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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24

myself says Owen modestfy.
MY darling boy" cries Madam. moi
at all--not at all. You see those glris
on the bench over there, the Moore girls
you know them. Ell? No? Oh, that
won't matter; there isn't one OF them
won't be delighted to go for a stroll with
you, If you'll only ask them. To tell you
the truth, they've been expecting your
party all the day long. Society here, my
dear Owen, Is going to the bad for want
of a few men. But now that you've all
come for a while, we'll be looking up a
bit. To let you into n small secret, I'm
thinking Of giving a bit of a dance"
MADAM |! the first waltz Is mine cries
Owen enthusiastically.
"Oh, get out with you! Pom me hon
or and word, I don't know what you boys
are coming to. But look here, Owen, l
think if / give a hop, Sir Lucien might
we'll give another. lie owes 1t to us all,
down hara. But he's such an old hunks,
there's no being up to him. Just to think,
my dear boy. that he should be alive and
kicking, and my poor darling Denis, who
used to keep the table in a roar gone
forever. 'Tis a queer world. my dear
Ito be continued.)
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24

Il certainly think that a less obtru-
sive color in a necktie would be prefer
able" said the cashier.
"Of course you do" said the bill
clerk. And If I made a remark on
any subject you'd stare at me as If
you didn't know whether to kick me Or
laugh at me. I haven't got any busi-
ness to have any opinion about any,
thing when there's anybody around
with white whiskers and a big bay
| window" r.. H.
Tell me just one thing" said the
cashier.
'Well, what is itr' asked the bill
clerk.
HAS ne got anything against you be-
sides the fact that you're calling
around to see hts ~daughter7"
Sure" replied the bill clerk. Amt
I telling you? I'm very young, conse-
quently I haven't got a grain Of sense
and I amt worth my salt and never
will be. You think you're awful foxy,
don't you?"-Chlcago Daily News.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
IN A SUBMARINE COLLISION.

Minutes of Terror for the Crew OF
the French Diver Soumeur.
A member Of the crew Of the Souf-
ieur, the French submarine which was
damaged in a collision under water
with her sister craft, the Bonite, a few
weeks ago, gives a thrilling description
Of the situation during the minutes
when every man thought death was In
| evitable. The submarines had been
maneuvering outside Toulon harbor
when the accident happened, says the
New York Sur.
The Souffleur was at a depth OF
twenty-five feet and was preparing to
fire a blank torpedo at the hull Of the
battleship Jaurequiberry, when sudden
ly n black shadow doomed up through
the green water.
at came upon us with a rush." say
the narrator. Lieut.. Robillot realized
the danger on the instant and shouted
the order to sink. The hope was that
the other scat would pass owe Us; but
1t was too late. The Bonlte struck us
with full force.
ut smashed the diving helm so that
1t was impossible to check the down
ward movement 1t rasped across the
upper plates of our vessel, smashing
the poopscope and the coming tower.
By good luck the water-tight doors
were closed or we would have gone
down Ike a stone in fifty fathoms of
water.
"AI1 tho rrSN yUnr1 f1JnO around 0nh
several were seriously injured. But
the greatest disaster was the capsizing
Of the wet batteries Of our electric ac-
~cumulators. The sulphuric acid was
spilled, and as it attacked the metal
plates the air became filed with
sitting vapors.
"Some of the men fell suffocated, all
of US were coughing and choking so
that efforts to save the boat were al
most impossible and yet that new dam
ger was now threatening us. It was
only a question of time when the acid
would eat it's way through the plates
and let in the sea.
when we got some of the apparatus
to work n attempted to rise we were
again in peril Of collision. The Bonite
directly above us. Minutes passed
a word, the men clinching
their hands till the nails dug into their
palms to control their emotions
eat last Robillot gave the order, Let
90 the weights The vessel began ris-
Ing, slowly at first and then faster.
looked at the pool Of acid and felt
as If the motion upward were a race
with it's action, a race with life as the
prize.
'"rhen came the slight shock like that
Of striking a cushion which showed
that the boat had reached the surface.
rush for the hatch followed, and the
next moment the men were tumbling
out into the light and air that they had
never expected to see again"
Every man Of the crew, It may be
volunteered to go down again
with the Soufleur when she ia repair
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
PARIS QUARTER LATIN"

