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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
Dramatic Aumer IN CHM.

49, of'a
At most towns we have called at
theatricals formed one OF the sights
The din and discord OF the band at
tracted us more than once even In the
play had no fascination. II matters
little or not at all to a foreigner what
the plot is all about, as this drags on
for two or three days, sometimes long
er. We Witnessed a screaming set
which was evidently the punishment
inflicted on the villains of the drama.
Three mon in almost n state OF nudity
were being souscd with buckets OF wa
ter and making funny grimaces as the
cold doucne was dashed In their faces.
Judging by the frantic shouts OF the
audience this situation was evidently
b height OF dramatic hunecr. and a.
we strollcd away the poor villains we're
still taking their punishment as stage
yillains should.
SIS
The limited States ,apks t3ird .-nn~
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
A NOTRE DAME LADY'S APPEAL.

To all knowing sufferers Of rheumatism.
whether muscular or OF the joints, ~sciatica,
lumbagos, hackache,s palms In the kidneys
or neuralgia pains. TO write to her for q
home treatment which has repeatedly cured
all OF these tortures- She feels It her dusty
to send Ii to all sufferers FREE. You cure
Yourself at home as thousands will testify
no change Of climate being necessary. This
simple discovery bsnishes uric acid from
the blood, ioosens the stiRened joints. puri-
nes the blood. and brlghtens the eyes, giving
elasticity and tone TO the whole system. IL
the above interests you, for proof sddrafs
MS ". Summers. Box 3. Notre Dame. Ind.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
WORTH !
OF Coll
During Change of Life.
says Mrs. Chas. Rarca
Graniteville, Vt.-"I was pass
through the.C Changed Life andsuAs

from nervouSn
and o annoT
symptoms, and
can truly say
LydiaE.PinkhsS
Vegetab On
pound has proV.
worth mounts
of gold to me, a.
restored my heal
and strength
never forget tot
my friends VII
Ty1iaE pipIho~
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27

skeleton. My back
was so bad l could
hardly walk and the
k secretions
much d~isordered. A
week after | began
using Doan's Kidney
Pills l could walk
without a cane and
as / continued my
health gradually re-
turned 7 was so
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
PROVED BY TIME.

No Fear of Amy Further Trouble.
David Price, Corydon, Ia, says: Il
was In the last stage of kidney trou-
ble-lame, weak, run down to a mere
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27

grateful | made a public statement OF
my case, and sever years have
passed, and l am still perfectly we'll"
Sold by all dealers. soc. a box
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
Each to His Way.

Philander Johnson in Washington Star.
Says de butterfly to de bum'ly bee.
why isn't you all dressed up. like me?
1 hasn't a thing In de world to do
'Cep' show Off de clothes dat look so
new"
Says, de bum'ly bee to de butterfly.
why doesn't you work as de days
go by.
A layin' up honey de way j does;
You hasn't got even de grit to buzz"
And de bullfrog holler, You stop dat
fuss.
Dis world would be In a so'-nuff muss
III de bees loafed round, on gaudy wing,
An de butterflies worked an learned
to sting"
The Chinese haua aSfrnnnnfaoI roc.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
WY TAKE AxY CHANCES

with some untrled medicine fSs such tssr6ies as dlarr.
hosa. cramps, dyeentery, when for 10 years PatnktIies
Nferry DavisD has been relieving millions OF cases.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27

The Chinese have astronomical rec
0rds which go back to 1856 B. c..
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27

The United States fanks third anonx
the nations In i:nportaftnn ~ 80
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
The Recall of Minister WI.

The recall of WI Ting Fang. the
Chinese Minister to the United States,
will remove from the diplomatic life
of Washington one of it's most unique
and interesting characters. Although
he had the interrogation habit, that
seems to be so characteristic of the
Oriental mind, and which was so
strikingly exemplified when the great
Ii Hung Chang made his visit to this
country, he was so naive and ingenu-
Gus in its exercise that no one took
offence at it. On the other hand he
had many qualities that made him
popular with the Americans who came
to know him during his official life i,
this country. One of these was hi.
quickness at repartee, and anothe,
his unfailing optimism and good ma
ture.. He soon developed into a socia
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
A SUMMER in EUROPE.
xIx-Vitre: The Chateau des Roches the Bretons.

