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The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-12-25
Thr Arti.Sparks Convcntion.

HURON, Oak, Special Telegram, Dec 10
At the adjourned meeting Of delegates 10
the land convention, the committee reported
the following statement OF grievances and
req nests fOrrelief:
We, the citizens Of the Yankton, Mitchell,
Huron, Aberdeen and Watertown, Oak, land
d~iStricts. in mass convention assembled, do re-
spectfully represent that
Whereas, The BILE commissioner Of the
general land office, VIM. A. J. Sparks, by certain
instructions, bids and decisions, viz, superin-
tending the issuance OF all patents for lands,
holding as primG Jacis fraudulent the entry of
= settler who proves mp i'll the shortest possible
time; that a settler who has ~pre-empted cannot
commute a homestead eGtry, is working great
hardships and tinan0 ! injury TO settlers in
good faith on public lsuds, we do recon-
ment that q committee Of fve-one for
each land district-be appointed TO visit
ton Of orders pending entries, and secure an ap-
peal to the secretary of the interior in case OF
an entryman who had proved up in
sommuted homestead case. when the country
man had previously proven up on q pre-emp.
lion. Further, we recommend the repea, OF
the United States statutes suthoriz,
ns the commissioner OF the .Da general eaecaI
entries of the public lands after final certihcat I
has been made, and ask that q statute be framed
n Ei''HS shs '''' courts IN Sf'' II the t% Sqr i ''I q
state, requiring contests either Cd
the part OF the United States or individuals to
be instituted during notice Of publication, and
said statutes TO be similar to the statutes in
mineral cases. Further, If on appeal the
honorable secretary Of the interior shall
sustain the commissioner. We recommend an aci
OF congress confirming and ~quieting title TO en-
tries in cases OF complaint instituted prioI
20 tho reception of said orders and decis
ions OF the honorable commissioner 1T the loca
land ONCE.
This resolution was adopted:
Resolved. That this convention recommend
that At as early a day as possible 4 convention
be held at the headquarters of each land districl
IN South Dakota, composed OF delegates from eacl
county for the purpose Of electing one delegate Il
proceed TO Washington to secure redress re-
garding the matters Of land titles in Dakota
JeopardiZed by the rulings OF Sparks genera
land ONCE. The chairman of this convention 1.
authorized TO appoint. upon recommendation ant
advice OF the several representatives present, one
man from each land district 60 60 70 Washing
ton and carry ont these recommendations.
Tx following were appointed:
Aberdeen, John 7. McChesney; Watertown
N. G. Mnlette: Huron, Il. I. Monser: Mitchell,
N J. Edgerton.
Smyrna times., 1885-12-09
MICROSCOPIC DETERMINATION.

The microscopic determination of the
different qualities of iron and steel is
now regarded as one of the most valu-
able aids in metallurgical industries.
Thus. the crystals of iron are double
pyramids, in which the proportion of
the axis to the bases varies with the
quality of the iron; the smallness of the
crystals and the height of the pyramids
composing each element are in proper
ton to the quality and density of the
metal, which are seen also in the fine
ness of the surface, and, as the proper
ton of the carbon diminishes in the
steel, the pyramids have so much the
less height. In pig iron and the lower
qualities of hard steel the crystals
approach more closely the cubic form.
Forged iron has its pyramids fattened
and reduced to superposed parallel
leaves, whose structure constitutes what
is called the nerve of the steel, and the
best quality of steel has all its crystals
disposed in parallel lines, each crys-
tai filling in the interstices between
the angles of those adjoining, these
crystals having their axis in the direc-
ton of the percussion they undergo
during the working. Practically, good
steel has the appearance, microscopic
ally, of large groups of beautiful
crystals.
Smyrna times., 1885-12-09
GUARDED VIRGINS.