.. G. blythe Says II Is the Fashion
to Say II Has Deteriorated.
The Latin quarter is not what 1t
once was, says Samuel b. Blythe in
Everyb0dy's. There is authority for
that statement. Any person who has
9 e two consecutive weeks in Paris
will tell you 50 with sobs. The lamen-
tations of those who have been there
six months are heartrending when they
relate the same sorrowful story. 1t
seems to be a personal grief, some be-
reavement that has snddened them for
life. ! don't know why, for the Latin
quarter seemed to be doing business
when I was there. At any rate, there
were droves OF students, or persons
took to be students, with funny whis-
kers and long hair and flowing ties.
and they got together at various places
In the quarter and drank beer or wine
and sang songs and were quite studi
OusIy and painstakingly devil-may
care. And / went to one OF their balls,
It vas most preconceivedly riotous.
Everybody seemed to have a particular
bit Of wickedness-or what passed as
wickedness-to do, and every n did
his or her part at The right time and
with III the outward symptoms OF gus
70. 30 far az I could learn the stu
dents do what they please. n they
ever dSd more than that iaen the quar-
ter has de~teriorated. The trouble is.
proba6iy, that the persons who think
Il u not % gay and care-free as 1t
once was have grown q bit less careless
and ray themselves. They have
changed their viewpoint. However, it
T. the proper thing to say the quarter
Inns gone back. 1t makes people think
you know all about 1t.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24

tty Of films, intending to make enough
photographs of out-of-the-way scenesta
cover part Of his travelling expenses
The bride had a very different schems
In view. She had managed when en-
gaging her passage to secure promise Of
accommodations at the best hotels N
the itinerary, such as the Cecil In Lon'
don, the Grand in Paris, Shepards N
Cairo, and she saw to 1t that those
promises were rlgidly fulfilled later on
At every one Of the twsnt-threS
hotels that she visited she procured
hotel labels for her trunks O hand
baggage IN as great quantities as pos,
sible. In some instances she obtained
AZ many as twenty through 3uoacloua
tipping, in others only six or eight No
matter II she stayed only one day she
saw to it that her hand baggage WaS
labeled, and meanwhile she sought
and found-her opportunity to ado to
her collection
At Monte Carlo and other fashionable
resorts she made shift to secure labels
from hotels which she simply visited
for that All told, she accu-
mulated 22O by the end Of he trip
Also she bought $50 worth OF Maltese
lace at the moment of b ships d.
parture from that port, hen the render
sold his entire stock at a ruinous reduc-
ton rather than hold it over for ths
next uncertainty.
Meanwhile her husband, who had
lost no opportunity In the photograph
ing lines, had gathered together a val
liable collection Of scenes, which he
displayed among the passengers ON his
return trip, with the frank explanation
that he had made them for the DUE
pose Of selling them at homs.
Many of the passengers who were
without photographs offered good prices
for certain favor1ts scenes-nevsr les
than 81 a picture and sometimes "a
By the time the photographer arrived
In New York he had sold 4 little ovsg
800 pictures for 500. He disposed Of
the remaining scenes to q magazine
writer at 81 a picture. An eeld, he
cleared $421, deductng the cost Of his
materials
The bride sold her Maltese Ace for
exactly four times the amount abe paid
for It Then she set about the disposal
Of her hotel checks by advertising 10
the eject that she had a few Of the
above for sale among people who liked
to give their baggage a m~uchrdaveled
appearance. She received NUMEROUS
answers, and 80 eager were her Gus
toners to buy her odd wares that she
had no difficulty in obtaining 81 apiece
for the labels. Her profits amounted
to 1870, while her husbands reached
s421. Their four months honeymoon
trip cost them exactly $229-New York
Times.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
THEATEE BUILT BY A PIRATE.

