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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
PASTOR LOOKED FOR
SNUBS; FOUND NONE
In Rough Clothes He Visited
Rich Chicago Churches and
Was Welcomed at Each.

Chicago. Special: Disguised as a
w~orkingrnan, the Rev. John I'nompson.
pastor of the McCabc Memorial Meth
odist Episcopal church. Washington
avenue and Fifty-fourth street, has
made a secret Investigation in tho
Fashionable churches OF this city in am
effort to disprove the charges which
are sometimes heard that the shabby
stranger is nubbe instead of being
warmly greeted when SER
vices.
The poor stranger is welcome In
Chicago'S wealthiest churches" said the
minister yesterday in revealing tho
facts concerning his unusual expert
ment. "Concealing my identity in the
plainest and most ordinary clothes L
could find, l visited many CT tho
nized. received hearty welcome. They
are completely filling their mission"
Impressed With what he terms the
melancholy whine constantly directed
toward the churches of Wealthy Glen
teles. Mr.. Thompson devoted the entire
month of August-his vacation month
to the attitude OF the fashionable
congregations toward the stranger.
Nine churches within the inner belt
of Chicago We're visited, this region
being selected first, he said, because OF
its being SO representative and because
statements We're made, following the
Baptist church to the city missions,
that religion in the inner belt of Chi.
cago had practically died. This district
is bounded by Thirty-first street, North
venue Ashland avenue and the lake.
Mr.. Thompson, in the attire he used
on the expedition, looks nothing like
the minister OF a large church. The
clothes he wore We're not shabby to the
extent OF dirtiness, but they were
frayed, t~hreadbare and shiny. h coat
was a dark blue serge, worn at the
edges and of an old style cut. 1t had
long lost it's shape, bullying in the back.
The trousers We're even more notice.
able than the coat They were too
tight, bagged at the knees and had
we'll frayed fringes at the ends. He
Wore an old pair of shoes, a dark shirt,
81 faded celluloid collar, a tie of a sort
of pink cotton goods and a black SLOUGH
hat. So far was he from his usual
dapper appearance that on IA car he
sat by the side of one of the
OF his congregation and was not recog-
niZed.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
Mo IEIILEE IEsEGTED

Mckinley was eommissary sergeant
of the regiment at Tie time of the bat
lie of .Antietam,' General Botsford
says. and his duty Should have kept
him with tho supplies, which We're
about two miles from the firing line.
During the hottest course of the battle,
however. the young man, who was only
20 years old. conceived the idea OF
making coffee for the boys at the front.
Pressing into service some OF the
~stragglers. he filled n wagon with hot
coffee and bareback and personally
conducted it into the midst of the tight
ing men.
"T~remendous cheering ~heralacd his
arrival, and our division commander,
General ~Scannlon. sent me to learn the
cause. which l very soon found to he
Mckinley and his hot coffee. The Gus
ing welcome he received from both Of
hcers and men can be readily imagined
when the TACT is considered OF his leav-
ing his post of security and driving into
the middle OF a frightful battle with a
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
METEOR JUST MISSES BOY.

Vancouver, b. c., Special: TO be
eight feet from the spot where a
meteor crashed INTO the Garth was the
experience OF Willie MclSinnon, H.
year-old son of Angus McKinnon, of
Duncan, Vancouver island. He was
working in the garden about 1880 and
heard Il rushing noise, as If a train
were passing. AS the track was not
far away he too little notice of the
sound, unit! q moment after he was
half shocked by the conclusion as the
meteor struck the earth, throwing the
soil and rock in all directions.
The boy says it felt as if there was
a slight earthquake. so great was the
tlcmor. When he saw that something
had fallen he went over and found q
substance almost perfectly round about
10 inches in diameter. The surface of
the meteor was deeply scored with
what resembled ~hicroglyphics. 1t fell
at an angle of As degrees and was trav-
cling in a northwestorlN direction.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
The WOMAN WHO
SHOULD NOT MARRY
Easy Enough to Be Mary or
Martha, But Not Both at
the Same Time.


