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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10

and men with enough public spirit and sense Of duty
to make n money sacrifice to serve the State. Unfortu-
nately, there are all too few Of the latter class. This
ia not a plea for a general increase IN salaries, but a
plea for q general Increase in interest in public affairs.
There are very few Americans who will not willingly
and cheeerfully give their lives for the flag; there are
very few who will give their time, or any part Of 1T,
for the State. No man should enter politics with the
hope of pecuninry reward. There Is no such thing as
honest graft" Salaries are small and the continuity
of office holding so uncertain that the life Of an honest
politician Is one Of constant self-sacr1hce.
Moreover, our journalistic and political ethics are
such that the honest man who accepts Office in this
country must expect from the beginning to the end of
his term to wage one insistent struggle to do his duty.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10

thing might have been made of her, but
now-she must be q child Of the soil in-
deed"
"a little touch OF injustice somewhere"
suggests Everard with a pensive express
sion. 1t brings a smile to the lips OF
Mrs. Clarence. She knows him. When
had he ever lone justice to anyone!
We'll, l agree with Hilary" says
May in her little rushy way. An i'm
possible, vulgar, country6ed girl by this
time! How is she to be accepted? Oh''
-impatiently. How cou!d Uncle Lu-
cien's sister have married so dreadfully ~
1--WE Just been telling you it wasn't
so bad as all that" says her brother.
'.He was a miller certainly, so was his
father and grandfather, and great-grand-
father, / believe, before him a2d really
nowadays If one can show up three gen
e%rations one ought to get the Victoria
Cross. What the girl is like is the ques-
ton. Run wild, l shouldn't wonder. IAs
old mill is standing still, l hear
VERY still,' says Everard, with a
laugh. 1T was in the last stage OF de-
cay when we were here-how many years
ago." turning to Mrs. Clarence, VINO
gives him a glance in return that makes
him laugh inwardly. WELL, when we
were here yesterday"
but, what has all this got to do with
our mysterious cousin?" asks Mr.. Nc
Grath, who has been weaving all the SILK
en- things in the room into a sort Oh lasSo
with which to embarrass May presently,
and drag her into his net, to the sure
discontinue of Gilbert Grey. Let us
come back to her; l hate ruins. Some
tomfools admire them-to me they sus-
gest nothing but old women "
You haven't been listening says Mrs.
Clarence severely "of course Sir Luclen
was frantic when his sister made 30 low
a match, and now he visits on the girl
that ancient feud.
Just like him." declares Grey indig-
nantly. Fancy making the life OF a
young girl wretched just because her peo-
ple had not done according to his tenets !.
There was MORE" says Mrs. Clar-
ence. Haven't you heard, Gilbert, about
the disappearance of those jewels! She
leans forward, jewels appeal to her.
"Surely you must nave heard"
81 nave not indeed. Jewels! WhoseF"
"What? Jewels? never heard OF
them, either" cries May, growing sud-
denly most deeply interested. Did you
ever hear about them, HllaryT
years ago! But l confess l had
forgotten all about them until lately,
when there seemed to be a chance of the
revival of the sensation that marked their
disappearance"
But never heard of their appear
ance," protested May.
"You must have been asleep, my good
child,' says Dolly.
mot a bit more than Gilbert" a littls
Indignantly. She resents this speech.
"You never heard of them either, Gilbert,
did you"
Blessed ignorance that seems to bring
them even a degree nearer to each other.
swell, tell US about them" May is
somewhat Modified.
"Oh! It's a long story" Mrs. Clar-
ence looks bored.
(To be continued.)
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10

Hang it, she isn't SO bad" But aloud
he said, 81 don't go away in the suns,
mer."
II have always said" she cried. de,
lightedly, that there is no place ! n
The summer like the city. No, sir! No
where! And We'll have one of those
piano players, dear, and Il collection OF
the best old classics. and, oh, what
happy, happy hours We'll spend to,
gether! Bach! Beethoven! Etudel
All, I feel so happy"
Swinging his hand a1d pressing II
with affection the while. she began
Dinna ask me if l love ye,
l Truth, l darena tell.
And then not only did she swing hiA
hand, but he swung hers. and instead
Of avoiding her glance and setting his
face In the cast Of stones, he looked at
her right sweet-in the eye and thought
her wondrous fair. 81
But look here, girl" he said, II only
get SIS a week, and those piano players
and concerts and operas and things"
"Weli," she whispered, her eyes shin
ing as she lifted her rosy little lips to
be kissed, "Well Aren't there
canaries?'-Evening Sun.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10
SONG.

