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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26
Chlldren'S Magazines.

The subject of literary entertainment
for tue Toung. and especially for chill
drer, will be as prominent as any other
in the discussion Of the holiday books,
now already well upon us. 1t is mat
ter of common remark, and has been
any time these dozen years. how great
attention is paid to the classes of juve-
nile readers. not only at this particu-
lar season, but al the year round, and
every month and week in the year.
We have found much to say in this re-
spect, and the demands upon our con-
sidcTatiou have grown with equal step
in the development of magazine enter
tainment for h. youag and for the
mature. But with continually increas-
ing emphasis the question recars
whether this extra attention measures
the real value Of the provision thus
made for children.
TIE great fault Of the children's s
magazine; is that they give the least
posslb cDuaut.ty of sense to the great
est poSs.a.o quantity Of amusement.
Now il is vel TO be amused, and the
tightening OF the reading OF childhood
by the riches of various folklore, the
invention of new fairy and fantasy, the
infusion Of poetic beauty, and the orna-
ment Of art--ail these are most prais-
worthy ia due boun s. The object on
is that there is no bounds; that trliies
have the whole field to themselves, aad
in fact that the principal constituents
OF the CO Id : paper or maraz nc are
mash and mo.%sSeS, cake and candy.
Now, we do not feed our children after
this sort at their home tables. We give
them milk and Tread, AMI meat and
fru;t-tlc sweet s,utf is 4 mere occ.-
sional luxury. Why should we allow
their finer being. their mental quality.
TO be demora '.zol any more readily
than ther physical?
We shall not be suspected of the
Gradgrind spirit if we declare that
seventy-tivc per cent of nonsense is too
much to present our children in a
month, and even fifty per cent, which
we arc pc. suaded is the modern aver
age, is entirely too great for their men
Gal Ecaljhs.
We do not deny the value and the
necessity OF cultivating the imacina-
ton. The Arabian Nights needs sue
cessioa and sustaiDmcnt. and when SO
great an original genius as Frank
Stoc'iton appears, we scarcely desire
to Unit his appearance, for we shall
seldom IN & genera ion find his equal.
] he food Of American production is
no: in the fashion of Mr.. Stockton
though he has imitators ut distance
but in the general line of fanciful trash
aud silly iicion. 1t really affords one
a grave sense Of comfort to open an
English juvenile Ike the Chatterbox,
with its honest dullness, its pragmatic-
al moralizing and its plain old-style
wood-cuis.
The mention CT wood-cuts leads to
aAo'her consideration, and that per-
Laps the radical one. 1t is that our
Amer can child's magazines. papers
and books are written and illustrated
too generally above the heads of their
ostcasible audience. -Splfngfe}a lie.
publican.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26
n Hard Set Of Men.

A correspondent. writing from Pata-
gonia. says of the natives Of that coun-
try: at isstrange how these creatures
manage 10 exist in this severely inclom-
ent climate. where i, freezes nearly all
the year round. They use no more
clothing than that afforded them by
nature, and their huts are nothing but
a few sticks tied together, with few
skins and leaves thrown over the top
of them, and their canoes are always
half full of water. The weapons used
are bows, arrows and spears. They eat
the flesh of animals killed in the chase,
and sometimes they catch fish; but their
principal article Of food is mussels, of
which there are millions there. They
have nothing in the shape of corn.
wheat OF cereals Of any kind, as none
grow any nearer than I. 200 miles away.
They will not touch liquor of any kind.
They are in appearance something like
the Indians one meets in the altos in
Guatemala, but are smaller and
shorter race, and Very much more de-
generated. should imagine them to
be the very lowest specimens Of hu-
manity existing. and only one link
short in the chain to connect them with
the monkey tribe.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26
Rocky Mountain Glacier.