The Cuban senorita is rather small,
quite plump, has raven black hair,
plenty Of it, and large black eyes, which
she knows how to use. The schools are
under the control of the Roman Cath
olic Church, the sexes attending differ
ent schools From the fact that girls
are so strictly separated from the boys
at school and other public places, it
follows that distrust of the other sex
is installed into the youthful mind. No
woman can go on the street alone; she
must have a scrawny female companion
or two or three servants. Even the
lover cannot see his Dulcinea alone.
He must do his cOurting in the presence
of one or more ancient ladies, who
watch every smile and hear every ex-
preston OF endearment. Occasionally
those lOve-siek creatures steal TO o
corner and indulge in a little deoorous
embracing. The Cuban girl makes an
affectionate wife and is fully matured at
twelve years, frequently having quite a
large family at twenty. As is usual in
hot climates she loses her beauty early
and makes the ugliest old woman on
the two hemispheres.
Smyrna times., 1885-12-09
sEnREr sncIErIEs

STAR LODGE. No. 6. I. o. o. F.-Meets
every Friday evening, at 713O'clOck
MCDONNELL ENCAMPMENT, No. ?, l. F-Meets
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings of each
month, at IA O'Clock.
HARMONY LODGE, No. 13. A. F. A. M-Meets First
and Third Thursday evenings Of each month
at713 o'clock.
SMYRNA CONCLAvE, No As ORDER or HEPTAsOPHs.
-Meetsevery Wednesday ayPvening at 71%Orlock.
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lS47 KENT COUNTY 1885.
Mutual Insurance Co.,
DOVER, DEL.

Insures against loss by fire issuing mutual poll
cies only under which payments are made an
nually in advance during membership, and on
ceasing to be members whatever remains uneX-
pended after paying losses, expenses and divi-
dends is returned, thereby furnishing insurance
at cost
Smyrna times., 1885-12-09
Pure AIderny Milk.

The undersigned can supply few more eustO-
mers with PURE ALDERNY MILK. Orders left
with the driver or at the Feed Store will he
promptly attended to-
ROBERT DENNEY,
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THE STEAMER
" JOHN E. TYGERT," "
Notice 10 smyrna shippers.

- '7-A- @Aa~ EahPAbCESs
All Heavy Freight intended to be hauled to
Boat by our Teams should be reported at our
Office the night previoU~ to departure of Boat
Any Small Packages should be reported at the
Office at least two hours before Boat starts.
Philadelphia and Smyrna Transport
tatiOn Company.
J. E. TYGERT FreSt
W q. PIERCE, Sec'y and Trea'r
OFFICFs No. a. =. delaware Avenue, Phila.
ana smyrna. hel
Smyrna times., 1885-12-09
PAGANINI's LAST SMILE.

Paganini, after his eventful career, so
full of triumphs and unparalleled sue
cesses in certain directions, was a sad
victim to melancholy in his later years.
This was induced by i'll health, by his
trouble in the law courts, and was not
the unexpected result of such life, full
of mystery, intrigues and designations.
He had moved the world with his violin,
had seen Rossini burst into tears on
Just hearing him; courts had showered
honors upon him, beautiful ladies of
the highest rank had thrown themselves
at his feet. Yet in the last year of his
life he is said to have smiled but once,
and that at a musical concert. This
was on the occasion of a grand musicale
given by Zimmerman in Paris There
were present Hertz, Chopin, Thalberg,
Frank Liszt, and the Chevalier Antoine
de Kontski. Each in turn played, and
though Paganini was interested, his
face always wore the same melancholy,
mournful look Suddenly he asked
Kontski to play hia "Valse Internal, :"
of which he had heard. This waltz is
descriptive of the meeting of the devils
in their great hall, illuminated by fire,
and opens with the blasts of trumpets,
always false. During the council of the
devils, illustrated by music truly infer
nal, suddenly there is heard the most
angelic of strains, which come from the
innocents, who, in some manner, have
strayed into the halls. For a time the
devils are mute and amazed, and listen
to the heavenly strains so in contrast
with their own. At last it occurs to
them that the innocents will learn their
secrets and must be driven out. In all
rage and fury they do this, the music
perfectly describing their action, the
trumpets again calling false, when sud-
denly the portals are heard to close with
a crash, and there is silence. So graph
ically does the music describe the terri
BILE anger of the devils, and so cleverly
are the false trumpets introduced, that
In the last frenetic storm of strange
harmonies Paganini forgot himself and
smiled. It was the last time, for he
lived less than year after, and his last
smile, the last ray of sunshine which
came from within and played over his
face, was never forgotten by those
present
Smyrna times., 1885-12-09
EssygTs: UsY3

