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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-04-15
STRANGER

We do not know of any medicine
that has gained an equal popularity,
in such a.short time, for the instant
relief Of coughs and soreness in the
lungs, as keggs' Cherry Coug Syrup.
It is mild and pleasant 70 take and
will not injure the most delicate in
FAINT. Sample bottles free at Jas. r.
Blair'e.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-04-15

The new city officers had their
first meeting on Monday evening
at which time proceedings were TAX
en- to grant license for the sale Of
liquors in the city under the amend
ment to the city charter recently
passed by the legislature. An ordi-
nance authorizing and regulating
the sale Of liquors was introduced
and discussed, and an adjournment
taken until Tuesday night when
the ordinance was passed. It fixes
the license at $500 and requires a
bond in the sum of $500, and no
license shall run for less than one
year. Three parties have already
deposited their $500 each with the
city treasurer, and made application
for license and saloons will be OPEN
ed at once.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-04-15

Some parties from Iowa are oper-
ating . hay-baling machine near the
depot in this city, and are paying
32.75 per ton for hay delivered at
their machine. This will give an
opportunity for those having sur
plus hay to turn it off for cash at a
fair price. It strikes us that it
would pay some one good profit to
utilize the thousands Of tons of hay
that grows upon our bottom lands
here and is never cut, by making q
regular business Of baling and ship
ping hay.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-04-15

Rev. Father Collins will oficiate
in Jefferson next Sunday. Rev.
B. F. Bernier, will take his place
here.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-04-15

A GRAND CoNcERr.-Our people
who heard the concert given here
this winter by the Prussian Militia
y Band, will be pleased to learn
that they have been secured for an
other concert to be given at Chaplin
q Wales rink, this city, on Thurs
day evening, April 23d, 1885. All
critics pronounce this company the
finest lot of musicians now travel.
ing, and no one should miss this
grand musical treat. Tickets on
sale ct H. L. McNitt & Co.'s drug
store.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-04-15
for infants and Children.

''Csstoris Is 30 we'll adapted to children that
I recommend 1t AZ superior to any prescription
known to me-" H.A. Archer, ND,
III So. oxford St., Brooklyn n. r.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-04-15
City f~roasarer's Report.

Respectfully.
j. H. BRYAN,
City Treasurer.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
The seasop,s Christmas Cards.

"The Christmas and New Years
cards for this year will be very fine"
said q dealer to a reporter for the New
York Mail and Express. "One of the
most popular kind that will be pre-
sented for both seasons is a series of
pen and ink sketches. These sketches
are on a white card with an appropri-
ate motto, and are made to suit all
classes Of persons. There are land
scape sketches and pretty bits of seem
cry for the artistic, nautical scenes and
pictures of yachts for the yachtsmen.
Why, we have pictures of the Puritan
and Genesta yacht races. Then there
are horses, dogs and sporting pictures;
in fact, every kind n can think Of"
"Where are all these made?"
sob, young men and women all over
the city, who want a little extra pocket
money, draw them at their leisure. 1t
is a good employment for them, and
keeps their hands in practice. This is
another style we shall have. 1t con-
sists of a book, in which is printed a
poem or e number of selections. The
cover is made to represent something
antique. You see the raw edges on
the paper, and it is decorated with
bronze flowers and pearls"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
Trades for American Bows.

The trades in our country, Of lat,
years, have been almost monopolize1
by foreigners. The American boy, how
ever, when he does take . trade, goes
straight OF to the top of the ladder. It
seems as If our boys would rather be
fo~urth-rate lawyers. or physicians, than
earn their living by working with their
hands. Only the other day / read in q
New York newspaper of q young law
yer in . distant city. whom / knew some
years ago when I resided in that section
Of the country. who literally starved
to death. He made scarcely any money,
was too proud to tell OF his want, lived
~ long as he could on crackers and
water, and was found one day in his
Office, dead from lack OF nourishment.
He should never have entered the
legal profession, for lie had no ability
in that direction. As . farmer or q
mechanic he might have lived Q long,
usef, |, and successful life.
NJ boy. Of course, should enter a
trade unless he feels himself fitted for
II but, on the other hand, he should
not, it seems TO me, let the false pride
against manual labor, which now pre-
vails TO such : wide extent in our coun-
try, prevent him from endeavofing to
do better work with his hands than in
his inmost thoughts he knows he can
do with his head.-George !. Manson,
~ 81 Nicholas.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18

