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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
BETTER CANNED MUSIC.
New Automatic Piano Player the
Invention Of an Australian

New Automatic Piano Player the
Invention of an Australian.
Consul George b.. Killmaster OF New.
castle, Australia, furnishes the follow
ing information relative to the in
vention of a new piano player by an
engineer of that city:
The plans for the mechanism were
drawn by the inventor, a large por-
ton of the front of the piano used
having beer taken out and remade in
order to fit the player. The instru-
ment consists of a piano player mech
anism on novel lines, fitted into the
interior of a German piano. There is
the usual opening in the front of the
upper part of the case, where the mu-
sic roll is inserted.
In front of the keyboard space has
been found for the controlling mechan-
ism. This is arranged on a unique
system, which enables the operator
to instantly emphasize any note or
chord, no matter in what part Of the
music roll it occurs This is effected
by four little pistons or buttons under
the fingers of the left hand, while the
right hand controls the tempo and
sustaining pedal, the latter being op-
Grated pneumatically. Amy graduation
of tone, from the lightest pianissimo
to the loudest forte, can be obtained
from any part OF the roll INDEPENDENT
ly of any other part, by simply press
ing, more or less, the particular but
ton corresponding to hat part of the
music roll.
1t is said that more expression can
be obtained than with many other
of the mechanical players. The tempo
is under complete control and the tone
Is soft and tuneful.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10

are held for the posts of hall crier.
hall constable, hall postman n hall
s~cavengers. The genial brutality of
youth often selects for the position of
hall crier either the most nervous bow
in the school or one who is afflicted
with a stammer.
The new boy in the schoohouse at
Rugby is early called upon to take his
part in "house singing" At this func.
ton, which is held in one Of the dor.
mitories, he has to render a to
the satisfaction of his audience, the
penalty being the swallowing of a
mouthful Of soapy water.
Another ancient school custom is the
parade Of the Christ's hospital blue
coat boys before the Lord Mayor at
the Mansion House on st. Matthew's
day, when the 'Grecians," who CORE
spond to sixth formers elsewhere, re-
ceive a guinea each and the rank and
file Of the school are presented with
new shillings.-London Mail.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10

A little wound, a little ache,
A little blistered thumb to take
With touch Of love and make it we'll
These things require a mothers spell.
All, sweet the progress Of the skill
That science brings unto h i'll!
Vast range Of methods new and fine;
But when u little ones repine,
The mother is the very best
OF doctors into service prest!
Sunshine and air and mothers spell
OF helping little lads get well,
And helping little ~lassies, too
Here are three remedies that do
So much more, often. than the grave,
Skilled hands that try so hard to save.
For DR.. Mother, don't you know,
Gives something more than skill
gives SO
Much Of herself; oh, SO much
OF loves sweet alchemy Of touch!
Upon a little ward-room bed
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
Shoemaker. Candles.

1 we'll remember some seventy year,
ago seeing fiat candles in use. To
produce what was known as the nat
candle, which was also sometimes
called "shoemaker's CANDLE" two new
ly-made dips" were pressed close to
each other while soft and then again
lowered into the hot fat, thus holding
them together As candle with two
wicks. The size could then be In
creased IL desired. This flat candle
was most generally used by shoemak-
ers and tailors. but wal made 8 Of
in some~ households whenever an ex-
ira bright light for working or Rad
ing was required..Cor. Dickensian.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
NOON.

Charmed into silence lay
The forest. dimly lit;
No wine that summe day
Moved the least leaf of It.
No choric branches stirred
Its calm profound and deep,
Nor voice of any bird,
But silence dreamed like sleep.
Like dew upon the grass
1t fell upon my soul;
Loosed it to soar and pass
Beyond the stars control.
Vague memories it woke,
Shapes far too frail for touch;
And then the silence broke:
Lest l should learn too much.
Frederic Manning. in the Atlantic.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
A little curl-encircled head,

A little curl-encircled head,
A little slender hand and pale,
A little lonesome, homesick wall,
Loved nursing best of skill and care.
But oh, behold the wonder there
When DR.. Mother, bearing
From where the winding roses run,
Leans down with hungering low and
kiss!
There is no medicine like this!
In little child-heart's hour Of woe,
Rain, ache or life-wound's throb and
throe
The DR.. Mother knows so we'll
The weaving of loves wonder-spell-
Just what the little heart requires;
Just how to cool the fever fires;
Just how much tenderness and cheer
vii calm the little doubt, and fear:
How much of tenderness will ease
Alone h knows such arts as these!
Baltimore Sun.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10

