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his board of Stewards would demand his resignasion if they herd it.
 Christmus has degennerated frum a time of yeer when we weer taught to give praise for the cumming of the "Prince of Peece" and show our thankfullness and appreciation by trying to make evvery one else joyous and happy, to Riot.
 Your wife spends a hole week and gets as peevish as wet wasp, check ing ovver and putting away, and com- menting on, Decorated Jardyneers, handpainted blotters, crosheyed pin cuchions, silk embroidered Doylies, Hammered Brass Umbreller holders, Cut-Glass soup ladies, that sumboddy forgot to take the tag off of, same being A sents, and urther varius and sundry vexasions of the seesun.
 Thru it all there is one who con- tinues his courseJ uninterrupted and with supreem contempt for his foolish
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on them by Mr. Clingman, whig mem Der from North Carolina. John c. Cal houn, then secretary of state, sent for Mir Yancey the evening before he was to speak and advised him not to do his best in his first encounter.
 This first effort in Congress gave Yancey national fame It awolSe com ment throughout the country. The Bal timore Sun, speaking of the effort, said among other things: He is compar- able to no predecessor, because no one ever united so many qualities of the orator." MT. Clinghams speech was too well answered at every. point for the reply of MT. Yancey to be satisfactory to him. While himself severe, he was offended at the severity of Mir. Yan- cey's arraignment, and according to the custom of the time, challenged the Alabamian to a duel. Both Clingman and Yancey repaired to Baltimore to settle the difficulty on what was then esteemed the field of honor." Cling
 man being the aggressor throughout,
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"HE. REVEREND MIR. CHADBAND
 used to finish his oily oratious
 x with, Let us be joyful, joyful, joy full" I have sometimes thought that men detect tbe same oily recurrence in MT. Taft, who is essentially more at home in the pulpit than elsewhere, sort of travelling exhorter. Of the many who shall run to and fro in the earth" ac- cording to Daniels cryptic saying, the peripatetic evangelsts count for several, and MT. Taft. for at least one more. He is of those who believe in movements" and he is fond of reiterating his belief in the superlative vitality of this, that, or the other .'movement." He is in very real danger now of turning the doctrine of world-peace into cant and contempt. Let us have peace, peace, peace" he seems to say, and the country could be pardoned for commenting, "Methinks he doth pro- test too mtich." Peace, my brethren, what is peace? Let-us, in spirit of love, inquire. Is it war? Is it slaughter? Is it bloodshed? Is it dreadnoughts% Is it guns?" And he proceeds to inquire" ad irfnitum. MT. Taft's genius seems to be in tue direction of the ecclesiastical coun- ell chamber. as truly as in that of the pulpit. He might have made great archbishop. And his own heavy guns are diplomatic talk.
 Yet it must be gladly remembered that en American President, first among the re- sponsible statesmen of the world, took his courage on his tongue and confessed that he was willing to pay as the price of international arbitration the submission of every question, even questions involving national honor, to properly constituted arbitration court. This is not the way that MT. Taft expressed the proposal, nor the way in which Sir Edward Grey repre- sented 1t, nor the way in which the French government stated it, nor the way in which the Germans reciprocated the sentiment But it is just as certainly the way in which the whole matter will \ eitner work out or else come to wreck Nn the narrow and anxious channel of /. Aiplomatic debate.
 " To make such a proposal, guarding 1t /with the remarkable word justiciable,' is therefore u great contribution to- the de- bate in the worlds council chamber. Even MT. Chadband could come to the point
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k TISTUR EDDITUR: Christmus WI is hear. That Glorious seesun
 of the yeer when hehave equal rites to all and speshall privileges to evvery boddy. The time has cum when you will no longer see printed in the News-Papers in big hedlines, Trade early" eYvery boddy has dun traded early and late, and will occupy sum of the time Christmas morning fig gering on there remaining assets. The grocery clerk has seperated himself frum the savings of the last six munths and bought his gurl dymund ring, and about the size of seed tick, and gets reimbursed in prise less ocsulatory germs, condemned by all the syentists, but still populer, and destined to remain so.
 The week-needed citizen with the strong minded wife who has kept him
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LINES TO A BEGGAR. Give him the coin. the beggar. That graceless, palsied hand Once was glad refuge for beauty, filled full with life and grace; Held to Truth firmly, building his home over sea and land;
 Pictured wide, stately prospects, higher than time and place. His was the song of the builder, dabblng with mortar and wood, Till the high dream came he had fash toned, and merged it to anthem-tone: Life is the workshop for all things; be-
 hind, if it will, bides the Good To give us our praise for the shaping
 of masonry, granite and stone." Give him the coin, the beggar, God knows how his fabric went, And the work he thought well-nigh finishedl Was it dream? Let who may, sayl It may be the plan goes on ever that the poor shape, dwarfed and bent, May straighten, sometime, to view, finished. his structure divorced from the clay.
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~ NLY the workers know all of the
 worth behind
 /Morning and noon and night, and
 stress of the laborlng way; Quarrying, rearing, shaping, while the pulse throb in the arm
 Cries for the freer effort, and after, twilight's pay.
 Heart, head, hand ones agents,Awhat need for resting-song?
 Not till the end be in view and the msts creep up the way To have done ones best while the sun shone and struck with the souls whole strength,
 Knowing the worth behind, is reward enough, say.
 Carlyle had a fine way of soaring sometimes. Though a vein of morbidness threads among his pages while one reads, presently the clouds pass and it is morn ing again. Work is worship" he said in fine free moment while delivering his philosophy of Clothes. How his pen must have leapt to shape the three words which gave it's soul to Sartor Resartus How men strive and strive toward the invisible for a soul-content, groping for peace. when if the high aim could be forgotten in attention to some honorable task-manual or mental, no matter-una-
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picions and our national susceptibilities. For thereby we are learning that the peacemaker requires above all else the equipment of the Sons of God. Vote for
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Why?

