouted, the exasperated
AN. oh. it's Goup-the-Lift ye'rs
seeking answered the girl, and fat
th. dell for dinna We. speer for the mon
by his RIGHT name at anceY"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26
FIGURES HIMSELF OUT

| The New York Sun has teen read
ing the Commoner of late with a
| close eve and in one OF the para
graphs of that esteemed contemp-
orary, the Sun has discovered where
William j. Bryan reads himself out
of the possible democratic presiden-
tial candidates. The Sun comments
as follows couce:nng what it thinks
is evidently a break made in the abb
sence of Mr.. Bryan:
During DR.. Bryan's absence in the
east with his sample case OF specifics
for all ills the body polite is he'll to
the Commoner has eliminated him
from. the list of presidential candi-
oates In a moment OF inspiration.
In an ingenious editorial the avail
ability OF southern men for the de-
n ocratic nomination which DR.
Bryan covets as ar entry in the free
for all competition, is considered. 1t
is a handsome tribute to the number
and quality OF the logical candidates
in the south. They are Described as
statesmen and bldden to stand side
nv side for review by the national
convention.
"Let us enter the convention with
an eye single to the partly" says
the Commoner. The sentiment OF
antagonism to anything that looks
like a monopoly of virtue by any
individual candidate. active or re-
ceptive, ~pervades the article. All
the possibilities from Accomac to
Deaf Smith county look alike to the
Commoner. No attempt is made to
handicap them or account of age or
previous condition Of servitude ir
the cause Of democracy; all start
from the scratch. 1t issuhmitted with
the greatest frankness that the selec-
tiou must be entered upon not with
the view s'of gratifying any mans
ambition or complimenting any state
or portion of the union," but with a
desire to lind the man "who voices
the sentiments OF the rank and tie
of the parity" etc. If the most
available mar is a southern man let
the candidate be from the south by
all means. Nothing could lie band
somer At the same time there is a
care not to shut the door OF hope,
for it added: 1.-THE same is true
OF the north, the east the west"
But right in the body of the article,
caught in the thick Of a paragraph
where the blue pencil missed it,
there is d fly in the ointment:
'sThere are many democrats In
the south who would poll the full
democratic strength Of the north"
AS DR.. Bryan has never been able
to poll the full democrtic strength
of the north he 10y plain inference
is withdrawn from the list of en-
tries. "As at present advised by
the Conmoner he is out of the race.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26
py appropriations made by the

ny appropriations made by the
state legislature, the state fair
grounds at Huron are to be vastly
improved. Ten new buildings are to
be erected Oh the grounds this sum-
mer. and the grounds ate to be re-
arranged with streets laid out, a
fountain will be erected and trees
will be planted. There is much room
for improvement on the new GROUNDS
and perhaps the hustlers over at
Huron will be able to make the STATE
fair a better success in the future.
In the history of the state fair as
%soclation there has always been an
element Of failure, but with the
more general backing Of the state
behind it to place it on a good
financial basis there IS a strong
possibility that in the future it can
be made a payi g institution.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26
PRESIDENT TO SCHOOL Chill
DREN.
To the School Children OF. the

