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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02
Lots Of Money abou. Her.

Detroit Special;-Charles Richardson OF
Alpena died year ago. leaving a viii be-
queathing to his widow property valued at
5000. 900. The will WAS contested by his
brothers and sisters. The vile employed
r. j. Nelly, j. ID. Trumbull and George
Seator as attorneys, and then, contrary to
the advice OF all three Of them, compromis-
ed the suit by paying the relatives
100000. When the attorneys brought
in their bills for service, ac-
cording to their own statement Nelly de-
manded $50. 900, Trumbull $4,000 and
Sleater SIS. 600 as recompense for advice
which had not been taken. Mrs. Richards
considered the charges exorbitsnt and re-
fused to pay. Recently she drew 81 81, 900
from the Alpena bank, and came to Detroit
to keep it away IRON the lawyers. placing
sos. 900 in the American Exchange bank
Of this city. However, the lawyers follow
ed her, and learning that they had taken
out n punishment for tho bank she drew
her money out and has since kept it about
her person. The lawyers say she is a
miser and crazy.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02
The LimItsa rr.,u. r.Lsn on.

The announcement has officially been
made that commencing Sunday In st. Paul
the goth inst, the limited trains between st.
Paul and Minneapolis and Chicago would be
taken of. The reason assig ned was that
there was not business enough to warrant
the running OF these trains during the win
ter months. The order withdrawing the
trains said that they would probably be
put on again April /, to continue running
during the summer months. The ehanc-
es are, however, that the twin cities
OF the Northwest will not for a. long
time again enjoy the privilege OF
q twelve-hour train service. The
limited trains never paid. They were al
together experimental, and it has been
eonelusiyely proven that they cannot be
made to pay unless the public will submit
to an extra tax Of at least SO or So. In
Guiding the limited trains there are now
running between the cities mentioned four
teen trains during the week and twelve on
Sunday, This is altogether too many, for
one-half that number would easily accom-
modatethe present limited travel.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02
A Good Horse.

From the Rural New Yorker.
We examined horse recently that
came as near our ideal of perfect farm
horse as we have seen. Broad and
strong, gentle and kind, of good color,
a willing worker, a fair roadster and
with far more than the usual equine
intelligence. The first reason her owner
gave for her excellence was: 1t cost
$50 to sire her" THERE'S good deal
in that remark. If you will think it
over you will find that every first-class
horse that you know of cost more
money than :he common horse. A
$50 colt is $50 colt, and a So colt
is So colt, every time. Back in the
pedigree of every first-class animal
will be found a good-sized service fee.
We do not wish to be understood as
saying that by simply paying a large
service lee a farmer may consider
himself sure to secure agood colt. we
do mean that the service OF n first
class, shapely, well bred animal is
worth ten times as much as that of a
scrub. There is no law OF nature that
can enable scrubs to produce anything
but scrubs.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02
When the Earth Will Stop Re-
yOlying.

A problem which is attracting to its
study astronomers relates to the earth
as a timekeeper. We measure time
by dividing either the period during
which the earth revolves around the
sun, or that in which 1T turus on its
axis. By che first method we meas
ure a year; by the second q day. The
earth, according to some astronomers,
islosing time. Through two causes, the
suns attraction and the friction, so
to speak, of the tides, the earth
each year revolves more slowly on it's
axis. The speculative question which
these astronomers are discussing is
whether IN the end the earth will stop
its revolution on its axis and will pre-
sent always the same face to the sun.
When that event occurs there will be
perpetual day in one part OF the earth
and perpetual night in another. But
there Is no occasion for Immediate
cause OF alarm. The rate at which
the earth is supposed to lose time only
shortens the year by half second in
century. There are more than 81
100000 seconds in a year. There
fore, if the earth ever does cease to re-
volve on its axis it will be more than
six thousand million years before it
will stop.-Cooper's Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02
AnIneer ,on RcmrnIsepuce.

