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The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-04-30
N. P. Rumors.

The presence of gang OF SUR
veyors at Fort Yates has gwen
strength to the runner that the
Northern Pacific will build line
OF railroad from Mandan n ID.
to Sioux City Iowa Parties from
the Fort who where here this
week declare that the grading has
already been commenced out Of
Man9an and that the grade stakes
are set as far as Fort Yates.
Should this prove to be the
case in all probability the line
would cross the Missouri at this
place and Mobridge would be q
division point on the road. Il
is just about one hundred miles
to Mandan and the advantages
to be derived from having IN
abundance of pure water for the
engine Strengthens the supposition
that 4 division would be made
here.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-04-30
BrOOkings' Electric Line
States Ex.Food Commissioner
Credited WITH Being at the
Head Of the Enterprise.

slattx Fairs islgS =.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17

Some new Rugs which have recently arrived known as Quaker Handmade Rugs" They are wov- of strips of felt in geometrical designs of varied color combinations, and will serve well for mer bedrooms and sitting The extremely neat and clean looking checks pleasure to the eye. $15O each.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17
The American Youth.

If the truth were told most young American men are not especially inter esting. They do not keep up their reading. They have a national ob- tundity when it comes to music, to art, to literature, nor do many of them take any of these things at all serious ly. The young among them are not good conversationalists. Our cleverest men are monologists pure and simple. They lecture admirably. They are born orators along modified lines. They are inevitable story tellers. None of this is conversation, and women like conversation, like it's courtesies, which at least pretend a little interest when their turn comes in the game. Knowl- edge of people and affairs outside our own country bricks more than one bubble about our young men.-Anna A. Rogers in Atlantic.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17

The livery stable canine is a most industrious digger of holes. The the ory is that he is going to lie down in the hole he digs, but he does no such thing. He goes and lies down right in the middle of the sidewalk, where people will have to step over him. He will never, get out of anybody's way. He even lies down in the middle of the street and tries to make carts, wagons and automobiles avoid him.
 He doesn't enjoy as large q vocab- ulary as the powder puff or skigums dog. A phrase like Does ums want ums ftty bass?' would scare him to death. His advantages have not been such as to acquaint him with such hifalutin talk, but he does know few simple phrases like "Gft to blazes out of here, you darned pestv He under stands that perfectly.-Puck.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17
TIDES AND FISHING.
Fish Are More Active In Search For
 Food on the Flood Tide.

Fish Are More Active In Search For
 Food on the FIosd Tide.
 The most essential thing in sea fish ing, next to tackle and bait, is a tide table, because all marine fishes ex- cept the 1atfish-founder and fuke- are captured more readily at a certain tide. The main cause for such is that fish are more active in their search for food generally on the flood tide.
 Vast schools of little fishes 'move close into shore on the incoming tide, working their way into the smaller bays and inlets, especially near the edge of banks, where they feed on the small crustaceans, shrimps and lit tie minnows that can effectually hide from their larger enemies when the tide is low and the large fish are un- able to get at them in very shoaI wa terS.
 It is a common and interesting sight to see a school of weakfish slowly moving in near the surface with the early tide. Suddenly one sees the smooth surface all in commotion. Sil- very minnows leap frantica1ly in all directions, looking like flashes of dia- monds, then instantly disappear to cer- tain death. At such times anglers should be ready with their boat trimmed snug. lines out floating forty feet away, batted with live shrimps.
 Tide affects bottom feeders, though not to such a large extent. Fishing from piers and docks an hour before and after flood is most likely to give good results. On wrecks much de bends on the kind of fish. The last of the ebb and at low tide is considered the worst condition for general fish ing. In the open sea, on the banks, tidal influence counts for little or noth- ing. Any tide is as good as another- Outing Magazine.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17

The newest Motor Scarfs are of yard wide china silk very soft and sheer and very lustrous The colors shaded for instance pink shades from pink ish cream to deep $3.5O.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17

The Mahogany Bed shown with the above mattress is unique in style of fashion seldom in wood. It is made like brass bed with posts and square col ad te d t aGe y less heavy and cumbersome than the ordinary Mahog any bed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17
DiscipIinel

From the class room occupied by the toughest boys in the Sunday school came a great uproar. A secretary in the next room went to investigate. Complete silence followed the opening of the class room door.
 "Have you a teacherF'
 'No."
 "Do you want oneT' ''No."
 "Then be quiet or you'll get one." Result, comparative peace.-Manches- ter Guardian.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17
THE LIVERY STABLE DOG.

