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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25
DYNAMITE IN THE MAKING.
Werkmen Who Are EncireIed by Death
 In Gallons and Tons,

iH SaiIoiS anu CnS.
 So thoroughly deceptive is dynamite In the making that you are apt to be disappointed on viewing the surface of things. You could more readily fancy thunderbolts leaping and crash ing from tender blue skies than that the most fearful forces fin creation are hidden under such a peaceful exterior. Nitroglycerin. cupful of which would distribute you over square miles of landscape, is diligently mixing around you in hundreds and thousands of gal Ions.
 It is making itself in big iron retorts, cascading down leaden gutters and merrily tumbling in minute Niagaras into immense vats, where the deli quescent yellow peril pursues its jour hey powderward. Out of one recep- tacle it fares furiously through special lead coils driven only by cooling blasts of air, and is drawn of like draft ale and piped on to the next perfecting stage. Gaze with the nitroglycerin ex- pert into one of those big caldrons. The interior is brilliantly illuminated by electricity. the only Illuminating agency permitted in or about the dan- ger houses.
 Around you are other houses at uni form distances apart and connected by a series of narrow gauge tracks wherein workmen are railroading ni- troglycerin from here and pulp cotton from there to be compounded into dy- namite and blasting gelatin. Greatest care Is taken In rolling the product from house to house As soon as loaded cart is ready to pass out of the nitroglycertn house, for instance, a semaphore signals from an adjoining station, to which the consignment is carefully hurried
 Around you are long storehouses packed with pulp in tons of innocent wilderness. Presently this pulp will as- sume a tan color under the nitrating process. and then, suddenly becoming carbonite, red cross. hercules, judson and giant powder. forcite or what you order, it develops the quasi virtues of dynamite-dynamite or blasting gela- tin in which more natural forces are condensed to the cubic inch than exist anywhere else in creation. Death. curbed and sleeping, encircles you In gallons and tons. Humiliation threat ems at every turn in the form of poten- tial pulverizing forces. But the man and the mercury are there also, alert, responsive. reliable.-Leslie's Weekly.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25
She Got a New Pair.

Sarcasticus and his wife were going to the theater.
 "Will you please go in and get my goats of the dressing table" said Mrs. S.
 Your goatsT queried the puzzled Sarcasticus. What fangle have you women got now?"
 I'll show your snapped the wife, and she sailed away and soon return ed. putting on her gloves.
 Are those what you mean? Why, I call those kids"
 T used to-" replied Mrs. Sarcasticus. but they are getting 90 old I am ashamed to any longer"
 He took the hint.-Pearson's Week U,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25
A TRIPLE SURPRISE.
It Came With a Pleasant oating In .
 New Auto Car.

NSW SAutO S0Ts
 A we'll known author, who for some years has been an enthusiastic ad- mirer of the automobile, had an anus ing experience, which she describes In the Bohemian. A new model al- ways attracted her attention, she de- cIares, and when she came out of the New York hotel where she was stay Ing and saw fine new car standing unoccupied by the curb she stopped to admire it:
 While I examined it and gazed with envy a friend, also interested in autos, came down the steps and approached the machine.
 Isn't it stunning" he said.
 I agreed enthusiastically and added that the machine was tantalizing me, as I did so long to take spin, that my chauffeur was i'll and that I was afraid to run my car through the city.
 "Why, I will take you," he said. T haven't anything to do this afternoon. Where shall we go?'
 We got in, and suggested Coney. To make long story short, the de- lightful ride gave us an appetite. We stopped for dinner and then went out to Sea Gate to call upon friends. As we were crossing the bridge on our way home at about Il o'clock my friend inquired, At what garage do you keep your machineF
 At the question a terrible possibility dawned upon me, and with the re- membrance of a certain unfamiliarity that he had displayed at the first In regard to the running of the car the situation became instantly clear. He had thought that the machine was mine, and I had been equally secure in the belief that 1t was his. In other words, we had calmly gone off with some one else's property.
 You may imagine our feelings. We felt confident that we would be ar rested on our way uptown. We rolled up to the hotel inwardly quaking. After much inquiry and explaining we found the indignant owner. For tunately he knew me slightly and had we'll developed sense of humor, in spite of a rather forbidding expres. sion as we first faced him with our unfortunate story. think he believed us.
 His parting remark. however. was rather puzz.ing. although he said it with evident cordiality:
 Whenever you'd like to use the ma. chine again just let me know"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25
EXTRA STAMPS AND
 SPECIAL LEADERS.