The Capital gives Gn interesting ac-
count which it states was obtained
from IngersoIl himself of the prepera-
ton of that gentleman's remarkable
speech nominating Blaine at Cncin-
natl in 1876. According to the Capri
tai when Col. Bob went out to Cincin-
natl, accompanied by his brother,
Ebon c., who vas then practieing law
in Washington, he had not the slight
est intention of making any speech
whatever in the convention. Two
days before the nominating speeches
were to be made he was asked by
Blaine's friends to make the speech
putting Blaine in nomination. At
first he declined, but finally yielded to
their persuasions. He had two days
to think over the points and prepare
his speech, but Cincinnati was lively i'll
those days, and when Ingersoll went
to bed at midnight of the second day
he had not written a line. He says
he slept soun,lly until about O'Clock
in the morning, when he awoke vi h
feeling that he had had a nights
rest. His mind was clear, his i,u-
ties active. He SAID to himself l.a-
the time had come to prepare that
speech. He got up softly and went IN
to the next room, where the gas was
burning dinly, dressed, sat down,
closed his eyes and pictured to him.
self the convention as he would see it
the next day. He imagined himself
rising to address it when the state OF
Illinois was called, and then and there
he thought out the speech exactly, he
says, as he delivered it on the next
day. When he had finished it he open
ed his eyes, turned up the gas and
sat down and wrote it out and put
the manuscript in bureau drawer,
turned down the gas, went to bed and
slept the sleep of contentment.
1t was about O'Clock when he turn.
ed in the second time. 1t was proba.
bly, 8 o'clock when he felt his brother
tugging at him to get up and go to
work on that speech. The colonel
teased his brother little by pretend
ing great Incidence and indisposition
to get up. After while he saw that
his brother was deeply affected and
he rolled out, dressed and said to
Ebon:
"You don't think have done any,
thing about that speech. do your"
NO" said his brother. ~ know
you have not, for you have been out
constantly day and night"
"Well now" said the colonel, "sup
pose you sit down over there aud lis
ten to my speech" And standing ur
in the opposite corner OF the room he
delivered his speech to his audience Of
one just as he delivered it a few hours
later to the great convention. His
brother listened critically at first, and
then, carried away by the colonel's elo.
quence, he listened enthusiastically
As the colonel drew to close his broth,
er rose to his feet and, as the last
sentence fell from his lips, rushed for.
ward and threw his arms around the
colonel's neck, and then they went
down to breakfast.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

The silver mines of Mexico extend
from the Sierra Madre in Sonora, near
the northern border, to the gold de-
posts in Oaxaca, in theextrernes south.
A continuous vein traverses no less
than seventeen STATES, and since the
day of its discovery has yielded more
than $4,000, ooo.00 Yet these
great sources of wealth are estimated
to be not more than one per cent. OF
the undiscovered whole
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02
m. FnloIlment Of prophecy.

