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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
WHERE ROOSEVELT HUNTS.
Lnnd Of $4,000 Square Miles, with
Millions. of Wild Beasts.

1t is estimated by faunal naiuralists
that 1000. 900 Zebras roam those up
land plains and that no Less than TO-
OOO, 900 of wild animals are on the
game preserves of British East Africa,
says Peter MacQueen, African explor-
er, in Leslle's Weekly. The British
government has laid aside as a game
preserve $4,000 square miles, or an
area equal to six times hat of Massa-
chusetts. The land thus reserved for
game is BEAUTIFULLY located and is rich
and fruitful and, though it lies almost
on the equatorial line, it's great ele-
walton above the sea renders it one
OF the most delightful and homelike
countries Tor the white man to live
and thrive and farm upon that can be
found in any part Of the world. To
make the problem more simple for the
English settlers, there are not many
native peoples t%nhabting those plains.
In an area equal to twice that of the
British Islands there are only 5000, 900
Of the aborigtnes. This colony, rented
by the British government from the
Sultan of Zanzibar for $85 900 a year.
has now 1000 English farmers and
Is, 900 Portuguese and HindonS It has
a governor and q legislative council at
Nairobi, where MI. Roosevelt was en-
tertained by Nj. Macmillan, the Amer
lean millionaire.
The tribes scattered over this vast
area are the Kikuyu. the Kavirondo
and the Nasal the famous blood
drinking varrioS. These latter PEG
pie are Of Semitic origin and have
enormous focks of sheep and goats
and cattle They yiu no do mental
labor, but they will 80 on a satari
caravan Journey as guides or as sol
diers. Formerly they made war on
their neighbours, the negro Kikuyn
tribe; but. since the advent Of the
British government. !ntertribal a
have practically ceased The tribes
around Nairobi are the Wakamha and
the Kikuyu, both negrotd peoples. The
kikuyu are the principal p~orters, and,
with a few Nasal and some Swaheli
from the coast at Mombasa. form the
hunting tour.
The plains rise into foothills as n
proceeds toward Mount Kenia (19,0OO
feet). The rolling foothills have a
homelike view, like Connecticut or
Vermont, and will in fifty years be-
come the homes Of thousands of white
men living under British rule. The
English laws regarding the welfare of
the natives Of to-day are very much
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
WEALTH OF UNITED STATES.
Figures Which Show the ProgrcxA
and Resources of the Country,

Figures which Show the PrOgrcsA
and Resources of the Country.
We have to-day 1000, 900 of people,
occupying 5000, 900 square miles of ter
ritory and they W $120, 000, 100000
of wealth, says Vice President Sher-
man in Leslie's Weekly. On farms
valued at $25, 0OO, OOO, 900 we produce
annually agricultural products valued
at $4,000, coo, 900. 1t is nothing that
we produce annually $500, 100000
bushels of corr and II, 200, 900 bales of
cotton. if there is no demand for the
corn and cotton and if the demand is
not at a fair return. But we have the
market. Our 5,500,0 900 of people who
produce SIS, 0O0, 600, 900 Of manufac-
tured products annually, and receive
in wages $3.50, OOO, 900, make the mar
ket. These figures apply only to fin
ished product. We get the products to
the nsum by 100000 miles of rail
road, which is three times the railroad
mileage Of Great Britain, France and
Germany combined. When side tracks
are taken into account, we have more
railroad mileage than all the rest of
the world. On these railroads We
have 100, 900 engines. carrying millions
of cars and hauling 0,O0O,0 900 tons
of freight. This practically equals all
the tonnage carried by all the rail-
roads and all the ships of all the rest
of the world. This monstrous task is
performed by $4,000 900 of employees
who are yearly paid $4,000, 00O, 600,
and this vast business is conducted by
$3.50, 900, 600. 900 of bank clearances. Do
we prosper? Only two decades g we
were second to Great Britain in the
output of iron and steel. To-day our
output equals all the rest of the world
We live well aud have happy homes,
filled with comforts and luXuries. Yet
we are a saving people. We have in
savings banks SO, 500, O00, 900, in nation
nj banks $4,000, 900 900, and in State
banks $4,000, 600, O0O-in all, s13,Ooo,-
900, 900. The per capita of money in
the country is larger than in any other
save me-, France. and amounts to $50
for each of our 50. 1000, 900 people. The
business of the country amounts to
over So, 900, 900. 600 annually. How do
we do such a monstrous business
which is also profitable? 1t is because
we have confidence in ourselves and
the other nations of h globe have
confidence in us.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
IN TEE
interesting News Notes Pertaining
to EducntiOnal Anatrs

