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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-22
FOURTH COUSINS.

In the early sdmmer of 1860 / went
upon a visit to a distant relative of
mine who lived in one of the Shetland
Islands. It was early summer with
myself then; l was a medical student
with life all before me--life and hope,
and Joy and sorrow as well. / went
north with the intention of working
hard, and took quite a small library
with me; there was nothing in the
shape of study / did not near to do,
and to drive at; the flora of the Ultima
Thule, its fauna and geology, too, to
say nothing of chemistry and therapeu-
tics. So much for good intentions, but
i may as well confess it as not--I
never once opened my huge box of
books during the five months lived at
R, and If | studied at all it was
from the book of nature, which is open
to every one who cares to con its
pages.
The steamboat landed me at Ler-
wick, and / completed my journey,
with my boxes, next day in an open
boat.
1t was a very cold morning, with a
gray, cold, choppy sea on, the spray
from which dashed Owe the boat, wet
ting me thoroughly, and making me
feel pinched, b~lear-eyed and miserable.
l even envied the seals | saw costly
asleep in dry, sandy caves, at
the foot of the black and betting
rocks.
How very fantastic those rocks were,
but cherries, SO cherries! Even the
sea-birds that circled around them
seemed screaming a dirge. An open
ing in a wall of rock took us al length
into a long, winding ford, or arm OF
the sea, with green bare fields on every
side, and wild, weird-like sheep that
gazed on us for a moment, then bleated
and fed. Right at the end OF this rock
stood my friends house, comfortable
and solid-looking, but unsheltered by
a single tree.
81 shan't stay long here" said to
myself, as / landed.
An hour or two afterward had
changed my mind edtirely. l was
seated in a charmingly and costly fur
nished drawing-room upstairs. Inc
windows looked out to aud away
across the broad Atlantic. How
strange it was; for the loch that had
led me to the front of the house, and
the waters of which rippled up. and
down the very lawn, was part OF the
German ocean, and here at the back,
and not a stones throw distant. was
the Atlantic! Its great, green, dark
pillows rolled up and broke into foam
against the black breastwork OF ellis
beneath us. The immense depth OF
its waves could be judged OF by keep
ing the eye fixed upon the tall, steeple,
like rocks which shot up here ana
there through the water a little way
out to sea-at one moment these woulo
appear like lofty spires, and next tney
would be almost entirely swallowed
up.
Beside the fire. in an easy chair, sal
my gray haired old relation and most
and not far off his wife. HospitaDie'
warm-hearted and genial both OF them
were. If marriages really are made
In heaven. l could not help thinking
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-22
Deluded Negroes.

The close of the wal found thou
sands of unemployed, unrestrained,
aud impecunieas colored people in the
District of Columbia. With every adj
vancing step of our armies they gath
cred up great bales of articles that
seemed most desirable to them from
their own domiciles, and from the
homes of their masters they made
their way to Washington, the Mecca
of their imaginatlons, under the inn
preston that freedom and plenty were
to be attained by reaching it. They
came by tens and by hundreds. The
old and the decrepit, the young and
helpless, The middle-aged and strong.
On foot they came, and they bore with
them their goods and chattels. Stout
girls of IL carried the fat, shining ba-
bies; lads of all ages balanced upon
their heads baskets of provisions for
the journey; buxom feld-hands bore
great bales consisting of feather-beds,
missum's dresses, mirrors, and band
boxes. and the men were burdened
with an amount of sundries that would
make a cart-ioad.
No exertion was exhausting, no OBJ
stacle insurmountable. ssGwine korf,
where you all cum frum,' was the
exultant reply to all interrogatories
concerning their destination.
They knew little, but they, dreamed
much, of what would be the result of
the sudden and unprovided-for change
in their condition. 1t was a leap in
the dark, but they imagined it a leap
from darkness into light-from a state
of bondage into a glorious condition
OF freedom; and they naturally con
sidered that they would be recipients
of the blessings that such a change
should produce.
Alasi alas! for the awakening from
this delusion! They found themselves
at last in Washington, homeless and
friendless. They stood upon the
wharves and gazed and wondered.
The great dome of the capitol, the
marble walls Of the public buildings.
the busy throng going and coming
from their accustomed places OF BUSH
ness, amazed them. No feast was
offered them; they were invited to no
hospitable homes. They found them
selves strangers in a strangers land,
destitute and despised, and pinched
by hunger and faint with the reaction
of stinulated imaginations, they be-
gan to grope their way into alleys, and
| byways, and stableslofts, and rude
novels, and SO became, twenty-five
thousands of them, deniyons of the
American metropolis. How they
lived, how they suffered, how they
| died, will never be written.-Bcn; Ter
ley Poor la Boston Budget.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-22