At Wire we found that we had a
four hour wait, but we had become
SO used to these stops, that it didn't
disturb us one bit. In that picturesque
region we. were unpoetical enough to
feel half starved, so we went to the
nearest cafe. After we had satisfied
the first pangs of hunger, I noticed
sign which read, Carriages rented
here for a visit to the Chateau des
Rochers, the home of Madame de
Sevigne." That came as a complete
surprise. l didn't know we were near
any chateau, and l had forgotten that
Madame de Sevigne ever Gwelt in this
part. Gradually it came back how
that gracious lady loved to retire from
the noise of Paris, to her pleasant re-
treat in Brittany. In writing TO her
daughter she says. eff you ask me how
l am at the Rockers after all this
tumult / will tell you that 1 am trans
ported with joy over it. I have an I'M
told need for rest. l need to sleep,
need to eat, for l am dying of hunger
after those feasts, | need to be quief;
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

| las we rode back through the pleas
ant woods l wondered if we might not
be fortunate enough to come upon the
enchanted castle of Merlin and Vivi-
ane. One time Merlin asked permits
sion of King Arthur to travel through
Brittany AS he entered the forest of
Broecilande he saw beautiful young
girl. Being a magician he changed
himself from an old gray haired man
into a comedy youth, and fell violently
| in love with this unknown one. who
was called Viviane. He taught her
the magical things that he knew how
to do. At certain signs he made, they
could see knights and ladies, dancing.
while strains of charming music floated
through the air.
| At last he left her. but he promised
to come again, just one year from that
day on st. Johns Eve. He was true
to his word, and when he came he
| found her beside the same fountain
where he had at first seen her. Each
time that he came he taught her more
| wonderful things to do, until Merlin
foresaw that one day he would enter
| the forest never to go out of 1T. AT
| one of his visits Viviane said:
"There is one charm which 1 do not
know, that l beg you to teach me.
lfor wish to know how to lock without
bolts or bars, SO that I can imprison
! whom / WILL
/ 81 know all that which is in your
| heart" answered Merlin, and that If
| / teach you this charm shall be your
prisoner forever"
/ Put hf, foI orb to
they were walking in the forest, they
came to a bower of blossoming black
thorn and sat down, and as Merlin
| rested his head in Viviane's lap. he
| fell asleep. Very softly she arose ana
wound her scarf nine times around
the lover and whispered the spell. I'M
| mediately the scene changed. Strong
towers and bastions of formidable
| fortress appeared, and the blackthorY
| blossomed again upon tapestries ~
the halls of the castle. When wefiin
awoke, he found himself lyingon d
golden couch instead of ,th9s messy
bank, and he knew that he vas WV
ane's prisoner, but he didyl regret ~,
for although Viviane csdld go ana
come as she pleased, VT she never lei.
him, prisoner as he was without
bolts or bars.
For twelve centdries that enchanted
castle has stood in Brittany, out no
one has ever succeeded in even eaten
ing a glimpse of It,
Arriving again in Wire, our driver
insisted that we explore the old Breton
town No sound of tramways disturbeo
that tranquil afternoon. One street
! was so narrow that it was impossibie
10 drive through it, The women had
brought their chairs out in the street.
for there were no sidewalks, and they
were having an afternoon tea-party.
though each one was busily knittins.
Cats and dogs were everywhere. 1p1
women stared at us as we walked psss
| their houses, but they did not stoR
I their knitting. Ia -
| CONTINUED on Page Seven.l
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