and cakes still hold their own, and the
baneful ice-pitcher remains, active for
stomachic mischief. Porridge, how
ever, is more easily had at q hotel in
New York than in Edinboro', and, with
cracked wheat, has gone abroad
throughout the Union, crossed the
Rockies, and visited the Pacific slope.
doing good all the way. Salt fish, salt
meat, and pork are now little used.
Fresh fish and oysters are consumed
very largely, and, exchanged for the
game Of distant backwoods and prai-
Iies, are carried from lake and sea to
the most interior cities and towns Of
the continent-another blessing due to
the rugged old Englishman who first
put a boiler on wheels and sent it trav-
cling about the country! Under the
in fluence Of improved diets and the
custom of taking a vacation during the
heated term, we are glal to learn from
statisticians that the physique OF our
people is improving, and that they are
living longer than their predecessors
did. Adipose is being deposited on
lanky forms, and although Brother
Jonathan can scarcely vet be depicted
as a plump person, he bids fair to be-
come such il he keeps on adopting
common-sense measures in food and
rest"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
Mechanism of the Bee.

An investigator into the mysteries
Of animal life asserts that a bees work
ing tools comprise a variety equal to
that OF the average mechanic. He
says that the feet of the common
working bee exhibit the combination
Of a basket, a brush and a pair of
%pinchers. The brush, the hairs of
which are arranged in systematical
rows, is only to be seen with the mi
croscope. With this brush of fairy del
cacy the bee brushes its velvet robe to
remove the pollen dust with which it
becomes loaded while sucking up the
nictar. Another article, followed like
a spoon, receives all the gleanings
which the insect carries to the hive.
Finally, by opening them, one upon
another, by means of a hinge, these
two pieces become a pair of pinchers,
which render important service in the
construction of the combs Scientific
Amci lean.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
DisreptuabIe Opium Dealers.

"Let us examine this opium and NOR
phine supplying business. The miser-
able victim to the habit is certainly
travelling at constantly acc~elerating
speed down the road to he'll. The
constant taking of the drug has at last
habituated him to its influence, and
now a morbid appetite raves it be-
yond all things else. He has become a
liar, a thief; plunged into moral obliq-
uity under its influence. He will sac
ritice his home, wife. children. all, to
obtain the cursed stuff. and dealers in
drugs, practitioners of the noble art of
pharmacy. supply this agent that
wrecks, ruins both body and soul. The
pecuniary gain for accomplishing this
most ignoble, damnable ruin is very
small indeel, and even were il thous-
ands, still no thoughtful man of honest
purposes would do it. Who among us
would furnish a man poison who was
avowedly intent on suicide? Furnish
ing morphine and opium to the opium
eater is many times worse. Furnishing
the means for immediate suicide. as q
rule. is simply wronging the individual,
besides being an accompllce with MUIR
der; but supplying opium to the habit
ual user is all this and more too. The
vender is an enemy to the home, to So
ciety he Injuries the rights of communi-
ties and demoralized himself. These
are facts. They cannot be denied
Extract from India Letter IN Western
Dru01ist.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
Those C.eyer Greeks.