Cure guaranteed by Dr.J- 4. Mayer Ease al once ::
no operation or delay froH business: tested by
hundreds of cures Main Office, S3I Arch Street
Phila. Send for Circular and Branch Offices.
Smyrna times., 1885-12-09
COPYRIGHT.
BY TIE RARp OF TOWER IA
. Hubby. dear- l want a hnnnei ;,

Hubby, dear, want a bonnet"
Said lady to her lord,
lone adorned with ostrich feathers
Gilded with golden cord"
You shall have" replied her husband,
No such bonnet that / swear:
You can find, I'm very certain,
Something good enough to wear"
OF he went, then said his LADY,
Times are hard, I'll prudent be
can find, no doubt, a bonnet
He'll be very proud TO see.
Yesterday a suit he purchased.
One in which he'll cut a dash
When on Chestnut street ne sees me
Wearing Grannys old calash"
Full of fun she sought tn attic
Found the bonnet, and in haste
Went 70 meet her prudent husband,
known to be a man of taste,
Fast to Chestnut street she hurried.
Meeting with her husband there
She exclaimed: I've found bonnet
Something good enough to wear"
Take it off," he muttered, gasping
Don't be seen in that abroad
You shall have the feathered bonnet
Girdled with golden cord r
For her head he bought the bonnet,
For her shoulders bought a shawl
Both with money saved on clothing
Bought for self at TOWER HALL
Everything netg, stylish, elegant and cheap IN h
t0dy Of Clothing for Men, Boys and Childrhns lOed
to be found at GARITEE MAsTEN & ALIENS. Oh
great success-d suit 10 order for S14. TOWER HALL
5lS and $40 MARKET STREET
Smyrna times., 1885-12-09
A DIPLOMAT.

There are two kinds Of diplomacy
preVarication and lying The diplomat
list is the man who can steal ring of
your finger while he is shaking hands
with You, and make you believe, after
that, you presented it to him. With
the development Of diplomacy the cost
of war increases, without any reduction
ot risk, enhancement of benefits, or
saving Of life. Diplomacy is the science
OF laying the pipes Of var in times Of
peace.
Smyrna times., 1885-12-09

Home without mother is a place
where the rattan is substituted for a
No. 3 slipper.
Smyrna times., 1885-12-09

Sickness or n ausea is most commonlv
relieved by vomiting. Ahorse is unable
to vomit, because its diaphragm is not q
eomp!eta partition in the abdomen. per.
forated only by the gullat. and against
which the stomach can be Compressed
by the abdominal muscles, as is the case
in man. Hence its nausea is not az
once removable, and is more notable
and enduring.
Smyrna times., 1885-12-09
GBe Smgrua Gimes.
SMYRNA, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, Dec. 8, 1885.
ru,Incu srnMInES