everybody attacked me, and my lungs
were worn out"
So after we had eaten, we hired a
carriage and drove six miles out
through the fertile undulating country
of Brittany, until we came to the
chateau and it's extensive gardens.
One room of the large old castle still
contains the things of Madame de
Sevigne. There was fine full-length
portrait of her who was named Mother
Beauty, because she kept her beauty
to the last. There was the corner
where she wrote her letters. Over the
fireplace were the escutheons of her
self and her rascally cousin, Busy
Rabutin, although our guide did not
know which was which. Madame de
Sevigne was so refined, so good, that
this dastardly cousin, so biting in his
sarcasm about other people said con-
corning her:
He who would collect together all
the delicate, pleasing, spontaneous and
unaffected sayings of Marie de Ra-
butin, would have a never ending task.
She had the wit and sprightlihess OF
her father, though much more refined.
One never got tired with her; in short
she was one of those people who ought
never to die, as there are many others
who ought never to have been born. "
| Under her portrait he has added "a
woman of extraordinary genius. who
knew how to make great attractive
ness incompatible with the most ire
proachable virtue
Near by this room was round
chapel built by the marquise uncle, the
abbot of Coulanges, who delighted
above all things in architecture.
Thus here it was that the marquise
came to lead q simple life, and also
to replenish her purse. which a Paris
season had greatly reduced. She tells
US in a letter to her daughter how
she spent the day:
1--WE rise at eight o'clock; very often
go to breathe the cool air of the woods
until the bell rings for mass at nine;
after mass we dress, bid each other
good morning, gather orange flowers,
take dinner;-until five we work or
read. At five / am off to these lovely
avenues, with a lackey to follow me;
have books; 1 go from place to place
and vary the turns OF my walks; /
take now a devotional book, now an
historical book,-turn about to give
| variety,-nurSng a little on God and
his providence. thinking of the future;
at last towards eight, / hear a bell, it
| rings for supper. Ny dear child, you
are the only thing I prefer to this mel
| ancholy and calm repose I enjoy here"
Her beautiful gardens planned by
q Notrp tho 1aodScapa gardener Of
Louis XIV pleased her most, and she
delighted in rowing through them;
studying the flowers and birds. In
fact she knew nature so well that she
! said, "At pinch I don't know but
what 1 could make a spring myself I,
Of her garden she said. 1T il so full
of jasmines and orange trees that in
the evening when the air is fragrant
with their blossons, one masines one
self in Provence"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

The avenues of trees that she planted
still exist, and the guide repeated to
us the names she gave those shady
walks such as the SOLITARY Walk"
the Endless Walk and the Mall"
At the kennels we were greeted by the
shouts of thorough breds, most of them
being hounds, who accosted us in
lusty manner.
Our guide was young girl who was
dressed in the prevailing fashion of
Brittany. She wore a short black
skirt and waist. Her black hair was
smoothed back low in the neck and
covered with q net, while a band of
black ribbon came down to the ears.
On special occasions they have white
caps over that. The old Breton women
wear white caps of all descriptions and
all the women whether young or old
have an unmistakeable waddle that
marks them as a Bretonne wherever
they may be in France. The men and
boys all wear smocks even on very
dressy occasions, and it seemed strange
to see them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

lion at the Capital and was in demand
at all the great functions. Few ma
tives of the Orient have ever mastered
the English more thoroughly than W.
or have developed the ability to speak
it with greater ease and facility
This fact made him more or less IN
demand as an after dinner speaker
one of the most notable of his ad-
dresses being delivered before the
Merchants Club of Boston on the COM
mercial development of China. ii
must be admitted that WI occupied
a most uncomfortable position as min
lister to this country, during the
period of the Boxer uprising in China,
when our own legation, together with
those of other civilized nations, was
under siege in the Imperial city OF
Pekin. He bore himself under these
trying circumstances with rare dig
nifty, and tact. He convinced the
American public that whatever feeling
OF hostility to this country might ex-
list among certain elements in the Chi
nese empire, he was and had been, its
sincere and consistent friend. 1t was
through his efforts that a cablegram
was received from the United States
legation in Pekin saying that all it's
members were safe At the time the
authenticity of this cablegram was
very generally questioned; but it was,
subsequently, shown to be genuine,
and somewhat tardily. Minister WI
received the full credit due him for
securing it.
Minister WI is understood to have
for some years past desired to retire
from public life. but it remains to be
seen whether or not the Chinese gov
eminent will permit him to do so. He
will at least carry back with him to
his home in the far off flowery king
dom the best wishes of the American
people.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
cove below Bowker's ship-yard in
Phippsburg.