To the School Children OF ths
United States:
Arbor Day (which means simply
"Tree Days. is now observed liz
every State in u Union-and main
" in the schools. At various times
from January to December, but
chiefly in this month OF April, you
give a day or part of a day to special
exercises and perhaps to actual tree
planting. in recognition OF the i'm
portance of trees to US as a Nation,
and Of what they yield in adornment,
comfort, and useful products to the
communities in which you live.
1t is we'll that you should celebrate
your Arbor Day t%houghtfully for,
Within your lifetime the Nations
need of trees will become serious.
We of an Older generation can get
along with what we have. th, ugh
with growing hardship; but in your
full manhood and ..womanhood you
will want what nature once so
bountifully supplied and mar so
thoughtlessly destroyed and because
OF that want you will reproach US, not
for what we have used. but for
what we have wasted.
For the nation as for the mar or
woman and the boy or girl, the road
to success is the right use of what
we have and the improvement of
present opportunity. II you neglect
to prepare yourselves now for the
duties and responsibilities which
will fall upon you later, if you do not
learn the things which you will need
to know when your school days are
over, you will suffer the conse-
quences. So any nation which in
its youth lives only for the day,
reaps without sowing, and consumes
without outstanding, must expect
the penalty of the prodigal, whose
labor could with difficulty find him
the bare means of life.
A people without children would
face a hopeless future: a country
without trees is almost as hopeless;
forests which are so used that they
can not renew themselves will o
vanish, and with them all their
benefits. A true forest is not merely
storehouse full OF wood, but, as it
we're, a factory of wood, and at the
same time a reservoir Of water.
When you help to preserve our for
rests or to plant new ones you are
acting the part OF good citizens. The
valu. of forestry deserves, there.
fore, to be taught 10 the schools,
which aim to make good citizens Of
you. If your Arbor Day exercise
help you tc realize what benefits
each one of you receives from the
forests, and how by your assistance
these benefits may continue they
will serve a good end.
Theodore Roosevelt.
The White House, April 10, 1907.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26

THAT SPRING FEVER.
Annual Garden pebauch Of the subur.
ban Looking Man.

Annual Garden Debaueh Of the subur.
ban Looking Man.
Gayly the suburban looking man en-
tered the seedman's place and said,
'Take this order, please"
Eyes, SIR" from the polite clerk with
the pencil in hand and a facial express
sion emulating that of the spaniel that
awaits his masters throwing a stick
into the water. You could In ima2ina
ton see the clerk wag his tail.
zone package Of caulifower seed
Yes; but, you see"-
"Shut up! Put down what 1 order.
One package of caulifower seed-got
1t? ALI right. Two packages of cab
bage seed
Yes; but you buy plants already
Did you get my order to shut NJ:
Continue taking down what l say a+"i
don't volunteer any information-three
packs Of radish seed, two papers OF
lettuce seed, one peck Of onion sets, a
quart Of seed peas, half a peck of bush
beans
"Wait a minute. Now, go ahead"
That's ALL"
well, where do you want 1t sentT
"Sent? Sent nothing. Do you sup
pose l want all that stuff litterins up
my library or kitchen or attic? OF
course l don't. I've no time for that
sort OF thing. l just have the garden
ing fever each spring the same as any
other golrammed idiot. and the only
way l car reduce my temperature is to
go and order a lot Of rubbish like this
pay for it, feel like a fool and 60
home cured. How much does it come
to? Hurry or I'll miss my train
Judge.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26

Golfers Weekly has discovered in
Pittsburg what it regards as an
honest corporation in its effort 20
secure a franchise for the operation
Of a subway IN that city. Golfers
comments as follows about this
rarity:
In Pittsburg, within a month, a
councilman has been sentenced to
three years in the ~penitentiary for
soliciting a Eribe Of $40, 600 from a
railroad seeking a city franchise.
Within the SINE period another cor-
poration seeking a franhise-the
Pittsburg Subway company-has
adopted, bit In every city where
corporations desire privileges. The
tirst element of the Pittsburg Sub
way companY's course Is the refusal
to engage In any b%ack-statrs, rear
alley relations with thrifty couLcil-
men, Woodworking politicians, Or
go-betweens OF any sort. The money
which would have gone to these has
been invested in large blocks Of ad-
vert1sing space In all the Pjttsburg
papers. Therein, from day to day,
the corporation has made its plain
appeal, telling the terms it asks and
the terms IL Offers. 1t explains,
for instance, that the life of the
franchise Is limited to fifty years as
against 500 years for the charters Of
the present Pittskure street car
companies For the straigntfor.
wardness of its methods the Subway
company deserves we'll of the Pitts
burg public, which will doubtless
encourage honesty by seeing that
any councilman who opposes the
company does 20 IN around Of public
conviction and not of personal thrift.
To this experiment. we commend the
attention OF every life insurance
company, public service corporation,
or ether company doing business
with a state legislature or a city
council. For any corporation willing
to tell the public what it desires,
this is the honest way, and is des-
tined to become the most effective
way.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26

