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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-09
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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-09
Slow TaIker, Probably.

81 know I'm late, DEAR" he apologized
"You see, / was detained half an hour
or so by an old friend who just got back
to town after long absence. / had to
tell him all / knew"
"Indeed?" she snapped. 81 don't see
Why that should have kept you 20 long
philadelphia Press.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-09

The repor. of the department of
vital statistics for the month Of March
shows the highest birth rate for any
month since the organization of tho
department. The total for that month
was 1.1O4, of which $40 were males
and Ala females. The deaths for the
month were 81; the marriages 345;
divorces 45; naturalizations 124.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-09

Just Like Some.
~Hardup berrows more trouble than
any man I know"
"What's he worrying over now"
"Over how he could invest his money
safely IL that gold mine he's interested in
should happen to pan out." Detroit Frss
Press.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-09
Better than q Hunch.

d "Yes, l won quite wad at the races
yesterday"
~ Backed your judgment, eh?'
.T "No, backed my wfe's she just knew
II shat the jockey in the gold blazer couldn't
ose."--Detroit Free Press.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-09
The wrons rhinr.

Professor" said Mrs. Lyon Hunter, II
want to present Mr.. Bull. Prof. Dunn
proser, Mr.. Bull. The professor is the
author of that learned treatise upon 'Ge-
MUS: A Species of Insanity"
..Ah" exclaimed Mr.. Bull, charmed
Always delighted to meet genius like
you, sir."-Catholic Standard and Times
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-09

The law Of last winter changed the
manner Of letting bids for state print
ing Of the third class-the reports Of
the state officers. Under the new law
each report will be on a separate bid
instead Of Jumping the reports all un-
der one contract, and the number Of
bidders will very likely be increased
by this division of the work.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-09
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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-09

At the new Pierre school boards
meeting for organization, F. l.. Full
Ter was selected president for the
coming year, with James Stevens as
vice president and w. H. Gleckler
clerk of the board. The list of teach
ers for the coming year is very nearly
completed, some of the old teachers
being retained, except in cases where
they voluntarily retire.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-09

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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-09

The location of the shops and yards
of the Northwestern road at Pierre
are so far out from the city proper
that 1t is rumored that the company
will plat an individual suburb and
sell lots to it's workmen at low rate
with contract for the erection of
buildings on the lots disposed of, al
lowing its men to get homes at q
cheap rate and on payments which
they can easily meet The location of
the shops are fully two miles from
the present business menter of the
,ity.
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19
An Honor for Prof. Adams,

The management of Maryland College
makes announcement of the choice of
Prof. Chas. A. Adams as Dean of the
Faculty of that institution. 1t would be
pleasure to his numerous friends to
read the concentrations which are in
cluded in the announcement, OF which
we reprint one, which will be of double
interest to Middlebury readers:
l have known Mr.. c.. A. Adams fol-
sixteen years. He is man in whom
have the utmost confidence. l have seen
him in trying places and never knew him
to acquit himself otherwise than with
honor and credit. He is a splendid
scholar. a thorough gentleman, and a
man to be trusted everywhere. He has
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19

front, and that is the number of tenant
farms. Fully one third of the farms in
the dairy sections are occupied by
tenants, and few of these tenants are
acquiring the farms, as was the case
twenty-five years ago. If the city lures
the boys away, who will till these farms
but tenants Tenant farming, as a
whole. is not very good advertising
scheme to promote the progress of any
section. With lands and Improvements
in the East, at raw prairie prices in the
great Northwest, two thousand miles
further away from the same market the
Western me n must share with this East
ern farmer, why should the tide flow
West? With the stiff prices all farm
produce brings, why should men rush to
the city to work at day wages, and then
buy all the farm produces at cornerod
market prices, when they could be had
at home for the raising 1t is "the thing
to leave the farm, espe cially a dairy
farm"
The old saying "from the windows of
home can be seen the glories of the heav-
emily city," seems perhaps to be rather
trite; but can well be borne in mind by
the young people who can see no progress
in staying in the rural districts.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19
LITERARY NOTES.
THE AUGUST SMART SET.

