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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-13
SCIENTIFIC STAIR SWEEPING.
Method by Which Obstruction to
Travel IL Reduced.

Travel II Reduced.
There is. It ceems,' said the town
traveller To Il New York SUI man,
"a yeientihc method OF. sweeping stairs;
a method whereby the people passing
mp and down, as on a stairway in con-
slant public use, may be, while sweep
ing is going on, in the smallest degree
possible, incommoded by 1t.
This method Is scarcely applicable
to narrow stairs, but it may be applied
with great advantage to the sweeping
of wide stairs where the traffic Is great.
1t wss seen demonstrated on the broad
stairs leading down to the subway from
the entrance at the Brooklyn bridge.
1T is a familiar fact that the ordi-
nary way Of sweeping stairs is TO sweep
the steps one after another In success
sion, sweeping each one clear across
from side to side. If the sweeping is
done in this manner half the people go
ing up or Down may have to dodge the
sweeper In lodging the sweeper they
dod1o into other people, and so the
travel on the stairs may be ~congested
| and the whole movement impeded.
"But by the scientific method OF
sweeping all his uncertainty about
where the sweeper may be found Is
avoided and half the stairway Is left
| constantly and entirely clear to travel.
which can move up and down in that
| open way quite freely and so with the
least possible delay.
by this method he sweeper simply
| begins at the end of the step on one
side the stairway and sweeps that step
to the center. There he stops and goes
down a step to the next one, to sweep
that step in like manner, from its end
to the center, and so he keeps on down
step after step, sweeping the stairway
for one-half it's width, keeping himself
always on that side and leaving the
other half of the stairway entirely
free. When he has thus swept down
half the stairway he throws that side
open and starts at the top again, now
on the other side, and sweeps down in
the same way, step by step, to the CEN
ter
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-13
OLD COINS NEW TO HER.
Cashier Refused to Take 1-Cent Piece
and Three Cents. "

Cashier REFUSED to Take .-Cent Ptecc
and Three "EnEIe' Cents.
How little is known by the general
public Of the United States coins which
are not now current was shown the
other day in an uptown restaurant,
says thS New York Times, when Il coin
collectorNin a spirit of fun handed to
the cashier in place Of n nickel one old
fashioned bronze two-cent piece and
three small copper-nickel flying eagle
cents.
The cashier, n young woman of
about 20, looked disdainfully at the I'M
familiar coins. and then refused to ac-
.rept them, saying she had never seen
any such money as that before; that
she didn't believe they We're good"
and didn't propose to accept them.
The patron protested that-the coins
were genuine, and pointed to the in
scrlption United States of America"
as a verification. But the young o
an remained u~nconvinced, and summon
ed the manager. He, too, was dubious
about the authenticity of the pieces,
looked them Owe carefully, and said
he had never seen anything like them
before. He finally told the cashier to
take them anyhow, and he would re-
lieve her of all responsibility in case
they turned o. to be spurious.
The last two-cent piece was issued
by the United States mint in 1873,
while the flying eagle cents were struck
only in 1856, 1857 and 1853. Nearly
23,0O0,000 eagle cents and more than
100000 two-cent pieces were coined.
To collectors 1T Is odd that in a Pc
Rod of fifty years this vast number
of coins should have disappeared to
such an extent that the present gene7a-
ton never heard Of them.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-13
RELIGIOUS VALUE OF THINGS.
BY Pleasant Hunte.


/ do set my bow in the cloud, and it
shall be for a token of a covenant be-
tween me and the earth.-Genesis tx.
10.
Noah has just been promised that
the earth shall never ag3fn be de
stroyed by a food. The promise is
sealed-the seal being the rainbow. A
common thing is thus made to serve
q religious purpose by associating a re-
1igious ideal herewith.
There is a principle here which, APP
piled by man in the everyday work Of
life, would give that work a larger
meaning for many than it now has.
The reason for doing always deter
mines the value of doing. Everything
depends upon motive. He who tries his
best to do, but fails. deserves the same
praise or blame as though he had done.
Abraham did not get possession of the
promised land. but he put into his at
tempt at getting a spirit which made
1t as worthy as though he had gotten,
Benedict Arnold did not succeed
In betraying his country, but the con
summation of the act in his own soul
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-13
ucr Nnte Was Final.

