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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1883-06-27

The hired girl says, metaphorical-
ly speaking, that "ior plain and
ornamental use, Benedict's soaps
are the best; at Mallory & Bige-
lows.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09
DISCOSrEST.

There comes q time in the life OF
every man when he devOutly wishes
for a change. If he he 4 merchant he
sorrowfulIy casts his eyes toward the
banker, as that individual carelessly
rolls by in his carriage. The bank n,
with outstanding loans and secret spec
ulations, rides by the neat cottage of
Tie independent laborcr, and would
gladly exchange his luxurious surround
ings for the peace of mind that the poor
man ought to possess. The poor labor
er can see no pleasure in his lot, and he
turns with a grOau from the sleek, well
dressed politician, who, since the cleo
ton, passes him by unnoticed. The
politician, in all idle hour, drops into
the little ivy-over-grown church aud
listens in envy to the sacred word a.
preached by the pure-facei, bluc-eyed
minister, who reflects in many tones
and gestures the love of a pure, unde-
filed AMI immaculate Saviour. His
life with all its twining and twisting,
it's wire-pulling and scheming, its be-
traya!s and promises, he would gladly
give for the peace and COntentment OF
this man, and yet the mild, pure, blue
eyed parson is no, content; he would
fain change places with most any man.
His congregation is il!iDeral, unjust,
misery. 1t does not even thank the
LORD for the gift OF such a man, but on
the contrary speaks fretfully, ill-tem-
peredly, grOwlingly, in order that it
may keep him humble. 1t is afraid
that if he learns that he is a nan Of
ability that they will have to raise his
salary, and they would rather lie, play
the ~hypOcrite, do anything that is mean
rather than draw an extra cent from
their well-flled purses. They spend
hundreds of dollars for their enjoy
ments, and cents for their religion. The
poor parsOn is aware of this, and de.
voutely wishes that the LORD had called
him TO some other work. Thus the
world rolls on. Everybody believes
everybody else happier than himself.
The spirit Of dissatisfaction Is every
where abroa | and causes man TO give
himself trouble over nothing. The only
man who is satisfied with his lot is the
own that owns one in u cemetery and
occupies it. And it is very probable
that ever then his spirit is complain
ing that his Judgment must be along
side Of a set of scoundrels instead of out
yonder in the corner by the side Of men
gCcd and great. But such is life, AM
uerhsps death.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09
THE COMING OF AUTUMN.

Though according to the almanac we
are now but just enjoying the midsum-
mel days, and though according to the
astronomers the sun has but just passed
the midway point of his summer jour
ney, nevertheless the coming ofautumn
distinctly casts its shadow before during
the delightful days of last week and re-
minded us that even before we are get
ting the merest speaking acquaintance
with summer we must soon bid her
farewell and prepare to welcome her
successor. For their warning was I'M
mi,takabie, in the dim yellow tinge of
their sunshine, i'll their soft pleasant
GOODNESS, born not Of east wind and salt
sea SAVIOR, but Of lessening suns warmth
in their autumn feeling that penetrated
earth and air and sky, and spoke from
sunbeam and breeze, from moonrise and
sunset.
Has summer grown coy and haughly
and reserved during these latter years:
we hHo" buh llNNAt Va i1lN ANl Sl'"
ing fervor aud her impetuOus heats. She
| comes late, she looks upon US %supercil-
iOusly, and she departs early. She be-
slows upon us but seldom the glory OF
her "hOt high Moons" and as she turns
to leave us the order of her going is not
| as brilliant as she was wont TO make it.
Talk of the dull November days" be-
ing "the sadde>t of the year, What
are they to the sadness that fingers IN
the air and yellows the sunshine a. the
glories Of sumner begin to fade, and the
reminders OF the coming of autumn are
more frequent:
These days are upon us now in all
their sad beauty, and every morning
brings its touching reminder that the
glorious vigor Of the summer days is 60
ing down to its death. But, with all
their signs Of decay and all their mean
ing of age and death, rather than life
aud vigor, it isa regal beauty that these
days wear. Nature is at her best of
rlpeness and fullness, and her devotees
are we'll repaid for their worship, wheth-
er they send up their alteration at the
seashore, on the mountain side or in the
Stiffness of inland fields and woods.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09
A POEM BY BAYARD TAYLOR


