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The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19
An Artistic Book Agent on TIM
Cars.

at takes an artist to sell books q
the railroad cars" says a news aoant
to the St.Louis Globe-D Democrat. who
tells how n of theguiidi nveigled Scr.
rotary Evarts into patronizing him.
Now, there was "Homely Dave"
red-headed, ugly as a hedgefence. with.
out q single handsome ~feature-ha
could talk any nan that ever livedin.
to buying a book. Did you ever hear
about Senator Evarts's experience
with Dave? 1t was when Mr. varts was
secretary of state under Mr.. HAYES,
He had been out to California on q
kind of jaunt, and was coming back
with a number of distinguished gentle.
men-senators, congressman and off.
Gals. They struck Dawes run at Coun.
Gil Bluffs. Before he had gone ten miles
Dave had looked the party over and
determined to sell them some books.
He decided that he would make his
first assault upon Secretary Evarts.
Mr.. Evarts was not feeling very we'll
that day, and when he saw Davecom.
ing he turned away impatiently and
mOtioned the porter to put him out.
81 have been bored to death by news
agents and book peddlers aver since I
left San Francisco, and / am heartily
sick OF it. "Homely Dave was not
frightened in the least. He said with
a bland smile: Excuse me, Mr.. Sec
rotary, but don't want to sell you
anything, l just want to read you d
page or two out of a book lustissued
Have you seen it?" Mr.. Evarts glanc-
ed at the title page and said he hadn't.
Now just let me beguile the tedious
ness OF the journey by readingth the first
page1to you" So Dave, who had a
remarkably clear and sweet voice, read
on, not only the first but the second
and third pages, with Mr.. Eyarts a
deeply interested listener. When.
"Homely Dave stopped Mr.. Evarts
simply said: I'm take that book.
Name your price. Now, what else
have you got?" That book was
edwin Arnold's Lightof Asia" Ithad
just came out then. After Mr.. Evarts
haa picked out a lot of other books
and Dave had read to him from them,
he called the senators and congress
men, introduced Dave to them and
made them sit down and listen while
Dave read alot ofthings. He soldmore
than 5000 worth OF books to those
people before they got to Chicago. You
bet he didn't touch the peanut basket
that trip. That was red cheated
"Homely Dave There amt many
news agents in the business nowadays
that can equal that performance.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19
YOman'S

Women need to cultivate their own
resources more. There are some who
early recognize the difference of value
between the p~erishable and imperish-
able things of this earth. Every val
liable possession has it's added care
and expense. People who were once
in moderate circumstances, or poor,
even, who grew wealthy, look back at
the old life as one freerfrom cares and
happier; yet ii they were to go back
to their early and simple style of liv-
ing the world would severely criticise
them. Every woman needs to keep
up her list of old friends, and to make
new ones, too; the family and children
cannot meet all the wants that mid.
dle-aged people must have for friend
ship. Not any woman is so busy but
that she can find time to write an oc-
casionaI letter. If the friend to whom
she owes a letter would come to see
her, she could lay aside work and talk
to her, and urge her to stay longer.
One "a stop on the street at the risk
of taking pneumonia in winter to talk
to a friend for half an hour, and why
cannot friends be civil when they do
not meet?
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19
Farm and Household
Farming Paragraphs.

