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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-07-05
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Borrowing.

Perhaps the girl readers are not
addicted this exasperating habit
and do not need this talk. There il
however, among my acquaintance
maiden who makes herself one o.
my greatest trials. She asks for my
scarf to wear to the city, for my
shawl when she visits her aunt, fol
my hood when she goes skating
One Of my dresses figured at hel
cousins wedding; one Of my neck.
ties is seen in her photograph; sht
protects her hands with my mittens
walks dry -shod in my rubbers, and
warns her fingers in my muff
Yet she is SO helpful, and sociable
and alniable, and returns 80 readily
and neatly each article borrowed,
that l seldom venture q refusal, es-
pecially when l remainder that her
wardrobe is scantily furnished.
Still, I often take myself to task for
allowing a girl with such excellent
traits to pass into womanhood with
this disagreeable one. So, full Of
the hope that she will see' this talk,
l send it on its mission, trusting
that it viii help some maiden to be-
come more agreeable woman.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-07-05
Dakota Game Law.

It is unlawful to kill, es,snarc o.
trap in any manner, any quail, pTai-
rie chicken, grouse, plover, snjpe OF
curlew, between the first day Of jan
uary and the 18th day Of August III
each year; aud mono Of the above
birds to be sold except for home
consumption. II is also unlawful
to kill the same on the premises 81
another person without the consent
Of the owner; penalty for each bird,
~ and costs d prosecution. II
shall be unlawful for any person 70
take, catch, kill or destroy any fsl,
in any manner whatever, except BY
angling with hook and line, or spear
in any Of the lakes and all the
Streams except the Missouri and
Red rivers, or in any inlet or outlet
Eof said lakes, between the first day
of March and the first day Of Octo-
Der Of each year; penalty, $40 to
500, or 80 days Imprisonment, or
both.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-07-05


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SHILOH'S CURE WILL imme-
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cough and Bronchitis.
"HACKMETACK,' a lasting and
fragrant perfume. Price % and 20
cents. For sale by
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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-07-05
Beecher and the Horse.

New Y. TX Turf, Field and Farm. n 7
A few days ago, in ono Of the
downtown restaurants, breezy
faced man called in cheerful tones
from one table to another:
sRobert Bonner, you are a very
mean man, very mean man."
"How SO Y exclaimed the gentle
man addressed, looking up from his
tenderloin steak with ali expression
Of surprise.
Because" said the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, "you have never in.
vited me up to your farm to look at
your stud Of fine horses"
But have never asked my own
pastor, DR.. John Hall, TO 60 there.
swell what of that? Dr.. Hal
knows nothing about the horse, ex.
cept what he has read in the bible,
while / do claim to have some
knowledge Of the points Of well
bred and fast trotter."
Bro. Beccher is more eloquent
than either Bro. Talmage or Bro
Buford, but he is not more ardent ir
the cause. With three such distin.
guishted men laboring to the same
end, why should not the turf be re
| formed?
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-07-05
North Pole Horrors.

