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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17
RUSSIAN JAIL HORRORS
Brutal Executions of Men Who Are
Condemned to Death by
Court=Martial.
SUSPENSE OF THE DOOMED.
Member Of the Second Douma, In
p%risoned at sevastopol, Tells of
His Gruesome Surroundings.

A touching letter has been received
second douma, at present imprisoned
at Sevastopol, the essential parts of
which, according to the London Daily
News, are as follows:
"Sevastopol Prison, April 2.-It is
not the first time that l have been a
prisoner nor the first time that l hear
and see what is done within prison
walls, but that which goes on here is
so far beyond the ordinary that the
very recollection of it makes me
speechless with horror.
MANY executions take place here.
During the time I have been here
that is, from the end of last May
more than seventy persons have been
executed. At the present time there
are fifteen persons in the prison
awaiting execution. Ninety others in
this session alone are awaiting SEN
tence. All cases to be tried by court
martial in the government of Taurus
are heard in SevastOpol; hence all
doomed to death are brought together
here from all the ends of the govern
ment and here are executed. Such
executions take place in the courtyard
Of the hospital.
Forced to Witness Execution.
AT times | have to see with ny
own eyes all the horrors, to dash my
self against the walls in impotent
rage, to swear, to Shrek, to knock
- -, 20 1i-tN, 20 +Jl .--rs,,I -.- .
the j~ailers and police, with the police
master at their head. all this time
%crowding the courtyard Of the hos
pital.
Those condemned to death wait
several months for the execution Of
the sentence. Each night they expect
to be taken out, so hat they do not lie
down to sleep until morning comes;
only when il is morning, wearied OUT
and broken with the strain, they sink
down like dead and sleep all day.
But it turns out that they will
hang nobody to-day; it only seemed to
the prisoners that they would. Yet it
is impossible to sleep. The authorities
open the cells and begin to restore
order. Beatings begin; then to pre-
vent shrieking they gag them; they
curse with rich oaths; they take away
bed, soap, sugar, tobacco, etc.
Then the execution must take place
in reality. That is already known
from the evening, for it is seen from
the number of collins brought in how
many persons will be executed at
night.
The knocking of a hammer begins;
they are interfering the criminal; but
to make up for this they fasten. so
tightly that even blood is drawn, his
hands behind his back; they bind his
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17
TO CATCH COUNTERFEITERS.
Roberts Case illustrates How All
Nations Protect Their Money.

Nations Protect Their Money.
The arrest recently of John Rob
erts in Kentucky on the charge of
making counterfeit Mexican national
bank notes is of interest in illustrat-
Ing the manner in which counterfeit
ers are run down in all nations. In
the United States there Is a statute
making it an offense to make Jul
terfeit money of any other nation,
Neither of currency or bank notes. The
offender is tried and punished in this
country. The secret service agents Of
the Treasury Department do not go
outside of the United States to run
down alleged counterfeiters of Ameri-
can currency, but in practically every
country there is a law similar to that
Of this country with regard to makers
of spurious foreign coins. In the event
that a counterfeiter who has made the
illegal money in this country goes to
the country whose currency he has
counterfeited the offender may be ex-
tradited by the American authorities
If they have evidence of the making
of imitation coin in this country.
Owing to the difficulty experienced by
counterfeiters Ia disposing of foreign
imitation money in this country few
cases of this kind have been reported.
Expert money changers usually detect
the imitation money.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17
LITTLE CURTAIN LECTURES.

II you don't care any more for wom-
IN than you're always saying you
don't, why do you become SO mighty
show-offy whene o meet a new
bunch of women? Tell me that, Mis-
ter Crafty!
Therell come a time when you'll be
sorry for treating me as If l were
the dirt under your feet!
Well, you must have been busy do
ing something, for you didn't kill your
self writing while l was away, l must
say.
Why didn't you tell me before we
came out that my petticoat was show
ing beneath my skirt?
If only 1 had my life to live over
again, heaven knows I'd never marry
such a -, ETC., etc.
When I stop to think Of the sacri-
fees I've made all these years, and all
for what? I could cry my eyes out,
deed l could.
Jealous! Who, me? Pooh! If 1
was going to be that silly I'd take
pains I became jealous of somebody!
Well, you're mighty trembly and
grouchy and pale for somebody that
says he's Deer on a fishing trip, that's
all I've got to say.
Well, If you wrote to me every day
I was away, as you claim, then I'm 60
ing to write to the dead letter office
for those letters, that's all!
You'd just love to reduce me to you
own level, but you never shall, so
there!
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17
Church Members Increasing
According to Census Report