If you turn a book upside down and
look at the letters, every s will seem
much smaller at the bottom than at the
top, although, when the book is prop
erly held, both halves appear the same
size to the eye.
The upper part of the type that
prints the letter S is made smaller
than the lower half to correct the fault
of the eve, which always slightly exag-
gerates the former. When the letter
is turned over, this same trick of the
sight makes the difference seem greater
than is really is; and, Of course, were
it OF the same width all the way, it
would still look uneven.
In greater matters. the false report
of the eye is greater. If a tapering
monument, like that on Bunker Hill,
or like the Obelisk in Central Park,
were made with perfectly straight
sides, it would look to us--for, you see,
we really cannot trust our own eyes
MS il it were followed in a little; or, as
we should say i'll more scientific Ian
gnage, its sides would appear oncave
Those clever Greeks, who did so
many marvellous things in art, thought
all this out, and made their architecture
upon principles so subtle and SO COM
prehensive that we have never been
able to improve on them since. They
found that their beautiful Doric col.
umns, if made with straight sides, had
the concave effect OF which / have
spoken; and so, with the most delicate
art in the world, they made the pillar
swell a little at the middle, and then II
appedred exactly right.
This swelling of the column as its
middle was called entdsis. Of course
it had to be calculated with the great
est nicely, and was actually so very
slight that it can only be detected 10y
measurement, but it added greatly to
the beauty of the columns and to their
effectiveness
Then the lines which we're to look
horizontal had to receive attention. If
you look at a long, per. ectly level line,
as the edge OF n roof, for instance, it
has the appearance OF sagging toward
the middle. The Greek architect cor.
rected this fault by making his lines
rise q little. Tic front of the Par
thenon. at Athens, is 101 feet and 81
inches long, and. in this, the rise from
the horizontal is about 81 inches. In
other words, there is q curvature up
ward that makes it a little more than
2 inches higher in the center than at
the ends, and the effect of this swelling
upward is to make the lines dppear
right, which is certainly what may be
called a N architectural paradox. The
graceful columns, which seem to stand
SO straight, are made to lean inward "a
little, since, if they were perfectly
true and plumb, they would have the
effect OF leaning outward. The pillars
at the corners slant inward more than
the others, and everywhere the corner
are made to look square by being in
truth a little broader angled, and lines
are curved in order that they shall APP
pear straight to the eye.-Ario Bates,m
81. Nicholas.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
Gen. Forrest in the BUS.

Gen. n. b. Forrest, the famous Con-
federate cavalry leader, visited New
York, and one day, while riding in q
Fifth Q n stage, a dude of the most
pronounced type entered and took his
eat in the corner opposite the General.
While searching his pockets for m
thing the youth withdrew a large en-
velope from which a number of papers
slipped and were scattered on the floor.
He picked up those within his reach,
and turning to Forrest, who looked
like "a member from the rural dis
t~ricts," said in a drawing, consequent
tial and supercilious tone peculiar to
his class:
II say, can you reach those papers?'
The General grasped the situation in
a moment, and extending his arms, re-
piled with well-assumed country pa
tots:
"Wall. ! jis kin, stranger, and that's
about ALL"
Then be drew himself up to a sitting
posture, again and looked innocent,
while the occupants of the stage
roared, and the embarrassed dude pro-
ceeded to help himself, and as quickly
as possible leave the unsympathctic
company.
An old gentleman, who. to Judge
from his shaking sides, heartily en-
joyed the scene, now changed his seat
for one next to the General, and re-
marked to him: stranger, excuse
me for the question, but where did you
come FROM" "Arkansaw" was the
rejoinder. "Well." said the old man,
"Tve always heard that an Arkansian
is A. of q fellow, and now / believe
it. Shake hands, stranger" He was
doubly delighted a few moments later
when, on arriving at the New York Ho-
tel, Forrest introduced himself propria
persona, and invited his new-found
friend to become his guest at dinner
Home Journal
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
Preparing to Encounter Disease.

II prevalence Of malarial disorders being de-
pendent upon vitiated conditions Of atmos-
phere and water is. in certain regions, OF course
inevitable. The grand question, therefore, pre-
sents itself to every resident Of q fever stricken
locality is, What means shall I adopt to escape
the dreaded scourge?" For a third Of a century
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has been the ON
bodied answer to this question. In thickly
populated, and sparsely settled districts alike,
in town and in country, it has afforded constant
protection against malarial infection to those
who have used it. 1t eradicates and prevents,
with equal certainty, fever and ague, bilious re-
mittent, dumb ague and ague cake, and utilities
also the pernicious after effects OF using persis-
tently the hurtful alkaloid sulphate Of quinine,
1t also remedies, with thoroushness, dyspepsia,
liver complaint, constipation, debility and
rheumatism.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
Hotel Tables.

