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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-27
ACCUSED OF $4,000 THEFT
Duluth switchman Charged With
Stealing Copper Shipment.

Duluth, Nov Pa freight car con-
tanning more than 100000 worth of
Montana copper anode nlates disap-
peared in the Northern Pacific rail
road yards in Duluth Nov 4, 1913,
and day later the car appeared as
an empty in the freight yards. with
100000 worth of the plates missing
The plates have just been found in
the yard of local scrap iron com
pany. George X. Robertson, thirty
years old, and Joseph Regali twenty
six years old, switchmen for the rail
way, were arrested, charged with the
theft.
zigmund Zalk, foreman of the scrap
company, in a signed statement says
he bought thirty-two of the valuable
plates from the two switchmen for
COM
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-27
TOO IMPORTANT TO MAIL
Special Emissary Has Message for
Swedish Ambassador.

New York, Nov 25.-Per Ostberg,
special messenger of the king of Swe-
den, reached New York on the steam
ship Hellig Olav from Chris. .iania
tav to the Swedish embassy at Wash
ington, which he said was too i'm
portant to trust either to the mails
or the cables. He left at once for
Washington
The messenger disclaimed knowl-
edge Of the contents of the packet he
carried. He said that it had been
sealed personally by the king and
was entrusted to him only few hours
before the steamer sailed
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-27
F. & v. TO MEET
OAK. CENTERAL
Watertown Commercial
Club Gets Busy.

NlSl ~ \JAlS DSiSN
Watertown- When the extention
north, which is now being built by
the South Dakota Central railroad
is finished and connected with the
Milwaukee east and west line which
runs through Marshall and Roberts
Counties only fourteen miles will
separate its terminus and Grenville,
the town to which the Falrmont &
Nebien railroad is already built.
In view of this fact the Watertown
Commercial club has taken up the
proposition of getting the two roads
to join, to a make north and south
line extending into North Dakota.
A committee from the CONNER
clal club made trip to Veblen last
week, met Julius Rosholt, president
of the new road, and talked the
proposition over with him. They
returned very much encouraged
over the outlook. and report that
Mr.. Rosholt will be the guest of
the Commercial club in Watert
early in December.
Line to Land of Charm.
'J<ba To; g. yyo1,1o. ..:1.J
now actually building through
the Great Lake Basin Region, opens
an area of thirty miles wide by
forty-five miles long living between
the eastern and the western crest
of the Dakota Hills.
In this rolling depression KIN own
as the Lake Basin Region, the
mould board turns burrows in deep
black moist soil loan land of sure
crop fertility watered with abund-
ant rain.
A score of clear deep sparkling
lakes tossed into the Lake Basin
Region play theil part in drawing
rainfall and beautifying this garden
land of nature. Wooded shores,
curvlng inlets, rounding covers,
and sometimes rocky shore line
please and interest the nature lover
while the long gentle slopes of
deep loan fields, and abundant
evidences of prosperity appeal to
his sense of practical utility. where
these two essentials are found to-
gether, life is more pleasureable.
That the soil, surface, rainfall
climate, and class of people stamp
the Lake Basin Region as the
Utopia the land of perfect conditions
With the building of the 1914 ex
tension of the Paramount & Neblen
railroad the lack of transportation
facilities will be overcome.
In the new towns, elevators
banks, stores, lumber yards, imple-
nent honses, garages, markets,
and business houses of all kinds
will put within easy reach theadvan-
tages these people sought when
they offered the Fairmount &Veb.
len srng bonus by way of induce
1nent to build through their garden
land. These people have the get
down and dig and the reach-out-
and grab to land railroad. En-
terprise begets enterprise, and
life begets life. 1t pays to live amid
enterprise and stir. These qualities
turn the resources of nature into
profit and create opportunity and
put the turn-loose -and-spirlt into
affairs.
nOG Kills JOG
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-27
DEATH CALLS
YOUNG LADY
Mary Honeysette Died
Saturday Night.