Roman Catholic Church all baptised
persons, including infants, are re-
turned as members. In order to rend.
er the figures more nearly comparable
Is per cent has been deducted from
the membership returned from the
Roman Catholic Church to cover those
under 9 years OF age.
Among the Jewish conversations
only heads OF families are reported as
religious body was greatly understat.
ed in the report. The total increase
noted. 1887 $50, Is exclusive of Jew
ish congregations. As to the latter it
is shown that the 1906 total repre-
sents heads of families ouly, while
the 1890 total includes all members.
OF the total number Of members re.
ported 61.6 per cent were returned by
the Protestant bodies, 36.7 per cent by
the Roman Catholic Church. and IL
per cent by all other bodies together.
In 1890 the Protestant bodies report.
ed 6S per cent of the total member
ship; the Roman Catholic Church
30.3 per cent, and all other bodies To-
gether II per cent. The rate Of in.
crease shown for the Roman CAtholto
Church was 93.5 per cent, moro than
twice that for all Protestant bodies
taken together, AS per cent. The
census of 1906 collected for the first
time statistics Of the membership BY
sex. OF the total number of members
returned by e 43.1 per cent were
male and $50 per cent female.
The number of church edifces re-
ported was 1926, an increase since
1890 Of 5o,3Os, or 35.3 per cent. This
represents approximately sixty now
church edifices each week, or eight
each day, for the si~xteen-year period.
The figures show that in tw~enty-nine
states a majority of the members bs-
longed to Protestant bodies, in sixteen
states to the Roman Catholic Church.
and in n state, Utah, to the Latter
Day Saints. The states and terr.
tories for which a majority OF Roman
Catholic members were reported, with
their respective percentages, are:
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

face. The ~jailers rush forward and
lift him up. He begins to kick, to
yell and to howl. Oh, l never have
heard anything like it! l do not know
what bowls like that; there is nothing
human in it, and yet nothing of lie
beast. l have seen how oxen and
sheep and pigs are killed; they bel
low; but this is something different.
A few times more they kick him, they
drag him up with great trouble, they
struggle a little with him.
And all this happens under my
window. I have tried to get myself
to sleep early, lying down at 6 o'clock,
trying to go off to sleep. But this does
not seem to lead to the desired end,
for as soon as they begin to put up
the scaffold a sentry always knocks at
my door, with the warning hat I am
not to go to the window, otherwise
they may fire and send me, without
judgment, into that other world"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

Church membership in the United
States increased from 1927 per cent Of
the population in 1890 to 39.1 per cent
Of the population in 1906, according to
the New York Suns digest of the re-
port Of the census of religious bodies
just issued by the census bureau. The
relative gain in the sixteen years Is,
for Protestant bodies, is per cent; for
Roman Catholic, "A per cent; for all
other bodies together, one|tenth Of 1
per cent. The number of religious de-
nominations in the United States is
given as 1S6, with 212,230 local relig-
ious organizations, 32.s36,445 church
members, and $1,257,575,SG7 invested
in church edifices.
The total for 1906 is 1856 denomina-
tions. against 145 in 1890, an in
crease of Al. The total number OF Or
CARNATIONS covered by the 1906 cen
sus was 212,23O. This is an increase
since 1890 Of 47,O79, or 2S.5 per cent.
The Protestant bodies increased A.
564. or 27.S per cent; the Roman
Catholic Church, 2,243, OR 21.e per
cent; the Jewish congregations, 1926,
or 231.9 per cent, and the Latter Day
Saints, 32S, or 1873 e cent.
The eastern orthodox churches in
creased from two organizations in
1890 to Al in 1906. All other bodies
increased $50, or Ga per cent. OF the
1920 organizations in 1906 the 1874
Protestant bodies reported 1858, or
1922 per cent; the Roman Catholic
Church, 12,42S, or SO per cent, and
the remaining bodies 4,13O, or about
2 per cent. In 1890 there were 1861
ISL organizations, the Protestant
bodies controlling 153,O54, or 92.7 per
cent; the Roman Catholic Church,
1929, or 6.2 per cent, and the re-
manning bodies 1858, or a little more
than / per cent. The general order or
rank Of the principal religious bodies
in 1906, with respect to the number Of
organizations, was:
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