The plun bers can so back and take
a rest on the matter OF high wages.
The diamond cutters OF the country
have lust been granted a new scale
of wages which covers the periods
from s43 to 800 per week. II is to be
hoped all lines OF trades will not rush
into the diamond cutting trade and
make a surplus OF that labor on the
market.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26

Anxious Mamma-Dick, you bad boy.
you've been fighting with Tommy Simp-
son again. Look at your clothes! Ill
have to get you q new suit!
Dick-Well, that's nothing. You ought
20 see Tommy Simpson. His ma will
have to get q new boy.-London Week
~ Telegraph.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26

The Foraker element in Ohio is
%endeavoring to draw Secretary Taft
INTO a personal fight in that state
and force him to neglect his official
duties, and thus give them stronger
ground to ATTACK him for this
lect. For the secretary to give For
aker and his cro~dsthis ADVANTAGE
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26
Tommy Knew,

"Whieh one of your fellows was hero
last night. sister" said the %irrepress-
ible Tommie at breakfast.
"I'l not tell YOU" replied the young
lady.
"You don't have to tell me. know"
mo. you don't know, either"
81 do. 1t was the Teller with the
beard. Your chin's all scratched up"
-Yonkers Statesman.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26

1t is moi gong TO DE a very difficult
matter for the Standard Oil Co. to
paw it's fines that have been assessed
by the federal court when the colu-
pam was convicted on so many
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26
Embarrassing.

There was no room in the omnibus.
and the bashful Mr.. B. took his little
girl on his knee. Enter a beautiful
young lady. Seeing her, the little girl
calls out at the top of her voice:
"Oh, papa, I'll give this lady my
seat!'
Confusion of Mr.. B. and hasty re-
treat Of l~ady.-Slovo.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26

Do you want the child to XII himself
and everybody else OF wreck the
premises?"
well, look at your snorted the
grandfather on the papa's side. Didn't
you give him an air rifle and a box of
tools Y"-Judge.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26
Man and Woman.

Man and Woman.
"A nan breads his fortieth birthday
he said, land a woman
"well7' she inquired when he hest
tated.
the prattiing old doctor who OH
cIated at her birth."-Chicago Record
Herald.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26
One as Bad as the Other.

You must be crazy said the grand
father on the mothers side. "The idea
of giving little Willie an automobile!
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-05-02
@ANHRASjaIta%SyAS
IN THE
BARBER SHOP
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

do nod shafe me SO close, OSCAR
Standt farder away"
do nod be afrait, Adolf. will give
you a painless
please put nod so much lather in
my mouth"
ISIS dot your mouth? l thought id
was d blaze you cut shafng your
seluf."
"Wow, dot razor ISIS DULL
''You must be mistaken. l yust
sharpened slate pensil nit id, und
id worked all rigid"
Bud id bass a pull"
ooh. dot ISIS becoss id ISIS in poll
tics
'Iss id a republic or a democratic?"
I'D ISIS a papulisd. Id RACES whis-
kers"
You hat made my face raw"
Meier mind. I will parboil i'd
Some powder. blease.'
Blasting or insegt?"
81 hat changed my mind. l will
take bay rum"
mo. you don'd. Diss shop is a To-
cal option. All, you are gedding a
fiddle thin on top!'
Thin. iss id? Dot proofs you are
a liar"
How, blease?"
Der odder day you said l wass a
fathead."
ooh. veil, led by-gones be went-bys.
A fiddle sulfur, hey?"
"Vot ISIS der sui for?'
I'D cures der mango"
"FWhy, my mango hass nod efen
complained Of being sick"
You need egg shampoo
"Why, man, | am bald"
Sure So ISIS der egg"
"You may massooge my face
I'D ISIS ingrown. Bedder l manicure
i'd. Wet or dry?"
EFF you mean der razor, whet."
81 mean your head; how do you
want it combed?"
Comb id so id viii look sweet"
81 bedder use a honeycomb."
"Oxcuse me. might get der hives. >
"Brush?'
mo, nefer paint
EFF der audience will sit liddle
higher up in der chairs We will do dot
ditty entootled Led Baby Cut Id s
PearIy Teeth on Fader's Shaf1ng Mug
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-05-02
PIant Rubber Trees.

