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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-15
A MrLKMAID IN ToP-BooTs.
Something Concerning a Young Woman
who, In Masculine Attire, Turned Farm

From the Nashville American, ~-H~4B.
A wealthy farmerin Rutherford coun,
ty not long since was applied to by a
good-looking lad for work, the boy say
ing he preferred to drive a harvester or
a wagon or do other light work about
the farm. The applicant looked so deli
cate that the farmer refused the request,
but gave the lad the name of a farmer
in an adjoining county, who wanted a
boy to milk cows. The situation was
sought and the lad taken on trial. The
two farmers met a few days since, in
Nashville, and got to talking about the
lad. Said the employer of the boy:
"He is the best mixer / ever saw, and
can get more milk from the COWS than
anyone l ever had before him. He at
tends strictly to business and suits me
first rate, but I'm afraid he is going to
create a sensation yet"
Being pressed by his friend, the
farmer was compelled to admit that his
wife had discovered, through the merest
accident, that the supposed boy he had
employed to milk the COWS vas q wom-
an. "When / found it out ] told my
wife the girl would have to go, as it
would eve do to have our neighbors
know we had a woman parading around
the farm in top boots. My wife told me
she didn't think anybody else would ever
find it out, and it was worth while tax
ing the chances on it, and the lad suited
us so we'll. / liked George and took
my wife's advice, and i think she will
be able to stay with us and wear mems
clothes as long as she wants to.
"She lived up in Indiana and had not
heard about Middle Tennessee, where
you could throw your hat on the ripen-
ing wheat and it would bear it up, it
was so thick and strong; sc she deter
mined to come down here and get work
on a farm, where she could get work in
the open air nearly all the year round.
1t was then that she determined to
carry out a long cherished plan, that of
assuming the garb of a man, which adj
ded much to her independence in seek
ing q situation. And you ought to see
henry mixer. She's a dandy, / can
tell you. She weighs about lac pounds,
is large for a woman, being about five
feet eight. Her hair is black, and she
parts it on the side and wears it very
short. She has large feet and hands,
and wears kid boots two sizes too long
for her. She has a round face and a
roguish twinkle IN her large black
eyes, and her coarse shirt is always
kept buttoned close around her well
shaped neck.
When / tell you she wears a wide
brimmed, coarse straw hat on the back
of her head, and tight-ftting green
jeans pants thrust loosely in the top of
her coarse boots, always has q kind word
and a joke for everybody and is very
much liked by my wife, / leave you
nothing to add to the picture"
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-15
Great wsbster's Great Snake.
From Thoreau's asummer.s

From Thoreau's Summer"
B. M. W tells me that he learns
from pretty good authority hat Web
ster once saw the sea serpent. It
seems it was first seen in the bay be-
tween Manomet and Plymouth beach
by a perfectly reliable witness (many
years ago., who was accustomed to look
out on the sea every morning the first
thing, as regular al he ate his break
fast. One morning he saw this mon
ster, with a head something like a
horses, raised some six feet above the
water. and his body the size of a cask,
q trailing behind. lie was ~careering
over the bay, chasing the mackerel,
which ran ashore In their fright, and
were washed up and died in great mum
bers.
The story is that Webster had ap-
pointed to meet some Plymouth gentle
men at Manomet and spend the day
fishing with them. After the fishing
was over he set out to return to Dux-
bury in his sail boat with Peterson, as
he had come, aud on the way they saw
the sea serpent, which answered to the
common account of this creature. liz
passed directly Across the bows only
six on seven rods eff and then disap-
peared. On the sail homeward, Web
ster, having had time to reflect on what
had occurred, at length said to Peter
son: "For Coda sake, never say a word
about this to any one for IL 1t should
be know that I have seen the sea SER
pent / shonldneve hear the last of IL.
sea serpent wherever I went 4 should
have to tell the story to every one /
met. So ii has not leaked out till
now.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-15
Cost Of Our Diplomatic Service.

