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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-09-07
Lightning Kills Some
Valuable Live Stock

A bolt of lightning struck the barn
OF Hans Mathiesen, who resides on
q farm about two and a half miles
northeast of Watertown Wednesday
morning, killing a valuable brood
mare and colt. The mare was valued
at $3.50 and the colt at $10Os
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-09-07
Farm House Struck
by Bolt Of Lightning

The farm house of Fred Siverts in
Sheridan township was struck by a
bolt Of lightning Wednesday morn
ing and considerable damage is re.
ported. No members Of the house.
hold We're injured by the bolt.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-09-07
IN SEASON.

! call it Mabel's autumn gown
For it's hobhle small,
And be the season what it may
That skirt will cause fall.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-09-07

Rudolph Miesel leaves this week
for Rapid City where he viii enter.
one of the Olson Bros. stores in tho
same capacity in which he has beeus
working In the Model in this city.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-09-07
Bird Dog is Stolen
at Critical Moment

i c. E. Weller, the popular agent for
the Michel Brewing Co in Water
town, is mourning the loss Of his val.
liable pointer dog. The dog was stol.
en- a couple of weeks ago and since
that time Mr.. Weller has searched
every barn and shed in the city in
The hopes Of finding the dog tied UP
somewhere but he has searched in
vain. He says he knows the dog
would not leave him unless he was
taken by force and taken out of the
city The dog is of the pointer varie-
ty, color liver brown and white spots.
Mr.. Weller VIII give case OF the
celebrated HEiefenbrau' to the party
who gives him a huuch on the where
abouts Of his dog. There is a case
for some sleuth to work on.
Have you secured your hunting II
cense yet. II YOU go hunting without
1t you are liable to find County Game
Warden Clint Bibbins bobbin' around,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-09-07

rover 1000 paid subscrib-
IS to the Saturday News
land figuring on a basis
that four people read each
copy every week would
give us over 5000 readers
weekly.
Evening star., 1911-01-22

the waters flow over twenty miles OF
what were once lowlands along its shores.
From all directions there are tributary
streams coming into the Chesapeake. The
same is true of the Potomac little far
ther down. These are slow and sluggish
creeks. They flow so slowly that the
possibility of their ever cutting out a
deep channel is out of the question. Yet
many of these streams are deep enough
nificent network of navigable streams is
thus furnished. But they are deep be-
cause their bottoms have been dropping
down steadily through the ages.
So it Is shown positively that the coast
line is sinking. 1t is also sure that 1t
has been going down at the rate of at
least foot in a hundred years 1t is
hard to believe that the stumps found
buried twenty feet below the surface In
Florida have been there 1000 years. 1t
would seem more nearly correct to say
they had been buried 200 years. which
would mean a sinking of foot in ten
years. The same argument may be ap-
piled to the forest of stumps that is re-
vealed at Rye beach. 1t may be possible
that the whole coast has sunk five feet
in the last century. Manhattan Island
may have done SO without the knowledge
of itS inhabitants. Again, 1t may be pos
sible that the rate of the decline is being
accelerated.
I'm the salt marshes" says Geologist
Davis, there are evidences of a more
rapid sinking than formerly. The grasses
that grow on some of these marshes are
of a different kind from those that for
merly contributed to the making up OF
the vegetable deposits. They are grasses
that grow on fats that are covered by
more salt water, on which the tides rise
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Il I'LL