The reason why Indian corn is the
great money grain in agriculture is be-
cause fed on the farm it can be tnrned
into high-priced products, as beef,
pork, mutton, butter and cheese, that
bear ransportationfo for longdistances,
enabling the farmer to raise a large
area of grass and hay for the support
Of live stock until the real finishing
process is commenced. The resulting
manure also holds the fertility OF the
farm rather than diminishes 1t.
In human practice bleeding, blister
ing and all that sort of thing is aban-
doned; but in the treatment OF horses
blisters, setons and the red.hot iron
are still in cruel use. And yet some
wonder why, after all this heroic
treatment spavims, ringbOnes, and
other inhammatory diseases are not
cured. More can be done in these
cases by cooling dressings and rest,
than by severe operations which cause
intense suffering and make things
worse. We have to learn how to pre-
vent these diseases by humane and
careful usage; and especially by avoid
ing the breeding of diseased colts by
using diseased animals for their par
ents.
Potatoes for the following seasons
planting should be selected either at
digging time or during the leisure
months of early winter. This is espe-
cialIy important when they a~restored
in deep bins, or piled together in large
quantities. The lower the tempera-
ture can be maintained after they are
stored, without freezing, the better,
though care should be taken that it
does not 90 below this pont. The
slightest touch OF frost, though it may
not entirely destroy the vitality OF
the tubers, will, If they are planted,
cause a dwarf and stunted growth, If
not entire failure.
Reports still come OF horrible suffer
ings from drought in Western Texas,
where Grain hasn't fallen in some
places for fourteen months" The
surviving cattle are parched and starv-
ing. In some places settlers are sell
ing their farms for mere trifes and
leaving for the east in abiect poverty"
The losses in cattle are put at over
So, 900, 600. Texas Congressman are
asking the government for help for
the suffering settlers.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19
How to Have White Hands.

A little ammonia or borax in the
water you wash your hands with, and
that water just lukewarm, says the
Popular Science News, will keep the
skin clean and soft. A little oatmeal
mixed with the water will whiten the
hands. Many people use glycerine on
their hands when they go to bed, wear
ing gloves to keep the bedding clean;
but glycerine does not agree with
every one. 1t makes some skins harsh
and red. These people should rub
their hands with dry oatmeal and
wear gloves in bed. A good prepare
ton for the hands at night is white OF
egg, with a grain of alum dissolved in
it. "The Roman toilet PASTE is
merely white of egg, barley-hour, and
honey. They say it was used by the
Romans in olden times. 1t is a first
rate thing, but it does not do the
work any better than oatmeal. The
toughest and hardest hands can be
made soft and white in a months
time by doctoring them a little at bed
time; and all the tools you need are q
nail brush, a bottle of ammonia, a
box of powdered borax, and q little
fine, white sand to rub the stains off,
or a cut of lemon, which will do even
better, for the acid of the lemon will
clean anything.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19

| ing been taught to spend and be spent
in doing good, these Young women
we're not the helpers OF those IN need
and never carried sunshine into dark
| ened homes. Even their best friends
tired of them, and their lives We're UNI
lovely and discontinued. There can
be no happiness in life unless the
straight line of duty, which leads to
'brauty's curve" be cOnsclentlously
followed. Let every mother mcuIcate
in her Children's minds that 1t IS more
blessed to give than to receive.
The opposite Of this unpleasant pict-
IRE is seen in a family OF eve daugh-
ters, reared in wealth and luxury.
There was not any absolute need OF
their doing any household work, as
there were "man-serVants and maid
servants" enough tO perform every
duty. Although her first desire was
to make her children happy, the moth
er of these girls knew there could be no
happiness without work.; so each child
had her special duty and WAS held to
strict accountability for its PERFORM
ance. The mother was the central
sun upon which they all r~eVOlved; her
slightest wish was the command OF an
empress, so perfectly was it Obeyed.
The one thought was "tO helpto please
mother" And the family was devOt-
ed to good works. In later years
when the older daughters had grown
up. the whirIigig Of time brought Sc
we're reveIses-sO severe that the
beautiful home, replete with all
that culture and wealth could COM
mand, had to be given up and a new
home found among strangers. Was q
word of repining heard? No; although
the new home was srIaII, common
place and without a trace of those
comforts to which the family had been
accustomed. But the girls Immediate
ly set to work to alter the dead level
OF disagreeableness and to make "the
dessert blossom as the rose" The
united endeavor OF their trained
and willing hands. under the super
vision of the mother, soon made q
bower OF beauty of the bare habita-
ton. 1t became a place of refresh
ment to all who had the privilege Of
visiting it. These girls bring sunshine
into every place, and the desire to
help every one with whom they come
in contact is as natural to them as
it is for them to breathe.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19
Clover Notions.