Washington Letter
Al study of the consular and diplo-
matte bill just passed by the Houssi
shows that some of them got what seem
to be very handsome salaries. For in
stance the salaries of the ministers to
Great Britain, Germany and Russia
are $17, 500. Those to Japan, China.
Spain, Austria, Italy and Mexico
get SO, 900 a year each. Those to
the United States of Columbia and
Turkey, Belgium, Netherlands, Swed-
en- and Norway, Venzuela, Argentine
Republic and Hawaiian Island, 81, 300
each. The ministers to the several
Central American states, Guatemala,
Costo RIGA, Honduras, Salvador and
Nicaragua, who has to reside at such
place in any of the states as the
President may direct, gets $4,000
per annum. The ministers resident
and consuls- general in Switzer-
land, Denmark, Portugal, Liberia, Bo-
Iivia, Hayti, Persia and Paraguay and
Uruguay and Corea get $1,000 apiece
Secretaries of Legation at London, ParlS,
Berlin and st. Petersburg, get 81, 625
each per annum The secretary of
legation at China gets s 1900. Inter
prefers in China and Turkey get So, 200
each and in Japan $1,000. The secre-
tary of legation in Constantinople also
acts as consul general and gets $4,000
a year. Consul generals at London
Paris, Havana, Rio Janeiro receive &c.
500 a year each. Those at Calcutta and
Shanghai So, 900 each those at Berlin,
Panama, Montreal and Kanagawa 81
600 each. From hat figure the prices
paid for consuls run down as low as ST.
900 a year. those at some thirty-five
places in Great Britain, Germany, Bel
GUM France and Italy, South America
and elsewhere being allowed a salary of
but 81 900 per annum each.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-15
A. Bank President Kneels and
Weeps. M

A New York paper says that Prasi-
dent Daniel Dodd of the Newark Saw
ings Institution has been so nervous and
worried since the bank failed hat dark
circles have appeared under his deep
set eyes and additional lines of care ara
seen on his sallow face. He is restless
by day and night, and his friends say
that the preparation OF his answer to
the allegations of contempt OF the New
Jersey court of chanceryi is a great strain
on his mind. The manager OF the AMI
cast all the blame for the failure on
Dodd. A story is told in Newark that
on the day Fisk & Hatch suspended they
notified President Dodd that they had
used the banks money and cash. Mr..
Dodd's face blanched and he came to
this city. In the Office of Fisk q Hatch,
according to the story, Dodd fell upon
his knees and with tears streaming down
his cheeks implored Mr.. Fisk end Mr..
Hatch to give him en- ough securities to
save him from eternal ruin and dis
grace. A large batch of securities OF
different kinds were packed into o stout
satchel, which was handcuffed to the
arm of President Dodd's son, who Is
employed in Fisk & Hatch's Office, and
a clerk of the firm entered the carriage
with President Dodd and his son. The
party drove rapidly to Newark, the Sc
c~urities were locked in the vaults of tie
bank and then Chancellor Runyon was
notified that the bank was in trouble.
Then came the crash and the discovery.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-15
A Correspondent With a Wonder.
full Memory.

M. Henri George Stephan de
Blowitz, the famous Paris correspondent
of the London times, rarely has a scrap
Of paper in his pocket, and his pencil
is a trinket attached to his watch-chain.
He never takes notes, and his memory
is SO sure, says the London World, that
he can boast Of never having been ac-
cused Of inaccuracy by any Of those
whose words he has recorded. AS a
feat Of memory, I'M. dc Blowltz relates
an incident which occurred In 1878. M.
de Blowitz hal been with Mr.. Delane to
Versailles, on an occasion when M.
Theirs made a great speech; and as the
correspondent was accompanying Mr..
Delane to the Northern Railroad station
the same evening, Mi. Delane said,
What a pity we can't have q speech
like that extenso in the Times the
morning after its delivery M. de Bio
WITT, who had simply listened attenti-
vely 70 the speech, without any inten-
ton Of reporting it, took advantage Of
this opportunity Of showing his editor
what he could do, saw Mr.. Delane into
the Calais express. drove to the tele-
graph Office in the Rue de Grenelle,
sat down at q table, and wrote out M.
Theirs speech from memory. When
Mr.. Delane arrived at Dover, and
opened the times, he found M. Theirs
speech occupying two and q half col
umns Of the journal q full verbatim
report.
IL is related Of M. Blowitz that Ii,
does most Of his work with q type
writer; that he never has d headache
orany other aches; he can sleep at an,
hour Of The day Of night, or wake q
viii; THAI he can eat at any hour, d
last, a may be required that he Is th'
slave of no fixed habits; that the chic
editor Of the Times leaves him entirel.
free III his movements and III his writ
ings that he Ewes IS he pleasos. 40.
seems 70 enjoy life.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-15

