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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-21

w Gol Anew ~.
November 14!h.
Dear SIR: I have your letter of
the 18th. There is no doubt Mr..
Cleveland will encounter a tremen
dous demand for a clean sweep, but
l tbiuk, while changes will be made,
and'oueht to be made, for perfectly
legitimate reasons, he will respect
the letter and spirit of the reform law,
and that none of the political officers
who have honest and effective in The
discharge of duty, and who have not
misused their positions for party or
political ends, will be arbitrarily
dismissed for political reasons. or
course, l have no authority 10 speak
for Mr.. Cleveland. My faith is
founded upon Tue sole knowledge of
bis character and convictions.
Truly yours,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-21
Letting II en- Down Easy.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-The Star
says the following reply to an inquiry
sent 10 Mr.. Geo. William Curtis by a
Government employe here has just
been received:
WEST New BRIGHToN. N. w.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14

than 5 cows in 800 stalls. Anoth..
capital error-because a waste Of can;taI
is to keep poor horses and cows,
$50 horse is not worth one-fourtb a.
much as one that is worth 800 r
will eat as much and cost as much ~,
harness, and will neither do as mnes
work nor live 50 long. A $40 COW. thai
makes three pounds of butter in q weeL
costs as much for everything. Iaho,
and utensils included, as one worth
800 and makes ten pounds a week
Another error is TO work poor land
Many u man has broken his back and
lost his heart on a poor farm which ba
has suffered to run down by bad man.
agement. He has spread his labor anr
capital over 100 acres, when by confn.
ing himself to twenty-five or thirty, he
might have become happy and rich.
The way to repair such a capital error
is to begin with ii field and get that
into good condition, and let the rest lie.
and so go through the farm. One rich
field will then make 1t easy to enrich
another or two; and while the Begin
ming is slow, it is downhill work, and
as the end is nearly reached progress is
fast and easy. The worst of all CAPT.
tai errors is for the farmer to neglect his
own improvement and cultivation. A
mar who has $40, 900 in o farm and
stock, may easily have twice as much in
himself and make his work pay 10 per
cent. on his value. He is the greatest
part of his capital and it is the greatest
Of all errors to misuse himself.-N.J .H.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
AProhibition Proclamation.

The following is received from New York:
The total Prohibition vote of the country will
aggregate 100000. Four years ago it was less
than 11,000, and it has decided the presidential
contest in New York. Cleveland's majority is
about 1000. Official returns will not material
ly change the figures. The prohibition vote IN
Albany, Monroe and Orleans counties woulG
have carried the state for Blaine, if CASTOR him.
Prohibitionists stood up to be counted and re-
buked the insult offered temperance men atthe
Chicago convention, and this vote has made
prohibition a national issue, which will not go
out of America until the beer shops have gone
out of America. The republican party having
been removed from their path to the grave
yard, the prohibitionists will now prepare to
bury the whisky democrats four years ahead.
l am fully satisfied we had no choice between
the candidates of the old parties, but we were
fighting to elect an issue and nave won. Work
to make the issue win in 1855 has already be
gun.
[Signed.l JOHN B. FINCH.
Chairman National Prohibition Committee"
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
FARM. FIELD And FIRESIDE.
Farming Paragraphs.

A British sportsman repels flies from
horses by lightly sponging the neck
and launches with kerosene. During
the first three miles of a recent journey
the pests distressed and teased his thin
skinned. spirited steed almost beyond
endurance, but after the application OF
oil, and during the remaining eleven
miles of the trip, though still pursued
by thousands of the winged bores, not
one yenturcd to alight and present his
bill.
The Kansas Cowboy SAYS that a gen
tleman remarked to the editor that the
recent rains would be the ruin of many
a granger. Why? Because" said he,
this is not a country for the pillow, but
for stock; and this is an exceptional
year, such as has not been known since
the settlement by the most adventurous
ranchmen and the grangers will regard
it as conclusive evidence that every
year will produce crops, and will eX-
pend their last dollar trying, only to
bring ruin upon them and their fami-
lies"
A. B. Allen states that he finds wheat
bran an Improbable feed for swine.
They do not seem to possess the power
Of digeSting it, consequently much of it
passes through them only partially as
simulated. If mixed with corn meal it
does better, and can be fed with adj
vantage to cattle, along with cut hay.
if mixed wit. it and we'll wetted, as it
then undergoes a second justification.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
rha Criminal Calendar.

