Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-08-16

L OuA WY aOGAAI NV ~ ae y
pleasant call. Mr.. p. has gone into
business in Butler, and that burg
secures an upright, good citizen,
whose enterprise can not fail to be
Of great benefit in the work Of bull
ding up the town of his choice
The Reporter withes him biz and
prosperous success.
There is o growing feeling
among farmers that there is a bet
ter way to rest land than by sum
mer following. Ground which is
cultivated in corn and kept clean
always brings a big crop Of grain
the following year, and lately, some
successful experiments have been
made by sowing winter rye in the
corn, just before going through
wlEh tho cultivator the last time,
the rye growing so vigorously as to
kill the weeds, furnishing fine fall
pasture aftor the corn is taken off,
or giving a fine coating Of green
manure, If the ground is re-plowed
for spring crop.
The best experience, says an
exchange. of the most practical of
the worlds b icy thinkers will say to
the searcher after sound informa-
ton that an individual or a com
munity has a fair start on the down
grade when he or it consumes time
sitting around waiting for some
thing to turn up. Whatever may
be the aspect Of futurity, tins is
never profitable. As a fixed habit
it is bad, because it so easily be-
comes fixed. And then when the
something that is waited for actu
ally turns upi its golden opportuni-
ties glide beyond reach along the
frictionless highway of time, while
procrastinating hands are comtor-
tably ensconced in the pockets of
by and by.
The essence of humanism is
that belief that nothing which has
ever interested living mar and wo-
man can wholly loose its vitality,
no language they have spoken, nor
oracle beside which they have hush
ed their voices, no dreams once en-
tertained by actual human minds,
nothing about which they .have ever
been passionate, or expended time
and zeal. This essence passes on
and on, and on, widening and ex-
tending its circle, and when or
where the limit shall be reached is
beyond the ken of mortals-that
it yer rolls back upon itself or is
lost, is, We believe, impossible. The
vital essence may change It's form,
but is never wholly lost, never ceas-
es to advance toward the infinite.
The game law of Dakota is a
grand humbug. You cant shoot
game till Sept l; aud here the snipe
and ployer have raised their young
and left the country. The ducks
and chickens have been ripe enough
to pull, for some time, but this
fool law stands in the way and
gives the foreign hunter al equal
show with the home sport. The law is
all right in North Dakota, four
weeks late in Central Dakota, and
nearly two months In South Dako.
ia. South Dakota, under the
operation of this law, get no shoot
ing at all, while Central Dakota
only gets two or three weeks when
she ought to have two months. The
law ought to DO changed so as to be
made applicable to the several parts
of the territory.
The Boston Ideals played Un-
Gle Toms Cabin in this city, on
Tuesday evening, to a large audi
ence, and proved to be the rockey-
ist fraud that ever visited this city.
"Cute" was the only %redeemIng
character in the play. Most of the
performers talked thro' then noses
and succeeded in butchering what
they undertook to render, as well
rs in disgusting every man, woman
and child in the audience. 1t is
not often slch a wide open fraud of
such gigantic proportions takes in
and eyerlastingly sallivates an en-
tire community. We want the press
Of the territory to pass this aggre-
CATION, with flies all over it, around
and thus ave the people of their
several communities from being rob-
bed and then sickeningly punished.
One Of our youths thus sadly
murmured to q friend, the next
day after his girl had hooked OF to
another fellow, who took her home
from a public place after our hero
had brought her there: ''Why, l
bought her o ring and a bracelet
that cost me three dollars a piece,
and took her buggy riding two or
three times and it cost me SO so a
"trip, and even went out early and
drove the COW in from the other
side of the pasture so she could get
au early start to ride, and now doh't
you think it's too bad-she ought
to give me my things back; but /
lont care, it will be money in my
pocket" OF course appropriate
consolation, suited to the gravity
Of the situation, was duly admins
tered, and the young ma vas adj
yised to seek out a less expensive
girl. "Now by goshens! don't you
never think wont!" and he went
ont and Grated to the 'iinoonstant
moon" as she smiled benignly into
his wild eyes, and he t%uriously spit
on his hands as he strained brim-
stone into the lambent air.
The game Of base ball between
she Webster Pastimes aud the Fort
Sisseton boys, took place at the
grounds Of the former, in Webster,
last Saturday. The game was cal
led at two o'clock, and from the
very start proved to be an
interesting one, Each club got
square down to business and played
ball for all the game was WORTH
Notwithstanding the Fort boys did
some splendid fielding, our pitchers
were too much for them, and they
came to the bat only to fan the at
mosphere-this was especially the
case during the last six innings,
pitched by Fred Harris. The game
was witnessed by o large crowd of
people. The visiting club won a
host Of friends among our citizens,
not only for their g~entlemanly and
courteous conduct during the game,