On the singing Of "Annie Laurie" by
The soldiers al the allied forces, the
night before the storming OF the Msla-
kOf.
"Givs us a songl" the soldiers cried.
The outer t!enches EuAriinR;
When the heated guns I tue camp-aIiied
Grew weary OF bombsrding.
The dark Rdan In silent scon
Law grim and threatening under,
And the tavDy mound Of the Maakoh
No Ion ger belched It's thund6.
There was q pause-the guards man Eald
" storm the fort Tomorrow,
Sing while you may, another day
VAL bring enough Of sorrovi"
They lay along the batterys ade,
Besov the smoky cannon:
Brave hearts from Severn and from Clyde
And from the banks Of Shannon.
They sang OF love and not Of lanes
Forget was Britian's glory;
Each heart recalled adifT-rent name
Bot all sang Annie IAurte"i
Voice after voice caught up The song,
Until rs tender passion
hOse like an anthem rich snd strong.
1beir battleeye confesstOn;
Year girl! her name he dared not speak,
lot A. The song grew louder.
- metbing upon the soldiers cheek
NssheG Off The stains Of povdeIl
Beyond The d~srkening hill stops bomel
The bloody sunset emhers,
While the crimson valleys learned
How Englibh love remembers
And once again a fire OF hell
RsIned on the Russian quarters,
With scream OF shot and nuHt Of hell
And believing Of the moftarz.
And Irish Eors's eyes are dim
For a singer dumb and CORY,
And English Mary mourns for hin
Who sang of Annie Laurie
AhIso'diers, IN your honoFed rezt
Your truth and valor bearing,
The hravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring! y. c. o.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09

Mr.. Thomas A. Howard. Of Honey Gmu
lS3, writes as follows:
81 have been suffering during S"verA yss
from severe Illness. and = general breaL.t
down OF my physical system. ami nave IND
the treatment and prescripti"nsof many dss
tors far and near. and Travelled 10 the H.
Springs and other mineral springs'amou'iT
their remedial qualities, drinking the w.tc
and bathing ~ Scientifically IN their hralsi
depths. but all To- noaNsii, ~ ] s'"Niliy lax
IN health and although informed ~ ~
physicians that my ailments and week.-Mrs.
were the result uf kidney dlsensr ~ n dsnfv
GUS character, they could give me nuthiaE 4
cure me. During the past two years my san.
irgs at III o. II dreadful. and | had them
Inrcscrlbnble pains In tho regions abou, Ii,
kidneys, the phToNyumS Of which WEIR =
= Nrre RS Ia render II i'm possible ~ me-
sleep. While In this depiorahle and Il sros'
aged condition ! was persuaded 4" ir} iils:,
Remedy. and after u,ing les than hnI' 10
tie my great surcriugs and paIoNy sm, q
pain we're entirely relieved. and | could stSi
better and longer than ! had IN two ys.n
before, and although ! am now on my ID n
bottle only my improvement IL very remut
able, and | regret hat J dli not know Of ~
wonderful curative powers Of Hunts fs,nsii
before, az II would have saved me year 3
suffering. ! heartily recommend II 70 u
afflicted with amy kidney dLScWe of dIsss
Of The urinary organs.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09
THE TOUR OF

Exsggerstion seems to be the beset-
ting sin of our country. This National
trait has led Us to indulge from time to
time in wild imsginings Of the proper
tions attained by American absenteeism
in consequence of apropensity for being
fashionable and making a tour of Eu-
rope. According to the current cslcu-
lations that have always been accepted
as reliable, it has been believed that
the annual volume of American tourists
in Europe was about one hundred thou
sand persons; but it has now been as.
certained that the whole number Of
cabin passengers for Europe, from sll
ports Of the Republic, for n year, is
only sixty nine thousand, OF which fifty
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09
CHURCH AND STATE IS EUROPE.