interesting News Notes Pertaining
to ~EducatiOnal Affairs.
Alabama is to raise the standard of
her normal school entrance require
ments, says the New York Sun. The
state Teachers Association meeting in
April was the largest ever. with
than l.2OO teachers registered. The
Alabama State Law provides that 80
cents out of every 60 levied for taxes
must be spent for education. AT the
meeting manual training, together
with industrial education. was much
emphasized, says the Journal of Edu-
cation of Boston.
Congress refused United States Com
missioner Of Education Browns re-
quest for $4,000 to study a certain
phase OF child life, but granted $4,000
for a scientific study of clans.
In elementary schools sc per cent of
the children of the United States are
In co-educational schools; in second
airy schools the proportion for co-edu-
cation is 95 per cent; of colleges and
universities attended by men IS per
cent admit women.
In the so-calIed free high schools
of Illinois 1866 Illinois students pay
private tuition.
Boston apprOpriates $100, 900 this
year for public Fairgrounds.
An ofncial report in Chicago as to
relative cost of school buildings of the
same general character makes this es-
innate Chicago, Is; ST. Louis, 10;
New York, 90; Boston, %. The chief
causes of this difference are better
buildings n better labor conditions.
Both Indiana and Colorado turned
dow the propositions to multiply nor
nal schools.
In University Administration ex-
President Eliot says: THE bread and
butter motive should not prevail in a
university's professional school to any
greater extent than it should prevail
in a college. In both departments it
Is reasonable for the individual stu
dent to keep in view the mea of
earning a livelihood, but in both alike
the dominant motive should be the de-
sire to be serviceable and to be well
equipped to give and to enjoy effective
service"
Miami University, Ohio, has grad.
uated n President of the United
States, seven Governors of States,
three cabinet officers, seven United
States Senators, sever ambassadors,
twenty-four congressman, one Speaker
of the House, t~hirty-one State Sena-
tors, siXty-fve army officers, s~iXty-six
Federal and State judges and thirty
college presidents, though her total
graduation list is less than 1000.
In three years San Diego, Cal, has
erected three large school buildings at
a cost Of s4S2,000, one of them, a
building of twenty rooms, being the
finest grammar school building in Cal
ifornia. There is also a high school
costing 100000, besides additions to
two other buildings, doubling their
capacity.
Tulane University realized an en-.
dowment fund of 1000, 900 last year.
Boston University, according to it's
new year book, has an attendance of
1,514 in all its departments. OF these
962 are men and $50 are ome The
chief increases are in the college Of
arts, the courses for teachers
and the school of theology.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
THE JOINT SNAKE.
Some Information from One Who Is
Sure He Really Knows.

sure lie Really knows.
This department probably las no
business in the joint snake symposium
now being conducted by the Lawrence
Journal and Kansas City Star, but as
neither the Journal nor the Star seems
to know much about the reptile, we
herewith tender some authoritative in
formation. The joint snake is a crawl
ing thing, varying in length from six
to fifteen inches, and in it's general
appearance more nearly resembles a
lizard than a snake. In color it is a
dull yellow, with minute stripes of pea
green, and its skin is glazed and trans
parent, differing in that respect from
all true members of the snake family.
There is nothing in the theory that
the Joint snake flies to pieces when hit
with a stick, and that it afterward
crawls about collecting and marshall
ing in their proper order the dismem-
bered portions of its anatomy. This
theory is as fictitious as n concern
ing the disposition Of the hoop snake
to take its tail in it's mouth and go
rolling about the country. AS a mat.
ter Of fact, the joint snake has but
one Joint, located at a point two-thirds
the length of its body, measuring from
the head. Any sort of rough treat
ment will dislocate this joint. A hard
blow from a stick directed at the prop
er spot will do It. Or the two sections
of the body may be separated by a
simple twist of the wrist, which was
esteemed the proper method when we
were a boy. ACKNOWLEDGMENT appar-
emily causes the joint snake no trouble
or inconvenience, and produces no
wound or confusion. When released
the head of the snake runs away and
hides in the grass, its natural habf-
tat. leaving the caboose end to its own
Devices, and it does not come back
later and pick up the dismembered
fragment. Whether the joint snake
dies as a result of the treatment or
grows a new tail and lives happily
ever after is a matter in controversy
which has never been satisfactorily set
tied. The Joint snake is perfectly harm
less. being equipped with no weapons
either of offense or defense. The writ.
er. who was reared in a joint snake
country, has carried them alive and
wriggling in his pockets for at
= time, soaring the women by suddenly
releasing n in the house being es-
teemed a high form of sport and a SUI
perlative quip in his neighborhood.-J.
z. House, in the Topeka Capital.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