Some Ways In Which He Differs From
 the Fashionable Pets.
 The common livery stable dog is to- tally unlike the powder puff" or ''toots and skigums" dog, but his dis position is infinitely better. To lie on cushion and growl and snap at the hand that would caress it is considered the height of folly in the livery stable variety.
 The livery stable dog approaches you ingratiatingly and offers you a dirty paw to shake. After you have shaken it he solemnly gives you the other Then he crawls up in your lap and ncks you on the month.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17
The D. M. Read Go,
Ruflfurd B. Smith lO72 Main St. DEPARTMENT STORE, 89 Fairfield Av.
 1.-THE STORE AHTICLEs-
ALL THE WEEK
 BARGAINS

Our 61ac Heavy Unbleached Muslin, 20 yards for $1.OO.
 Seventy-ffve cent BIeached Sheets. Very heavy muslin. Very large size, 5Sc.
 Fifty new kinds Bridgeport Postals finished in several cOlors. By far the best yet shown, 1c each, 1Oc dozen. Fifty cent Nickel Bicycle Horns,29c. 5xS Porch Screens, 58c.
 Screen Wire, all widths, to 1Sc yard.
 At 1c, 1Oc dozen, Big, Round, Fancy Pocket Fans.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17
Spelling.

On a member of parliament being accused of bad spelling Disraen hu- morously defended him by declaring that "a man must be an idiot who could not spell word more ways than one"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17
The D. M. Read Go.
 Established 1857.
Or interest to Shoppers
EstabAsbed 1857.

The unusual and attractive window exhibit of bed room fittings interests every householder. The mat tress is stuffed with white har-extra super white drawings large sacks of which open for inspection and before being made into it's clean of fancy ticking this hair has been perfectly sterilized and made free from every objectionable substance. For it's pure cleanliness and comfort giving qualities this mattress exces any made. It is of grat ifcation to everyone to know that the mattress which he sleeps is all right These worth at the regular market price, $5OOO To introduce it offer it at $35.OO.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17

beautiful Evening Scarf is long lacey web of fancy Tosca net which has peculiar mesh. Woven
 figures it in graceful design and the ends ter minate in deep knotted fringe. One yard wide two yards long, and very effective in white pale shades
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

p the young nan himself and not
upon the influence his father may
have created for him."
when will you retire from the ac-
tivities of ~business?" Mr.. Patten was
asked prior to his departure for home.
Not very soon." he replied. 81 am
good for many more years. To-day |
met a man go years old selling puts
and calls on the market. Business is
his very life. We Pattens are long
livers and | see years of activity
ahead, if | have my health.
Retire and live abroad? Not il |
know myself. | have been in Europe
four or five times, but each time |
came home with a higher opinion OF
my own country.
Then, too. l like Evanston. My
relatives are all out there. ! belong
to that part of the world. l am salts
fed with my present home near Chi
cago and l am neve going to change
it. People in New York don't really
live, for they have not the home life
and if you want me to tell your boys
how to succeed best. | should say for
them to locate in some place where
they can have proper home life"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
Wins Prize by Eating Sc Ears of Corn

dous task, one of the conditions being
that every ear should not be less than
eight and not more than nine inches
long, and should measure not less
than five o more than five and one.
half inches around the butt. To OBJ
tain a supply conforming to these
qualifications more than $4,000 Ears
were examined by ten men.
Figured or a minimum measure
ment the winner consumed 504 inches
of corn, or AZ feet, equal to more than
seven times his own weight. AT the
end of the contest he stated that he
could have eaten at least a dozen
ears more, but al he had beaten all
competitors he preferred to save
room for something else. He closed
his achievement by consuming three
chops, three boiled eggs and six cups
of coffee.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
All of Their IL Children Born on Water