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Why are cigarettes, matches, cigars, chewing tobacco. chewing gum, un1im- ited telephones. etc., regarded as com mon property of all men? Why does . man pay anothers car fare and buy him drinks? Why is he cheap skate If he doesn't? Why do sensible people shrink from Dutching it? Does paying another mans bills make Smith good fel- low?
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I submit, that the appearance of man on the globe will not be fully justified so long as a crippled person or a hungry person passes unwelcomed among us.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
Uncle Sans Gunners Are Unequaled

get shooting held off Cape Henry.
During the practice III which she won
her championship the sailors Of tho
Idaho shattered targets at 10000 yards
distance. Had the little vessel been
in battle she would have shattered in
five minutes a battleship at a distance
of five miles, had she shot with tho
same accuracy.
The gunner begins in the ordnance
shops at Washington, where he is in
structed in the rudiments OF the art
He is kept at his studies six days q
week from eight o'clock in the MORN
ing until foul in the afternoon. Before
he is detailed to a ship the apprentice
is given three months instruction in
the handling of high explosives and
taught the workings of the submarine
mine. - -
Then he is turned over to a battle
ship, where he is given the position az
gun pointer in charge OF an instructor
who knows the business from top to
bottom, and at this gun he sticks un-
til his superiors think him eminenrly
trustworthy, when he is allowed to
participate in maneuvers. Finally he
handles a gun in real war.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
Violate Law Covering Abuse Of Coins

OF one side and the advertisement on
the other. The number vas placed
where the date on a dime is and tho
first glance certainly impressed one
as the real coin. The ether side had
a sheaf of wheat and in the center the
words "On Time"
The firm had no desire to defraud
the public. But INSCRIPTIONS people
who had access 20 them did. Sew
eral firms and persons lost money By
accepting the advertis ement for real
money, chewing gum machines were
filled with them, and at last the Sc
cret service learned how matters were
and began an investigation. There
were 10000 of the metals c~onfscated.
Some stray ones. however. were in cir
culation and 1t took almost a year to
hunt them down"
jewelers. are guilty every day of
committing a criminal offense. Ac-
cording to the ordinance, to mutilato
money is an oftense in the eyes of the
law. jewelers. file one side Of a coin
smooth and monogram it. The other
side is perfectly good. The owner
never means to use the article for
money. But some one gets hold Of the
pin or locket. They think the money
would be more useful and so pass the
coin with the pin or ring pulled of,
and the good side UP.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13