Hnvana's Great Playhouse Founded
Seventy Years AGO By Marty.
The history of the Tacon theater Of
Havana Is very interesting. In the year
1885 Francisco Marty, who was then
the leader Of a band Of pirates which
infested the island of Cubs, and who
had a price Of $4,000 on his head, was
captured and ordered to be put to death.
Seeing there vas no hope for him, he
asked leave to see Genera Tacon, who
was then governor general Of Havana,
and told him If his life was spared he
would denouncs his entire band and
assist him In Kidding the island Of the
number Of pirates which infested It at
that period. Accordingly General Tacon
gave him two weeks parole and insids
Of a week Marty had denounced his fell
low pirates and turned them I've to
the government. For this service hs
was pardoned-
In 1886 Marty asked for the oonces.
siol to build a national theater on the
| site of Parque Central. 1t vas granted
to him. General Tacon went furthe,
and allowed him the privilege Of the
use of forty convfcts who were then
confined in MORO castle to assist him
In the work, ach convict receiving the
sum Of 20 cents a day. In 1888 the
theater was finished and Marty, as a
proof of the gratitude he felt toward
General Tacon for sparing his life,
named it Ell Teatro Tacon.
During the insurrection in Cuba many
exciting incidents took place here. In
one instance a regiment Of Cuban n
sursents barricaded themselves In the
theater and held it against the Span
iards for three days. Finally they
We're starved out, and as they were
making their escanA al were sh.
The theater is built Of white stone
with decorations of marble and facing
Central Park, being in the center of
the fashionable district Of Havana. 1t
is one of the largest theaters in the
world. seating W. 5000 persons
Cuban Review.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
A BIT Of Home.

One is always glad to see a familiar
face on foreign soil. Hardly less well
come is the sight of some object asso-
ciated with ones native country. Some
people eve discover their patriotism
until they catch sight Of their flag In
a strange land. Samuel Cox found a
bit OF the United States in Russia, and
tells about it in Arctic Sunbeams."
While visiting Peterhof we wers
rowed out to a fairy island on the lake.
Then the guide took us to an oak about
thirty feet high. On It was a brass
plate registering the fact that the tree
grew from an acorn taken from an oak
by George Washington's grave and sent
to the Emperor Nicholas. The tree was
wefl-grown and thrifty.
It was curious to see how the name
Washington was spelled In Russian. !
do not know the Russian type, but this
Is the nearest approach to 1t I car
make:
BamuHrmoHA
I ASKED the guide to spell and pro
nuunce it and hs said:
"va-shalH-n-g-tonA"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
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II don't say it ~reproachfully at all,
because I know you can't help it and
It's something that you are overcoming
all the time" said the cashier. you're
not in the least to blame, my boy, but
you are very young. You can't deny
it." . s
I'm not going to-" said the bill
clerk TITS far from my intention.
What's more, I'm glad that 1 nm
very young and I'd like to keep that
way II l could. II you think I'm ach-
ing for a bald spot and a pair of nos
glasses you've got another guess"
Tut, TUT" said the cashier. why
this heat7'
"Oh, I'm not hot" said the bill clerk.
but I'll tell you, my venerable friend,
some Of you back numbers need calling
down good and hard. Most Of you ere
useful only as horrible examples"
Precisely" agreed the cashier.
THAT is our unsel1sh aim. We wish
to warn the rising generation to avoid
the errors into which we fell during our
own unrefecting age. We point out the
pitfalls and the snares that beset your
pau o4o WASLSlu we lCll uOIe u l0SS
cuticle. We confess our youthful fol-
lies and vices, even.' a
You brag Of EN- said the bill clerk.
IF you didn't have II you invent
'em. You haven't got the snap to get
into any particular trouble now and
30 you try to make out that it's be
cause you know better. I'm wise to
you stins, all tight. I don't have tc
be a hundred years old to know you
either"
I'm surprised at you, Johnny said
the cashier.
You don't need to be-" said the bill
clerk. you may have known some
thing one time, but you've forgotten 1t
You think you're alive, don't you? Well
you amt I'm living, myself. Tn
right out. among 'em with my eyes open
stirring around. You're covered will
moss and all you can do is to look bacl
and try to remember. Then you com,
around and give me good advice.
like your nerve
Young folks think old folks ar,
fools, but old folks know young folk.
are FOOLS" quoted the cashier.
"It's all right about that said TIT
bill clerk. "If that's so the young folk,
have got the sense to keep their opin
ions to themselves. That's what make.
me sore. When a mans head begin.
to push through his hair and he take.
ntIy-lwo 1nch belt he looks at a y0un,
fellow as II it was a shame to allow
him to run loose. If he hasn't got any
thing fresh to say about a chap hi
looks it. IF a fellows just holdin.
down a salaried job the man with the
whiskers thinks he's a dub that won't
amount to shucks. If he goes III
to the house, papa glares at him like
he'd just broke out of Jail. Why? Be
a guy has all his teeth and
doesn't have to so to sleep after din.
mel. It's something fierce the rind I've
got, walking around without a cane
and reading a paper without putting
on two pairs of s~pectacles to do it
ain't 1t? Think of my nerve being able
to play tennis for a whole afternoon
at . stretch And do yeu thtns
OF me wearing a red neelstie and keep
ing sEs ehoes polished? Isn't that the
I gellf~
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
II There Wa. a Postal trust.