a fun account Of the finding OF
DeIong and his party, has just been
made public, although II tcck place
March 23d. Melville and his party
who made the discovery, first came
across the wreck Of the scow, and
Tie frozen men were found IN two
divisions, one about 500 yards away
and the other loo yards. They
Grit come upon ! rifle barrel hing
|upon fosr sticks. They set the no
tivss digging on each side Of NE
sticks and soon came upon two bod
les under eight feet Of snow. While
these men were digging toward the
east, Melvin went on along The bank
twenty feet above the rivers y find
q place to take the bearings. He
then saw camp kettle and the ri
mains Of fire about 1000 yards
from the tent, and approaching,
nearly stumbled upon Belongs
hand sticking out Of the snow about
thirty feet from the edge Of the bank.
Here, under the snow, he found the
bodies Of belong and Ambler about
three feet apart, and All Sam lying
at their feet, ali partially covered by
pieces Of tent and pieces Of blanket.
All the others except Alexia they
found at the place where the tent
was pitched. Lee and knack were
close by in I Glen in the rock to-
ward the west. Two boxes Of rec
ords, with the medicine chest and q
Gag an q staff, Nere beside the tent.
None ofthe dead had boots. Their
feet were covered With rags tied on.
In the pockets Of ~ were pieces Of
burnt skin and ii clothing which,
they had eatsus The hands of all
were more oFlsss bnzAt, and it look.
ed as il. When dying they had crawl
I'd into the FIRE, Boyd lying on or in
the Gre, and IL elpthing being burn
ed through to the skin, which was
not burned. Collins face was GOV.
cred with the cloth.
All the bodies were carried to the
top Of a Lii 800 feet high, about
forty versts to the soptheast from
where they were found, and there
inferred in q mausoleum constructed
Of wood from the scow, built in the
form Of q pyramid, % feet long and
I teet high, surmounted by cross
% feet high and f,ot square, hewr
out of drift-wood, and conspicuous
at distance of twenty versts. The
mausoleum was covered with stones
and is to be sodded in the spring
The cross is inscribed with the rec
ord and names of the dead, cut ir
by the search party.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-07-05

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Abused.

The abuse Of language is very
plainly seen in the use Of the word
professor" Once applied only to
those who taught in a higher insti-
tuition Of learning, it is now assum-
ed by teachers who are employed
in schools and seminarics below col
lege grade. 1t is the custom in ms
ny towns to speak not only Of the
Principal Of the High School as
Professor, but also thus to dub the
head Of the Grammar School.
But the word suffers an abuse
much mole serious than this. In
London few years ago was dis
played q sign, the professor Of
Shirt. Making" A New England
barber circulated hand bills through
the village in which his simple shop
was situated. describing himself az
Professor Of the Tonsorial Art"
A Maine paper recently. in a par
agraph concerning skillful COACH
man, placed before his name the ab-
brcviation "Prof.'
Such uses OF ND honorable term
are both ridiculous and shameful.
Americans arc too free in the use ol
titles. The meaning Of the word
professor should be restricted to
those who teach in q college OF in
al institution oil as high grade.
AZ Harvard no one is called pro.
iess.,r unless be has been chosen Ia
regular prosessorship. To call q
tutor by this title, or for him to n.
low himself to be SO calle'l, would
be considered a mark Of indecorulY.
A Harvard tutor who had been adj
dressed hy a scholar % Professor
F.. replied: mo, that Is incorrect,
iou can indulge yourself in the use
of any ordinary or modest titles
but do not professor NE. !
Just received rt Freeman Bros. b
4 IS -
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-07-05

When the st. Petersburg Colo,
thought it had shown praiseworthy
enterprise in sending a special cor
respondent into the Herzegovina in
surrectionary districts, its less ener-
getic rivals rose to .he occasion and
got the Austrians to shoot him as
an agitator and rebel. And thus
harmony and eqality were restored
to the journalistic circles Of the Rus
sian capital.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-07-05

Just received vt Freeman Bros, d
lot u sretnsne tislscr, They siv All
tl,e III md cheap.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-07-05

FOR DYSPEPSIA and liver com.
plant, you have a printed guaran.
tee OH every bottle Of Shiloh's Vital
izer. 1t never fails to cure.
A NASAL INJECTOR free with
each bottle Of Shiloh's Catarrh Rem
edy. Price 80 cents
THE REV. GEO. III. THAYER
Of Bourbon, Ind, says: Both my.
self and wife owe our lives 10 SILL
LOH'S CONSUMPTION CURE
For sale by II. II. BLAIR.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-07-05

Aliens Iron Tonic Bitters will
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remedy, as the iron in these bitters
is in the most perfect state to DO Ia
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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-07-05
MOTTO q.

will be at my Office il, Elk Point
on the first Mondays in May, July
and September, for the purpose Of
holding term Of the prolat court,
for Union county, and will remain
in my Office 10 long as there il any
business to do. All parties having
business with.th Probate court will
please take notice.
r. W. SMITH,
Judge Of Probate,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-07-05
Re,y0rc Of I,,,isaalom..

