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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
A EYE WAS on HIM.

Downcnst skipper Got u Shock
Which He Thinks Was Mcrmeric
Ever get mesmerized by a fish,"
said the skipper. according to an ex-
change. NO? Well, I have been many
q time. 1t was a shark that did it.
81 don't know the scientific name Of
this particular variety of shark, but
1t abounds on the Nantucket shoals.
When full grown they are from eight
to ten feet long and weigh from 500
to 700 pounds. They have SAY teeth,
five rows of them, about an inch and a
half long, and they can flatten the lot
and chew their gums. But for a hui
man being the peril is in the eyes.
Il don't believe in ~man-eating sharks.
I believe that If a shark is in bloody
water he gets excited and will snap
at anything he sees. But let one of
those fellows get his eye on you and
you don't know where you are at.
They have a habit of coming up
alongside of your live boxes and lying
there while you fish. Then when you
get anything on your line the shark
has 1t of before you get a chance to
pull.
Il remember the first time 1 saw
one Of them. I was a boy at the time,
and one of these fellows had come up
alongside OF my live box and / put
my hand out and touched hts back. He
didn't seem to mind 1t at all, but a
minute later when I stood up I caught
sight Of his eyes, or mi Of them.
Wei. Or, I just tumblsd hack In the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
AZTEC RELICS GENUINE.


Indians OF Mexico city nave heeh
Selling Real Antiques to Tourists.
Tourists and curio buyers in Mexico
City have for years been made to be-
lieve they were experiencing the eX-
Guisite sensation Of being humbugged
by fake Aztec idol collectors, when in
reality they have been fooled all along
with the genuine article.
This discovery has been made by
Prof. William Niven of Cuernavaca and
Mexico City, who has given years to
the study of the fossilized remains OF
the ancient Inhabitants of Mexico, says
an exchange. Mr.. Niven has recently
discovered the Indians at work in a
treasure house of buried Mexican pot
terry, idols and similar remains some
miles west of Mexico City. which they
have beer marketing on the streets of
Mexico City for years.
AS it has been taken for granted
that these objects were modern imita-
lions and prices were cut down in &C
cordance, the Indians have fallen in
with the humor and found it more
profitable and quicker to let the buyer
dc his own sizing up of the antique
value of the curio.
However, Mr.. Niven was surprised to
find among the number of such objects
purchased by himself several that pore
urmistakable signs of great age. Curl
Jus pieces Of pottery purchased by him
on the streets had become of great
hardness, n to show a high degree
of petrification that must have re-
CURED. not centuries. but thousands OF
years.
Questioning the vendors he has been
shown where they were dug. The place
Ia some miles west of Tacuba. The
diggings show that the Indians nave
been exploiting the mounds for many
years.
Skulls have been found that possess
peculiar anthropological value. show
ing a type of people entirely different
in the structure and shape of their
skulls from any other before found.
Mr.. Niven believes that the numer
GUS heads and faces of burned clay
represent family portraits and were
employed for similar purposes for
which photographs are now used.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

is on. lie wins. But to quit When you nave won anu
give your opponents a chance to win their money back
is more or less Of a disgrace. He plays again-and
loses. Then he wants a chance to get his money back.
He first plays only in the evening-an hour after supper.
Then, if he can get away from work at 4 o'clock and
play until supper time, he will do SO, just as scores OF
government clerks do, where the hours are easy. SatuI-
day night the game goes on until daylight.
If four men start in to play poker with $40 each or
q $1,000 each, it is just a matter of mathematical cal
culation before all of them will have nothing. All they
have will go for cigars and drink and the midnight
lunch, which they would not need if they went to bed at
a reasonable hour. Do not imagine that all the gam
bling is done in the cities. Hardly a village in America
is free from the scourge.
Gambling means blurred vision, weak muscles, shaky
nerves. Loss of sleep, lack Of physical exercise, irregu-
lar meals, bad air, excitement, form a devils monopoly
of bad things and the end is disgrace. madness, death
and the grave. Boys, we need all the brains we have
in our work. If by concentration and cutting out folly
we succeed in a degree, we do well. But do not be
lieve we can reasonably hope for success unless we elm
mate the pasteboard proclivities. This is a cold bust
ness proposition.-Chicago Examiner.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
The Irregular verb ..ro Be-,