An abOrtive revolution in Spain has
just been suppressed by the regular
troops under the authority of the exist
ing monarchy. This rebellion appears
to have been republican in character,
and a proclamation was printed by the
insurgent leaders prOclaiming the end
Of the monarchy, the establishment Of
= republic in its place, and, what Is
much more important, the complete
separation Of Church and State and the
establishment of the religious rights of
conscience. 1t is alleged that there had
been \ very suspicious increase Of the
circulation Of French gold and paper
money in the insurrectionary provinces,
from which it is inferred that this repub-
lican conspiracy and rebellion were
really instIgatcd by French political
intrigues. There can be no doubt that
the French republicans regard with
uneasiness the existence of a Bourbon
monarchy in Spain, more especially in
view of the undisguised sympathy be-
tween that monarchy and the Ultra
montana party in Spain, France anu
Italy.
Most Of the leading statesmen Of the
present French republican government
are Protestants, Hebrews or Free
thinkers, and they have pursued their
policy toward the separation of Church
and State in France with q resOlute
courage, audacity and perseverance that
render somewhat remarkable the result
Of the elections just held all over France
fol- members of the Councils. General,
whereby the republican party has made
a net gain of fully one hundred MEM
bers of those Councils. We regard this
as remarkable, because it has occurred
directly in the face of a very strong
letter addressed to President GREvY by
Pope LEO, warning him Of the dangers
Of the course thus far pursued by the
republic, and insisting upon a strict all
herence to the ConcOrdat.
In France, it is not disguised by the
Republican leaders that their ultimate
purpose is the complete separation Of
Church and State, and the avowed
reason for this is that the Church has
always been too closely identified with
the monarchy to be now trusted with
commanding power owe the Republic.
In Spain, however, the course of events
is much more complicated. The re-
public which existed before the eStab.
'ishment Of the present Spanish mon
archy, was distracted, troubled, and
revolutionary throughout its whole
career. Those troubles are now alleged
to have been caused quite a. much by
the Church As by the iutrigue5 and
of military factions. And
yet the Spanish Republicans are now
divided into three separate factions, of
which One is represented 10y the pres
eut ministry, another by the OPP
position in the Cortez, and a third by
the party which recently broke out in
rebellion. 1t is possible that Germany
and Italy are both interested in the de-
struction of the power of the Latin
Church in Spain, for important political
reasons connected with the balance o!
ppwer-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09

to places like Rochester and denounc-
ing Christianity as the offspring of hu.
msnity to sppease q villisnous and
blood-thirsty GoD;' or another who de-
clared that all worship is the stammer-
ing Of the blanehed lips of fears; or still
another who declared, there are $1,000
ministers hired to keep alive a Shiny,
serpent-hke religion;' or still another
who revealed the nature of his grievances
against Christianity when he insisted
that, by aSsocisting marriage with the
law the law is degraded These $50
lated expressions, while they may con-
vey an exaggerated view Of the FREEDOM
mating sentiment at Rochester, never
theless represent its spirit pretty accur-
ately. 1t is rot necessary to look far
ther for a reason why sincere and phil
osophieal investigators hold them
selves sloof from such gatherings and
look with adherence upon the men
who figure there and who proclaim
themselves the liberal thinkers ofthe
age. Christianity in the meanwhile
has nothing to fear from this class Of as
sault. The more there is Of it, the
stronger Christianity is.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09
CHIT.CHAT.

WILKIE COLLINS devOtes himself to yacht
cruising and noveI.writing alternately.
THERE is talk OF a separation between the
King and Queen OF Roumsnis, owing to the
marriage being without issue.
GOVERNOR BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, has
made one hundred and seven militia colo
uels during his four years service.
Mis-. DAVID DAVIS sends word from her
home in Illinois to her people in North
Carolina that her married lie is extremely
happy.
MADAME MopJEsKA plays this week in
Chicago, and il is said that she will aud TO
Der repertoire tie character vi 'lmOgeu" ii
Cymbeline.
Miss ROSE EYTISGE mas made preparations
to produce this season Snakespeare's
Winters Tale, which will be given with
spectacular effects.
JOHN MCCULLoUGU appears at Kansas City
this week. Letters received from him last
week states that he feels better since he be-
gan TO play. .
Miss JANE CoBDEx, one OF the five daugh.
ters OF Richard Golden, the English free
trade s~gitatOr, is organizing Liberal Clubs
throughout England.
SENATOR CHAsDLER's widow has given
81 900 to establish a scholarship ii the Chi.
csso Woman's Medical College for the bene-
mt of women who intend to become missioa.
sries.
TUE widow and daughter OF Stouewa'
Jackson accompany Governor Jarvis, of
North Carolina on his visit to the institu'e
fsir at Boston this week sad will be, with
him. guests OF the State.
HG. ono FuCHs, Principal Of the Massa.
chusetts NuIIal Ar School, has been
chosen TO take charge OF the Maryland In
stitute School OF Art and Design in B4lti.
more.
BLErLTY CAMPBELL is in Berlin arranging
for tue performance of My Partner" al
the ResideDz Theatre. The German papers
cell him the Bret HsSte of the drama" and
the most popular and successful dramatic
author Of America"
VICroR HUGo told an American visitor
recently that he regarded Elgsr A. Poe as
the prince Of American poets" He thinks
that Mr.. Whittier is "a womsnly v~ersiher:"
Mr.. Lowell d smart chatterer," aud Oliver
Wendell Holmes "afiictingly laughable."
AMONG the victims at Casamicciola were
a Signor and S;gnors Bonavits, who left
property worth 81 ,0OO.OG TO which there Is
no direct heir. Their relatives, in order TO
determine the succession. have peti.ioned
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09
SEPTEMBER.