The dream is DER, and we awake;
The morn is sweet and fair,
Deep in the purple-scented brake
A bird song woos the air
Up the glad causeway of the East
The sun leaps evermore,
Anon the noon shall spread her feast
Dear Love, the dream is Ger.
The dream Is DER, we did not deem,
Dear Love, the stars would ade
We did not deem twas but a dream
OF youth al ~und;smaJed.
Look, where adown the saffron West
Day leads her royal train,
Within mine arms, upon my breast,
Come, Love, and dream again
-Afusleo'a.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10
The First Moving Pictures.

Moving pictures originated in an ex.
pertinent to show both sides Of a shill-
ing at once. II 1926, according to the
Chicago Tribune, Sir John Herschel
asked his friend, Charles Babbage, how
he would show both sides of a shilling
at once. Babbage replied by taking a
shilling from his pocket and holding 1t
before q mirror.
This did not satisfy Sir John, who
set the shilling spinning on a large
table. at the same time pointing out
that If the eye is placed on a level with
a ratating coin, both sides can be seen
at once.
Babbage was so struck by the ex-
pertinent that the next day he de-
scribed it to a friend, Doctor Fitton,
who Immediately made a working
model.
On one side of a disk was drawn a
bird, on the other side an empty bird
cage. When the card was revolved SnI
a silk thread the bird appeared to b
in the cage. This model showed the
persistence Of vision upon which all
moving pictures depend for their eff
feet.
The eye retains the image OF the Oh
ject seen for a fraction OF a second
after the object has been removed.
This model was called the thaumatrope.
Next came the zeotrope, or wheel Of
life" A cylinder was perforated with
a series of slots, AID within the cylin-
der was placed a band of drawings OF
dancing men. On the apparatus beins
slowly rotated, the figures seen through
the slots appeared to be in motion.
The first systematic photographs OF
men and animals taken at regular in.
tervals were made by Edward May.
bridge In 1877.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10

will tolerate? It was not written in the book OF fate
that he should complain, and worry, and sulk, and sur-
fer. MY aim is to direct a mans attention to himself
as n whole, considered as a machine, complex and ca
pable Of quite extraordinary efficiency for travelling
through this world smoothly, in any desired manner,
with satisfaction not only TO himself but to the people
he meets en- route and the people who are overtaklns
him and whom he is overtaking. My aim is to snow
that only an inappreciable fraction of our ordered ana
sustained efforts Is given to the business of actual NV
ing as distinguished from the preliminaries to living.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10
a RemarkabIe Recovery.
PASSING 70 THE E
An English Custom Which Pusxl
You When You Meet IL Il Canada.

An English Custom Which PUSHES
You When You Meet II i'm Canada.
When you go abroad you expect to
md things different than at home and
you try to take everything as a matter
Of course. So in England, when you
learn that railroad trains pass to the
left and not to the right, as with us,
n when you find that the same rule
Of the road applies in city streets and
country highways and byways, you may
be inconvenienced, but you try to re-
member and get along somehow.
But when you go to Canada and find
this ieft-handed state Of things existing
you are bewildered. There has beer no
ocean trip to prepare you. You pass
from Yankee soil to Canadian soil with
y knowing when, and somehow you
expect to find the ordinary affair Of
life moving along as you have been
accustomed.
One day you are In Portland, Me-,
the next In st. John. N. B. You face
the direction In which you Wish to 60
and stand beside the right hand trolley
track waiting for a trolley car. The
car CONES, but It 10 going the wrong
way-f0r you. Then you shift to tho
left.
But the next day when you are out
n the country, you have forgotten the
trolley car episode. You 60 driving.
Another team approaches. You tug
gently On the dexter rein expecting
Dobbin o. Maude or whatever the
beastis's name Ii to turn out.
But you get no response. On the con-
trary. The argument is not concluded
when the horses stand face to face and
the one you are driving says unkind
things about you to his brother Of the
shafts.
BY that time you have remembered
and after m apology you proceed.
The matter Ii especially plxzling since
the drivers seat Is or the right. But
the Canadians fnd this handy. There
TIE msn do moks Of the talking and
when two teams are passing the horses
Are checked and the men find them
selves close together.
With VI, In like case, the women
have the preferred positions from 4
conversational standpoint. And that's
- 1t should be.
Railroad trains don't pass to tbs left
n Canada. In fact, they don't pass ut
al except at sidinss. There IL only one
fraek.-NeN York Gun.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10
WIFE Won.

