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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16
Record of Casualties.

At Pittsburg, Pa. Dalzell's lard oil fac.
tory and an adjoining building was burn.
ed. Loss, sos, 600; insured.
By an accident on the st. Paul cable
line, NJ. l.. Saunders was killed and TWEEN
ty persons seriously and seven slightly in.
iured.
An explosion occurred in the Metallic
Cap Manufacturing company's works near
Huntington Valley station, Pa. The works
we're totally destroyed. The casualties
are as follows; K~illcd-John CASTOR.
Injured-Frank Groom, probably fatal y;
Robert Fletcher, Owen Groom, John Scott,
John Jardell, William Welsh.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16
Shelter of ~Evergreens.

Most people have noticed the decid-
ed change in temperature from the
chilling blast to the shelter behind a
row of evergreens. Without doubt
all living vegetation continues to give
off warmth in the coolest weather,
and with evergreens this is more per.
ceptible because their dense foliage is
a greater obstruction to the winds.
Living animal bodies protected from
cold blasts show a greater difference
than the thermometer warrants.
And yet, though the latter is more
accurate as a test OF positive warmth,
the feeling is the best test as to the
practical value of an evergreen be it
as protection for houses or stock
barns. II evergreens are planted near
the barn, SO that cattle might go to
them fer shelter in fair winter wealth
er, the stock will be more healthful
and thrifty. But it takes a good ma
ny years growth of evergreens to
make them large enough to serve
as an efficient protection.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16
Monster of a Locomotive.

Pittsburg Dispatch: The largest passen.
ger engine ever constructed is now being
built in the Schenectady Locomotive works
for the Michigan Central railroad, and is
calcu lated for express and passenger pur,
poses. Ii is almost completed, and will
be sent ont in a few days. 1t is a ten
wheel engine. having three pairs Of coupled
driving wheels and a iour-wheeled
truck. The drivers are sixty.
eight inches in diameter. The
cylinders are nineteen i1ckes in di.
ameter, with twenty-four-inch stroke. The
boiler, which is of Otis steel. is ffty-eight
inches in diameter, and has 147 two-inch
semi-steel flues. The fire-box is eight feet
long by iorty-two and seven.eighuhs inches
wide, and, like many recently built. is
placed above the frames, which gives in
creased width. The tank is -esreieA-%&-
two four.wheel channel iron trucks. The
capacity OF the tank is $500 gallons, and
the tender has q capacity OF eight tons of
coal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

The reaper, mower, and binder
manufacturers of the United States
met the other day in Chicago and
formed an association to regulate
prices. production. etc., which is prob
ably less ironclad than a ~fuiLfedged
trust" and less likely to excite the
suspicious OF the public, but the nine
teen concerns which have joined say
that the association is for ''social
ends only" This transparent state
ment is simply a confession that they
are unwilling to face the odium OF
monopoly, eve though it may not be
1.-the most dangerous kind. and I'M
sss public opinion can be brought to
AXE a very different view Of "trusts"
iey will certainly have hard shedding
the United States.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

A resolution has been introduced
20 the national House of Represen-
lives by Mr.. Anderson of Iowa to
thorize the institution OF judicial
seedlings against various Pacific
road companies. 1t contains in
preamble a charge OF mismanage-
1t and fraudulent manipulation OF
affairs of the railroad companies
odied in the Henley resolution OF
year, and directs the attorney
al to bring suit against tn e co.
es to enforce the forfeitures pre-
ed in the Thurman act. He Is
ted to include as parties defend
! the suit against the Central
se, c. P. Huntington, Leland
ord and Charles Crocker; and in
Sc of the Union Pacific. John B..
Elijah Atkins, Ezra HI. Bacon,
Dillon. Jay Gould, Fred erick
IS and Russell Sage. The attor-
seral lie also directed to make
stion to the United States
TOR the appointment of receiv-
manage the trusts.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16
How to Dress Well on Little Money.
| E.ena Iorpar'a Ra1ar


From Harper's Bazaar.
The shops are filled with good wool
fabrics OF single color and double fold.
sold for so cents to rs cents a yard
that will make pretty and serviceable
dresses for the house and that will al.
so be warm enough for the street
when worn under a long cloak or III.
ster. The combination dress patterns
that merchants have arranged for
holiday sales are partly OF plain wool
and partly Of velvet. either striped or
barred, in similar color to that OF the
wool or in contrast with it. These
cost from $3.50 up to S12 or SIS the
pattern, and come in stylish shades OF
blue, green or terra Gotta, with twllled
surface, smooth like camel's hair, or
else like the beaver diagonal serges.
The green woods with green and red
velvet make pretty dresses for young
women, and there ale Gobelin blue
| shades with blue and brown velvet
for those who are older. The fancy is
to make the lower skirt OF such dress
es perfectly plain, and nearly cover it
with a long, full round ov~erskirt. The
velvet serves as part OF the lower
skirt, set on as a wider border, either at
the edge or three or four inches above
it, or else if there is enough it may
simulate the entire 10 wer skirt. Rows
of stitching above a hem are the only
finish required for the overskirt. The
bask is plainly fitted, with vest, plas-
tron, or revers of the velvet.
Garibaldi waists with a pointed
yoke and belt are the fashionable
day corsage with English women.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