A charming summer story entitled
Mrs. Clevenger' is the leading feature
of the August Smart Set The author is
Grace Eleanore Towndrow, new writer
who reveals great promise.
Maarten Martens, the distinguished
Dutch novelist, Is represented in this
issue by a powerful short story called
Prayer" Christian Reid, who has not
been conspicuous in the magazines for
many years, comes forward in this num-
Ter with a remarkably fine story called
Paying the Price Melville Chatter in
The lngratitude Of Ernest" tells very
amusing story of young love, and Inez
Haynes Gilmore in"1he Amateur House
Party writes as rollicking a bit of fiction
es we have recently read. In direct con-
trast is Katharine Metcalf Roofs pvscho-
logical study entitled a Savior OF
Souls "a really remarkable piece of real
ism
The essay is by Richard Duffy and IS
called "SphinXes Without Secrets" 1t is
as clever and epigrammatic as the Smart
Set essays have always been, and will be
read with amusement. The poetry is by
Edith NJ. Thomas, Sinclair Lewis, Archi-
bald Sullivan, Elsa Barker, John G.. Nei-
hardt. Margaret Sherwood. Mary Hin
man Paine and Harris Merton Lyon. and
the humor is fully up to the usual stand
ard.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19
From Foreign Fields.

Complaints are sometimes heard that
class distinctions are increasing in free,
democratic America, especially in our
higher institutions of learning Just the
opposite tendency is growing in the high
schools of India, that great stronghold Of
the caste system. Rev. James Smith,
for many years principal of the high
school in Ahmednagar, says that while
waiting for train at railway junction
recently he was invited by two ex-pupils,
shoemaker and Brahman, to join
them at dinner The spectacle of shoe
makers and Brahmans standing upon
precisely the same footing while students,
and then carrying the friendships thus
formed out into the world when they
leave school is truly amazing. The
equivalent in our land. would be the
fraternizing of sons of the president and
other high officials with the most des-
pissed representative Of the Negro race.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19

General Fred d. Grant, in the Defend
er of New York, recently expressed him
self as follows;
Tell young men that General Grant
does not drink drop of liquor-has not
for eighteen years-because he is afraid
to drink it. l tried to drink with eX-
treme moderation, because | knew that
alcohol is the worst poison man could
take into his system: but l found it was
an absolute impossibility to drink mod
erately. Because moderate drinking is a
practical impossibiity, l became an alb
soute teetOtaler-a crank if you please.
l will not allow liquor in my home.
Drink is the greatest cul-e b cause prac-
ticaly all crime and all disaster are the
result of it. Ninety-fve per cent of de-
sertions and acts of lawlessnCss in the
army are due to drink. If | had the
greatest appointive powers in the coun-
try no man would get even the smallest
appointments from me unless he showed
proof of his absolute teetotalism. As it
is, of my own appointees the members of
my staff. not one of them touches drop.
They know BETTER
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19
Another California Letter,
San Diego. Cal. July. 100

San Diego, Cal, July, 1907.
The steamship Dauntless came into San
Diego Harbor on July ., towing a raft of
logs 720 feet long with draft of "a feet.
1t looked like huge cigar. There were
1900 900 feet of lumber bound together
with over $780, worth of log chains
three carloads of chains. The lumber
was for the large saw mill of Benson,
Fla. This is their second large raft.
The Dauntless left Portland. Oregon,
with the raft June l6. A large steam
ship will carry 800, 600 feet of lumber,
and it would take nine to bring the raft
The company is saving logs - and 100
feet long.
While you in the east are having the
thermometer soar up into the 80 degrees
here it is 20 to so with an ocean breeze.
At Los Angeles it is much hotter, One
day this week in San Diego the ther-
mometer was ~ and in Los Angeles
1902. The climate is very equable here.
a huge turtle was caught in the har-
Dor at San Diego recently which was
five feet three inches long, and weighed
l9O23 pounds. On its left side was cut
'Br. S. Sea Bride, Aug. 70, 1SS1-3S-s6.
On his right side was IF found please
notify Thos. Fletcher, Bradley Road,
Burlington, Eng" This was 26 years
ago of the coast of South America, lati-
tude 3s south, Sc west: probably the turtle
was much older. He got entangled in a
fisherman's net and injured himself
t1oundering around so he had to be killed.
A large fish dealer in Los Angeles pur-
chased it and he will make a large
quantity of turtle soup.
A very large stingaree was shot in the
harbor here very recently. 1t was five
feet three inches long and three feet
eight inches across the back and weighed
81 pounds. Its ''stinger" which is in the
tail was six inches long. The singer is
barbed and they strike with its tail and
the wound is poisonous, They live in
the water; but sometimes small ones
burrow in the sand near the water and if
a person happens to step on one they will
send their singer through the foot. A
young lad saw him swimming near the
shore and shot him.
S. H. COPELAND.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19
The Train That Walks Tieht
Rome.

