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For sale and delivered in any part Of the
city by the St. Croix Lumber Company.
Pleasant Township Correspondence.
SILVER LAKE, June 5th, 1882.
The labels have got changed some how
and we are having our portion OF summer
weather out of the winter vial. Where is
Vennor?
Corn up, but no boiling ears yet
The Lincoln county c. i. 7. S. held a
convention pelsuant to call, Mr.. W. II.
Goldtry in the chair. The subject for dis
cllsson was Equal Suffrage as connected
with the Temperance work Mrs. Whee
lock earnestly advocating the theory, that if
they had the ballot in the hands of women
would speedily secure prohibition. The
Rev. Mr.. Matlock, while strongly favor
ing the enfranchisement of women, sub
ject to the influence Of their husbands,
would be as effective in suppressing the
liquor curse as it's friends hoped. Mr..
W. j. Byrnes, our most efficient president
spurned the idea Of asking women to do
the work which Of right belongs to men,
and while strongly advising that women
hel p in the temperance work, saw no ne
cessity for her dabbling in politics. Mr..
f. Owens spoke eloquently Of the inher-
ent ri ght of women to use every available
means, to protect their SONS from effects of
the licensed liquor traffic. Mr.. Goldtry
closed with an impartial summing up of
previous arguments and then in his own
mastery way of piling up unanswerable
arguments and binding then with unques-
tionable statistics, proved himself an able
and thoroughly posted friend of pro-
gress. With his scholarly attainments
and well known executive abilities ranged
on their side, the friends of equal suf-
rage feel that they have obtained posi-
ton in the town which they have never
before occupied.
Mrs. G. A. Wheelock was elected dele
gate to represent the society at the con-
vention to be held at Canton on the Goth.
The nickel entertainment is promised
for the near future Something above the
average is expected.
The Silver Lake, S. S. is prospering
finely.
Miss Grace Wheelock opened the Silver
Lake school on the 5th. Miss Grace has
been away at school for the past two
years and the young people extend her a
very hearty welcome Yours, PHOEBE.
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A Hint.

The following extract, which we copy
from the Sioux Falls Press, will remind
our christian friends to be generous, at all
times, to their spiritual advisers Min
listers are but mortals and need much in
the way of encouragement and of the
needful A liberal patronage and kind
word helps the editor to make his paper
better and more interesting, so that he
has knowledge that his paper will be
looked for from week to week. 1t is the
same with a minister of the gospel. A
kind word and full church cheers him
and stimulates him to do the more good,
his sermon the more effective and flow
ing. He has knowledge that he is ap-
preciated. ''At the letting of pews in
the Congregational church last Thursday
evening, Sl,036.5O was realized-S7S6. 80
as rentals, and $240 as bonuses for privi-
lege of choice. Since that time, $63l.50
more has been subscribed as rentals, max
ing the total 1865, raised in forty ght
hours, which is a most fattering endorse
ment of Rev j. n. McLoney, the pastor,
and record altogether credltable to the
society and the community
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H. B. Hermandson left Tuesday on a
visit to his mother in Alamakee county,
Iowa.
The Episcopal ladies will give sociable
next eek. More notice will be given in
due time
The bridge across Beaver creek was re-
paired last week and is now in better con-
dition than ever
The st. Croix Lumber company has
planted weighing scales in front of its
office, on Main street:
4 large and appreciative audience list
ened to Rev. Kingsbury last Sabbath at
the Congregational church.
Its girl that arrived at the residence of
E. NJ. Miles this morning, at tipps the
scales at s pounds. Miles is attending to
business as usual.
VIM. Dunlap and family, ,,of Canton
township, resident for the past Is years,
has sold his farm to Mr.. johnson and
lett for Oregon last Tuesday
n. j. House and Surveyor Rea survey
ed the l6 acres west of town, Monday, to
be used as fair grounds; work will be com
menced upon the race track this week.
A train Of excursionists will pass through
town June l4th at 8 o'clock p. on the
way to Mitchell. A good many will I'M
doubtedly get off here and explore land
The Congregational sociable was well
attended Wednesday evening, at the par
sonage; in fact our sociabes in Canton
are quite reunion of old friends and a
welcome for new
Bedford has had his hall guttered in
order to prevent the water from dropping
onto the ice house of the Martin Bros.
meat markets Thompson says it took
100 feet of tin spouting.
The insurance companies carrying risks
on the Naylor house have ordered their
agents here to cancel their policies on the
same, as the hazard under existing circ,lm-
stances is not considered prudent
The Lincoln County Creamery associa-
ton commenced operations one day last
week. The first churning was 100 pounds
Of butter, more to test the machinery than
ANYTHING else. All is O. X. low.
Rev. f. Mcbride will give service at
Canton each alternate Sabbath Next
Sabbath evening, remember, the church
will be occupied. Mr. Mcbride is be-
coming a popular clergyman at Sioux
Falls, where he now resides.
The one-story frame building standing
near the Beloit bridge is to be moved up
and placed on stone foundation adjoin-
ing the passenger depot west of town,
and is to be used as restaurant when
completed. The owner is Mr.. Thomas
Thorson.
A narrow escape from death occurred,
on last tuesday on the rallfOau near TINS
place. Ole Erickson, the section boss,
was returning in the evening with his men,
six in number, on the hand car when at
full speed, Erickson standing in front of
the car, lost his balance and fell under the
wheels, the car running over him and was
thrown some distance from the track,
scattering the occupants in different di-
rections Ole was taken to his boarding
house and DR.. Taylor was called and found
no bones broken but his body and limbs
in bruised condition. We are pleased
to learn that Mr.. Erickson is on duty
again and with the exception of little
lameness is all right.
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Important Notice,
Adjourned.