From an article on HOTEL Keeping,
by George Hes, in the Century, we
quote the following: when I have
e the lengthy biil-of-fare so com
monty furnished at large American
hotels. and thought OF the waste en-
tailed, I have thought that q reformer
might succeed. by establishing, say in
New York, . hotel on a new plan, one
that would afford the small, good va
riety that one finds at the smaller Lon
don hotels of the best class-a variety
we'll cooked and served, through the
cooks attention not being dissipated
among a multitude of dishes. At two
restaurants in New York, on Broadway
and Fifth rel respectively, one gets
an excellent table d'hote dinner of this
kind at the reasonable charge Of SIPS.
which includes q pint of Gin ordinaire.
The best hotels. it gives me pleasure
to state, arc fast moving in the direc-
ton of simplicity OF bill-of-fare. In
New York the leading house on the
American plan does not provide it's
table with much more than one-half
the variety of dished one may have
offered at second rate, p~retentious SON.
Germs throughout the country. The
dietary, too, in America is %unquestion-
ably improving. Fruit and vegetables
are consumed much more plentifully
than before quick trains and prodigious
business. Baked joints and fowl. so
often parboiled and sodden. are giving
place TO better things inthe way Of
genuine roasts. The gridiron, thank
goodness, has well-nigh driven the
frying-pan out OF the kitchen, and
and wholesome broiled steaks and
chops have taken the place Of the hard,
greasy meats that spoiled SO many
digestions in the past. Pie, too, is 60
ing, and it's exodus has had much TO- do
with the genesis Of fat Pas hot bread
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
The Wedding Present.

The wedding guests had departed,
and the happy couple were making
ready to go to the depot, when the
newly made father-in-law approached
the newly made son, and said:
Julius, l didn't place a check for
$50 900 under Hattie's plate, as is Of
ten done"
mo, sir; you didn't"
''Instead of that, Julius, I credited
the amount to you on a deal of wheat.
It's so much margin put up by you,
you see."
Yes, sir. In case you call for more
margins and l can't put up, you'll
you'll"
"Close You out, of course, julius.
Good bye, and may the Lord bless both
of my dear children"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
The Lore OF the Middle.Ared.

As for love, all novels end In mar
riage. The fervor, the delight, the
realty of the passion, we r told, be-
longs to youth; middle age sinks into
dull, gray monotony of common place
habit. In fact, it is the young whose
love finds utterance in signs, in poems,
in at best a selfish monopoly of the
loved one; it is the middle-aged man
and woman who quietly sacrific day by
day every hope and ambition, every
talent and taste which gives them iden-
tity among men; who become drudged,
who give health, strength, life itself,
drop by drop, for love.-Philadelphia
Press.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18

Another agent in the combination to
maintain for the man of advancing age
his career Of fiesh.eater is the dentist.
Nothing 10 more common ct this period
OF life than to hear complaints of in
dignation experienced, so it is affirmed,
because masticstion is imperfectly per-
formed for want of teeth. The dentist
deity repairs the defective implements,
and the important function OF chewing
the food can be henceforth performed
with comfort But, without any inten-
ton to Justify . doctrine of final causes,
l would point out the significant fact
that the disappearance Of the masti-
eating powers il mostly coincident
with the period Of life when that
species of food which most requires
their action-viz., solid animal fiber
10 little, if ut al, required by the indi-
vidual. It is during the latter third Of
his career that the softer and lighter
foods, such as ~well-cooked cereals,
some light mixed animal soup, and
also fish. for which teeth are barely
necessary, are particularly valuable
and appropriate. And the man with i'm
perfect teeth who conforms to natures
demand for . mild, non-stimulating
dietary in advanced years will mostly
be blessed with q better digestion and
sounder health than the man who,
thanks to his artificial machinery, can
eat and does eat as much flesh in
quantity and variety as he did in the
days Of his youth. Far be it from me
to undervalue the truly artistic achieve
ment of q clever and experienced dem
tai surgeon, or the comfort he affords.
By all means let us have recourse to
his aid when a natural teeth fail, for
the purpose Of vocal articulation, to
say nothing of their relation to personal
appearance; on such grounds the arti-
icial substitutes rank among the
n~ecessaries Of life in q civilized COM
munity. Only let il be understood that
the chief end Of teeth, 80 far a. masti-
cation is concerned, has in advancing
age been to . great extent accom-,
plished. and that they are now mainly
useful for the purposes just named.
But l cannot help adding that there
are some grounds for the belief that
those who have throughout life from
their earliest years consumed little or
no flesh, but have lived on q diet
chiefly or wholly vegetarian, will be
found to have preserved the teeth
longer than those who have Away;
made flesh o prominent part OF theiR
daily food.-Sir Henry Thompson, an
Popular Science Monthly.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
Walking for Health.