49,
Kusband Finally Convinced.
SoMe ma + wise enough to try new
foods and beverages and thsn generous
snoush 20 rive others the benefit Of
their experience.
"a very conservative" Illa man, how
ever. 1T his good wife End out for her
pelf what ! blessing Postum Il 70 thoss
who ~ distressed In many wayA, ~
Artnking coffee. The wife writes:
slave In chains. It seemed to me,
49, mors helpless than |, 1 coffss cap-
tive. Yet there were innumsrabls warn
1nss-waking from 4 troubled slsep
with : feeling Of s~u1ocation, 1t times
Alxsy ana ont of-byeath. attacks Of pal
pitatioa ~ the heart that frightened
-
~Common ssnse. reason. and my bet
Iter Judgnent told me that coffee drink
Ing was the trouble. At last my ner-
IyouA aUutem "a % disarranged that
my physician ordered mo more coffee
SsHe knew he was right and he knew
aI%knew Il. too. I c~apitulated- Prior
to this sour family had tried Postum but
disliked II, because, as We learned later,
IL was not made right.
Determined this time to give Postum
a FAIR .risl. 81 prepared Il according to
sidirecfions on the pkg-that Is. boiled It
iSSxhlnntes after boiling commenced.
ohtainInssa dark brown liquid with u
rich snappy navsr similar to coffee.
When cream md sugar gere added, Ii
twas not only good but delicioussI
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10
LESS IDEAS AND MORE IDEALS.
BY Mayor Mcclellan.

The crying need Of the day is
fewer men with ideas and more men
with ideals. One of the most difficult
problems OF the great trust which I
occupy Is to get the right men for
public office. In this country official
salaries are small, on the theory, l
suppose, that the honor Of public
service is a sufficient reward. There
are, therefore, just three classes Of
men who accept public office Men
Of independent means, men who have
not succeeded in private life and who
tobo ofRoa nc n business DroDoSitiOn
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10
WHEN PEOPLE BEGIN TO FLY.

Problems hat Are Likely to Present
Themselves for Solution.
Taking a very modest view Of he
promised developments, admitting that
the carrying of heavy weights seems
unnecessary and undesirable for air.
ships, we can look forward with some
safe provision to such small convey
ances as will carry a few people and a
few packages swift and far, "a Char
lotte Perkins Gilman in Harper's
Weekly. Small Individual machines,
air bicycles, as it were, offer a tempt
ing and practical field for invention,
and here you have an element of por-
~tentious Importance. Behold man, wing
ed and englned, buzzing off like a huge
%cockchafer, to soar and circle, dip and
rise as he will!
Where, then, Is security for private
property
And where the bonds that shall con-
fine him who has long laughed at lock-
smiths?
Must our windows and skylights be
barred as those of dungeons? Must
our walled gardens be Melted across the
top with woven wire? Whose fruit
trees will be safe when fiuttering
iocks of little winged boys-by no
night and pluck delightedly from the
outer branches? The g~entlemanly bur
glar, carrying a light kit for noiseless
glass removal, may pick and choose
among many windows and be off be-
fore capture at a moments fright.
Only the shotguns can reach him.
.'Stop, or I'll shoot! Hold up your
wings! Come down, you'll" This
might arrest his fieeing-we cannot
say steps, it must be '.faps'-his
fleeing '.faps''-yet a little bomb
thrown at u home would make him
master aver so. When it is no burglar,
but a Romeo-what then? Bars
strong bars-as In Cuba, must be
| placed at every window; I'M what
shall bars avail If the damsel be will.
Ing and know the uses of the acid OF
| the file? In sober sadness there is be.
| fore us here, first, a great danger, and
| then a greater good. The Increased
possibility Of evil is so patent that in
the end there is but one way to meet
1t. There will, no doubt, be at frsi
strong repressive measures. We shall
try our best to police the air; we shall
stretch and revamp our laws to reach
these new offenders; but the field Is
| far too wide. to cover us. We cannot
| all skulk behind bars and curtains fol
fear of shameless vandals with wings
The real result, the big result, viii
be a lifting of the standards Of hui
mainly. Winged, we must be well be
haved. We can no longer risk the
| presence of a large body of persons, IL
literate, unmannerly, poor to the verge
| of robbery and of evil passions. The
"frebug," who even now succeeds II
arson, could tflen endanger a city witt
small risk to himself. Society, 81
aroused to a sense of the danger of 1t:
undesirable citizens" must once ant
for all rid itself Of them by the simple
process of not making any. No Longer
can the ill-born child be left to eyf
parents-no longer can we afford t.
have the child Ill born. New care mus
be taken In the rearing of u people
none can be allowed to grow up evil
because with wings they would be tot
dangerous.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10
Assistancs needed.

