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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-09-02

Vermillion-An unusual operation,
has been performed upon a young
son of Jasper Hixon of this place.
A piece of diseased bone was removed
from his leg and a chicken bone graft.
ed in it's place. 1t gives promise OF
being entirely successful.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-09-02
Dynamite Kills Fifteen.

Oyn1tnIte NIII8 FITteen.
Mainz, .Germany.-Fifteen soldiers
are reported to have been buried by
a premature explosion OF dynamite
during the maneuvers OF the pioneer
Ing troops at Sechtshmerberg Friday.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-09-02
NatA Mermaid.

He-What.s that I hear? You want
moremnew shoes?
She-Certainiys I cant 90 around
without shoes. When you married me
you didn't think Q were getting Z
mermaid. did your
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-09-02

The state department of education
is SO rushed at the present time ex-
amining papers of applicants for
teachers certificates thai other work
has been side-tracked. There is 4
! reat scarcity of teachers It srbe-
s'iosed , state s viii hare &c sreeeivs
publications from the outside.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-09-02
Shock DAMAGE. Houses.

Algters.-A shock of earthquake
was felt at Aumale, 55 miles southeast
Of here. A number Of houses were
damaged.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-09-02

Deadwood - All records in the
Black Hills for the first snow
storm have Deen broken. The fall In
some places in the Hills amounted to
over an inch. 1t was accompanied by
a temperature that reached rs de-
grees and a killing frost last night
thai destroyed all vegetation.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-09-02

Sioux City Live Stock Market.
Sioux City.-Saturday's quotations
on the Sioux City live stock market
follow: Top beeves. $7.15. Top hogs,
$50.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-09-02
sMilIina to Prove.

Dr. Wiley pronounces the kiss harm
less. But. girls. YOU don't need to
take Dr. Wtley's word for It altogeth-
er: we believe we can prove 1t to you
satisfactorily II the occasion requires.
Boston Herald.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-09-02
Plague In Ecuador.

Guayaquil, Ecuador.-Ten cases of
bubonic plague were reported during
the first fortnight OF August.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-09-02
5s=SEW.sk & ths euslnessHAoens.

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8 ..laatd not' 80
g1eny. m New Mexico have con
64hs&ss34le ~ 49, Sasss I
6as*svEko xas sheawalkirg all
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
New Light On a Famous
Political Forgery

rooms in the hotel at which we we're
stopping for the convention said Cen
eral Carroll I'VE were warm personal
friends, and we sat up quite late the even
ing before the convention met. chatting
with politicians. and I think it was about
? o'clock in the morning when We went TO
bed. The situation as then all in the air.
Nobody could tell how the convention
would be organized.
AT 10 o'clock the next morning, there
came a series of very loud knocks upon
Mr.. Frenchs door. They awakened me,
for the door between our rooms was wide
open; and as / looked at my watch TO
growing sleepily because he had been dis
turbed But the hall boy shouted over the
transom: Its telegram for you. Mr..
French So he arose. opened the door,
and took the telegram.
Il heard him tear open the envelope,
and. an instant later heard him utter a
very excited exclamation Of surprise,
which sounded suspiciously like, well, I'll
be damned" Then he came hurrying into
my room Here. Howard he said ex-
citedy. 4 wish you would look at this.
He handed me the telegram and l. read
that he had been authorized by Collector
Robertson to act as his proxy in the
State committee meeting. The telegram
was signed William II. Robertson.
Evening journal., 1910-05-21

battle Stephen V. French. personal
friend Of the President, appeared before
the State committee holding a teiegraphic
proxy which entitled him to serve in place
of William H. Robertson. collector OF the
port Of New York This proxy determined
the control Of the convention and assured
the nomination Of Folger.
But TO ger he'd not leen nominated
many hours before Collector Robertson
was out with a statement denouncing as
a forgery the proxy presented by Mr..
French. Instantly the telegram became a
powerful issue in the campaign, helping
materially to defeat Folger. And as for
French. though he denied forging It, he
became known far and wide derisively as
Proxy" French. he bee lme an outcast,
almost. and at last died practically un-
known.
Now, nearly twenty-eight years after
the forged telegram. which helped to
shake great events, was sprung, 1 am able
to offer some hitherto unpublished evil
dence in support of Mr.. French's dec
laration that he did not forge the tele-
gram. that he was made to suffer inno-
Gently. My authority is General Howard
S, Carroll. who was Republican candidate
for Cougressman-at-larga i'm 1889, and is
to-day the head of one of the big shipping
interests of New York harbor.
"Mr French and l had connecting
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
DON'T BLAME THE COMET