always a big percentage Of mortality. This new a1Iment
begins with a fever. Is succeeded by vomiting and sharp
pains of the stomach and completes its evil work by at
lacking the spinal cord, causing a paralysis of the legs
and other muscle groups. The suffering, when death
does not ensue, usually lasts for several weeks; then 1t
goes away, but the paralysis continues. So far, it does
not appear to be contagious. as frequently only one child
in a large family will be attacked. There is hardly any
doubt, though, of it's being infectious. Up to this time
no child has recovered the use of its limbs, and the doc
tors are at their wits ends trying to find the cause Of
the disease and it's cure.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10

spend?" Quite as frequently it is the question, Can /
afford to saver" Wisdom is necessary to the answer
Ing. .n
Wasting at the spigot and saving at the bung" is
one of the old, old SMILES which approximates the meat
of the whole question of saving. Each man must ask
himself how much and when and where he shall save.
But wisdom and experience must dictate the satisfac-
tory answer.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
MYSTERIOUS DISEASE AMONG CHILDREN.
By DR.. Howard L. M

A mysterious new disease designated by
the profession as "infantile paralysis has
lately been spreading among the very young
children of Kansas. Iowa and Nebraska. Inc
disease, though suggestive In some of its
phases of meningitis, must not be confounded
with that more malignant malady. Few of
the babies that have been affected with pa
ralvsis have died, but in meningitis there is
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
WHY THE UNIVERSE WILL NEVER DIE,
BY r. O.. HenkeI

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% On philosophic grounds Herbert Spencer was
III convinced there must be cycles of growth and
A1 decay in the evolution of the universe. More
MI over, 1t may be asked, how is it that the uni
~ verse is not dead already? If it has existed
4 from eternity there has been an infinite time
for this dissipation to take place. On the
LRA other hand, we may say that nothing what
@1 ever can be postulated, as to an infinite uni
verse at all, except that it be infinite, the dissipation of
Its energy must take an infinite time, and so the death
Of the universe will never come off at all.
Though it is true that the suns of the universe are
growing colder by radiation, this radiant energy is alb
sorbed and preserved by the dark stars, and the nebula
at low temperature. OF recent years it has been shown
that the quantity of dark and family luminous matter
in the part of the universe which alone we can reach
with our telescopes is far greater than was formerly
supposed to be the case. Photographs Of regions of the
sky taken after long exposures have revealed the exist
ence of nebulous matter utterly unknown before.
Under the influence of gravitation matter tends to
concentration in vast centers, but this is counteracted
by the scattering action of the light pressure. This
idea Of the balancing of contrary tendencies is ancient,
and we we'll remember being told of the two forces, at.
traction and repulsion, by which the world is kept go
ing The philosCphic notion is at least as old as Arts.
totle. Solar systems are evolved from nebula; nebu1ae
in their turn are produced by the collision of suns"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
1Qfldew.

An easy method Of removing mil
dew is to place the article in a warm
sven for q few moments and then
brush 1t.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
The Gossfp.

Nell-She's an awful gossip. She
tells everything she hears.
Belle-Oh, she tells more than that.
Philadelphia Record.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10

MISS MARGERY CUNARD. X
The engagement Of h noted London beauty, Mss Margery Cunard.
to Robert v. Earcourt of London, has been announced. Mss Cunard is In
granddaughter If thu founder Of the famous Cunard steamship lines, Sir
Samuel Cunard, and the daughter OF Sir Cunards second son. Mr.. Har-
short, is a halfbrother of Lulu Earcourt. the Minister of Works in the
present English government, N husband of Miss Mary Ethel Burns Of New
York. Mrs Harcourt, sr, "a also n American. the daughter Of L.
Motley, at n time American Minister to Iondon, n author Of the famous
history of the Dutch republic
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
The Penalty.

LOOK At Cook and Peary botl
sanding there with their purses ops1j
What an .fhav doanp7r
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10

piano or to sing as a part of her education, which
has been ornamental rather than useful. But music
has a function of much grandeur and dignity to fu1hl.
The old Greeks knew this and used music to cure dis
ease, to calm troubled spirits, to purify and uplltt the
mind. Their ideas are reviving. The therapeutic value
of sweet sounds and harmonies is being appreciated.
And the power of music to convey subtle and exalted
thought is being realized. "Music begins where words
leave off"
All the woman nature which lay dormant to a de-
gree, unutilized, unrecognized, misunderstood through
the base. british ages, is now awakening and beginning
to energize in the gentler times when its subtle power
and sweetness have a legitimate place.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10

The youth who can AFFORD . motor
boat doesn't haYa to padd2a hia ON
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10

Don't bank on the veracity Of any
nemaa III ITALIA man ha II hand.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
WOMAN NOW COMING INTO HER OWN.
By Ada May krecker

