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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

week ought to see us in the capital"
he said slowly. But l don't like this
business, general. These beggars don't
amount &c anything. Why did you or
der them shotf'
4 barefoot girl Of some ten years
crcpt around the corner of the sun
baked wall. She picked her way over
the sand, darting hot g~!ances fearfully
at the two officers. Suddenly she
| stopped over the crooked body Of one
of the motionless ones. She tugged at
the sleeve of a shirt, and as the face
turned slightly upward to her effort,
she fell to beating on the ground with
both hands, aud sobbed in the heat,
dry eyed.
Vincent strobe OVER to her. and gen
tly picked her up. Her quick sobS did
not cease as he carried her Into tho
shade. his own face drawn and white.
He looked over at the major, who
stood gnawing on his stubby mustache.
He did not reply to the question until
the major repeated it angrlly. at was
because they deserved it.
- " " Vincent stopped, and then
went on. almost %inaudibly. God knows
why | did It, and then there's =
tho" He stopped once more, for
the girls hard sobs had ceased. and
her 1.-the hand had darted from the
folds of her scanty gown to the young
generals throat. and the major saw
him set the burden softly down, and
then fall forward. the blood pouring
around the blade Of Il knife deep in his
throat.
With an oath the major leaped over
to him and lifted his head. Nincent's
eyes looked clearly into his. Then the
wounded man looked over at the little
girl. poised for flight a dozen feet
away. He nodded at her with an air
of absolute comprehension, and then
died.-San Francisco .%Argonaut.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02
OPTIMISM.

Tn. west winds blow, and, singing 10"
| hear the glad streams run;
The windows of my soul | thro"
Wide open to The SUI.
No longer forward or behind
look in hope or fear;
But. grateful. take the good | ma,
The best of now and her"
I break my pilgrim staff lay
Aside the toiling oar;
The angel sought so far away
welcome at my door.
The airs of spring may never play
Among the ripeni1g corn,
Nor freshness of the flowers OF May
Blow through the autumn mora
Yet shall the blue-eyed ~gentian look
Through fringcd lids to Heaven,
And the pale aSter in the brook
Shall see its image given.
The woods Shall wear their robes OF
praise.
The south winds softly sigh.
And sweet calm days in golden haze,
Melt down the amber sky.
And so the shadows fall apart,
And so the west winds play:
And all the windows of my heart
/ open to the day.
John G. Whittier.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02
Wit of the Youngsters
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Visitor-Which is the older, Harold,
you or your little sister? Small Har.
old-Neither of us. We have been
twins yer since we were born.
Teacher-Several of your examples
In arithmetic are wrong, Johnny. Why
didn't you ask your father to help you?
Johnny-'Cause l wasn't looking for
trouble; that's why.
Little Elmer accompanied his mother
to church. and ON the way had been
cautioned to keep YER quiet during
service. But Elmer became restless
and said in an audible whisper: Nam
ma, when we get home, can 1 60 out in
the back yard and holler just once?"
when I grow up III be a man, won't
IF queried small Edgar. Eyes, DEAR"
replied his mother. "That is. If you
are Industrious at school and learn how
to behave yourself" "Why, mamma"
said Edgar. 'do bad and lazy little
boys become women when they grow
D?"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