One of my pupils. writes George AL
Ian England in Success Magazine"
was the son of a tobacco king. Lordly
was he. Contrary to custom, he re-
fused to come TO my room. I had to
go to his, or nothing doing" Rather
than bulge he would have f1unked. so
I had to yield the point.
This young elegant never got up
until about half past ten. He would
make appointments for ten. but would
invariably keep me waiting half an
hour while he reused himself from
SUMMERS which nom but the eye Of
inexperience could have mistaken as
resulting from anything but late
hours At about half past the hour he
would appear in very violent pajamas.
his feet thrust into Chinese slippers,
and would yawningly order his man"
to procure breakfast at the Bunster
Cafe across the street from his Sump-
tuous suite. Then. while ne toyed
with oranges and eggs, he would con-
descend to listen very Ooh, Uery) Ian
guidly while I lectured from my notes.
Once in a while he would favor me
Win q glance at my diagrams. lie
was awfully bored, aw! Promptly at
eleven he would call the lesson off.
Gladly would he pay his two dollars,
and gladly drag his languid limbs
back to the silken sheets again, where
he would lie and inhale Turkish cigar
cites while I tried TO urge upon him
the necessity of getting a brace On. He
never got that brace. All he got was
an E-minus. / got the money-a lot Of
It, and it was easy. 1t was justiiable
larceny, and I defy any man to prove
the contrary.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
The Party He BELONGED to.

A matrOn Of the most determined
character was encountered by a young
woman reporter on a leading country
paper, who was sent out to interview
leading citizens as to their politics.
May ! see Mr.. -" she asked of a
stern-looking woman who opened the
door at one house.
mo, o can't" answered the ma
tron, dacisively.
zsBut ] want to KNOW what party ne
belongs to-" pleaded the girl.
The drew up her tall figure.
We'll, take a good look at me-" she
said. I'm the party he belongs to-
Universalist Leader.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
SAVING ON A SYSTEM
Showing How II Comnct--
May lie Accumulated.

Figures Showing How IL Competea~
May he Accumulated.
"A young man who would have a
competency at the end of ten wears
u make sacrifices for the first two
or three years. Say that you. for in.
stance, are earning $50 a week. At
the present time you may be spending
nearly all Of this, as thousands of
others are doing. Now, during the
first year, you must save 81. 900.
why, you eXclaim, IF should save
$1,000 a year that would make $40, 900
at the end Of ten years, without count.
ing the interest. You're off in YOUR
fguring!"
But wait. We are supposing now
that you are having your share of
prosperity and that at different times
within the next few years you Will
nave doctors bills to pay. and may
even be without employment at times.
These things must be taken into con.
sideration if you would save 800 0
in ten years.
so the first year you save 81, 900.
This leaves you a little less than $11
a week upon which to live during that
time. Perhaps you will have to move
out of your present home and rent
n that is cheaper. For a time it
will also be necessary for you to con-
tract fewer tailoring bills, and in all
probability you will get your wife to
aid you in econoniizing; but you must
save $1,000 during that year and you
will find that yOu can do it.
In the second ear your load will
become lighter, and then you will see
why 1t was necessary for you to save
81 1000 during the first year. The ST.
600 you can easily place out at 5 per
cent interest, and at the end of the
second year it will have earned you
$50. So during this second year you
have to save $3.50. In other words,
you have 81 a week more to spend on
the comforts Of life during the second
year than the first. In this way your
load continues to get lighter and light
er. You begin your third veal with
$4,000 Out at interest, and during this
year you need save only 5000, which
leaves you 81 a week more to spend
than during the first year; and so it
goes until at the end of your fifth
year you are saving only $3.50 a year,
or less than one-half OF your $1,000
salary. Each year you have more to
spend. At the end Of your eighth veal
you are saving just $3.50 a week,
while you have s17.5O to spend.
At the end Of your tenth year you
have $4,000, which is earning you
$500 a year, n which may sven bring
o $500 or $7O0 a yea if you invest
it well. If you were only 80 years Of
ago when you began saving you are
still too young to retire on $50 a |
month but now you can spend all
that O earn, and at the end of an !
other ten years, if you do not gather |
the Honey which your $40, 900 is !
making for Jul, you will be worth
a little yer ST, 900, which, at 6 per
cent, will bring YOU an income of SIS
a month for the rest of your life.
A modification of the above scheme
can be made to work to the profit Of
any wage Garner no matter what his
weekly earnings may be, granting, Of
course, that they are sufficient to live
upon comfortably. For instance, if
the man who earns SIS a week could
save 81 a week for fourteen years he |
would have acquired a little fortune OF
81 O0O Rock kaaDer
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
STRANGE CATCHES ON RODS.
BATS, Rats and SwallOVSs Have Been
An4lsed h Ansle-s.