In one of the Senate cloak-rooms dur
ing a recent session, the talk turned,
says a writer in the Troy Press, on
the old ante-bellum negro Of the South
and his amusing originalities in the
use Of the English language.
Senator Taylor, of Tennessee, said
the finest example he knew Of vas the
remark made by an old negro whose
worthless son was married secretly.
The old man heard of it and asked
the boy if he was married.
Il amt sayin' l amt" the boy re-
piled.
NOW, you, 'Rastus," stormed the old
man, Il amt askin' you is you amt;
l is askin' you amt you Isl"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

boat and was as helpless as a jelly
fish out of water.
II don't now how to explain it. The
eyes of this fish are no bigger han
the point of your little finger, but there
is something that comes out of them
that makes you tumble all in a heap.
Many a time after hat did l have a
similar experience, and l know of a
lot of men who have felt the same eff
feet. The only explanation l could
suggest is that the sharks eye has
some sort Of mesmeric power"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
BE A GOOD LISTENER.
Guest Who Will BE silent Is in De
mnnd by Clever Hostess.


Be a good listener. If you can't
talk, listen. Don't chatter. says the
North American. Guests have been
hidden forth to dine for their listen
ing propensities alone. The cautious
hostess Is a veritable Charles Lamb
In her appreciation of ears. They are
valuable appendages indeed, and should
be strenuously cultivated by those who
only jabber when they talk.
T. We can't all talk; to some of us it
is almost a physical impossibility to
get out a sensible word in
We may be entertaining enough to our
selves. but let something definite in the
way Of conversation be expected OF us
IN an assemblage and we throw up
u hands.
It's only a form of stage fright, this.
We could perfectly we'll enter into the
argument that's going round the fes-
tive board il something would only
let us, but fear, the monster, holds us
in his grip.
Enforced silence draws one inward
and the tongue cleaves to the roof OF
the mouth; the very lips are sealed.
All the air about n seems a panied
witness TO ones discomfort. Every
thing has got alive and taken on a crit
ical attitude, but is ominously silent
while It thinks of you-on.y you-and
not another living. breathing soul. But
IL you keep on letting the quiet thicken
round you it's going to get very dense,
indeed.
Break the spell always. but. better
still, prevent it from settling over you.
Learn the interested listener part and
you won't be in the enter Of the stage
enough to fiuster you.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

AIS mead OF the laboratory at the University OF Brus-
sells made a similar investigation on the flesh eating and
nonfesh eating students, and he reports that in endur-
ance the nonneSh eaters surpassed the meat eaters from
so to 200 per cent. They also found that the vegetar.
ians recuperated from fatigue far more quickly than
the meat eaters, hence this great authority recognized
the nonheSh plan as the best system for workingmen.
How often we hera the expression that a certain man
is as strong as a Turk" And those who have seen a
Turkish porter fling a heavy trunk unaided upon his
shoulders will do we'll to remember that these men rare
ly taste flesh food in any form whatever. George Allen,
the man who walked a thousand miles across England
and Scotland in seventeen days and a few hours, outdis-
tancing his flesh eating rival by nearly seven days, was
a strict vegetarian.
The Rev. Newell Dwight Hills says: "A little fruit,
a little cereal and wheaton bread, a glass of milk
these are within the reach of all, even the poorest la.
borer; anything more is at the peril of the eater"
1t is more than likely that if several hundred thou
sand workingmen shall carry out their present resolu-
ton to live without meat for a couple of months half
Of them will experience SO much benefit that they will
continue the experiment indefinitely.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
Nicaraxua TO Date.

1--WE have decided to shoot you,' said
the Nicaragua Official to an American.
But my nationality"
"Oh. that's easily arranged. II We
find we have made a mistake we win
apologize to your government later.
when your government makes u.s."
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
PLAYING CARDS FOR MONEY.
~ Ebert Hubbard.

