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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
PLEASANT SUMMER.
Right Food the Cause.
Wis. m says:

"A Wis. woman says:
II was run down and weak, troubled
with nervousness and headache for the
last six years. The least excitement
would make me nervous and cause
severe headache.
This summer I have been eating
.0rape-Nuts regularly and feel better
than for the six past years.
q am not troubled with headache
and nervousness, and weigh moret than
I ever have before in my life. ! gained
: Abs. IN a week."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the book. THE
1oad to Wsllville." In pkgs.
sTheeOis 9 Rsasoa.s
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
HONESTY AS A POLICY.

Reflections Of a Prison Warder Whose
Wife Had Taken a Prisoners Cake.
Rather an original story comes fdom
the criminal prison here. A book
keeper named Schneider was await
ing his trial, being charged with fraud.
AS his health was bad his family sent
him many little delicacies which, no
doubt, the head warder shared with
him.
The other day. among other things,
a huge iced cake appeared. The
warder's children were fond of cake,
and so was his wife. They therefore
determined to keep half Of 1t for them
selves. Their surprise was great
when. upon applying a knife to the
dainty, it stuck just below the icing
and refused to go any further.
"It must be baked to a cinder," said
Mrs. Warder. But her good man, sus-
pecting that something worse than
careless baking was responsible for
the cakes hardness, cut round the
sides, and was rewarded by finding
a revolver and seven cartridges buried
in the paste.
When brought up before the authori.
ties Schneider confessed that he had
intended to shoot his guardians and
escape from prison before his trial
after ALL" said the warder, pen
sively, when he told his story, hon
esty is not always the best policy. II
my wife had not cut into that cake
I should have been a dead man by
now, for I sleep hard"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
p X.
BY the Calais Mail.

The ~mail-packet steamed out Of Do.
yer harbor on it's way to Calais under
the shining stars Of a cloudless night.
Mr.. Mark rockingham stood on the
deck and watched the lights Of the
shore recede. He had no remem-
'brance Of the great ocean he had
crossed when his mother brought him
from the land OF his birth, India. 1t
had been quite a revelation to him
that he had eve been there.
He had accepted the fact that he
was the child of a female tramp who
had deserted him in the farmers barn.
and he had concluded that he was
born in the land in which he was
abandoned, the land he had v
quilted.
AS the cliffs of England receded
from his gaze he felt like a man who
for the first time is leaving his native
country and putting out into the un-
known. He lighted a pipe, drew his
travelling cap down over his eye and,
leaning over the bulwarks, watched
the lights of Dover grow gradually
DINNER.
For the first time he felt absolutely
safe. In the land he was leaving be-
hind lay the prison where his vacant
cell must still be an object of painful
contemplation to the warders. Far
away, in another portion of the land.
his wife was probably at this lonely
hour sitting in her lonely room won
dering what might be her husbands
fate. 1t was possible that she pictur.
ed him in the direst distress and pri.
walton; she might even be praying for
his deliverance from the hands of his
pursuers.
Elsewhere in the land that was now
only a dim outline in the distance
stood the ancient home Of his ances
tors, the grand old Tudor mansion
that had been the home of the Bret
tinghams for centuries. T.
There his father, the fine old Eng
fish gentleman whom he had seen TO,
the first time the previous evening
was living, a weak and broken man
hiding his horrible secret from the
world. In Mark Brettingham's heart
hardened as it was, there was a feel
ing Of pity for the old aristocrat whose
pride had been brought so low.
Once or twice he had found himsel
wishing that, for his fathers sake, h,
! could have come to him with a clean
or record.
But his feeling Of pity for his fathe
was gradually mingled with q feeling
Of pity for himself.
He had been very badly treated. H
had been left In . barn whom ho oush
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15

many an adventure in the course OF
his very useful life.
He once told of a case in which a
man got a little the better OF him In
an argument.
The man was a clubman, a generous
liver, famous for his wine cellar, and
Mr.. Murphy read him a strong lee
ture on the drink evil.
But the bon vivant only smiled
shook his head, and said:
well, Mr.. Murphy, l have seen
many a pleasant party around a table,
but 1 have never seen n around a
pump"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
Life and Literature.