This is woman's age in part because it is
an age when the finer forces that women use
and the sweeter ideals that they love are be-
ing valued by the world. In a word, the spir-
itual and the esthetic forces were latent In
cruder ages, but now are beginning to operate.
Music has been a costly indulgence, a soft
pleasure, with little, If any, hard work to do.
Every girl has been expected to play the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SAVE MONEY?
By john A. Rowland

Almost universally the knowledge of how to
save enters into the modern formula for sue
cess, and the question of method and ways
and means to saving is open to discussion. If
Keeping every possible piece of money COM
ing into ones possession may be miserliness,
there must be some phase Of saving that is
reprehensible.
In my experience of men l have seen
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10

enough examples of arrested business development
brought about by early savings to bring the point
strongly home to me. Through boarding earnings and
perhaps making a few early ventures in speculative
chances that proved successful, many a young man has
acquired a bank account that was beyond his capacity
to APPRECIATE. His normal friends, looking on with both
envy and admiration, have helped him to lose his head.
His precocious pride has been pricked until the thought
of chance of losing that which he has accumulated be-
comes impossible to him. The spirit of the miser is
aroused in him. Whatever his business ability may
have been, it is arrested in its development.
Everywhere, in every phase of life, the experienced,
thoughtful person is confronted with the problem Of
saving. 1t isn't wholly the question, Can I afford to
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10

fire with eyes that saw nothing. The
banging of the front door reused her
from her reverie, and rising from her
chair she flung her arms above her
l.aal a.al LII IL xea.ilr
Evening star., 1909-08-28
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has done her worst Never have there
been such extremes adopted by fashion
able women as the present yelling season
has disclosed. Frequently sty.e is at
tractive from it's pure startling qualities.
Many of the dots in the Partisan wells
range from one-half to an inch in size.
The fine thread foundation of the veil
is so tiny that startling checkerboard
effect is gained when the veil is worn
The opening between the dots and blocks
are in diamonds of different sizes and
shapes. One is bound to wonder IL
Americans will adopt this fad for start
ling veis that have appealed strongly
TO the French women this season. 1t is
not to be doubted that in New York and
the larger cities there will be a larger
number who will follow where Paris has
led but one always finds great comfort
Evening star., 1909-08-28

pEf1S are nrSt III the Hst oI TIC
important accessories 10 my
~ lady's toilet. She is Of neces-
sity particular about the kind
and variety of wells she pur-
chases She must have sufficient num-
Der. for II is impossible to wear soiled
one, and they must be either washed
or renewed entirely. There is nothing
that adds SO much TO a womans at
tractiveness and beauty a becoming
veil. Indeed, that is one of its main ex-
cuses for living. 1t is sometimes said
that a veil is worn to protect the COM
plexion and to keep the hair in place,
but beauty lotions now take care of the
former and hair nets see that each hair
is in its correct marcel wave and has not
trespassed on the wave of its neighbor,
SO then beauty is the first qualification Of
the veil
Automobiling wells are large feature
OF the motoring costume for much of
the beauty of such costumes depends
upon the harmony of the veil with the
rest of the toilet 1t is a matter upon
which one should spend sufficient time to
insure the purchase of just the right
material. the right shade the right length
and then sufficient time should he put
upon the matter of properly adjusting
the veil TO the hat.
The present shapes of hats and trim
mings lend themselves particularly well
to the new lace veiis which are having a
large vogue. They are extremely snappy
looking. but the woman who wears one
OF these princess chantilly lace wells
must have her entire toilet absolutely
up 10 the mark. and in keeping with the
elegance of her veil. OF the lace wells
the chantilly and princess laces are the
favorites Chantily wells come in large
pattern effects. like the wells which were
the fad in the spring. Ii is the abso-
lutte novelty which makes a veil of this
sort popular. and as soon as the novelty
begins to wear off the fad is replaced by
something more sane.
by eccentricity. Indeed, the patterns run
10 such an extreme that one is rather
inclined 10 believe that Dame Fashion
Evening star., 1909-08-28
Black NeCktie Fad.

EVEN the unobservant must have no.
l. ticed the recurrence of black neck
ties on smart costumes this summer
With the Dutch collars are worn fiat
pump bows of black velvet or silk and
often a jabot of lace or embroidery lawn
falls below. Black ties also give cachet
to colored linen frocks and even to white
cos umes. often one of these crisp black
ties being used with dangling jet ear
rings and huge black hat. The touch
of black Just beneath the chin is most
becoming, and frequently makes a dead
white frcck possible TO even a woman of
sallow complexion.
Evening star., 1909-08-28