It Is said that a buzzard win not eat a dead
Mexican, but then things are somewhat eyened
up by the fact that a Mexican won't eat q dead
buzzard. -PhRdde{phia Can.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-03-26
"ONn the Books

Washington dispatch: Mr.. Whit
ney has begun in the right wayfo
understand his own department
He has brought here An expert nc
cOuntant-W William Calhoun, Of
New York who has enjoyed high
reputation for twenty five years us
being one OF the most expert ac-
countants in the country. He will
be placed in charge OF the naval
accounts aud will make IA thorough
examination, running back over u
long period o. years. This will be- i.
much more effective examination in
some respects than that conducted.
by any congressional committee, but
Mr.. Calhoun will fini some gaps in
the lines OF his examination which he
will be unable to cover. Just before
Robinson Went out OF the department.
there were Il number Of fires In
which valuable books and papers
We're destroyed. Mr.. Whitney's
method is particularly that OF Il bust
ness man, and one that has never
been employed by any Of the politi.
clans who have had charge OF this
department. Outside experts vii
also be summoned to go over the
accounts OF the treasury department.
II there are to be any changes and
dismissals in that department it viii
only be after the most careful. and
through Investigation. For ever,
change, then, the secretary will bt
able to give satisfactory reasons to
the public.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-03-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Iowa Supreme Court rendered
decision Affirming the const.tutionaltty o.
the new prohibitory Law and providns for
It's speedy enforce ncnt. The court virtually
declared that saloons may be en- oined as
nuisances. and any citizen Is practically
RI on tho power to q ose up A saloon without
trial y jury. II aoonkeeper disoncys an
Injunction he can DO punished " tn fine OF
81. coo and six months imprisonment. Pro-
hibitionists claim that they can close every
saloon In the State.
Gen. Pacheco, the Mexican Minister
of Public Wo ks, has survived the re.
amputntion of his left log. Gen. Marques.
the new Governor OF Puebla, Is dyin from
govt. The Poop OF Vera Cruz subscribed
$lo,6.5 for the en- thquake su..erersin spain.
Louis Riel, the hero of the Red
River rebellion, who was cxiled from hanl.
tobu. is said 10 nave created serious d.ssen'
sion among the halg-brceis in the Northwest
territory.
There wore PAT failures in the United
States curing tho last week, decrease OF
three as .omp rel with the preceding week.
Sir Harry Parkes, British Minister
to China, died suddenly at pekin.
Levi Kerr, leading oltissn q Clevs'
land. ana having al interest 10 John noaoh's
shipbnildins enterprises was drowned IN the
St. Johns River. near Palatka, Fla. lilo wns
over 90 yeafS OF age.
Or. David Griffith, who was medical
eaAs1fDaS ae5aahf Eku5 ebs5k una q
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-03-26
Jeffersonion Simplicity.

The Philadelphia Record (Ind)
says: Thomas jefferson 1t will be
admitted was u pretty good sort OF Il
Democrat, and not an Indifferent
friend OF an effective non-partisan
civil service When Jefferson went
into Office he found all the places oil
government, big or little, in the pos
session OF the opponents OF the Dem.
ocratic party. Although hostile to
the spoils policy, Mr.. Jefferson pro.
ceeded to make removals from Office
in order to relieve the government
OF its proscriptive partisan character
The situation is now precisely wha,
1t was In 1901. In all the vast ad.
ministrative departments of govern.
ment members of the prescribed
party are nowhere to be found, tx.
cept few who have suddenly turn.
I'd up since the November election
It will require, then, q great many
removals from Office before thu
equilibrium is restored and before
party prescription is itself prescribed
What better way to prescribe pro.
scription than by removing officials
who have used their places to pro
mote partisan ends, and who have
r0amed about the country making
offensive partisan speeches to save
their Offices while neglecting theil
dutles2s
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-03-26