II There Was y Postal Trust.
IF the malls, like the railroads, Ike
meat, like oil, were in trust hands"
said a socialist, you couldn't send a
postal card across the world for 2 cents.
There is In the German postal mu-
scum a letter that was sent from Phil
adelphfa to Meckienburg In 1850. This
letter shows us what we would be get
ting to-day If the governments Of the
world ha1a not taken the mails out OF
private hands.
'sThe letter bears tina ~postmarks OF
Philadelphia, London, Calais, Brussels
The Hague, Amsterdam and Hamburg.
That was It's line Of route. The post
age on it, though, is the main thing.
The postage was just $40"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24

the limited States found lodgment in St. Louis and Mi.
waukee among the brewery colonies, In Cincinnati and
Chicago among the stock yard employees, and in New
York among the brewery men and dock laborers This
narticular bit OF leaven has never ceased to ferment
though MANY Thousands Of men whom it then affected
as they got Jobs and homes and began to prosper, forgot
it and would now be ashamed Of the ideas they once
eld-Cor Broadway Magazine.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
THRIFT IN ONE HONEYMOON.

Husband and wife Do Europe and
Make n Handsome Profit.
Early in the winter a young Ameri-
can couple decided to take their honey
moon trip with a tourist excursion par
ty booked for a rather extensive trip
through southern Europe and the orr
ent at a cost of S460 each. including all
expenses except personal tips. The
bridegroom proyiaed himself with two
sl ssae @ sa unlimited quan-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
HIS Receptton.

The isthmus mosquitoes gathered en-
Enthusiastically around the genial Secretary
Of War.
Here's Z candidate" they hunmed,
ssexactly 70 our liking !"
At the succeeding banquet It was agreed
By al present chat : very enjoyable time
WINS had.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24

lv confined to the cities, because there are clustered the
working people. Each has its alien branch or branches,
end aliens coming from portions of Europe where enor-
nous military establishments alone repress revolt against
notorious OPPRESSION, both political and economic, are
ripe for fomert. They know but vaguely what their
changed conditions are. They are bewildered by the dis
play Of wealth, predatory or fairly earned, that they see
about them, not realizing that here, as never In Europe,
any one Of them who has the ability can become a rich
man. The local center Of each dispersion Of the leaven
of revolt will thus be found among the aliens or among
people who have caught it from the aliens, save as 1t
has begun to perrneate our colleges and universities, and
even there foreign professors and TRANSACTIONS of foreign
books have been the cause of inception.
The actual leHven Of revolt when first imported info
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
TIE uo1sELEss MAXIM GUN.

~-mrme GREAT and terrible responsibility rests
a : :::': :; f.; s: ;o :; ;s F.: ::: :' + "' : s; $ $;: #: :: q:
Egl8PesaSA He has patented a gun which will XIII q
RSSTsSESa man with no more noise than the hlss1hs
M@A OF a snake. Armed with this silent weap-
IN o murderer could shoot down his victim without at
tracting the least attention, and only on examination
would the cause of death be revealed.
On the other hand, a single policeman using the noise
less gun could disable every member of q gang OF Dur
Glars before they recovered from their surprise. 1t Is
an invention which may lead to the re-equipment OF the
armed forces Of the world and the revolutioniztng OF
modern methods OF warfare-wtn perhaps even hasten
the happy day when there will be no war, for the very
best safeguard against war is the invention Of weapons
of such terrible power that armies will never dare to
stand against each other. War said Bismarck. lis
the greatest enemy Of wax and will eventually be put
out Of existence"
In the next great war skirmtshers may use noiseless
rifles, enabling them to creep along an enemys front
and shoot down the transporting pickets one after IN
other, and not until their bodies were discovered would
the alarm bs given. The extended front of q whole
army, concealed in the underbrush or behind rocks, could
work terrible havoc among the opposing forces before
its position could be located. To the big game hunter
the silent frearm will open new horizons.-Utca Globe.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24

