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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04

A sharp slope led down to tbs brink.
and with the full speed Of this, crouch
ing, he shot far out into the air, and
cry as he sailed down over the tree
tops,
The last Martin remembered was
awakening to a sharp report and SIT
ting up in the snow 10 see the doctor
with his jackknife rounding Ire edges
of a piece of one Of his skees. Then
the DOCTOR put the other skee under
his foot to break it, and Martin cried.
Don't do that! Don't break that.
please! I've got Just enough ash to
make one more"
"All right" said the doctor, "Ill
take another piece off the broken one"
whats the matter?" asked Martin.
your leg Is broken. Say, what
were you thinking Of, anyway? Good
bye to you If you had hit the road.
You went clear across 1t in,o the soft
snow here"
Then Martin remembered it all, and
tried to tell it all at once, and tried
to jump up. But the doctor tanned
him down and splinted the leg, and
placed him with his wrecked ckees I'M
der the robes, and together they raced
az the road tina. led uD thu noun
ta6a.
An hour later the mother heard the
sound Of bells and saw the well-knowp
bays, foam-covered and steaming.
come at a lasgin trot up the last long
stretch across the fields.
They were none too soon. The best
efforts Of the three had failed to stop
the bleeding wholly and in another
hour or two the father must have sue
cumbed.
Three weeks later las the two Grip
pies sat in the family group by the
evening fire, the father said, Jim, tell
the men tomorrow to cut that straight
ash we've been saving so long-that
stands above the mill. l think there
may be some good skee stuff in it,
Youths Companion.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04
woman a sense of Humor,

Not a wife-Eve but plays up from
morning to night to Adams idea oil
his own Importance. She must assume
always that he is absolute monarch OF
the little domestic kingdom, no matter
how firmly i~ntrenched she be as the
power behind the throne, writes Inez
Haynes Gilmore in Success Magazine.
She must assume always hat he Is
the hub of his business world, that ii
would fly to pieces were he to absent
himself from 1t for a week-assume it
even though she knows that it is his
capable underclerk who keeps the
wheels moving.
And last, "Womsn have no sense OF
humor.' says-dces the man live who
has not said il? 1t is the oldest brom.
!dier eXtant. Yet man has always be,
fore him the irrefutable evidence that,
for countless generations, woman has
lived with him. How could she have
survived that ordeal minus the sense
Of humor?
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04