Bats, Rats and SwnllnNSs Have Been
l4naked by Anglers.
The hooking Of a partridge on the
wing by q Frome angler while MAX
ing q cast recalls other similar occur
FENCES where birds, and even rats,
have been accidentally caught on rod
and line. It is BY no means uncom-
mon for trout anglers TO hook wal
lows and martins; indeed, these birds
sometimes hook themselves through
darting at the fly and mistaki1g it for
the natural insect.
The writer has caught a swallow
with a May fly ON the Kennel, and
two more swallows, these latter in
one afternoon, while roach fishing.
This happened on the Lark, the pref
ty little Suffolk River, and at the time
many swallows and martins were
"haWking' over the stream. Both the
birds dashed at a bunch of gentles and
hooked themselves in the beak. One
was saved and went off all right, as
did another swallow which was res
cued after being knocked into the riv-
er through coming in contact with
the rod while a cast was being mad
The late James Tayler Cred Palm
err, who was 50 well known as the sec
rotary Of the Gresham Angling Socie-
ty and q skilled trout fisher, once
hooked and landed a water hen ON a
Hampshire stream, and several in
stances Of bats being accidentally
hooked have also occurred.
One evening, too, as an angler made
a cast close under the bank on the
Herts Colne, a rat rose to the surface
and in the fading light was taken for
a trout The angler struck and hook
ed the rodent in the tail, a perform
ance which was instantly followed by
a series of loud squeaks INC a plunge
into the rushes, where the hook came
away. More thar one fly fisher has
before today also hooked a COW, when
that gentle domestic creature has, un-
observed, been quietly browsing in
the line of the Observation-Disclosures Ga
Zpttp
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
COlOr-Blind.

Three IYishmen were stopping at a
secondrate hotel and one Of han Inn
to be carried to his room, In which.
also slept a negro in a separate bed.
His comrades. as q practical joke on
him. proceeded to paint the Irish
mans face black. In the morning,
when awakened by the proprietor, he
got W. and happened to catch sight
of himself In the mirror. "Oh, be-
iabers." he exclaimed, eff the blamed
idiots haven't gone and woke the mig
ger by mistake!"
And he crawled back into bed
Success Magazine.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

Mrs. A. was calling on Mrs. b..
whose husband had recently commit
ted suicide by hanging himself in the
attic. Remembering her daughters
parting injunction to avoid the I'M
pleasant subject, she steered the con-
yersation into household channels.
Are you doing your own washing
now?' she inquired.
NO" replied Mrs. B., mot now 1t
is such cold work getting it OF the
line"
YES, 1t is,' said Mrs. A., but you
have such a nice large attic to hang
things in."--Success Magazine.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