In the household department Of a
farm magazine we find the following
communication:
II am willing to exchange a we'll
preserved copy Of %Browning's poems
for some geraniums.
II have a complete edition of Byron,
containing all his poems and letters.
which | will be glad to exchange for
some watermelon seeds"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
PATENTS.
List Of Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern Inventors.

Reported by Lothrop & Johnson,
patent lawyers, Oil Pioneer Press
building, st. Paul, Mimi: James L.
Coleman, Duluth, Mimi, pulley; Chas.
d. Edwards, Albert Lea, Mimi, grad
ing machine; George Fink, Mortified,
Mimi, carrier; Edward l.. Southwick,
Mapleton, Minn.,. non-retillable bottle;
Max Toltz, st. Paul, Mimi, super
heater; Aanen Travlapd, Hoffman,
Mimi, bicycle boat; Charles E. Mapes.
Havana, N. D., grain door for cars.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15

When a man kisses a girl for the
first time she tries . to act so that he
will think 1t Is her first experience.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15

Blessed Are the Peacemakers.
The Wife-Where did you get all
these terrible bruises?
The H~usband-Oh, at the peace dem
%onstration!
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15

ALL KINDS OF STOVE REPAIRS.
Send name and numbe of your stove to
American Stove Repair Works. st. Paul.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
He Had Been There.

Father-where's your gold watchi
The sophomore-Ths dickensi! ]
must have left It In the coat I sent
out today.
Oh, I sss. Pswnsd both Of emf
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15

HUNTERS n TRApPERs' SUPPLIES
All kinds OF Sporting Goods. Catalog free.
Kennedy Bros. Arms Co.. ST. Paul. Mimi.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15

A fathers pride in his children's
music is based largely upon what 10
cost him.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
Kidney trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure t know of the wonderful

cures made by Or.
Kilmer's Swamp,
Root, the great kid
ney, liver and blad-
der remedy.
1t is the great med
ical triumph of the
nineteenth century,;
discovered after years
Of scientific research
by Dr. Kilmer, the
eminent kidney and
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
Homo OF %swa1np-Roo:.

sold by all good druggists. Don't make
any mistake, but remember the name,
Swamp-Root, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
and the address, Binghamton, N. Y. on
every bottle.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15

Some men keep their religion locked
In a safe deposit vault six days of the
week.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15

bladder specialist, n IS WONDERFULLY
successful in promptly curinElaneiback,
uric acid, catarrh of the bladder and
Bright's Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec
commended for everything buff you have
kidney, liver or bladder trouble it will be
found Just the remedy you need. II has
been tested in so many ways, in hospital
work and in private practice, and has
proved SO successful in every case that a
special arrangement has been made by
which all readers of this paper, who have
not already tried it, may have a sample
bottle sent free by mail, also a book tell
ing more about Swanlp-Root, and how to
fndoutifyouhave kidney or bladder trou-
bic. When writing mention reading this
generous offer in this paper and send your
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15

address to DIR. Kilmer
& Co., B~inghamton,
N. Y. The regular
6fty-cent and one
dollar size bottles are
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24
To illustrate. There is a little city in