The community was saddened
last Sunday when announcement
of the death of Mary Honeysette
was made known. Mary had
been patient sufferer for long
while and every thing within the
power of human ability had been
exercised to ward off the ravages
of the disease. The deaseased
was we'll known and one of the
most popular young ladies of
Sisseton. Being only seventeen
years old, it seems hard for her
relatives and friends to part with
her just in the bloom of woman
hood. She leaves besides her
father and mother, one brother
and two sisters to mourn he"
untimely death. The funeral
was held at the Catholic church,
Rev. Father Kettler conducting
the solemn rites, and she was laid
away in the Sisseton Cemetrey.
Xxx
Mary Honeysette was model
young lady. Her faults were few
while her virtues were many and
she was admired by all who
knew her. A kind and dutiful
daughter and effectionate loving
sister, her departure from their
family circle causes grief in the
home which words are powerless
to assuage.
The long cortege of sorrowing
friends that followed the remains
to the grave, and the beautiful
| floral offerings that were strewn
about the casket gave ample
proof of the esteem i'm which the
deceased was held by members
of the community. The scene
at the grave was sad in the ex-
treme and most affecting.
Tears of sympathy for the grief
stricken family trickled down
the cheeks of all unrestrained.
In the sad hours of death,
words of coincidence fail to re-
lieve the sorrowing and aching
hearts, but our sorrows are
made lighter when we are re,
minded that sooner or later Death
mankinds universal foe, will in a
few short years, have gathered
us all, one by one, to that land of
everlasting peace, where now
dwells the pure soul of Mary
Honeysette.
May her soul rest i'll peace
Let her ashes rest in honored grave
No blots rest OH her name.
Who could greater honor crave
:f.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-27
Foes and Friends.

When two men are extremely polite
to each other it is sign that they
don't like each other. But when they
say Hello. you ornery old pup" and
"How's yourself. you porch climbing
old horse theft" they are good friends.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-27
Two schoolmates met after

Two schoolmates met after a
number of years. After exchang.
ing greetings and condolences one
remarked to the other: "By the
way what are you doing for a
living?" The other replied: 81
am selling Fords-but don't tell
the dear old folks at home, 1t
would break their hearts. They
think | am still in the peniten-
tiary."
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-27
DOG KILLS HOG.

One of the ST. Bernard dogs
owned in Summit follawed Rur.
al Carrier poor out on his route
Wednesday and when some miles
from town got lost and in his
meandering came across a pig
belonging to farmer McGee
which he proceeded to attact in
the most approved European
fashion. The pig is reported
among the dead and the dog
safely regained the trenches
Summit Independent.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-27
The Cause.
has a sWelled head"

"Cholly has a swelled head"
There is one thing only which with
reason could give that idiot a swelled
head.'
"And what might that be?'
"a real good punching. Baltimore
American.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-27
Poultry Wanted.

l will load car of live poultry
at Sisseton Thursday December 3.
Chickens Scents, Turkeys II cents.
Will be at Peever Friday Dec. 4. A
square deal to all.
John Stanton.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-27

Henry Kettler was up from Peever
Tuesday.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-27

Henry Hegen residing east of
Sisseton has been quite sick, but
is able to be around again.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-11-27

May her soul rest i'll peace
Let her ashes rest in honored grave
No blots rest OH her name,
Who could greater honor crave
Than life without stain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-07
COMMUNICATIONS
lzaag ~0IFLNLH IPIINIE DIVES go
- ILLUSTRATIONS 81 LAUREN STOUT

Bingham apron. "Yo' sho' is up early,
but All got yo' brekfus' ready, sub"
'tAu right, Aunt Daphne. III be
back directly
He sped down to the lake to plunge
his head into the cool water and there
by sharpen the edge of an appetite
that needed no honing.
He came up the trail again to find
the reading-stand transferred to the
porch and laid with a white cloth On
which was set a steaming cofee-pot,
with fresh cream, saltless butter and
crisp hot biscuit; and as he sat down,
with a sigh Of pure delight, in his
dressing goWn - creepy japanese
thing redeemed from womanishness
by the bold green bamboo Of its de-
sign-UncIe Jefferson planted before
him a generous platter of bacon, eggs
and potatoes. These he attacked with
a surprising keenness. As he buttered
his fifth biscuit he looked at the dog,
rolling on his back in morning costa
sy, with a look Of humorous surprise.
"Chum," he said, what do you
think Of that? All my life single
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-07
Achieving an Ambition.

Once upon a time there was man
who hankered to talk with an insane
person. He obtained cards of tempo
rary admission to several of the lead
ing madhouses and tango emporia.
But the people in the madhouses were
too foxy to converse and the tangoers
were too busy. Then the man read
up statistics and learned that more
people go mad in the country than in
the city. He decided that he would
be a gentleman farmer become in
sane in a genteeI way and talk to
himself He picked out a nice look
ing place and was about to buy it,
but the real estate agent insisted on
showing him over the property in per
son.
ct looks fine" said the real estate
man, "but you will find that it is
malarial, that the water rises in the
cellar every spring, that the we'll goes
dry early in July, that the country is
infested with tramps, burglars and
sheep-killing dogs; that all the neigh
bors are unbearable and that there is
a large flaw in the title. However, if
you insist"
But the man, having heard real
bug spiel, fed across the fields.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-07
"Msrseillaise" for the Kaiser