HgomsTN n HE failure OF his majesty, the comet, to
Zounds make good by appearing in orderly
decent manner at the proper time, should
M c'be blamed on the comet itself, but the
y experts and professors who with their predic
ths aions leaped from obscurity to general news
WAS PAPER fame for few days. The comet said moth
Hday lg about visiting the world, or coming in con-
lct with any one here. The comet so far as
N un known, has been attending to its own busi-
,ltemm.ss caring a fig whether Roosevelt talks
lows: does not talk politics, or whether the Bal
sseozger controversy is to continue for five years
man unhve hundred. The comet did nothing at all
crease sexcite suspicion, but brigade of busy-body
s2o767oessors stirred up the commotion, predicted
circulate the comet would show itself and possibly
fAis''ild shower of meteors in our direction We
Flyiink however, that the comet is too big to be
BY Bothered by such trifes ......
OF course the comet that didn't appear was
" given great reception Some superstitious folks
feared the end of the world had come the or
dnarY citizen not much disturbed, one way
or the other. the travellers of the Great White
WAY of New York held their comet parties and
celebrated in booze
The talk about the comet however, should
teach us lesson of how small the world is af-
Ter all compared with the universe, and how puny
man and bis opinions are
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
.1MlI lIllIllIIHllIlI1ITITIIlI
Overcoming Diseases.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
The discovery of the cause and prob
ably the remedy of infantile paralysis
not only indicates the steady progress
of science i'm fighting disease, but also
furnishes an example of the way IN
which this progress is made by means
that have been denounced as inhumane
and cruel
lnfantile paralysis, while not a COM
mon disease is dreaded one because
it recurs at intervals, so such epidemics
being on record in the past 20 years. 1t
attacks infants, inlicting a mortality
of to 10 per cent. and crippling for
life IS per cent of the cases DR. Simon
FleNner by his Investigations has dis
covered the germ and by a series of in
EQUATIONS has established immunity i'm
the subjects Of his experiments namely,
monkeys
1t is seen thus that this discovery of
the cause and cure of disease just as
it seemed to attain the maximum threat
To- child life was reached by expert
mems on animals. otherwise. vivisection.
The lives of animals were sacrificed
that the lives of children in future gem
crations might be saved. IL is pos
siblo to take the view consistently that
the animal world has equal rights 10
life, so that we must not take il away
for the benefit of tho human race In
that case we must stop killing animals
for food. We do not see how any less
ultra ground than that win support
Evening journal., 1910-05-21

Louisville Couricr-Journal.
A good samaritan in Chicago has pro-
vded a thousand basins to be placed on
sidewalks in front of residents and
stores to supply water for dogs and
birds. The sabins viii be stationed at
points where merchants and residents will
agree to keep them filled. Some of the
argcst Of the department stores have
volunteered to see that Tie basins are sup
piled with water
The physician who is the originator OF
the plan thinks it will prevent a good
many "mad-dog' scares. Dogs grow fran
tic from thirst, he says and run about in
search of water. and this is the genius Of
most of the "mad-dcg' excitement. The
theory OF the physician may or may not
he correct, but he is doing a sensible and
humane act in distributing his basins and
they probably will be well patronized-by
the dogs at least.
In many of our American cities there
is too little attention given TO supplying
water to slake the thirst of om animal
friends I'm fact the human animal
doesn't always find it an easy matter TO
get a drink OF water when he chances to
be "a stranger within the gates" Private
philanthropy has supplied drinking foun-
tains Ia various cities where there has
been public neglect to do so.
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
THE TOLL GATE HoLD-UP.