WinnifrcG Black, in the New York Ameri-
can.
A Well known actress says that she's
too busy to get married.
1T would Interfere with MY work to
have anybody occupying my time and
my thoughts says she. and my work
is real work and real pleasure and abb
serbs my ambition, so I'm going to let
the marriage business go"
True for you, and right you are. If
that's the way you feel about it. why,
you've done just exactly the right
thing.
Marriage is the only real avocation
Tor the normal woman. after all, and
the minute the abnormal oma gets
married she begins to make trouble
for herself. for the man she has mar
ried, and for the ncighbors who have
to look on.
A nan marrics. puts his wife in the
goodby in the morning, goes down
town-and forgets everything on earth
but his business until time to so home.
When time to go home comes his
face lights up and he thinks, why, to
be sure, Pm SO glad to remember
what's waiting for me up there at the
top of the town"
When Il woman marries she gives
up, or she ought to give up. her own
name. her w way Of life. her own
friends. and makes herself over by q
brand new pattern. Her day is cut
put to fit into her husbands plans.
Is he un early riser? Breakfast at Z
for her. Does lie like q late dinner?
Dinner at 8 for the girl who was used
to an DID fashioned tea at 5. Her every
thought all day is about him, every
thing she does has him somewhere in
the background.
Now. the woman With Il career has
no business with any such absorbing
Interest in life as a husband
It's easy enough TO be Mary, and it's
simple enough to be Martha. but when
1t comes to being Mary and Martha at
the same time there isn't one woman in
a thousand who can accomplish the
feat.
Pick out your right name, girls. If
it's Mary. why, go ahead and be Mary.
Let the household and the children and
the husband go, and maybe some time
someone will say to you. She hath
chosen the better part" If yon name
is Martha, stick to Martha's point of
view, and don't envy Mary.
She has just as many trouble as
you have, only they happen to be OF
Il different kind.
y pleasant morning to you, Miss
Actress, you know your own mine
Let's hope you'll have the good sense
to stick to it.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
The INFLUENCE
OF The MULLAAS
No One Dares Lay sacriligious
Finger Upon Their Saint
ly Persons.
From Pearson's Weekly.

Ever since the beginning of the now
constant troubles in India n good deal
has been heard about the mullahs.
A mullah, or as it Is more properly
written, mollah, is a title given in
India and throu2 o the East gen
orally to a religious leader OF any de-
scIiption.
Thus the sultan Of Turkey is a mol
lah. because he is the supreme head of
the Mosiem world. The hostile Sonali
leader who caused us so much anxiety
between 1901 and 1905. and whose name
occasionally crops up even low in the
daily lapcls. Was also a mollah. And
there are hundreds of others.
To most of the more conspicuous
anon them we prefix the adjective
y. a. This. however. must not be
taken TO mean that they are insane,
the word being used rather in it's orien-
tai significance of ''iuSpired.''
The influence welded by the mollahs
Who are now stirring up against as the
borde! tribes of Afshanistan is enor-
NOUS. clad in their sacred robes, bear
ing aloft the green standard of Islam,
tlleN go up and down the valleys shrlll-
ms the Monarnincdan war cry. and
woe be to him who refuses to need.
The person CT the mollah is sacred.
True. the amir the other day was re-
ported to have ordered tina any of them
caught preaching the jehad (holy war;
SilouiN iidNc tnclf tongues torn out.
But If he really used such an edict-
which is extremely doubtful-it was
merely meant for European ears. Not
even the mighty Habibullah himself
would care to lay a sacrilegious finger
on Q OF these sanity lf
he were to venture such an unheard of
thing, vengeance would surely overtake
him. For * is the cardinal princinle
OF the ulima-as the mollah, are col
icetlVcly terned--that an injury pur-
poseiy caused to one of their number
can only be atoned for by the death
of tire individual infiicting it.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
ADVANTAGES OF
THE farm S|LO
While Not Ideal, the silage
Method Is the Best Yet De-
vised for Storing Feed.


In an ADDRESS before an Iowa farmers
vaataees OF the silo as follows:
Convenience and ~cheapness OF storage
are points IN favor of the silo. a corn
crop having been produced. must i'll some
way be preserved for winter feeding.
shocking me entire crop 2s soon as the
ears are we'll glazed ard allowing 1t 10
dry for a month or more. hushing the
ears, moving away the stalks. Smelling
and grinding on the farm, or taking to
ana iron' the mill and expenses OF grind
ing all Dear TOO heaNlly on the farmer.
TO reduce the cost of production is the
great problem In agricultural progress,
and 1t must be done by reducing the
amount OF human labor which enters into
farm products. y system OF shocking
them on the HELD until winter for feeding
purpose has been and IS practiced to
some extent; 1t SAVES labor hut wastes
the crop and Is lncosTenient in many
was.
curing the crop and storing Is PRACTICAL
ly Impossible on a large scale, since the
amount of water to be dried out is very
great. and the weather Frequently unfa-
Norable; III a small way 1t may be prac-
llcai. but the disadvantages more than
offset the advantages. The silo, while
not an ideal storage vault, does combine
more good points and less bad ones than
any method yet devised, for the follow
ing reasons:
The farmer who has q silo is about as
independent OF the weather as any man
can be. Heavy rains. 1T is true, will pre-
vent me storage or ensilage, but aside
IRON mat nothing interrupts this kind Of
harvesting, light rains and showers, while
making me work disagreeahle. do not
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
.or7zE TAenET' To
Mckinley as a commissary