A car running on tight rope was a
novelty indeed. But on this track Mr..
Brennan's mono-railway train accom-.
plished all the feats he claimed for it
without the slightest hitch. The six-foot
model carriage was actually raised from
the ground to the level of the track,
about seven feet overhead, on a section
of wire rope stretched tight between the
uprights, propelled by electricity sup
piled by accumulators. In appearance
the vehicle was not unlike a miniature
motor-car devoid of the customary
wheels-not of course, that this strange
little carriage was without wheels. But
the wheels-small steel ones set in line
along the center of the car-were be-
meath the vehicle and almost invisible.
Thus, to the astonishment of the specta-
tors, as the car ran backward and for
ward, it achieved the task of balancing
itself more steadily than did Blondin
when crossing on his rope over Niagara
Falls.
The apparently magical equilibration
of the running car was produced by the
antagonistic motion of two large gyro-
scopes. In the special manner in which
he has discovered how to fit and adjust
these horoscopes lies the inventors Sc
cret.-From an article in The Circle for
July.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19
No. - = Il
II Do Not TeefFit H
ii For AnyhiDQ Il

ment. Doctors treated me for rheu-
matism, but failed to help me. lost
all confidence in medicine, but Doan's
Kidney Pills relieved me so quickly
and so thoroughly that 1 gladly made a
statement to that effect for publication.
This was in 1898, and during the six
years which have elapsed 1 have never
known Doan's Kidney Pills to fail"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mr.. Bierbach will
be mailed on application to any part Of
the United States. Address Foster-Mil-
burn Co.. Buffalo, n. Y. For sale by
all druggists; price, so cents per box.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19

We begin with this issue the first in
stalment of very clever and intensely
interesting serial, by Anna Catherine
Green, strange romance which will I'M
doubtedly hold the interest of the reader
to the finish. 1.-The Lady in the Above. y"
This story is meeting with immense sue
cess, as is shown by the numerous COM
ments of the press upon it. The Chicago
Daily News states: at is the best story of
the kind which Anna Catherine Green has
yet written. 1t is thoroughly absorb
ing and altogether fascinating romance,
able to contend against the worst case of
blues" Read the story and see for your
self
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19

great elements of popularity, power of
command, and self control. He is man
in a thousand and had we a vacancy
here do not know a man among our
alumni | would so soon see member of
our faculty. put the case thus strong
ly with a full consciousness of what
words mean and what is required in
teacher. AS such, he is an ideal man.
WALTER E. HOWARD,
Dept. of History.
Middlebury College, Vermont
The announcement is as follows:
Maryland College takes this opportu-
nifty to announce to its former pupils and
friends the selection of Mr.. Charles A.
Adams of Arlington, Vermont, to fill
the office of Dean of the Faculty. Mr..
Adams will reside in the College and
have direction of the internal affairs of
the institution, assisted by Mrs. Adams as
Matron.
Mr.. Adams IS a graduate of Middle
bury College, class of 1895, and took post
graduate work at John Hopkins Univer-
sity. He has a successful teaching ex-
perience of eleven years and is highly
recommended both for his scholarship
and executive ability
Prof. Adams taught in the st. Adams
School, Knoxville, ILL.,, five years; at the
University of Wyoming, one year at the
Adams, Mass, High school, five years.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19

The latest use of the "unwritten law"
fad was a trife out of the ordinary, as
the defendants had nothing to offer in
the way of plea of insanity. A young
man was shot and killed by another man
and his mother, because of a story told
by the young mans sister. 1t will occur
some time to the family and friends of
a man murdered under such circum-
stances that if the law can be set aside
in one case that it can be done In an
other and then perhaps we will behold
the spectacle of a man killing a man
because he killed man who had an evil
story circulated about him. Wheels
within wheels. Then what:
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19