Clover should always be cut wheni in
full blossom. This means, when the
most of the buds are in blossom and
not when the last of them are blown
out. All grain should be cut for hay
before the growing state is over. After
this is past the juices rapidly undergo
chemical changes which unfit them for
food, and the fiber part otthe plant be-
comes absolutely indigestible and OF
no use as food. Nothing can be
abstracted from it by the gastric
juices of the stomach. 1t is wood
and nothing more. The stems of
the clover, however coarse, if cut in
a green state, make food; and the finer
portions of the plant make food not
excelled by anything for the most
healthful kind of nutrition. 1t is the
nearest perfection of any of the forage
plants, or of all OF the grains. Clover
hay is the farmers best crop, all in
all, if we'll cured and cut in it's best
state. 1t is reduced in value very
fast when left after it reaches the
proper condition; and it will generally
pay to let other work go and attend
TO the clover. The more clover the
more stock, and the more stock fed
on the farm the moya crops.-Country
Home.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19

that these complaints are but
toms; they are not the disordar mp
they are symptoms not Of d;saa : aaa
the head, the eye or stomach p
virility, necessarily, but of tba i;S Sr q
poison IN the blood and thew msSnsy
vail and no pain occur inthek;drape s !.
1t is not strange that the enthas,ss
which Mr.. Warner displays in HE n
precation of his own remedy Mp ~
restored HIM to health when tbo' d lsa
tors said he could not ~livesix mo, 0pc'
should become infectious and that sk,
entire world should pay tribute Il wy ~
power. For as Mr.. Warner savs 4. ~
sales I constantly increasing. wb sas
the newspaper advertising is constans
ly diminishing. This speaks volnm'as
in praise of the extraordinary merits
OF his preparations.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19

Good Housekeeping: The 'ideal
sleeping room" will faco the east. 1t
will be not less than fifteen feet square,
with windows on two sides for light
and ventilation. For further ventila-
ton it will have an open fire place.
The walls will be h~ard-inished and
tinted a color that will be restful to
the eye. The woodwork will be finish.
ed in it's natural color, paint not be-
ing admitted. The floor will be of
hard, polished wood, with small rugs
for comfort that are shakable weekly.
Everything that would invite dust
will be strictly excluded, therefore the
furniture will have no extra carvings.
The n hair mattress will be of the
best quality, made in two parts for
convenience in turning and airing,
with q woven-wire spring beneath.
The bed clothing will be the lightest,
at the same time the warmest, con
sisting OF blankets and white spread.
All extra adornments of lambre-
quins and fancy things of no use will
not find a place here. The curtains
will be OF thin, washable material.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19
corn which that from the crib does

! corn which that from the crib does
not possess.
My plan of drying seed corn is this:
l have a stove set up in a room that
is not plastered over head, and nail
lath to the underslde OF tb9 upper
| floor iOists all around the stove pipe
and fill in with corn. AS the jOists
arc deep enough to take three ears,
about six superficial feet will store a
bushel, and this enables me to put up
five CT six bushels of corn, and not
any of it is more than four feet from
the stOvepipe. When | first put up
corn in tins way | was afraid it would
get too hot, but as an experiment
placed some ears within a foot of the
]stOvepipe where a hot fire was kept
all winter, and ne ears would get so
hot every day as to be uncomfortable
to handle, and these ears tested in the
following March gave an unusually
vigorous plant.
| believe that earllncss al be best
secured by gathering the corn before
fully ripe, for there seems to be a kind
of instinct in plants-whiCh has been
noticed and referred to by many able
writers-which leads them to adapt
themselves to circumstances, and the
plant grown from early gathered seed
seems to put forth every effort to ma
ture early.
If, as 1 firmly believe, we can add
from 10 to 25 per cent. to the yield Of
our corn 10y careful attention to selec-
ton and breeding of the seed, who AN
afford to neglect it, and in what other
way can we get as much profit out of
a little labor? There have been many
seasons when in my neighborhOod, a
large percentage Of the farmers have
had but half a crop Of corn on account
of poor seed, which necessitated re-
planting the crop.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19

Stone that is quarried one day and
built into e wall the next day is in a
green state and unfit for durability.
1t is at its weakest point OF endurance
either OF pressure or OF atmospheric
influences. It's pores are open and
ready to absorb not only moisture.
but all the gaseous and disfguring In
huences which tend to its destruction.
Every stone mason knows that to get
Q polished surface on q stone the same
must have lain for some time out Of
the quarry and exposed to the drying
influences of the sun and weather.
This is q sufficient hint to the builder
to see toyst that the stone Of which he
would Eat 3 permanent structure
must iSe thoroughly seasoned beforeit
Is placed Sato a wall.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19
Card.Playing Girls.