0UR morning neighbor says that the agita
~ tion in favor of making all highways free
is growing and it should grow. Great wonder
is it that people living in the country have con
sented so long to be held up by turnpike COM
panies whose roads are no better than the coun-
ty roads should be. We have frequently spoken
OF this toll gate nuisance and the agitation which
has been started should be continued until every
toll gate is abolished
In this age and in this county the idea of hav-
ing toll gates is ridiculous.
If you start towards Philadelphia YOU are
held up by toll gate keeper If you go up the
Concord or the Kennett road the toll gate keep
er confronts you
Why do people pay county taxes if the chief
thing they get in return is the presence of the
toll gate keeper?
All the newspapers in the city should make
war on the toll gate nuisance.
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
SATURDAY, MAY 81. 1910
DEMOCRATS AND REACTION.

~ HE vote in the New York Senate the other
4 day on the bill providing for direct pr-
maries to nominate candidates for Office was re-
garded as a test between the conservative and
the reactionary forces of New York State The
newspapers which represent the views of Wall
Street and reaction opposed the direct primary
measure. Just as they vigorously fought other
proposals of Governor Hughes. The measure
was defeated in the Senate. Twenty-ene Repub-
licans and two Democrats voted for the bill and
thirteen Republicans and twelve Democrats vot-
ed against it. Two Republicans out Of every
three were for progress as represented by this
proposed legislation, and six Democrats out OF
every seven were Tor reaction
The reform, therefore, has been defeated by
combination so often witnessed in politics The
machines of the two parties worked together.
Their leaders arc opposed to direct primaries be-
cause they believe such nominations would les
sen the power of the leaders to control There
fore they united TO defeat this reform as they
will do to defeat all other reforms that have been
proposed by Hughes
The surprising thing TO some people is the at
titude of the Democrats. All but two of them
voted against the proposal to give the people
more direct hand in the control of political mat
tiers. And yet the Democratic leaders are urg-
ing the people of New York 10 turn the state over
to the Democrats although the Democrats would
be far more unprogressive and more subject to
boss dctation than the Republicans have been.
The effort OF the Democrats 10 pose as lelOllh-
ers or as men of progressive ideas is becoming
more and more feeble One might as we'll try to
believe that the leopard will change his spots as
to think that the Democrats will become pro-
gressive party in any Eastern or Southern State
In Delaware, for instance, the Democrats have
had ample opportunity to show that they are
up with the times and that they want to do
something, but the opportunity has been wasted
in pettiness in handling public affairs and in
squabbling over the unimportant things-the of
fees. They have given the impression here as
well as elsewhere that their sole purpose as a
political organization is TO secure the offices
The New York Democrats by their vote in
the Senate have proved that they are for reac-
tion and they will prove it in Delaware if they
get chance.
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
Chatty Stories OF the Day

Senator Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee says he has
tie fountain Of eternal youth SAYS that he
has discovered how he may live 100 years.
'I am absolutely certain that with the aid and CON
my constituents in Tennessee can live TO be
100 years Old said the Senator.
1t is just this Time flies fast here in Wash
ingon tnat the century mark is reached. be
reached I should say, without fellow knowing IT,
have beer here three years and it does like
three weeks.
Campaigns for reelection with the most
astounding rapidty. They say the a senator Is
six years think Il is all a mistake. / think the
last from about October until May and then
another campaign.
IT my constituents just keep sending back
here to Washington shall never die senatorship is
the fountain Of eternal youth old Ponce de Leon came
along with his quest lie should have been
elected the Senate and e-elected continuously as
long wanted to keep coming Washington.
and he woulo have located the fountain OF youth
uashiDSion Times
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
BY
" Holland "

.As we stood there discussing the tele
gram. the only thing that occurred to ui
was that Judge Robertson was getting
ready to resume friendly relations with
the Arthur administration, and that thh
was his way Of showing it. We nevel
doubted the good faith Of the telegram
which French showed after breakfast Il
various Republican leaders. and after
wards presented to the state committee
as his authority to act for Mr. Robertson
There wasn't person who saw It wht
doubted its authenticity.
when the word did come that the tele,
gram had been forged poor French. was
thnnderstruck 1t Will ruin me politically
no one will not believe that did not put
up the job myself he said to me, adding,
prophetlcally. Tt will make a martyr Of
me It did-poor French with his broSeu
heart dying a few years later 'unhonored
and unsung.'
Personally, I consider that my proof
of his innocence Of the forgery is com.
plete; 7 know that Stephen B. French
never sent himself that forged telegram.
But who did send # will probably remain
forever an unsolved mystery Of American
politics"
Copyright, 1910, by f. j. Edwards. All
rights reserved.)
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
OTHER THINGS BESIDES SENATOR.

