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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
The Terms of Secretaries of the
Senate.

The office of Secretary of the Senate
ought not to be a political one, though,
l believe, Gen. McCook considers ii
properly a political office. If you will
luck into the record you will find that
the S~enate-which is permanent body
not subject to mere terms or expirations
like Congress-only had five Secretaries
before MIR. Gornam came in in the en-.
tir. lie OF the government. The first
Secretary, Mr.. Samuel A. Otis. was q
memberof the last Continental Congress.
aud stepped right into the place and held
the office continuously twenty five years.
Then came Charles Cults, whom / sus-
pect by his name to have been the an
cestor of Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas. He
served as Secretary eleven years, and
WAS also United States Senator. He went
off to Virginia and died there. Both
these s 4cretaries were from New Eng.
land. The third, Walter Lowrie, served
eleven years, and had also been in the
Senate of the United States. He re.
signed to BECOME Secretary of the For.
eign MissionAr Society, and lived until
alter the beginning ofthe rebellion in
New York City. Then came Asbury
Dickens, who AIR in, / suspect, through
one of his family, who was member OF
Congress. He was from North Carolina,
and he lived in Off ,e until a little after
the battle of Bull Run, having been al.
most twenty-five years Secretary. John
w. Forney, who had been twice Clerk
OF the House of Representatives, served
as Secretary eve years but resigned.
dorham then came in, n held the
place until a few years ago.-Gath, in
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
Canine Sagacity.

The Cologne journals tell a curious
story Of canine sasacity. Two dogs OF
the neiehhorhood, a cross between a ST.
bernard and a large woody cody, feared
by all other dogs; the second was a
stranger, a small t%errier, just slender
enough to get through the hole into tie
rabbit house. The big dog, who on
other occasions never noticed his small
Ter comrades. lad evidently come to an
understanding with his little friend
abou. the nocturnal rendezvous. The
big dog scratched away all the grass and
the stones. dragged up the board COW
er;ng the entrance to the rabbit house,
and let the terrier jump through the
hole. The latter returned IN a few min
utes with a rabbit in his mouth, which
he presented TO his great friend, and
boil, proceeded to devour their suppe,
u~ndisturbed.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
pol,teness In Arkansas 3.

F,om Correspondence Of Toledo Blade.
49, 100 an incident. suppose
Let me /. ahout a. dangerous =
that - III - g - ~,
place % Texas iof : p. !. III, na;n.,
from personal observation az potn poinu
th;nL Arkansas IS q little safer place
thAn Cincinnati. The
iof . ge h.,e ~ ~. neonla aston.
general urpanisy ,n,b;pa al.s Tb;.
ished me more thsn any'nin olse. Ans
I propos to illustrate. We stopped
q, ono station. and travelled about forty
an"....a IN our return the stage
miles oy s'ako' n;,bort ton-va.
q large spring ~asor r"..es. ~ a;aaa
loaded with men. iney W.
| One was q minister. We came TO .
| creek where q party had stoppedto water
their horses. There were two women
ord a LITE 0irI. apparently very pOOf
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
Meagre support IF ministers.