" WY p"NSeA S~NS 'N "NN' ~ I"NHAN' N" -SN SNfu
on shelves. The Washington County library does not wait for readers to
come to it; it sends out a colporteur not only to carry books, but o spread
the gospel Of literature in isolated rural regions.
The ihnerant library, drawn by a pair Of sturdy horses, has become a
familiar sight in the Washington County section of the Blue Ridge. Like
the semiannual appearance of the tin pedders cart, its approach is an oc-
currence quickly heralded throughout the neighborhood. The housewife
throws a sunbonnet over her head, and, followed by ont OF W barefooted
children, runs ut to the roadside Ito see what the gooduatured booknan
has brought o this round. The chickens follow hotfoot certain that such
a commotion an only mean that sone appeuzing dainty is about to be
distributed. In the middle of this scene of domestic activity the iinerant
bookman stops and descends from his lofty seat.
Good day, Mrs. -" says he, as be winds the rdns about the whip
stock. How did you like the last book?'
1T a pretty good. liked that part where it said, To be Or lot to
be, that is the question: That's h lotso of farmers wives feel, |
reckon. l let Mrs. down the cad apiece, take it She sads She liked
the way the wind and thunder and lightning fared around in Macbeth
because it reminded her of the way it flares around Ter house sometimes
She avs it's awful; almost tears tho house off the cellar. l reckon she's
right FOR that's thu way it blows around yere Have you got The Dukes
Revenge? ! heard that book cracked up once. What do you want, Mary?'
addressing the cider Of the We girls.
ccomEuends Good Literature.
II haven't the book you mention" says the book colporteur, opening
the doors of his wagon, but perhaps you would like Marius, the Epi
curean' or Grays Botany The Botany would be interesting. think,
for it describes the plants and flowers, and tells how they grow. Or, if
you val a story there's 'Kenilworth' " A Tale of Two Cities Mary
would like those books, TO- I'm sure
What cities are they-Ealino and Washinton?"
"Oh, {. They are VIC European cities, Paris and London The book
tells about son m people who were mixed up with the French Revolution, and
had m exciting adventures and narrow escapes
Well if you say its bettern The Dukes Revenge I've heard SO much
about l reckon mebbe We us better take it
Here it is" replies the bookman, taking the volume down from the
also. You cal learn something about the flowers a they come along. Mary
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17
FARMERS TO KEEP RECORDS.
Census Director Durnnd's Appeal fol
Accurate Farm Data.

1t will be suggested by U. S. Cen
sus Director Durand to the farmers
all over the country that the work OF
securing accurate returns at the COM
ing census of agriculture will be
greatly facilitated if the farmers will
keep or provide some sort of written
record of their farm operations dur
ing the year 1909. This effort to Sc
cure the farmers personal co-opera-
ton is but one of a number Of ways
and means chosen by Director Durand
in the effort to secure an accurate, ex-
peditious and economical census con-
corning population, agriculture, manu-
features, mines and quarries, which
are the subjects Of inquiry defined in
the census law.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

legs and beat him without cessation.
Guaranteed not to shrek, they carry
him to a cell, a dark room, and throw
him on the floor, where he lies until
the scaffold is ready and the governor
and other authorities arrive.
The collins are brought = and put
near the scaffold. Ready! The con
demned' are carried in like logs. They
are dressed in shirts and drawers;
they are barefoot and trembling from
cold. First, they put them or the
ground, then with caution they unbind
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17
STEAMER SINKING; 400 SAVED.
Duchess of Kent Run Down b,
Transport. Promptly Benched.