1t has got to be a matter of certainty
that people suffering from diseases OF
the respiratory organs have been cured
by spending two wintersin the region
Of Santa Fe, or have prolonged their
lives by living there permanently. The
high altitude of Santa Fe 1900 feet
above the ocean, and the entire absence
Of swamps and the great distance from
the lakes and seas, all combine to give
the atmosphere that freedom from ma
laria and dampness so essential to
health. The purity and dryness OF the
atmosphere is sc great that meat hung
out in the open air will not decay. but
viii dry and become like dried beef.
Owing to the rarity of this atmos-
phere the lungs Of the corsumptive are
compelled to inhaie q larger amount Of
air, thus exercising and expanding
them, which aids the work of recovery.
The dryness Of the air enables it to abb
sorb mor of the moisture of the sys-
tenn, thus crrrying off the phlegm more
readily from the throat and lungs than
can be done in q damp climate. This
alone is a great help in the work Of cur
ing pulmonary diseases. In addition
TO all these are the uniformity and
mildness of the climate, and it's freedom
from extreme cold and heat. This
brief statement viii givessse reasons for
the great superiority Of the climate Of
Santa Fe for diseases Of the throat and
lungs for catarrhal troubles, and asth-
matte diseases.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-15

In the National Cemetery at vicks-
burg, Miss, where over 10000 graves
are marked unknown, a marble shaft has
been erected to mark the spot where
ten. Grant, in his interview with Gen.
Pembcrton, demanded an uncondition-
Il surrender.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-15

Rev. DIR. William Alvin Bartlett,
'ormerly Of Chicago, now Of Washing
ion, will sail on . vacation trip Is Eu-
'ope the last Of this month.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-15

Henry Hayemsyer, Of New York with
! yearly income Of $25 900, has been
declared unable to manage his estate
because Of inebriety.
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-10-25

A MARES NEsT.-Somebody who is
af,aid to rive his name, but about whose
identity there need be no doubt, in smous
ing about Circuit Clerk Taylor's office, has
discovered blank book of the usual alii
davits witnesses in civil suits make on
claiming their fees, and to the bottom of il
is attached blank power of attorney to
the clerk to collect the fees for the witness
1t is argued that under a late law of the
legislature such collection of fees by the
Clerk is unlawful, and therefore the con
clusion is jumped at that w. W. Taylor
because there is such blank book in his
office, is violating the law. Now, all that
need be said on the subject is that the
blank book in question is one furnished TO
Clerks by the Illinois Printing Company,
and one just like that in Mr.. Taylor's office
can be found in nearly every Circuit Clerk s
Office in the state. There is no proof that
Mr.. Taylor is in the habit of using that
blank or violating the law by so doing, If
the sneak who has discovered this book in
the Circuit Clerks office can prove that he
violates the law by its use, the courts are
open, and there is evidently no wanting in
deposition, to prosecute him, and the law
provides ample means to do so and severe
penalty But until the sneak in question,
who seems so anxious to see the law en-
forced, can make case, we would suggest
it would be more becoming in him to dry
up. 1t seems to be another case of unsigned
receipts for sheriff s fees and is equally
groundless and contemplate.
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-10-25
THE VOTE IN OHIO.

The complete returns of the Ohio elec-
ton give this result on congressman:
Republican, 81 congressmen."... 393l12
Democratic, q congressmen.... 3,i,156
Republican majority. ............. 1876
And yet" says the Ottawa Republican,
"the Ottawa FREE TRADER and other
Democratic papers try to get some comfort
out of the returnsw Yea, verify, they do
The Republicans have 1876 majority ON
congressman, because their candidates for
congress got the prohibition vote, so that
in reality, as there was prohibition vote
of $500, their majority on congressman is
no greater than their 1000 majority on
Secretary of State The truth is, AS the
prohibition and greenback vote was about
10000, the Republicans at the late election
fell sh TT by 1000 Of having an absolute
majority in the state, while the absolute
majority of Garfield four years ago was
2S 2S,SS9-showing republican loss of tri-
fe short of 10000. Certainly, we take "com-
fort" and Il heap of comfort out of such
returns.
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-10-25