Assistance Needed.
~John," she whispered. there's :
burglar In the parlor. He has Just
Knocked against the plano and hit NV
eral keys at once"
ssIYl 50 down." said he.
.Oh, John, don't do anything rashir
Rash Why. I'm going to help him.
You don't suppose he can remove that
plano from the house without assiSt-
ance.-The Throne.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10

remarks, they are indeed mistaken. he
rises like the Phoenix from its ashes tc
even fresher life, and the knowledge thai
Gilbert Grey is now at the other side oil
the room, getting as near to an open
quarrel with May as he dares. Indeed
so far does the fight go on that now May,
leaving Gilbert Grey, and treading the
floor as she comes, with the dainty all
OF a Titania insulted, drops into a seat
next Eustace Everard, who as one has
com to know, is always very close tc
Mrs. Clarence.
He Is a man of about forty, with blue
eyes and a pensive expression. He gives
immensely to charities, especially to or.
~phanages, and has about the worst repu.
tation in Europe. His pensive expression,
however, stands to him, and then he is
SO good to the little fatherless ones! A
mar who considers the Orphans must be
good! And besides he is SO very rich!
For me, | am delighted to be here
again." May murmurs to him, with the
exaggerated delight Of a girl who doesn't
mean a word she is saying. II told you
so q moment ago, didn't I, Dolly?" to
Mrs. Clarence-May always appeals. 81
WINS awfully bored last season."
She says this a little more clearly, SC
that Gilbert Grey may hear. He had
been particularly attentive to her last
season-and she, If she told the truth, had
been very attentive to him. Mrs. Clar.
ence regards her with a plying stare.
my dear May! J"
'Oh, yes, l know" frowning and tilt.
ing an angry shoulder. you need not
look at me like that. / hate town /! The
cool green country has charms for me-
$50 it has for me- says Everard in
his slow way, getting a glance of graft
tude from May in return.
Last time l was here says Mr.
McGrath suddenly and apropos of 10th
ing, there was a donkey. l used to ride
him b~arebacked, with his disgustingly
short name as reins."
I'm what circus were you then?' asks
Captain Adare anxiously. But McGrath
continues his speech unmoved-"I won
der If he is here still?"
ASK Sir Lucien," says May.
''Not much! My dear girl, do you
know ms? No, I shall find him out 70,
myself. remember he had a little
black cross Of hair over his shoulders"
where's Uncle Lucien?" asks May
suddenly.
81 don't know really said Hilary
.But I made out he went for a lonp
walk. and came back tired he looked
w~resched, ! thought"
"Yet he ought to be happy says
his sister. "He has every one of his re.
lations around him.
For the matter of that" says Mrs
Clarence. "Sir Lucien has not got al
his relations round him; there is vel
another niece Of his living in this par,
of the country. Have you all forgotten
her? But it is not to be wondered at
as Of her he never speaks.'
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10

Mother (to her daughter)-Don't
hold your dress up 50 high, Elsa; 1t
doesn't look nice.
Elsa-Well, why did you buy me such
pretty stockings, acknowledgements
fer Blaetter.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10
Railroad Note.

e. n. Hartman is to build a $1,000
GOO mansion in New York. It is under
stood that in architectural appearance
it will resemble a roundhouse.-Mr-
| watfik,1. SELF Inc.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10

Is repugnant to fellowship in a philanthropic guild.
One cannot be allowed to propagate his vagaries upon
the time and in the name of a university that would like
to be thought prudent and rational. If one wants to be
a professor Of myths and ghosts, he ought to go out In
the woods and sit on a log and pursue his inquiries on
his own time and in the most appropriate place.
I have no valid objection to a professor being a free
trader. l cannot object to his telling students the rea-
son WHY. But l have abundant reason for objecting to
his hiding from the students the arguments which sup
port the policy Of protection, and to his enforcing his
partisan view against mere youth with the ponderoua
solemnity of q military execution.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10

