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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05

III was not until his flesh III gan
10 sizzle thnt he cried Thought! aid I
released him. He had received the
worst osthe fight. Two Of his ribs we're
broken his wrist was dislocated and he
was bruised and gasiied from head to
foot. He feIlto the floor in o FAINT, and
picking him up I carried him across the
street, to a hotel, laid him on o bed and
sent for doctor, TO whom I became
responsible for the bill. When / came
sout on the street the whole town was
there to receive me, for the news that ]
had whipped Mike Fink had spread like
wildfre. I requested three responsible
citizens to appraise the damage done by
us In the supply store and then asked
the storekeeper to make out his bill. It
amounted to forty odd dollars. /. paid
one half of it and got his receipt. Then,
with the bill in my hand, / went across
the street to where Fink was lying prop
ped up In bed.
H.Fink, I said, I'll pay your doctors
bill, for I bruised yon up. Here is a
bill for the damage done by us in the
supply store. I've paid half Of it, and
if you don't pay the other half Eli give
You q worse whipping than the one you
have just received
'~Hepromised to pay and when he re-
covered from his wounds we became
good friends. When spring opened we
joined fortunes.
. I've been king on the river q long
time, he said, when we drew up the
partnership agreement, but I've been
whipped n all sides. I'm no longer
champion, but I'll be the champions
partner, and we renamed together
until Mike died."
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05
What Nav HAPPEN,

A decade ago Cincinnati was the lead
ing pork and packing center OF the
country. To such an extent was the
hog traded in that the Queen city was
given the very appropriate name OF
~Porkopolis. To-day such is not the
case. While considerable pork-pack
inc is still carried on it is as q mole
to a mountain compared with former
business. Even in the whisky bust
ness this city was not so far behind,
some very large dlstilleries being loca-
ted here; but, owing to the distillery
capacity eventually exceeding the de-
mand throughout the country, they
are now running but o%ne-fourth OF
their capacity. Each and everything
has its day. SO it was with tine whisky
and pork-packing interests o. Cincin-
natl. The whisky interest is not, or
never was, confined to Cincinnati,
but those distillers located here have
experienced a remarkable decline OF
the business in the past twenty years.
If any one business now eadsl IN
Cincinnati it is the manufacture OF
beer. Millions and millions are in
vested in buildings, materials. and APP
pliances for brewing the amber mud.
The business of beer-mnAing has
grown to a remarkable degree. Gin
cinnati beer is shipped throughout the
country, particularly to the south,
where, it is safe to say, over two
thirds of the product in this city is
sent. A reporter in conversation with
a leading brewer yesterday was m
what surprised when informed by that
gentleman hat beer-making had
about reached its limit in this city.
The extent to which it is carried on is
hard to realize without q tour of the
various establishments. and having
the optical proof. Said the informant:
''There is plenty of money in brew
ing at present. This indisputable fact
has made the business what it is to-
day, but yearly the profits are de-
creasing, and L feel certain that in
time competition and overproduction
will result in placing tho brewers in
the same boat that the distillers are in
at present.
"Brewing is principally confined to
the north for obvious easo The
principal cause, however, was the
/ inability of our southern friends to pro-
cure ice at a price that would leave a
a margin sufficient to warrant the
necessary investment and carrying on
of the business. In the ice lays half
the expense connected with brewing.
But now this impeachment has been
overcome by mans ingenuity. About
five years ago a process of ice manu-
featuring was discovered, and is now
in use throughout the country by all
the brewerles of any significance. The
machine pays for itself in one season.
Natural ice, formerly sold at Sc per
ton, can now be bought for S1.50.
Southern capitalists have already
taken advantage of the opportunities
to begin the brewing business, and for
that reason | think that sooner or later
the field now supplied by Cincinnati
will be capable of supplying itself.
Railroad facilities throughout the
south are as perfect as in the north,
consequently southern breweries could
get material as cheaply us those in
this ity."-C Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05
Bill Nye's Carving.