William Mckinley as a commissary
sergeant in the Union army, serN ing
hot coffee to men on the firing line dur
ing the progress OF the battle of An
tietam, is to be perpetuated in bronze
in ~ tablet which is to be unveiled at
Wilmington, Del, on September IA, the
anniversary of the death of the presi-
dent.
Erected under the auspices of the
Mckinley Memorial association, o.
which George Gray. of Delaware. is
president, the tablets unNeilinS is to
be made the occasion for the gathering
OF Il great concourse OF men Who
helped TO win the war of the rebellion.
and patriotic addresses viii be made
by individuals of national prominence.
As TOLD by Genera. j. l.. Bctsford, OF
Youngstown. OHIO, who was at the time
quarterInaster of the T~wenty-thtHd
Ohio volunteer infantry, Of which Nc
kinley Was Il mcm!loer, the story of
heroism thrills with interest.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02

team of mules. 1t showed, even then,
the character and determination which
We're a part OF the man whose later life
proved his stability.
He was ordered back time and
again, but he pushed on, and, as he
gave a can of coffee and a bareback to
a soldier who had been shot the man
murmured God bless the lad Those
words, Mckinley afterward told me-.
alone repaid him for the trouble and
danger to which he a exposed him
self in ministering to the needs of his
comrades.
THE result OF this sort of thought
fulness on the part of Mckinley had a
tremendous effect on the lines, and
when. later, the fna order came TO
charge the men fell to With renewed
yigor and energy
Among the members Of the commit
tee having the unveiling in charge are
the president of the association, Gem
cral James II. Wilson, and James l..
Kelly.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
Terrible Conditions in Russia.

Terrible stories of conditions in Rus
STA were brought back by Detective
Make Mills, of this city, who
has just returned from a trip to that
country in charge of a fugitive who
was wanted in Libau for the murder OF
iour peasant women Evil conditions
IN Russia never yet have been ade-
Guately pictured by any writer" said
Mills. SO terrible are they tina per-
maps no writer a describe them. ]
visited Nulna, Kiev, lula and Minsl1
The rcvolutionists in these places are
Tor the most part boys under the age
or ~, and nearly all of them have been
in college. / went from Libau to
Odessa and found conditions there the
same, if not worse. There are on an
average of 20 military prisoners exe-
cuted each day in some of these cities.
and it is only ON rare occasions that
the outer world hears of them. In
odessa ! saw Is men and boys-most
OF the boys We're very ng-he
into the prison and shot. They were
condemned at a drum head courtmar-
tial. and their bodies We're ragged to
the police field and buried a few hours
after their arrest. There are thousands
OF CossackS in every part of the en-
pre-. They are no longer employed by
the RUSSIAN government, but are in tho
employment Of the various provinces
They are the policemen Of Russia. ana
receive 81 a month for their work
Whlch Is from 8 in the morning to q
O'Clock In the evening, with no hour for
rest or o Every Cossack carries a
fit1e, a revolver, a saber, a whip and a
plentiful supply of ammunition. Thcv
are a class or caste of themselves. and
have nothing in common With the
peasants. One thing you notice when
you and in Russia and which keeps IT.
SELF upon your mind all the time is the
presence of the millions Of beggars The
cities and towns are overrun With them.
ana IN the country they are thicker
than tramps in our country
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
The Servants.