II see in the papers that President
Cleveland takes walks for his health"
remarked the passenger who wanted
somebody to talk to.
Yes replied the glum passenger,
who hadn't been seen talking to any
body, land that isn't the worst 'of it.
He insists on other government Off
Gals following his example. And yet
they call this a free country"
Are you a government o~flicial?"
mo; but up to last Saturday noon
| was the postmaster at Smithville.'-
Chicdyo Herald.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
1t is a Fact

well established that consumption if ATTENDED
10 III its hrst stages, can be cured. There is.
however. no true and rational way to cure
ms disease, which is really ~scrofulous ulcer
alton OF the lungs, exceration of tho lungs.
except through purifying the hood. Keen
the liver in perfect order and pure blood wi
be tho result. DR.. Pielce's Golden Medical
Discovery a purely vegetable compound
does all mis- and more: while it purities the
oiood IL also builds up the system. strength
enlng IT against future attacks of disease.
Ask for DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discoy.
cry. Take no other. OF druggists.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
VINEGAR RirrzRs

IL n great Hood Purifier ard MS-giyinp
Principle; o Gentle Putgalise and Tonic . perfect
Kenovator and Invleorator Of the system.
In Vinegar ksittere there Is vitality but
no alcoholic or mineral poison.
Dtscrscs of tiic sskisi, of whatever name
or nature, are literally dug up and carried out OF
the system In a short time by the use of the Ditters.
Vinegar Dlttcrs allays feverishaess. 1t re-
Heves, and In time cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia.
Gous; and similar painful diseases. -
vinegar Bltters cures constipation and
prevents DiarThuea,
Never before has a medicine been COM
pounded possessing the power OF VINEGAR BIT.
yERs to heal the aick.
Send for either Of our valuable reference
books for ladies, for farmers, for merchants, our
on lntemperance md Tobacco, which lasl should
De read by every child and youth in the land.
Any two OF the above books mailed free on
receipt of four cents for registration fees.
All. Mcdonald Drug Co., $50 Washington st., NY.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18

The body of the first Napolean,
buried at the Invalides, in Paris, is en-
closed i'll five collins; the first in tin,
and the others in mahogany, lead,
ebony and oak. All this is placed in
a sarcophagus of Finland granite-a
present from Russia. The tomb was
completed in 1861, and cost $3.50, 900
francs,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18
Some Folks

have much difficulty in swallowing tho huge.
old-fashioned Pill, but anyone can take DR..
Pierce's pleasant Purgative Pellets" which
are composed of highly concentrated vegeta-
bic extracts. For diseases of the liver and
ttomach. sex and bilious headache, etc. they
have no equal. Their operation Is attended
with no discomfort whatever. They are sugar
coated and put up in glass walls.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-11-18

Every Invalid has an OppOrtu.
nifty of knowing that DIR. WALKERS CALI
FoHNIA VINEGAR BITTERs acts as an ire
sistible specific in dyspepsia, liver COM
pants, kidney dis asses. rheumatism, govt
and al disorders proceeding from a de- ora we'd
condition of the animal fluids. To decline
taking a sure remedy when sick, is to court
suffering and invite death.