IF you desire to make loan on your
farm,
If you wish to insure your buildings sand
stock in first-class companies,
fyou want to sell your farm,
If you need money for short time on
chattel security or cash for school order,
you will find it to your interest to call on
81 KENNEDY Bros
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Card of Thanks.

The undersigned hereby express their
heartfelt gratitude to the ladies of Canton
who so generally assisted and watched at
the bedside of our sick little Karl during
his week of sickness. We are compara-
lively strangers but the font of goodness
and the hand Of good fellowship was held
out to us in an unstinted measure We
also wish to say that Dr. Brown, the at
tending physician, has richly earned the
confidence and esteem as DOCTOR
C. W. HARMON,
VERONICA HARMON.
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A good purgative medicine is one Of the
absolute necessities of the age. This want
has been suppid by Dr. ]. G. Aver &
Co., whose celebrated Cathartic Pills are
known to be the safest, surest and best
purgative medicine ever offered to the
public They are mild but certain in their
effects, and keep the system in good order.
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[ will continue in the drug business at
Canton, and thanking all our former GUS
toners for their liberal patronage in the
past, | would respectfully solicit a con-
tinuance of the same, assuring you it will
always be my earnest endeavor to please
you by selling you the best goods for the
lowest prices to be found in Dakota.
Yours truly, JAMES LEWIS.
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Notice is hereby given that the partner
ship heretofore existing between James
Lewis and n j. House is this day disolv-
ed by mutual consent, n. j. House retir-
ing from the business. James Lewis will
continue the business, and pay all bills Of
the late firm of Lewis and House. and col
lect all bills due said firm.
Dated this 23d day of May, 1882.
JAMES LEWIS,
n. j HOUSE.
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To Printers. i.

We have for sale, l pair 5.col. chases,
nearly new, 1 pair 6-eol. chases, new, 100
pounds second-hand BREWER, 20 pounds
good ink, roller molds tor 9-col. power
press, which will be sold at a bargain.
Correspondence solicited.
CARTER Bros. & HARMON.
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Hamilton will close his gallery in Can
ton in two weeks. Now is the time to
have your pictures made.
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VOL. VII.


W. NJ. CUPPETT, Clerk of District Court.
ELLING OPsAL, Register of Deeds and R1Ohcto
County Clerk.
a HUETsoN, Treasurer.
Z. /. DIXON, Sheriff.
J. ALLIBoNE Superintendent of Schools.
K BENNETT Judge of Probate.
o. 7 BkASDHAGEN
NATHAN NOBLE, Co. Comr,
P. c. PARKE. Chm,
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Attention.

Cash paid for old cast iron at the st.
Croix Lumber Co.'S. office in this city. AZ
Dress goods at cost at W. H. Millers.
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ALL KINDS Of
Ex1cuTrD m rHr
HIGHEST STYLE OF THE ART.
A new line of dress goods received at
P. Q. this week.
CITY MARKETS.