know now that he was afraid Of hit
ting me. Then he fell. The soldiers
fred again and ran away, painting and
Yelling to each other. l went in to
papa. and he asked for his glasses. sit
+ found them and gave them to him.
tie blood was running very fast down
his breast. He put on his glasses with
both hands, wrinkling up his forehead
in the old way, and looked at me very
He looked. y He said, 4
am glad 1 could see you, little ore
= + = before I 60 That was ALL"
She went to the window and stayed
there. immobile. while Vincent walked
I'D and down behind her. At hast she
turned around. THAT was five years
ago. No one has lone anything to pun
ish them"
Vincent, because she was suddenly to
him the woman, did what every man
once in his life will do for one woman :
he sacrificed his sense Of humor. With
all seriousness he stiffened up. ut was
under my flag he was shot down. I've
served under it. Give me another flag
1Or NdulCulllu dlu IL ~ uo"h IASAS
and those murderers shall die against
a wall, with your flag flying over their
heads. it's shadow wavering at their
feet on the yellow sand
Maria Rivas, because she was the
woman in this case, understood per
fectly. "A revolution" she said, very
quietly. He went over her hand grave
ly and yo%uthfully. His was
confident, as If he saw very clearly
| to do it, not as If he had promised a
| girl with tear stains on her cheeks to
| overturn a government because Of a
murder one hot afternoon on a steamer
in a foreign port.
This was the beginning Of the affair.
| Its continuation was in q little town
| on the Guatemalan coast. where Vim
| sent landed with a ton Of munitions of
war, marked Manufactures Of Metal"
| and thirty ragged soldiers. A month
| later he had a thousand insurgents and
| twenty tons Of munitions, and his
| blood had drunk in the fever that
burns up the years in hours. The first
| thing Vincent did under its spell was
| to march on Ocos and take it. When
the town was his and the comandante
/ in irons. the young man took out of his
pocketbook a little list Of names, made
\ out in Maria Rivas' hand. He com.
pared this list with the list of prison.
ers, and ordered out a firing squad.
Half an hour later the shadow Of the
| flag made BY the woman In the Vale
10 street fat wavered over the sand on
which lay six men in a tangle. Gen
eralissimo Thomas Vincent went out
into the sun and looked at the last pos
lures Of the six, and then out acros
the brimming waters Of he Pacific. A
mail steamer lay III there in the midst
of a cluster of noes the American
flag dropping from her staff.
An 1rishman in a majors uniform
came out of the COO, Of the barracks
and stopped beside Vincent. another
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

1t Is IN old psychological truth that
imagination Is the parent of sympathy
and pity. There il plenty Of humanity
In the average person. but he may be
too busy, too routlne-ridden, too indif.
ferent. to "realize" things that do not
directly affect him. To put ourselves
In h place of others is the beginning
OF beneficence. Doubtless in the some
what strange auction" at which GER
tain Brooklyn unemployed We're sold"
to the highest bidders the intention OF
the promoters of the scheme was mere
ly to appeal to the Imagination Of the
community. Brooklyn has It's charit-
able organizations. Its labor agencies,
Its trade unions. its phllnnthropists,
and the nonspectacular ways Of reliev-
ing the destitute and finding work for
the Jobless are doubtless pursued by all
OF these. To a "slave sale"
In n church was merely to lend s-sa-
tionalism and color to a transaction OF
the most ordinary kind-the advertis-
ing of the need OF work and the bring
Ing Of supply and demand together.
The men ''sold" are not slaves; they
merely sold their labor az any wage.
worker does. They are free 10 quit ut
any time, to take better positions at
the first opportunity. The masks. the
employment of numbers instead Of
names, the "block," the use OF such
words as ~''slavery' and auction" had
a certain amount OF dramatic value.
II they were effective they were so pre-
cisely in the sense In which stage
thunder Is effective. But it Is not nee
essay to repent the performance any |
where, for essentially 1t Is hollow.
The way to help the jobless and IN
employed Is to support generously the
well organized relief agencies and So
ciul settlements to improve the char |
acter Of the employment agencies. to
procure and spread infOrmation-as the |
Of immigration has been doing
the demand for labor in
less congested sections Of the coun-
try, to the better Gstribu-
ton Of Immigration, and to establish
farm colonies for the Migrants and IN
Our industrial order Is
but by the number and activity
Of normal and useful agencies for re-
lief, advice, adjustment of supply and
conservation or reclamation Of
opportunities, intelligent pro-
legislation.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02
DIVING FOR PEARLS.
Japanese Maluys and Arabs Among
the Motley ThrOng Of Divers.