~
Playtime is over. Children, with
faces Drowned and tanned, but with
memories Of unrestrained delight in
Green fields, of long days of perfee: joy
in the STA sand, are in school or on
their way to it. Teachers, with a sigh
for the vacation th&t seemed so long at
the beginning, but, like all good things,
has proved so short, have turned the
KEY back upon their old life. Business
men, who had slipped away for a few
DAYS" have returned with faculties
sharpened and with many a softened
recollection that will bling help and
comfort to Others through the year.
Months of hard work. \ few days
Of rest. The Fountain Of Youth" was
legend, with a truth lying beneath.
II Is found often in these summer wan
derings. Just time for a hasty dip, but
the clear eye and firm step prove tina
its waters were sure. On the whole,
most people are glad that vacation Is
over. They were eager To go, but they
ill back into the Old traces with the
satisfying remark that 1.-THE regular
round j. the best, after ALL Labor IL a
safety valve. Mankind generally are
disposed TO keep it open.
But June days are scattered all
through this month Of september. The
deep blue sky and the luStre Of foliage
are still here. They are Softened by a
touch of decay, whose presence IS yet
hardly visible. For perfection of beauty
is found, not in childhood or youth,
but in the beginning Of middle life; and
the early autumn will bring together
all that is most desirable in a climate.
Whether it be the cool mornings, when
it is 8 joy to live and breathe the delic-
i,us air; the warm afternoons, when
the gardens are in all their glow Of
color, and peaches and plums drop
down from the loaded branches or the
evenings, when the light wood fire
dances merrily on the hearth, it issum-
mer and winter, on their best behavior
giving friendly tokens to each other.
There is a comfort, old as ADAM, of
beginning again; a fascination in u
fresh start that comes 20 Us in Septem-
bcr. Teacher and pupils, discipline and
d~i-obcdience forgotten, meet with a cor
dial greeting, born Of a certainty that
the coming term will be one Of marked
success. Merchants enter their count
ing rooms in the flush of expectation
hat the ventures this fall will end with
an unusual balance in their favor. The
best sermons come to Us from the pull
pit. 1t is said that more literary work
has been performed in this month than
in that of any other during the year.
All this tells its own story. 1t is Ma
ture who has laid her hand, fresh and
cool, upon tired heads, with y benedic-
ton OF courage and hope.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09

thousand went from New York. NOW
n we deduct from these numbers all the
European tourists who have visited the
limited States and returning home, and
all the commercial travellers whose
visits are regular and only extend to
the manufacturing districts, and also
all those Americans who so to Europe
on private business or professional
study, it will easily be seen that the
number of actual tourists who can
properly be classed as absentees, instead
of being a hundred thousand must be
much nearer thirty thousand.
Indeed, the tour of Europe has been
brought within the reach ofthe middle
classes of the people to such an extent
as to have lost its novelty and distiuc-
ton, in the cultivated circles Of fashion
able society. Truth ~ Say, in these
modern days, whsu steam has rendered
the STANDARDIZATION Of the globe q
matter ofevery-dsy talk, the tour Of FLU
topeis no more 10 be regarded as essen
tial to a finished education than a voy-
age through the Mediterranean and a
visit to Egypt, Constantinople, Suez
Canal, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf,
British-India, Japan, China, California,
Rock Mountains, Utah, the Mississippi
Valley, MexicJ and Chicago. Modern
fashion with regard to the tour of Eu-
rope may be said to have commenced
in England at the close OF the Bonapar-
tan wars, and to have been p~opulariz-
ed by tie English-speaking races by the
universal admiration for BYRoN's poems
which served q wondIous purpose in IL
Illuminating and casting a glamo- over
many European scenes But this was
follOwed-up by such a host OF European
and American poets, historians, ro-
mancer and ~novel.sts, that the longing
to visit these scenes respecting which
| all our modern literature is so rich in
references, has become common to all
who can read and are accustomed to
find society iu books. As regards aO'
senteeism, it may be admitted that it
has diminished very largely on account
of the rapid increase of the cost OF liv-
ing in all the most attractive cities OF
France, Germany, Belgium and Italy
MAINLY, it is alleged, on account OF the
profuse expenditures and reckless habits
of American travellers and sojourners.
1t is, therefore, idle for any n in
'hege times to pretend to go to Europe
10 live cheaply, more eSpe2 tally as the
city of Paris has now become the dear
est city in Europe for Americans to live
IN, and the famous cities of Italy are all
fast losing their former regulations for
| cheapness.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09
THEFT OF TIM