The worlds market for rubber is
constantly increasing. One reason for
this is the great demand by the man
ufacturers of motor vehicles. Though
indigenous to certain regions IL
South America and West Africa, yet
the tree will grow in other lands and
thousands of seedlings have been
planted in marshy ground in the Sey-
chelles islands. Attempts are also
in Dutch Borneo
The demand for rubber plants, es-
peCiaIly for Dutch territory, is 50
great, says the London News, that
Malays raid plantations at Singapore
and ship the plants to Dutch Borneo.
Upward of 10000 seedlings have been
stolen from one planter in Malacca,
while seedlings have been exported
from Singapore at the rate of 10000
a week In fact, the world has now
reached a point in the rubber indus
try when-like coffec-the tree must
be cultivated Systematically.
At present the methods of collection
are primitive in the extreme. India
rubber is, of course, the coagulated
sap of certain trees, and the common
practice is to make missions in the
stem and place clay bowls beneath to-
catch the sap as it flows Four ounces
daily is said to be a good yield for a
tree, but the season lasts about six
months only.
1t was, no doubt the discovery by
Charles Macintosh, a Scotch chemist,
of using rubber to make waterproof
clothing that led to the use Of the
material on a large commercial scale
about 1920 Since then the consump-
ton has enormously increased.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-05-02
AboIishing the Death Penalty

In consequence of Herbert Glad
stones recommendation that the
death sentence of murderer Raynerr
concerning whose sanity doubts exist,
be committed to Imprisonment for life,
an agitation for modifying the barbar-
ity Of British criminal laws had been
undertaken il London. Publioists
who are described as representing
highly influential class ritish
society demand the capital penalty be
abolished A yielding to tendencies
that are felt in greater or less de-
gree all over civilization and recog-
milton of the plain fact that to put
to death does not exercise a deterrent
effect on crime are indicated in the
demand.-Detroit Free Press.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-05-02
CATHOLICS KEPT THEIR HEADS.

w G1OEISS
Correspondence of the Chicago
Chronicle.-The madness of social
ism is dominant everywhere in this
broad land. The press and the church
seem hopelessly infected with the
popular madness. There are few ex-
ceptions l speak, however not of the
Catholic church. 1t has arrayed itself
against socialism, But the priesthood
of the sOcalled Protestant church is
afflicted with the prevailing madness.
An agnostc is an impartial judge
and most usually just one.
From the general | descend to the
particular: Why this bitter war
against the mOneyed classes? In plain
words, it had its origin in the envy OF
the poor for the rich Every man who
by his branial energy, industry and
wise frugality has attained to pecun-
larry independence is regarded as a
public enemy. The great corporations
whose enterprise has cheapened trans.
portatton and the necessaries of life
are the subjects of universal derision,
hatred and condemnation. IN every
community the well-tO-do are anathc-
matized The INDECENT the makeshifts
the disconnected, the vicious are In
the ascendency, the arDiters of the
hour, the supreme masters Of the sit
uatiOn.
The real ct in view is confscation
of the properties Of the rich and the
equalization of property among the
masses. Step by step we are making
rapid advance. Just now it takes the
form of confscatory legislation
vate industries. This is but the dis
tant thunder of the tempest which
is destined to sweep a veritabIe cat
aclysm over thfe land to OverwheIm
all its. great and benefcent industries
in one common ruin. Robbery under
the guise of law reigns rampant. The
madmen are led by the constituencies
uemagogue.
1t is the same spirit which in its
u innate development startled the civ
ilized world in the form of that mon
strous atrocity the reign of terror.
The "incorruptibIe Robespierre, vet
a mere shadow, is taking palpable
shape. Behind the ominous shadow
may be alrea y born in American Bon
aparte. We are not encouraged in
the hope of a cessation of the mad
ness, for the philosopher has said
that revolutions never go backward. 20
They do nOt-not those that rise in in
sensate madness. Their cure lies
in anarchy and bIoodshed. The sword
and the bayonet come later to carve
out the pathway of autOcracy. Are
we preparing the way for Bonapartes
and Caesars?