James Redpath, no less noted as devo
ted friend of the Irish cause than as an
old-time Republican leader, has come out
squarely against Blaine. AT an immense
meeting of Irish voters at Chickering Hall
in New York City, last Saturday evening
he made an eloquent speech, bearing testi-
mony from personal knowledge to the truth
of all McSweeney had said a few nights
before about Blaine's neglect of American
citizens imprisoned in Ireland, and adding
James Russell Lowell, sustained by
James G. Blaine In a dozen letters that
have since been printed and the originals
of some of which have myself read, took
the ground, for the first time in the history
of American diplomacy, that naturalized
citizens had no rights in any country which
they might visit other than were accorded
or that were withheld to or from the sub
jects of the power in whose territories they
were. No trial, fair or unfair, immediate
or remote, was ever demanded for Nc
Sweeney by James G. Blaine when he was
Secretary of State of the United States 1t
is long way from here to Ireland, and il
was impossible-at that time-for Mr.
Blaine to hear the sighs of American citi.
zens in Irish jails. Why? There was no
election pending. His ears were filled
with Peruvian guano. If l believed tha,
we ought to vote either for the Democratic
or the Republican candidates, and if per
mitted my vote to be influenced by the ac
ton of our Government, in the case of citi
zens unfairly dealt with by foreign govern
ments, then want to say, here, and now
without reserve or equivocation, that
should cast my vote for Grover Cleveland
and not for the man who turned a deaf cal
to the cries of our imprisoned citizens
James G. Blaine"
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-10-25

"0pinions are but little things" said Johr
Wesler 1876 years ogo. We think that opinions
which are backed by experience are 'substan-
tial. The masses who use DR.. Bigelow's Posi-.
tive Cure all speak highly of it for coughs,
colds. whooping cough, Group bronchitis.
asthma. influenza, and all throat and lung dis,
eases. Its cure is safe, speedy and perma-
nent. Price SO cents and one dollar; Z. Y.
Griggs.
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-10-25

not pleasant to know all your future years
that you were beguiled or cheated, or the
subject of unmanly caprice or cowardice ;
and that you were at all fairly dealt with
only through the persuasive presence of a
shotgun and big, brave but indignant
brother
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-10-25

Mrs }. ii. Pickens, Mrs f. j, Kelly, Mrs,
Charles Bradford, Mrs. DR., Stout Mrs
Nick Mates, Mrs, c, b. Hess, Mrs, A
Raumh mhier, Mrs II. b, Williams, Mrs +.
C. Trenary, Mrs. Jos, Albrecht, Mrs Carl
Zwan2ig, Mrs. w. J. Dawell, Mrs, Dan
Maher, Mrs. Henry Cotton, Mrs, Geo
Haight Mrs +. b, Griffith, Mrs. Niblo,
II. w. Rigden, Mrs b. NJ, Boyle, Mrs. Geo,
Rickly, and thirty others,
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-10-25

SECRET MARRIAGE.-Now woman should
allow it. All respectable girls should shun
it, should take warning against it Villainy
has so often lurked beneath it. II so often
has been the precursor of abandonment
so often has been only mock marriage,
that nothing good can be said of it. II is
not pleasant in after life to have to deface
the family record or the tombstone to con.
ceal the birthday and age of child 1t is
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-10-25

JUST So-Blaine, though now traversing
Indiana with his menagerie, cannot posi-
bly, find time to attend as prosecuting wit
ness in his libel suit against the Indianapo
lis Sentinel and has had the trial put off tc
Dec. 23d The Democrats said from the
beginning that Blaine would not dale tC
let that case be tried before the election
nor will it ever be tried If he can help it
The suit was solely commenced as bluff
and as such has proved miserable failure.
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-10-25

The second cold wave of which the sig
nal service gave US due notice in advance
struck Ottawa on Tuesday, bringing with
II a cold rain from the east, but which
passed off at night and left the air clear a:
before only trifle more fresh and bracing
and bringing on Wednesday night our first
hard frost since the beginning of April.
In Dakota and Northern Minnesota they
had couple of inches Of snow on Monday
and since then the air is reported quite
winterish in that semi-borean region.
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-10-25
,Warried.

At VALPARAISO Nebraska, Oct 16, 1884, by Rev. F. W
Ware, MIR. WM. X. RAPHAEL TO Miss MIN ME H.
HOSSACK
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-10-25

ICHARD A. HA STF., Attorney at Law
N Office with d. A. Cook, Amory BLOCK, Os.aw
Illinois. oc'o'u
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-10-25
Oak Hall 0ne.Prics Clothing House,
North of Court House, Open till 9 PM.
PAINT, PAINT, PAINT!
EVERYBODY Paints.