son & Downs of l Broadway.
When seen on his boat Capt. We'd
ders vas seated on the back porch"
Surrounding him were a dozen or
more captains of other barges moored
near by, as well as several of the d.
rectorate of the power house of the
immigration bureau.
Yes" said Capt. Vedders. I'm the
a They're doing fine. It's a boy
and we're going to name him Freder-
lex Ellis Vedders, just to show how
much we think of this island.
why of course, I'm not at all
bashful. I've had IL of EN-, all born
on either coal or ice boats, and, bar
ring two who died when they were ba-
bies, they never SAN the inside of a
drug store or had a doctor at their
tongues.
my youngsters have been the hus-
kiest lot you w saw. The three
oldest girls married barge captains
themselves. and the two oldest boys
have got their own boats now. Funny
thing, too, we're all working for the
same firm
Say, pa" interjected James We'd
ders, aged II. Frank got sick once
and ma had to give him some medi-
cine"
Eyes, kid" replied his father, but
that was because you mother took
him off a safe canal boat and went up
on one of those risky merry-go-rounds
in Central park.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
Who Slew Thomas, a Market Mystery

mystery to the bitter end. Granting
that the cat was dead, there remained
only the simple discovery yet to be
made, i. e., why was the cat dead?"
Here" he unused, I'VE have the
effect, and for every effect there must
be a cause. 1t is the cause we want
now, or words to that effect"
Then Walter Moore hit upon 9 the
DRY that he was certain would put an
end to the cloud of mystery that en-
veloped the market. He was saunter-
ing carelessly Gro the floor when
he discovered several flour brokers
at their oven baking bread. The flour
traders have a stove on the floor in
which they make bread.
1t was this scene that gave Mr..
Moore the clew upon which he relied
to clear up the crime.
"Ah, hal" he said to himself (detec-
tives always say "Ah, ha!"). "Ah.
hal" he repeated, "the cat ate of the
brokers' bread. That explains the
look of horror ON it's face"
Calling a cab, he dashed madly
across the exchange floor and found
the %janitor.
"Pish! tush!" he said in a low
voice, mot a word. Come and give
me the corpse Of the cat. 1t was
killed by eating a biscuit baked by a
broker, and / will prove it," he
Kissed. Il will have the chemical de-
partment hold an autopsy and if we
do not find a biscuit in that cats stom-
ach my name is not Jack Rogers"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
ADVICE BY PATTEN
Good Habits Young Mans First
Essential, He Says.
Wheat King Tells Beginners in Bust
ness Career What They Need
to Be Successful in
Life.

New York.-Here is the advice to
young men of James A. Patten. the
Chicago wheat king who recently
doomed up as a power in cotton.
For a young man intending to start
out in life and adopting a business
career, the first essential is that of
good habits. The modern employer as a
rule, soon drops a young man from
his pay roll who does not possess this
requisite.
He should perform the duties re-
quired of him, no matter in how men
ial a position, as a second essential.
with the utmost willingness. II he
should see any opportunity for inn
provement in the lines of mis- duties,
he should suggest the same to his en-
ployer. for nothing pleases the en-
ployer so much as the fact that his
employee is working for his interest
and a young man following out this
line, as a rule, is advanced when OPP
p~ortunity offers.
Il have had many applications from
young men to enter in my employ, but
| have observed that not one mar In
a thousand is fitted to enter into a
stockholders Office or the grain trade
and meet with success. for the sue
cessful speculator seems to be en-
dowed, as a rule. with ability that all
men are not favored with.
81 have sometimes thought it was a
handicap for any young man to be
heir to a great fortune, If it is his in
tention to enter into an active life
that requires much personal atten-
ton, for, as a rule, success depends
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
OF NEW YORK
Gossip of People and Events Told
i'm Interesting Manner.
Glad the Hudson-F Fulton Fete Is Over