LAfter Kipling's The Ladies.)
We've taken our cooks where we've found
EN-;
We've answered many an nd;
We've had our l,ickin' o. servants.
And most of the lot was bad.
Some was Norahs an Bridgets:
Tillie she came last fall;
Claras and l'annies and Lcnas and Armies.
And now We've got none at all.
Now. we don't know much about servants.
For. takin' EN- all along,
You never can tell till you've tried EN-.
And then YOU are like 10 be wrong.
Ihere's times when you'll think that
There's times when you'll think that
they're bum.
But the things you'll learn from those that
have gone
May help you with those to come.
Norah. she landed from Dublin.
Green as acushla machree.
Norah was willing and anxious
10 learn what n servant should be.
We told Mrs. Kirk all about her
She offered her seven more per
NO" 4Irah she works, as You know. for
And we learned about servants from her.
Lena we got from an "oficc:"
Lena was saving and Dutch
Iiaousllt that u bills were enormous,
And told us we spent far too much.
Lena decamped with some silver.
Jeweliy. laces and fur
She was loving and kind, with a Socialist
mind
And we learned about servants from her.
Tillie blew In from the Indie.
Black as the middle OF niehr--
Cooked like a regular Savarin-
Kitchen was shiny and bright.
Everything ran along lovely
Until-lt was bound to occur
She ran away with q porter one day
But we learned about servants from her
We've taken our cooks where we've foond
them.
Yellow and black and white;
Some was better than others.
But none of the lot was right.
And the end of it's only WORRY
And trouble and bother and fuss
When you answer an ad think of those we
have had
And learn about servants from us.
Franklin p. Adams.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
new YORK BROKER
HAS ODD STOCK
He Has $1,000 Bonds That
He'll Sell for Csc Each
in Cash.

New York Letter to Cincinnati! Times
Star.
I'm that tin box" said II. p. DOM,
dealer in d~own-and-out securities, ARE
hands ,,biol, wore oriu;oauv iss,ed for
g.. zoo nne =. ,..1 80 " ,,a,.a
si''ooo'oV IN liaia c"sh' ~" eah nay
the lot fof Sl,Goo. OF can give Y0e
wen a better bargain. Here is a small
lot of bonds Won may have tos % cents
cash for each Sl.00o bond.'
DOW is a salesman OF q uniduc line.
He BUYS WORTHLESS SECURITIES, no mat
ter what They may he. They mity have
been ou1iawea 40 Years ago blt noll
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
s%wimmina.s Dancer.
From the Philadelphia Bn,,e,,

~ ifiticipula Bulletin.
1T isn't crannp,' said "a ljfcY,,.,d
that carries Off so many good SWIM
mcrs. After al, what is a leg or arm
cramp? Couldn't a good swimmer
easily turn on his back and float I'M
the attack departed?
NO. cralnp won account for rho
strange seizures that. in a twinlljng.
helpless, speeches.. drowning nara
lytic. What accounts for this business
is water inlaaling.
"A swimmer inhalos spray through
the hostrils; it passes through tho
pharynH, behind the epiglottis on. wipdss
pipe guard, SO down into the wind-
pipe: The result is nearly certain
death.
DIR. E. p. Roach. of Bath, Me. GOT
water in the ~wiadpipe while bathi9"
He stood in water up to his chin. a ri,S'
pie touched his nostrils, and in M, in
slant he found himself speechless ana
struggling for life. He a only 10
feet from the raft, or he'd have
drowned. Reaching the raft. he III
fiat. 1t was ~ minutes before ha
could either speak or Nova.
Swallowing water does you no har,
but breathing it may xiii You. How.
to avoid accidentally breathinp ~
thoush-that is a question 6hodn
seems able to w ou
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02

When horse cars took the place Of
stages in New York city it Was
thought tina congestion in travel would
be avoided. but it wasn't. Then it was
said u cable road would surely help re-
.ieve it and elevated trains would sure
ly accomplish the purpose. Still the
congestion continued. Then subway
trains We're brought into use and the
congestion Is worse today than ever
before. The city grows faster than the
means OF transportation.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
AS to Brains.

Dickson = Awfnlly h%ulgins forehead.
hasn't he? Must he ver5 bI.iny,
Wickson-EraiiIy. WHY. that man can
take up a problem in bridge and ~analvze
1t and give you his deduetons. and then
show you just how The cards should
fall for six deals ahead. Hes 6iainy all
igft.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
Costs Money.

The Police C~aptain.-The mounted po-
liceman awcars that You didn'. blow your
morn. and III have TO hold you until j
find out
The Unlucsy Autos, Don. hold me
too long; , hired that blamed auto By
the hour.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02

There are 1850 newspapers ,,.,;a.
ed in the United States: anon, to1iS ono
Of them edited and published hv , NV
groes. In Asia there are 5000 ne,,aas-
cal publications., OF which tho graeta,
part in British India and ia:
p pan. .ne rae'eI counsIy publishes 1900
papers, of which 80 are publis,in.1 81
Egypt end the rest appear in the k.1ra ).
'-an colonies. @aio-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
Press Acant,s Ialne

MY press agent says t'1at ann .oin.
10 Venice rs soon ~ t..v 80 ;
And I'm going 10 tvtr .aya... Nv
the q lets hit som" sur no.
FOX d co,iceI; ila. ~" "
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
The Job:,er and the Retailer.