To illustrate. There is little city In
the central part of Wisconsin, a beau
tiful little place, with its shady streets
and pleasant homes. 1t has several
general stores owned by live. wide
awake merchants, who are hustling for
business, yet are always pleasant and
ready to visit with a customer. They
are not put out at any time to show
goods. taking down bolt after bolt OF
cloth and maybe then not making even
a five-cent sale. They take that as
part of their business; they are always
willing to send post-haste to the city
for any article they may not have in
stock that is wanted by a customer;
their stocks are up-to-date and free
from shelf-worn goods. These men
mako the humblest customers feel well
come in their stores. and particular at
tention is paid to waiting on children,
giving them even better measure and
quality than their elders would re-
ceive. And these men are advertisers.
Their ads in the local papers are
changed regularly and show time and
study. They meet the mail order man
more than half way in special sales
and clearing of odds and ends. Here
Is an instance where there is no legi-
innate excuse for a person sending
away after goods. And the people do
not. Very few articles of general mer-
chandise are shipped into that city.
The buyer and seller are working in
harmony to their own betterment and
advantage. =,
But look at the other side. The city
which we have in mind has one hard
ware and one furniture store. Both
have fairly good stocks for the size of
their circle of trade, but just step into
either one of these stores. The pro-
prietor may be in the back room or the
back yard for all you know, but by and
by some stir is heard and leisurely he
makes his appearance-neither store
has need of clerk-and probably with
some grumbles about being disturbed,
asks what is wanted. There might as
we'll be placards in the store announc-
ing Buy what I've got and keep still"
and I'VE are busy, don't disturb u.s."
No effort is made to show you an arti-
Gle: nothing is ever taken down from
the shelves unless directly asked for.
Neither hardware nor furniture man
acts willing to get what you want If he
does not have it in stock. And again
neither one OF these stores believe in
advertising. They use no space in
their home papers; newcomer would
never know the city possessed such
places of business enterprise. Wko
ever heard Of country hardware sr
furniture store having special sale.
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24
Decoration Dapa aeer=
11tanent Jnstttutton
By Mr.. WALTER PENNEY.
Division Commander. Massachusetts Sons of
Veterans.

love and honor vors though the will
when will not be permitted them march streets
mnge with them, yet deep the sentiment that the pleasure and
beauty of the memorial service will continue ~
Memorial day has reached that stage where it not only day of
honor to the old but it observed general by the people
day of special memory the departed Before this day
cemeteries they well kept and beautifully laid
and the feeling has become established that should
the year special effort that ne and why Memorial day.
the most beautiful of the year?
The day will survive because is the wish of the Grand Army Of
Public instutors should believe they
that should die with the last veteran but rather that should
and grow institution of sentiment.
1t will live because there officially connected with the R.
and recognized by thm organization that with
ing powerful numbers strength and moate Sons of Vee
ans, u. S. A.
it to be of the greatest land
and the survival of Memorial day its first duty The
fed that their work and memory safe hands
The American love and their
dier strong and his deeply cherished Future generations
believe will continue in the path and Memorial whether
be changed from week day Sabbath day. will years to
until America shall have
ssa. lost its .n,, nssss and s.s. rs ta; a s,,s sns
to live.
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24
The COLLEGE Girls, Ideal.

Nearly three-fourths have as theii
ideal a friend. while only four take a
historical character. The qualities OF
this ideal friend vary considerably.
writes Amy 4. Tanner. Wilson college.
Pennsylvania. in International Journal
Of Ethics, and fall into three groups,
each group chosen by nearly the same
number of students-an altruistic
ideal, with breadth of view, tolerance
and unselfishness as the qualities most
admired; broad personal ideal OF
sweetness and strength of character;
a narrow personal ideal, with bright.
ness. attractiveness. good looks. popu-
Iarity and social influence as the de-
sired traits. For the most important
virtue, little more than one-thlrd
take honesty; one-fourth love Of hui
manity; one-sixth, chastity, and one.
fifth. self-control One-sixth consider
dishonesty the greatest vice; one
third drunkenness; one-fifth. impurity
Of life or unchastity, and one-ffth
murder.
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24
DEAD MERCHANT
He SOMETIMES DRIVES TRADE
AWAY FROM THE TOWN.
HISD2ANcE ToLIvE MERCHANT
Are - Much to Be Feared AZ the
Composition Of the Catalogue
Houses-shouid BE Awak-
ened or Buried.