D., S. Miles, expert of the D. N. Osborne
Machine company at Bozemsn, Montana, has
skipped, leaving numerous creditors, it is said.
One Craig, q s~aloonkeeper at South Fork,
Mont, shot and instantly killed yellowstone
Jim" orJ. Sullivan, in a drunken row, recent
~ shooting HIM six times.
Hugh Perkins and Albert Martin, tried for
murder and George Morrison, a horse thief,
who were incarcerated in the Clark county jail
at Neiilsville, Wis, took advantage of the cleo
ton, aud when the warden was in their cells,
knocked hi.n down, took away his keys and
revolver and made their escape to the woods.
Con Murphy, the notorious horse thief and
desperate, has again escaped from the Lewis
and Clarke county Jail, Montana. An officer
won't, to his cell this morning to bring him be-
fore the grand jury, and Murphy was missing.
The only reasonable theory is that he was
This is the third time Murphy has escaped
from officers or Jail.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
Furious Storm on the atlantic Coast, with
Much Damage

Father Point Spocial-A fearful snow storm
and wind from the east has been raging along
the coast The wind averages seventy miles
all hour. The sea is tremendous, and has
crossed highways and inundated all the fields
and all parishes along the coast. Here the
lighthouse and telegraph office are completely
surrounded by raging waves. The roads are
all undermined. Warehouses; here and sew
eral buildings near here and at Rimouski were
carried away. Great numbers of people vacat-
ed buildings at Rimouski, and much uneaslness
is felt for to-night's tide, if the storm does not go
down. The Inter Colonial railway track and
roadway is washed away between RimOuskl aud
Bic. Motives have been lost so far as known. The
signal and telegraph Office men have aban-
doned the station, having to take to boats.
This is the greatest storm in this vicinity for
years. At Du LOup q snow storm has been
raging with heavy wind from the northeast.
The sea swept over the wharf and carried of
a lot of lumber, also swept away the Star and
Telegraph Office belonging to L. T. Plza. There
is q washOut on the Inter-Colonial railway near
Bic 100 feet long and 20 feet deep. The spring
tides which are usually very high this season
Of the year, helped by the raging snow storm
and high northeast, are swollen tremendously,
and the sea is now running the heaviest that
has visited this vicinity for years.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
A Good Word for Homely Girls.

pittsburg Dispatch
why are homely girls always the
best scholars, the best workers and
make the best of wives?" This ques-
ton was propounded by m observant
and intelligent gentleman who has been
twice led to the hymcneal alter, and is
ready to be sacrificed again.
'Is such really the case?"
Il have reason to know that it is. 1t
is natural enough, isn't it? The girl
who is handsome i'll feature and form
concludes very early in life that these
are her stock in trade, and with them
she enters the matrimonial market.
Nine times out of ten she is soon off the
books and at the head Of a house. Her
homely sister has hardly entered her
teens until she discovers she is made to
stand aside for the pretty-faced girls.
All the neatness of Dire SIS, elegance of
manners and proficiency in the arts of
making ones self attrac tive she do es,
deliberately and for a purpose, perhaps,
or possibly for no other reason than
Topsy like she grew that way"
"The chances are she does it solely
for the purpose of compensatlng for her
lack of physical beauty"
"My observations lead directly to the
opposite conclusions" replied the in
telligent observer. There is among the
great laws of nature one known as the
law of compensation, and / am thor
oughly convinced that to it the homely
girl is indebted for the tastes and dis
position that prompt her to make her.
self useful when she can not be orna-
mental"
"Then, if you had the choice of two
ladies', one beautiful and the other
homely, you would take the homely
one?"
Experience and observation both
teach nc that would be the wise thing
to do. The first impulse would natur-
ally be to take the prettier Of the two,
but / would give the first impulse time
to pass off, and act upon sober, second
thought"
The old gentleman may be entirely
right in this matter.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
Rditor storsy's Will Contested.