The long-expected visit of the
Kaiser to the French president was
nearly marred by an accident and
slight piece Of tactlessness on the
part of the presidents valet. On the
first evening it appears that the
Kaiser's brushes had failed, through
some misunderstanding, to arrive in
time. Brushes which had been pre-
sented to the president himself by the
Service League of France were sent
to his majesty. To the horror of
everyone within forty yards of the
room, no sooner had the Kaiser lifted
them out of the box than the epic
notes of the "Marseillaise" Numbered
forth from the backs Of the brushes.
The valet who had taken them in had
forgotten to turn off the silencer! 1t
was only after a long explanation in
several languages that the Kaiser was
induced to believe that the incident
was not a specially designed and
Unanswered personal affront. He con-
sented to- remain the presidents guest,
but even now the entente is felt to
have been sensibly weakened.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-07

| With final effort, it gained the porch
and crouched down in its corner, an
| abject, sweated, hunted morsel, at
hopeless bay.
Like fash, Valiant stopped, caught
the shivering thing by the scruf, and
as its swapping jaws grazed his thumb,
dropped it through the open window
behind him: Sanctuary" Quoth he,
and banged the shutter to.
At the same instant, as the place
oVerfowed with a pandemonium of
nosing leaping hounds, he saw the
| golden chestnut refined sharply down
sham afaced though brazen knowledge
that the girl who rode it had seen.
She sat moveless, her head high,
one hand on the hunters foam-fecked
neck, and their glances met like
crossed swords. The look stirred
something vague and deep within him.
For an unforgettable instant their
eyes held each other, in gaze rigid,
challenging, almost defiant; then it
broke and she turned to the rest of
the party squirting in galloping zig
| gag: a genialfaced man Of middle age
in khaki who sat his horse like a
! caYalryman, a younger one with a
| reckless dark face and straight black
hair. and following these a half-dozen
youthful riders of both sexes, one Of
the lads heavily plastered with mud
from wet cropper, and the girls
chiefly gasps and giggles.
The elder of the two men pulled up
beside the leader, his astonished eyes
sweeping the house-front. with its
open blinds, the wisp of smoke curling
from the kitchen chimney. He said
something to her, and she nodded.
The younger man, meanwhile, had
| flung himself from his horse, a wild
eyed roam, and with his arm thrust
through its bride, strobe forward
among the welter of hounds, where
they scurried at fault, hither and
thither, yelping and eager.
What rotten luck!'' he exclaimed.
Gone to ground after twelve miles!
After him, Tawny! You mongrels!
Do you imagine he's up a tree? After
him, Bulger! Bring him here!"
He glanced up, and for the first time
saw the figure in tweeds looking on.
Valiant was attracted by his face, its
dash and generosity everything its in
herent profigacy and weakness. Dark
as the girl was light, his features had
the same delicate chiseling, the In
breeding, nobility and indulgence of
generations. He stared a moment,
and the somewhat supercilious look
travelled over the gazer, from dusty
boots to waving brown hair.
Obi" he said. His view slowly
took in the evidences Of occupation.
''The house is open, see. Going to
get it fit for occupancy, presume?"
yes"
The other turned. well, Judge
Chalmers, what do you think of that?
The unexpected has happened at last"
He looked at the porch. who's to
occupy it?'
THE owner"
CTO BE CONTINUED)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-07
CTO BE CONTINUED,
Worth KNOWING,

suppose a man leaves New York At
noon on a given date and travels west
ward at such rate of speed that the
sun will always be directly overhead.
After making a circle of the globe he
will reach the starting point in New
York just "a hours after he left it.
The question presenting itself is, at
which one of his different stopping
places while making the circuit of
the globe in "a hours, carrying noon
with him to every station, was he
first informed that it was noon of the
following day. AS he crossed the me-
ridian of $50 degrees east, or west, OF
Greenwich the day would change. His
first stop after crossing the meridian
would be Yokohama, perhaps; there
he would learn that it was the next
day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-07
SHOWED INSTINCT OF SWANS
Birds Had Learned the Trick Of Ring
ing a Bell to Get Their Supply
of Food.

During a recent visit to the cathed-
raj city of Wells, in Somersetshire, a
Scotsman correspondent was witness
of a curious incident. The Episcopal
palace is surrounded, just as in olden
times, by a wall and a moat, the haunt
of swans, ducks, and other aquatic
birds. The moat is crossed at the en-
trance to the palace grounds by a
drawbridge with a battlemented gate
way with towers, in one of which is
the gatekeeper's lodge. From a
bracket fixed in the wall of one Of
these towers overlooking the moat a
bell is suspended, with a cord at
tached.
One afternoon about five o'clock,
while watching the movements of the
various birds in the water, the CORE
spondent heard the ringing Of bell,
and. on looking to see whence the
sound came, he observed that one of
the swans was vigorously pulling the
cord evidently to attract attention. AS
no immediate notice was taken Of its
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-07
OLD WEAPONS OF WAR
INTERESTING COLLECTION IN
NATIONAL MUSEUM.
Swords That Were the Property Of
Men Famous in the history of the
Country Are There on
Exhibition.