waters.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

President Taft plays golf fairly well
but ON his return from Cuba. away
back in his career, he did not make q
good impression OF the links. After
some pretty bad work on the first two
holes, he said alphabetically to his
caddy, a stranger from the East: I'm
certainly out of form to-day. I've
been ON a sea voyage, you see. 1t
must have upset me" Played before,
have YEP" said the caddy.
The Paris critic, Martin. onne only
had taken his chocolate in q place
other than the Cafe Foy, and he then
found it not good. This happened at
the Regenae, and the young m
at the desk, to whom he expressed his
d~ispleasure, said: You are the only
one to complain. All of the gentle
men Of the court who coGe here find
it good" They also say, perhaps,
that you are pretty" he replAd,
slowly.
The fair young debutante was sur
rounded by an adm!ripg crowd OF OIL
GERS at the ~colonel's ball. Mamma was
standing near by, smiling c~omplacent-
ly at her daughters social sucoess
The discussion was over the quarrel
of the day before between two broth
err officers. What was the casus bel
lip asked the fair debutante Maud
exclaimed mamma, In a shocked voice,
how often have l told you to say
stonach%
T i++l1 ylrsIlt~ -,1 -,;@,,l NV hio
mother one day for some time, and
when he F~eappeared, she asked:
Where have o been, my pet?"
playing postman," replied her pet"
Il gave a letter to all the houses in
our road. Real letters, too Where
on earth did o get them?" question
ed his mother, in amusement. They
were those old ones in your wardrobe
drawer, tied III with a ribbon" was
the innocent reply.
There viii be a meeting of the
board" said the preacher, at the con-
clusion of this service" So the official
brethren of the church gathered
ton was pronounced. Among them
was a stranger. whom it vas neces-
sary as delicately as possible to re-
mind that his presence was not need
ed. Il beg your pardon" said the
stranger; I understood this was to
be a meeting Of the bored, of which I
claim to be one"
In 1868 Judge Little. a testy nan
but a good lawyer, was suddenly ap-
pointed to fill a vacancy on the supe-
rior court bench In North Carolina.
He had a habit Of swearing which
could not be suddenly laid aside. At
n Of his first courts, a lawyer, net
tied at n of his decisions. said, in
a rather emphatic way: We will ap-
peal from that" The old judge forgot
the proprleties of his new post, and
promptly replied to the startled coun-
sci, in the same tone: Appeal and
be d-d!"
This Is one OF the old stories told
by Henry Clews. of TraveFs, the New
York stammering wit. MI. Clews al
ways insists hat the average Wall
street broker is the most honest of
men "Travers," said Mr.. Clews. was
once invited to be a guest at a yacht
regatta. The waters of Newport har-
Dor were covered with a beautiful
squadron. Mr.. Travers found that
each yacht belonged to a banker or
distance for a time, and then in
CURED softly: 'W-w-w-where are the
-c-c-customers' yachts?"'
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
FOreStal1ed.

wei Mrs. Dennis, what are yoL
going to give Pat for Christmas this
year?" inquired the recipient of Mrs.
Dennis regular w~ash-day visits, n
day at the beginning of the festal
season.
Deed thin, ma'am, l don't know"
renliad Mrs. Dennis, raising herself
from the wash-tub and setting her
dripping arms akimbo. Il did be
thinkin' I'd give him a pair Of pants.
but, Lord bless ye, nam, only last
night didn't be ONE home wild q pai1
ou.r-Success Magazine
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
Deyillea Eggs.

Boil a sufficient quantity Of eggs
hard; when cold, peal and dip first
into beaten raw egg, next into oil, and
roll them n salt and a small quantity
of cayenne. Make q little tray by
twisting up the corners of half a sheet
OF oiled writing paper, place the eggs
IN it, put on a gridiron over a clear
fire and shake it about until the eggs
are quite hot. Meanwhile prepare
equal quantities of olive oil and chut-
ney around them, garnish with
parsley and serve.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
Coffee Cake.

One cupful Of sugar sifted with one
and one-fourth cupfuls of -four, one
half ~teaspoonful of soda, and one tea
spoonful! Of cream Of tartar. Sift all
together. In a cup put one-fourth cup
full of butter; place on stove till melt
ed. When it boils up break into it
two eggs. Quickly remove from fire
and fill cup with milk. Stir into -four,
etc. Flavor with almond or vanilla
and bake In quick oven.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
Breaking the News.

Marion, who had been taught to re-
port her misdeeds promptly, came to
her mother one day, sobbing penl-
tently.
Mother, I-I-broke a brick in the
fireplace"
We'll, that Is not very hard to rem
edy. But how on earth did you do
it, child?"
II pounded it with fathers watch"
Success Magazine.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16

q want a home" said the city man.
where ] car see plenty of fresh green
vegetables and have live stock and
chickens about me-"
I've got the cry thing you want"
returned the enthusiastic agent: "a
cozy six-room fat right next to a mar
ket house."-Washington. Star.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
OaNOltI

One cupful of butter, one-half cup.
full Of granulated z a cupful of
MIX, three level cupfuls of flour, in
which is thoroughly mixed three tea,
spo-nfuls OF baking powder, onehalf
cuptnl Of finely chopped citron and
the game Of small, seedless raisins and
a teaspoonful Of cinnamon. Whip the
mixture until as light as possible, pour
into individual pudding dishes and
steam for one-half hour. Serve with
a rich lemon sauce.