AS a cold business proposition, let me give
you this: | would not trust an amateur gam
bier as far as you could fling Taurus by the
tail. The amateur gambler is not necessarily
a bad man-primarily his intents are honest.
He plays first simply for recreation; then, to
add interest, the game transforms itself into
From this to betting all the money
he has is a very easy evolution when the fever
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

rest during the hours OF te n1Snt. Man IS the only
rebel against the memorable law.
Many are the men, and women, too, who go to bed at
2 or 8 o'clock in the morning and then wonder why
they can accomplish so little. All our great men, in every
line of activity, early realize the value OF time by max
ing the best use of the morning hours. Among the an
clients, they who lay abed in the morning We're branded
with the stigma Of shame.
Gladstone was ever up with the lark. Leo, the great
est of all the popes. was an early riser. So was Bis
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
Mi.,ake. Will Happen.

Lady Ito her sister. a doctor)-
There; 1 cooked a meal for the nrss
time today ana I made q mess OF Il
Sister-Well. dear, never mind, ito
nothing. I lost my nrst patisAG-
Nisgsnde Blaetter.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for
children teething, %softens the gums, re-
duces Inflammation, allays pain, cures
wind collie. Csc q bottle.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

To sum up in percentage the SIX
leading cereals show a yield of 7.6 per
cent greater han last year. and only
4 per cent below the sum Of the rec
ord years in each.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
IS FLESH FOOD ESSENTIAL TO MAN?
By DIR. David pauISOu.

The fact that thousands of working men
are temporarily adopting a nonflesh dietary
naturally raises the practical question as to
what extent flesh food is really essential for
health, strength and endurance. The reCult
of this experiment, carried out on such a large
scale, may yet prove to be a greater contribu-
ton of popular dietetics than even its infu-
ence on the market prices.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

Constipation causes many serious
diseases. 1t is thoroughly cured by
Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One
a laxative. three for cathartic.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

These days /. seems to be more i'm.
portant to have an old mahogany Ia.
Bile that belonged to q grandmothes
than to have had the grandmothsr.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
EARLY RISING SUCCESS.
Rv DR.. Madison c Peters

BENJAMIN Franklin said: Six hours sleep
for a man, seven for a woman and eight for
a fool"
l advise you to take eight and get at least
one to two hours Of the eight before mid
night. Night is the God-appointed time for
rest. The birds of the air, the animals of the
forest, the fish of the sea, even the trees.
shrubs and flowers obey natures behest, and
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

about the size of your shoes, many people
wear smaller shoes by using Aliens Foot
Ease, the Antiseptic Powder tC shake into
the shoes. 1t cures Tired. Swollen, ACh-
Ing Feet and gives rest and comfort. Just
the thing for patent leather shoes. sold
CSC. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress Allen S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, n. y.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
PILES CUREl

PILEs CURED IN 9 TO IA DAYS.
PAEO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any
case OF Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protrudiny
Piles in o to II days or money refunded. SOC.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

other waste. Weak
kidneys do not filter
off all the bad mat
ter. This is the
cause of rheumatic
pains, backache and
IL rinary disorders.
Doan's Kidney Pills
cure weak kidneys.
J. p. Alexander,
$50 Ave. D, Council
Bluffs, Ia, says; Il
had backache, pain
full urinary disorders
and kidney ills from
the close Of the war.
Doan's Kidney Pills
cured me in 1906 and
the benefit has been
permanent"
r e m e m b G r t h @
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

Soldiers in the Russian army are to
carry compasses with luminous needles.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

The Turkish government has awak-
ened to the necessity of irrigation and
railroads.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

Just closed, the Yarmouth and Love-
stoft herring season has yielded $780,
OOO, 900 herring which sold for $5,O00.-
n0n
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

In the year 1908 there were seven
teen thousand wells drilled in the Uni
ted States, at a cost of about $50, 00O.-
0OO
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

DAVIS PAINkILLER
has no substitute. No other remedy is SO ef,ectiv,
for rheumatism. ~lumbago, stiffness neuraigia or
cold OF any sort, Put up In Csc, 35c and Soc bottles
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
Ready to

Suitor (to her father4-Sir, I love
the very ground your daughter treads
on.
Father (grimly)-Well, young man,
you amt the first party that's had an
attachment for it. Howsomever. if
you love it well enough to come and
help pay up the mortgage on it you
can marry Sarah.-Exchangc.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
WE'LL KIDNEYS KEEP
THE BODY WELL.