Only by forcing his way 10 the oyster
beds can he see a few surreptitious beau
ties hid among the matrons in blue
knickers. wooden shoes and rubber stock
ings Or gum boots brought from Amer
lea.
The young women OF Tie sands are
notably coquettish in midsummer. When
they sell fresh sardines. shrimps. crabs.
strawberries. peaches and sweet apples;
when they bring the wash 10 the big
hotels: when they stroll, arm in arm. on
the boardwalk. admired BY city folk.
they are in their headdresses and short
skirts. black stockings and white shoes.
Embroidered at both ends-headdress an
lingerie-they look as pretty as a comic
opera chorus.
Even the old matrons, when they show
amid the summer resort razzle. come out
i'm those saucy colts and short skirts
whose effect is magical \ whole popu-
lation looks ike skittish little girls still
in heir teens, and ripe grandmother
bride and snigger in the visibly embroid
cred edging that hangs just an inch be
low their skirt braid.
Alas, their short Iskir,s are comedy. e
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higher The grasses that for ages kept
pace with the sinking Of the coast line
are now found to be unable to make up
the discrepancy 1t may be that more
rapid sinking is responsible for this In
ability"
*x
This evidence of a more rapid decline
of the coast line brings up all manner
of possibilities to the lay mind. II the
sinking is growing faster where will the
end be? If it can grow a little faster may
It not grow a great deal faster? May 1t
not drop Manhattan Island and the rest
of them into the briny deep with dull
thud and a ring of ripples one of these
DAYS or one Of these centuries?
The original mouth of the Hudson
river is now 200 miles out to sea. The
ships follow it's old channel in leaving
long ago it was when the mouth of the
river was away out in the briny. But
1T is almost certainty that when a
similar time has elapsed the present
city will be an equal distance fram the
then land Geologically 1t is proven that
New York cannot endure. In the ages
that are to come there will be an aquatic
Pompeii out from the coast and the port
of New York will be somewhere up
toward West Point.
Likewise will Boston be submerged.
Baltimore will disappear about the same
time and great portions of Washington
the nations capital, will have kept pace
with them. The great Mississippi Is
bringing down deposits to raise Its delta
and counterbalance the decline. But man
Evening star., 1911-01-22
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE MWAsHNeToN ABOVE
a. AND @-Iu

is fencing off those waters and prevent
ing the overflow Of the lands surround
ing, and the river will gradually be-
come a dyked stream above the house
tops of the people on the farms and in
the cities. So low is New Orleans that
it will be one of the first OF the cities
to sink below the sea level and be a
municipality high walled against the en-
emy, the sea. Galveston has already
felt the encroachment of the waters and
been forced to build itself sea wall,
and the decline Of the land level may
have played no small part in the devas-
tation of the waters during the Galveston
flood
The geological survey makes topo-
graphical maps. On these lines are run
at given elevations For instance. line
may be run about Manhattan Island at
a level twenty feet above the water at
the Battery. 1t would submerge the Gus
toms house and extend up Broadway
nearly to Wall street. From the east it
would invade the financial district almost
to Nassau. 1t would overflow half the
land between the city hall and the East
river. Further up it would submerge a
narrower strip, but it's intrusion would
create great havoc.
x :;
A fifty-foot rise of water would put
Manhattan Island entirely out of COM
mission OF course If these depressions
came on very gradually the water fronts
would be dyked against their intrusions.
In this way New York city might be
saved from destruction for a very long
time. 1t would inevitably become a city
Evening star., 1911-01-22
A Splendid System.

ENATOI. ALDRiCH ut a dinner in
Philadelphia spoke of the need for
currency reform. subject he had just dis.
cussed before the American Academy OF
Political and Social Science.
And yet" said Senator Aldrich, smil-
ing, currency reform, much as IL will
do, will disappoint some people Some
people in their ignorance ask too much
OF a currency. Thus they resemble George
Jones.
I'm Providence one day, talking to
George Jones about reformed currency.
the history of finance and so forth. / said:
Why, George, at one time oyster
shells were used as money
Gee. said George. that must have
been great. man could order n baf
dozen raw and pay for them with the
Shells"
Evening star., 1911-01-22