Do You Ever Give It Thought? The money you could save by pur- chasing your Teas, Coffees and Gro eeries at the A. & P store Special Sale of Royal Cheese with
 Extra Stamps. 25 stamps with large jar Royal
 Chese ...... ........ 25c IS stamps with a medium jar
 Royal Cheese. -. . .. 15c 10 stamps with a small jar Royal
 Cneese .... ...... .,..... 1Oc 35 stamps with a ID 3Sc Coffee. 30 stamps with a ID 35c Coffee. 25 stamps with lb soc Coffee. 20 stamps with a ID 25c Coffee. 10 stamps with lb 20c Coffee. Mixed Nuts, lbs -. =. .. 25c A. & P. Seeded Raisins, pkgs,
 regular soc. . . 25c A :. & P. Cleaned Currant, pkgs.
 regular 30c.... ..... .. 25c Marshall's Kippered Herring, 2
 cans, regular 30c. . 25c Iona Peas, cans, regular soc. 2Jc Sultana Tomatoes, 3 cans, regular
 oOc. ..... ...-.. 2oc Cluster RalSlnS, ID D.... -. -. 1.C London Layer Raisins, lb. ...... 1Gc 10 stamps with l can Red Alaska
 Salmon ...... ...... 10c 10 stamps with 1 box Shaker Salt
 ... .. ... =. -. 1Oc 10 stamps with l bottle A. & P
 Queen Olives. ..... -. 15c 10 stamps with 1 bottle A. & P.
 
 10 stamps with 1 tumbler Jelly, 1Ot 10 stamps with l can Ammo (Dry
 Ammonia) -. .... ... 1Oc 10 stamps with a 1 ID can A. X P.
 Plum Pudding =. ... ... 2Gc 10 stamps with 1 bottle A. & P.
 Cider Vinegar " .. fOc 10 stamps with bottle A, & P.
 CatSup ,..... -. .... 1Sc 20 stamps with F lb packet A. &
 P. Blend Golden Tipped India
 Ceylon Tea ... 25c Give 1t trial.
 IS stamps with T. ID can absolute
 pure A. & P Baking Powder .I3c 60 stamps with a ID roc Tea. 50 stamps with a ID soc Tea.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25

Just before last Christmas writer
 in the Independent, who spent a
 week in the thick of the holiday rush said: ''I saw girls of IT and IS weeping with pain and weariness at
 II o'clock at night as with shaking fingers they made their counters at tractive against the next days brutal rush. I saw one young girl drop in a dead faint after selling dolls to fond mother of children. I saw little boys fall asleep in rubbish corners at the noon hour, their untasted luncheons in their tired hands. That night when I went to my supper l saw a boy, small for his 1 6 years, sit ting on box before the employees elevator. for which we waited. He looked up at me and with the craving for sympathy innate in children, he sighed softly, Oh, my God, I wish 1 o'clock would come' People were buying groceries, wines, fannels, dress goods, toys, books, jewelry, hats, gloves, handkerchiefs, automo- of it at half past eleven o'clock at night, December 24! Is the world indeed heartless and inhu- man or is it only heedless?' Do your Christmas shopping early is the cry now. Keep it in mind.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25

The root of our present trust prob
 lem is with the public, which con-
 demns without hearing any corpor-
 ation under legislative fire The pub lie follows unthinkingly men who have little to lose and much to gain
 Comparatively few of these men are sincere and disinterested. writes Henry Leavitt, Jr, in Appleton's for December. Of those who are honest in their efforts to purify business and political conditions, many are aca- demic theorists who, with the best intentions in the world. do as much harm as their dishonest fellows. They approach purely economic questions in unconscious ignorance of the basic facts involved. Most of the politi- clans deal with purely economic questions on grounds of time serving, political expediency. So long as the people continue to be led by time servers of all kinds and methods-the false prophets of our day-things will go from bad to worse. However they may distrust the politicians and the muck raksrs, the more progres-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25, 1908.
Nov. 25 In History.