Two Hampden men who have been
up in Greenfield on pearl fishing ex-
petition were in Bangor recently with
their spoils which, according to the
statement of local jeweler. are worth
several hundred dollars. Pearl fishing
is a most lucrative industry and for
tunes are made in it every year but
the statement above will surprise a
good many people who never supposed
pearls were ever found in Maine. The
pearls found are fresh water pearls, to
be sure, but they are pearls neverthe-
less, and to the inexperienced are quite
ndistinguishable from the oyster pearl.
These men in the short time that they
We're at Greenfield gathered about 200
pearls but only one of two of them are
of any commercial value. The largest
one was shown to local jeWeler Tues
day morning and he stated that 1T was
worth several hundred dollars. There
being no market in Bangor for pearls
of such value, he was advised to send
it to Tiffany in New York.
'"The time is not far away wnen
hydro-electric energy from Maine can
be sold at fair profit as far away as
New York CITY," said a special en-
gineering writer for The Illuminating
Engineer, at Portland club house re-
Gently. "A few years ago the practlc-
able zone for the distribution of hydro
electric energy was one mile. Today
it would be practicable to transfer
hydro electric power from northern
Maine to Philadelphia. Maine is better
circumstanced with respect to large
areas of water sheds that can be de-
pended upon for enormous volumes and
constancy of flOwage than any other
North Atlantic State. The fOrty-fve
parallel crosses Maine within thirty
miles of it's geographical centre. This
position is almost precisely equidistant
from the equator and the North pole,
and ensures through natural causes a
copious ands we'll distributed rainfall
which is not quickly evaporated as is
the case in number of States couth-
ward and westward of Maine. That
great evaporating cauldron, the Gulf
of Mexico, which has an area of $780,,
600 square miles sends an enormous
quantity of vapor into Maine that is
condensed by the cool climate and
precipitated into the river and lake
systems of Maine which have the COM
bned areas of 32,575 square miles, of
which something more than 5000 square
miles are without the bounds of Maine.
observed at Lewiston and several
other places in Maine within few
days, that the mills are hardly cir
cumstanced by low water stages. But
this is due to causes that are rem
ediable by civil engineering, and which
are in nowse due to lack of water re-
serves in Names river and lake sys-
TENS"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
Maine Gossiip
The Parade.

There's long line of tomorrows
That are gettin' under way;
Seine will come in shapes of sorrows;
Others will be bright and gay.
So, sonny, ies' look pleasant.
Don't be gettin' bored or veXed
If you do not like the present
Wait an see what's comm next.
Do not turn your back to listen
To the far-off yesterday.
The days that count are this 'un
An some more not far away
Spectral forms will cause depression;
Beauty next will smile sublime;
But it's all in the procession
That is led by,Father Time
Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

A queer thing about the lies you tell
is how brazen they seem when you
hear somebody else tell the same ones
The reason girl likes to wash her
hair is how romantic it would be to
have a prince catch her drying it al
down in the sun.
No matter how much a woman is
sure a man loves her, she wishes it was
moro so she could ask him to say it in
bigger language.
One great trouble a woman saves
herself by marrying preacher is, how
she doesn't have to nag him to get
him to go to church.-New York Press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

We are sometimes puzzled as to
which would be the worse for Vene-
Zuela, Castro or bubOnic plague
Schenectady Union.
So far as the government of that
country is concerned it would unques-
tionably, prefer the plague.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
llIiteracy in the South.