Corrected weekly by our Enterprisine
Dealers. for the BENEFIT of the Read.
ers of the Advocate.
COUNTRY fRoDucE.
Flax, SkOO.
Rye, 80 cents
Oats, 80 to45 cen ts.
Corn, $1.00.
Eggs 10 cents.
Potatoes, Slips. -+
Hides, cents.
Turkeys, 8 cents.
Chickens, cents,
Live Hogs, $3.50.
Barley, 45 a IS cents.
Choice Tub Butter, IL cents.
Choice roll butter, 15 cents.
Flour, choice, s. IS per sack.
Flour, medium, $.205 per sack.
Wheat, No. 2, % cent?, No. 3, 81 cents.
Buckwheat iour, $3.50 per hundred pounds.
BUILDING MATERIAL.
Finishing: Three Uppers. ........ $4,000 a 5000
Flo ring. Drop Siding and Stock. $500 q 400
siding: First $500 @ SO SO
Fencing: Number One. $500
Number Two.
OuAea '............ 1o.UV
Common boards .......... 23.OO
Number Two Post. ....... 1890
Dsn''0n Over % twenty feet ie' iD'r 2aoo Is $50 90
Number One Ship Lath... 26 %
Number Two Ship Lath.. $500
Star A, Star Shingles. 49,. 425
Shaded A Shingles - 37s
Number One Shingles. $50
Lath: :....... ........ 400
Building Paper, o d.. &c.
FUEL.
Hard Coal, per ton ................ 1900
OsEaloosa Coal. oal...................... $50
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For sale and delivered in any part o1
the city by the St. Croix Lumber Co.
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The Glorious Fourth.

Lawns, I24c per yard at W. H. Millers
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TIME FOR THE CLOSING OF MAILS.
{. C.&N. w. Railway Time Table.

Time of departure of Passenger Trains from
Sioux City in effect.
Leave for Chicago and the Eas ,...... 80 2. NJ.
80 I" SO t - 80 4 80 NJ.
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Seed Corn.

Birge & Davis, on their farm near Be
lott, have good sound seed corn for sale
Call earl y and secure a sound article.
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4. T. 4 4. II.
SILVER STAR LODGE No. 4, A. f. / A. ". Regu-
lar Communication Wednesday or before the full
moon.
Special meeting every second Wednesday after
Regular.
o. s. CLIFFORD, W. NJ.
OSCAR Z REA Secretary.
RI NJ.
Siroc Chapter, No. 4, R. A. NJ. Stated convoca-
tions on the first and third Tuesdays evenings Of
each month. Visiting companions cordially invit-
ed to attend.
l.. HENSLEY.
NJ. E. RUDOLPH. High Priest.
Secretary.
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Dissolution Notice.

For sale and delivered in part of the
CITY bv the St. Croix Lumber Co. .
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aweek. 4l2 at home easily made. Costly
eatat ftce. True 4 Co., Augusta, Maine.
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Money to loan on short time.
J. NJ. TELLER.
New buntings at post-oAice this week.
Plymouth -four at VIM. Fl. Millcr's.
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Corrected weekly by our Enterprisine
Dealers, for the Benefit of the Read.
erS of the Advocate.
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ONCE for the present in the Csnrt Hease.
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For sale and delivered in any part Of the
city by the St. Croix Lumber Company.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-04
The Man.in.the.Moon.

The man-in-the-moon is one of the
most popular, and perhaps one of the
most ancient, superstitions In the world.
The name is given to the dark lines and
spots upon the surface of the moon
which are visible to the naked eye.
Some say that these lines and spots are
the figure of q man leaning on fork on
which he carries bundle of thorns or
brushwood, for taking which ON Sunday
he was confined in the moon. Some of
those versed in such lore explain that
this story undoubtedly had its origin in
the incident recorded in the fifteenth
chapter of the Book of Numbers, thirty
second verse. With the Italians, Cain
appears to have been the offender. The
Jews have some Talmudica1 story that
Jacob is in the moon, and they believe
his face is visible. Bishop Wilkins
writes that as the forme Of those
spots, some of the vulgar thinke they
represent man, and poets guess It's the
boy Endymion, whose company she
loves so well that she carries him with
her; others viii have it onely to be the
face Of q man, as the moon is usually
pictured; but Albertus thinkes rather
that it represents a lyon, with his tail
toward the east and his head to the west;
and some others have thought it to be
much like fox; and certainly it is as
much like lyon as that in the Zodiake,
or as Ursa Major is like beare. p
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-04
The TichbOrne Case.

