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Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
Cold First Then Oiphtheris,


lDr. Cole, Of st. Louis.l
81 want to say right here that no
healthy child can possibly catch dIph-
theria-the child it attacks must first
have what Is commonly called cold or
a catarrS. A small piece of diphtheric
poison may be placed on a mans eye,
and unless there is an abrasion of the
epidermis he will not be affected. /
am promulgating very advanced ideas, /
am aware, but insist that neither diph-
liberia, measles or scarlet fever can be
acquired unless the conditions l have
name named exist. believe that chol-
era might be traced in its infection to
improper diet. In the Sixth Ward, where
l live, diphtheria is very prevalent, and
three cases have terminated fatally with
in 100 yards Of my residence, and just
before coming here read the statistics
of physician whose ability for obseIva-
ton can not be questioned that out Of
56S cases of diphtheria, sos ended fatal
ly; these 56S cases were taken from epi-
denies of various seventies. In the
northern part of the city some of the
children died in twenty-four hours Of
the development of the disease. There
is one thing which it is due to ourselves
and friends that We make understood; |;
many physicians call diphtheria what is
simply some other throat disease, and
having cured the throat disease lay
claim to having cured the diphtheria,
and the result is that Mrs. Brown says to
DIR. Blank: DIR. Dash cured Smiths
child of dipbtheria, but my child died on
your hands. It's an advanced idea, but
1t should be known that throat disease
which was cured was no diphtheria.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
SORGHUM SUGAR,

The introduction Of a multiplicity of
cvaporating pans into the sorghum works,
SO that each mans cane, and even each
days cutting can be worked independent
of each other, and the further introduc-
tioa of bone black filtration, and the
complete separation of sugar and SYRUP
by the centrifugal system, has suddenly
placed sorghum in the list of
agricultural Industries of the North,
and now wherever 1000 acres
of cane can be secured, the
erection of even q 1926, 200 manufactory
would pay farmer and manufacturer
alike. BY the above process surgar
made from sorghum is largely sought by
the Chicago refners of southern sugar,
who pay 81 cents per pound for it at the
works. Failure in the past has more
largely resulted from unskilled handling,
and in supposing that various chemicals
must be used to defect it, but in truth,
rapid handling, lime juice and filtering
through bone black is all the secret there
is, and merchantable sugar, not dis
tinguishsble from the n. o. article, will
result. We, as nation, import not far
far from 800, 900, 900 of sugar annually,
and if We can produce this sugar at home
for an actual cost of from 4s to 8 cents
per pound and thus save this 800, ,OOO,-
600 to ourselves, we can by this econ
omy afford to let Germany drive out our
hogs, and even suffer slight falling off
Ill some OF our other exports.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
A Presbyterian Indeed.


Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, has a witty
and wide-awake Presbyterian elder OF
pronounced Scotch aDtecedents, who, al
though a persistent advocate of the
Westminster Confession" will Occa.
sionally, for convenience sake, aud from
an innate love of social religious intel
course, attend the meeting of his Metho-
dist brethren.
At recent prayer-meeting of the lat
ter body of Christians that was held as
preparatory to a centennial service In
commemoration of the progress of Meth
odism in Nova Scotia, the presiding
minister dwelt eloquently upon the Won
derful growth and prosperity of the Meth
odist Church, and of its great founder,
John Wesley. He also expressed thank
fulness that to-day there were one hundred
and nine Methodist ministers in Nova
Scotia. The meeting thus very natur-
ally assumed denominatioual charac-
ter, and tine minister asked our good
Presbyterian brother to lead in prayer
at the close. The elder complied and
after thanking the Lord for the many
good things he had just heard "about
this branch of Zion," he added, with
much depth of feeling, 80 Lord, We
thank Thee for John Wesley, but We es-
pecially thank Thee for John Knox; We
thank Thee for the hundred and nine
Methodist ministers in our country, but
we especially thank Thee for the hundred
and thirteen Presbyterian ministers who
are preaching the Word of Life through.
out our land. Amen"
Presbyterianism will not lose any lus-
tire by that earnest elder even in Meth
odist prayer-meetipg.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
THE CLIMATIC VALUE OF FORESTS.