The work is in charge Of the super
must be in as many places at once
as is possible. Each of the hundred
odd boats scattered over the banks
within the prescribed limits carries
twenty or thirty divers. and each diver
is allowed two mandaks, or assistants.
Each boat carries also a government
guard, whose duty it is to see that the
precious bivalves lying in their tens Of
thousands, are not tempered with.
The methods Of diving are many.
Here q stocky little Japanese, naked
save for a narrow strap around his
waist, two netted bags slung to the
strap. with a weight in each bag to
take him down. His mandaks hold the
rope attached to his belt by which ut
his signal they will haul him up with
his load OF shells. The wafer closes
quietly over his roun3, black head
there is nothing spectacular in his per-
formance. but all through the working
hours he will go popping up and down
like a jack-in-the-bOX, every two min
utes, regular as clock work. blowing
like a porpOise as he rises to the sur
face, but remaining only long enough
to be relieved Of his load of shells.
Here an elderly Malay. lean and
wrinkled, runs catlike out on the
springboard that reaches out from ths
boats side, and goes over with a splash.
He, too, has his weighted bags and a
rope. A young Arab pushes through
h crowd to the boats raH, a 1.-THE,
clean-limbed fellow. powerfully built,
and taller by half a head than most o:
his mates. He leaps to the rail and
poises there, a living statue Of bronze,
his splendid body shining with the
grease with which these divers coat
themselves before entering the water.
gathering itself for it's spring. He car
rieS the inevitable bags, but he needs
no weights to sink him, nor does lie
wear a rope. A flash and down he
goes. head first, graceful as a panther.
straight as a die, without a splash, and
swims to the bottom. Wonderful swim
merS these Arabs are. reckleSSly dar-
ing, and with i~ncreditable powers OF
endurance, but their worth is seriously
discounted by their intractibility and
hatred of discipline. And in this con
nection it is a curious fact that when
under water men will invariably be-
come irritable and extremely had tenn
pered.-C. B. Taylor in Everybody's.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

z LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS. \
EGGeeeeeGkeeee eetEeeeetEeE.

When st. Paul's Cathedral, in Lon
plans and under the guidance Of Sir
Christopher Wren, great care was
taken to lay firm foundations. Wren
made a geological examination Of the
strata of the site for the future church.
Numerous wells were sunk to test the
subsoil. A stratum of pot-earth was
discovered, which lent great stability to
the sand and gravel about it. To what
lengths the architect went in order to
make everything secure is told in Il
book by Henry Hart Milman.
Satisfied that the pot-earth stratum,
although, of varying thickness, extend
ing over the whole area upon which
he planned his building to stand, Wren
had successfully carried his foupda-
lions round three sides, when. to his
dtsmay, he discovered that at the north
east corner the pot-earth had at some
remote. probably Roman, period been
quarrted, leaving nothing but sand and
gravel beneath his wall.
His subordinates advised him to rest
this portion OF wooden piles, but there
was little moisture, and Wren knew
that wood unsubmerged is liable to rot,
while. to use his w phrase, he built
for eternity 50 far Is he could. He
therefore ordered a pit to be dug, about
eighteen feet square, and Its sides
shored up by timbers. Forty feet down
he came upon water and shells, and
boring again, did not begin to build
until he came to the clay.
There he set a pier Of solid masonry
ten feet square, from which. when
within fifteen feet Of the surface, he
threw an arch to the interrupted foun-
dalton. According to one authority,
this excavation and pier alone cost sew
enteen thousand pounds.
1t Is also related how. one day, when
tho architect was laying out his ground
plan upon the site, he called to a work
man to bring him a fiat stone which
should serve as a temporary mark for
the masons engaged upon the founda-
tons; and 1t vas esteemed a pzopidous
omen that the stone carelessly selected
by the man should be an inscribed
fragment Of q slab bearing the single
word Resurgnm In large capitals.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02
CHINESE RE WSIAPERs.
Tive Hundred of Them Vow Edited
and Maangcd by Natives.