My carving is like my dancing. 1t
is not conventional. 1t is extremely
original, bold, and audacious. l try
to Introduce joints where Nature did
not intend to have them, and l seek to
make short cuts across a fowl in a way
that is productive only of chagrin,
veNation, and fragments of hen. Man
is a weak, fallible creature, and he
ought not to seek to monky with the
anatomy of u fowl or to improvlse
joints and apertures where they do not
belong; for at such time as you think
no THE knife will slip, and 1t will drip
over the celery glass and fill the bosom
of q warm personal friend with gravy.
To attract attention and keep up the
spirits of the company, therefore, L
make it u kind of business, as it were,
to fill the air with harmless amusement
at the same time that [ shed stu1ting
through the atmosphere and mutilate
the bosom of the hen. This gives me
an opportunity, occasionally to gather
up the sage, bread crumbs and gizzards
out of my lap and return them to the
platter without exciting remark.
A few weeks ago, on an location of
lulS hluu, u COuStu O1 Hllne, Il young
lawyer connected with the Omaha
road, a young mar of good parts and
whose business is to stand between
the Omaha road and substantial JUS
tice, at so much Il year and travelling
expenses, was present.
/ had just said something smart to
keep the company good natured, while
asked a young lady at the other end
of the table to please return the duck
which l had inadvertently presented
to her with the carving fork stuck in
it. Everyone was laughing joyously
trying TO conceal it by putting their
napkins to their mouths, when my
cousin turned to my little daughter,
and said:
Bessie, haven't you got a funny
papa, though?'
Eyes, indeed" said the ungrateful.
untilial and irreverent heir apparent to
q great name. ''You better believe
he's funny ----w when we
have company"
And yet people wonder why l am
not the same genial host that l used to
be, and why the children do not eat at
the first table, and why there is a sound
of kicking against the door of an ad-
joining room. and the occasional wall
of a hungry child as the meal pro-
gresses.-BM Nye IN Puck.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05
A Touching Scene.

"Ihere was a pathetic scene on q
train on the western division of the
Erie, Wednesday," said a conductor
on that train to a Sun reporter. "a
woman boarded the train at Orlean.
She carried in her arms Il baby but a
few weeks old. 1T was very cross and
peevish and deiied all its nurses ef-
forts to keep it quiet. Its cries were
other passengers could not hide their
annoyance, and after a while audible
expressions of their feelings came from
all parts of the car. The was
patient under the double trial of the
cnild's troublesomeness and the evil
dent knowledge of the annoyance it
was to her fellow passengers. She
talked soothingly to the child, placedit
in ell positions. and tried so to arrange
its wrappings rs to, in u measure,
deaden the sound of its cries. Finally
some Il in the car, whose patience =.
had got the better of his sympathy,
shouted out: If that child can't be
quiet, | hope it may be removed from
the car at the next station
This unfceling remark seemed to
meet with general approval, and the
poor woman's eyes filled with tears,
and in attempting to speak, her feel
ings overcamc her, and she pressed
the baby to her ard sobbed violently.
She 0 0 recovered herself. and re-
doubled her efforts to keep the child
quiet. For a short time she succeeded
somewhat, but presently the cries of
the baby were as loud and prolonged
as ever. q AT last a man arose and said
sharply:
Madame, it would seem to me that
the mother of an infant should know
how to take at least half care of it,.
The train had now stopped at Sala-
manca. At the remark Of the second
speaker the woman arose in her seat.
and, facing the car full of passengers.
said, in q voice trembling: Il am not
this poor things mother. l never saw
it before yesterday, and l believe it
hasn't a living relative. Its father was
killed on a railroad q week before fl
was born. Its mother, living in a dis
tant place, hurried to the scene of her
husbands death. The child was born
among strangers. and day before yes
terday the mother died, leaving her
little one with no n to care for it. I
ilfeu III lHe house WncTe the mother
died, and volunteered to do what I
could for the poor little thlrg, and to
go with the dead woman's remains 10
her native place. Her body is on this
train. 1 am sorry the child is so trou-
blesome, but isn't it entitled to some
little sympathy"
"The effect of the woman's words
may be imagined. There were few
dry eyes in the car when she dropped.
sobbing, into her seat. All scltishness
was lost in sympathetic thoughts of
the desolate little wanderer, and a
score Of hands that a moment before
were almost willing tt rise in chastise-
ment of the babe, were now anxious
to extend aid to it and its self-sacr,tic-
ing guardian. 1t was a touch of ma
ture that makes the whole world kin"
-NeW York San.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05
The Money of Tonouiu.

