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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26

Dear Kumpanyun: Their buildins
hsre ID 20 high its . mystery TO me how
shey AvAr haze any clear weather, for
their lightnin' rods and chimblys jfui
up SO fur into the sky I don't see how
the clouds can pass over 'thout havin'
holes tore in the bottoms Of 'em. Why,
Semanthy, I've seed some buildins here
50 Nigh shat IL seems like q sin to look
at the tops of EN-. y dsp,t seem as
though the Tower of Babe could q
been much higher without pressin' the
water ont of the bottom bricks. !
wouldnt he In this town whom an earth
hhste vas loose for the best yearlin'
kaff / ever saw. -,
II 1 git back home with good eye
sight I shall be moro thankful thai !
would DO to fnd . jack knife with six
blades Id IL, fSr I'VE seed more in tho
little time I've been hst. than you
could read about in five year, if you
didn't have to stop to spell q word, an
the bred gal done all the milkin'.
Why, it hahn. besr tws hours sense I
saw q chap who could play ii6st any
tune, on a kind OF a chist, Jest byturn-
in a crank, and not the sign of a note
book in sight. If I had the gift O
music like that it don't e to me I'd
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26

on : newly fiaysd and stu bloody
sheepskin and hands ron a sAthen
jar Of milk and : wooden spcon, licking
the latter. clean. W 4 special eothpH
hasnE Should POD atrivS "a ths day
st uhwonted plenty. which results from
! camsl's death By sgs or dts1ss, you
may preface with the blus, striney meat
. bowl al ..brick teA" with ,salt. for So
gat and rancid NJ fpt GtstM. The
6hief's, little brown girls, Who crowd
around you to play with your sash tas-
sells and the fringe Of your .turban,
wear . small brass coin imbsdded in
the skin oi thu forehead. \ Tufcoman
laAyr ttaditiSnM 5tnatAsnt stef sihcs
Isaiah denounced its Hebrew counter.
part. But with all this hospitality You
will, do wisely not TO prolong y9pr call,
% every .T~urcohdsn tent. swafms with
Indigenous cfeepefse hot cias1ifed b.
any botanist. -Nem York Times.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
Full of Peril

Are those disorders which, beginning with an
apparently trivial inactivity Of the kidneys OF
bladder, terminate in Bright disease. diabcte,
and cystitis. The first two not only int rupt
the functions of the tenal organs, but destroy
their structt tire with as much certainty as tuber.
cular consumption does that Of the lungs. Hos.
letters Stomach Bitter is an cxcellen. d uretic
promoting the activity Of these organs without
over exciting them, thus avertInR the deadly
tnaladies in which their inaction is so prone To
culminate. The removal from the blood of inn
purities which the kidneys should. but do not,
when inactive, secrete. Is another benenceni
effect Of this Incompatible medicated stimulant
and depurent. The Bitters ID, in all cases. too
. fine restorative of vigor and aid to digestion,
remedies malartal disease, and banishes liver
complaint and cons. ipation.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
A Loving Little Girl.

A bright little miss, living on Eagle
street, was given a warm cookie by a
neighbor. Though contrary to her
custOm the mother allowed the child to
eat it. Shortly the little girl exclaimed:
Mamma, let me go UP aiid get an
other cookie; / know Mrs. - Will
give me one.'
"No, dear, it will make you sick"
"Will l die and go to heaven9"
"ies.'
"Well; Mrs. - (her Sunday School
teacher) says heaven Is Il beautiful
place.
"You don't want to go to heaven and
leave papa and mamma, do your
"Well, mamma, you get a cookie,
too, and come with me to heaven
Utica Herald.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26

SAT what battle did YOU lose your
limb?"
!. "Do you respect a man who has tho
nerve to tell the truth?"
"Of course / do"
And you're not down on a man who
won't lie to brighten his character
"CertLanly not"
*Pardner, take me by the hand. I
won't deceive you. / fit through tho
whole war and never lost oven q finger
nail; but / hadn't been ut work two
DAYS in q saw-mill before ] lost my leg.
Talk about war being dangerous. Why,
sir. It's nothing alongside Of a saw
mill. Take an old soldiers advice,
stranger, end don't never monkey round
) sAw-mill, unless you have M idea yon
1eed pruning"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
some Nail Drives Op4 knother,"

Is a French saying that finds exein MiAtfti6n
in the way one disease will substitute itscf
for snother aud graver one, in very many
cases. MveA Gtssasa for instance Will soon
induce blood d sord.rs, ,troat ailments, skin
affections ard eventually, because OF frnpev-
erished blood, consumption itself, unless; IN
deed, IL be treated In its incipiency and. EARLY
progress by DR.. ri reefs Golden McdieAl
Discovery which acts rs a specific In these
ailments, accomplishing a rap d cure BY Its
powerful Alternative seton upon the great
organs OF the body.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
Competition.