Dr.. John Hail has pablisned in som
OF the religious newspapers a letter en-
Ministerial Support that is worth read
ne and thinking about. His own posi-
tion as pastor ofa very wealthy church,
gives him q vantage ground for present
ing this question. and takes from his let
ter any suspicion Of possible personal
motives. The arguments he uses are
Old, Ont they are noa the worse for
that; u they are pat ferseiy and
plainly. Here are a few sentences:
We require In most cases educated
mel for tie ministry. and We demand
the services of Their live in a majority
OF cases Tor incomes lower than q New
York posttasn or police man receives.
And even the obligation to make regular
payments OF sucn incomes Is all TOP Of
ten forgotten.
we require ministers 10 maintain a
GeF.ain social standing ss indicate | by
residence, dress, surroundings, habits,
modes Of travel. By hospitality, by coar-
tesiss that cost something, and by money
contributions. The people fix the stand
ard. q suspend ttie ministers useful
ness IN good degree on tier coming
Up 20 H. and yet with combined folly
We fpdAE u lUlpySSiSit Itf
them to maintain it.
We require hard work from ministers
work that wears meu-and when q
mans hair has turned graz, we think il
would be better for tine interests of re-
iision, or for the cause" to have
younger man. We magnify independ-
ence. and glor,fy those who '.ges on
~fnancially, and vet We compel the ma
lority ct the younger men to toll on in
comes that forbid the making of adequate
provision for unemployed Old age.
Dr. Halt finds IN these facts abundant
reason for the amented decrease in the
number OF candidates for the ministrv,
and no wonder. With the possible ex.
ception of rerhaps q hundred pastors in
our large cities, ministers are the poor
"a, paid set OF men in the United Sfat-s.
THE average income of the Methodist
preachers is stated by DR.. Hall TO be
aiS,ns 500, THAT seems scarcely posi-
bic. but it is tie ruth; and the other de.
nominations do not average much over
that. IL is q wonder, IN these days OF
money getting. that Young men are foun
willing to enter the pulpit at all. 4
they had mercenafy aims they would
moi do it.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
Hugo AS An Old Man.
I'M the London Ttuth.

From the London Truth.
Victor Hugo is in excellent health
but suffers from ennui. His desfEess,
which he does not like to show or to
confess, ~isolates him. The receptions
now hardly last twenty minutes and are
still held after dinner. Strangers are
not welcome visitors. though Courteous.
" received. 1t is necessary TO say
something to them and SO betray the
single infirmity from which the poet
suffers. What he appears to enjoy most
is seeing his friends at dinner. At the
head Of his table he car talk for himself
and for those around him. He retires
to his bed room at nine o clock and
walks up and down %until.about midnight,
thinking about what he 10 to write next
morning. In the afternoon he is taken
out to drive in the Bots by a Russian
princess, who is a poetess herself and
one of bis most enthusiastic votaries.
She was brought up on the Steppes in
the widest way, and Is the daughter of
one of the richest subjects of the Car.
For the exclusive use of the vene rable
drawn by a pair of Orlof horses. They
are. when his end has come, to be kept
in a stable and paddocks apart from all
other animals Of their race, and the car
riage ia to be placed in a private muse
nm. The Princess, though reared like
Baby Blake, is n Of the most accom-.
plished of women. She is married, n d
as she wants her daughters to treasure
up the sayings of her illnstrious friend,
they nearly always in her drives oc-
cupy .ha front sea of the brougham.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
Giant.

Sir Beyil Granville, of Cornweli, who
nearly ruined his estate and sacrificed
his life for Charles l.. had for a serving
man q giant. His name was anthony
PAYNE. and he measured, when shoeless,
sever feet and four inches Though
gifted with a giants strength, he did not
use il Ike = giant, but Ike a e~ood-na-
iured fellow ", for nature had put a great
heart into lis large body. The follow
ing anecdotes illustrate the mans kind
ly nature:
One Christmas eve, the IRE languiShed
in Sire l,al' ar Stnv". 4 boy with an ass
iaatl tren sent "a the woods for logs but
had ioiiersi on his WY.
Lady Grace Granville, the mistress,
had lost her patience. md the gigantic
Anthony went in quest af the lazy had.
Shortly after he re-e,sier-d the hall,
bearing on his back the ASS loaded with
wood. Throwing down his burden at
tue h~earth-side. he shouted
AS and faydei! ass and fatdel for my
lady's suie,"f
As Sir Beyil rode into Stratton one day.
he heard an uproar in the inn-yard, and
told his giant 10 ind ri it's cause. In a
few minutes Anthony came, up to his
master. with q NAN nnuer each arm,
whom he had caught IL the act OF hsht-
ing
Here are The Kittens, said the sian,
as he held them for bis master 10 ciias-
tise with his riding-whip.
After the battle OF Stamford Hill, the
giant was tusy daring the night. with
9th r soldiers. il buryinc the dead.
Trenches had been dug TO hold the bod.
les side by side.
TIE soldiers had laid nine cornse in
one trench, and Anthony WAS bringing
another, tucked under his arm. All al
ono the snl posed dead man began *
plead for his life.
"Sureiyyau won't bury me, Mr.. Paine,
before | am Gead2''
- tell thee. man. Was the grim re
PLY, our trench was du, for ten, and
there's nine il, it already; thou mus
take thy. place
.'But I bean's dead, l say exclaimed
the man. kicking, to prove his assertion
II haven't done living yet: be lliarsgful
Mr.. Payne; don't We hurry q poor fellow
into the earth before his time
Il wont hurry thee; thou canst die a
thy leisure"
But the giants purpose was kinsie
than his speeeh. He carried the sup
plant 10 his own cottage. where til.
nursing OF his wife brought him int
health. The mans descendants are
among the principal inhabitants of STRAIT
ton at this day.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
An Ovation to Sullivan.