II
sunday Evening Bible Readings lBos'
ton, contains the following highly inn
nressive instances OF the fulfillment {
prophecy in Daniel xii, 4. etc. OF the
increase Of knowledge it is said;
Only eighty-five years ago, in the
year 1901. the first religious newspa,
ner in the world was published in
Portsmouth, N. III. Now, millions OF
such AGENCIES for the dissemination o.
knowledge 90 forth weekly to enllgnten
every part OF the world.
A little more than one hundred years
aco there was not Sunday-sehool 10
the world. the first one being organ
lied by Robert Raikes, at gloucester
England, in 1884. Now, every town
and almost every neigbborhood, mas
its Sunday-school, where the knowi'
edge OF the Bible is taught.
But IL we turn our eyes toward the
DEVELOPMENT oil the arts and sciences
within the last hundred years, we be.
hold an equally wonderful increase OF
knowledge in this direction.
Would people now think they could
do without such conveniences as
matches, steel pens, cooking stoves
oil lamps, sewing machines, farm ma
chinery. railroads, telegraph, telephone
electric lights, ETC., etc.2 And yet, less
than hundred years ago, none OF
these were in existence. a.
The prophecy states that the time
of the end, "many shall run TO ana
fro" Do we not see fulfillment o.
this? Who can visit any OF our great
railroad centers and view the throng
of people without contrasting the
present with the past? At the Grand
Central Depot in New York city 100
trains arrive and leave daily.
A little over sixty years ago such q
mode of travel was unknown, but
God, who alone can lift the curtain OF
the future, revealed to the prophet
Nahum, that in the "day of his prep
aration" the charIots shall be with
flaming torches referring to the ap'
pearance of train as 1t approaches
in dark night.
1.-THE chariots shall rage in the
streets" More forcible language could
not be used to describe a train OF cars
as it passes.
"They shall seem like torches, they
shall run like the lightning"
1t would seem as though the names
of some of our railroad trains had
been borrowed from the language oil
this prophecy. For instance, the
lightning express" "cannon"ball
train" etc. :,
He shall recount his worthless.
The conductor goes through the train
after passing each station and re
counts" the passengers. :,
They shall stumble in their walk.
The cars are the only vehicle in which
persons walk while riding.
or the above prophetic description
see Nahum 2: 3-5.
The Lord in conversing with job.
made unmistakable reference to the
telegraph.
"Canst thou send the lightnings,
that they may go, and say unto thee,
here we are?"-JoD SO. 30.
This question can now most GER
tanly be answered in the affirmative
by the telegraph operator, who can
employ the lightning in sending mes
sage to and getting a response from
the most distant part OF the world in
O few seconds of time.
1t will be the wise WHO will have q
right understanding of these things.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

The Immense strike, or rather a
lockout, in progress in the knit-goods
centers of New York State, involves
eighty mills and affects interests quite
as extensive as the strike in the Chi
cago Stock Yards. The associated
knit-goods mill-owners have adopted
a resolution that their mills will be
open to all desiring employment with
out regard TO whether the applicants
belong to labor organizations or not,
but that they will employ no one who
disputes their right to hire and dis
cherge whom they please.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

Assessments on real estate in New
York have increased $500, 900. 600
sir1ce 1870, according to the records.
while those on personal property
have decreased Sss, 0o0,00 in that
time. The same tendency of personal
property to decrease in value on the
Assessors books is shown by the rec.
ords of many other cities and towns
This. OF course, indicates that the
temptation to conceal such property
as can be hidden from the tex-gather-
er increases in proportionto the hold.
ings of that kind of property.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

In 1880 the population OF New
York City was 1.206,5 Now the
Board ofhealth estimates it to be
about 100000 and it probably
exceeds that number Rapid transit
isstill an unsolved problem, and it is
only a question of short time
when the elevated roads will be taxed
to their utmost capacity. An under
ground road would furnish the best
solution of the problem of how to get
to the upper part of the city quickly
and cheaply, and it is probable that
New York will have that in time.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02
Hygiene of Old Agc.

The teeth in old age are, of course,
lost, and they should, unless, under
exceptional circumstances be replaced
by artificial teeth, for the thorough
chewing OF food is even more necessary
in the old than in the young, because
in the old the digestive powers are apt
to fail. With the best artificial teeth
mastication is apt to be imperiectly
performed; hence the food of the aged
should be soft and readily comminut.
ed, ana especially should it be of easy
digestion. Very few old people need
stimulating diet; very many are injur-
ed by an excess OF heterogeneous food,
The kidneys, like all other organs, ar,
feeble, and if meats and other ricll
foods are used in excess, they greatly
increase the strain upon these organs,
Milk and milk products or prepare,
tions of breadstuffs cooked with milk
should form very large proportion oil
the food OF the ordinary aged individ.
ual but individual peculiarities differ so
mui h that personal medical counsel
should in all cases be taken so that
the diet may be regulated to the
needs of the individual case. Very
many old people are hurt by the use
OF food in excessive quantity; but lit
tie exercise can be taken, all growth
has ceased, and the bodily furnaces
which make heat are able to destroy
but very little OF food fuel. Some lit.
tie time since had occasion to lecture
on this subject at the Philadelphia
Hospital, and an assertion that /
then made that most old people arc
more comfortable, enjoy better health,
and probably live longer for the use oil
wine, has met with very severe disap.
probation at the hands of some of the
profession, whose strong sympathy
with the temperance movement domi.
mates their judgment. No valid rea,
sons have, however, so far rs my judg.
ment goes, been brought forward
to lead me to change my
opinion. In the overfed Ameri-
can people the habitual use of wine
during youthful or middle aye and
vigorous health is, we think, an injury
rather than n good; but when the
powers OF life are failing, when diges-
tion is weak, and the multitudinous
small ills OF feebleness perplex and an
noy, one or two glasses OF generous
wine at dinner aid digestion, quiet for
ths time being much nervous irritation,
and in no way do harm. The sum
total III ruin wrought by alcohol in
the world is appalling, but it is not
lessened by our shutting our eyes to
the good that wine properly used may
achieve. When in the aged there is
a distinct failure of vital power, and
especially of digestive power, the call
for the habitual use of alcoholic
liquors is, in my opinion, imperative.
The danger OF the formation of any
evil habits when man has crossed
the line of seventy is so slight that the
most conscientious physician need
not hesitate in recommending the
daily use OF alcoholic beverages TO his
patient.-Dr. H. c. Wood, in Annals
of Hygiene.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