1764- Hogarth, English painter and
 caricaturist, died: born 169I 17S3-Evacuation of New York by the
 British, the last position held by
 them In the United States. 1885 - Thomas Andrews Hendricks,
 vice president of the United States,
 died; born 1879.
 1905-Norway's new king, Haakon VII,
 given royal welcome into Chris tiania.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25
Nov. 26 In History.

15O4-Isabelle l., queen of Spain. con- sort of Ferdinand and the friend of Columbus, died; born 1451. 177S-The Sandwich Islands discovered by Captain Cook. 1S99-Great Britain formally notified the powers of the state of war in South Africa.
 1905-The 250th anniversary of the set tlement of the Jews in America observed throughout the country.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
 Sun sets 4:32, rises 6:56; moon sets 6:O5 D. m.; moon at descending node. crossing suns path downward; 3:3O a. m.; eastern time, all Jupiter's moons closely grouped about the planet.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

Sun sets 4:31, rises 6:57; moon sets TOP p. m.; moons age, 8 days; moon lowest on farthest south; S:5S p. m., moon in conjunction with Uranus, passing the planet from west to east.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25

Headaches and Neuralgia from Colds LAXATIVE PROMO Quinine. the world wide Cold and Grip remedy, removes cause. Call for full name. Look for signature E. W. GROVE 25c.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06

"A basket social will be held at
the Basart school house Friday even
ing, March 18th. The public is invit-
ed.
The Congregational Aid will meet
with Mrs, HI. Y. Stimson Wednesday,
March 18th. All members requested
to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Elliott are re-
joicing over the arrival of son at
their home northwest of the city Mon
day of this week
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Tugaw, of the
New Grand Hotel, were called upon
to mourn the death of their five-year
old daughter Monday night, March
2nd, from diphtheria.
DIR. E. Haberman and family came
down from Bancroft Monday to give
the doctor little time to become ac.
quainted with DR.. Denman's practice
before the latter leaves on his trip to
the western coast. On the second
day of their residence in this city Mrs.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06

Senator Kittredge must find it a
little different from what it used to
be when he could sit in his private
office in Sioux Falls or his apartments
in Washington hotel and dictate in
structions to his lieutenants in the
different counties to line up this pre-
cinct etc, etc. Now he has to get out
and hustle for votes votes are what
count these days. If he often suffer
ed with "blistered feet" brought on
by too actively serving his constituents
while performing his official duties at
Washington, Ye Gods, what must be
their condition now with all this
scurrying around after votes. CAMS
tota Clipper.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06
COM M MUNICATED.

INDEPENDENT Please give me space
in your valuable paper to reply brief
ly to two items in the Lake Pres
ton Times. In the Times effort of
February 20th it is said that the stall
wart members of the republican cen
trail committee did not receive any
notice of the call for the committee
meeting. In the effort of February
February 9th, he says the insurgents
members of the committee did plan
to name the delegates to the state
convention. This is wrong and l.. j.
Bates ought to be wise enough to
know better. | wrote a letter for pub
lication for the February 9th effort
of the Times. The editor simply
mentions my letter and gives himself
a coat of whitewash and in this article
he names the following gentlemen as
stalwart committee men that did not
receive notice: j. I. Christensen, l..
S. Brooks and w. E Peterman. These
gentlemen are not members of the
republican central committee and
when the roll was called their names
were not mentianed. j. T. Christen-
son was called on at the meeting as
a republican voter to express his
opinion on certain issue. He did
so, but first stated he was not com
mittee man. / know l.. j. Bates
did not get any notice of the call.
Too bad. For the benefit of the read
ers of the Times | will give a list of
the duly elected members of our cen
trail committee for the city of Lake
Preston: First ward. III. j. Setbanken,
T. M. Hacket; Second ward, w.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06