"We went 70 Denver to attend the old
soldiers reunion" the Troy Times
makes General Sherman say, speaking
of his western trip with Justice Gray OF
the United States Suprene Court, and
others last summer. the boys anne
down to the station with a big crowd OF
people. John sullivan, the prize fight
er, was expected the same day, and
half the crowd came to see him, and
hall TO see u. Well, you know Gray is
q big fellow, and of course no one knew
hin, out there. When he got OF the
ears. the sports" thought it Was the
other man and set up q she Mt, "Hurrah
tor Sullivan the slugger!' Igot In one
carriage and tray ll another, and ttsry
followed Gray more than they did me,
and II justice of the supreme Court rode
through Denver with all the sporting
cha acfers of the city at his heels. An
hour after ward Sullivan came into town
without any demonstration at all"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
Sir Christopher Wern and the
Carpenter.

Philip Wood was a village carpenter,
who had devei oped an skill
in wood carving, and had made some
striking figures for the adorntneut of
his sweetheart's house, a lass above
himself in rank and fortune. In the
hope of improving his circumstances,
and thus ~lessening the disparity between
them, he went to London, where be
sought work in vain, until his store of
money was reduced TO a single
The huge dome of st. Paul's was then
rising above the smoke ofLondoa, Phil
ip Wood applied TO the brennan for
Tor. RepuIsed by him, he haunted the
place day after daY, and at last he at
sracted the attention of the great Sir
Christopher Wren himself.
What have You tAzen used To cary
ings" asked the architect. the carpen-
Ter in the extremity OF his agitation,
couhf only stanlrner out:
"~froughs, you worship"
"Troushs." said Sir CHRISTOPHER:
"thea carve me as a s;le ciIuen of YOUR
skill SOW and pies-it will G some
thing in your line-and bring it 10 me
this day week"
The poor fellow snrank away from the
laughter of the workmen, and returned
TO his lodsingin despair. But he had 3
friend in his land. who advised him
to take Sir Christopher at bis word anu
.arve the best SOW and pigs he could in
the time allotted.
With his st guinea he boaeh. e block
Of ~pear-wood, and by using his utmost
diligence finished the Work in time. and
took it under his apron to the appointed
place.
The architect was there, and beckoned
the trembling carpenter 10 approach.
Upon inspecting the beautiful WORK,
Sir Christopher said:
Il engage you, Young man; attend my
office to-rnorrom."
a few hours after. Sir Christopher
came to the carver aud said:
Dir. Addison wishes to keep -our
carving, and requests me 10 give you ten
guineas for It" Then he added: Il
fear 1 did you some injustice, bnt d great
national work is entrusted to me. and i,
IS my solemn duty t o mind that no paFl
of the work falls into inefficient hands.
Mind and attend me Tomorrow"
1t IS a pleasure 10 know TINT the yonna
artist did much of the carving of st.
Pauis, and married the girl o Isis heart,
who could not 8 neen sorry 10 change
such a lame as she tad-tIanuah Hay
bittle,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
The Man With a Patent Car.
Counter.