Chicago SpeCial:-The long expected Will oil
the late Wilbur +. Storey, proprietor q the
Times newspaper, was lied in the probate
court. 1t gives the bulk Of the property to the
widow during her life, and appoints her execu-
trix without bonds. In the event Of an income
exceeding $4,000 per annum, annuitIos OF SI,-
600 are ordered to be paid Mr.. StOrey'S br' Ter
and sister. On the death Of Mrs. Storey, the
estate is to be divided among the legal heirs
according to law. Mrs. Storey ID to manage
the Times newspaper, and is empowered to
sell it if she thinks best The validity OF the
will was attacked by Arson l. Storey, elder
brother of the deceased, who asked to be
appointed administrator Of the estate, alleging
that Mr.. Storey had died without leaving any
will thus Indirectly disputing the validity OF
the instrument just before fled There was
property, consisting of real estate to the value
Of 5000 incumbered by debts OF S23O,OCO,
and personal property worth 100000. The
petition then went on to state that there was an
ante-nu otial contract made between the de-
ceased and his wife, dated Dec, l, 1874, ana
that outside of the rights given her thsrlp, she
had no further claim upon the estate. IL was
agreed between the attorneys on both sides,
and the judge, that the hearing of this petlto1
for the appointment Of an administrator, and
the question of probating Will should be held
next Tuesday, Nov. II.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
Record Of Casualties.

A FIRE in the cook house of the Montana peni-
Tertiary at Deer Lodge did damage to the ex-
tent Of $500.
Dispatches from various points along the St
Lawrence state that there has been no such a
storm as that of last Wednesday night for the
past fifty years. So far no lives are reported
lost At Paspebiac, the fishery establishment
Of Robins & Co, was considerably damaged
and several fishing boats lost At Little Metis
all the houses along the shore were carried off,
also boats, fences, bridges, etc. The shore is
strewn with debris and household effects. The
suffering is intense from cold and hunger. At
other points numerous damages are reported.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
A Plea for the country Cemetery.

Mr.. VIM. Robson, a well-known En-
glish author, in an admirable work en-
titled ''The Parks and Gardens Of Paris, "
makes the highly f~attering statement
that 'Sthe Americans are the only peo-
pie who bury their dead d~ecently and
beautifully" Mr.. Robinson evidently
refers to our city and town cemeteries,
rather than to those of the country.
Surely. the rural burning
ground does not merit such an enconi-
UNI. 1t is too often as desolate in ap
pearance as it is solemn in its associa-
tions. It is frequently a living example
of the adage shat what is
everybody's business is nobody's
business The fence enclosing it is
often dilapidated and sometimes pros
trate, or wanting; the thorns and
thistles grow unmolested, while the
weather beaten stalks of lust years
weeds are monuments, not to the mem
DRY of the dead, but to the shiftlessness
| Of the living.
All will agree that it would be count
ed q disgrace for a city to permit its
cemetery to become a Jungle. Why is
the same thing less disgraceful in
the country? Are the expenses Of
living, or are taxes less burdensome in
the city than IN the country? Are we
willing to admit that people living in
the city are less worldly-minded? If
it is true that farmers take too little
pride in the appearance OF their
pr emises; il is not less true that they
show too little respect both for the
dead and the living, in their burying
grounds. Rural New Yorker.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14

Philadelphia has seventy public Libraries, ag-
gregating ], CO, 600 books.
Progressive euchre has reached Atlanta. Ga
IN its deyasting spread southwark
Montana probably elected a Republican
delegate and adopted Its constitution.
Abel d. Breed, New York capitalist, assign.
cd, with preferences aggregating 1885, 00.
II is evident that it will require the official
connt by the supervisors, which takes place
next Tuesday, to determine the result of the
election in New York. The indications now
are that nothtng will be certainly known about
ii till then.
Nevada gives 100 majority for Blaine.-ore-
gon gives a 1900 Republican majority. Dane
vile, Va, prides itself because there was no
election riot-Wes Virginia gives l,0W Dem
0cratic majority, a Republican gain Of 1000
Virginia went for Cleveland by 5000.
Blaine viii apparently have $4,000 majority
Id Minnesota The congressional majorities
grow with fuller returns. Whites now appears
70 be 2s5l2, Wakeield's 10,64G. Straits 2,192
and Gilfilian's 4,S4a. 1t is impossible to esti-
mate Nelson's majority, but it will probably
approach 10, 200.
@Gaaszaissiene Pine, OF .Aa Nav Orleans ex-
position. has chartered the steamer Great East
ern for one year. She is to carry the exhibits
from the healthries and elsewhere to New Or
leans free of charge to the owners OF the con-
sisntaents, and is afterward to be used as .
aoasing hotel
Articles Of incorporation Of the Dakota Land
and Live Stock company have been fled with
the register OF deeds. St Paul is the principal
place Of business of this company, the amount
az the capital stock $f00, 900, divided into GOO
shares Of $50 each. The incorporators are
II H. Bracket, Minneapolis B w. Smith, st.
Paul, and Ct G. Lewis, ST. Paul.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14