Philadelphia Ledger.
There are so many ways in which
girls can be amusing, entertaining and
useful TO themselves and others that
it seems a great pity that any ofthem
should resort to the co mmon vices OF
coarse men. That they do so in the
evening entertainments OF private and
elegant homes, and at the most fash
iOnable summer resorts, appears to
be beyond question. And that there
suits will appear in unlocked for de-
moralizations in the future OF what is
called good society may be set down
as among the certainties OF natural
law. Young ladies may not be ex-
pressly susceptible to such prosy NOR
al arguments, but they should not
forget that the young men who gam
BILE with them, and who appear to en-
Joy the fun, lose their respect for
young ladies in the measure that
the latter cease to be governed by fine
womanly feelings and standards of
character. Men may laugh at the
shrewdness of a girl in a game of cards
Tor stakes, but she is not the girl they
will trust or honor or that they care
to marry. That is an argument to
the quick, and may fkal its way home.
The man who marriesS "a gambling girl
is already an incipient sutton in a di-
vorce court.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19

New York Commercial Advertiser.
There is a tendency on the part of
mothers to do so much for their chill
dren that virtually a premium is
placed upon selfshness. The child
whose every wish is anticipated and
for whom nothing is too good is apt
to grow up an exceedingly unpleasant
person unless, indeed, there be an ex-
traordinary amount of natural good
in him to counterbalance the undue
indulgence. Shielding children from
every chilling breath OF life's air begets
q life of a and selfish enjoy
ment which becomes fixed when child,
hood is past. A mother, for example,
has denied herself of every COM
fort. She has risen early and taken
rest late in order that her daughters
might have a perfectly happy girl
hood" No duty wasexacted ofthem.
III they minded to help they might do
SO, if not there was no one to ease the
weary mother Of her burden. Small
wonder is it that after these girls grew
UP their sole thought was for self.
The mother was ignored by them; dis
respectfully spoken of as "old-fash-
7ioneS" and without taste" Indeed.
she was only regarded as one who
could bake ard brew, and was even
"ordered'-no other word can be
used-to wait upon them while they
ioiled in their easy chairs. Never hav-
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19
Saving Seed Corn.

Stephen Powers calls timely atten-
ton to the seed-corn question, and /
heartily agree with him, says a writer
in the Country Gentleman, when he
recommends the selection of "stock
seed" from which to grow the next
years supply. 1t is by such selection
and careful breeding that most OF the
improvement in our vegetables has
been made. If you should visit any
of our large seed-growlng firms you
would hear a great deal said about
stock seed" and would find that
they often valued q small amount of
seed at many times it's weight in gold,
or in fact they would not sell it at
any price. The seedgrower is al
ways on the watch for q plant which
shows some superior quality, and
when he finds it he is will
ing to plant and select for years to es-
tablish the type. Some fifteen years
ago in husking early sweet corn /
found q dark red ear, and, never hav-
ing seen red sweet corn before, | saved
and planted il remote from other ii
The first year the product was three
fourths white, and the red was OF all
shades from merely a tinge to the
deepest garnet. ! selected the best
shaped and darkest-colored ears each
year for six years, by which time had
bred out the white and secured q valu-
able variety Of dark-red sweet corn.
Now / see no reason why any desira-
BILE quality in corn cannot be fixed
by careful selection and breeding lust
as easy as color. For a number Of
years ps1t / have not failed to select
my seed Urn ia October, and dry it
by fire heat and ! am 20 thoroughly
convinced of the benefit Of it that ]
would not sell my fire-dried corr for
e5 q bushel and plant seed from the
crib, even If I knew the latter would
grow. There is a strength and vitali-
~ about the early gathered, tire-cu-ed
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19
What the String was For.