II HE tiny representatives Of all the
1 nations represented at the national
capital celebrated Christmas, each
with some peculiar custom brought
from his own far-off land. The Christ
mas idea is one easily caught up by
the foreign child and the talk he hears
for weeks before the happy festival
is just as eagerly listened to by the
little Oriental as by the child to whom
It has always been familiar.
Although the Christian significance
of the Saviour's birth is absent from
rental celebration OF Christmas,
e festival spirit of the season APP
30 less to the boys and girls
far-off China and Japan than to
little American r!aymatss. The
4se embassy was the scene OF
mucn gaiety during the holiday weeks,
For the eldest of the ambassadors
daughters, Miss Alice Chang, is only
twelve years old and still retains
many childish tastes. This year the
month-old daughter of the couple, tiny
Nielsen or Mildred Chang, was the
youngest member of the legation who
came in for Christmas presents.
Santa Claus did not neglect Arkira
and Sada Matsui. the tiny son and
daughter of the counsellor of the Jap
enese embassy, keishiro Matsui. Ar
kira and Sada have been used all
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
lDOh'T KNOW
WHAT DID BIT
I'LL V DO
| IT AGAIN

THE carelessness or ignorance of big
i firms in observing the federal laws
governing abuse of coins costs them
thousands of dollars yearly. lust re-
Gently q Chicago company came to
grief which would have saved itself
and the government much trouble and
X snse if it had read the following
laws
q loeyer ~fraudulently. by any
arr way or means shall deface.
rltta tie, impair, diminish, falsify or
liglits>n the gold or silver coins
which have been or which may here
after be coined in the mint of the
United States . shall be fined
not more than $4,000 and imprison-
ment of not more than five years
Some clever advertiser conceived
the idea of an "ad." of metal just the
size of a dime. with the wording and
printing placed in such a way that at
first glance it would appear as a dime.
The idea was cleverly executed. A fair
imitation of the head of Liberty was
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. society has
w had nothing that has made it sit
up M take notice in a good while.
But it sure got a slap that wakened it
with a jump the other day when
there appeared in a New York news
paper an alleged interview with Bar
oness Hengelmuller Won Hengervar,
the DEAFNESS of the diplomatic
corps, or, to put it properly. he
doyenne, her husband, Baron Hengel-
muller Won Hengervar, being the dean.
The baroness, who has been in New
York city, permitted herself to be in
terviewed by a very spright1y young
lady reporter in New York, who on
two or three previous occasions has
shown herself to be rather long on
imagination and short on facts. She
directly quotes the baroness as fol-
lows:
washington is dull and stupid. So
Ciscy there is provincial. To get 10
rev York is heaven to me, for there
Is SO much to do besides paying and
Te291Vtng calls and callers and drink
ing tea and going through the drier
rourG of formal and uninteresting so
cia events. We have lived il Wash
ington 16 years. / have done each
year the same things with practically
the same people. Here in New York
formal calling and tea taking are prac.
ticaily eliminated, because there are
SO many other more interesting things
70 do. Even the shops make a differ
ence. Here it is a positive pleasure
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13

AEONG the navies Of the world the
- american sailors have long held
tho record of the finest marksmen in
ex Though the United States
does not spend so much for new battle
ships as other countries, it lays more
emphasis on craftsmanship than does
any other nation and for that reason,
combined with the American sailors
Infinite patience. our lei have gained
their worldwide reputation of cham
pions. More time and ammunition are
exhausted in the American navy in
target practice than is realized gen.
orally. America spends ten times the
sum for this purpose IS does Eng
land.
All worlds records for gunnery
were broken by the crew of the battle
shsss fdaho In the recent big gun tar
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
Christmas Among Capitals Asiatics