massive locks to regulate the height OF
the sea water kept in it. The park was
divided by movable partitions.
..They are twelve months old when put
into the adult park" said Juhe's nus
band, who seemed to be taking day
off. THE next year each oyster becomes
a mother furnishing the naissain. after
which it is a merchantable oyster Inc
naissain is gathered on bundles of twigs,
whose branches are soon covered Will
Young oysters, clinging like barnacles.
Later the little fellows are spread on
collecting shelves-till grown large
enough TO be. put on the park poarus.
otherwise the big ones WOULD roll on
them In the night and smother them.
1t is called overiying
Selfish shelltiSh," 1 said.
The fair young wife of Olonne smiled
indulgently, in glanc.ng from her nus
band to the bivalves. 80.
..They are all alike" she said, but
musical and playful. Thus they aiiuse
themselves. ,.,
The. oysters did send jets of water hlgh
in the air, or horizontally. or obliquely'
as if shooting at us or at each otner.
.Regarde. You cannot tell winch oys-
ter sGuirted" exclaimed Julie, prouuiy.
All round the little jets OF water rose
1;L. Gashes. never could we locate the
particular oysters, those quite CLOSE q
hand. nj;
From all around came sounds hSe iur,
five. surreptitious kisses, suppressed
kisses, smacking kisses
some say it is their breathing eN
n,ained Julie. ..others affirm 1t is their
way of eating; but at night l hhow,
the sounds are sweeter, certain ddie
tynes of Olonne oysters making Iute
notes i'm four, six or eight tones. An
Englishman enjoyed it SO ne buli' q S!iIa
near the parks. He said II soo.nea Illn'
and he worked long time 10 tfalh Ger
tain oysters with hautboy, 10 mute
simple. plaintive airs, but he never got
them TO God Save the King. as some
pretend.
Two more deep-sea husbands lurched
nm Neither had gum boots on, good
sign that they were taking day on, had
such a sign been needed.
Now our men are with us, explained
Julie. I'VE want them 10 take sood
rest
And forthwith she demonstrated that a
man can sometimes make more money
bv not putting on his gum boots. When
you visit the oysters you wear WOODEN
clogs to keep your shoes clean from the
slime. Two of our party could not walk
in the things. so Julie kindly rented her
pair to the other. She charged 30 cents
apiece, a mans pay for two days work
Boots like those cannot be made in
France she said. My husband Drought
them from America.
Yet she would not let herself be pnoto-
Evening star., 1911-01-22
Neglected Gardens.

MAYOR GAYNOR of New York was
4VA receiving In the Lenox Library
Americas 'fmmortals'-the members OF
the Academy 0, Arts and Letters and Of
the National Institute of Arts and Let
ters.
Some people" he said. ''are always
talking about the bad things of our city.
Well, l am glad to have left my duties
this afternoon in order to be here with
those who stand for the good things
Mayor Gaynor shook hands with George
w. Gable. $3.50. .<.
Il have read all your books" he said.
He shOok hands with Admiral Mahan.
And have read all your books. sir
Then. reverting once more to. the SUBJ
ject Of fault finding. he said. epigrammat-
ically':'
IF these fault finders would only look
to their. own faults-they have got plenty
of them. 1t IL a mistake. you know, to
bother overmuch about the faults of
others. Where is the sense of getting
over and pulling up the weeds In Your
neighboIs s earden?" .
Evening star., 1911-01-22

to which there is definite information as
to its elevation. 1t was put in place
seventy years ago. Its elevation Was
given with relation to mean high and low
ing landmarks. With relation to the toe
this sill has sunken seven-tenths or d
foot With relation to the LANDMARKS
thereabouts it has the same position; JonI
r. Freeman. the engineer for the CnarIes
river dam. takes this as positive ploo -
has sunken seven-tenths of foot into
the sea in the last seventy years. En-
gineer Freeman has also stuoieo Ne"
York and vicinity with reference TO the
same thing. and reports his conviction
that the same degree of subsistence has
been going on there.
X *
At Rye Beach, n. H.. there is shelving
beach which proves positively that tnere
has been a much greater decline in what
would appear to be comparatively snort
time. When the tide runs unusually low
at Rye Beach there appears from the
bottom of the sea what looks like great
forest which had been cut over with but
the stumps of the old trees remainll,S.
One who makes so bold as to foiloW the
retreating waves finds that this IS IN
fact a forest of old tree stumpS still re-
maining intact on the floor of the ocean,
It is we'll known THAI timber exposed
alternately to water and air decays very
rapidly Yet these tree stumps are stu
well preserved and 1t would seem tina,
il could not be many decades since they
stood growing in the forest. But the
coast line must have been at least ff-
teen feet higher than now or this fores
could not have flourished. A coast line
that has declined fifteen feet with
i'm the period Of the life of tree stump
is sinking at no mean rate.
At Virginia Beach. below the city OF
WashJuRtton there is an almost identical
case When the tide runs low at that
pcjnt the submerged stumps of an old
forest appear as rrcof that the land was
once higher. Mr.. Davis calculates that
here the decline has been less than IN
ten feet.
These are isolated yet graphic illustra'
Evening star., 1911-01-22
Impudent Plagiarism.