The Prince OF Mingrelia, who is now
mentioned in the Russian interest as
a candidatefort the Bulgarian throne, is
but little known in Western Europe. In
fact he is scarcely known at all outside
ofRussia. Mingrelia is a Russian prov
ipce of the Caucasus, and the Prince is
practically pauper. He is Prince
without principality, being the de-
scendant ola familywhich was dispos-
sessed OF its sovereignty by the Rus
slams long ago He is thirty-six years
old. and is described as acareless, coed
natured man OF theworld. Hemarried
the daughter OF Count Alderberg in
1875; but she was much older than he,
and they soon separated. Heholds the
rank Of Captain in the Russian army
But it looks as though it would be
long time before anybody is found for
the Bulgarian throne, over the vacancy
Of which there has been so much
violent discussion during the past
thrse mouths.
: :
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02
Heavy Failure at Oshkosh.

Oshkosh wis., Special: The announce.
mentis made 81 the failure OF the large sash
and door firm OF Carlton Foster & Co. one
OF the largest concerns in the Northwest.
The firm has been carried on largely by the
National Bank OF Oshkosh for the past
year, and when the firm was unable to meet
draft of $4,000 the bank advised the
firm to make an assignment, which was
announced, when the workmen arrived at
the large factory to begin the days opera
tions. The firm has here one of the larg.
est factories in the Northwest. and is
also interested at st. Louis. The heaviest
creditors are Oshkosh parties, and the fol
lowing are the principal claims; Morgan
Bros & Co., $50, 900; oryilie Beach, $780,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

The once highly prized Cashmere
shawl has gone SO completely out OF
fashion that the manufacture OF them
has stopped, and thereis a probability
that Their fabrication will become a
'1ost art" The province of Cashmere
in India, has been thrown into dis
tress by this freak of fashion. and
many of the population have become
nslrners
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

It is claimed that the increasein the
number of persons using glasses is
fully thirty-three and one-third per
cent. over previous periods. This is
set down as partly due to the prac-
tice people have of buying glasses of
anskiiled persons and partly to no.
tions of economy in buying cheapglass-
es. The number of opticians has.
of course. correspondingly increased.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

Senator Dawes. who is giving occa-
sional talks in Massachusetts, on the
Indian. says it is fallacy to suppose
that the Indians are dying of or de-
crcasing in numbers. The number in
tribal organizations must, however,
naturally diminish with the advance
OF civilization, and in time must who'll
ly disappear.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02
The carolinas take the lead in tn

The Carolinas take the lead in the
number OF well-to-do negroes. North
Carolina has twenty who are worth
from $4,000 to $4,000 each. In
South Carolina the negroes own S1o,-
100000 worth OF property. In
Charleston fourteen men represent
5000, 900. Thomas r. Smalls is worth
S1S,0o0,and Charles C. Leslieis worth
$4,000. The family OF Noisettes,
truck farmers, are worth S150,000.
In the city savings banks the negroes
have S124,936.35 on deposit. One
man has over $4,000. He recently
bought q $4,000 plantation and
paid 81, 900 in cash.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