Why should the home merchant he
patronized instead of the mail order
house? The subject has been ex-
hausted almost and from all points OF
view and all sides there is no valid
reason why the merchant at home
should not-excepting two. price and
articles wanted.
1t is not the intention of the writer
to jot down a pleasant flow of Ian
guage or to produce an interesting bit
OF reading matter, but merely to state
in few simple sentences what have
seen and learned of the competition be-
tween the catalogue houses and the
home merchants. In the first place no
one community suffers greatly in this
competition. That makes the problem
all the more dihicult in solution. 1
mean by this that the majority of buy
ers in no one community purchase by
mail. The business OF the mail order
house is scattered over a large terri
tory, the number of orders coming
from any one community compared
with the whole is comparatively small
to the number of orders in the town.
There is an exception to this in a com
munity where the home merchants are
dead ones and ask exhorbitant prices.
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24

It would be hard to find. even In tha
aobiest fiction, story more tragic or
more touching than that of the death
Of M. Berthelot, the great French
chemist. Three months ago Nine.
Berthelot became III, and 1t was dis.
covered that she had a form Of heart
disease from which recovery was i'm.
possible. NJ. Berthelot gave up all his
studies and all his other interests and
took his place by his wife's bedside
From that time on he scarcely left It
Not only did he sit there by day, but
such sleep as he got he secured in the
same chair. When the end came he had
been ~ hours without sleep. Nine.
Berthelot, rousing herself as death
touched her, recognized her husband
holding her hand. my dear. how
good you are!" she murmured. Al
though the accounts Of the closing
scenes differ. they all agree that when
he knew that his wife was dead, he
expired almost instantly. In their
deaths they were separated by a few
moments only.
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24
Millions for Music.

Millions Tor Muolc.
An industrious calculator has esti-
mated that $4,000. 900 were spsnt last
winter by the people Of America for
the enjoyment Of serious n usic-
music. that is to say. as 1t 10 known
In our concert halls and opera houses:
not the music Of the comic opera stage
and the vaudeville house. The fgure
is more likely an underestimate than
an exaggerafion, says Everybody's 8
Magazine. Few social phenomena OF
recent years In this country have been
more remarkable than the enormous
Increase in the popular demand for
music Of the better class. Then years
ago the works Of Wagner. of Beetho-
ven. Of Schubert. Of Schumann, Of
Tschaikowsky, were relegated in the
average mind. to the vague and unat-
tainable limbo OF classical music;
to-day. one catches ones carpenter
whistiing the ''Siegfried" motive from
Der Ring des Niebelungen." and the
little dressmaker from the suburbs
discourses intelligently upon the revo-
lutionary art of Richard Strauss. The
publishers will tell you OF the large
and increasing demand for operate
guide books. for biographies Of great
composers. for introductions of all
kinds to the secrets of that suppos
ably mysterious art-the art of music;
and the great tribe of popularizers
flourishes as never before.
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24

or harvest sale or the like, But Why
not? These two storekeepers are bit
ter against the mail order houses.
wonder why? / talked with the rail-
road agents in that little city and he
said lots Of hardware and furniture
was shipped in. He said. One day
made out an express order for $34 to
pay for bill Of hardware. l told the
man to go up and see II the merchant
couldn't NIL the order. He went but
soon came back. saying that he didn't
have half Of the stun on hand and that
he wouldn't cut bit on what he did
have"
Column after column has been writ
spends her or his money away from
home, that she or he is helping to build
up the mail order house to the defri-
ment of the home merchant The SEN
timent is good and the cause is worthy
Of the efforts being made to stop this
undertow; but no amount of writing
and no amount Of home patriotism will
ever overcome the bad effects of the
dead merchant in the little town. The
truth can be plainly seen.
Let US turn back to the general
stores and look up the proprietor Of
any one. He probably will be found
busy waiting on a customer, but II not
he will tell you that 1t is not the cata-
logues alone that he fears, but also
that it is the lethargy of these two
dealers. They are helping to drive
away trade from home.
I have wandered from the subject
and gotten over on the buyers side
Of the fence; but isn't it well at times
to look at the other side Of this pitiable
story? l started to write few lines on
why People Should Trade at Home"
and have gotten into the field OF why
the Home Merchant Should Induce
People to Trade at Home" 1t may be
fair to the little town to- once in q
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24
!, Made Him Wonder.

A Scotchman in search OF work was
recently given employment as la
borers at Cramps shipyard. His first
job was to carry several heavy planks.
After he had been at 1t for about two
hours he went to the foreman and
Eaid:
Did All tell ye ma name when I
started to work."
YES" replied the foreman, you
said 1t was Tomson-"
"Oh, then it's a right" said the
Scot, as he looked toward to the pile
Of planks he had yet to carry. "Ah
was jist a-wunnerin' IL lou thocht All
said it was Samson"
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24
SOME REMARKABLE HORSES.
Wonderful Stories About the Steed.
Of Famous Men.