DRANDER MATTHEW'S, at one of the
- receptions in New York OF the
Academy of Arts and Letters and the
National Institute of Arts and Letters,
said:
American art is at least original we
don't plagiarize. Perhaps, indeed we
don't consult enough-for lessons In taste
and form-the great models or the past.
But at any rate we don't piagiarize.
This fact gives oddity TO MAGAZINES
editors discovery. among the MSS. re-
Gently submitted to him. of short stofy
that was. word for word, copy OF roe s
beautiful tale Of The Cask OF Amon'ii-
lado.'
THE editor sent for the thief. Inc
thief was quite unabashed.
NOW, the editor said. a little imita-
ton | can tolerate. but when 1t comes to
wholesale pillage--
wholesale pillage? the other cried.
Yes said the editor. From begin
ming TO end you haven't altered a single
word.
oh. y7s, have said the plagiarist.
.Lcok at the signature. &
Evening star., 1911-01-22

We men are away much. cod-fishinS
i'm America, our women get the habit
to do these things"
But you bring back $50 cash from
each trip We said.
Yes, all savings. Our wives put it
in the bank, in their names. We might
not come back to draw it,
Is ii bad system?
Is it a new solution of the maria ge
problem?
1t is very special All the wives of
Oonne who had time seemed radiant.
''They know our value" said the hus-
bands.
when you lose your husband six
months. you are glad to keep him neat
and sweet while" said Julie.
Georges, go put on your striped vest"
Why not? STERLING HELLO.
Evening star., 1911-01-22

SLOWLY sinking into the ocean. So rapid
is the sinking that evidences of 1t and
measurements of it within the last dec
ade arc now to be had That the rate OF
the sinking is being accelerated. and that
ii may he much faster in the future than
it has been in the past is the claim
made By G. \. Davis. government geOlo-
gist, who has of late been piinS up
masses of evidence in this connection.
Mr.. Davis has for years been one of the
active and progressive members of the
United States geological survey. He is
a part OF that service which has recently
become the bureau of mines, created by
the last Congress. His associates call
him Peat Davis, because his special
study has been of the deposits OF the
marshes which offer themselves as a
lossible fuel. These studies Of marshes
has led GeoloSist Davis up and down the
Atlantic coast line, and the more ex-
haustive his study the more impressed
he has become with the decline of all
that region. Finally. he is ready to sub
init the evidences of his findings He
holds that there is no need on the part
of the residents of the coast cities to
scramble t. the housetops today or to-
morrow But, sure as the geologic
tendencies which have gone on unchanged
for hundreds of thousands of years and
ere now at work continue. the people OF
the nations great eastern cities will be
gradually pul.cu DcHcdtH tHc WoScI iCSSA.
* x
Biologists have long recognized the fact
that the Atlantic coast line was once
much farther out than it is now. There
Is a line from 100 to coo miles of the
present coast at which the water sud
denly gets much deeper. Out to that dis
tance the. water is generally some 800
feet deep. Then it plunges sud
denly and it becomes ten times as far to
the ocean bottom. The men of the coast
survey have traced this line throughout
the length of our coast line and find ii
the continent once reached out this far
and that here was the coast line. But
gradual decline through the ages has
caused that line to retreat, until now 1t
is where we know it.
From a geological standpoint this has
happened i'm comparatively recent times.
1T has all been done since the glacial
period This brings II into the present
period and makes the action new. In
fact, il is positively known to be now 60
ing on.
That this decline was gradual through
out its entire course is not to be believed,
for the time has not been long enough
for this to have brought about the known
results 1t is more probable that the de-
cline goes steadily on through the ages
and at given periods, under certain IN
fiuenccs il is accelerated and more
ranid drop is taken. There Is evidence
leading to the belief that this raster
movement is now on the way.
There is an ancient sill in the Cnaries,
town navy yard at Boston with resaro
Evening star., 1911-01-22

matrons in gum boots. ready to go slosh-
ing swiftly where they might be needed
They are the police" said jules hus-
band.
Woman policeo' we exclaimed.
why not? They have the duty OF
policing women replied jules husband
I'VE men are so long away the women
run things"
But now that you are back among
them?''
.Oh, they'v We got the habit.
Truly what could man police do I'm such
crowd? There was not man around
the Ship except the watchman.
Woman police understand their women
roustabouts; a wicked glance keeps the
most sassy beauty meek and industrious.
Thieves are afraid of them." said
some ones husband.
..Those old women shoot on sightr
observed another.
Hand wrestlers." added q third.
Can plant handy kick in any solar
plexus." noted fourth husband-al
without their gum. boots.
We believed them One mighty matror
Evening star., 1911-01-22
The PhiIOpena.