M In Of progressive ideas should be nomi-
IL mated for the Delaware Legislature by
both parties. 1t would be good to see
many new faces in the Assembly Let us see if
we cannot have some legislation in the interests
of the people and for live and progressive Della
ware. There are many things of Importance in
addition to the election of a Senator The peo-
pie of this State for example want good roads.
The election of a United States Senator is
merely an incident of the session, but the Dem
ocrats are already preparing to make it the chief
thing. Their candidates for the Legislature are
to be named according as they favor this or that
man for Senator.
What folly
This State has been held back because Of the
Vaccinations of ambitious political leaders, and
a victory for the Democrats would mean that
things would come to a dead standstill.
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
With the Photographers

man can get tangled up with whisky and pull him
self again. but when It's politocs he's in beyond
redemption.-New York Press.
Some girls ambitious 10 make record
proposals that If they have burglar they will put him
on the lst.-New York Press
AS proof that women are eXtravagant call your
attention the fact that many widow does $50 worth
Of grieving over the loss OF thirty-cent man-IIi
City (<an) New Era
'napdoodle' has into such general
use that We have added Il TO vocabulary. You
can get a good idea Of what hapdoode is by reading
this column each week.-Horton tkan) Headlight.
The future OF arbitration remdy for is surely
promising when two belcose South American
republics prepare to it.-New York World.
Evening journal., 1910-05-21

WASHINGTON. u. NJ
the
the
rln alow
er Of the steamship
the lives property Of American and
revolutionary
lombard the town If the insurgents did not sur
Buehed advised the State
Somen and mounted guns on board
o made
and the American consulate He also reported
had replied
steamship Dictator Orleans prevented
established blockade
there
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
Personal and Pertinent

one can hardly imagine Sir Hiram Maxim who cele-
brated his birthday recently I'm the prize
and yet confessed that his young days ne thought
of adopting pugistc career. But when he IA
years old his inventive faculty made itsef manifest
AS a lad of IA he invented a wheel hull and a clock
work mausetrap: evolved the first ncandescent
electric lamp in 1854 kicking him the idea
which ultimately resulted I'm the deadly Maxim.
Il have always heard" remarked a visiting English
woman, that tipping common i'm America
with but when I find Americans tipping their
maids button up their backs have my doubts
New York sun.
Evening journal., 1910-05-21

It was in 1852 that the name of Grover
Cleveland first became a household one
throughout the country In that year ne
was elected Governor Of Now York over
Charles j. Foger oy plurality of neary
two hundred thousand. Two years later
he was Presidont-elect. his second phe-
nomcnal elective victory resulting directly
from his first. which was due in no small
measure to the famous forged telegram of
1852
That telegram cropped mp when the
Republican State convention was gather
ing to select its eubernatonal candidate A
desperate struggle was under way to se-
cure control of the convention through its
organization by the State committee The
friends OF President Arthur We're backing
his Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Folger.
for the nomination. AT the height of the
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
PREPARING no aSoAKn ME PuBLIc.

GONE of the experts of the Interstate Com
~ meroe Commission have tried to figure out
how much the railroads going to soak the
public by the increased rates on passengers and
freight of which notice has been given and which
the roads declare to be necessary because of the
increased wages they arc paying their men and
the higher cost Of materials"
Beyond reaching the general conclusion that
the roads will fully reimburse themselves with
wide margin Of increased profit. making the
public bear the burden, the experts unable to
reach a definite decision. The complexity of the
question is so great with the multitudinous rates
involved in the uncertainty as to the amount of
traffic that may be expected to proceed at any
one figure that it is impossible to arrive at
curate estimate
1t has been calculated by the railroads them
selves that their pay rolls will be increased by
advances already promised, by $5o,Ooo,ooo year.
Other contemplated increases, it is said, will
bring the total up to about $oo,oOo,ooo.
The increased rates announced ranged from
80 to per cent, the larger advances being made
up on the higher classes Of goods and luXuries.
The gross earnings for the year ended June 80,
1907 of the three great routes of railroads oper-
ating in the territory east of the Indiana and Hi
nois State lines, and north of the Ohio and Po-
tomac rivers amounted to $1Io7437,I6S. On
this basis if the increases in rates only amount
paying out $oo,oOoOOO in increased wages would
still have a margin of $I7,oooooo to meet other
increased expenses and the cost of high living.
Evening journal., 1910-05-21