The worst of this wicked iingoism
that is trying to provoke a war with
Japan is, that the jingoes themselves
do not have to do the fighting = or
make the sacrifices of life, health, fam
lily, and all to preserve the "honor" of
the nation. When war actually comes
and the country, fright or wrong" is
still "our country" and must be defend
ed, then the awful penalty of jingoism
is paid by the sober-minded patriots in
the quiet walks of life that had no part
in bringing on the quarrel but, because
they must fight for their affairs and their
fires, will settle it.-St. Adams Messen-
ger.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19
Engineer Held For Manslaughter

Hartford, July 13-Jerome Wilson,
the locomotive engineer who is charged
with manslaughter as result Of the
collision here between work train and
"dinky" passenger train, in which 10
workmen were killed and 40 injured,
was given a hearing in the police court
Probable cause was found and he was
bound over to the next term of the
criminal superior court under bonds OF
$4,000
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19
Italians Wounded in Street Row

Barre, July 14.-In a street row on
Blackwell street tonight Calcagni Ame-
dea was stabbed-in the face with knife
and Macchi Bittoeia was struck in the
head with stone. -Four other men
mixed up in the riot ran into a house
nearby and gang of so Italians are wait
ing for them to come out. The police
have warrants and will serve them as
soon as they find the men, two of whom
are said to be named Tacy and Blair.
The row started over calling the Italians
names. Amedea will recover.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19
Further Laurels For Peter Pan

New York. July 15.-Peter Pan,
James r. Keene's game colt, won the
S25, 900 Brighton handicap in a drive
that brought the $4,000 spectators in
the stands TO their feet yelling like
mad The great Commando colt was a
hot favorite with the bettors being
backed down from to to S to ..
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19

says For two
years 1 had kidney
trouble, and there
was such a severe
pain through my
loins and limbs that
l could not stoop
or straighten up
without great pain,
had difficulty in get
ting about and was
unable to rest at
night, arising in the
morning tired and
worn out. The kid
ney secretions were
irregular and de-
posted q heavy sedi-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-19
Electricity as Field for Inven-
tion

By far the greatest activity in inven-
ton during the past few years has been
in the electrical field. Thousands of
patents have been taken out but there
are still great many things which are
needed, and needed badly. The serious
problems which are perplexing the hun
dreds of scientists and inventors are
legion and a fortune awaits the men who
will perfect better filament for mean
descent lamps; a perfect insulating ma
terial; a trolley wheel that won't come
off the trolley; new and lighter storage
battery; wireless method of directing
torpedo boats and discharging subma-
rine mines; non-mechanical electric gen
orators; the transmission of electric pow
er without wires; the wireless telephone;
the self-contained electric car without
trolley or third rail; more efficient arc
lights; better batteries and household
motor adopted to various uses.
Apparently some of these things are
impossible, but it should be remembered
that many of the greatest scientists of
the age said the incandescent lamp was
impossible up to the announcement of
Thomas A. Edison's invention, twenty
five years ago. These things will all
come in time, perhaps tomorrow.
The world wants a more economical
electric light. The present incandescent
amp wastes 80 per cent of the electrical
energy. Scientists are trying to discover
how to produce electric light without
heat. The FREELY does it-but how?
A perfect insulator for high voltage
transmission lines is yet to be found. A
cheap, lightweight, strong substance
that can be formed easily and has high
insulating properties would be worth a
fortune to the discoverer.
A new storage battery of light weight
and increased capacity is in great de-
mand. The present storage battery
with its lead plates is very heavy.
The naval officers of every country are
experimenting with wireless methods
for exploding submarine torpedoes.
The japanese are said to have been par
TALLY successful. Any nation would pay
fabulous sum for such device.
In small way the wireless telephone
has been utilized, but method of max
ing it practical commercially would
place the inventor with the millionaire
class. The attention of the railroad men
of the world is turned towards the self
contained electric car to run on the ordi-
nary steam railroad tracks without third
rail or trolley, generating the required
current right on the car.
There are hundreds of just such oppor
tunities for inventors to win fame and
fortune in the electrical field. The de-
mand for electrical inventors is SO great
that the General Electric Company and
other electrical concerns are seeking
them everywhere. Although by far the
greatest number of inventions are Sc
cured by professionals one does not have
to be an electrical engineer to invent ell
ectrical devices. Thomas A. Edison. who
has taken out nearly 5000 patents, was
telegraph operator; Benjamin Franklin,
who first put electricity to practical use,
was printer; Alexander g. Bell, who
invented the telephone, was a school
teacher; Samuel B. Morse, of telegraph
fame, was an artist.