In his letters to Lord Granville, pub
lished by the Royal Philosophical So
ciety, who was also greatly interested
in natural history, Smithson, the
founder of the Smithsonian institution
in America, relates how the horse ex
Alexander the Great, Bucephalus,
would at night, on hearing a blast of
the trumpet from the soldiers on guard
showing the approach Of the enemy,
run at great speed to his masters tent
and with his teeth grab the sleeping
monarch and shake him until he sprang
into the saddle and galloped toward
the enemy.
Also that the great Caliph Haroun-el-
Raschid in the eight century in march
ing toward the forces of Queen Irene
Of Constantinople constantly had a
number of trained Arabian horses (di-
rect descendants Of the famous horse
owned by 'Ishmael 1000 years ago)
thrown forward as scouts, who from
time to time returned to camp and by
a peculiar whinny and neigh reported
the proximity of the enemy.
But, to come down to the present
day. it is related by retired New
England clergyman, whose sands of
life had nearly run out, that one day
on leading his horse down through a
lane to brook for drink the animal
suddenly halted and, turning its head
round. grabbed up with its teeth one of
its hind shoes which had just dropped
off. and, holding it in it's mouth with
the nails dangling. it backed up against
stone wall and clapped it onto its
hoof and with few violent kicks
nailed 1t on again.
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24

At g recent netting of the French
Eociete de Biologie there was an ami.
mated debate on the danger Of being
poisoned by eating oysters. At Tou.
louise recently number Of persons
were taken Ill after eating oysters
taken from the beds at Cetta; but
the illness was traced by M. Baylac, a
chemist of Toulouse. to other causes.
During the debate 1t appeared that
the handling of oysters after they are
taken. rather than the waters from
which they are taken. was the cause
OF injecting them with toxic germs
One of the speakers mentioned the Gu
rious fact that stale" oysters are less
unwholesome when suffered to remain
stale, than they are when revived and
refreshed by pure water.
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24
AMG<~-.


The Christianity l try
to teach is an appeal to
t h e intelligence, tn g
ideals, the hearts of men,
the appeal for right
thinking and right liv-
ing. Spurgeon once said
the people he preached to
were like a dust heap,
but a dust heap filed
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24

Now the premier of Australia de-
clares that 1t is Germany and Jepan
that will fight for the supremacy Of
the Pacific. The other nations seem
either very anxious or very eager
about the possibility of Japan's getting
into another war Failing to make
trouble materialize with the United
States, Germany has now been select
ed q the next best foe upon whom to
"sic" the Japanese.
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24

edge industry loyalty and the capacity for executive ability
great.
bulk of the maritime of the world
flag There
when the and stripes hoated most OF the sailing vessels
thai traversed the Atlantic and Pacific
great deal might be accomplished in the direction OF placing the
the lead the maritime
people the world by the multiplication of ships having the purpose for
which Enterprise designated Massachusetts, Pennsyvsna and
York have nautical ships and has been that
other also would be provided with them.
These training ships ought turn out competent men as
would be needed The Enterprise particularly successful In this
the who graduated from its
having found positions the merchant marine
In the naval the prospect of advancement for an alert active
much brighter than it
before There by through which
the qualified hope from the noncommissope to
the commissioned rank in time of peace,
while the who does not aspire to H2Z-
that promotion is to-day betterhoused,
better-fed and beerpad. II
The Dolores star., 1907-05-24

intelligence. have always worked for three things
peace, temperance, and right living
To me the preacher and his congregation bear
an intimate relation, to the other. The thoughts
of the people preach to seem to come to me as a
mist which I must give back to them as flowing
stream. l receive from them, but must return more
than they give Is it not Desmosthenes who says that
the preacher must bestow with his lips first then with
his feelings? preacher must have this of per-
sonal contact man preaching with his nose buried
in manuscript can do nothing.