Wright machine, the Washington Star
says. He uses It as a glider in which
to gain experience In steering and
balancing an aeroplane.
The biplane Is twenty-three feet by
four and one-half feet, and is built OF
wood, covered with u~nbleached cotton.
1t has a front horizontal rudder and
a rear vertical cone. similar to the
Wright machine. 1t has one seat
right in the center Of the second low.
er plane. The entire craft weighs
about eighty pounds. 1t has no ell
CINE. and In order to fly young Bean
in gliding down hill.
He built the aeroplane himself, as
sisted by some of his companions from
the technical high school, where thew
learned sufficient OF practical construc.
ton work to enable them to build an
excellent machine.
After the machine was completed It
was taken by the young men to a
large field on a hill near the T street
bridge to give 1t its first trial. There
was considerable excitement In the
n~eighborhood when the machine first
appeared upon the street and many
persons followed 1t to the field to
watch the trial flights.
Mr.. Bean yes quite satisfied with
his experiments, which demonstrated
that the machine vas capable of sup.
porting its passenger, could be bal
anced and would respond to its rud-
ders. In order to lessen the work of
carrying 1t forward for a start he is
going to mount 1t on a truck made OF
bicycle wheels.
He explained that his machine Is not
a mere glider In the ordinary sense
Of the word, but an aeroplane without
an engine. in which. by using momen-
tum as a motive power, he expects to
make short flights down hill. Young
Bean Is not making these flights Just
for the fun of the thing, but with a
we'll defined purpose of acquiring ex-
perience in balancing and guiding an
aeroplane before attempting a fight in
one that is propelled by motor power
and which ascends to considerable
height. He believes that his method
OF learning the management Of an
aeroplane Is a logical and safe one.
An engine for an aeroplane costs
about $4,000. but he hopes to be able
to get n before very long, and by
that time he expects to have acquired
sufficient experience with his present
machine to be able to manipulate ono
that Is propelled by motor power.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04
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IAces were originally made for
mems wear.
Irrigation has literally reclaimed the
desert in California.
ROumanha has six million inhabit-
ants. Of whom thirty Thousand are
blind.
Most Of the large olive growers In
Spain have their own mills for the ex-
Traction OF the oil.
Tests by an eastern railroad have
demonstrated that it is possible for a
Engle locomotive to haul over 6,100
hons.
In Q potato growing contest in
0erbyshire, England, one competitor
got q yield OF 229 pounds from one
pound Of seed. cut into eighty sets.
Submarine sounding signals give
warming to vessels ten miles distant
Of the dreaded English bank at La
Plata River. Uruguay, where dense
fogs are frequent.
Consul Alfred A. Winslow reports
that work wa begun August 81 on
the first railway locomotive ever built
n Chile, At the works Of the Sociedad
de M~aestranzas y Contamination in Val
DAratso.
Asiatic Turkey had a civilization
thousands Of years ago. The interior
q That COUNTRY Is populated to-day by
eaGmers to whom modern knives and
forks are unknown; the spoons they
use are Of wood. and each family
makes it, own.
The burden Of taxation on the Jap
anese people for the present year, in
Guiding national and local taxes and
contribution to works OF irrigation
and to the repair Of damage caused
. public works by floods. shows an
average Of @22 q head of the popula-
tfon.
IN order to demonstrate that the
anti-Jewish feeling Is growing less In
Austria, the Philadelphia Exponent
ays: TT u well known that the dual
empire does not exclude Jews from
he r1nks OF ofhcers in the army, not
~ from the highest grade. A re-
oont return shows that the Austrian
Hmy contains one Jewish lieutenant
Held marshal. three major generals.
Ten colonies, eleven lieutenant colonels
and seventeen majors. besides a large
numbef OF oficers Of lower grade"
a Chicago dude applied for a posi-
ttpn 70 Phil Armour. The young pup
Made ono Of those vestmental surveys
oe tn old Z who ~thereupon said:
well. how do you like my looks. and
WGAk % you want?" '.Sir. IL you
UeaDe. my desire Il to sell sausage"
san1dths dude. oh. said old Phil,
- ~ you looked 2t me, I thought
80 fAnfIy had sent ron to measure
- q You, hnt they wouldn't listen
- yOu. 0h0w hin 4 Jehn."-Nsw
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04

switch or the turning Of a valve. A competitive test
was held at Winnipeg this year between eighteen makes
Of steam and gasoline-drawn gang plows. A 32-horse-
power engine hauling q gang Of twelve plows won the
gold medal for tho steam class, having plowed 3.6 acres
In one hour and two minutes. A 15-horsepower gaso-
line tractor plowed 1903 acres in one hour, fifteen and
onehalf minutes. Among the entries was a tractor
which could pull plows and other farm implements.
carry 1900 pounds over rough roads and furnish the
power to drive %threshing machines and presses.
There are now on the market disc harrows which
will pulverize the ground, turn burrows. cultivate. pile
dirt about plants or pull 1t away. An improvement in
the reaper ties wheat bundles with their own straw. A
corn picker grabs the ears from, the standing stalks.
husks and throws them into a wagon. Another ma
chine takes the corn In shocks, husks and delivers the
ears ready for the Smelling machine, while at the same
time cutting and %shredding the stalks, blowing the
shredded fodder through q pipe into the hay NOW, or
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04
ENGLISH WOMEN SMOKE CIGARS.

Mrs. Hubert Bland, Authoress, Gives
Minister an Awful Shock.
The eyes OF the American customs
officers who detained a woman for
smoking cigarettes would pop out Of
their heads II they knew to what ex-
tent the smoking habit has grown
among the women Of Mayfair, the
Washington Post says. The custom is
spreading with such alarming rapid
ity In society that the cigarette stage
has been passed, and small, Hight Gig
ars have become the fad.
Lady Dorothy Neville, the nonoge-
marian, was the first who discovered
that the dainty cigarette was altogeth-
er inadequate. Even at 80 Lady Do
rothy Invariably smokes a cigar after
luncheon and dinner. and, It Is said,
gets considerable comfort out of the
fad.
Although cigar smoking is largely
confined to the secrecy OF boudoirs, e.
Nesbit. the writer, in private life Mrs.
Hubert Bland, whose charming chill.
dren stories have great popularity on
both sides of the Atlantic, is a con-
irmed cigar smoker.
Recently. at the opening ceremony
Of a society bazaar and charity exhibit
ton, she shocked the white-cravated
non-conformist minister by saying:
Il have been so terribly rushed l
have not thought out a word OF my
speech. Would you mind my sitting
at your table to make notes?'
To the horror Of the clergyman, the
famous lady, who had come to open
his bazaar and speak words of encour-
agement to his congregation. opened a
cigar case, took out a fat cigar. light
ed 1t, and pulled contentedly in full
view Of the flock.
The fashionable jewelers. recognize
the growing habit by showing cigar
cases made Of gold and incrusted with
Jewels. suspended from wrist chains.
looking very much like vanity boxes.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04
SOME EARLY ~RA1LRoADINo.
an Innovation Not Well
Received by