Duchess of Kent Run Down b!
Transport, Promptly Reached.
There was an exciting scene at the
mouth of Portsmouth harbor, Eng
land, the other afternoon when the
Isle of Wight steamer Duchess OF
Kent was run down by a government
transport. There were four hundred
passengers on board the Duchess and
Immediately after the collision she be-
gan to fill rapidly. The captain head
ed her for the shore and she was
promptly beached. All the passengers
got ashore safely. Many of them
Jumped as the steamer neared the
shore and waded to dry land rather
than wait for the boats.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

Persian gulf region holds the rec.
ord for heat.
Servia's parliament is known as the
"Skupstchina."
Food commodities in Belgium have
risen 90 per cent.
An inch Of rainfall represents 100
tons of water to the acre.
Mexico has a brewery which has an
nual receipts of $4,000, 900.
Yearly immigration into Canada is
~one-fortieth Of her population.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

Having reached the age OF 62 yearA
Rear Admiral C. S. Sperry has been
placed on the retired list of the navy.
The admiral is now engaged with the
Newport conference at the wal college
and will continue in that duty until
work which he has mapped out When
this is finished, it is expected he will
retire from active service. The ad.
miral's last important sea command
was that Of the Atlantic fleet, which
he brought from San Francisco by way
of the Pacific Ocean and the Suez
Canal to Hampton roads. He reached
the rank at which he was retired
about three years and three months
ago..
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17
KILLS MOTHER AND SELF.
4 outh Who Was Denied Money with
Which to Marry Dies.

Which to Marry Dies.
A week after numbering his moth
er because she had refused him money
with which to marry, George Simons,
a young civil engineer, shot and killed
himself in the home Of his sweetheart,
Viola Hartranft, in Pottsville, Pa. ST.
mons slept for a week in a room ad-
Joining that in which he had conceal
ed the body Of the slain woman After
killing his mother he carried the body
to a room on the third floor of the
house. Covering it with quicklime,
he screwed fast the door and filled the
cracks with parafin to make it appear
a solid wall. He put up a sign with
the word Paint" on it, so that none
would touch the door. When he killed
himself, Simons was not ever under
suspicion for the crime.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17
PROVERBS AND PHRASES.

Praise a fine day at night.-Irish.
There is a witness everywhere
Greek.
Emulation plows, and rivalry reaps.
Irish.
The sweetest grapes hang highest.
Spanish.
The remembrance Of past labor is
sweet.-Irish.
Woe to him who Is alone when he
fAlfeth.-German.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17
LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING

The average life of a mouse is three
years.
A watch is composed of n~inety-eight
pieces.
In Japan dresses are bought by
weight.
There are e~ighty-six annual holidays
in Russia.
The Erzberg, Austria's iron noun
tain. will furnish ore for 1000 more
years.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17
AEROPLANIST FALLS IN LAKE.
Picked Up by Launches After At
tempt to Cross Ontario.

tempt to Cross Ontario.
c. Foster Willard. in the aeroplane
Golden Flyer, made his first attempt to
cross Lake Ontario from Toronto,
Thursday night, but a sudden increase
of wind and trouble with the ballast
made the machine dip its bows at a
terrific pitch and he fell to the water
when about three-quarters of a mile
from the shore. He was picked up by
the launches which had been waiting
to see the attempt. The %aeroplane left
the land at about Ills and appeared
to be completely under control. 1t
went at a terrific pace, at a height of
about thirty to fifty feet. Another at
tempt to cross the lake will be made
as soon as the repairs are completed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

Dynamite Cap Starts Fatal Fire.
During d EIe at the oil plant of the
Atlantic Refining Company at Point
Breeze, Pa, Neal OGara was burned
to death. It is believed that a dyna-
mite cap passing through a coal crush
er exploded, starting the fire.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

them, freeing their legs from the ropes
and stand them on their feet.
AT this time there is a noise in the
prison, the funeral march is sung, sol
diers run about giving orders to be
silent. All this, as is to be expected,
raises up in the criminal the desire to
live, to live at all costs. He falls on
his knees. weeps. prays, tries to kiss
the peoples hands.
Resists Until the End.
The eXecutioner comes and puts his
hand on his shoulder; he falls on his
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17
Town Floodcd; GOO Dead.