There are just tNvo ways for the man
u~favt1r@r t. make friends With the re-
taiicl-no noge, says the Quoin Club
key.
No a go 70 the retailer With a lire
of "eods containing better materials
than amy otner manufactures, puts into
similar stuff, worked up more con-
scientipnslY. and laid down at Il price
lower ti1an anybody else. No matter
what the grade, all he needs is allso-
lutte Nalre al the absolute price. Tie
retailer Will be exceedingly glad to see
him. He can be depended upon 10
carry that line until something better
aGd cheaper comes along. Then he Will
quit. Why shouldn't he?
The manufacturer can so to the re-
taller in quite another way. however.
Suppose. in addition to goods tllat arc
excellent value, he is able to SHOW the
retailer thai he makes friends as well
as goods. Suppose. through national
advertising in the magazines, ne can
send his friends into the retailers store
send him prospects who have already
been seen, talked With and educated.
and are ready To respond when the re
taller demonstrates that he is working
With the manufacturer.
Obviously his is. Il very different
proposition-that of going to the retail
trade with The goods plus ~ready-nade
business.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
To Cripple the Ghost.
From the Chicago News

fiSiii Inv SulCdSO News.
This curious bit OF Dahlmatian SUI
peIstition turned up i'll IL recent trial
at Trieste. Antonio Iagic, II widow. Was
accused of mutil8ting Il corpse and al
SO with disturbing the relose OF the
dead by ~seVering the sinews in tho foot
OF Mathe Duda. a deceased land own
en-. at Salona, near Spalato. In that
locality exists a deeply rooted super
stition that any evil doer Will after
death be compelled to wander around
eternally in the shape OF a greatly
dlstended spirit, TO tho terror ana dis
comfort of himself INC all b~cholders.
AS Duda's daunhtoiinlaw had rea-
sons for fearing that ne nsieht be-
come a "~Bukooiak," rs the Dalmatian
v~crnaeular has it. she employed the
widow to cut the ligamcnts IN one foot
and n prevent any ghestly ram
bllngs later. Antonio. the widow, be-
lieved absolutely in the superstition
and conscientiously earned hcr n3y.
The lower court disciat ped the pris-
oner IL had acted from mo-
tives of liety, but the court OF a},-
peal reversed the decisions and SEN
fenced her to three days Imprisonment
-or mistreatmcnt OF :: corpse.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02

Breathing exercises were ,n,,od,c.a
In some Partisan schools not long AGO.
and beneficial results were soon mani.
tested. ~
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02
Monkeys Like scrapping.
From the New York World.

Monkeys are in a class by them
Selves" said the circus IA "If one
OF them has red hair he is sure to be a
dandy scrapper. The best fighter is al
ways the leader. They hang together
and bow and scrape before the boss
just like a good many people. Monkeys
with red faces and fiat heads will whip
the life out of those smaller thar they
are. but will run like the wind when
1t comes to an even break. A monkey
riot is a funny spectacle. Even in the
same age you will find groups horded
together, as if there was some class
distinction and the ines We're drawn
tightly. II two of the big ones come
together in q row the others generally
stand off and let them have it out.
But if any of the little mes get to
scrapping. then the father mother
are apt to mix in. and the next step is
4 general row. We separate them by
turning on the hose and punish them
by locking up the den SO that they.
cannot get any peanuts from the crowd.
and hold back their meals. This plan
puts them on their good behavior for
a while at least. The monkey likes to
eat and likes to be noticed"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02

When Charles Dickens was in Wash
ington he met one morning on the steps
OF the capitol a young congressman
from Tennessee. whom the great .a1-
elist had onended by his bluntness.
That morning Dickens was in great
good humor. II have" said he. found
an almost exact counterpart of Little
Nell" Little Nell wlo?" queried the
Tennesseean. Dickens looked him Owe,
from head to foot. and from foot to
head before he answered. My Little
Nell" "Oh." said the Tennesseean, II
didn't know you had your daughter
with you" Il am speaking of the Lit
tie Nell Of my story. The Old Curios-
fly Shop sir, retorted Dickens. flusn-
ing. oh" said the i~mperturbable Ten
nesseean, "you write novels. do you?'
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-02

The capacity of the Atlantic cables
Is 900, 900, 900 words annually. Only So
O0O, 600 are e