lsey. Or, Thomas of ST. Paul got eight votes
fof the bishopric of Nebraska,
Bloomington, Ind is greately agitated over the
faetthat p resident Moss of the state university
has been discovered to be a naughty man by
students peering through an augur hole.
DR., Frank Powell white Beaver the cele-
braSed Surgeon Scout of La Crosse, is said to
be the most accurate rifle shOt-at small objects
lin the world; marvellous stories are told of
his wonderful craftsmanship.
George w. Childs gave a farmers club din
ner recently at his country house at Wattron,
Ia. Among those present were Gen. Simon
Cameron, ex- Speaker Samuel J. Randall, Wayne
Macyeagh, Senator J. ID. Cameron and White
law Reid
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
Latent Power of Manure,

Sir J. B. Lawes says, in the North
British Agriculturist, that it does not
follow, as a matter of course, that al.
though the application of a manure has
produced no effect upon the growing
crop, it may not prove effective at some
future time. Years afterwards, when
perhaps all recollection of the applica-
ton has passed away, or possibly
when some unaccountable ~luxuriance
on certain portions of a field may
indicate the battle-ground of a ma
nure which was supposed to have
failed. In one of his experiments al
R~othamsted, in the year 1874, about
twO-thirds of an acre of land was ma.
nured with a considerable amount OF
potash and phosphate of lime. The
crop was wheat, and the produce was
154 bushels per acre. As the land
which received no manure whatever
yielded a crop of Is bushels per acre,
it was evident that the manure had
practically failed. In the following
year salts of ammonia were applied, and
the produce was 317-8 bushels per
acre.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14

Formerly a barn needed a roomy
;threshing floor, whereon to swing the
fails. No such thing is needed now.
Two rows Of posts, sotpe beams, girts
and braces, and a tight roof and walls
are sufficient. An excellent COW. stable,
with all the modern improvements, can
be built for - per COW, and how much
better to have 100 COWS IN IS stalls,
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14

first of November. 1t is described as
follows:
It is to be of a very heavy pearl White
satin, made with a full princeSse traln'
which will be bordered by a pilsSo OF
the satin and on the edge a ruchng OF
fine point lace in a wild-ro'e design
The front is to be covered with ruitieS
of rare point lace that belonged to Miss
Astor's grandmother.- The lace VIII
not be cut. but win cross over IN
f~ounces. and at the sides will be caught
down in a twist and held by a cluster
of orange blossoms and pearls. Inc
corsagp will be cut square and bordeFed
with the lace, while the sleeves, slight
ly puffed on the shoulders and reach
ing to the elbow, will be met by long
white kid gloves, which are being made
to order to fit the slender little hands
of the bride. The slippers are to be
made of the dress materials, and en-
broiderel in white pearls, while the
stockings will be Of the finest white
silk. The veil will probably be of IL
fusion. There is a rare old-point-lace
veil i'll the family, and this may be worn,
although tulle is more becoming and
preferred by the bride. 1t will be fas-
tened by a half wreath of apple bios
SONS and caught by diamond pins:
She will wear other diamond jewels and
carry a large bouquet ofroses and lilies
of-the-vally, surrounded by maiden
hair ferns.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
Personal Gossip.