That woman suffrage bill that was lost
in the verraont Legislature is descrlb-
ed as hardly worth passing. 1t pro-
posed to give the ballot only to those
women who owned two hundred dol
lars worth of taxable property.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

A Georgian who forty years and
four months ago bought clock that
has been steadily running since, fig.
nres out that it has been running a.
72O days, 253, $50 hours, 81. 1919, 500
minutes, 1,271, $4,000 seconds. In
winding up the clock his hand has
Travelled fifty-six miles. The clock
has struck 2,29e, 800 times. and licked
1.271, SSo.00 times.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

The estate of President Arthur
amounts to about 100000, equally
divided between real estate and securi-
ties. His will was made last spring,
and provides for his family only.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

The Supreme court at Washington
has decided that the law OF New York
discriminating against Pennsylvania
insurance companies is constitutional.
The Law in question was passed in re-
taliation for thelaw enforced in Penn
sylvania against New York compa-
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

American oil producers and refiners
are becoming more and more appre-
hensive oil Russia's rivalry, and the
most recent intelligence from the oil
fields of that country indicates that
there is sufficient cause for some I'M
easiness as to the results. in the not
distant future, of operations now be-
ing undertaken abroad. Another pro-
ductive well has just been opened at
Baku, and at the time of the dispatch
es was .'playing'-a gigantic fountain
224 ieet in height-at a rate of thirty
thousand pools, or over million
pounds, per hour, which is estimated
30 be an outflow three times greater
than that OF all the twenty-five
thousand wells in America together
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

Bradstreet's journal says the out.
look for the adoption of the so-called
double standard by any number OF
nations is. on the whole, forbidding.
At best, the fair-minded adherents of
bi-metallism havesome serious misgiv-
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

Fifty thousand tons of SCOT are
taken from London chimneys in a
year. It is estimated to be worth
$500, 900 and is used as fertilizer,
half ton to an acre.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02

Mr.. Gladstone has a rent.roll and
land income of $4,000 year. and is
reported to hold several million dol
lars worth Of railroad shares.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-02
The White Hart of the Sierra.

fThe following story WAS written by the
late Santa Louise Anderson. OF San Rafael,
who Was drowned in the Sacramento river
same months ago, while attempting to res.
tAe companion --san francisco Argo-
naut.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-01-04

serve what he does make perhaps Q
covered bArn-yar1 may be what he
ne,f.a LIST him consider well his
methods Of tillsge, and zee II he pIows
deep anu marrow enough aud pu verizes
the soil rs dne ~ he should. Perhaps
he does NOT run good cultiYator with
suficient frequency through his corn,
potatoes, beans ard other rowed crops.
Are his meadows and pastures stocked
with the most prolific and nutritious
species OF grasses
Is he sowing the most prolific aud
profitable varieties OF wheat eats,
barley, etc or planting the best varie-
ties OF corn. beans, potatoes and other
vegetables? A poor variety OF any
species may convert what might Rave
been profit into loss. IL he satisfied
that he Keeps the best breed OF horses,
cattle sheep and swine? II not, winter
10 good time for him 10 look around
and make change, either by buying
better herds, outright, or securing good /.
thoroughbred maleH to cross with such
a. he has. We simply throw out these
thoughts rs suggestions, not doubling
tn It the Intelligent farmer, when he
brings his mind to consider the subject
OF improving his farming, will discover
ways enough in which he may do better
than be does.
Finally, we would advise farmers to
subscribe fer and thoughtfully read aR-
ricultural papers, purchase and stud y
agricultural books, seek 10 gain all
kpowledRe or Information relating "a
bis chosen vocation that may be pos.
sessed b. othtrs, for although not Ill
that he reads Is true and worthy Of
adoption, there is great deal OF useful
inform ation about farming. fruit grow
Ing and gardening contained Ia the az
ricultural literature Of the day.