There will never coue q time when
the head Quarter office of = railroad line
will not receive at least one visi. per
week from the man with a patent car
coupler. During the last fifteen years
he has called about four times a week.
and that average Is being maintained in
a way to wear out all carpets as fast as
manufacturers can desire. The car
eouplers are not sill alike, but the inyen-
tory are. The programme is as regular
as il it had been adopted by a large
majority. The inventor asks for the
president of the road and is shown to
the office:
Good morning. Is the president in?'
"No, sir, ne won't be In until after
dinner. Anything speciaE?as
well. rather special. l have invented
"Atll A patent c~ar-eoup.eri You must
| 20 TO the general. superintendent"
"Its the biggest thing of the kind
| ever heard o."
Yes. l know. bu. You'll find him four
! doors down the hail.
TIE inventor opens the fourth door
and 6 CLERK inquiries:
"What IL -our business
We'll ] had 4 lame foot last summer
| and couldn't do much work, and 50 |
set about it and
Invented q c~ar-coupler. Of course.
| The general superintendent is not in.
The third floor TO the left for the assist
anti
The third door opens to reveal an a.
tendant ready to inquireswha t is wanted
We'll being / had got 10 come down
| 70 town to buy myself some hickory
| stirling, | thoagat l might as well bring
| along
Your patsns car.coup!er. We were
expecting you. Go down to the yard
| nnaster.h
Everybody in our town says this is
the biggest thing eve invented, and
| reckon
Right this way to go down to the
ylrd-masfers Off e."
The yard-master isn't in. The train
dispatcher won't listen. The gate-keep
er has no time. The depot policeman
may look al the inveiition some Other
day. When he entered the depot with
that patent coupler under his arm, his
mind was made up to let the Michigan
Central or Lake Shore put it on iheil
cars for 81, eco cash down. Two hour.
| have done the business for him, aud q.
| he Starts up town the coupler is reck
lessly thrown under a eat IN the wait
ing-room, and the inventor hopes from
| the tops OF his boots that somebody viii
steal it before ne gets back.-lDetroi
| Free Press
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
West Point Discipline.

Mrs. Logan, who has been visiting her
son, who isa fourth-ctass man at West
Point, was telling ner of the discipline
at that institution. Considering that
there are 5000 rules, any one of which,
if broken gives a boy q dement,. it
seems almost marvellous that they are
not all expelled. Young Logan received
a demerit for coming out of his room
buttoning the upper tuition of his coat.
His room-mate received ademerit for
leaving his room With a chair By the
window instead of by the table, with the
legs of the chair at an exact distance
from the legs of the table. Smoking is
positively prohibited. One of the in
struc:oFs, Lieut.. Gale, q yery small man,
was going the rounds Of inspection one
night and found one of the young meu's
rooms iulI of smoke. The young
cad.. stood attention" when
he came in, the cigar having been
pitched ont of sight, Eeat. Gale said
nolhiIss to the rouhg fellow. ani he was
greatly delighted, thinkinShe would not
be punished. He ran nf TO q friends
room and told him o! the circumstance,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
A Big Boiler Maker,

Samson was d strong msn. So is Samp-
son Fox, the engineer who put the boil.
ers into the Seryia the City OF Rome,
the Arizona and the Oregon. He has
acres Of works in Leeds. and in Essen.
in Germany. He recently visited
America, and proposes to nut up works
in Philadelphia that vii! employ from
the start l 900 hands, all of which will be
imported free of duty from England and
Germany. MI. Fox is now at work on
A boiler that will enable the steamer to
boat the Oregon, which will make the
ocean trip in less than six dsys. Mr..
Fc~ -~Alieves that ocean steamers will
hereafter be built for passengers only,
and he THINKS that he soon will be able
20 furnish boilers that will shorten trips
to four days. Tho. price of passage will
be higher, bat a large amount will be
gained ii provisions, and, besides, the
steamers will have to relnain a much
shorter time al tho docks.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
Stalwart enato
Washington Correspondence of the Phi
delphir Rrro.d