The walkers and runners of the pres
ent age are plgmies by the side of the
professional runners of the days before
railroads and telegraphs. Even fifty
years since we find that Ernest Meusen
was famed for his swift locomotion. He
once ran from Paris to Moscow, a dis
lance of ], 760 miles, in thirteen days
and eighteen hours. In 1886 heran from
Calcutta to Constantinople, 5,6l5 miles,
in ffty-nine days. He always outstrip.
ped mounted couriers. Invariably he
took q direct route, climbing NOM.
tains, swimming rivers and running
through forests. His food was a small
quantity or biscuit and raspberry sirup.
He dled in 1858, while running through
Upper Egypt.
The English ladies who accompany
the British scientists in this country ap-
pear to better advantage han the men.
Their chief physical characteristic is
their fine, healthy glow of color, betok-
ening good health and outdoor life.
They are, with few exceptions, taller
and larger than American women ordl-
narily, and have a more vigorous look
and carriage. III their faces show less
delicacy of expression and fewer refine
ments of feature, and if their voices are
~noticeably of greater volume, their
erect figures, strong coloring and Wig
orous gait are -compensating advantages.
Their voices are seldom low and musi-
cal, and, although not pitched high.
are loud and strong. They are good
walkers. taking q pace Ill b streets
which would leave their American sis
tiers, at least those who are city-bred
far In the rear.
Those who have seen the ex-Empress
Eugenie within the past few weeks say
that she is rapidly breaking down, and
predict that she will not much longer
survive her husband and son, whose
memory she constantly. She
was persuaded o few weeks ago to leave
her home at Marlborough, England,
and try the effect OF q secluded summer
residence in Switzerland. The change,
however, has not resulted in any benefit
to her health, and she is now undis-
guisedly a decrepit, broken old woman:
Some traces of her famous beauty still
remain, but there is no vestige OF her
former vigor and spirit. She is bent,
withered and querulous, and when she
undertakes to walk, totters along pain
fully with the helpsof q stick.
On Sunday, the Goth Of next month,
Sir Moses Montetiere, the great He.
brew philanthropist, will be one hun-
dred years old, and active preparations
are being made almost everywhere 70
celebrate the day properly. The coun-
Gil of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations has issued i circular to
the rabbis of the congregations belong
ing to the union, requesting them to
hold d special service on that Sunday
for the purpose. of celebrating Sir Mos
es's birthday, and to make collections
for a fund TO endow a professorship,
thus combining the name with the on
ly Hebrew collegiate institution 10
America. The purpose of this college
IL to train young men for the ministry.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
IKE PITH OF THE NEWS
wash1ngton News.

Postofices established: Dakota-Clear Lake,
Deual county. Minnesota-Loyd, Sacque Parle
county. Montana-Potomac, Deer Lodge COun-
Is. Postmasters commissionod-S. A. Catch
ell, Potomac, Mont Jennie Dunlap, Tokna,
Mont Andrew II. KinyOn, Bruce, Oak 81
mon Morgan, Coyle, OAK. A. W Morrison,
Flat Head, Mont. j. ". KOsmicki, Hafa Park,
Wis.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
Presidents Proclamation of rhanksgiv.

The president has issued the following pro.
clamation:
The season is nigh when it is the yearh
wont of this people to observe a day APP
pointed for this purpose by the president as
an especial occasion for thanksgiving unto
God. Now, therefore, in recognition OF this
hallowed custom, j, Chester A. Arthur, presi-
dent of the United States, do hereby desig-
nate as such day of general thanksgiving
Thursday, 9th this present NovemfsT+ and /
recommend that throughout the land the peo-
pie, ceasing from their accustomed occupa-
tiots, do then keep holiday at their several
homes and their several places of worship,
and with heart and voice pay reyerent ac-
acknowledgement to the Giver of ALI Good for the
countless blessings wherewith he has visited
this nation.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
Railroad ana River News.

&. man named David Sally was killed on the
Northern Pacific just east Of Fargo. He was a
native Of Ontario.
A smashup of a freight train is reported to
have occurred on the Wadena division of the
Northern Pacific, destroying seventeen cars
and slightly i%njuring Conductor Robert Carr
and breaking the leg Of brakeman.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14

The wedding dress Of Hiss Carrie AS
tor, the New York heiress Who will be
married i'll November. il now he;ne
made IN Par,a, and viii be sent over the