The proprietor of a large drug store
recently received this curt and naughty
| note. written in an angular feminine
hand: II do not van v~asioline, but
glisserine. Is that plain enough? I
persoom you can SPELL
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-13
An Exaetins rrniner.

@who won the long-distaIce walk
ing match?"
"~Spriggfns.'
He did? Who was his t~raincrl,
Ills t~en-months-old baby."-Chicago
Record-Herald.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-13

There is nothing 4 woman enjoys get
ting so much as 4 letter from some
married wona that is stained with
tears.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-13
study Causes Suicide.

Suicidss among children and young
persons are very common in Germany.
Failure in school examinations or over
application to study are the causes
assigned for tie acts c. self-destruc-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-13

sHYMNs YOU OUGHT TO KNOW )
Walking with God.

winning Wall SoN
o., Master, let me walk with thee
In lowly paths of service free
Tell me thy secret help me bear
The strain of toll, the fret of care.
Help me the slow of heart to move
BY some clear winning word of love;
Teach me the hayward feet to stay,
And guide them in the homeward way
Teach me thy patience! still with thee
In closer, dearer company. ~
In work that keeps faith sweet and
strong,
In trust that triumphs over wrong.
In hope that sends a shining ray
Far down the futures broadening way;
In peace that only thou canste give,
With thee, o Master, let me live.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-13
The srhnlnr.

DR.. Evans, a witty membe OF the
Parliament at Melbourne, was an old
man. and the other members jokingiy
smoke of him as belonging to the era
of Queen Anne.
once, while making a speech, he re-
ferred to Queen Anne and was greeted
with cries Of did o know herr"
..What was she iike?'
4 $.AsYes, SIR retorted the Doctor, n
did know her. The scholar IS contem-
porery with all time"
No person. MIN or woman. who can't
look Oh the bright side should ever be
permitted to enter the marriage stateA
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-13

friends because OF what they don't
know about him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

his maist to stro the other In lodging the blow the second lost his balance and fell He caught tho girder and swung from 1t with both hands, His oppo- nent also swayed and went reelng the girder Ho also caught himself. With difficulty both men climbed up the beam. and, with the anger gone from their silently shook hands.
 As standing gl1B washing the win- dows of tall office buildings perhaps do realize the daTger of this work Yet 1t is said killed in the large cities of the country losing balance he poishes the glass.
 The purpose of makers explosives is to make that shall have great possible. be safe to those who handle it. From the making to the using, dynamite is death,deallns.
 Men work in the factories fin silence: they slowly handling things carefully always feeling they York 1t is said is killed daily in dynamite explo sons In the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania explosions common.
 While driving wagon containing dynamite up Scoo- tao Mountain, eight miles from Lock Haven, Pa Albert Metzer escaped death miraculously about year ago. In the rear of the wagon was box of dynamite. for
 While ascending steep side of the hill the traces while vehicle began running backward down the rocky road Below 100 feet little bridge span ned deep chagm.
 Terrified and Tnotioness the in the wagon the vehicle gaining momentum with every revolution of the wheels It bounded the bridge, and, Metzer's surprise the wheels grated along the side railing the wagon stopped. He badly injured. n hospital for time but not an explosion of dynamite.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
'SlevaxE Ca6L khe .5Me1ald H2e HeBufdk kaaalnszoA

He became greater power in politics than before. He at the head of that of Republican dele- gates withdrew from the St. Louis convention in 1896 because the majority refused to agree to a bl- metalsm plank and declared for the gold standard.
 Stewart knew all about slvcr--he had mined it and followed it It's to the mint and liked 1t nightly but about gold he apprecative So for two campaigns he followed the banner of silver candidate fer the Presidency, only in the end to con- that had been wrong and return to his original party.
 The who could muster up courage to changs his political complexion at "A might be expected to do things which that learned and facetous Dr. Osler would approve of In truth. he about to demonstrate it, for his second fortune had been slipping away from him gradually.
 For thing, he had established a paper The Silver Knight in which his free silver views, and had not made a grand financial success of 1t.
 Again, he became imoued with scientific farming methods that bought large dairy farm Wash and announced that ho proposed furnish hy gienic milk city. But Washington evidently satisfied with the kind of milk 1t getting. and the
 In certain real estate deals in Washington MT Stew big profits. but gradually his surplus dwnded down
 In he was to The Hague in ction with the Pious Fund arbitration, involving the title large of money claimed from the government of Mexico by the Catholic hurch in Lower California He deeply interested fin securing what he believed be the rights of the Church.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