ELSEWHERE in this issue is letter
from r. w. Levitt, secretary of the
county central committee, in reply to
an article printed in the Lake Pres
ton Times two weeks ago. Mr.. Levitt
wrote letter to the Times, but it was
not published. The Times, in speak
ing of the meeting of the county cen
trail committee, stated that the stall
wart members were not notified of
the time and place of meeting. Like
much of the political matter appear
ing in the columns of that paper, the
statement was bare falsehood. In
the last issue of the Times its editor
attempts to cover up the matter by
naming three gentlemen in Lake
Preston who said they were not mott
fed. OF course, they were not mott
fed for the very good reason that not
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06
KNOCKING RooSEVELT'S POLICIES

Senator Ankeny, Of Washington,
celebrated Washington's birthday
last Saturday by giving a dinner to a
large party of his colleagues at the
New Willard hotel in Washington.
The dinner was ostensibly a purely
social affair, but according to news
reports from Washington it was turn
ed into political talk-fest, and the
talk was largely in criticism of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his policies. 1t is
reported that Speaker Cannon, who
has persistently obstructed the presi-
dents policies in the house, and Sena-
tor Fulton, of Oregon, the Washing
ton representative of the land thieves
in Oregon were particularly severe in
their criticism of the president and
his policies. Speaker Cannon is quot
ed as saying that the president is an
abnormal man." that the people
would soon awaken to "the folly of the
situation" and would cease following
"false doctrines, while Senator Fulton
declared that the republican party
faced the greatest crisis in its history;
that unless the leaders of the party
rallied at once the country was doom
ed to be governed in the future by
tie whims of one man and would re-
qr,ire many years to recover from the
damage to its business and its policies.
Next he declared that the republican
party was doomed to destruction un-
less the party leaders prevented its
domination by one man." Speaker
Cannon is the man for whom Joe
Green, the stalwart national COM
mitteeman from this state, has been
shouting as the Republican ominee
for president, while Senator Fulton is
Senator Kittredge's famous Oregon
friend, at whose request Senator Kit.
t-edge aided in preventing the confir-
nation of the man named by the
president for district attorney in Ore
gon TO prosecute the land thieves of
that state. And Cannon and Fulton
are abusing the president and con-
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06

The Aberdeen News goes to some
length to excuse Senator Kittredge
for having been a stockholder in the
Sioux Falls Mailing Company. One
of its arguments is that Mr.. Kittredge
was called upon as a public spirited
citizen of Sioux Falls and of the state
of South Dakota, to put his money
into that concern to establish an in
dustry that would give employment
to a "vast number of men" at Sioux
Falls and make big market within
the state for barley, one Of the most
profitable productions of the farmers
of Minnehaha and adjoining counties" ."
If that isn't dose of hot air, we new
er heard of one. Think of the "vast
number of men" who found employ
ment in Kiitredge's mailing company.
As many as vast multitude consist
ing of five or six men must have had
employment eight months out of the
year. And then think of the ''big
market for barley" created by a dinky
mailing company using thirty to fifty
cars of barley every year. That de-
mand would have taken almost the
whole product handled by De Smet
elevators for whole week in the fall.
It's terrible to contemplate what
would have happened to the price of
barley if Kittredge had refused to in
to the mailing business,
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06

In every county where the machine
had control of the county central com
mittee, to copy the style of the Lake
Preston Times, they stole the whole
delegation where the delegates were
named by the committee. Here in
Kingsbury county the progressive re-,
publicans had control of the commit
tee and offered to dispense with the
primary and divide the delegation
or else go to the primary. But fair
treatment does not seem to be appre-
ciated. The committee has met with
nothing but abuse and false state
ments from the machine papers.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06

Haberman presented the doctor with
a daughter.
John Hughes, for several years
animate of the home at the county
poor farm, died Saturday, February
29th. Mr.. Hughes was sufferer
from partial paralysis for several years.
His condition was hopeless for long
time. Being homeless, friendless. and
helpless, it is very probable that Mr..
Hughes welcomed the end as relief.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. j. E. Booth Monday.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06

