The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-08-24

and then splitting it all out into his napkin. I
may reasonably forego for Americans any
claim OF monopoly in vulgarlty: And my dis
with manifest amazement and dfsap-
Of feeding herself consisted Of
using her fork only to pile an assortment Of
yiands on her knife, and the blade to convey
these v~ariegated mouthfuls out Of sight BE
should have forgiven her that eccentricity,
which was clearly and polite compared with
his own for 1t was her industriously bithsome
daughter who conveyed to me a favorable re-
gard Of his Englishism. She talks with an
At 5 O'clock" she said to the
family %coachman, in a voice loud enough
tor a verandah full Of people to hear.
Caught what, MISS? !" the man inquired. A
stand it, and she had to say in plain American
pronunciation, though size lowered her voice
and stepped closer in doing 80, "My cart,
stupid; my village cart at 8 O'clock"
II is interesting to look back Of the fnery
which wealth has put on the backs of the
women to see how the money has been OBJ
tanned.
DO you see that lady in the white Ottoman silkp
said a friend.
THE one with the shapely feure2" responded.
Yes, that's the one: but her shape always seems
to me like a certain bottle of stomach bitters,
WhyI, Because her fathers fortune came from the
manufacture of a constituent Of cocktails. Over
yonder in dainty null Is the wife of a face powder:
going down the hallway are tue two daughters of a
soothing syrup, and the swell, who drove past a
lew MINUTES ago in . dog cart tandem, was a son of
a g."
About the most amusing product of wealth
at the Branch is the young man whose tastes
have run ahead Of the money allowance which
a sensible father accords him. He could drive
one horse without extravaganza, but his de-
slres extend to a pair; one good room would
lodge him comfortably, but he likes to lounge
IN two; and so he goes, making himself
miserable when he might be happy. Why
could pay his bills ii he didn't make
a fool of himself; but, as it is, creditors hound
him at every turn. He came down to the sea-
shore with his hair cut very short, AMI bleached
from i's natural red to a light blonde. This
hal been done for Improvement, and so it was
rndeiy unjust for a familiar acquaintance to
cry out to him: at isn't any disguise, old
chap. They'll know you in a minute"
AN INFIDEL's MONUMENT.
predict that the intidels will soon have 8
to regard il, but one which even the eloquent
1nSersoll will think it worth while to talk
about. D. NJ Bennett called hims elf a free
thinker, while others deemed him a crank. He
dlo not stop with plain disbelief of Christian
lty, but rode Wild hobbies of socialism, even
to the dirty lengths of free love. He edited o
paper called the Trntbseeker, was a fevorite
speaker at wild peoples meetings, aud at
length became in their eyes a MARTYR by sery-
ing a term in the penitentiary for publishing
an obscene book. On his liberation. he an,
peared on the platform of Cooper Institute
halI III the dress of a convict, and was greeted
by 1000 followers with tremendous en-
thusiasm. His journal, which had been COM
parauvely unknown, now gained circulation by
means of this Incidental advertising, its editor
came into demand as a lecturer, and his as
saults upon religion seemed at last to have
struck remuneration, when sudden death shut
MN OIL from thatreward. Benefits followers
were asked to contribute to a monument fund.
and l learned from his widow that they have
gwen over $1,000. She says he is buried in
GREENWOOD cemetery, in a lot owned BIZ her
brother. The ground, all graded and rallied, has
thus been provided, leaving only the monu-
she depends on these reaching a total of
Pl, 400. She has made a contract with
an old frien' and warm supporter of Ben
netts and who therefore has conceded a low
price Tor the work, 80 that about a So, 900
granite pile is contemplated. The design com
prises 8 massive base surmounted by a COL
umn, altogether reaching a height Of about
fifteen feet Near the top Of the front face
Will be q bronze medallion portrait of Bennett
two feet in circumference, aud under it o rec
ord of his name, birth and death. 1t is on the
remaining three sides, however, that the
trouble which l anticipate will be lettered
Here will be engraved: Gays Mrs. Bennett. "sx-
tracts from my husbands .works-glowing truths
ment he could have. They will tell TO coming
generations what manner of man he was, and long
after the shaft shall have crambled they will live in
the memories of those who learned them from its
face" ~.
Such is the fond expectation of the widow,
and 1t may possibly be realized, but I think not
i'll Greenwood cemetery. The quotations
selected to be inscr v , are violently denuncia-
tory of Christian. and Greenwood is a
Christian burial grouni, whose authorities will
not permit the diversion of sacred ground to
such a use. Then the in6dels will make an
uproar, see if they don't
A BARGAIN IN CHARITY.
Down in John street. close by the first
Methodist church ever built in America, q
Christian firm of merchants are doing some
thing beneticent that cannot give rise TO any
controversy. In the cellar of their store they
have coiled 2OO feet of pipe in a barrel and
put that in a hogshead. the space between the
two receptacles being filled with sawdust,
while the coil is kept packed in ice, which
cnllis tue water running through the Pipe.
i he latter is extended upstairs and through the
side of the house to the street, where the cool
Ing beverage is on tc1 free to everybody. The
original Investment in this charity was less
than $lOO, and to keep it going about SIS a
week is expended.
originator, as he stood watching the drinkers
-HoT many of them do you suppose are CRATE
u ! bhkSQs
Il don't know" he replied. 'and I don't much
care, for We get a good deal Of satisfaction out Of
the sight, anyhow. But l guess they have more
appreciation than you seem to think, or else they
would break or carry off the tumblers. We put out
2 tin cup at fist. and fastened 1t to a chain: but it
looked 50 moan, SO much like a dog trough. that
We took 1t away and put up the shelf as you see 1t,
with four glasses. Thus far this summer only two
glasses have been stolen, Eve broken. aud our
porter has a theory that the beer saloon folks over
yonder did the breaking maliciously."
SsrAs
Edison at the Key.
edison used to work the other end of q cir
cult with mo" says a telegraph operator inter-
viewed in the Vicksburg Herald, sand I knew
when he was in Memphis some thirteen or
fourteen years ago. He always looked ratty,
and never spent his money on clothes, but the
reason was that he was always tinkering with
some new continuance or other, and spent his
money for material to work out his inven-
tons. He used to take press in Memphia He
was IS fast as they could make 'em, and his
copy, never gave q telegraph editor 3 bit Of
Of drawing caricatures, illustrating the char
acter Of news he was getting and putting
them along in the spaces of the copy he
sent in to the press. This made one Of the pa
pers up there, I forgot which, red hot, and it
opened up on him, and had o good deal to do
with his being fred by the manager. Edison
didn't want the fool editor to print his funny
pictures in his tele2raphic news. He only
drew them for his own amusement When he
went to Boston, with his yellow breeches on in
the middle OF winter, the manager Of the Office,
finding he was an expert, hired him to keep
the reporters in order. Edison worked at tho
Instruments . Part of two days, and then was
caught by the manager Of the Office fooling
With some new continuance of his own.