etppi Valley has petitioner Prcsidea
Cleveland TO con enc the National Eaari II
Heslts. at once. ard 10 authorz. f.,e ~. +
70 ia.cl. OF the Grid mic contingent fund I. i.
ma, DC necessary IL enforce ST orous sys-
ten o. preventive measures.
The yacht Atalania took Jay Gould
ard family from Havana 10 i.a lesion III
forts hours.
The loss sustained by Texas cattle
met, during the Winter ID placed at ) to per
cent. of the hesds. AT least ia. 900 head
wandered southwark, and their recovery viii
rcauiee much tire and a b avy out'a. hc
ranges are said to he oyers:oesed. ans I'll.
throwing OF the surplus uroi th market
viii reduce the price VI beef.
From six to ten inches of SNOW fell
in Virginia and North Carolina on tho 18th
inst.
f. Jeflords, Of Issaluena Count. ], Mis-
sissippl, laic!, Representative in Congress or
the =. hocstring. district, d cd sAdien!., 81
heart disease.
A building at Emmittsburgh, Nd,
occupied 10y the Sisters o. haritg. valued at
$4,000. was destroyed Ivy ire.
The extent Of tie restitution in
Writ ami Ileas n Counties. ".ss is.r- i: n.
has, il Is said. cached lie y IN, .i..s :
aid is 1T once gi.cl d. Is if.su hin ct
must result.
Six white convicts made I'll II ess.aI,r
from al in Grimes County. .sxas n.ii Q
were OF down Is the guard.
Crime has become s., infreluent in
the Parish of Cameron. n tin eG:aa.stt#fr
e ,rner of Louisiana, tha; tie parish jill l.
Used as a corn-erih.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-03-26
Some Hitching Post Talk Nailed

We notice W. II. AilemaM's .sSeaSon or 1895.
In last weeks PLAIN DEALER. and we cannot
see the object tlnless to mtslpadl he has In get
tiny IL u IN tile manner pr. sented TO us.
lie should remember that he Is talking 10
farmers and they have not the time nor the
facordS TO aid them 10 see which Is The greater
Western Lad. Maud :. Jay Eye See, etc The
presence Df the iamb.etoniaIs such as Maud
>, Jay Eye See. Goldsmith Maid, etc, make This
ADVERT ,efnent Shine with bright II ht. but Is
y not false light? he has proven conclusiyely
" 40 lnbrredins his been successful among the
IiaMbetOnlans. and We haSe no doubt but thar
the public viii be pleased when he informs Ii
mat his horse, Western Lad, Is inbred within
the oPER limits
But he should remember that his horse IL
NOT iiamDlctOnian but an inbred Swigart, II
he wishes us ID understand thai his horse Is
something out OF the ordinary line o. Swigaris
from in9rced ne let him cite us TO some incestu-
Gus bred Swigart or defendant II Europe ~ tn i
has proven successful as a trotter or as the Sire
OF trotters through incestuous breeding Then
" Will 30 time tor him to prove TO the public
that inbreeding VIII beneft Western Lad. we
consider that. 10 slo.seman" that there
vau.d % as much seasf Ii putting sPcled
Angus" calf TO .uck .shnithornn Cow 10 give
u horns as Tor him TO ciaGn that tmb:,eding
among the Hamblet0hiaps win help an Incest Il
Gus bred Swtg n with . l6 per cent OF Ham.
b.etohi N togat tr3ittr
We betteve In eN ~ man advert Ing his own
horses on their merits and not pluck TOO many
~ heae frem auiAale that arS nat yva,ed q
tQc0. J0UN xCU0kuvua.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-03-26
POLITICAL.

Mr.. Rich, Postmaster at Camden,
No.. sent in his resignation from convic
tion that tho place should DO filled by one in
accord with the administration.
The Wisconsin Senate killed the bill
empowering women to vote ut municipal
elections: and the lower branch passed an
act that Migrants may be sentenced to diet
OF bread and water only.
Washington special: There is .
falling on Ia the crowd Of ofnce-seckers hero.
It is said that the President intends to make
no changes In any OF the four-year- erm
ofhees except for cause. When tho terms OF
the present incumbents expire the offices
will be Tiled by picked Democrats
The Cincinnati Republican City Con.
vsntion nominated Amor Smith, Jr., for
Mayor on tho trst ballot.
The Ohio Senate, by . vote Of - to
s. rejected tho House bill giving women suf-
fra 0 10 school districts.
Tho Ohio Legislature adopted Z
resolution for submitting to the people an
amendment changing the date OF State cleo.
tons from October to Novcml or.
Hon. Austin Blair, Michlgans wal
Governor, has Ieen nominated by . non.
partisan convention as Prosecuting Attorney
Of jackson County. Michigan.
Hon. James III. Berry was elected
United States Senator from Arkansas. q
succeed A. H. Garland, appointed Attorney
General in President Cleve and Cabinet
Dwight S. Spafford, Republican, was
elected to succe d the Hon. Robert 4. Logan
deceased, in the Illinois House of Repre-
scntatives.
The wholesale indictment of election
Judges and clerks in CHICAGO has been Of
lowed by the entering of noile prosoqui
there being no evidence OF crimina. intent
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-03-26
A Matter ef Very Great Importance