"Please, sir, let me shine up your
boots" simultaneously calculated two
~bootblacks in front of an Austin hotel.
The man with the boots hesitated
which to employ. The smaller boy
said:
"Let me shine 'em, sir, for l have to
support a sick brother at home, who is
deformed and can't see."
"Don't do it," said the other one. 81
am his deformed brother, and | don't
want to be under any obligations to
such a liar. He hasn't got no brother,
no how, and l can see better than he
can."-1eras SiJtings.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
THE reason a man kicks when his
wife presents him with twins is because
he thinks she is over-bearing.


When you visit or leave New York City,
save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire,
and stop At the Grand Uuion Hotel, opposite
Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms
fttcd up at q cost OF enc million dollars, re-
duced to 81 and upwards per pay. European
plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with
the best. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated
railroad to all depots. Families can live bet
ter for less money ut the Grand Union than
at any frst-class hotel in the city.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
His Breath Taken Away.

"Whew!n exclaimed C~rimsonbeak,
surprised, on entering his sleeping
apartments, to find his wife waiting
for him, the other morning at 2 o'clock;
s'these steps almost take my breath
away"
s.Well, I wish they wonld,' replied
the displeased wife, catching the odor
of the clubman's evening beverage
foDLeys Statesman.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26

blessings brighten as they take theil
fight. The chief Of blessings Is good health
without which nothing is worth the having
1t lie always appreciated at its true value afte
ii IS lost, but, too often, not before, Liv,
properly, and correct ailments before the!
become seated. For diseases of the liver
kidneys, skin, stomach, and all arising from
impure, feeble blood, Dir. WALKERS CALI
FoRNIA VINEGAR BIrrTRs are a sure ant
speedy remedy. 1t has never yet failed In
single instance.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
AxNsrtzins Under Difficulties.

A polite stranger, in a railway sta
ton. said to an old gentleman whom he
hsd accidentally kicked with hSs foot
II beg -four pardon, SIR"
"EhYn said the deaf old man. /.
II beg your pardon, sir" fepested
the polite stranger, now slightly en-
barrassed.
II don't quite understand you," he
said mildly. $500 !.
It beg your pardon, ! kicked you.'
"What foty'
can accident, reared the stranger,
"An accident! Bless iEs3 Whefef'
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
Canadian Sawmjlls.

Huge trunks Of trees foated 1azily
down the Ottawa and its affiuents for
hundreds of miles till they reach a row
Of monsters, full Of greedy teeth with
In. which straddle over the current.
Here the trunks, all slippery and drip
ping, are caught up at one end of q
shed and issue from the other, literally
in q few minutes, in such finished planks
as you might buy from q carpenter at
Noting Hill. The way in which . great
log, ten feet or twelve feet round, is
hoisted fresh from the water, laid upon
a track, pinned rigidly down in an in
slant, and then, suddenly, by means OF
o great whirling saw, finds one side of
himself as fiat as q wall, is almost
truculent. You expect him to cry out.
But he 10 sliced up before he has time
to think. I saw one of the smaller
trunks cut into eight thiee-inch TWEEN.
ty-one feet planks in seconds.
In q very few minutes more these were
trimmed and thrust out into the build
ing world; so far ready for use. Large
and small trees are disposed of at an
equal rate. Some half dozen mouths,
In q row, within shed, keep Cob
bling them up at the same time and
sending them out in clean deal boards
without any appearance Of chips. saw
dust. or rounded outside slabs. These
all disappear rapidly through holes in
the floor, and no litter accompanies the
neat procession Of planks which make
their appearance at the land end of the
shed, and are rapidly carried of in
trucks. The accumulation Of sdeals"
at Ottawa is of purse enormous.
When you look down from the terrace
behind the Houses of Parliament the
river banks far inland are seen to be
brown with square stacks Of prepared
timber awaiting export And much oil
the water is like Alderney cream. That
is from the sawdust which il whirled
down the river from the mills. When
. steamer ~traverses these yellow plains
their more appropriate resemblance to
wood recurs. for the sheets OF spray
spring from her bows like coils Of shay.
ings from . plane.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
Recalling An Old Saving.

FeatherlY was making an evening
call and the new minister was being
discussed. Presently the gentleman
himself was. shown into the parlor.
"Good evening, Mr.. Longprayer.
said Featherly, cordially. "We were
Just talking about you as you came in.
Speak of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
evening, Mr.. Longprayer.n
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
Crowded Towns.