Washington Correspondence of the PhiiA
delphix Record
Senator Logan knocked his hoxins
teacher down the other day. He han
been taking boxing lessons for sons.
time, and has grown more and more
proficient He is a very strong man,
and as Don as he master rs the Science
VIII be dangerous. Logan Is an expert
athiete-at least he was, and he would
be if it were not for an occasiona! twinge
os rheumatism. As it is, he delights in
outdoor sports of all sorts. He is an adj
mirabie horseman and swor,isman; he
knows how to handle q shotgun, a rifle,
and a cannon. and he is one of the best
pistol SHIFTS in the country. He has the
l.andsomest dueling pistols III Washing.
on. BUT he IS the last man to brag
of his strength or skill. When he Was
kansas last wear irving 10
throw of a peculiarly severe attack of
rheumatism, he assonistlel the pistol ex-
perts of that pistaling country. A dozen
Young men we're practicins from the
piazza of the senator's hotel one after
i!oon, at e. bottle laid on the broad
crotch Oh a distant tree. The bottle was
round. Unless i, WAS hit plnmpiy in the
middle. ii spun round and round Ike a
top. Inc young men Were good shots,
bit every 20 and then they would miss
Tie somewhat ditficuit marx. Then the
inTslid senator would ciatf them. Pres
emily this irritated them 10 a challeng.
TO Logan. Logan didn't Seem anxious;
but alter some good-natured chatting on
the part OF the Young men, he finally
said: We'll, I'll tell yoa fellows whas
I'll do. There are twelve ofyon, and only
n of me; but IN promise each OF Won
a box of cigars every time you hit tina,
bottle, If you'll promise me q box every
time hit it, AN right they said
chuckling over what they termed "a sofl
snap" mn shoot first" said Logan
and if hit. I'm to shoot again and
again, until | miss" Tlay bad Nc OBJ
lection. 50 the senator fred twelve con.
secusiye shots, each time breaking the
bottle on the tree. while the Young mems
eyes opened wider and wider. "Wa,i
any more??" asked Logan, after the
twelfth shot No said one of the
| young men, hesitatingly; Il guess not
You can send those twelve boxes o.
| cigars to Ivy whenever you're
ready. gentlemen" remarked the sen.
stor, linsping into the hotel There,
a kuack about these things said Lo
gan to a friend, as he went in, .snd
I've shot at round glass bottles -
fore" 81
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
A Brave Deed; c1, Chcatet NJ IFS
Prev,
Br IVES. v. 2. II
SonestaaE uusf 90 a..

somebody must go IL,
1t Was Refine de Fac who spoke, si..
her words fell ou,inously on that little
band of watchers. One of their number
must brave the violence 1.-THE storm; a
human life Mas at stake. There was sill
ence for 3 moment; then Mark Maston
said, in a low, firm voice, II will 60"
Refine heard Kim, and turned deadi,
pale. but no sound of emotion passed
her lips, and 10 one noticed her pallor
in the growing dusk. A minute passed,
the door slammed. and Marx was gone.
There we're two rnacst to Paxton, where
the doctor lived, the highway and the
beach. The distance WIS shorter By the
beach, ut the way more periious; for at
ti1td-tide the waves dashed high the
ellis which siius off retreat inland.
IL toaa Mark Maston but aussinstant to
desile his course; every moment was
precious, and he muss.rry the beach.
He glanced along the shore the water
vas about twenty feet from the cliffs,
which presented their rugged front to
the whissling eastern blast. Thinking
only of the loved one at home. he dashed
along.
Two miles before him a headland pro
lected into the sea. II this xss passed
Marx Maston was safe. On he sped
The gale caught the spray OF tie break.
ers, and whiried it against the cliffs,
drenchins the bold messenger to tae
skin.
At last the headland came in sight,
Mark stoned, an / shading his eyes.
ga1ed hSedly ahead. A stiu.l!er shook
his frame. While he looked. a mighty
Inflow ann rushing in from the sea, and
dashed high on that projecting cliff.
Iarn back, Marx Maston; turn back OF
you are doomed
But no; with cienched teeth he ran on
on TO cerlain death. Butts it certain:
Can he do liz Can he reach there in
time?
Yes, gentle reader. I think he can. If
he plois right along. 1t is only half a
e,,iie. and he has got nine hours and a
quarter to do il in. The tide is going out
Mark Maston is savesi. The sea is
cheated of its preyr'-Haryard Lam
poon.