And before paints they will do well to call me and get
figures and what have to offer them keep all the BEST
White Pure Wisconsin LnSeed OIL nave
the for the W. DeOe Co. Celebrated Mixed
Paints of all coOrs. They will weigh to the gallon and
surface than other paint The are
and from their long experience
strict integrity safe in it is THE BEST PAINT
IN THE WORLD also for +. W. DevOe Co.'S Col.
ground in OIL My stock of Brushes such Whitewa CAT
Paper hangers Paint Varnsh Brushes the largest
the city, Also full line Of Vanishes from the ordinary Fur.
nture Varnish to the finest wearing Body Carriage Varnh
n0Iu0C For Drugs am Headquarters My Prescription
O0U0 drug in itself, and is in the OF
thoroughly competent hands day and night fill precrip
iOns from any physician and commissions do not have
to charge exOrbant prices
nn0kc Books Of all kinds Gift Books, Novels, School
Books and School Supplies, Fancy Writing Papers
qure and the largest stock of Blank Books in the
city
e. Y. GRJGGS.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-05-14
News of the Day.

WAR ON LoTTERIEs.-Po Postmaster
General Gresham s war on lotteries
is proving effective. The Henry
College swindling scheme, at Lou,
isville, KY, has closed up, the
managers being unable to carry il
on without the use # the mails.
MORRISON BEATEN.-The Morri-
son Tariff Bill was defeated by a
vote OF 159 to 154.
THE FLORIDA LOST. The ship
Florida recently collided at sea
with another vessel, when both
went to the bottom Immediately.
Of all the passengers more than
1870 were lost. The officers of the
Florida are charged with gross neg
ligence.
FRANKLIN GROVE, lLL,-At the vii
lage election not one vote was poll
ed for license, in fact there was not
one candidate for whisky, though
last year we had license board.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-05-14
Katie WOffinden's Death.

Katie, Daughter of Jas. w. and
Sophronia Wofinden, died in
Weston, Sunday, April goth, aged
ten years ten months and fifteen
days.
1t is with heartfelt sorrow that
we, as former teacher of the dear
child, who has left US, pay this
tribute of love and respect to the
memory of the pupil we SO tender
ly loved and respected.
This delicate flower, transplant
ed to more genial cline by the
hand that never errs, bids parents
and friends believe
'.She was not formed for living here,
For she was kindred with the. sky"
= Weston Halukeye.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-05-14
THE PEOPLE VS.. THESALOON.
More About the Walker District
Outrage.

ED. FREEMAN The Commits
sioners attempt to excuse their
wrong upon our people by a cum
ming phraseology in the order
granting the license at Volcano
junction.
The order sets forth that "after
hearing the petitions for and
against" land the petitioners fail
ing to produce any evidence to sus-
tain their prayers" &c, license is
hereby granted" &c. Now who ev-
er heard such stuff? Did not our
petitions set forth the earnest wish
es of our people? And was not this
enough Cor the "wise discretion" of
the Court?
Our petitions set forth particu-
larly the burdens, annoyances, sor-
rows and the many curses entaileda
upon our people by the saloons,and
prayed tor the relief that the
Court could give us. We made no
attack against the character or At
ness of anyone. Indeed, we regard
ed such course as the height of
folly; for if the Court grants man
license to sell liquors, the more de-
graded he is the better he is fitted
for the position.
If we were going to employ a
man to destroy our neighbors and
take their property, surely we
would not think of hiring a man
of good moral character" to do the
wicked work. So with the Com
missioners-they don't expect men
of responsibility and moral charac-
ter to apply for license.
AS to the SentineEs charge of
changing the heads of petitions
!, and deueiving the people or any of
them, who SO willingly signed the
protests and appeals-of course the
statement was utterly false.
Let me ask the Sentinel one ques-
tion--why is it that when a man
goes to the saloon, gets drunk, is
put in the lock up, has his money
taken to pay fines-why is it that
the Sentinel then assails his charac-
ter, tells how he beat his wife and
all the mean things he ever did,
and when the Court grants another
man license to make and keep the
drinker drunk ,commends the Court
as having done justice? A paper
that will thas uphold vice and i'm
morality ought to be spurned by
all good people.
The citizens Of this part of the
county are very indignant over
this whole matter, and Republi-
cans, Democrats and Greenbackers
will vote regardless Of party SO that
this Indignation will be felt at the
polls this fall. d. M. ].
90 he it.