SScH - &&4H w AR
and rites arb tesomiAg atefruh VIII
an extra number oflsborers, mechanics,
tramps, and idlers. At the prices Of farm
produce farmers cannot pay q high
wages as are offered laborers or clerks
in the towns. The young man In the
country who 10 toiling ten or twelve
hours per day, end vrt Of the teach Of
saloons, billiard halls and other places
Of evening amusements, is not content
to work for $40 per month, when he
learns that some Of his young ~Acquaint-
ances are clsrking in town for $50 or
$50 per month. With Ill the advantages
0f city, life- HIS Is uneasy aud disap.
poihted With farin life, aid rashty
breaks loose from home and friends and
goes to the town. He probably fails in
getting employment. and goes u the
next town, of to some large city, where
he thinks he Has better opportunities
Of employment. He has but little
money, which is soon gone. He has to
abandon respectable boarding houses
and RESPECTABLE cSmpany. Heis thrown
among the worst company, who are
shrewd ard plausible in schemes for
making OF getting money easier than
work on . farm, OF ever by clerking.
The consequences are, honest young
men are frequently led nstray, hrst ap.
psrently in honest, enterprise, then BY
those Of more doubtful prorriety, Until
he ia. q tramp OF q criminal. In this
way the ranks ii the idle and vicious
are constantly recruited, and the towns
are full of them; which the police Ore
not able to detect Or subdue.
The cities are already, in all depart
ments Of industry, over supplied with
help. Chances 10 obtain lucrative or
large salaries are scarce, and constant
employment for the common laborer is
almost impossible to be had. Public
improvements do not employ half the
force they did three to five years ago.
The depressed price of farm produce
will not Justify paying higher wages or
employing fiorb hands IN the farms:
The reduction of the tariff twb years
ago to the amount OF about 10000 900
takes that amount yearly from the la:
borefs;r artisans, mechanics, and manu-:
facturers of this country and gives it to
that class in Europe. These things
are creating uneasipess, restlessness,
and idleness. And idleness is the par:
emit Of vice and crime. It is q difficult
problem in political economy to solve.
It is q serious matter to have to solve
it rs was done at Lemont, Illinois, re-
Gently And yet it is probable, if Con-
g~ressional and State Legislation do not
tend more to the protection and reward
Of American labor, the mob spirit will
severely test the strength and stability
Of this government.
Crowding to towns for higher wages,
abandoning the frugal and honest in.
dustry of the farm is rapidly recruiting
the army OF idle men who will become
desperate in sentiments and actions,
and thinking "the world owe them q liy-
ing" whether they make an honest
effort to earn it, they will imbibs the
communistic principle. and make wal
on capital and economic industry.
These are serious questions TO be solved
In the future.-IOWn State RegiSter.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
Peck's Sun.

The funniest paper In America. Have vol
ever read 1t? II rot, send Il postal card for q
sample copy, which will be mailed you free.
Address Geo. L. Lord, business manager, Nil.
Waukee. Wisconsin.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26

ATLANTA, Georgia. must be the para
disc Of street car conductors, according
to the statement Of the Consultation
Of that city, which declares that there
arc two OF the fraternity worth $37, 800
euch.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
va Friend. VIM RIVER TslI Ysl,

NUT nsThsra somebody, who strtyeuSf friend,
WI, That Our presence y rendercd y
BY the foul, f.ta smell q your ks pse, very Echo
~ ~orJ : sU" and poetry, disgEste vdst heare .,
and your laugh is productive Of ANYTHING ons
,,irth IN hem. 1t Is a duty you owe, no'
nniv 10 yourself. hut 10 society 10 remove
IhfS car r. Of oIense. DIR. sage's Catarrn
Rem6dy viii heal the diseased mucous mem
brane, Win brirR falief 10 yoavsef n Diners
No ros hesitate - employ n.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26


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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26

As II by magic ones pains vanish If he
be d sufferer from rheumatism or neu-
ralgis and applies 81. Jacobs Oil, the
pain banisher:
For Coughs aId Colds Red Star Cough
Cure is q safe. pleasant, sure remedy:
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26

If you want to avoid the heat of the
city 60 to the seashore. If you want
to avoid the heat of the seashore stay
in the city.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26

Young or middle aged men, suffering from
nervous debility and kindred weaknesses,
should send ten cents in stamps for large
treatise giving suc6 essful treatment. World
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26

The wOrst ecald or burn can be cured with.
out . fcar IL Coles Carbolisalve Is promptly
used. Sold by Druggists at rs and SO cents.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
The Turcoman 1t Home.