BCAAsCOG0 a. kanOv0ttOR Not We'll
Received by Engineers.
In the early days OF railroads, says
Charles Frederick Carter In his recent
Interesting volume, When Railroads
Were New" the engineer was the au-
tocrat OF his train. and naturally con
SENTATIVE. as autOcrats commonly are.
He seldom welcomed an innovation,
even one as simple as the bell-cord,
first invented by Conductor Henry
Ayers In 1912. Previously there had
been no means of communication be-
tween the engine and the moving
train.
Conductor Ayers rugged up a cord
passing through the cars, with a stick
tied to the end that hung down in the
engine, n told his engineer that
when he saw that stick jerk up and
down, he was to stop. But Jacob
Harnel, who raj that engine, was a
slow, steady, obstinate German, with a
sense of his own dignity, and he con
sidered the jerking stick an intrusive
lmpertinence.
He quietly cut it lose, and tied up
the cord.
The next day he repeated the per.
Torrance.
The third day Ayers told him he
would leave that stick and obey it's
signal or he, Ayers, would know the
reason why.
1t was again Gu loose, and at the
first stop Ayers, with fire in his eye,
and after a tough fight, thoroughly
thrashed him.
The primitive stick was soon re
placed by a bell, and the device was
complete.
Engineer Isaac Lewis rebelled with
equal vigor against the first attempt
to run a train by Geographic orders. at
a time when the telegraph, then in its
infancy, was still so little used that
messages began formally, Dear Sir"
and concluded with, Yours Respect
fully"
He was running a belated west
bound train one day in 1852, when 1t
occurred to his superintendent,
Charles Mino., who was on board, to
telegraph from Turner's, where they
had failed to meet an express, to know
If it had yet reached the station ahead.
It had not. and then he wrote the first
| Geographic train order issued in this
country:
"To operator at Goshen. Hold east.
bound train till further orders.
Charles Minot, superintendent"
He then wrote another order. which
ne handed the conductor, directing the
engineer to go ahead, regardless of the
express.
Isaac Lewis merely inquired If they
thought he looked like a fool, and de-
clined to bulge.
Neither persuasion nor threats
availed, and when Mr.. Minot at length
ordered him down from his engine and
took his place as engineer, he went
instantly to the last seat of the rear
car, and sat there. tensely awaiting the
head-on collision which did not hap.
pen.
By repeating his telegraphic orders
and inquiries, Minot ran the train
through to Port Jarvis, and saved two
hours, a result which soon led to the
! announcement that all trains on the
Erie road thereafter would move under
Geographic orders.
The engineers, under Lewis lead,
protested at the crazy freak" but
hey had to yield.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04

! @fDlToRlAlS2 S.! !
Opinions Of Great Papers Oh important Subjects. I

into stacks, ready to be pressed. Mechanical contriv-
ances more or less in general use on the farm saw
wood, pump water. run cream separators, the ohurn and
the washing machine, shear sheep. gin and compress
cotton.
With the increase In the prosperity Of the farmers
one may expect the agriculturist soon to have his own
little electric lighting plant, his water and sewage sys-
TENS, deliberately equipped repair shops and automobile
garages-Toledo Blade.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04
JOY o. LIFE,