When the kidneys do their duty, the
blood is filtered clear of uric acid and
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

name-Doan's. For sale by all deal
ers. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
SO cents a box.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

In London, in 1907, 1,449 bachelors
married widows.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
= MS@ooN$
CHAPTER xII.-(continued.,
BY tho Author Of
Tho Mystery Of q Hanson Cab" Etc.

Nll.-(Continued.)
When riding home after this inter
estisgi conversation, the Major coul'
mot but admit TO himself that Arke
had frightened up wonderfully in hi
Sntellects since first taking charge o
eae case. The man was not brilliant
mot even clever; yet In the present in
Stance he displayed more readiness o
thar Jen would have giver
k1fim credit for. The theory of the drug
Sfng was worthy of investigators, ant
Che Major determined to see if any
ching could be discovered likely to
support this view of the matter. ne
AfiA held TO his belief in Jaggard's hon
rsSty, for 1t was Incredible that an ole
servant of thirty years STANDING
should turn traitor all at once; but he
Thought it probable tina some one
rzaight have taken him by surprise
and drngged him.. But as the window
Wss Chased, the person in question
Hssisf have been concealed In the room.
H5ere Jen's train of thought became
ssDrrTused. :.
JaBE1ird was far from the condition
~ connected thought, or coherent
~Srds- lie turned and tossed upon his
door bed with bright eyes, burning
skan. and babbling tongue. His head
Hh tiht t''N'
hSusemaid who watched beside him
Md frequently to replace the clothes
Me tossed off in his violent movements.
1AtS nurse was a sickly. dark-eyed
CaUaiurc, who was strongly attached
a JagEard; and 1t was her love for
szm mat made her proffer her services
- Hook after him., and that chained to
- bedside. She reported to her mas
Ger that DR.. Etwald had been that
@efnfnG and was coming again In the
afternoon, but hat there was nothing
% be done until the dellrium had ex-
pended itself.
Ay." thought Jen. as he stood by
mo bed, or until the man dies. If he
A3es without regaining his senses, we
Om never know the truth"
He bent down to replace the bed
~astheG which the sick man had thrown
- md. As he did so, a faint perfume,
asrHIy and rich, struck his nostriIs. 1t
0aesned to come from the bandages at
N1s back of the head. and on bending |
S1SNu TOR q closer inspection, Jen saw
NnAAf . of these was of liner linen
<1Aan the rest. The fabric was cam
'6rt!c, and with a start which made the
'AbAcd turn to Ice in his veins, Jen real
'1zsod that 1t was a woman's handker-
.e4xGcf.
How came this here? 2" he asked the
1asusemaid. pointing to the scrap of
oh. that was on the first night.
~" she fastened to explain. 1T was
mt on his head whe in the room
UeAnEe he fell. sir. The doctor, sir,
.sss ~ 4 at..st safe to take it away
= curtain fnterposed between the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

Many a man has kicked himself GU.
q . god Job
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01
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American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1910-03-12
WILL SOON HAVE LIGHTS.
Most of the Material For Arc Lights
on Chestnut Avenue Has Arrived.

1t will not be a great while now be-
fore arc lights will be burning on six
blocks on Chestnut avenue as all of the
material has arrived excepting the
poles which are expected any day, and
then the work will be commenced on
construction. This movement was
started by the firm of Ellinger & Struth-
ers who make business of selling city
lots and when the lights are going ex-
pect to work day and night. The main
tenance will be cared for by the busi-
ness men along the avenue who meet
the proposition with willing spirit.
After the poles arrive it will be only d
short time until that avenue will have
the appearance of carnival street.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1910-03-12
A BIG YEAR FOR
AMERICAN FALLS
1910 Promises to Double
City's Business.
Everything Points to More Prosperity
This Year in Every Line for
American Falls and
Community.