The main facts of the story are that
Roger Tichborne was heir to a baronetcy
and estate yielding 500, 900 year. He
entered the army remained three years,
and after visiting South America disap
peared, and is supposed to have been
lost at sea. His mother, proud and in
sane, was unwilling that the estate should
fall into the hand of the child of de-
tested daughter in-law, and accordingly
advertised in Australia for the missing
heir. Arthur Orton, a butcher and a
low adyenturer, Immediately, went to
England, and, backed by spectators and
accomplices, claimed the estate. The
mother was an easy dupe, and though
the claimant was wonderfully unlike
Roger Tichbourne, the swindle pro-
gressed famously. The trial of the case
occupied six years, and Orton was con-
victed of being perjurer and imposter.
The case occupied thirty-one days in
opening, forty-seven in summing up, the
Chief Justice took eighteen days in de-
Evering his charge, and the whole case
cost over 81 ,25O, 900. 1t is the most cele-
brated lawsuit on record,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-04
Russia as a Military Power.

Railroads lead from subject but hostile
Poland to Moscow and st. Petersburg.
These cities, therefore, are not more ln-
accessible than several other European
capitals. Moreover, the Crimean war
proved that Russia can be exhausted and
defeated on her frontier.
The Russian Government is based on
force. The theory is simple; but It
renders large standing army essential
Without this coercive element the gov
eminent could not exist day. Where
the consent of the governed Is regarded
as something wholly irrelevant, power
full substitute is required. Under such
conditions an empire that includes Q
seventh part of the habitable globe, peo-
pied by nearly 90, ,000, 900 of inhabitants,
of many different races, speaking many
languages, can only be successfully pa
troled by an immense military force. AS
this patrol must be kept up III time OF
war even more vigorously than IN time OF
peace, it Is always difficult for the gov
ernment to bring large force into the
field without weakening, to dangerous
extent, the foundations upon which the
empire rests. .-ss.s-s,ss g.
In 1872 Napoleon invaded Russia with
force of 450, 600 men; but the aggTe-
gate of the Russian strength was some-
what less than 10000. The govern
ment coped with the difficulties OF the
situation with unaccustomed energy In
the late war with Turkey. The avowed
intention was to make the contest short,
sharp and decisive. In November, 1876,
the Russian army on the Danube was
composed of 1900 men. Another
army of 59, 600 men marched against
Kars, in Asiatic Turkey. In the follow
ing April the principal army had been
swelled in numbers to 246, 900 men, in
cluding 10000 Servian and Roumanian
auxiliaries, and 5000 of the Bulgarian
militia. The army in Asia had also been
increased to $4,000. Renewed and con-
tinual efforts were made to augment the
number of the troops; but the greatest
number brought into the field at any one
time was 544, 200, including both armies
of attack, with 73, Al men scattered
along the shores of the Black Sea.
This seems to be rather an impoteni
result when we consider that in Febru.
ary, 1871, Prussia, with SO much smaller
population, invaded France with force
1850. 900 men.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-04
The s1urderou. Apaehe..

The red devils are again on the warpath. A
Santa Fe On. NJ dispatch says twenty people
were killed at Clifton and on the road to Gila
River. Since the outbreak q week ago, eighty
persons are known to be killed. The murder
ous gang consist of 400, of whom 175 are bucks.
One hundred and fifty head Of stock have been
captured by them and $3.50, 900 worth of prop
erty destroyed. At mass-meeting Of several
thousand citizens, held at Tucson, Arizona, it
was unanimously directed that the following be
sent, and was Immediately wired, as an open
letter to the President and his Cabinet, and
both houses Of Congress:
During the rejoicing incident to the grand
military display announced to take place at
Fortress Monroe, We beg to offer you as .
skeleton to sit at your banquet the fact that
nearly one hundred of our pioneers have within
a few days been wantonly murdered in cold
blood by the devilish Apaches, whom q cruel
and mistaken policy permits to survive their
crimes. If some small portion of the expendi-
ture incurred in your grand display could be
devoted to such measures would preclude
the probability of an increase in the list Of our
murdered dead we could send you q
greeting of gratitude and cheer in the place of
this message Of our sorrow and helplessness
and our desolation.
[signedl JAMES b. Tool, Chairman.
L. G. HUGHFs, Secretary.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-04
The Summit Of the Earth.