Disastrous floods have overwhelmed
the town and vicinity of Besoeki, in
Southeast Java. 1t is estimated that
GOO persisted. Railway bridges have
been swcp away and damage to prop
erty and crops is enormous.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

E~pidemics of cholera always travel
from east to west.
The Arctic air is very favorable for
the transmission of sound.
Nine days sickness per annum is
the average for the human being.
Corn is our greatest crop, that Of
1908 being valued at S1,616, 000. 900.
Envelopes were invented in 1888,
and were in d%isfavor for a long time.
pines are two and one-half feet long.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

A German is bringing to America a
circus of trained ants. The insects
throw somersaults, make pyramids,
dance, .wrestle and fence.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

Nebraska Experiment Station has
kept a careful record for ten years of
milk COWS, and they report a net prof
it of $40 from each cow a year.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

Cut a chip of camphor. light it, and
set it OF a basin of water, when it will
continue to burn and float until it is
consumed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

In two stater-W-cmi1g and Colo
radc-a III sGst proportion, although
not a majority of the members, were
Roman Catholics, and in n state.
Idaho, the largest proportion were
Latter Day Saints.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

In 1S47 postage stamps were frs
used in the UniteC States.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

England spends $4,000, 900 a year
for eggs and poultry, for one-halt OF
which she is dependent on foreigners.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

The Methodist bodies reported 30.5
per cent of the entire number of or
CARNATIONS and the Baptist bodies
25.9 per cent. Thus these two families
embraced considerably more thai one
half of the organizations in the
United States. 1t is stated that in all
Protestant bodies the membership is
practically adult membership. In the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

On cigarettes to the value Of s6..
100000 smoked in Spain last year, the
government made a profit Of e..
500, 900.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

The entire native population Of 81
IBERIA does not exceed 700, 900.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

The infant death rate Of the fash.
ionable end of London is 1 per cent
while that Of the East End is SO peI
rent
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

Submarine cables cost $4,000 a mile
to lay. and the length Of their life
Is between thirty and forty years.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

In 4 favorable wind . fox can scent
. man one-quarter Of . mile away.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17
AIIBRARY on
WHEELS

HE development of the free circulating library is one of the
outstanding features Of this age. Mr.. Carnegie and others
have scattered libraries so freely throughout the land that
there is now scarcely a town or village that has not some
sort of a library. But it has remained for the Washington
County library of Hagerstown, Md, to develop the limit OF
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-17

Methodists ........... .........64,70 FOL
Baptists ......... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Presbyterians ............. ....15,506
Roman Catholics ...............12,4S2
Disciples or Christians ........10,942
Protestant ~Episcopalians ....... 6.S45
Congregationalists ...... ....... Sis
Evangelical Association ........ 2,73S
United Brethren 4,3O4
1855
AdVentlsts .........
Jewish congregations ........... l,769
Christians christian connection) 1879
German Evangelical synod ..... 1905
Latter Day Saints ............ 1854
Friends ......... ............. 1,147
Dunkards ......... ............ 1907
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-15
MOTOR FIRE ENGINE
 FOR USE IN ENSLEY
Fire Committee Will Recom-
 mend Purchase of One
HUMANE SOCIETY REPORT
Busy Meetings of Lodges in Steel City. Annual Meeting of First Bap- tist Church-Personal
 and General.

Ensley, September 14.-(Special)- The fire committee. Mayor Sugg and Chief of Fire Department Joe Tetlow, met tonight at the mayors office with the representa- tives of the Seagrave Motor Fire Engine company of Co., lumbus, o. and the Webb Motor com pany of Vincennes. Ind. The fire com mittee has already recommended to the city council the purchase of motor fire engine and tonight met for the purpose of making a selection, if the committee makes a choice they will advise the city council at the next meeting and recommend purchase. There seems to be some difference of opinion as to the advisability Of motor fire engine at this time, it be- ing claimed that the machines have not yet passed the joy riding" stage and are not practical. It is claimed however. that they are being used in many large cities and are proving very satisfactory.
 From what could be learned tonight the fire committee will recommend the purchase of a motor Ire engine at the next meeting of the city coun- oil.