The theft WHO steals and despoils one
If money or property is quite sure, on
detection, of being properly punished;
uut we know of no law hat will effect
ihc chastisemeut ofthe thief that steals
valuable time. Last sunday y popular
New York minister preached an able
and interesting sermon on the many
thef,s committed by people who would
re grossly offended at the imputation
hat they robbed any one In any degree,
but there are few who could read the
eloquent and practical lesson of the
eminent teacher and not see that they
are guilty of some form or other of pet
" and often serious theft. One of the
theits enumerated as most common is
the theft oftime from the busy workers
Of the world by idArs. Few who com
NIT this form of theft appreciate the
wrong they do. As a rule they are
idlers, men and womcN who have little
labor to perform, or If they have it are
too lazy to give attention. They also
belong TO that class who have more
leisure than is healthy for all ordinary
being of good vitality. Many of them
are highly respectable and well.mean-
ing persons. Their time being of little
value to themselves, they have
no knowledge OF the value of
hours and minutes to others, and
they call and waste time, every moment
of which is golden to the people who
suffer the theft. This class is. rs a rule,
intelligent, and would be easily reform
ed if it could be made to pause and con-
slider the wrong it does to others. The
most Restiferous thief of time is the
genteel hummer, the chap that dresses
in nice clothes, that is always seen at
the opera, and at the summer
resort. His counterpart is the hand
some young woman full of adventure
who is playing the world for her for
tune and DESTROYS of affecting q mar
| rage with some one of means. Both
alC hNAGo VI az "NACS u ~ AAAAALk
time for themselvesthe steal time from
others They are trained in deceit, U.s.
ually fluent and fascinating in speech,
and too respectable in manner and look
TO be kicked out. They are the worst
Of robbers, ard they cost the worlds
earnest workers millions In valuable
lime that is lost forever. Sensible men
m women who know the value of
,;r,e 70 n busy workers are always
welcomed. Iyhether they come on
business, or in he kindly offices of
friendship, they never steal the time
thew can't return. II they have
business, 1t is transacted, and they are
ss welcome in their coming ~ In their
going. II they call to exchange the
greetings which keep green the noble
attributes of friendship, they throw
their bright nay of sunshine over the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09

worker and then depart regretted.
These are not the thieves Of the work
ersp time. On the contrary they give
much and take little; but they are only
q small proportion Of those who claim
the time of busy people. There Is hard
" a banker, merchant, manufacturer,
professional mau, editor or any other OF
the many workers of the world, who
are not daily victimized more or less by
the thieves Of valuable time. They
have existed since the world was, and it
is probable that they will continue un-
til time shall be no more.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09
FSEUIO En -G1OI

TO have the bodies disinterred, that by an
examination of the external injuries i may
be ascertained, if possible, which died nrst.
The Swedish frigats Vsnadis, which Is
about to start or has started, on . voyage
around the world, will carry the yoahsest
son of the King Of Sweden, the Duke OF
Gotland. The vessel goes on a scientific
expedition, and will be away eighteen
months.
MoBxosIsx has q new martyr in Mrs.
Belle Harris, the po~lysamous wife, who,
thirteen weeks sgO, was imprisoned 10
contempt Of Court, in refusing 10 tell, be-
fore a Grand Jury, the name Of the fatheI
of her two children. She has been released
from Jail, but has been summoned again to
sppear before the Grand Jury in December,
ROMANTIC Miss Idlewild Gardiner, ssed
&c years, eloped a few mornings sinos from
Port Jarvis, n. y, in company with q
stern consr:ole overlook the pair a. Mi
dletown, and both were consigned TO sePa
rate coils in a gloomy Jail.