Oh! the Joy O. Life she calls me from the valley.
Oh! the Joy o Life she halls N 9 from the height.
And her voice is like the thrill of the thrush when noon Is sein
And her laughter Is the lifting OF delight.
I follow through the sunshine and the moonshine-
(Oh! I have seen the waving of her handy
In the paths that know the fleet, flying touches Of her feet
At the music Of her hooking OF command.
My frend-I left him fasting at my Threshold
My sweetheart is another mans to wife.
For it's fare We we'll my own, and It's laugh and turn alone,
When a man has heard the voice of Joy O. Life
UTheodosia Garrison.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04

activities that equip them to become statesmen and
scholars, men of individuality and of character apart
from their professions.
VIII 1t not DO well. DR.. Lowell asks. to seize this
freshman by the scrun, throw him among his mates,
and, with the aid of some thoughtful upper class men,
bump into his head different ideas, ideals, hopes and
aspirations than those that prevail with the pasty-faced
"roooters' on the football b~leachers? Let him and
them be made to feel that the exercise, physical and
mental, is for them. and that there are prizes to be
won in both fields.
II DR.. Lowell can bring this about he will have
changed for the better. and considerably, the life of
students In the United States.-New York Times.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04
SOVEREIGNTY OF THE POLE.

~ T LAST the North Pole-the goal Of so
much heroic enort-seems to have been
W. achieved. To-day it Is the scientists who
- are busy, tomorrow the lawyers will be-
gin, for law follows the explorer like his
YG&40 shadow into each new region which he
occupies, and dispenses its rights, It's du-
ties and its privileges. " " The territorial sovereignty,
for whatever 1t is worth, belongs presumably in this
case to the United States. The claim suggested for
Denmark on the ground that the pole is a part of
Greenland can hardly be maintained, since Peary has
proved Greenland to be an island.
Any pretensions by the British crown in right OF
Canada, as to which Sir Gilbert Parker questioned the
Minister. are as unsubstantial. They would be-
long. II set up, to the same category of claims as that
Of the Spaniards to engross the whole of America south
Of the Gulf of Mexico, or that of the King of France
to monopolize the valleys of the Ohio and the Mississtp-
pi. But there Is what lawyers would call a prelim-
mary objection, which goes to the root of the matter.
Can there be any question of territorial sovereignty II
tho only territory is an open polar sea? Cook sunk
his cylinders with the Stars and Stripes In it on an ice
hos, and Peary seems to have planted his flag on the
same precarious and shifting foundation, and the sea,
1t has long been settled, cannot become the exclusive
of any nation.-British Law Journal.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04
The Truth at Last.

ooh, doctor. is it YER dangerous ia
swallow cement?"
Very dangerous indeed"
And gutta percha, doctor?"
Very serious"
and porcelain-oh. doctor. is it
very p%oisonous:"
Excuse me, madam: have you at
tempted suicide?"
mo; / swallowed one Of my false
.eesh."--Pearson's Weekly.
You can tell q spinster by her hap
~ and eontented look. sometimes
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04
BRAINS VS.. "a

men at the English Cambridge respect
each others brains as the men at Cam
bridge, Mass. and at every other college
In America revere the muscles Of a few
of their fellows. The Englishmen are in
the honor schools; they enter the intel
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04
THE NEW HIRED A

HE perennial complaint of farmers that
labor is difficult to get and all but I'M
possible to retain has greatly stimulated
the ingenious to invent machinery to take
the place OF the hired man. The Amer1-
can farm of the future-if the signs are
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04

the feasibility OF relying on a citizen soldiery to defend
the land and its institutions against foreign and do
nestle attack. Americans were the first to abolish titu-
lar distinctions and to deprive social eminence Of any
support save character or the consensus of those who
choose to consider themselves as socially elect.
1t was an American who invented the steamship. An
American invented the telegraph. An American invent
ed the telephone. An American invented the electric
light. An American invented the reaper, which makes
1t possible to feed the billion and more people on this
planet. 1t was an American, too, who invented the
sewing machine. Americans also were the conquerors
of pain when they discovered how, by the use of sui
phuric ether. the tenderest human nerve could be made
i%nsensible to the surgeons steel.-Boston Globe.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04
AMERICAN

founded the first government un-
der which all men were equal before tho
law. Since the Declaration Of Independ-
ence was published to the world the dem
ocratic idea has hourly received new i'm
pulse, until now 1T seems Irresistible.
Amarican s vera the first TO damnnstrata
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-03-04

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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1910-03-22
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barter Irbeit.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1910-03-22
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bon 3. 8. 9uete. $50 Wain Str.,
Subuque, Soipa.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1910-03-22
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