Mr.. Hatton. just before he went
out OF Office. closed several contracts
Tor the transportation Of mails IN
the West that aro very unsatisfac-
tory 10 some sections of tile North
west. Col. Villas has rot a moment
TO consider these contracts, but will
give his attention for the present to
matters regarded as OF greater i'm
portance. -(Pitsbnry Post.
We can't conceive Of anything OF
greater importanc than to right Il
wrong, nor do we know Of any bus
mess connected with the postoflice
department OF more consequence
than to have the public provided
with an expeditions mail service.
We do not think Col. Villas is Il man
to subordinate the public interest
to the mere routine work or his de-
partment or 20 listening to the
clamorous appeals OF Office seekers
The Northwest is IN important
section Of the Union. and deserves
rs much consideration ut the hands
OF the departments as any other
section, and We can see no reason
Why the postmaster general should
not promptly redress the gross out.
rage tn Mr.. Hatton perpetrated
upon the Northwest in the matter of
its mail service.-fGlobe.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-03-26

William Z. Bear, writes an article
which appears in the North Ameri-
can Review for April, on the agri-
cultural distress in England, that
shows him up as one OF the arrant
fools OF the country. and yet this
man is the editor of the Mark Lane
Express, and gives a remedy that
avoids wiping out Landlordism
primogeniture and the rule Of hered-
itary paupers. In the same num-
her are several other articles Of more
or less merit and Importance, but
the article Of this number Of most
value and Importance to mankind
and the world, is that OF T. v. Pow.
derby Of the Knights OF Labor, en-.
titled the "Army OF the Discomfort
ed" This article is OF sufficient i'm.
portance and value that We shall
take an early occasion to publish
liberal extracts from it.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-03-26
49,. : Humorous Gem.

Ans Baltim ore American says:
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the st. Jacobs Oil Family Calendar
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primarily for advertising purposes,
i. is so replete with original matter
free from advertising reference that
the business feature is almost a see
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are issued for gratnitous distribution,
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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-03-26
LOUSY nlc, ny.
FOREIGN.

Germany. it is said, will mediate be-
tween France and China.
British officials at Cairo have tried
unsu ces-f lily to pcrsua lie the home Govern
ment TO apo mt Gen. Wolscly as Governor
General OF tho Sudan. Tho Gvcrnmcnt has
declined on the ground that such m appoint
mcnt would undu.y prolong the stay OF the
British army in Africa.
In the Royal Alpha Masonic Lodge at
London. Prince Edward was initiated by the
Prince of Wales. and manifested the deepest
interest in the work.
An explosion in q coal mine near
Gaarbruck, in Rhcnish Prussia. imprisoned
2l5 miners, only seventeen or whom had
been rescued at last accounts.
The cost of the French war thus far
10 CHINA is estimated at CO.. O0,c00.
The bodies of two men, frightfully
hacked with knives, were found on the tracx
OF the Cork & Bandon Hallway. in ireland.
It is believed that the victims wore passen-
gers on train and we're murdered for the
purpose Of robbery. Tho assailants are sup
posed TO have occupied seats in tire Same
compartment with them and to have thrown
them out OF the car window after stabbing
them to death.
James Stephens, the Fenian leader
recently expelled from rance, Is said by his
wife TO be dying in restitution at Mons.
Belgium.
At last accounts fifty-one Of the
workmen who were cntombcd in the Camp
hansen mine in Rhenish Prussia, had been
taken out alive. One hundred and thirty
seven dead bodies had been recover a. and
about forty men and boys renamed unao-
counted for.
An advance in force was made from
Suakin in the direction or Hashecn. Caval-
~. mounted infantry, and Indian infantry
were sent to reconnoiter, while the Guards
acted 40 reserve. The Arabs rctrcated be-
| fore the British as far as the hills near
| Hashecn the main body Of the troops under
| Gen. Graham supporting the skrnishng
line. The scouts on reaching the summit Of
the hills, disco cred the Arab massed IN tho
| village. When the main body OF the British
reached the hilltops the Hadendowah tribe
| rushed from Ambush aud made an attack. in
| which several hundred Arabs wore killed and
| wounded as well as number of the Brit .sh.
It was asccrta. ned by a rcconnai ssance that
the encmy we're in force along the ent re
range of hills. The cngalcmcnt ended with
the retirement of the British.
Sir Baldwin Malet, X. G. B., British
| Ambassador to Germany, was married ut
Westminster Abbey to Lady Ermsntrude,
second daughter of the Duke Of Bedford.
The ceremony was attend with almost re.
gal splendor, the presents being valued at
| 500. 90.
A dowry of $3.50, 900 was given by the
Duke of Bedford to his daughter on tho oc-
casion of her marriage with Sir Edward
Mslet. The radical n twspapcrs co irast the
splcndor Of tho scdi NJ pageant with the
povcrty-strickcn condition Of the tenants
who inh bit tn, slums from which tho nobG
| nuke derives his revenues.