haitian alderman because he did not
receive as many aldermanic stand tick
cts as he believed himself entitled to
The show was magnificently shed
uled, deliberately arranged for. ano
successfully carried out. No greater
thing of the kind raj ever seen fr
America. But New York is glad that
it is over.
Ten of millions of dollars poured
into New York because of it. II one
could total the cash paid to the hotels
alone in the two weeks it would make
the United States debt look small
Every hosiery in town was packed tc
the doors, and you will know, gentle
reader, how the most of them car
make an expense account Dol at the
end of a fruitful ten days.
Add the receipts of the railroads
the street car lines, the restaurants
the steamboats,, the stand owners,
the souvenir sellers, the saloons, the
hundred and over takers of money
for which New York is famous, and
you reach a total that speaks for the
abundant and generous prosperity oil
the country.
Add, then, the money left in the
stores-it looks as though this would
double the sum.
The feeding capacity of New York
vas certainly put to the test, and
yet there was no strain. Add a mil
lion new mouths to fill each day, and
larged. Yet no one went hungry il
he had the price.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

A ND NOW there's another little We'd
"A ders to aid in the swelling of
Uncle Sans humble but important
mercantile marine force, and Mr.. and
Mrs. George w. Vedders of New York
City, commandments of the good ship
Edith-rated coal barge-are receiv-
ing congratulations of the harbor fleet
because of the arrival of a baby boy,
their twelfth child.
The youngster was born IN the
Edith. This is not al unusual hap
pening in the Vedders family. Capt.
Vedders himself was born on a tow
boat So years ago at Rondout, N. Y,
and so were his father and mother;
likewise Mrs. Vedders, who first saw
the light of day on n of the old
grain-carrying, shallow-draft Erie ca
nal boats at Lockport, N. Y.
The Edith, on which Capt. and Mrs.
Vedders and the youngest five chill
dren, including the baby, now reside,
is one of the newest and finest coal
sccWs in the New York cruising fleet.
1t is only a year and a half old, 80
feet long, and the property of Patter.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

4 NEW corn-eating record has been
"A established in competition in New
York city which is likely to siand for
many years, the winner in the contest
letting a new mark by consuming 56
ears without pausing, and .hus eclip-
sing the old record of "A ears by an
amount sufficient to supply anaverage
family with corn for a meal.
More than 5000 ears were consumed
by the 260 contestants, the least to
be eaten by any n contestant being
10, at which unlucky number the COM
petitor, a boy of nine years, was un-
able to proceed. He was gladdened,
however, with a medal awarded in
honor of his having established a
record for Juveniles under ten years.
AS the youngster in question
weighs only 40 pounds, when empty,
his achievement in consuming nearly
eight pounds of corn, or one-sixth of
his own weight, is considered fully as
remarkable so that of the ~prize-win-
ming competitor.
To secure the 5000 ears consumed
in competition was in itself a tremen-
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22
THE WEIGHT OF A CROWN
Serious-Faced Boy, Ahmed Mira, Is
the Ruler of a Sinking
Empire.

London.-At IL years Ahmed Mira,
shah of Persia, king Of kings" wears
on his face the expression of ineffable
WEAKNESS. Perhaps it is the climate,
perhaps the earlier maturity of man
in that warmer cline, but far more
likely the care and trouble of being a
king and son of a king. He is the sec
ond son of the ex-shah Ali Mira, and
succeeded to the throne because his
fathers eldest sons mother was not a
Kajar princess.
But wearing a crown in Persia is
toying the bauble of a forgotten fes-
tival, as the blood of the Kajars may
be a doubtful possession withal.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