AsBURY METHODIST EPIsCOPAL.--Sunday-Pre
ing at lO1& A. NJ. and Up N. Sunday School
9A.M. .and2P.M. Prayer rMeeting-Thursdays at
71&P.M. Rev. J. B. Quigg, Pastor.
ST. PETERS PROTESTANT PIsCOPAL.-Sunday-
Preaching at10% Am. and ~ P. M. Holy Days
~ A. NJ. Sunday School'-2 P. NJ, Prayer
B. Gordon, Rector.
PRESBYTERIAN N.-Sunday-Preaching at 10% A. NJ.
and ~ P. NJ. Sunday School, P. NJ. Prayer
Meeting-Fridays at IA p. N. Rev. J. T.
Umsted, Pastor.
ST. PoLYcARP CATHOLIC CHURCH.-Mass on First
and Third Sundays, at 7.30 A. NJ, and on the
Second and Fourth Sundays, at 1880 A. NJ.
Catechism Glasses taught every Sunday after
Mass. Rev. Dennis J. Flynn, Pastor.
CENTENNIAL METHODIST EPISCOPAL (COlored).-
Sunday-Preaching at 10% A. NJ. and ~ P NJ.
Sunday School, P. M. Rev. D. A. Ridout,
Pastor
A. NJ. E. CHURCH.-Sunday-Pre at 1015
A. N. and ~ P NJ. Sunday SchoOl-213 P. NJ
Rev Seth D ". Smith, Pastor.
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Exerxhodysa Air.Brake.

"Yes, sal, said Uncle Zach, Use watched
it forty years an its as / SEE: De fust oil
May an Christmas day OF dc same year
alters comes on de same week day."
Further conversation proved Uncle Zach
a most incredulous person. CHANGING to
mention DR.. Carver's feat Of breaking glass
balls with a rifle, he said:
II heerd bout dat shootin' ana Knowed
right off it wasn't squar'; dat was a Yankee
trick, boss, sho's you born"
"What was the trick?"
"Dar wuz loadstone put into de glass
balls, an likewise onto de bullets; so when
dc bullet fly outen de gun, it an de ball jos
drawed togedder, which, in course, brokes
| de glass-dat's de trick!''
Later, Uncle Zach observed roperunning
along the side of the car.
"Boss, what's dat line fur?"
ITO apply the air-brake in case OF acct
the force OF the brake was obtained, to
| which Uncle Zach responded:
"Look u here boss, you sholy don't 'spect
me to b'leeve dat foolshness? Why, de
biggest harricane whatever blowed couldn't
| stop dis train, runnin' forty mile n hour.
An you think l gwine to bleeve little
pipe full OF wind under de kyars can do it?
| No, sah-ree!"
There are a great many Uncle Zachs who
| JudSO WI ehAh6 oAhPAy W oPPShiehSeo'
The air-brake does not seem to be very
powerful thing, but power and efficiency are
not necessarily equivalent to bigness and
pretense.
Phillip Beers, ESQ.,, VINO resides at the
United States Hotel New York City, and is
engaged in raising subscriptions for the New
York World Bartholdi PEDESTAL Fund, was
once upbraided by distinguished relative
who was a physician, for commencing in
1 fhxrci OF hat
cured him OF bright's disease eight years
ago. He said: 'Sir, has the medical pro-
fession, with all its power and experience OF
thousands OF years, anything that can cure
this terrible disorder" No, no, that is
true; there is no mistake about it but that
Warmers safe cure is really wonderfully
effective preparation. That remedy is an
"air-brake" that every man can apply, and
this fact explains why it has saved SO many
hundreds OF thousands OF lives.-COpy-
righted. Used by permission of American
Rural Home.
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Pride Of Character.

Register and I'll accommodate you.
SIR said the keeper of one-horse
hotel in wayside place to a traveller
from the city as he applied for room.
Never mind that. I'll pay in ad-
vance,"
but you must register"
"No, I'll be sized if do"
''Why not, STRIP
.'Some friend of mine might happen
this way some day, and l wouldn't
have anybody that knew me find out
I'd ever degraded my manhood by
stopping at such COMPOUNDED beastly
place as this for a thousand dollars, sir.
No, sir; money wouldn't induce me to
take such an awful risk, sir. I'm poor,
but CAD. sir. I've got little pride of
character for al that, " Chicago
LEDGER
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SHEEP MINING.