The currency of the country is the
best Indication of the poverty of its
people. The only money of Tonquin
is the sapek, a small coin of base met
al resembling the Chinese cash, but
only one-fourth as valuable. Forty
three of them are worth l cent. There
are. therefore, 1890 in a dollar, which
weighs over 20 pounds. Ten dollars
make a heavy load for the stout wheel
barrows which fill the place Of drays
in America in dong the heavy city
transportation, and the pay of a regi-
ment in the old days of Tong-duc rule
sufficed to load a good-slzed junk. The
population of the cities is somewhat
habituated to the Mexican dollar. and
the silver copper coins of Hong Kong,
the straits settlements, and Cochin
China, but in the country nothing but
the sapek is current. The rustics know
no other coin. Wages are necessarily
low with such a standard. In Hong
Kong coolies on the public works are
paid 20 cents per day. In Hanoi, for
more arduous labor in constructing
streets, quays. wharvs, canals, and
bridges, where they have to remain
all day in mud and water. from ) cents
to 10 cents, which. as they would
scarcely earn in the fields more than
that in Il week or month, does not
seem an inadequate recompense. Boys
or men employed as cooks or body
servants are paid from 81 to So per
month, the last amount only for the
best skilled labor. and it is considered
princely. The advent of the French
is furnishing an extraordinary market
for certain kinds of manufactured
goods, for culios. and for farm pro-
duce. which is in great demand with
the officers and soldiers. Still prices
rule exceedingly low when compared
with any European standard. The
money gained in TRADE or earned in
labor is squandered at once by this
most improvident people in the world.
1t is often only by paying small wages
and avoiding gifts that a person can
secure the desired service. If the stl-
pend is thoughtlesslv raised or a"cum-
shaw" is given for duty unusually well
performed. the recipient is too apt to
disappear again till the money has
been uselessly spent and he has been
driven to hopeless beggary.-Cor. San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05
Osman Bey a Pr,nter.

Osnan Bey, the tavorite Chamber
lain of the Sultan, followed an Otto
man practice of choosing a mechani-
cal trade in early youth, as the Sultans
do. The trade Osman Bey took up
was that of a printer, and he acquired
such a liking for it that it became n
favorite amusement even during his
court career. With the view OF en-
c%ouragging the printing of Turkish
works, he set up at great cost a large
printing office with the best machinery,
and employing 200 men. He is now
devoting a considerable sum to a great
paper mill, and, ms his attendance on
the Sultan no longer allows him to
give adequate time, he has turned over
the management of the whole concern
to his guardian, Jevad Bey, who
shares his tastes.-St. Louis Globe.
Democrat
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05

A very clever, bright. quick-witted,
Well,meanihg young man is George
Gould, eldest o of Jay Gould. |
know him well. like him much. l
see before him q field of enterprise,
benevolence. accumulation. humanity,
~beneticence, uneeualed, by that which
unfolds itself to the upstepping of any
young man in the United States. He
is vice president of the Western Union
Telegraph company, itself a position
OF which many a man old enough to
be his grandfather, and ten times
brighter than he, might well be proud.
He holds responsible position in a
score OF great corporations, any one
OF which might well round the ambi-
ton of much older and ADLER men,
but there he stands. Circumstances
have put him there. 1t isn't a ques-
ton whether he can: by George, he
has. 1t is't a question of what he may
possibly get, there is n denying it; he
has it. His feet are on the step and
his hands upon the knob. He has but
to turn the handle and the door wide
open springs. with a prospect before
him SO bright, so glittering, so brill
liant in its temptation and its POSSIBLE
tiles thai he must be an ~archangel, in
deed, who n repress a feeling of en-
Wy that he too, was not accorded such
circumstances as these. There is one
good thing about this living of ours.
No possibility exists that can make
two and two anything but four. 1t
makes no difference who my father is,
who my children are, my writing goes
for what it is worth. Little Tommy
Jones may say it is the best that is
printed, and poor old William Shocks
may say it is the veriest rot that was
ever published. Facts cannot be alter
ed. My two and two make four every
time. Overpraise does me no good.
Detraction does me no harm, and as it
is with me, so with the humblest and
the most expert in our profession. We
stand or fall by what we do. Circum-
stances have nothing absolutely to do
With the success Of u writer. Circum-
stances may gain lawyers clients, may
place clergymen in pulpits, may find
eligible partnerships for doctors, so
that they get patients prematurely,
but the writer never yet lived who
found access to the columns OF a we'll
conducted paper because he had
friends in the editorial-rooms, and no
writer vas cver kept out of a news
paper. properly conducted, because he
had people in the editorial-room who
didn'tlike him. Circumstances might
come to me, with money galore, and
offer me opportunities for the starting
of q newspaper-and let me remark,
Ell PEASANT, that nothing is easier than
the starting of a newspaper. the diff
Guilty being to keep it agoing. Cir
cumstances might Gordon mo with
wealthy friends and rich hackers, but
they couldn't teach me to write any
better than | do, and they couldn't
pardon the coinage, unteach me what
little ] know.
Writers, as a rule, have but little to
be thankful for, but this can not be
taken from us. We stand each on his
own feet.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05
a NEW NAME FOR n.
How Technically Terms secursd an Unwili
ing Soldiers Discharge.