The sword collection in the United
States National museum, comprising
some $50 pieces, proves perhaps &C
greater general interest than any
other of the many extensive exhibits.
1t not only covers a long period Of
history, but shows the development of
the sword as weapon and as a badge
OF rank and Office. All the specimens
are not as yet grouped in one series,
out form parts of specific and per-
sonal exhibits.
one good-sized collection, turned
over to the museum by the war de-
partment some years ago. is repre-
sentative of all branches of the war
service for the different periods in
United States history, and includes
also several foreign naval and mill
tary types. BY comparison it is seen
that the types changed all over the
world every ten or twenty years.
In the chronological division in the
new building there is an instructive
exhibit of swords and cutlery which
forms part Of the George KEENAN, col
lection, and includes Turkish and Ara
bian yataghans, two Russian swords,
Scotch dirk, a crusaders sword and
a sample of two-handed weapon dat
ed ITO. In the Mason family collec-
ton, loaned to the museum by Mrs.
Julian James, there are several Amer
lean swords, bayonets and cutlasses,
besides many implements from Japan,
China, Turkey and North Africa. Two
other notable collections are the de-
posits of the late DR.. Charles w. Hick-
man of Augusta, Ca, and Capt. J. R.
R. Hannay, U. S. A., which include
seventy weapons and implements of
exceptional rarity
Among the individual exhibits are
numerous swords connected with i'm
portant epochs in American history
The earliest types are those of the
Revolutionary war, particularly those
which were presented by the CONT
mental congress to John Hancock and
Col. Return Jonathan Meigs; a service
sword of Gen. Peter Ganseyoort, Jr,
and another engraved THE Sword Of
Rochambeau; a cutlass from the
Bonhomme Richard presented by
Lieut.. James B. Stafford; and several
swords of the period, the ownership
OF which is not established
In connection with the later wars
there are specimens pertaining to the
following American officers: Decatur,
Shulbrick, Ripley, Gansevoort, Brown,
McGruder, Morgan, Shields, Paul de
Peyster Vincent, Howard, Hancock,
Custer, Grant, Sherman, Fitzpatrick,
Trenchard, Mason, Wilkes, Schley,
Phillips, Grant, Capron and Ord.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-07
STRENUOUS IN HIS PLEASURES
British Author Takes Chances With
Life and Limb That Would Not
Appeal to Many.

Ian Hay, whose carefree Happy-Go-
Lucky has soothed an hour for many
a reader, not to say reviewer, may
have need himself OF the easygoing
traits of his hero, for Mr.. Hay has
lately taken up two dangerous pas
times, motoring and politics. He
writes as follows to an American
friend:
Il nearly ended my literary and 9TH
er careers about three weeks ago by
capsizing my motor on the way back
from Oban. l was driving along a
Highland glen and rounding sharp
corner when suddenly I realized that
was going much faster than |
thought. Next moment the car skid
ded right across the road, tire burst
and the Whole thing rolled over side
ways l was thrown out on the road.
quite unhurt, with my luggage all
around me. Luckily the car did not
turn right over, as the glass screen
stopped it, or I might have been penned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-07
Reoines for Iona Life.

A Germantown woman, whose 'old
age serene and bright and lovely as a
Lapland night" has reached the cen
fury mark, gives her recipe for
longevity, records the Philadelphia
Record. It is a simple one. She re-
fuses to worry, and she keeps abreast
of the times. She likes young people.
To all the gracious and hallowed mem
Dries of the past her years are not al
lowed to keep her from adding keen
and sympathetic interest in the living
present, She refuses to let the cal
endar give the authentic clue to her
age. She is as young as she feels. She
ayers. with Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-07

efforts, the impatient bird continued
to ring the bell violently until there
appeared at the window of the tower
the wife Of the gatekeeper, who threw
out a quantity of food to the expectant
waterfowl.
On making inquiries as to the origin
of this interesting episode, the CORE
spondent was told that number Of
years ago a daughter of the bishop Of
Wells, being much interested in the
birds inhabiting the moat, taught the
swans to ring the bell at feeding-time,
at five o'clock in the afternoon. This
practice has been continued by success
sive families of swans down to the
present day, and it would seem, there
fore, as if the birds transmitted to
their offspring the knowledge that
when the cord was pulled the bell
would ring and that food would follow