The Golden Fleece Not Repeated a
Fable, but as n Newspaper Fact, in
Montana.
A local sheep raiser has lately dis
covered that the wool of his sheep is
very rich in gold, and it is now thought
that sheep mining will become the most
profitable industry in the territory.
A man who owns thousand sheep
averaging forty ounces of gold to the
sheep has bonanza. Unlike the ordin-
airy mining bonanza, the sheep bonanza
will be practically inexhaustible. Sheep
breed rapidly, and man can increase
his flock almost as easily as he can
water the stock of silver mine, and
with much more profit. His mines, so
to speak, will double in number at least
every year, and the number of his gold
yielding sheep will be limited only by
the extent of his pasture land.
The sheep mine is far easier to work
than is any other mine. The miner
does not have to sink a shaft or to drive
a tunnel in his sheep. He simply cuts
off the wool-a process easier than sur
face mining in the best days of early
California gold hunting-and separates
the gold and the wool. This may be
done either by smelling the wool in a
bonfire or by mixing it with mercury.
In the latter place the gold amalga-
mates with the mercury. and the wool
! is left as residuum. The mercury is
afterward driven off by heat, and as a
result the miner has both his gold and
| his wool.
How the gold gets into the wool OF
the Montana sheep is problem. There
is theory that the sheep in cropping
| grass take certain amount of gold
bearing earth into their mouths, and
that the gold afterward exudes from
the pores and is caught by the wool.
| There is. however, no reason to suppose
| that gold taken into the stomach will
find its way out through the pores. If
this were the case. there can be no doubt
that gold would be largely consumed
by girls anxious to dye their hair easily
and permanently. Then there is the
theory that the gold in the wool of the
sheep has been deposited there in the
same way that gold has been deposited
in the strata of the earth. 1t is needless
to say that this theory is held only by
persons who derive their idea of the
longevity of sheep from the spring lamb
of boarding houses. The Montana
sheep,does not live through long geolog.
ical periods, and hence gold is not de-
posted in its wool by the same process
by which it is deposited in the rocks.
The simplest explanation of the mat.
ter is that sheep roll on ground impreg-
mated with gold dust, and thus fill theil
wool with gold. However this may be,
there can be no doubt that gold-bearine
sheep are desirable animals. and thai
Montana is lucky in possessing them
N. y Times.
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HE BEGAN TOO EARLY.

The Sad Fate Of Ambitious Young
Man who Was Too Fresh.
SIS this the first time you ever killed
a man?" asked an Arkansaw Judge of
the prisoner he was about to sentence.
"Yes, SIR"
First offense, hey?"
Eyes, SIR"
''Ever stab anybodyp"
mo SIR"
Ever steal mulesP"
mo, SIR"
Ever claim that you were a wild
Texan with three horns and four tails?''
mo. SIR"
Ever drink gallon of whisky on q
bet?"
mo. SIR"
Ever allow that you could dive
deeper. come up drier, and boiler louder
than any five men in the Southwest
mo, SIR"
"Ever hold five jacks and two revol-
vers in a game of poker?"
mo, SIR"
"How long have you lived in Ar
kansaw?'
1.-TWO weeks"
"How old are you?"
"Twenty-three."
"Twenty-three years old and have
lived in the State only two weeks, and
yet you have killed man. My young
friend. you hang on Friday week. rain
or shine. A young man like YOU should
begin at the foot of the ladder, not al
the top. You are too ambitious. Fling
away ambition; by that sin fell the
angels. Next case. "-St. Paul Globe,
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The Shortest Way.