TIVE Hundred of Them Vow Edited
and Managed by Natives.
Notwithstanding the fact that seven
years ago China had no newspapers eH
cept those started and controlled by
foreigners. to-day there are 20O hhtl'e
Journals. In Pekin there Is II pros
porous daily, started. edited hl1G man
aged by wOmcm and for women. walk
ing through the back streets or Pekii
You will come every now and ther
upon a NAN chanting loud to the as
scmbled crowds. He Is mo- a priest
but Il ncwsInan reading the days pa
pers to those who cannot afford 10 buy
them or who do not know how tC
read.
The Chinese newspaper usually takes
one of two forms. 1t is either printed
on one side on very thin paper, or IL Is
printed on 10Th sides of thicker paper
| The latter Is considered more up to
late. One popular organ consists OF
three blanket sheets, three feet SIX
| inches long by two feet wide. Each
sheet contains eight pages OF closely
OCt ,iiiiCSt i'ito-' tlHH
good supply Of foreign kilograms. Ed
i%tOrials, articles on all manner or SUD
| jects. native and foreign, and a num-
mer of minute and dainty line draw
ings occupy most {. the space.
The advertisements speak even more
cloquently than the tex Of the change
that has come over China. Yesterday
John Chinaman believed that the world
was flat. To-day globes, showing the
latest discoveries in geography, are
prominently offered for sale in nearly
every paper. European dress, musical
instruments and dummy arms for
schoolbOys are given well-displayed no
tees, and you are shown sketches OIL
the young ChinaiHan minus his pigtail
and dressed In Western garments.
Many journals. while giving the bulk
of the matter in Chinese. have ScVera!
columns printed in English. The Eng.
lish tongue is becoming more and more
the lingua franca of the Far East. If
you read the English columns you will
see that, apart from cable news, their
main matter consists Of eXhortations to
the people to reform.
Here Is an article dcnouncing the
binding Of the feet of women and pra1S-
ing up a young wife who committed
suicide rather than continue the prac-
tice. Another article demands the rea.
sons why full representative govern
ment has been delayed a third urges
the people to send their children to
school.
The contents Of the papers, while in
most cases deserving of recognition.
are not wholly good. A great deal Of
crude stuff Is to be found in many OF
them. Young mel who ave obtained
a superficial education in Toxic retur
home and attempt to make the press Il
promoter of revolt.
Most Chinese are particularly friend
ly to England, and this ~friendliness is.
it seems, on the increase. But it is
universal. The a~nti-foreign spirit
still fingers In some quarters and may
still display itself in dreadful forms.
A few weeks ago, at an examination In
Paot-ing-fu, the pupils were asked what
was their greatest desire. Forty of
them replied: "To have the blood of
every foreigner here drained before
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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02
The Securing Brush.

The securing rush, Equisetum HE
male, is an interesting plant which has
been put to practical use. In old times
its hollow, fiinty stems were in great
repute for kitchen cleaning purposes.
The stems are hollow and are easily
separated at the joints. If one would
satisfy himself as to the peculiar prop
erty that first suggested the use Of this
rush for securing purposes he has only
to draw a joint across the edge of his
teeth to find it like Il file.
A very pretty chemical experiment is
frequently made with the rush. If one
takes a small vial of nitric acid into
which any ordinary lead is Immersed
he will quickly see it dissolve. literally
eaten up by the acid. But what does
the securing rush do under such cir
cumstances.
Immediately upon It's introduction to
the acid the sizzling process begins.
The green pulp Of the stem Is gradual
~ consumed. the tube, however, still
retaining It's shape. becoming paler and
paler In color until after a few hours
the specimen is transformed into a
pure white alabasterlike column which
defies any further attack from the acid.
On taking it from the vial and wash
ing it carefully in running water the
operator holds In his hands a beautiful
tube OF pure. CLASSY flint, or silex, an
object Of great microscopic beauty OF
construction. The securing rush Is no
longer a vegetable, but a mineral, and
in observing It's skeleton of stone the
secret OF its utility as a securing brush
Is easily understood.-Ncw York Trib-
UDc
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

Americans 8 more sugar than
any other people In the world. In 1907
the figures were a little over eighty
two pounds apiece for every man, wo-
man and child. The year furnished
other Interesting facts in regard to
sugar. The amount OF sugar raised In
the United States was larger than ever
before, the amount brought In from
abroad and that imported from the
slsland possessions were also the great
est in the country's history, and the
amount exported was the largest. For
tho first time, too, the amount Of beet
sugar exceeded the amount produced
from cane, the excess being more than
four hundred million pounds.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02
Past Aid.

A woman who can fun" IN the facs
Of uncertainties has been discovered
by the New York Sun.
She had a telephone in her apart
ment, and called up the telephone COM
pany and asked that the service be
discontinued.
1--WE are sorry to lose you," said the
man who took her message. "Are you
dissatisfied with a%nything?"
II am" said the woman, emphatic
ally.
Il am very sorry" said the man.
perhaps we can help you. What is
it you do not like"
"Single b~lessedness,' said the We
man. 81 am going to be married to-
morrow"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