alluring and interesting with this head
gear.
Colored wells are much used in Paris.
the tone of the veil matching the hat.
Pervenche, that charming new shade-a
cross between a wood violet and azure
blue, with hat and veil. is one of the
favOrites. These colors come In the
heavy mesh yelling, well as the mod
est patterns Wells should match the hat
in coloring. Sometimes they are bought
with the end In view of matching the
stockings, hat, gloves and handbag.
White yeis are smart with black and
white, and all black hats. otherwise the
wells must match the hats absolutely.
There can be no swerving from this rule.
There are two fashionable styles of ad-
justing the face wells in Paris. One is
to let the veil droop from the hat like a
curtain. and this gives a most startling
effect in the Russian net yelling, or in
the white or colored princess and chan
tilly lace yelling. an effect accentuased
when the hat is large. This mode of ad-
justing wells was followed almost ex-
clusively at the recent races in Paris.
The veil was first arranged in several
charming little folds under the chin. and
then it was stretched plainly over tire
face. The fullness in the folds under the
chin broadened out toward the wide roll
ing brim of the hat and gave an effect
OF shirring. 1t is new and extremely
smart to wear ones veil this way. and
it has the advantage of being the APP
proved Partisan method. The shadow ef
feet of the neck and chin obtained by
this arrangement of the veil is most be-
coming.
At the smart horse shows around New
York-at Tuxedo, Bayshore. White Sui
phur Springs-the women seemed to pre-
fer the curtain mode of wearing their
wells. Many beautifully gowned fashion
able women at Bayshore wore the chan
tilly lace wells adjusted curtain style. Oc-
casionaly one saw the small mesh with
the large soft dots. but the laces pre-
dominated.
This loose method of arranging the veil
follows the heeis of the tightly ad
justed veil a natural sequence, for
fashion must waver from one extreme to
the other. As the Palm Beach season in
February came on. wells got looser and
looser, until the curtain mode of adjust
ment Is now the result. One can remem-
Der not so very long ago when wells were
worn this very way. 1t is but another
illustration of the fact that there is moth
ing new under the sun.
There Is much qualification in the fact
that no widow, it matters not how grief
stricken she lis. ever thinks any more OF
shrouding herself in voluminous mass
of crepe If ones entire family should
die il would not be necessary to put on
Evening star., 1909-08-28
NOTES AND NOVELTIES.
A Pretty French Perfume Notion

a Fretty French Perfume Notion.
A PARIS perfume shop is offering a
: dainty conceit that will make the
most delightful Christmas gift to the
woman who loves delicate perfumes.
Les Muses. Is printed in gold letter
ing on the outside of the pretty box.
Inside are three tiny bottles with cut
glass shoppers, each bottle being triangu-
lar In shape and the three triangles fit
ting into a perfect circle. The three
perfumes are labeled respectively Poesee,
Evening star., 1909-08-28

Not SO many buttons are used on the
tailored out-of-door garments for this
fall, but the buttons that are used are
very handsome. 81 and So being often
asked for single button by the manu-
facturers. One may imagine how sub
stantial will be the cost of coat bearing
half dozen of these expensive button
ornaments.
Lines are as beautiful and as simple as
they have been for the past two seasons,
Tor couturiers, after working hard and
perSstently to establish La Ligne will
not sacrifice it for any evanescent Louis
style period. So the gay Louis effects
which are already making themselves felt
In tailored garments show themselves
Evening star., 1909-08-28

Much braiding will be used. chiefly in
fiat, panel effects and large motifs. Frogs
and passementerie ornaments are also
shown on the dressier models, sometimes
loops of cord Stimulating buttonholes for
huge buttons of jet in jewel effects.
These jewel buttons. with colored stones
set in rims of dull silver or bronze metal.
are very smart, and one of the coats
shown to6ay has these handsome jeweled
buttons. This coat is part of a three
piece suit of blue chiffon velvet-a ma
terial that is to replace satin for very
dressy wear. The high, gauntlet cuffs
and the long revers are of MORE silk
another ultra smart material for the
coming season.
This coat shows the low front opening
Evening star., 1909-08-28

These big coats are very warm as the
temperature drops decidedly when one is
soaring through cloud banks or upper air
currents. topcoat by Druihle. which
appeared at the Stella Club of Women
Balloonists the other day was of raisin
purple camelshair in a coarse diagonal
weave with elaborate braidings in self
color. These braidings were put on in
broad panels and lin huge pocket forms,
the skirt of the coat falling in side plaits
below these pocket patterns. Many of the
topcoats have belts at the hip, the skirt
hanging in plaits from this point; and
there are Moyen-age coats with panels
at back and front and plaits from the hip
down at the sides of the garment.
Hip and underarm trimmings are the
fad this fall. as we'll curious cross
cut effects, many of the smart French
coats being put together in geometrical
sections. Such a coat, built by Solovici.
is of melange-or mixed homespun-and
is cut in so many sections. one Tapped
over the other, that the back looks like
an architects plan. Two of these sec
tions extend around to the front in belt
fashion, one at the hips and the other