The delicate odor of Floreston Co
logne is entirely novel. Look for
signature Of Hiscox & Co., N. r., on
each bottle.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-11-16
What the Ancients Believed,

Arrian, who fourished about the mid
die of the second century of the Chris
tan era, was of . skeptical frame OF
mind, and had wholesome distrust Of
the evidence Of eve-witnesses. He ridi-
culed the old stories about ants that dug
up gold and griffins that guarded the
precious metals, and declared that none
were to be found in those parts of India
that were visited by Alexander and his
officers. He describes, however, = learn
ed. OF rather musical elephant, which
s'beat upon Q cymbal whiie several 9TH
ers danced to his music. Two cymbals
were hung between his forelegs, and one
tied to his probocis, or trunk. He then
striking the cymbal which was tied to
his trunk against the Others between his
forelegs alternately, the rest OF the ele-
plants moved around him rs in dance,
and lifted up or bowed their bodies as
fifty and Justly rs the measure and rea-
son of the sound seemed to require, or
as he who played upon the instrument
directed" He also speaks, though from
hearsay, of an elephant dying of grief
because it had killed its keeper in q mo-
ment of frenzy. Nearchus, it seems,
had protested that he once saw the skin
of tiger, and that the natives sverred
that the animal, when alive, was rs big
as q full grown horse, and further, that
it would leap upon an elephant and
strangle it. Thereupon Arrian remarks
that those he saw were like speckled
wolves, only little larger, so that he
never saw = tiger at all, but only Loop
ard.-AU the Year Round.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-11-16
Judicial Torture in Hungary.

Public opinion in Hungary for some
time past has been absorbed by mys-
ferrous affair that occurred at Tisza
Eszlar, where young girl belonging to
Christian family suddenly disappeared,
the Jews of the locality being subse-
quently charged by public runlor with
having assassinated her and disposed OF
her remains. A married couple named
Scharf are under arrest on suspicion OF
being connected with the girls murder.
The legal adviser has Just addressed q
memorial to Minister President Tisza,
revealing state of things in Hungary
worthy only of the Middle Ages. 1t
contains the following horrible dis
closures:
Your Excellency is quite aware in
what fashion many Commissaries of
Police proceeded in view of eliciting
confessions from prisoners. Your Ex-
cellency knows perfectly well that only
recently the Commissary of certain
district was accused, while interrogating
youth of eighteen, the only child Of
his widowed mother, of hanging him by
his feet, in which position he died. The
Commissary of another district, while
examining woman whose innocence
was afterward established, had her
hands tied, and then caused her to be
held over a fire. Your Excellency is
further aware that, Notwithstanding our
severe laws and the vigilance of the
Government, the secret interrogatory of
prisoners is largely conducted by means
of torture and corporal ill-treatment,
and that this is practiced chiefly by the
Commissaries of Police, who, as a rule,
escape detection and punishment"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-11-16
Salt WataY Etiduetta