Adolphus Schlagintweit, the immortal
through unpronounceable explorer OF
Central Asia, calls the highland of
Pamir ssdie -Zinne"-the roof Of
the world. On the road from Puniaub
to Yarkand four passes have to be crossed
that are higher than II, 800 feet, and for
q distance of $50 miles the hRlting-
ground is not below the height Of Pixies
Peak. On the eastern plateau Of the
Beloor-Dagh there is shelter-house
near cliff, from whose summit the main
chain of the Himalayas with all its giant
peaks and immeasurable ice fields is in
full view from the highlands of Lassa to
the sources of the Indus, while in the
west the head waters of the Oxus and
Jazartes can be traced to the borders Of
Cabook, where the peaks of the Hindoe-
Koosh lift their crests Of everlasting
snow. In spring the echo of the ava.
lanches resembles the boom of continu-
ous thunder, and in midwinter, when the
storm-wind sweeps the table land, whirl-
ing pillars of snow send along the ridges,
and often seem to dance together like
specters in their Huttering wind-sheets.
Our Land of the Sky" in the Southern
Alleghanies must be mere piazza com
pared with top-roof of the earth.-Pop-
slGr Sctesoc Monthly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-04
The Bed Fiends.

The Indians have of late been committing
numerous murders in Arizona, and committing
them in the most fendlsh way. A correspon-
dent states that Stanislaus Mestas, aged nine
years, tells the following story of the massacre
Of the 18th of April: Before daylight Indians
attacked the camp while we were all asleep.
My father and five other men attempted to get
their guns, but too late, and Indians rushed
in from all sides and overpowered them before
q shot could be fired. The work Of slaughter
then began. An Indian put the muzzle of his
gun against the head of one man and fired,
blowing his brains against the floor and
walls. I saw them kill my mother and
two little brothers by beating their brains out
with stones. They killed five. They tied my
father and tortured him most dreadfully. He
begged them to spare him, but they only tor
tured him the more. When they were tired
Of torturing him one Of them split his skull
with an Ak. An Indian squaw, wife Of one Of
four friendly Apache sheep herders who
worked with us, saved my life by hiding me
behind her and begging them to spare me.
When all the Mexicans were dead except me,
the Indians left. A squaw who arrived with
the boy says there were ninety-three warriors
in the attacking party. They called themselves
Chirricshus, and said they were going straight
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-04
The Palm Tree.

There are districts of Tinnevelly, in
Southern India, where the soil is SO dry
and sandy that it is surprising anything
will grow. Yet where this powdery red
sand prevails for miles we have walked
through plantations of the stately
Palmyra palm, the great stems rising to
an immense height, and the trees in the
most vigorous health. Here, as else
where, the sap flows most freely at the
hottest time of the year, and when the
soil is without vegetation and almost
without substance, when the only shade
is that cast by these branchless trees from
their narrow crowns of leaves, when the
only clouds are clouds of dust, "when
the streams are dry and the wells are ex-
hausted, and the largest rivers are
only beds of glowing sand" there is the
singular spectacle Of these stately trees
flowing continually with their fountains
of sweet water. How is it possible? we
often asked Bishop Caldwell, whose
house lies close to such desert, tried to
answer that question for himself. He
dug into the ground to observe the
course of the roots, but as deep as he
dug "the thread-like roots of the palm
burrowed DEEPER" until at last, "when
forty feet below the surface he came
upon water ;" and here the roots, drink
ing in the refreshing moisture, pene-
| trated even further among gravel and
stones, and hecould follow them no more.
The riddle was solved; and any one may
feel what new beauty it gives to the
comparison here. The roots of the
Christian life sink down into the living
waters. They are fed from the peren.
nial fountains of the Spirit far out ol
sight. And the service and freshness oi
that life, and all the influences that flow
from it, do not depend on what we see
for the soil where such life grows il
often spiritually barren, but they depend
upon the roots striking down among the
living waters.-Good Words.