successful in farm work that promises an independent
livelihood.
Why leave the farm? Stick to the farm. Never lose
sight Of the fact that, with brain and Drawn back Of you,
the best investment on earth for you to make Is in the
earth itself.
The shores Of the commercial stream are strewn with
wrecks Of bright men who sought to get rich quick, in
the cities and wear a boiled shirt and kid gloves while
doing it If they had remained on the farm and later
engaged in farming, saving and living within their means,
their life would have been marked with success, with a
competency for old age. Again we, repeat: Stick to the
farm-The Successful Farmer.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
MENACE OF THE RED FLAG.

HE red flag OF anarchistic revolution is not
native. 1t is Of foreign birth and the prop
uganda has been imported with our mil
lions of immigrants. We have not only
imported the agitators, but we have i'm
ported the masses for them to work on.
In America the movement is almost entire
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
FARM STILL OFFERS OPPORTUNITY.

Hat is needed among our farm boys is a
better knowledge of the possibilities that
lie at their very door. Raised as the farm
boy Is, with a chance to become a keen OBJ
server In a business that speaks success, II
industry is applied and economy followed,
there Is q wonderful opportunity to become
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
FACTS FOR SICK WoMER.

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thoIsandsof
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, flbroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
tng-downfeeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness, ornervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24

There are times Ia a mans life when
nothing viii satisfy him but q lock ss
the eephan.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
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and with a certain strength of character
written on his low brow.
He goes by Hilary with a swing thai
has something Of aggression In it; il
passing, however, the eyes of the two HieE
meet--rage in one, contempt In the other
Both had seen each other before within
the last three days. Then a turn in the
road takes Brian Deane beyond the 9th
er's sight, and presently to the side OF
Amber.
Who was that man you parted from
just newt" demands he, as he catches her
up. Els one Is harsh and rough; his
breath Is coming from between bis whit.
ened lips In short, suppressed gasps; his
~nostrils are dilated.
Amber regards him curiously. Her
beautiful eyes run over the disorder of
his face az II not only surprised. but a
little Disguised, at the excitement so dis
tinctly printed on 1t.
THAT was Captain Adare, my cousin
returns she, deliberately.
your cousin ~ His face witches.
The nephew Of the man who has dubbed
your father q liar and thlefl And so
you would condone the ofense!" He
laughs derisiyely. AS though all those
vipers were not bred In one nest. And
pray how did this special viper, this
cousin, this Hilary Adare, find his way
here to-day7 BY your conn~ivance? By
you appointments
Amber stands still and confronts him.
She is quite calm.
Talking of ways says she, in her
clear, soft voice, ''this Is my way" turn
ing to the left "see that yours leads
somewhere else J"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-24
SHOULD DOCTORS TELL THE TRUTHr

orzsyuz1HN N New York the other day a physician told
NA,M M his patient that death was sure within a
Ae2E few hours, whereupon the patient cut his
ES4h--E throat. This unexpected action brought
EGsVmNAy the case to public notice and awakened
RSsSRsSSH much discussion as to whether the ply.
- stefan was justified in telling the patient
what he thought was the truth
We should say that he was not Aside from the ques
ton how much truth physicians really know, the power
of suggestion, which only Of late years has como to Be
understood, must be taken into account. Its force was
shown by the patients suicide; but even If he had not
violently killed himself, the probability Is that he would
have died. A fixed idea in the mind OF a sick man has
enormous strength. If the physician had told tho patient
that he would get well, the power Of suggestion might
have enabled him to throw Off his disease. Christian
Science does such things every day. But even # this
had not been so, the patients last days would have been
made happier.
The physician's duty is not to tell all the truth, As he
understands it. but to cheer as well as to hsal-Des
Molnes News.