How TechnicalT Terms Secured an unwill-
ing soldter's Discharge.
Grand Army Scout and Soldiers Mail.
In the spring time Of 1864 the frontier
division Of the Seventh Army Corps,
General John N. Thayer commanding,
vas encalnped at Fort Smith, Ark,
Communication being most entirely cut
of, supplies were low and the army did
considerable in the foraging line. On
Of these expeditions a clerk at de-
partment headquarters, Wiley Britton,
who was a very fine writer and apt
scholar, went out with Il party of scouts
south of the Poteau, q stream that
empties into the Arkansas just above
Fort Smith. They ran a COM
pany OF Texas Rangers, and in a Skin.
mish with them he got shot through
the left wrist. R~etreating he reached
Fort Smith and was laid up for some
days before his wound healed and he
was fit for duty again. HI then got it
into his head that lighting was not par
t~icularly his forte, and, since his wound,
neither was writing, and he desired to
get back to his old home in Missouri.
He went to General Thayer and
asked for discharge, but the general,
thinking he was too valuable q man to
let off for SO slight a wound. refused
to let him 60, saying he did not
see how he could dispense with
SO valuable and apt q clerk. Wiley
knowing I had some influence with
the general, / being at that time
on DETACHED service at headquarters,
enlisted me in his service to pro-
cure his discharge. l got out a set OF
papers and took them down to the sur
geon, who was. like myself, originally.
y Pennsylvania. He made him out 0
certificate and strongly recommended
his discharge, COUGHING the certiticate
in terms peculiar to surgical science. j
took the certificate, got Britton's COM
pany officers to indorse it and then
went with him to the headquarters te
see General Thayer. AS we entered
the room the general, who was sitting
by the table, said to Britton "You are
still wanting to go home, are you?" He
replied aftirmatively, ] then presented
the certificate Tie general looked al
it and said: 'Readit." I read: "This
certifes this soldier is truly entitled to
a discharge. Ieertifv it on examination,
after due consideration, a case Of necros-
is Of tlas sight radius Of the forearm"
what is that? That beats my time, =
said the general. IF I had thought,
young man the half OF that was the
matter with yon. / would have let you
go before. Hand me my pen, SO I can
write your discharge, quick. That is
the ~d--name for shot through the
wrist I ever heard" To say he was
discharged after that would be but paint.
ing the lily.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05
Wished He was q Cow.

s.Nhy do you ill yourself so full of
whisky, said Johnnie Mailer to an
acquaintance who was taking his
fourth drink inside of five minutes,
s.an animal would not do that"
'.Waz yer mazzer wiz a hog" re-
piled the inebriated individual.
s'Well," said John, 81 don't wish to
call you a hog, but l do wish you
were q COW so far as drinking is con
cerned."
"a how liz that
@Well. a cow is satiiied with two
horns, but you are not.n-Carl Pre:geE's
WeekLu.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05