ECRETARY WILSON of the Depart
- ment of Agriculture blames the high
cost of living on the middlemen.
Secretary Wilson, after citing a case
where the farmer got only . cents
bushel for potatoes that the consumer
paid ID cents for, resumed at dinner in
Washington:
These middlemen resemble the young
lady whc won the philopena.
We'll said the gentleman who lost,
I've lost What shall 1 give you?"
Your ograph-nothing but your
nbotograph.' she answered, in a pretty
little gold mounting set in gold brace
let. with sprinkling Of emeralds ana
just one solitaire-ony one, mind you
no more""
Evening star., 1911-01-22

nance like this was common in the past !:
but nowadays it seemed extraordinary.
Do net American codfishers on the Banks
enjoy the wireless?
1T is customary to put on black when
a shin is two months overdue" replied
the others. "Adrienne'S man has a
brother and two cousins with him Not
one Of the crew was over thirty-flve
years. Sacred codfish.'
We had eaten the green oysters at Ma
rennes. two days before. with moderate
relish-oysters that cost 30 cents per doZ-
en- in Partisan restaurants, on the hali-
she'll. Now we made acquaintance with
the self-same oysters before being col
ored." Clean, sweet .Olonne oysters.
technically Portuguese" have to be sent
IN coasting schooners to the green slime
of Marennes to get the fashionable tint
and taste.
natural oysters on an immense platter.
opened. but each keeping beth shells and
YOU cut the oyster loose yourself. Here
as in Paris. it seemed on first inquiry
that they knew nothing of cooked oysters
except as occasional garniture of fish and
Fried oysters?" giggled forward Fran
cose.
"Oyster soup?" inquired saucy Julie In
her striped apron. hotel laundress serv-
ing as guide because she disposed or gum
boots. AS YOU shall see. Oyster pie ap-
peared a Byzantine complication to them
oysters should be eaten raw with mashed
shallots swimming in lemon juice and
u,b;tauine vinegar So, until we asked
them all to Armagnac and conee. Iheh
il came out that oysters may De cooked
with butter in a saucepan. stirring III
hraa6crumbs and garlic with the salt and
pepper.
..Me,e home cooking" said Franeoise.
"Seyer for tourists" added Julie
"Why not?" we asked.
..Some things are too good Tor tour
lists" sniggered Julie.
.What would we give to our men II w.
gave our best to the tourists: smiiea
FRANCHISE. Raw. the French dote on
them. sending hampers nome 10 Iilehus
at the rate of 60 cents Tor ten pounds'
nov nacking-and shells-included!
On the far side of Olonne, hidden from
tho sands are the parks" Being bound
cd nv stone walls. they look like neg
lerted. water-soaked back yards filled
with a million powders. The powders are
tho oysters We thought that we smelled
Iot Of .fired" ones. but Juie-who took
charge Of Unexplained that it came
from decaying worthless shellfsh of a
different species.
outgoing tide" said the good girl. 1--WE
never have to smell the same smell
twice."
Which makes it all right. evidently
, when you work it out in your mind.
julie showed us a park in which sh'
owns a part interest. 1t covered 2W
square yards and was protected from th
: ocean by vast wall OF .nasonry will
Evening star., 1911-01-22

bore a strong facial resemblance to our
Jeffries: another with white mus
tache resembled Sullivan
The whole scene was weird, hundred
and forty girls and women feverishly
loading a big schooner out of dirty bas-
kets carried on their shoulders, like ants
round an anthill They bumped up
against each other in their ardor.
why do they hustle so feverishly??'
we asked
''They have got to-" answered restful
husbands blowing kisses, now and then.
to their wives in the press. "They are
paid, not by hour or day. but by the tide.
Today their fow-tide is short; yet they
must get their stint on board. woman
keeps tab on them
"A woman overseer?"
mo, a woman contractor. Why not?