Old Friend-"You made your money
very fast, Mr.. Goldleaf?"
Goldleaf-"Yes, sir. very fast. Ten
gears ago l was not worth five cents;
now | can count my millions"
THAT is very smart son of yours. l
suppose he will be making money as
fast as You d,d?'
He will make it faster. am going
to give him a trade"
"A trade! What trade will it be pos
sible for him to accumulate more money
than you in so short a tme?"
He is going to be plumber. Phil
adelphia Cal.
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:. should r. ceneraily Known

that the multitude of diseases OF O scrof,l-
lous nature generally proceed from a torpid
condition of the liver. The blood becomes
impure. because the liver does not act prop
erly and work off the poison from the sys-
tenn, and the certain results are blotches,
pimples, eruptions, swellings, tumors, ulcers
and kindred affections, or settling upon tho
lungs and poisoning their delicate tissues
until liberation, breaking down and con-
sumptiorSs established. DIR. Pierce's "Gold'
en- Medical Discovery" will, by acting upon
the liver and purifying the blood, cure all
these diseases.
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FARM AND EIRESIDE.
Boil coffee in a salt sack; it is nice

Boil coffee in salt sack; it is nicer
than egg to settle it. Chicago Journal.
-Raisin pie: One cup of raisins. re-
move seeds, and boil in one-half cup of
water fifteen minutes, add a small piece
of butter and two teaspoonfuls of sugar;
bake with two crusts. Hartford Cour-
ant.
1t used to be an old joke with farm
ers that more corn grew on crooked
than on straight rows, simply because
they were greater in length. In the
best farming districts straight rows of
corn are now the rule and crooked ones
the exception.-N. y Herald.
Hot water gingerbread: One cup
molasses, one teaspoon soda, one table,
spoon ginger, one of butter melted, one
half teaspoon salt, one-half cup boiling
water, two cups flour. Mix in order
given and beat well. Bake in a deep
cake pan.-Boston Globe.
"A white birch, cut in March OIL
April, and left exposed to the weather
without splitting, will. by August, often
be so rotten that no axe will be needed
for dividing it into stove lengths; but
birch bean poles, cut in midsummer, we
have used two seasons and then found
them comparatively sound, and so
tough that they would bend almost
double without breaking.-Netc En-
gland Farmer.
We can not burn stubble where
land is seeded with clover or grass with
out injuring these. We would not burn
| it under these conditions if we could, as
| it is worth more to remain on the
| ground. But dry stubble ploughed
under is aptin hot summer to do more
harm than good, and it is better
economy on most kinds of soil to turn
it into ashes where it grew.-Prairie
| Farmer.
Lemon Jelly cake: One cup OF
sugar, piece of butter the size of an egg.
two eggs; put sugar, eggs and butter
together and beat them; add one-hali
cup of water, two cups of flour, one
tablespoonful of baking powder; this
makes three layers and is to be put to-
gether with jelly. The juice and grated
rind of one lemon, one cup of sugar,
one egg, piece Of butter the size of 8
nutmeg; cook it over hot water. as
custard, till it boils.-7he Household.
The Indians had no almanacs. mol
any means of knowing the day of the
month. But their rule for planting
corn was very simple and good one
and that was when the leaves of the
hickory or butternut were of the sizt
of squirrels ears. At this time the
ground has become warm enough t.
terminate the seed and push it forward
Corn is a semi-troPical plant. and more
impatient of cold than the smaller
grains.
An exchange remarks that hand
hoe which is never ground will wea
much longer than one which frequent
ly comes in contact with the grindstone
but the extra amount of labor that car
be performed with the sharp implemen
| will be sufficient to pay for new ho
every three days, to say nothing of tn
saving of muscle. 1t is poor econom,
to work with dull axe, scythe or hoe
IN. y. Examiner.
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in the Outing there is good argu-
ment in favor of the tricycle. for the
health and pleasure of girls and women.
The argument is full of both theory and
fact. The fresh air, the exercise aud
the inspiration of these wheeled toys are
better than any three doctors. The tri-
cycle costs less than trip TO Newport,
and is much more valuable, =. Chicago
Current.
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Why should not the Bartholdi statue
have been brought over here packed up in
sections? Liberty Enlightening the
World" is intended as an emblem of piece.
-BnfdlO Express.