California it not the hghcIass lawyer for which position he had been trained. but argonaut
 Yet his knowledge of the law amiss. He kept 1t by him to aid him in transacting delicate deals where his adversares of shrewdness and nte gence It served him many time in getting legal possession of strike which illiterate dirarily learned prcspector, might been beaten ont of.
 Hs worked the pacers where he thought 1t profitable and settled claim here and there but had to grubstake him. and his fortune steadily increased
 At time he ceased his search for wealth long enough to fight in couple of Indian campaigns for n his blood surged patriotism mixed perhaps, with tain battlelust which here found ready vent which contains something than fine burst his William M Stewart in those days.
 MT Stewart" wrote Twain, "one day told h0 would give twenty (shares) of ustis stock if would walk over to his office. It worth 8 BIO foot. asked him to make the offer good day. was just going to duner. He said he would not be in town; risked 1t and took my dinner the stock
 Within the week. price went up to $7O and after ward to $50. nothing could make that yield suppose he sold that stock of mine placed the guilty proceeds in his pocket"
 But, despite his great liberaty. MT Stewart piled up money until it was generally conceded that he climbing pretty close to the million notc Then he
 ors sere usy to the aW o the he high finance to politics sider that when he was first elected to the Senate from
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

CCORDING to a declaration of Dr. Josiah Strong, A president of the American Institute of Social N Service lives sacrificed among the
 workers of the United States each year than in any year the Civil War, plus those of the Spanish-American and Russian-Japanese bined
 Yet willingly place themselves in the way of tremely dangerous occupations lose all fear har and pursue their work with nonchaance that is stasger-
 Many indeed take up dangerous occupations of which thcre is really need-pacng themselves in jeopardy for the amusement of other human beings.
 One of the most thrilling spectacles of modern usually. young woman is strapped in a seat the ma; at rate of twenty, eight miles an hour
 Striking curved railing at the bottom, the machine itself a colapsble platform. No accidents said tn have occurred but wheels of machines have been crushed by the terrific impact when they landed
 Men who skyward in balloons confronted by death and serious injury every time they their aerial journey. There is always possibility of the gas bag bursting some accident to the parachute physi
 During carnival of the Structural Trades Alliance, Baltimore two aeronaut lost his life. When 20OO feet in mjar the man endeavored to raise himself upon bar. which he hung by his hands but evidently overcome by weakness. In sight of thousands of people he let and plunged downward Every bone in his body broken.
 often right to the foundation of otterng chimney. lay new foundations and put in clay, with the imminent danger of tons of bricks crushing them to death or like human spiders they climb the slippery, apoflousy while sitting fral plank supported by wedge driven between two bricks
 Flrst ne climbs along the side of chimney tall, tlln ladder carrying another with him. the top of the nrst ladder he drives wedge bricks the second ladder and ties 1t to the wedge with tarred rODe and pegns the ascent carrying the lower ladder
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
pERILs IN o1L-wELL SHOOTING

of-well shooters. when working. are in momentary the ground the shooter very gently pours into 1t nitro 2 sufficient quantity has run down, he takes 'go- ming dear life a distance before the steel strikes the chemical at the bottom and the explosion
 Electrical engineering is trade fraught danger Working about electrical machinery and meshes of charged wires, the engineer Is always in danger of fatal chock While attempting to repair defective fuse in the power house of the Philadelphia and Reading engineer, touched part of the machinery that heavily charged and fell wrtthing in death agony across the switchboard
 While working about an electric an cream paror Frankford Philadelphia electrician stepped wet spot the floor. Immediately passed through hiin he thrown the floor and shertly afterward died
 Men employed railroads engineers. sgnakrnen. speed testers and in other capacities never know when accident will them into eternity. There thirteen hundred thousand railroad in the country Mlthn one year aceofug to report or the ntefstate dangerous occupation is that of speed tester who rides the front of a locomotive.
 In the making of modern sanitary ware. porcelain, china and terra cotta thousands of sacrifice their lives. Many pe4ters die of copsumption Fine particles from the the lungs and work insidL destruction.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