6tTHE Brokers' Bread; or, Who Slew
l the Black Cat" is the title of the
latest Produce exchange mystery in
New York City. Furthermore, it is
likely to remain a mystery, deep and
impenetrable, until the present gene
ration of brokers has passed away and
the old Exchange building, grim and
stanch as it is, has crumbled to dust.
When the %janitor arrived to open
the exchange he was Mortified to find,
stretched upon the floor with a look
of terror and pain upon it's face, the
body of Thomas, the exchanges black
cat, stark and stiff in death.
The j%anitor, whose wife's brother
sometimes delivers parcels to a de-
tective agency, is naturally of an in
curing turn of mind and by associa-
ton has acquired the instincts of a
detective. He Immediately began a
search for clews.
Obviously the cat was dead He de-
duced that almost Immediately when
he picked the animal up and found
that it was cold and rigid. He was
not satisfied with this progress, how
ever, and determined to probe the
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

al EW YORK.-It would be interest.
~ ing to learn what Henry and Rob-
ert think about the disturbances
which shook Manhattan island and
the territory about it during the Hud-
SON. Fulton celebration.
An interview with these two old
Observation-Disclosures would be a pleas
ant respite from Peary and Cook.
But not even Prof. Hyslop, the spook
expert, has ventured to reach beyond
the veil and ask questions; surprising,
too, in one who has called up the
spirits of the dead for advice as to
whether he should marry again?
Especially as the interview, if au-
th~enticated, would have brought good
money from the newspapers.
But there is no v%agueness or un-
certainty as to mundane impressions
of the celebration. There has been
no room for cavil or criticism. The
millions in town and the millions who
came to town unite in expressions Of
satisfaction and praise. Only one dis
cordant noise has been heard. 1t was
from a Brooklyn alderman. who
offered to punch the nose of a Man.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-22

it developed that DR.. Cook had told
these boys, as he told Mr.. Whitney
and Billy P~ritchard, the cabin boy.
that they must not tell Commander
Peary or any of us anything about
their journey, and the boys stated DR..
Cook had threatened them If they
should tell anything.
The narrative of these Eskimos is
as follows:
They, with DR.. Cook. Francke and
nine other Eskimos, left Anoratok,
crossed. Smiths Sound to Cape Sabine,
slept in Commander Peary's old house
in Payer Harbor, then went through
Rice strait to Buchanan bay. After a
few marches Francke and three Eski-
mos returned to Anoratok.
DR.. Cook, with the others, then pro-
ceeded up Flagler bay, a branch of
Buchanan bay, and crossed Files
mere Land through the valley pass at
the head of Flagler bay, indicated by
Commander Peary in 1898, and utilized
by Sverdrup in 1899, to the head of
Sverdrup's Bay Ford on the west
side of Ellesmere Land.
Their route then lay out through
this ford, thence north through Sver-
drup's "Heuerka Sound" and hansen
strait.
On their way they killed musk oxen
and bear, and made caches, arriving
eventually at a point on the west side
of Nansen strait (shore of Axel Hell
berg Land of %Sverdrup), south Of
Cape Thomas Hubbard.
A cache was formed here and the
four Eskimos did not go beyond this
point. Two others, Koolootingwah and
Inughito, went on one more march
with DR.. Cook and the two boys,
helped to build the snow igloo, then
returned without sleeping.
(These two Eskimos brought back
a letter from DR.. Cook to Francke.
dated the seventeenth of March. The
two men rejoined the other four men
who had been left behind, and the six
returned to A%noratok, arriving May Z.
This information was obtained not
from the two Eskimo boys, but from
the six men who returned and from
Francke himself, and was known to
lis in the summer of 1908, when the
Roosevelt first arrived at Etah. The
information is inserted here as supple
mentary to the narrative of the two
boys.)
After sleeping at the camp where
the last two Eskimos turned back, Or.
Cook and the two boys went in a
northerly or northwesterly direction
with two sIedges and twenty-odd dogs,
one or more march, when they en-
countered rough ice and a lead of open
water. They did not enter this rough
ice, nor cross the lead, but turned
westward or southwestWard a short
distance and returned to Heiberg Land
at a point west of where they had left
the cache and where the four men had
turned back.