The imposition OF the death sentence
upon SIX OF the Tennessee night riders
by Judge Jones will go far to restore
order In that state and may not be
without effect In some counties of Ken
lucky. The mitigating circumstances
found by the jury may gravely be stud
led BY the legislature OF the state; they
did not justify and cannot excuse de-
1iberate murder.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

so doing he suggested the best way 20
rid our relatives Of tho burden Of ex-
t%rayagant funerals that is. to record a
wish, each Of us, here and now, that
when we go there shall be no
sary expense.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

u. II. Hartman has become a direct
or OF the New York Central Railroad,
and It is expected that he will soon
control that system. Where Hartman
gets a toe into the crack 1t may always
3 expected that the door will be
pushed open.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

Four million dollars Is a good deal
to pay for = funeral, even for an en-
peror's funeral. That Is what the
Chinese had to pay to get the late
Kuang-hsu safely deposited among his
ancestors. Barbaric splendor, tho
gilded superstition OF a semicivilized
country, perverted Oriental imagina-
tion-that h the way our self-satisfed
Doulss explain what we regard us wan
ton waste. On the other hand, self
satisfaction tells US that we.-whose
religion II sane, rational. wholesome
ne are above such pagan magnificence.
Are we7 How many Americans are
s1nsible ana rational in time OF sor-
row. Many a family whose dear ono
has hcen taken goes Into mourning and
apsnds more than 1t can afford for the
nsw clothes. The man whose wife lies
Dad, and who knows that now more
than e he viii have difficulty In
keeping his house comfortable for the
children. allows the undertaken to sell
him IN expensive casket. The bereayed
MART overcutnes the intelligence with
The false argument: 1T II the last
thine We cnn do for her, and we must
d it we'll" Al II We could crafty
Me- dead BY such attentionsi There %
atill the grocer's hill to pay. and the
anetor'e bill for all the long struggle
hoeoeo death came, and one Of the chief
eeppprte ot the family economy has
{ tAken away. Yet We commit the
- ~ exfrnv ~ wanrA ~ recent
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

A Japanese statesman rises to re
mark that Nevada il not America
II he w has occasion to ride across
Nevada In search Of n spring he will
get the idea that 1t is a pretty large
part Of America.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

Meanley-No, sir 1 don't believe in
paying fancy prices to have clothes
made to order. Now. here's a suit I
bought, ready made, for 80. If I should
tell you 1 paid $25 for it. wouldn't
YOU believe 1t? Knox-I might If you
told me over the telephone.-Catholic
Standard and Times.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

The King Of Spain is going to try to
Ak up a match between King Manuel
OF Portugal and a niece OF King Ed
ward of England. This is a compliment
to Edwards niece. Alfonso has tried
one.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

Mrs. Blunder had just received a
telegram from India. "What an ad-
mirable invention the telegram Isl"
she exclaimed, when you come to con-
slider that this message has come q
distance of thousands of miles, and
the gum on the envelope isn't dry yet"
Sacred Heart ReyfeW.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02
A Gold Mine.

""This is a foine country, Bridget!
exclaimed Norah, who had but recent
w arrived in the United States. "Surs
it's generous everybody is. I asked at
the postoffice about sindin' money to
me mither, and the young man tells me
1 can get a money order for $40 for
10 cents. Think Of that now!"-
Youths Companion.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

what are you crying about?' my
husband beat me-" "Who is he?" "a
gypsy fiddler. He beat me with the
fiddle bow 'Then you ought to be
thankful he doesn't play Il bass VOL"
-Fliegende Blaetter.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

Oregon legislators have passed Il law
limiting the length Of women's hatpins
to ten inches. Now the men of that
state take up the struggle for existence
with renewed courage.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

T0~othbrushes for cows strike a Lon
don medical journal on its funnybone.
But the cows In America scrape their
hoofs on the doorsills before entering
u best barns.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

We are not a pessimist, but Of late
years 1t does seem that the tornado has
cut in ahead OF the swallow as a har-
biDger OF spring.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

An eastern papers financial editor re-
ports a sudden drop in eggs 1t is to
be hoped In the interests of all con-
cerned that the eggs were strictly fresh.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

Many a good man has gone wrong
by being bull-headed In insisting that
he was right.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

A new railroad has been opened be-
tween West Virginia M North Caro-
lima, but Mr.. Hartman will get It IL 1t
don't watch out.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

King Edward found himself between
Carrie Nation and the North Sea. No
wonder he went kaisering.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

A Massachusetts man complains that
his wife tied him to n bedpost and
whipped him. Otherwise she seems to
have treated him fairly well.