In valuable paper read before an
agricultural meeting at Northampton,
Mass, on the 7th, Professor c. s. Sar-
gent pointed out the vast losses 20 the
country annually by forest fires. The
strongest point in his paper-on the per-
maneut damage done by these fires-is
that they "destroy not only the growing
wood, but the fertility Of the soil itself. /"
As this is the season for Legislation, it is
timely to press on Legislators the neces-
sity for revising existing enactments to
better secure the wasted forests from the
Wholesale condagrations to which they
are every year exposed. In recent
article, Professor Sargent takes the
ground that ''forests do not produce
rain; rain produces the forests, and with
cut certain amount of rain they can
not exist" Rainfall may not be direct
ly produced in large Quantities by the
condensation of atmospheric moisture
caused by the cloud-chilling forest; but
the Indirect agency of the t:mbered land
III augmenting the supply OF rainfall
which permeates the soil and becomes
agriculturally beneficial is certainly very
considerable. The addition of single
inch of rainfall to the amount which
penetrates the soil instead OF running
of is on every acre over twenty-five
thousand five hundred gallons. But
there is another effect of forests which
is generally overlooked even by scien-
lists in discussing their physical i'm
Portance. In historic times marked
climatic changes have occurred in Eu-
rope and America which can be explained
only by the progress Of continental de-
forestiDg. The able British physicist,
Admiral Smyth, in his work ON the physi.
cal geography of the Mediterranean
basin, clearly shows that great climatic
changes have taken place. The effects
OF intense winter cold in Italy, Greece
and Asia Minor recorded by ancient
writers, be notes, ''have been in later
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
A Historic Towel.

The last flag Of truce in the war of the
rebellion was carried by Col. Il. NJ. Sims
from the Confederate General John b.
Gordon to Gen. Sheridan. The cessa-
tion of hostilities brought about by this
truce Immediately preceded the surrender
at Appomattox Courthouse. The flag
borne by Col. Sims was simply white
towel, and after the surrender it disap.
peared entirely, and was for time for
gotten in the excitement attending the
last events of the great conflict. Within
the present year Col. Sims wrote an ac-
count of the last truce of the war. which
WAS printed in the Charleston News and
Courier, and the publication OF his mar
rative has interested many persons in
the search for the missing flag Of truce,
which, it was believed, was retained by
somebody rs q valuable relic Of the re-
bellion. Gen. Sheridan was asked for
information concerning the towel, but
neither he nor members of his staff
whom he consulted remembered any
thing about it. However, the towel has
at last been found. 1t is in the posses.
sion Of Mrs. Elizabeth c. Custer, widow
Of the late Gen. Custer, to whom it was
presented by Gen. Sheridan at the close
of the war. Gen. Carle A. Woodruff re-
membered this incident, although Gen.
Sheridan had forgotten it. Mrs. Custer
recently wrote letter to Col. Sims in
which she stated that the improvised
flag had been treasured by her with
other war relics. cit has," she added,
"never been exhibited or used in any way
that could offend the most sensitive
spirit. Gen. Custer taught me early in
my married life to look upon our unfor-
tunate war as too sacredly sad to admit
of any feeling save that of sorrow and re-
gret that one brothers hand should be
compelled to be raised against another.
So that the last flag of truce more than
served its purpose.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
First Glimpse Of Holland.

tGeo. II. Boughton, in Harper's Magazine
A very large opal or the inside of a
mother-of-pearl shell would make good
background for this thin strip of distant
Holland that lies blinking away in the
early morning light. A long, narrow
ribbon of picture it makes, with its
little dots and spots and splashes of color
here ana there, accidental here and
methodical there, as if part of pats tern.
By carefully looking through a glass
these dots Of various shapes and sizes
soon resolve themselves into windmills,
COWS, sheep, Dutchmen, churches and
steeples, and little red.tiled houses with
green or blue shutters. l do not pre-
tend that this is a peculiar or striking
instance of the first glimple of foreign
strand consisting of cows, windmills, and
steeples-I know of other such places
but contend that the Dutch sand slip
is cleaner, the cows are sleeker and fat
ter, the windmills are jaunty and active,
the cottages more spick and span ami
more recently out of a toy box, the
specks Of humanity more rotund and
wellto-do. Never, except on some other
strip of Dutch strand, will you see Just
such specks al these. And as we draw
nearer the shore, and the bits of color
take more definite form, there is no mis-
take-this is Holland, and no other land
at all.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
Hunting in Austria.