Professor Cauby, member. OF
Pumpelly's Northern Transcontinental
Survey party, gives til" following ac-
count OF glacier seen oy the party and
n description OF the country around the
Upper Marias Pass, between the head
waters of the F.atheaa Riycr, west of
the Rocky Mountain range. and Cut
Bank Greek, cast of the same. The To-
cality is about 100 miles north of the
MisSoula. Professor Canby says that
on the 1st of August the party, after
having left the Upper Flathead River
(about 80 miles above the lake), enter
ed the gorge that leads up the NOUN
tain to the pass. I!.is is walled i'll by
steep mountains. which are crowned
by rugged precipices thousands of feet
in height, sometimes terminating in
knife-like edges and sometimes running
up into sharp, rugged cones. which
make the sky lines OF the mountains
most varied and picturesque. AT the
summit of the pass three main amphi-
theaters come together. They are
nearly horse shoe in shape. From the
pass there are in full view ten or twelve
high peaks. often running up into reg
ular. sharp, rocky cones. Some ten or
fifteen miles away, looking to the west
ward, great mass OF snow-covered
mountains were in view and below
these SUBMITS was seen true glacier,
having frontage of at least a mile and
in some places face estimated at 500
feet in height. From underneath this
glacier flows stream OF milky colorcd
glacier water. Professor Pumpelly,
with the Indian guide, penetrated the
amphitheater in which this glacier lies
and counted twenty-five cascades over
500 feet in height. besides seeing many
smaller ones. The lies of the noun
tains which surround this amphithca-
ter are covered with deep bodies of
snow, which are the sources of the
many streams flowing into the valleys
below. Tnere WIS but little snow ON
the pass and with care it was not diff
cult TO cross. In descending the cas-
tern side of the mountains the gorge
presents some remarkably lofty and
stupendous prccipices. Those gentle
men of the party who had visited the
Yosemite Valley consider the scenery
of Marias Pass to be of a more varied
character and grander in every respect.
--DOst)N Herald
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26
Somebody's Mother.


The woman was cd nni ra-eed aud gray.
Ard bent with the cniil of "A winters day:
The streets were hite with recent snow,
And the womGn's feet vi ith age were SLOW.
At the crowded crossing she waited long,
Josticd aside hy the careless throng
OF human teifgs. who passed her by,
Uuheedng the glance Of her anxious eye.
Down the street with laughter and shout,
Cad in the freedom Of school let out,
Came happy boys Ike Il fl"ck If sheep,
HailiEg The snow piled white ana deep,
Past the woman 50 cid and gray.
fastened the children on their way.
Nore ofrcrcd helping hand 10 her,
So weak and timif, afraid to stir.
Lest the carriage wheels or the horses feet
sLou d trampie her down IN the slippery
street. q.
At laet came cut Of the merry troop
The Gays st hey CT all tie grour:
FC paused eside her. and wilispGre1 low:
II Ii beip you across If you wish TO GO
Her aged hand on his strong young arm
Sire placed. and so, wiihoIt lnrt or iarm,
He guided the trembling feet a eng,
Pl oud that his own were young ard strong;
Then back again to a:s freIds nc went,
His young heart happy ali well content.
"shes somebo ly's m athar boys. you know.
For all she age d and roor ana s ow;
And some one, sometime, mag lend Il hand
TO beip my mother, yOn uli tcr'iaHd:
If ever size poor. aud Old AMI gray,
And her own dear boy SO far away.
'Somcholy 5 motECr" bowed low her head
In her home that night, ana the prayer she
said
wss: God he kind TO that noble Toy
WHO is somebody's son and PRIDE aud JOY"
Faint was the voice. and worn and weak,
BIT heaven lasts when its chosen speak:
Apec's caught the faltcrin2 word,
And "sonleuoay's E mothers prayer vas heard
boston Globe
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26

A Story of Judge Poland.

Here is a good story about Judge
Poland, of Vermont, who turns up In
congress after having been in obscurity
since he was showed under in 1874.
The Judge wears now the same old
swallow-tail coat with brass buttons
that warmed him ten years ago When
he is SO dressed, with his white hair
and smoothly-shavcd face, he bears o
certain resemblance to the pictures Of
George Washington. The Judge is
very proud of this, and his friends
know it. Well, one day he had party
OF Nermontcrs at the white house and
happened to be in the east room. which
was completely shaded by the heavy
curtains. A comfortable-look Qua
kcr, with his wife and two children,
entered the farther end in their sight
seeing rounds. In q corner near the
judge stood full-length picture frame
leaning against the wall. Get behind
that Frame" said one of the party.
land We'll tell these people that IFS
= picture OF Washington CAo Judge
stepped briskiy Into place. Slowly the
Quaker and his brood came down The
great room, hepointing out the pictures
on the wall ''Wha,'s that?" he de-
manded pointing toward the Judge.
That's Washington. he was answer
q. ''Do not go near. The painting
is just finished, and must rot oe touch.
ed" The judge stood impassive in
the shadow. gazing pensively out on
the group hated dozen feet away. At
length the honest visitor found voice.
Turning slowly TO his wife he said:
''Wife. we always thought well OF
George Washington, but that is all
over. We are temperance people; just
look at that nose!' and he pointed to-
ward the most marked feature of
Poland's face, gathered up his family,
and sorrowfully marched away. The
Vermonters restrained themselves for
a moment, then gave way, and only
realized what they were doing by the
judges grim words: "What are YOU
tools laughing atp" The story was
told. and The next day Fernando Wood
alluded to it in Poland's presence, but
the latter's expression then has deferred
his friends from mentioning it in his
presence. 1t is noticed, however, that
since then the judge very seldom
alludes to his likeness to the father of
his country. - Washington Cor. Troy
Times.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26
Solitude.