% RAIDERS of the original edition of Mark Twain's H "Roughing It. cannot but remember a woodcut IN portrait of a man with a high hat. flap one
 eye. mouth dropped at the corners, collar points sticking out boldly from his chin and bow tie in regular jack O dandy fashion.
 That's stewart-who later became United States Soma tor Stewart.
 When Twain "rcughing n' to gather material for his story Stewart actively engaged helping to make the
 He born at Lyons, New York. in 1927. given a school education, lived while in Oho then sent to Yale to study law and emerged from col ege at little 20 with his breast filled with burning ambitionbut not ambition for the law.
 His the story of many another high-class pro- fessonal tho day who experienced the call of the blood-tAe mystical something which impelled to give all benefits of luxurious civilization with real to suffer unspeakable hardshps, sider the joy of wild freedom cheapy bought
 Those '4e the of whom Rcheleu might have said: "No mongrels. sir, those island mastiffs "
 Such Stewart-massive of build, with large nostrs bellowske lungs, shaggy hair indicating great strength
 He one of the most picturesque of all that mantle of fortune hunters.
 And it was highly typical of his radical rature, we'll of the times and place. that when ke went to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

whils this mission. he informed that his wife had been killed at Alameda. Cal in autqrobe acci- dont The machine had crashed Into telegraph pole and crushed the woman's skull.
 Left widower at the of 75. Mir. Stewart not the man to shy at another encounter with Cupid. He in the few years the hand of Mrs Conc
 beautiful young widow of Georgia, whom he had met in Washington.
 The marriage ceremony was typical of the man. It took place Atlanta Georgia in tho paor of the Pied mont Hotel. The Senator to giving out any information. This my wedding" he stated. briefly not a word more.
 Immediately after the the venerable bride and his wife repaired to tho dnngroom. studied the menu card for tme ordered fried bacon celery rolls. coffee and bottle and after consuming the modest meal. started for Washington.
 As matter of fact. just at that time economy was necessary, and this made the wedding all the prettex from romantic viewpoint, for 1t stamped 1t real love match not a marriage for money.
 Boon afterw6rd a home reared in the woods Of the Nevada gold country It the home which the former Senator prepared for his bride It's furnishings were not elaborate but were tasty and comfortable.
 It is said that tip given to him by Senator Ntxon or Nevada, who succeeded him in the Senate, was sponsble for the lucky strike made by Mir Stewart in purchasing stock In fact 1t is said that stock which he bought Tor 20 cents share rapidly to $1Tb0
 But while his riches from stock holdings are accumu- that this fortune-hs third-wli not like the others
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
us he reaches the top by raising the lad

with him. Thus he reaches the top by raising the ders alternately.
 M One Of the most difficult feats is 'fell chimney or course. 1t would be impossible in ing chmneys to begin at the top and remove them So feet buildings on both sides of them.
 The steePle workers cut into the brick insert & wooden props Every precaut9n be taken SC ne props do not weaken and the chimney fell the workmen. When sufficiently large aperture has burrowed out of the brick kinding is placed at tho the chimney falls.
 One of the best known steepejacks Smith. of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
N1zzo~5 WaIh oT I1e 3paed Ze5Ier

cashire England Smith rides in a palace car when he to work During his he has had many hair breadth escapes death once. while working at tho top a chimney, with two workmen, a heavy stone eopng struck lhe staging. ard crashed ground 150 feet below.
 smith threw himself over the top of the chimney inside whence smoke and hot, stifling fumes IoSeIheN ikely 10 throw he could be rescued -
 Spanning rivers over the entire country one finds wonderful bridges-cobwebs iron which trains speed with safety and thousands of human beings pass with
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