Hunting, as practiced by the German
and Austrian nobility, is brutal sport.
Crown Prince Rudolph, of Austria. in a
hunt at Kommessitz, near Prague, with
five associates, this autumn, brought in
O "stretch of 10 bucks, !, 1884 hares,
SO rabbits, 1856 pheasants, 81 partridges,
snipes, and one wild cat, making 1918
pieces. Evidently the royal spOrtmen
are very good marksmen, or the game was
abundant, or both. But "sport in
German opinion, is a very different thing
from what English or Americans call
sport. In the latter countries it is con-
sidered almost disgraceful to shoot a
bird while sitting, or hare on her form.
But in Germany, when there is big
hunt, the game is driven into Enclosures,
from which there is no escape, and shot
down at leisure. In this way the German
princes the other day slaughtered over
400 head of deer. This occurred in
the celebrated hunting grounds in the
forests Of Werbellin, where there are
5000 or 1000 stays, and where, at their
rendezvous, near Castle Hubertusstock,
two subterranean passages have been cut
to bring the brave rifiemen, unseen, with.
in reach Of the game.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
ObttuarY.

Hon. Godlove g. Odh died on the 10th. at
Lafayette. Indiana, Of blood-poisoning, super
induced by cancer. He Is the sixth member
Of the present congress who has passed away.
General T. ID. Calender, retired officer Of
the regular army, who received severe wounds
IN the Mexican war, died at Dsysville. Illinois.
He owned fourteen hundred acres of land in
Ogle County.
Robert Ould, assistant secretary of war I'M
der the confederate government, died at Rich
mond, Va. on the l4th.
Maria Appley, one 0f the thirteen girls who
represented the states in WssbIngtOn's funeral
procession IN New York. died ON the 18Th at
Morristown, New Jersey, aged l0i years, in
full possession Of her faculties.
Robert l.. Stuart, the great sugar refiuer and
philanthropist died at New York on the 12th
Up to 1873 he was engaged with his brother
Alexander in the business Of sugar r,iiGing,
their sales from 1861 TO 1872 amounting TO
$50, 900. .0OO, of which, it is said. they did not
lose cent, so admirable is their busIuess sys-
TEN. II is estimated that the two brothers
during their lifetime, contributed about S2, ,OO0,-
600 to charitable objects. Alexander died in
S7Q
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
Record Of Tragedies.

Ch aries Pape, OF San Francisco, killed his
wife, who had taken refuge at the house Of a
neighbor, and then took his own life. A crime
precisely similar was perpetrated by John
Schpringer, Of Baltimore.
A farmer named John Callahan and his l2-
year-Old-son, were fatally shot at Gracevil!e,
Mimi, on the 18th inst. The old man was
drunk and was about to be arrested by Mar
shal John NoOnan. A young man named John
Morris interfered, when the officer grabbed
him and Callahan took advantage Of the op-
portuDity and drove OF. He had not gone
very far when four shots wore fired after him.
One shot killed Callahan and another fatally
wounded the son. Morris and Noonan accused
each other Of the shooting. Both are under
arrest.
Three Of the men convicted OF the brutal
murder Of the Joyce family were hanged at
Galway, Ireland. ON the 18th inst. Five others
OF the gang we're sentenced to life-imprison-
ment The murdered Joyce family consisted
OF eight persons, who were attacked by the
gang one night in their own house and all slain.
The motive of this wholesale murder was the
fact that the Joyce family were aware that the
whose bodies they sunk in lake, and the fear
that the members Of the family might be wit
nosses against them.
Patrick Slattery residing three miles south Of
Mt Pleasant, Ia, shot and instantly killed his
stepmother on the 18th INST Cause, whisky.
Gus McCurdy, well-known sporting man Of
Montgomery, Ala, was shot dead on the 14th,
by youth named Burke, his (McCardy's) SON
in-law.
At Cumberland. o., VIM. c. Frazier, q
school-tescher, became involved in a quarrel
while disciplining his pupils in which he used
his knife with fatal effect upon John Hayes,
aged 20. Charles Luce. another pupil, was
severely cut. The murderous pedsgogue now
languishes in Jail.
Fx-Conpressman Jeech and A LAWYER naued
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
Muscle-Bcatinq.
From Youths Conn mpaniOn, I