American Falls looks forward to the
best year in her history. The Carey
tract will experience greater develop
ment this year than in any previous
one, probably more than in any pre-
yious two years. The great acreage of
dry farming lands taken. last year will
begin to give returns, and mall proba-
bility the grain harvest will be two or
three times what it has ever been. The
100, 900 acres or more of dry farming
lands still open to settlement promise
to all be taken and be under partial
development by fall, and many new
families will have made their homes
here. The building of an electric rail-
way to Rockland and Landing looks
promising and everything looking to
the building of the great dam here,
providing employment to several hun
dred men for two years or more, is
moving so rapidly that its beginning
can be removed but few months. The
tannery and harness factory is in opera
tion and will employ thirty men with
eventual possibilities of employing from
$50 to 200 Building operations are al
ready active, and promises to eclipse
any former year.
With undeveloped resources so extern
slve and inviting as to bear the closest
investigation, with people who are
enterprising and thrifty, full of conf
dence and ambition, and who are show
ing their confidence by their works,
with hundreds of inquiries for informa
tion pouring in, there is no reason why
new record should not be made. 1t
will not be surprising if American
Falls doubles in population this year,
and great increase of population in
tributary country is certain. There is
every reason to look to the future with
! hope.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1910-03-12
Secret Is Out.

When it was learned that Miss Bar
bara Warner and P. A. Anderson were
married there was no surprise, for all
had been expecting it, but when it was
learned that they had been married
since February %, the surprise came.
Their many friends had been watching
very closely and had many times said
they would not get away without
wild time To show these friends
that two could scheme better than
MANY. the couple stole march, went
to Pocatello, were married and returned
before any one realized what had hap
pened. Of course, this does not lessen
tbe congratulations which were show
cred upon the happy couple. Miss
Warner has lived in the Rockland valley
since childhood and as she grew into
womanhood won friends with acqualnt-
ances. Mr.. Anderson came here few
years ago after graduating from the
law department of the university OF
Wisconsin, and the first year taught
school in the Rockland vicinity. de
filed on a quarter of government land
where they will make their home. Mr.
Anderson has practiced law in Amerl-
can Falls for over year and has proven
himself capable of making good In his
line. The Press joins with their many
L IL, -
friends in Rockland and here in wishing
much Joy and long life.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1910-03-12
TO SURVEY LAND.
Land in Township 7, Range 20 East,
To Be Surveyed in july.

Some time ago people who had filed
upon land in township z, range % east,
through U. S. Commissioner Burrell
made application to the state to have
the land surveyed and thrown open to
homestead filings. Soon after this ap-
plication was made, the department
send field man to look over the land
to ascertain whether the holders of this
land had made sufficient improvements
to warrant survey and his report to the
department was favorable. This week
Mr.. Burrell received the following let
ter from the state which will Indicate
that that department will survey this
tract some time in July:
Department of the Interior
Office of U. S. Surveyor-GeneraI
Boise, Idaho, March 5, 1910
Mr.. David Burrell,
American Falls, Idaho.
Sir Referring to the application filed
by yourself, for the survey of t. z S.,
R. 29 E., | take pleasure in advising
you that the same has been approved
by the Honorable Commissioner of the
General Land Office, and the matter of
survey will be taken up by this office
soon after July l, 1910. Owing to the
fact that the annual appropriation for
the current fiscal year has all been
used, no action can be taken at the
present time. Very respectfully,
D. A. UTTER,
u. S. Surveyor-Gener for Idaho.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1910-03-12
Thriving Automobile Trade.

j. L. McKown has sold to the Earring
Realty company four-cylinder forty
horse power Buick car. This makes the
sixth sale for Mr.. McKown so far this
spring with two more in sight, and cars
promise to become very common before
long. Mr.. McKown agrees to keep
cars sold by him in perfect repair for a
year, and his ability as mechanic and
his known reliability have largely aided
in bringing this patronage to him.