From the lewiston (Me.) Journal.
A woman in one of the Lewiston
dry-goods stores was in a quandary q
few days ago. She had too many
strings on her fingers. Nov" SAID
she, that string on my fore finger IS
to remind me to getfoury yards ofbaby
ribbon, and that red string is there 50
as | won't forget to call at the stove
store and get the wash-boiler that IS
bein' mended. The piece of yellow rib
bon is for powdered sugar for cake ior
the festival, and theyarn on my thumb
is, femme see, is to get four skelns
of domestic yarn for mittens Tor the
boys. What puzzles me is this other
piece. Seems though it was somethln
about givin' the horse some dinner
somewhere, but | don't just remem-
Der. Oh, dear mel How nervous y
makes me! / want twelve yards OIL
unbleached cotton cloth and two
spools of thread. I've gotto get SON
velvet to trim over my new tylnter
bonnet, and | want some hairpins
and some buttons for my cloak, and
some ruching. and won't you let me
look at some of your winter garments,
and there! / want two sticks of bra:a,
black, please, and two papers OF pins,
and q paper ofneedles and some whale
bones. and o yard of brown silesla,
two spools of twist, and what sort OF
lace have you got to trim a dress Tor
dau-ohl mercy sakes! What an es.
capel Isn't it fortunate! I've just re-
called what that string is for. It's TO
remind me to call at my sisters IN
Lewiston, and got my daughter. VINO
has been visiting here to take her
home with me. Oh, my poor memory!
Isn't it fortunate that Iput the string
on my finger. Good day; you put up
the goods and I'll be BACK utter
them" and she went out before the
clerk had time to perpetrate the trade,
marked chestnut. "Is that air.
What a blessing is forgetfulness!
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19

Green apples all day. doesn't think what
q time he is going TO have all night. He will
ha We q sharpattack ofcolic about midnight.
and the whole family will be alarmed. n
mother has taken precantion TO ave q
bottle OF Perry DAvIs's Pam KILLER where
she can lay her hand on it, the trouble viii
soon be over,
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-19

Paul Bert, French minister rssident In
AMMAN, is dying OF lever.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-17

the Assembly has declars ID by resolution that
the Haunting Of the red flag will not be tolerat-
ed, some Of the foreign unions which have Q
large foreign membership have declared their
intention of displaying the emblem OF. the
commune, and Of withdrawing from the meet
II any or iectlon Is raised. This speck OF
trouble is the only thing which threatens to
interfere With the harmony Of the gather
ing. Congressman Frank Lawler bad been
asked to preside, but In a dispatch received
Yesterday he intim ated his inability to be
present In consequence OF the number OF
measures affecting the lAboring classes which
just now calls for HIS attention. The speak
er Of the evening will be Prof. Thomas g.
Hill, who will consider 1.-The governing princi-
pies and progress" Of the movement. Rev. VIII.
Salter, ats material advantages to wage work
err" Hon. A. G. Cameron and George Schill-
ing, ats connection with intelligence and
morality and Rev. DR.. George G. Lorimer,
sits economic value to society" The rally
will undoubtedly be the largest gathering Of
the wage workers that Chicago has ever seen,
and 1t Is expected to have a potent effect upon
the demand for the enforcement Of the eight
hour rule on May 1st-
PHILADELPHIA, April 10.-Hon. John Welsh,
ex- administer to England, died at IL O'Clock this
morning.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-17
A Romantic

l heard a story the other day about
tho late Delegate Raymond, of Dakota,
who died early in the year, which is
quite romantic. He was the last man
to see Gen. Mcpherson alive at the
battle of Atlanta. He was just in the
act of delivering a message to the gen.
eral when the party of Confederate
horsemen came upon them and Nc
Pherson was shot down and Raymond
was taken prisoner and sent to Ander-
sonville. After he had been there q
year OF so there was an exchange of
and the whole body of men
in the prison we're assembled in line to
hear read the list of those who were to
be exchanged. Those whose I'M
were read were ordered to answer
"Here" and step forward. When the
officer in charge was going over the
roster he called out the name of one
who had died the night before. Ray
mond had the presence OF mind to an
swer Here" in the place of the dead
man and stepped forward, and al
though his deception was Immediately
discovered by his fellow prisoners they
were all too generous to give him
away. He was exchanged under the
name of his dead comrade, returned
north. and re.entered the army.