In Riga, Russia, there is a gymnasium
at which many diseases are cured by
beating the surface of the body with the
hands, or instruments called "muscle-
beaters." These instruments consist of
three elastic tubes fastened together at
the handle; the circumference of each
tube is about that of finger, its length,
as also the thickness of the material of
which II is made varies according to the
different purposes for which it is made.
DIR. Klemm, the manager of the instltu-
tlon, holds that, as SO much refuse mat
ter is constantly thrown off through the
skin, it is of the utmost Importance that
this organ should be kept in the best
possible condition, and that the best
method of doing this and promoting
nerve-currents and blood circulation, is
muscle beating. He further holds that
the advantage Of this manipulation over
all others, is that IT makes the texture of
the skin softer and more elastic, and
that the action spreads deeper and not
only promotes nutrition, but also the
activity of the blood-vessels OF the bones.
1t is specially beneficial in cases of rheu.
matism and all chronic diseases result
ing from an impaired circulation of the
blood. If the surface Of the body is cold
at any point, it is an indication of OBJ
structive circulation, and by slapping
with the hands or beater, till the parts
are warm, the equilibrium of the circu-
lation is restored, and serious conse-
quences to health is often avoided. 1t is
a very old custom to treat the diseases
of the human body by mechanical means.
The most ancient people, the Egyptians
and Indians, had in use many different
and exercises Of the body
for the purpose Of aiding the curative
of nature. DR.. Karell, ply
sician to his imperial majesty, the en-
peror of Russia. says he agrees COM
pletely with the principles laid down in
a work ON this subject, and that they are
based on the atural sciences.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
RATIONAL BURIAL.

The London World of a recent date,
after commenting on the destruction by
iro of the bodies of Lady and Mrs. Han
ham, in Dorsetshire, and the failure of
the advocates of cremation to enlist pop
Iilar opinion in favor of their funeral
methods, advocates the cause as follows:
"FOr the more one looks into the matter,
the more one wonders why the crema-
tionists have been interfered with by the
feeble arguments as yet used against
them. There are only three ways in
which dead bodies can be disposed Of
either i'll earth, sea or fire. There are
obvious objections, on the score of good
taste, to sending our dead to be torn to
bits by fishes. Ii is also certain that to
our cemeteries and gravey ards with slow
ly decomposing masses of animal matter
leads to the surrounding soil being poi
soned by the products of putrefaction-a
result that cannot be considered healthy
by any stretch of imagination. But
If We burn a dead body to ashes we do,
or need do, injury to nobody. There Ii
nothing unwholesome in the ashes,
which may be preserved with reverent
care as sacred relics; and people who
prefer to burn their dead rather than let
them 'lie in cold obstruction and rot
have both sense and science on their
side. The most bigoted opponents of
cremation will frankly admit that what
is called 'intramural interment' in
towns cannot, in the interests of public
health, bc permitted. But every ar
gument against intramural inter-
ment is one in favor of disposing
of the dead in any way save
that Of letting them decompose in the
soil, no matter whether it be urban or
rural. Indeed, we have never heard of
anything like a good argument against
cremation save one. 1t Is that started
by Belgian statesman, who holds that
If we burn dead bodies, we lessen the
chances of detecting cases of poisoning.
But surely it would be possible to de-
wise means whereby, whilst the body
was consumed, the stomach of each
corpse might be preserved for certain
time after death, lest it might be wanted
for analysis. We do not sh are the ter
ror of those bishops who, like DIR.
Wordsworth, think that cremation may
tampcr with the popular belief in the
resurrection OF the body: nor can we af-
feet to sympathize with the late home
secretary, who, when cremation was
once bruited in his presence. Is said to
have asked, with horror: But then
what shall we do for burial certificates?'
The world can and has gone on after the
sacrifice of far more important forms
than the burial certificate, which, to Sir
Richard Cross, seems an essential ele.
ment in the constitution of society; and
1t ought not to be more difficult to be.
lieve in the resurrection of a body
which shark has eaten and digested
than of one rednced to ashes in funeral
pyre."
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
Terrible Boiler Explosion.

Nine men were killed at Canton. Illinois, on
the 10th, by the explosion OF the boiler in the
agricultural implement works Of ParliD 4
Orendorn. The building was nearly torn to
pieces and then set on fire. The bodies Of the
victims are mangled and burned in q horrible
manner.
The boiler in Johnson's saw MILL near Usage
Mission, Kansas. exploded on the 18th inst,
killing the proprietor, ". l.. Johnson, and An
drew lockwood. Three workmen were
seriously injured.
On the 18th inst, the boiler in the Vince mt
Mill, Shawneetown, ILL.,, exploded with terrific
force. killing VIM. Montgomery, George and
William Price, Charles Glass, Charles Baker.
VIM m.lHalder, Henry Hughes and Andrew Ken
nedy Engineer Key was dangerously burt and
VIM. Emmerson slightly bruised and burned.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
schuylkill, the ice gave way and four children