Most every one in Washington knows
Judge Pat Halves, of Nebraska The
Judge is genial, pleasant fellow, and,
though having worn for years the ju-
dicial ermine, Is not whit like the ay-
erage jurist-stern, stolid and indifer-
eDt- On the contrary he is, to use
common phrase, zone Of the boys"
One day last week the judge. by way OF
escaping the heat of the city, yhied him
to Ocean City, where he INDUCED in
saltwater baths to his hearts content.
The second day after his arrival he put
ON his handsome spangled bathing suit,
and was the object of admiration OF all
the other bathers. He cavorted around
in the water with the agility of cat,
and many complimentary remarks were
made about the judges excellent SWIM
ming qualities. Two or three gentle
men whom the Judge knew we're '.duck-
ed'' by him, and they all took it good
naturally. Bye-and-bye, the Judge
espied handsome lady who would bal
anes the scales at 100. Going gently
up behind her be caught the Lady around
the waist, and with q tremendous effort
throw her half somersault- The lady
remained under the water about half 3
minute. When she came up and had
wiped the water from her eyes she turn
ed toward the Judge and poured q tor
rent Of abuse upon him. The Judge
apologized the best he could and walk
ed away. He had gone over near his
male friends, who had stood off for
some distance witnessing the circus bus
mess between the fat lady and the Judge,
when another gentleman came up. and
tapping the eminent jurist on the should
or said:
"sir, you duoked that lady over
Eyes, sir" said Judge HAYES, II
did,"
But" said the gentleman, edo you
know her?''
'.No, indeed, never saw her in my
lfe." responded Judge Halves.
Don't you think you assumed .
great deal in catching hold Of lady
whom you never saw?"
ut never occurred to me that had
committed an indiscretion. / saw the
other fellows ducking the girls, and I
thought would follow suit" quickly
spoke upthe man whose Judicial ermine
had never been spoiled. -
Sir" excitedly said the gentleman,
'.you owe that lady an apology"
81 just apologized to her." said tho
Judge, "but she wouldn't accept it."
Then you owe me an apology"
can right" said the judge, II most
humbly ask the pardon of both you and
your lady friend, but Pm Westerner
and I'll be hanged if 1 knew anything
about your salt water etiquette. Dying
which the party broke up, all handahE
ing apparently satisfied Washington
Critic,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-11-16
Fixed in His Mind,

Riding up the Columbia pike from
Franklin, says NJ. Quad, to reach the
battle ground, met an African resting
by the roadside, and after several gen.
eral inquiries / asked:
Anybody around here got any relics
of the battle?''
docs you mean cannon balls, sah?''
Eyes, cannon balls, pieces of shell,
bullets, and so FORTH
''Well, sab, has de identical cannon
ball dat killed Gineral Jackson in dis
yere font"
"Nop'
deed I has, boss"
you don't mean that General Jack.
son was killed herep"
'Dat's 'zactly what 1 mean, an rze
got de VERY cannon ball dat mashed
him. How much will you pay fur a
relic?'
got down and argued with him. ]
read the list of generals who fell at
Franklin, and told him how and where
Jackson died, but he was as firm as q
rock.
tits no use, boSs-no use, he said rs
he rose up to go. "You may be right,
but somehow rze got it fixed in my
mind fur ten y ars past dat my cannon
ball killed Gineral jackson, an if
should start out now wild some odder
story I couldn't disrecollect it fifteen
minutes. Yes. sab, I'll stick to Jack
son, an de price of dat ball am two
dollahs!"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-11-16
A Laborious Escapa

Nine months of hard and ingenious
labor by johnnie Sansome, q convict in
the prison at Folsom, Cal, enabled him
to escape. BY thrusting wire down
between the granite blocks in the floor
in his cell. he discovered cavity un-
derneath, which was an abandoned
sewer. With chisel which he SNUG
gled in from the workshop, and heavy
piece of wood, he broke one of the
stones. This required a month, because
he could only strike blow when door
was closed, or some other noise was
made to hide il, and he frequently sat
up all night without being able to strike
more than once or twice. In the day
time he was in the shop. After remov-
ing the half square of granite, he dug
slowly down through three feet of stone
and cement. first boring hole, and af-
terward letting the chips fall through it.
At TIE end of three months he got into
the sewer and found it plugged with
stone and cement ten feet thick at its
former outlet. The remaining six
months were spent in digging through
this obstruction. He worked at night,
and naked, leaving his clothes so ar
ranged in bed that the guard supposed
he was in them. Foul gas in the sewer
nearly suffocated him, loss of sleep made
him i'll, and his weight fell off twenty
FIVE pounds. But he got out at last
Within three hours an officer recognized
him, and ne was again a prisoner.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-11-16
Pooling Ginenl Sherman

