Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-04-02

The British income tax is not only
the heaviest, but the hardest, most IN
Quisitorial In the world, The three
year average having been done away,
a man now is assessed on his profits
or gains during the year OF assessment
The death duties are 81 fearful burden
on all classes. Since they were i'm
Iosed, in 1894, they have yielded over
f220,0 00, 000. Many landed estates
have paid twice or three times within
five or six years, with the result hat
they are utterly crippled. Fine houses
have gone to ruin, and hundreds or
agricultural laborers have been thrown
out of employment For a socalled free
trade country, h duties are very high.
Even the kitchen can boast it's mar
tyrs. Chief mon these was Natel.
the chief cook OF Condo, who ran him
self through the heart with a sword
because the fish had not arrived in
time fer a banquet which his master
was giving Louis XIV. Vaters pane
gyric Is TO be found IN the concluding
volume OF the "Almanach des Gour-
mands': so noble "a death insures
you, venerable shade, the most glorious
immortality! You have proved that
the fanaficism OF ono can exist In
the kitchen as well as in the camp, and
that the suit and the saucepan have
also their Catos and their Deciuses."
The suffrage papers OF England re-
port that the number of women elected
10 office In Ireland during the last IL
months has been gratifying to all ad-
vocates of equal suffrage. Five WON
en-, Mrs. L. A. Barr, Mrs. Griffin, Miss
Hamilton, Miss G.. Leake Griffin and
Lady Dockreli, were elected as urban,
Afafrka% nr11 fnfrfR1 yaAr4Tn4InEc ENnrfay
three women were elected as rural dis
trict councillors, 20 OF them for the first
time. AS poor law guardians 103 WON
EN- were elected.
The Argentine government, during
che last year, has begun the Develop
ment OF a new petroleum field at Com
odoro R~ivadavia, on the Bay OF ST.
George, east coa OF Patagonia. The
first oil bearing stratum was found at
a depth OF 1,77o feet, in a cretaceous
formation. The government well yields
13 or IA tons of oil per day. without
pumping. The OIL is dark brown and
very heavy, and seems especially
adapted for fuel.
The Floyd county commissioners, ii is
reported, have ordered 10 dozen suits
II pajamas for the county's convicts."
is there another county Ia Georgia or
ttlUkflCI pSudl lflSLltGtIoR IN the bnlIeut
States that provides its prisoners with
the fashionable "nighties 2" says Sa-
vannah News. Who wouldn't rather
be a pajamaed prisoner In the Floyd
county chain gang han q no nightshirt
freeman on the plains OF windy Kan
sas.
No longer Is the Bank OF England the,
greatest institution of it's kind In vol
ume OF business transacted, at least, it
lis surpassed by the National City bank.
OF New York. Eighty millions Of dol
lars rush through this millrace every
day, and not one penny is misplaced.
The giant safe, which is protected by
a loo with "a bolts, contains a for
tune of $99, 000, 600 in gold and a half
billion dollars In first class securities.
The traveller exhibited a peculiar
on seeing the long legged,
slim, fierce looking hogs hat roamed at
will over the country. AT length he
asked a native sitting on a fence by the
roadside: Aren't these razorback
hogs rather dangerous Il never
heard OF nom OF them doing any
HARM remarked the native. II think
they must be safety r~azorbacks,'
A young wonan a public school
teacher in a New York suburb. has
formed a lunch club for the mothers of
her pupils, TO assist them in putting up
suitable school lunches for their chill
dren. She noticed that the majority OF
her pupils brought a few cents TO
school each day and with the money
bought their lunch at q. shop nearby.
AS a rule they bought the very things
they should not have.
The chief Justice of the supreme court
Is Melville w. Fuller, and the associate
Justices are: John M. Harlan, Ken
lucky; David j. Brewer, Kansas: Ed
ward u. White, Louisiana; Rufus w.
,Peckham, New York; Joseph McKenna.
California; Oliver w. Holmes, Massa-
chusetts; William X. Day, Ohio; and
William III. Moody. Massachusetts.
AT the battle OF Marengo, the French
Army was virtually defeated; and,
while Bonaparte aud his staff were con-
sidering their mex move. Dessaix sug-
gested that there was yet time to re-
trieve the disaster. Napoleon rallied
his men, renewed the battle, and won a
great victory over the Austrians.
though the unfortunate Dessaix lost his
own life on that field.
The biggest map in the world will lie
constructed by the celebration commit
Tee on the south side of Greensboro
bridge. In New York. Ii will be 3,724
feet long and 90 feet high. The prin-s
cipal towns and cities affected by the
bridge will be shown by green lamps
electrically lighted, and at night II can
be studied az almost any point along
the East river.
His wife's mother had been visiting
nj the mans house steadily for seven
months. On towards Christmas time
she said to him; John, / am going to-
have my photograph taken as a Christ
mas gift for you and Minnie. What
dress do you prefer me in2" Your
travelling gown, dear mother the SOM
inlaw replied.
Scotland long & les. It's forests
Tn the time OF James vi IT was la
mented that the country was almost
naked and ''nony yeirs ago spoiled OF
All the timber within the same With
in the last hundred years. however,
great tracts, notably In Perthshire and
Forfarshire. that once were bare. have
been reclothed with thinner"