Solitude, except as an occasional cx-
ception to the common current of life,
is mot to be recommended for either
men or women. La this state one is al
most sure 70 Lecome the victim of cer-
tain fixed idcas, approaching to the
character Of insanity. Preludiccs, which
If brought to the sun OF social life,
would melt into thin air, fix themselves
down Is with riyeted screwbolts. Con-
fident dogmatic conclusions. which
could not walk the open streets = day
without being knocked down for their
insolencc, ara nurscd and cherished till
they become the very tyrants of the
mind which has engcndered them. In
this unnafural state the feelings become
equally vitiated. Bom Bells. III II,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26
Things Worth Knowing.

1t is dull pleasure 10 have to do
with people who admire us and ap-
prove of all we say gaes (
There is 10 surer mark of the ab.
sence Of the highest moral and intel
lectual qualities than cold reception
OF excellence.
1t is observed in the course OF world
ly things that mems fortunes are often
er made by their tongues than by their
virtues, and more mems fortunes over
thrown thereby than by their vices.
Books are at last the best compan.
ions; they instruct us in silence with
out any display Of superiority, and they
attend the pace of each mans capacity,
without reproaching him for his want
of comprehension.
A man who is really difiident. timid
and bashful, be his merit what it will.
can hardly ever push himself forward
in the world; his dependency throws
him into inaction, and the forward,
bustling and petulant will always pre-
oede him.
= IT. sssisa ahap N fha tQsss q Che
company you are IN. IL you MNSe K6lls
ity you will show it more or less upon
every subject and if you have not you
had better talk Silly upon a subject of
other peoples choosing than upon one
OF your own.
There is no harm, says Sir Walter
Scott, but, on the contrary, benefit in
presenting child with ideas beyond
his easy and immediate comprehension.
The difficulties offered--if not too great
or too frequent-stimulate curiosity
and encourage exertion.
Physical exercise in some systematic
manner is q duty We owe not merely
to our bodies, but to our whole nature.
1t will vitalize the blood, quicken the
energies, give firnness to the nerves
and lay foundation upon which we
may build wholesome, successful life.
1t is generally thought that there is
nothing easier than TO give good ad-
vice. 1t is so abundant and cheap, it is
said, because it costs nothing. Now
this may be applicable to much of the
trite counsel and most of the well-worn
maxims that live upon the lips, but do
nst come from the heart; 1t may be true
concerning such exhortations rs we
have been in the habit of hearing from
one generation and passing on to the
next, without much reference to their
applicability; but it il not true of any.
thing which honestly bears the name
of good advice. That is not plentiful
or easy to give.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26
NUMBER 20.
GLEANINGS.

1 - Il *.
| :, oaIah bernhafut learned 10 speak
| -. ! NJ.
..:. o..n oa:ol'.s uew al tnaIfiasc law.
Aef"Hoos'' iieenso ioe VI 20.
Artesian wells are being bored in
Nsw Orieans 70 oo'ia.e droutn.
Iheodore Iilton is living quietly
IN Paris, attending to his literary
work. -
Ihe Aing of the Belgians has bought
large estates IN Morocco and Iunis for
cnltivatlon'
The Duke Of Norfolk is the richest
ol hlSHsn M nopieS. 1hey rate MN at
t4o'ooV,Voo'
Saturday is the only day on which 1t
is lawful TO beg on the streets of San
Antonio. Tex.
Thirty-two thousand photographs
brought up in tho Dead Letter Ofiicc nj
Washington last year.
1t is customary for successful litirants
in Florida TO invite the Court and iuryi
kapAat ~ ake. ssrnethinn. ss ss
| MN UfK IIls1 = Z
'eTitans, " to which no one 81 I'm alIeF
stature than six feet and four inches Is
admitted.
The wealth of Massachusetts =.
assessed fnr t,x n,rnoses ~ ;s e, "a,
297. .O6l. an increase Of Saz oo0 ooo on
the valuatinn ~ 1890 ''eoe'Ooo ~
.r.,,.- ~
ini,,a '.t - pl'sh"ay' tne 1orgef,
oegan ihe 10 an aPprehtice IN q loo
Years aso or a little over
Th..e 49,.
1heIs "Io now s.Hty-nihe brickiay,
cIs on,ons ,nfoughout the United
Saa,es' % YES Win u 'o'ai membership OF over
The lumber business in the svamps
of the Yazoo and Taliahatchie rivers In
Mississippi is assuming immense pro-
portions.
A new coal field has heen discovered
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26