About six miles out of Savannah, saws
M Quad, / came across farmer who
accepted plug of tobacco and was
ready to sit down on log and answer
all questions. When asked him about
Sherman's approach, he burst into .
loud laugh and slapped his leg, and was
80 tickled that he did not calm down for
two minutes.
Excuse me, stranger" he finally said,
''but whenever think of how fooled
Gineral Sherman it tickles me all over. :"
ibid you fool himy'
''Wall. / rather reckon"
'.How?''
''Wan, you see, that's my place up
thar on the rise. When the war broke
out was the most cantankerous rebel
you ever saw. sssore I'd fight and fout
and fit till we licked the Yanks, if it
took hundred years. 1 reckon Giner-
al Sherman heard of it-''
Probably he did,"
'.And after he took Atlanta he made
up his mind to gobble me. He knew T.
sMore to die before I'd surrender, and
he came along down from Atlanta with
over 40, 0O0men to surround me. Mighty
OotC olu mou, tudt dlucIA1 OuCFludIl.
s.Yes"
''Wall. they got here one night about
10 o'clock. l reckon that night some
5000 of them surrounded my house
up thar and called for me to come out
and surrender and end the war."
'.And of course you did7''
''And OF course I didn't! That's
whar' the fun comes in. wasn't home
at all, but was down in Varginny with
Lee. They entered the house and sarch-
ed and sarched, and went to the barn
and called and called, and when the old
woman finally told 'em I wasn't home
they was the maddest crowd you ever
sOt eyes on. They had hoofed it all the
way from Atlanta to git their paws on
me, and had had their long march for
nothing! expect Sherman was ready
to bust with madness, and reckon he
won't never quite forgive me. 1t tickles
the old woman wuss than it tickles me,
and you'd better come up to the house
and hear her tell what them 10000
Yankees said when they got here and
found me gone"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-11-16
How Weapons First Came to be Used

How Weapons First Came to be Used.
The idea OF employing weapons for
assault or defence was logical result
of the first contest that took place be-
tween man and man. In these con-
tests the strongest man, with his native
weapons-his fists-was unconsciously
the father of all arms and all armed
strength. for his weaker antagonist
would early seek to restore the balance
of power between them by the use of
some sort of weapon. The shorter
armed man heightened his striking
power by the use OF stick, and found,
after time, the help its leverage and
weight afforded him. The first case in
which the chance-selected, heavy-ended
staff or club showed that weight or
hardness had its value, was first step
toward furnishing it with strong head.
Hence, the blow of the fist was the fore
runner of the crushing weapon. In the
same way the pointed stick became the
lance or dagger; and the thrown shaft,
helped, as knowledge increased, by the
bow or throwing stick" was the pre-
cursor Of the dart and arrow. The char
acter of the first weapons was largely de-
termined by the nature Of the material
from which they were derived, and their
shape partly from this and partly by
copying the forms of the weapons pos
sessed BY the animals the primeval men
slew. Hence xrises the general SINH
larity in character and shape of the ear
lest tools from all parts of the world.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-11-16
3" Re Boasted Liberta.''

A Frenchman, brought before New
York police court on charge of vagran-
cy, argued that that definition would
also be a good definition of political lib
erty. He said:
''Ah, oui; zen it eez not re propair
thing for ze wanderer to stop in re park?
What for re parks are madep Ze sguir-
rel gsmbol tro re grass, re sparrow
bathe in re cooling fountain, but ze Off
clare viii not let re tired man rest on re
BENCH
But the officer says you were sleeping
in the park; that you have been fire.
quently aroused and driven out of
Union and Madison Square Parks" said
Justice Smith in Jefferson Market Po-
lice Court.
"Ah. monsieur, ven 60 in re parks
zepure air make me SO fatigue; I am
always fatigue"
'.Have you homer"
'.Maison? No. monsieur; we're is re
boosted hberte of re Grand Repubhque
Eat compel . man to have homer /
like to breathe re free all"
He was committed to the work house.