(ChlbagO Tribune.)
Some of the southern states are con-
sidering compulsory education. In
Alabama with $4,000 children of school
age there are only 10000 white and
5000 colored children in school.
When these conditions are improved
there will be no solid south.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

The English channel having been
ceased to be regarded as the great
natural protection" to the land of
to be. Modern science has pretty we'll
annihilated the barriers of time and
SDace
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
The Same Good Fighter in Any Garb
Chicago TrihuneD

The uniform of the United states
army is to change it's color again. y
generation ago it was blue. This gave
way to khaki, and now the brown is
relegated in favor of olive drab. But
whatever color may cover the Ameri-
can soldier his heart, his loyalty, and
his courage are the same as they were
in rs, in ~, in As. in 81, and in '9S.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

The figures of Dun's Review show
that the failures in the United States
Tor the month of July were HOS, COM
pared with 1882 in July, 1908. The liabil-
tiles totaled So. So. 1893, against s14, 22a, 12e
IN July. 1905. 1t is evident that business
c"noitions are steadily improving in all
parts Of the country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
QepIorable Iaste.

cleveland Plain Dealer)
That E.squiino boy who prefers the
great white way across the ice fields
to the Great White Way of New
York has deplorable taste, from the
New York point of view.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

The Democratic party in New York
is making diligent hunt for the
Elixir of life; but the chances are that
it will continue to slumber in it's po-
ntical tomb for some years to come.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

The Cleveland Plain Dealer fears
that "the chorus girl contingent will
look with disappearing eyes at the in
creased tariff on champagne" but
they are not usually supposed to be the
ones who pay for it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
A Stimulus to Prohibition.

Mrs. Annie BeSant says there1l be
no drinks in the hereafter, but that
the drunkard will carry his horrible
thirst with him. This information
ought to cause the prohibition wave to
get a fresh start.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

The champion fish story comes from
Castinc with every indication of be-
ing a true one. Adner Morey is re-
ported to have recently captured there
a sunfish weighing 600 pounds. The
fish measured seven feet from fin to
fin. 1t is a rare fish to be caught in
Maine waters and was on exhibition
at Sargent's wharf, where it attracted
much attention.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
Nothing New.
(Kansas City Journal.

(Kansas City Journal)
The Michigan discovery that money
may be made from stumDs can hardly
be regarded as original. Colonel
Bryan, for example, has been utiliz-
ing it for thirteen years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

A Kansas town has adopted by
Chowder!" as the strongest expletiva
permitted to be used within it's limits
1t was evidently felt that "Chowder
would imply IA mixture equal to all de-
mandS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

H. Boylston Drummer, the Bingville
Bugle artist of the Boston Post and
George f. Lambert, Jr.. another Bos-
ton artist are touring Maine on their
bicycles, taking pictures fishing and
seeking new material for their papers.
They are staying for few days with
E. Z. Holland while on their way to
the Rangeley and MoOsehead Lakes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

Many American tourists are now on
their way home from Europe who have
never seen much of the United States
and its wonders. outside of their re-
speCtive home cities and towns.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
Banishing the Indian.

Baltimore American.)
If the modest Lincoln could be con-
suited he would probably object to dis
placing Poor Lo from his exalted posi-
ton on the national penny.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

A learned Cleveland Judge has ruled
that dishwashing is no part of hus-
bands duties. If he doesn't look out
he will make himself unpopular with
the suffragettes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

The list of animals reported killed
by EX-PreSident Roosevelt in Africa
contains many names new to the
Geological world, but as yet we have
seen no mention of a Zubelinkus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

The most astounding thing about
Plunger Patten. and the one that diff
ferentiates him from most spectators
Is the fact that he knew when to quit
The new wheat crop bids fair to be a
bumper one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16

Cipriano Castro who made a great
record as a despoier while despot OF
Venezeula has now been given a taste
of his own medicine. Retributive JUS
tice most always overtakes such a man
in time
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
A Peaceful Journey.

While that Presidential trip takes
in 1900 miles of railroad riding, the
prediction may confidently be made
that Mr. Taft will not find it neces-
sary to punch a single dining car
waiter.