T7O HAVE made and lost tsro fortunes;
 to begin, almost at the age of So A years, to make another, protesting tha, he sUould not stay "doyn and out" and to have lis attempt finally erosoned soith sae- cess, is the soonderfuI experience of v. M. Steaoart, of Nevada, former United States Senator, laroyer, editor, orator, Yale college man, Indian fighter, prospector, speealator and scientific farmer.
 First, asOay back in 70, he svent West, and, betz0een the lasv and ore mining, gresc 50 opulent that hs became knosvn as "the Sitter King; but svhen he seas elected Senator from Nevada he plunged too deeply into the ex. vavagances of capital life, and ct the end of tSvelve years found himself poor.
 Again he svent back to the West for q fortune, dug it out of the earth in the form of precious ore, and again sUas elected Senator; but in time ansVise ,pecnlations and enterprises reduced him once more to the IosVer financial level
 So, on March 4, 1903, his term ended, he bade goodbye to his friends in the Senate and stayted for the seenes of his former tri- amphs to again srest fortnne from the rocks. And noso comes the statement that, through taking advantage of q mining tip, hs has made Se5o, 900, and is on 2 fair scay to reaching the millionaire class.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

thought of the men who first the iron frame work the builders who erected the mighty steel struc 
 of high the perlous waters of rivers and mountain gorSeS.
 Sitting on narrow iron girders. where there is scarce ly foothold drive home redh hot bolts, wield immense hammers and pneumatic punches. When cross ing long span ot iron the worker with eyes straight ahead goal, speeds the girder, distraction Jar of the iron likely to missep and plunge him to death.
 Some time ago. in New York, two steelworkers got into an altercaon while sitting girder One raised
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
OCCUPATIONS ABOUT WFITCl GRlrN DEATH LIT{{KSI ]

@ O YOU know that hundreds of thousands of persons earning their living by D work which places them in ir,minent
 danger of deatha Do yeu know that in the mines of Pennsylvania in five years 12,00o miners have been killed; that, annually, upward of 232,00O factory employees are killed injured, that 69,191 railroad employees lost their lives in 1906; that it estimated for every floor of every modern high building constructed a man sacrifices his life and that each day, in New York alone. a window-washer is dashed to the grounda
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

Nevada the Civil War but half over Almost all the great statesmen of that day have their stars them dead; hut Stewart is by means sure that hs will again be asked help make laws for the nation.
 In Washington he became known 'the Silver King
 I'm just plain old fellow but I've little money and intend to have good time with it," he used to tell hs friends: and sometimes he would add: When it's gone I'm like the fellow who can't get mcre.
 GOT HIS MONEYS WORTH
 He got his moneys worth. Perhaps his most ex- avagan generous tribute of silver to the god of luxury made when he built the famous Stewart castle. the largest and most imposing house in Washington until Senator Clark of Montana, bought and tore 1t down bride.
 Afte: twelve years of Washington fea period which from Nevada to succeed himStewart found himself in need of money But he did despair.
 He could have held few years, doubt if he had sold his castle imnedia elythis in the early eighties but he preferred he himself it, go the mines"
 He The holes back in his home had not given all their guerdon patient intelligent labor. They held gocdy portion for Stewart AL though 50 of he 1t with pick shovel and washing pan, and asked no handicap. And again he struck 1t rich.
 Money again brought power. and in 1887 he again elected to the Senats
The daily sentinel., 1907-08-02

We still have some of those solid
gold children's rings at so. Prim-
rose, jeweler.
The daily sentinel., 1907-08-02

New York, Aug. 2.-"Chicago is
beyond all earthly comparison in the
matter of wicBedness,' says the Rev.
DIR. Len G. Broughton of Atlanta.
"Chicago and hell are in n class by
themselves.
II have been coming to New York
for seven or eight years, preaching
here and every two years going ON TO
London. / have visited Paris, Berlin
and Vienna and studied conditions
there. Next to Chicago, Paris is the
wickedcst city in the world and New
York is next.
"Of course you can say New York
is not as wicked as Chicago, but that
is as If you said it We're better than
hell. Chicago is not to be compared
with any civilized community.
"New York society is fostering
sore. It's doings were exploited as
though they were the real things So
cially. The ease with which woman
with wealth rehabilitates herself after
some wrongdoing, weakens the re
sistance of other women, who say to
themselves: I've got money; III
plunge, too.