KITTREDGE says that he never was
an attorney for any railroad, if the
machine papers quote him correctly,
However, in the state auditors report
for 1900, page l44 is found the fol-
lowing:
"Mr. Kittreage addressed the board
on behalf of the Great Northern Rail
way company and the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway company
1t looks as if Mr.. Kittredge had
been an attorney, or lobbyist, for a
few of the railroads.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06

The Arlington Sun advertises to
pay Sl00 for 1905 tax receipts show
ing the state tax to be less than the
state tax of 1907. As yet the Sun has
not been able to do business. The
fact is that the last two Legislative
years under machine rule, 1903 and
1905, placed the state taxes higher
than in 1907, the twine plant tax vot-
ed by the people excepted. The Sun
may advertise until it becomes tired /;
in will never do dollars worth of
business.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06

AT Huron Mr.. Kittredge apologized
for the Aldrich railroad emergency
currency bill and said that he doubt
ed if he would vote for it if he were
there. The question is: why isn't
he there attending to the business for
which he was elected? If the bill is
such that he would not vote for it if
there. isn't it his business to get there
and help to defeat it?
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06

Look. Tom Mills; Third ward, DIR.
Bailey, w. w. Dolvin Where l.. j.
Bates committee men were slighted |
cannot see and would suggest that
he give himself another coat of white
wash. r. w. LEVITT,
Sec'y Republican Central Com
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06

demning his policies while Green and
Kittredge are working arduously to
secure a delegation from South Da-
kota for Taft, because Taft is the
presidents choice and stands for the
presidents policies! A rather peculiar
deal isn't it?--Dell Rapids Tribune.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06

one of the gentlemen named by the
Times was ever member of this com
mittee. This fact was we'll known
to the editor of the Times, but he re
lied upon the supposition that very
few of its readers would ever know
the difference.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06
This is Worth Remembering

Whenever you have cough or
cold, just remember that Foley's Hon
ey and Tar will cure it. Do not risk
your health by taking any but the
genuine. 1t is in a yellow package.
Sasse Pharmacy.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-06
THE WEEKS WEATHER.

Below we publish the weather for
the week ending Wednesday, Mar.
4th, 1908, as recorded by j. II.
Hall, weather observer for this
section:
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-02-10
THE MYSTERY OF SLEEP.
Ne Man Knows When the Moment o.
uneonseiousness Comes.

Ne Man Knows When the Moment o.
uneonseiousness Comes.
There is a remarkable fact connected
with sleep which must not be over
looked. The sleep of a human being,
II we are not too busy to attend to the
matter. always evokes a certain feeling
Of awe. Go into room where a per
son is sleeping. and it is difficult to
resist the sense that one is in the pres
ence of the central mystery Of exist
ence. People who remember how con
stantly they see old Jones asleep In
the club library will smile at this, but
look quietly and alone even at old
Jones and the sense of mystery Will
soon develop.
1t is no good to say that sleep is only
moving because 1t looks like death.
The person who is breathing so loudly
as to take away all thought of death
causes the sense of awe quite as easily
a. the silent sleeper who hardly seems
to breathe.
We see death seldom, but were 1t
more familiar we doubt II a corpse
would inspire so much awe as the I'M
conscious and sleeping figure-a smil
ing, irresponsible doll. flesh and blood.
but a doll to whom In a second may
be called a proud, active. controlling
consciousness which will ride his bodi-
ly and his mental horse with a hand
Of iron, which will force that body to
endure toll and misery and will make
that mind, now wandering in paths Of
fantastic folly. grapple with some great
problem or throw all its force into the
ruling, the saving or the destruction
Of mankind. The corpse is only so
much bone, muscle and tissue; the
sleeping body Is the house which a
quick and eager master has only left
for an hour or so.
Let any one who thinks sleep Is not
a mystery try to observe in himself
the process by which sleep comes and
to notice how and when and under
what conditions he loses consciousness.
He will, of course. utterly fail to put
his finger on the moment Of sleep com.
ing. but In striving to get as close as
he can to the phenomena Of sleep be
will realize how great is the mystery
which he Is trying to fathom.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-02-10

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