acres OF ground, with thirty-seyen
acres additional for every unmarried
son between the ages of IA and %, and
gives him fifty years to pay fort.
The colonist is also provided with Il
a yoke of oxen, q mich COW, n hun
dred boards, a keg of nails, So worth
of seeds, and S15 u month in money
during the first year. As a parental
government Chill is in advance of the
world, and if Col. Charles Mansur had
been permitted to go there his ''point-
ers' would have been of great value
to the Missouri legislature. The nj
trate of soda exported to the United
States from Chill amounted to $S40, 167,
while Great Britain figured for The
enormous sum of 500. 393. 404, OF the
large iodine export the United States
took S44S. 1925 worth
Every cloud has a silver lining, and
it will be refreshing to learn from
Consular Agent Neurcr that the ex-
port of accordions from Gcra to the
United States has decreased from 49,
SS1 in 1883 to S43, S27 in 1854. The
bulk Of expectation from Gera to this
country is, however, in worsted goods,
OF which we received last year Sl,0S4,-
139 worth.
Vice Consul Tappan, of Merida,
says there is good field in Yucatan
for American cordage manufacturers
and consignment business of a general
nature.
There is a strong demand in Switz-
erland just now for turkey feathers,
which are extensively used in the man.
ufacture of busters. Consul Clifford,
OF Rasle, reports that in consequence
of this demand the price of these
feathers has more than quadrupled,
the supply remaining inadequate.
Para exported to the United States
last year $22,577 worth of balsam CO.
paiba, in addition to $40, 900, 900 worth
of ~india-rubber, Sl34,603 of Brazil
nuts, SS0,614 of deer skins, and $751;
260 of Peruvian bark.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05
A Psychologists Mistake.

1.-THE development at the back Of the
head, my friend, indicates filial affec-
tion,'' exclaimed the phrenologist.
Now you will observe" he went on,
feeling the head of the boy OF the plat
form, ''that this bump is abnormal in
size. thus indicating that this lad loves
and reveres his parents to an unusual
degree. Is it not SO my lad?" ''Naw."
what? You do not love your %parentsP'
II think we'll enough of mlther," re-
piled the boy, ''but I amt very fond of
feyther. The bump you're a feelin' of
he give me last night with a cricket
n-Pu3{tc ODinon,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05
General Grant and Nellie sartoris.

fhdadelphla I1ines
1t is no wonder that the arrival of
Nellie Grant Sartoris has revived her
fathers spirits. Nellie Grant was her
fathers favorite child and she was o
lovely girl. Being the only daughter,
he not only set great store by her but
had high ambition for her future. Even
at the moment when her heart was go
ing out to Sartoris her father was hop
ing that her future life might be a prom
inent and useful one in this land. When
Miss Nellie came to the white house
she was still in short dresses, and hence
it is seen that she married very young.
Probably no other young lady in WASH
ington society at any time was more
highly respected or more sincerely
loved than was Nellie Grant. She was
bright, winning, affable, discreet and
generous to all. No ladies' who
have occupied the white house
had more true friends than Mrs.
Grant and this daughter. It was
but natural, then, that the sturdy old
warrior should expect to soc one Of his
own countrymen, one of its bravest and
best, lead this favored child to the altar
and then into a life as high as any one
in the country for which he had done so
much. This was no unreasonable as
piration, and her preference for Mr..
Sartoris was naturally a bitter disap-
pointment to her father. It was to all
Washington society. When it was an
nounced that this favored American
girl was to marry an Englishman o chill
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05
A Big Fight i'll a Hollow Square.

cit happens that the British form
hollow squares when they battle with
the Arabs" remarked an ex-soldier
to Mr.. Kraut.
$50 l see in the newspapers" re-
piled Kraut. .'Do you think good
fighting can be done in that wayP"
Most certainly I do. The hardest
fighting l did during the war was in a
hollow square"
..In q hollow squareP Where, at
Stone River?'
mo, in a rail pen, while stealing a
pig from an old sow."-MeWmam M
dependent.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05
Slid Scal-I,oopsd Them,

MARY. what on earth do you call
this" said a lady to her servant. She
pointed to a dish of something on the
table.
Faith, mum, they calls them seal
Topped isters.'
"Scolloped oysters; well I never saw
them served like that before, how did
you prepare them"
81 jist scal-looped them wild the
pirking irons mum.'-Carl Pretsel's
Weekly.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05

J. r. Crawford, superintendent OF the for
eigu mail service, has been removed, and N.
Nc Bell Of Btt#Louis substituted