Any traveller who has crossed the
wild upland region lately occupied by
Russia on the border OF Afghanistan,
snd has seen the Turcoman camps and
Afghan villages with which it is
studded. has surveyed ct n glance
the past and the preaent of Central
Asia. The fortress-like Afghan hamlet,
with its huge gray mud wall and mar
row, sinister l~oop-holea, behind which
the low, iat-roofed earthan novels hud-
die SO closely together ~ barely to
leave passage room between them, re-
presents the marsuding shepherd Of
the east in his more advanced stage Of
fixed residence in one spot, but still re-
tanning enough OF his guerrilla nature to
regard every stranger rs IN enemy, and
to build every house like q fort The
light Turcoman tent of felt and sap
lings, set up or pulled down in . few
moments, typifies the same man in his
original character OF q wandering
herdsman, flying from his enemy or
bouncing upon him with equal sudden
meas, swooping off with his booty into
tho desert like n OF its " vultures,
ver occupied with the duties of find
ing grass and water for the flocks and
herds that formed his whole posses
sions, and Of anticipating any foe who
wished to cut his throat by cutting the
latter's throat first.
But despite all these bandit qualities
the Turcoman at home is not o bad
fellow by any means. Drawing bride
on the crest of one Of those long, low
swells that break at times the gray I'M
ending sameness Of the vast plains Of
Central Asia, You see below you q tiny
stream, sharply outlined against the
surrounding defeat by the dark belt of
underground ringing il. On the bank
stand . dozen or more huge, pointed,
dark gray objects very much like gigan-
tic "~duncecaps," around which . num-
Der Of sheep and cattle are feeding
A shrill cry from q tall figure
among them brings out of the tents half
. Q Of gaunt, sinswy fellows in
so;led, white tunics and high caps OF
black sheepskin, handling menacingly
the spears and guns which they have
snatched up.
The Turcoman Beg or chief (for
such he is). greets you with . cultural
"kosh amedeid" (you are welcome)
o rsasuring than the short curved
sabre within reach Of his hand, which
shows by its notches that it has once
done . thriving business. But ito
master il now : tolerably peaceful sub
ject Of Russia, converted ~ that per-
suasive strategy which might give =
hint to the invaders 81 the Soudan
I'VE never wasted time in pursuing
AL f-.--A
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26
Nss.Gleo.T esk, an Eskims Game.

Another game, called n0O-0loo.to0k,
II played by the Eskimo men and boys
A piece Of walrus ivory, about ~ long
- the foFefinger and probably . little
larger in diameter. il pierced near the
middle with holes running entirely
through, and q thickly placed ~ can
be without cutting it in two. Through
each extremity ID passed . stout s;new
string. y end Of which holds it fast
to the root OF the igloo or tent, while
the other 10 tied TO some heavy object,
~ . walrus' skull or . stone, which
acts - . weight and keeps both strings
taut.
Some member Of the playing party
then puts up something O. . prixo-a
pair OF wslrus' tusks, or, perhaps, q
reindeer coat The players who stand
In 3 circle around the perforated ivory
cylinder, arm themselves with long
aharpened sticks, with points small
enough to enter the holes (such % seal
spears with tho barbs removed, or iron
ramrods), and are then ready to COM
mence; and - the priSe-giver gives .
sudden shout Of cyl! Vii" they al be-
gin jabhing at the holes. Finally some
lucky fellow succeeds in thrusting the
point Of his stick, spear, or ramrod
through nj Of the holes, whom ho
loudly shouts vi! Yir and pushes the
cylinder aside to show that he IL win
nsr. and the jabbing ceases. The vic
TOR nov puts up some new prize-a
musk-ox robe, or : sledge dog, or .
sealskin lina,-and the game goes on -
usual until al are ready to stop
Lieut. Frederick Schratka, IN ST
Nichof1s.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-08-26

THERE are within the republic Of
Mexico, according to the most reliable
stAtistics. sixteen schools for the high
branches Of female education. sixteen
preparatory schools for professional
careers, nineteen law colleges. twenty
nix ssminaries Of ecclesiastical studies,
nine colleges Of medicine, eight for en-
~ginesring, ONE for practical mining en-
ginesrs, ond thirty-ons public insti-
flutes o. lyceums. whore, besides pre-
paratosy Studies. the careers Of lawyer,
physician. apthscary. merchant or en-.
einesr may bs acquired. Besides there
are four colleges Of Ans arts. two col
lsges Of agriculture . special for the
blind. one for the 'dsaf-mutes. three Of
mechanical arts and trades for men and
women, three co~ussrvstories Of music,
one military college. wonauticAl acsd-
emies, and several normal schools and
scolleges whore the profession Of teach
~ = taught TO men and women.