were arnwned WY "AN ''''
Tbe bor,ae of sips,sto, tamos mar stock-
br;dge. "a b,i,pod On the tsth ;nst Thomas
Kneht and tso children NJ r;sbe5 Il, ths asmes
Wm PecL . ITn;nn pan;sn Psi,rnsa ' .nndnc'
TOR mh,ie h,n,;na ,,aar F;Iir,orn stst;o,, ,,er-
isbed in The snow His hodv VAS devon,ed Nv
uo,,,as " WV '" ' ''' "~' -
Gen s,,ss K.,vo, ~ N.w.rL NJ dam.
ocrstr. r,olit;cisn ~ c,,nsdsr.hie note throngh-
ont New England wss I;sd hv . r.;irosd trsin
A. Eiizabetb n on the i1tb II "a ann.
nosed that KENYON threw h;mse,f under
the engine NTH suicidaI intent "a
huncb az Iet,ers addres.ed 10 yariors friends
WAS fonnd In his nocLet
A thief in a tbe.ter NJ Barcelona Snain.
raised A falae alarm of Are Ona person was
killed and eighteen injured In the manic which
ensued.
An ovster sloon csns:zed ofY Fort Mevers
Fla. on the 9th inst. drowning three SONS al
John Bright AGED from to "a vear,.
The wife and child OF A Rnssian lew named
Gelaneer. froze 10 death near Grand Forks d.
T.. ON the 7tb.
A sbanty nsed "A sleeuipp room bv laborers
at Chatham. ont. burned on the night Of the
4tb inst Three inmates nerisbed
Two bows. named Artbnr Lord and Patrick
Kane. were killed at T'bompsonyille Connec,i-
cut, by A special train conveying the Iapgtry
troupe.
A boiler in n papcr.miIl at N,ddletovn. q
exploded ON the ist inst. killing Adam For,
ester and seriously iniuring John ZeIler.
Rv tbo nro,not,,r, o,x,,lo.GIo, "a . h.s, n, W,
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
Hannibal HamIin Talks to . spanisrd.

The day after my arrival at victoria
went TO a shoemaker's to get some re-
pairs done TO my boots. There was no.
body in the shop; the master was on the
opposite side of the street smoking bis
cigarette. His shoulders were covered
with mantle full of holes, and he looked
like beggar, but Spanish beggar. ap.
pesring rather proud than ashamed of
bis poverty. He came over to see me,
and 1 explained my business. swat
moment" said he, and immediately call
ed his wife. "How much money is
there in the purse?" Twelve picettas"
fourteen francs, forty centimesl. 'Then
I shant work." "But," said !, 'twelve
picettas will not last forever" "Who
has seen tomorrow" said he, turning
his back TO me.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21

ages unknown" In this country it il
doubtful whether we will ever have as
cold winters as that of 1850, when the
Chesapeake Bay twas frozen solid" &C.
cording to Mr.. Jefferson, "from its head
to the mouth of the Potomac" and
Washington's troops securely crossed on
solid ice from New Jersey to Staten
Island. Making due allowance for his
torical inaccuracies 1t seems clear that
while the cold spells of late years have
been as intense as those of 17S0 and
1856, their duration has not been so
protracted. Forests, of course, protect
the soil from rapid radiation of its heat
and from the frigorfic downward cur
rents Of the great 'cold waves But
they must also materially retard the
passage Of these ''polar waves" and serve
to detain them longer on the continent
than would be the case were the soil
cleared. The removal Of the forests by
the spread OF civilization and conhagra-
tion thus exposes the soil to Increased
fluctuations Of abnormal cold and heat
and enables the heavy masses of cold air
to roll over it with greater velocity to
the sea. We may congratulate ourselves
on the latter effect of soil denudation, as
it probly gives us winters of higher
mean temperature than our ancestors
had. But it is not improbable future in
vestigation will demonstrate that while
we thus gain "milder winters" the pre-
cipitation Of winter and spring is reduced
and the agricultural seasons open with
disastrous droughts. For it is seen that
exceptionally mild winters, like those of
1S77-7S. 1879 80 and 1881 -S2, have been
marked by deficiencies of winter rainfall
and by widespread droughts, with forest
fires and army worm invasions in the
succeeding spring months, the aridity
sometimes extending far into summer.