their little lives to hearing of he
good old Saint Nick, and were happily
pleased at his bounty.
The children of Count de Cambrun,
military attache of tho French en-
celebrated not only the Jour de IAN"
to which the French adhere, but also
the good old American Christmas. to
which their mother, who was Miss
Longworth of Cincinnati, the sister of
Representative Longworth, was &C.
customed.
Christmas was observed in the
South American legations and en-
bassies with great merriment. The
Calvo youngsters of the Costa Rican
legation had an elaborate "Nacimien-
to-" as Nine. Calvo is an adept in ar
ranging these. She had an entire lit
tie village showing the houses and
people OF Costa RIGA. But in spite Of
their preference for this picturesque
adjunct of Christmas his did not pre-
vent Luis and Rafael from hanging up
their stockings IN the coed American
fashion.
Among the LEGATION youngsters who
this year spent their first Christmas in
Washington ar1 the children Of the
newly arrived Norwegian minister, HI.
II. Bryn. There were high doings"
at the legation, TOO for the Christmas
is Z native of Norway and old
Santa Claus thrives best eff all in the
climate Of ice and snow. to which the
Bryn children were born.
Francis and Leon de la Barra, the
young sons of the Mexican ambassa-
dor, Senior de la Barra. have also spent
their first Christmas in Washington.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
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Interview Causes Stir in Washington

to shop. Then, your theaters, opera
and concerts are SO wonderful. IN
fact, New York Is one Of the most
Fascinating cities in the world. 1t IS
all life and color and impulse.
Logically, of course. Washington
should be the social center of the
country. 1t never will be, however,
for no city can take the honors away
from New York. The atmosphere is
different, and a social climate is as
hard to change as any other kind
1t is stated that Baroness Hengel-
muller nearly fell down dead when
she saw his interview in the New
York papers and then saw 1T copied
into the Washington papers. Baroness
HengeImuller is nothing if not con-
ventional, She lives by form and
rote, and to do anything out of the
regular is in her opinion to commit a
crime.
She came back home in a state OF
nervous collapse, declared she never
said d word Of it and that Washington
is perfectly lovely.
Baroness Hengeimulier wears That
title in her own right. and both she
and the baron belong to the stern Aus
trian court circles; that is. the baron
does now. She was born into that
world of convention and rules. where
you could sit by the fireplace and burn
up before the servant next to you
would make an attempt to ave you
unless that was his particular court
function.
The baroness was a widow when
she married Mr.. Ladislaus Hengelmul-
Ter Won Hengeryar, and it pleas
ed her at all that he was q plain
Mr." She was never quite happy In
til she secured her husband the en-
bassadorship from Austro-Hungary,
Inc then a few years ago she got
him created a baron. ..-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
VII g | Zzly1g5{Ny1} VII
LED TIE REVOLT IN MEXICO

Senior Francisco l. Madero, who led
the recent unsuccessful revolt in Mex
leo, does not belong to the class of
poor Mexicans. On the contrary he
is one of the wealthy men of the
country and belongs to a very aris-
tocratic and powerful family.
The patriarchai head and founder
of the Madero family, Don Evaristo
Madero, was formerly Governor OF the
State of Coahuila, but quarreled with
the Diaz regime, and for years he n
his family's influence has been antag-
onistic to the government.
= He is rather above than below me-
dunn height, broad-shouldered, robust
and slightly inclined to obesity.
Slumberous, velvety, black Latin eyes
hat often waken to a CLEAN OF humor
for he is fond of a joke-surmounts
a sallow face, a distinctly .aquiline
nose, closely compressed lips that still
denote a sensual tendency, and a
struggling whisker Oh the rather
prominent chin. He is not attentive
to dress, and is usually seen IN a
He speaks French in preference to
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
HARLAN LONG ON THE BENCH

John Marshall Harlan, who recently
celebrated the close of thirty-three
years service on the United States
Supreme Court bench. is n OF the
most distinguished ~jurists in the coun-
try. He took his seal Dec. 10, 1877,
and his service has been twice as long
as that Of any other member of the
present court. Justice Harlan was
born in Boyle county, Kentucky, in
1888, and after studying law in Tran
~sylvania College, he practiced at
Frankfort, KY, where for a time he
was county Judge. Later he practiced
at Louisville, and between 1861 and
1868 he served in the Union army as
colonel of the Tenth Kentucky regi-
msnt. For the four years following
he was attorney general Of Kentucky,
and in 1871 and 1875 he was the Re-
publican nominee for governor of the
state. Justice Harlan was a member
of the Louisiana commission, and he
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
NEW ILLINOIS CENTRAL HEAD