Among the Omaha Indians, child
who has lost its father or mother is
considered an orphan. Its particular
place is gone, and it passes into the
'.gens." If it is the father who dies
the mother loses all her maternal
rights. Each child, unless Of very ten
der age, will bo separated from the
mother, and will gQ into the family of
some one OF the fathers relatives. It
may thereafter be claimed as his own
child by the male head Of the family tc
which 1t has been :lllo, ed. This sepa-
ration OF widow from her children is
permanent. She usually Biarries again,
and in that event Is not hardened with
her offspring by previous husbands.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26
A writer in the Providence Jouraas

A writer in the Providence douraas
calls attention 10 apractice in vogue
about this time which is ''far more un-
slightly and much more Injurious to
health than the existence Of high. close
fences ard offensive outbuildings."
This is the spreading Of stable manure
on tho lawns. From such lawns. on
warm days, arises a visible vapor, laden
with bad oaors and disease. tits said
that artificial fertilizers will give as
good results. wiihou. Introducing weeds
and coaisa grasscss
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26

A contrast OF wishes: II wish, ex-
claimed Birdie Mcbride. enthusiastic
cally, to Gus DE Smith: II wish this Or
gan had more stops to il" ''And IL
murmured Gus, in. s stage aside, Il
sincerely wish that il had one
eternal stop d kinl Of short stop, as ii
were. s.s.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26
Story of a Free Pass,

Mrs. James r. Caldwell rode on a
FREQ pass the other day from Mexico,
NO., TO Leadville. COL, to see her son.
This pass was given to her husband
and herself twenty years ago, and is a
life pass for both, and will pass them
over any railroad in the United States.
1t was given them by the North Mis-.
souri, railroad company alter they had
respectfully declined the company's
offer Of . gift cf 100000. How tho
company happened to offer the couple
who were well-to-do in the worlds
gift Of 10000 is told by the Hannibal
Journal: In January, 1861. the coufed-
crate bushwhackcrs set FIRE ID the
bridge over Young's creek, and Mr.,
Caldwell got out Of bed in season TO
check the flames with pail OF watsr.
Then he hurried to Ccnsralia to give
the alarm, leaving his wife and child
rel, to keep the fire in check. It was q
bitter cold night, and Mrs. Caldwell
had TO wrap her; children in blankets,
but despite the cold they worked md
cxtinguishcd the flames. The bridge,
however had been reduced 20 : msrs
she'll. Mm. Caldwell knew that II
could not bear up train that was ~
most due. and hurryiny % her hoslsc.
sha got y lanterny and 4 stood on the
bridge in the biting blasts of 4 Januafy
night until the train, with its freight q
human. lite, bad been wasnsd and stop.
ped.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26

E,etcn years ago the first creamery
in Iowa was stared at Manchester.
Now Delaware county heads tho list
with seventy and there is not a county
in the state withcttt at least one.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26
ashcs or French wit
wiz hc did Know:

WIZ nc UM AAOW.T $s
You Arthur passes most of his
timc Tho club and refuses 10 do any
work: lis father recently upbraided
him ~ bad conduct.
tlQa not know ANYTHING" ho
| cried M Elm. .slou cannot add OK
spells nd yontlo not even know the
| histoi Eof FranccsA'
| III oly!'' cried Arthur .On the
| contrlH. know it perfectly well.
Ihere know that Charlcmagnc was q
| great enbler, aud that he always left
the q ss soon ash had gained =
| TeS er solicituic.
~ lny following the execution Of a
doctd who hAd poiSoned his wife, q
pcasl meta physician who had cured
hin 9Ee typhoid fever, but whose
nam 81 did not know.
shank heaven. h W glad / am
to 4 Vu, cried the peasant. ..Since
.llQ ~ M ~ this de.ctor who has
f1dst hecn Ediffottiicd 4 hav8sn0s coae11
to say to myself. in thinking of Won,
provided it is not my good doctor!' 7"
An echo Of the Stanley expedition.
Stanley was visiting the chief of
tribe not far from another tribe whicl,
was very hostile 10 the explorer.
".Are you going to attack our neigh
bors?" asked his host
"We shall be Obliged to if they at
tack us" replied Stanley.
"Iheii chief is my brothcr-in-law.
II am very sorry"
20, didn' t say that TO prevent your
chastising them; on the contrary. On
ly have a request to ask of you. If
you kill my poe. relative please to send
him to me SO that we can have family
repast.'
On the boalcvard:
''And so you have decided to visit
Vesuvius? But what strange idea t.
take dancing master along with YOU"
''Mon Cher, in these revolutionary
times l wish to learn how to dance
upon n volcana!"
He never missed:
A celebrated artist was speaking ~
one of his intimate friends who came Ia
dine with him. without being invited,
six times week.
'.However he's very good fellow"
said friend
Yes" said the artist. land you can
always count upon him."
Thoroughly Parisian:-
Two young swells are looking into a
jewelers. window.
''What a beautiful ring!" SAYS one.
II have some money and have great
mind to buy it,"
But" says the other, "the one you
left with your stable keeper as security
for your carriage is a much finer onf.
II will only cost you half as much to
redeem that
That's so; let's go there"
"And besides, you will have paid one
of your debts.
.'Ohr' cried the other, Mortified,
''that is the ugly side of the operation"
Feminine satisfaction
An elderly actress quarrellcd with
one of her companions whose only
crime was that she was twenty years
younger.
On the following day friend of the
young actress asked ber what she did
while The other was Safeguarding her.
II WATCHED her grow oldH' was the
triumphant reply.-1ransi iated by Ros-
ton Courier.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26

I. The ltags driver who drove Jame9
Is. Polk from Columbia 10 Nashville to
~ inGpGdrafed II NOW IN wxeo. Tex.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-26

Judge w. r. Rankin, of OHIO. brought
up four boys and educated them well
for the professions. They finally chose
the profession Of music and are min
strels on the road.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-13

famed the mother Of Charles De
Young, and it is not TO much 10 say
that no other city in the country
would endure such an exhibition as
this. The chief trouble with San
Francisco is that it is too easy going;
it tolerates too many frauds and add
venturers. ard its moral sense is alto
gether too low fora decent community.
The direct result is that it is the para
disc of swindlers, skysters, thieves,
and confidence men. The line be-
tween the respectful and the dIsrepu-
table is not sharply drawn. There is
absolutely no public spirit, and the
case where q criminal or swindler
is brought to justice is as one to ten
where such gentry go scot-free and
begin anew the old game of deceiv-
ing the credulous public.
A good case in point is that of
well-known divorce lawyer, who was
arrested yesterday for forging papers
in divorce suits. 1t was found that he
erased the names and dates from pre-
yious DEGREES of divorce which he had
obtained, and substituted the names of
new clients. In this way he was doing
land Office business, having some
times as many as ten clients day,
each OF whom paid him from $50 to
500 for services His exposure was
due to the fact that SoAoma county
farmer secured frem him what he sup
posed was a divorce from his wife,
without letting her know anything of
the proceedings, and then posted off
to Santa Rosa aad married young
widow there of whom ne had become
enamored. He was rudely awakened
from his honeymoon by an arr est for
bigamy, on the complaint of his first
wife. In investigating the divorce it
was fousd to be spurious, and in this
way the free and easy divorce business
was ruined.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-13
Looking for a New Location.
wall Street New

During the height of the freshet in
the Ohio River relief steamer which
was approaching the Portsmouth dis
covered family of five persons float
ing down on the roof OF their house.
The steamer sheered it until the
captain could call out that he would
lower boat, but the head of the
family replied;
You needn't go TO any trouble
about it.
Don't you want to be taken offF
WAL we don't feel uneasy"
You'd better come aboard.
''No / guess not We've got plenty
to eat and drink, and the old woman
and children are gettin' used to the
slant o the roof
But can't | do anything for your
Yes, perhaps you might 1t looks
as if we war bound to land on the
Kentucky shore within the next ten
miss, and if you know anything
about the presumption laws Of that
state you might drop US a hint as to
the best site fur to squat2'