More than 200 school Fairgrounds will be
opened in New York City during July and Au-
to get away from the city The Fairgrounds will
be in charge of principals and teachers Of exDer-
ience in gymnasium work. Every city should
have Fairgrounds. Wilmington has made a be-
ginning in this matter, and is ahead of some
other cities but we should go ahead more rapidly
than we have done
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
New News
of Yesterday

This daily series OF anecootes and Incl
dents that throw new. interesting and fire.
quently dramatic light en- famous events
and personalities OF tie past have been
forty years Of more or less n.mate ac-
quaintance with many OF the cOuntry's
ecdote or incident is fresh from Mr. Ed
wards notebook. and, either ia whole or
In part. it constitutes NEW NEWS OF
YESTERDAY, garnered from the men
who made the news-the history-or from
equally authoritative sources. AS inn
portant contributions Of the Human In
terest" sort to American history, these
articles have distinctive value all their
own.
Evening journal., 1910-05-21

Colonel Bryan has entered the arena as
stirring advocate of local option-that is the
right of the people to vote on the question of
whether liquor shall be sold in a given commu-
nifty. In his address the colonel did not come
right out and say that he was a prohibitionist
but he hinted very strongly in that direction. All
of which would seem to take the colonel definite
ly out OF the running as a candidate for Presi-
dent on the ticket of either of the great parties,
However, Mr.. Bryan may be the nominee of the
and then there would be chance
to test his personal popuarity at the polls
Evening journal., 1910-05-21

Editorial
Opinion
Water For Reasts and Rlrds.

the position that scientific experiments
with animals must be stopped
Evening journal., 1910-05-21

On Monday Mr.. Edwards will tell Of
"The Puzzlins Problem That Edison
Solved in a Moment"
Evening journal., 1910-05-21

The United Pub
fishers Association
through It's Presi-
dent, Mr.. Arthur
Koppell has ex-
am lnod THE
JOURNALS cir
culation and Mr..
Koppeli offers to
wager $1,000 OF his
own money, ana
undertake to prove
that THE EVEN
ING JOURNAL
has the largest
paid circulation Of
any paper printed
in Wilmington.
Evening journal., 1910-05-21
oFFIcIAL ENDORSEMENTS.

The Association
of American Ad-
vertisers
X . The Association Of American : srest advertisers
f,Advertisers (New York City has OF this country.
Examined certified TO the circulation naorsss h
o. this publication. Only the figures o. papers submit
Circuson contained in itt ssport it's examination
gaarnnteed hy the Association. a ns+,, y
En =. As4ssaa s. :$,a3 81, ;,.::::3: i5:$.::
? 10 - S01eNN' mo I2 has been
49,. a issued 20 this
Evening journal., 1910-05-21

The United Publishers Assocla-
fIon OF New York City has investl-
GATED, and certlfies to, the olrcu-
Iation Of this publication. These
fanis have been established, and
n guaranteed TO advertisers.
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The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-03-10
FIGURES THAT BEWILDER.

Figuring railroad men as one
class, from the ebony porter to
the pompous president, the fra
ternity draws an average of $55
a month each. There are l, $780,
900 railroad employees and they
draw 81, OOO,OOO,OOO a year in
wages in the United States. The
number of employees has increas-
ed about 81 per cent, and wages
have increased IL percent, stead
lily each year.
In the last 10 years Z, 100000
600 railroad tickets were pur-
chased-in other words, 7,000,-
100000 rides a year were taken
on passenger coaches. Roughly
speaking, this means that every
man, woman and child rode on
an average of nine times a year.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-03-10

For every soul in the nation Is
tons OF freight was hauled last
year. In 10 y ears the weight Of
the locomotive has doubled and
the capacity Of freight cars has
increased 100 per cent.
There are now in use in the
United States $1,000 locomo-
tives, while thecapacity of freight
cars is II, OOO,O0O tons.
Ii one began to add up the
total capitalization and the sum
of watered stock the reader would
be drowned in a maze Of figures.