Charles H. Markham, president of
the Gulf Refining Company and the
Cult Pipe Line Company of Pittsburg,
who was recently elected president of
the Illinois Central Railroad to sue
coed j. T. Harahan, began his rail
road career in 1881, when he started
as a section laborer on the Santa Fe.
In the same yea he became a station
agent for the Southern Pacific at
Deming, N. NJ, n held similar posi-
lions for six years. From 1891 to
1897 he was district freight and pas
senger agent at Fresno, Cal, and in
1897 was promoted to be general
freight agent of the Oregon lines Of
the Southern Pacific Company. In
1901 he was transferred to San Fran
cisco as assistant freight traffic man.
ager and in 1904 was made vice-presi-
dent Of the Houston and Texas Cen
tral. In April Of that yea he was
chosen as general manager Of the
Southern Pacific aud In June vice
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
CHAPTE. X.
PROT. er.swo.a Takes the Field.

Prof. Gr.sWola Takes the Field
Barbara and Griswold stopped at
the telegraph Office on their way back
to the executive mansion. and were
met with news that the sheriff of
Mingo had refused to receive Girls
wold's message.
His private lines of communication
with the capital are doubtless we'll es-
tablished," said Griswold, land Bos-
isn't of great Importance. It's Just is
we'll for Appleweight and his friends,
,s;;ggiii and low, slow hei hands.
When they were again on the YER
anda, Griswold fingered for a moment
with no valid excuse for delay beyond
the loneliness of the night and his
keen delight In Barbara's voice and
her occasional low laughter, which
was so pleasant to hear that he held
their talk to a light key, that he might
evoke it the more.
You have done all that could be
asked of you, Mr.. Griswold, and l can
not permit you to remain longer. Fa-
Their will certainly be here to-mor-
row.
soh, but your father isn't absent!
He is officially pr&ent and in the sad
die" laughed Griswold. you must
not admit. even to me, that he is not
here in full charge of his Office. And
as for my leaving the field, I have not
the slightest intention or going back
/ Virginia until the Appleweight
ghost is laid. the governor OF North
Carolina brought to confusion, and
the governor of South Carolina Wis
ibly present and laundering his edicts
again, SO to speak, ex cathedra. My
own affairs a wait, Miss Osborne.
The JOY Of having a hand in q little
affair like this, and Of being able to
tell my friend Tommy Ardmore about
It csterward. would be sufficient. Ard
more viii never speak to me again for
not inviting him TO a share In the
game.
GRO BE CoNTINuED)
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
ASQulTH ADVOCATES SALARY

Premier Asqu1th has announced his
advocacy of a hal will Pre-
vide for the payment OF salaries to
the members of parliament. This
will be a decided innovation for Eng
land and is thought likely to make
politics more of a profession than at
present.
Under n system now in force, the
same that has always been in force,
members Of parliament serve without
remuneration. With most of them
this is not a serious handicap, as
many rich men seek a seat in parlia-
ment for the honor.
The working men who are elected
to parliament are supported by the
labor unions to which they belong.
In most cases where a member of an
organized labor union is a candidate
his election expenses are met by an
$780, -.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
An Asset OF LONELINESS

Perhaps with a keener perce pt1o1
of the charming things in life than
II he had not been sightless, Milton
says in Paradise Lost: Nothing
lovelier a he found in woman than
to study household rss.d
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
Record PRISON Sentence.

A German workman named Gauschy
has just been released from the jail
at Muelhausen after serving IS years
Imprisonment for murder. This cor.
stitutes a record as regards a contin
uous term of incarceration IN modern
times.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13

men and his salary while a member Of the legislative body is paid the
member from the treasury of the labor union. If it was. not for this system,
no WORKING man could afford to accept a minat ven II n Q We're assured
Of election without expense.
1t W as against Premier Asuuth that the London sufragettes madO sel-
erl violent demonstrations. Advancing under cover Of the fog at $3.50
O'Clock one morning, a militant band crcumvented the police and s.Tmed
the AsquHh residence, in Downing street They hurled stones metal
weights at the house, breaking the glass in all OF the lower windows. The
premier was also attacked IN the street when opportunity offered.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-13
The Limit

my only daughter eloDed. And ri
never forgive her!
loo here. old man. remem
Remembevg Yes. I'd be decent
about II. If she'd let well enough
alone. B6t ahe not only eloped-she
cams back hone!s,