The only thing in h world that
collects nc sentiment is a dollar, and,
IT oiis=as-ltr-s whicn some people
think is better.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10

gagged In the preliminaries to living for about ffty-fve
years we begin to think about Stacking off. Up till this
period our reason for not having scientifically studied
the art Of living is not that we have lacked leisure, but
that we have simply been too absorbed In the prelimi-
naries-have, in fact, treated the preliminaries to the
business as the business itself.
See this man who regularly studies every evening Of
his life! He has genuinely understood the nature Of
poetry, and his taste is admirable. He recites verse
with true feeling and may be said to be highly culti-
waited. Poetry Is a continual source Of pleasure to him.
But why is he always complaining about not receiving
his deserts In the office? Why is he worried about
finance? Why does he so often suk with his wife?
Why does he persist in eating more than his digestion
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10
CHAPTER Id.

Ii.
There isra pause. Everyone looks as if
in search Of something once known. but
forgotten for years and years. Hilary
alone smiles.
II declare / had forgotten all about
her!" cries May, growing suddenly excit-
ed. "But now / remember she is our
cousin-our first cousin. isn't she, Hilary
Her mother was our aunt-Uncle Lucien's
sister! Yet imagine" spreading her pref
ty hands abroad for a mere charming sec
ond. 1--WE have lone of us ever yet seen
her. Have you, Hilary? No? Then
where was she when last we were all
here?
"where you ought to have been-in the
school room" returns her brother, laugh
ing,
"You are wrong says Mrs. Clarence.
s'She was in Paris with that precious
mother Of hers"
us she there stillf" asks Everard.
ooh, no she is here now, as ! tell
YOU. Has been here indeed for some
time ever since her mothers death, which
took place about ak years ago. She is
living in an old house seven miles from
this, with some relations Of her father
called Deane."
Fancy that" says Mary. Isn't II
ridiculous that one can't see her? Ones
own cousin, and only seven miles away Y
III a great old rambling house." goes
on Hilary. taking up Dolly Clarence's
revelations. He has not MS yet, however,
seen the house Of the unknown cousin,
"A regular barracks Of a place, I'm old
huge, empty and with a dilapidated mil
at the end of the lawn, or somewhere"
Her father used to work It" says
Gilbert Grey Fat least SO ! am told
Her grandfather !" corrects Mrs. Clar'
ence. THANK heaven they are neither
Of them alive now. l suppose in a way
they would be relations-of a sort-too.'
"a miller" puts in May a little dis
painfully.
""weIl. yes and no." says her brother
IF you allude to her father, hardly that
in the usual acceptation of the term, as
I believe though he still made pretenct
OF working the mill, he let 1T go to ire
trievable ruin. He was a decent enough
sort Of fellow I hare heard-connectet
not so badly either on his mothers sidt
but not quite-you know J" with a com
presensivc nod all round "A beokworm
too, which is, fatal if one is not-exactll
-yon see
spity Sir Lucien won't recognize her.
says Gilbert Grey, who has . good hear
4 IL q very seaisa. ene
Pity lie should recognize her now,
nnts n Adnre with a shrug. II
he lad recognized her long ago. some
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10

They attack our technical institutions.
This much is true, at least, that in the last two dec
AIDES we have not been good borrowers-not nearly so
good as Germany and Japan. 1t is a truism that the
next best thing to being able to do a thing well yourself
IS to become O good borrower Of a better method than
vour own. There are, we must admit, some foreign
methods that are better than our own-methods Of tech
meal training broader than our own, and which open
not offer.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10
FAULTS IN TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
By President Henry Smith Pritcheft.

We Americans have had some Illustrations
Of late that our firm American belief that we
have a fine system of college efficiency and
modesty may not be infallible. Our critics are
declaring that our educational systems are
not training men properly, and point to Ger
many, France and England as doing better,
MS having something better. They say our
bankers are not bankers, but promoters.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-10
AMATEURS IN THE ART OF LIVING.
BY Arnold Bennett

Considering that we have to spend the whole
Of our lives in this human machine, we really
devote to it little attention. When I say 1.-THE
human machine I mean the brain and the
body-and chiefly the brain. The expression
Of the soul by means Of the brain and body
is what we call the art Of living" We GER
tainly do not learn this art at school to any
appreciable extent When we have been en-