but water from a pond or trough
covered with ice. Give the other tor
drink waters warmed to 20 degrees
by adding to the ice-cold water one
sixth or thereabouts OF its puik
of boiling water in which a quart
of bran has been stirred, SO
as to bring the whole to 20 degrees.
Then observe the two cows. How the
first will sip the cold water and ner
TANKS will shiver and her back hump
up with the cold, which chills her IN
side. as the blood is cooled down by
the icy water in the stomach. How
the other will drink the warm liquid
with evident pleasure and satislac,
ton; and finally how the mllkpail ana
the churn will measure precisely the
money value of the warm drink; ihen
If he will lock up the physiolog,cai
reason for the difference thus exhiplt-
ed he will learn a scientific fact when
will be OF most valuable application
in the winter feeding of animals n
in the business OF winter dairylng.-A
Pennsylvania Dairyman.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16
FIELD, AND FIREslDE,
Eor and ABOUT Women.

" FOI anu NSSeN
The white OF an egg beaten and rub
bed into the head three or four times
q, week it is claimed will prevent the
hair from falling out.
Miss Helen G. Smith, daughter oil ex-
Governor Smith OF Vermont has taken
the degree of NJ. P. master OF Pies) in
the St. Adams cooking college.
Perhaps one OF the hardest things
in the world is to make schoolboys
take proper care of their teeth. lt
should be a rule that no child old
enough to perform his W toilet
| should have breakfast until his teeth
are cleaned. 1t would save a good
many dentists bills in the future
Rural New Yorker.
Women who have soft, curling hair
are wearing it in a little Clytie knot,
through which is thrust a big tortoise
| shell pin, which. is greatly varied In
design, appearing as daggers, swords,
with a big ball head, and sometimes
of pretty designs in open fretwork.
DR.. Evelyn A. Churchill is the only
woman physician in Newton, Kan.
She has been there three years, has q
large and lucrative practice, and has
been treated with uniform kindness
and courtesy by the male physicians.
Somebody has figured out that the
female lawyers in the United States
number As, and they are to be found
in Iowa, 3; Missouri, 2; Michigan, D;
| Utah Territory. /; District OF Column
bia, 8; Maine, l: Ohio. 4; Illinois, z;
| Wisconsin, 5; Indiana, 2; Kansas, 3;
Minnesota, l from Iowa.; California,
2; Connecticut, l; Massachusetts, l;
Nebraska, l; Washington Territory,
/; Pennsylvania, l.
This old-fashioned receipt is still one
of the best for softeningand whitening
the hands OF a household worker:
Mix q ~wlneglass of cologne and a
wineglass of lemon juice; scrape two
cakes of Brown Windsor soap to a
powder; mix with the lemon juice and
cologne; mould in a cake; it will dry
in a day and night. Use to wash the
hands. After using an alkali soap.
washing the hands in a teaspoonful
of vinegar mixed with two tablespoon
fuls OF milk will prevent their chap
ping.
DR.. Groff's sentence-"Keeping
rooms dry and wholesomely warm
wards off malaria, rheumatism. diar-
rheas, d~ysentery, neuralgla"-ls rue,
every word. Comfortable clothing
and bedding go with it. Our race was
developed in the warmest border OF
the temperate zone. 1t shrivels and
stunts in cold regions, and like a
plant, draws into weak, limp growth
in constant heat. One OF the good
reasons for staying at ones home IN
preference to much travelling about
is that there is so much greater Sc
curity against becoming a chronic
sufferer from either chill Or heat.
Quite a natural fault and one ex-
ceedingly common, is for mothers to
hold their infants altogether too
much. By so doing they inconvenience
themselves and injure their little ones.
Very many mothers say that at
takes about all their time to attend
to the baby" In all instances where
this is true it is their own fault. When
once the bad habit is formed OF tax
ing the little one up as soon as it
shows signs of waking, is restless, or
disposed to cry, the mother is hence.
forth a slave to it's caprices. and no
tyrant can bemore exacting.-Journal
Of Health.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

Small pox has prevailed in San
Francisco this winter, but not TO an
alarming extent. Up to the first OF
January PAT cases were reported in
that city. OF the total number OF
cases, the Chinese furnished 10 OF
which IL were dead or dying when
found. This leaving 22S cases and
% deaths among the white popula-
ton, showing a death rate of only 8
per cent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16
The Electric Light.

A tall young fellow with a culver 81
heavy leather slung carelessly oyee{
his shoulder was creeping up a pole n
Broadway at 2 o'clock a few nom
ings ago. The nails in his boot hee.e
clicked against the projecting srikss
as he lnade his way step by stem to,
ward the top. When he had throws
one leg over the iron cross.pieces and
caught his foot on the upper bar TIA
electric light al the top went out with
a whizzing protest. A brief interval Of
darkness followed and a glowing
point OF burned-out carbon fell hiss.
ing into a pool of water in the gutter.
Then the silver light burst forth again
with increased brilliancy and tia
Young man sought the street. He
stopped a moment tt count the new
points in his culver, and the reporter
asked him how he liked the business.
Good enough; but it's lonesome.
All the same Eve picked up a little
electricity in these eleven months I've
been climbing poles nights. You see"
he went on, ''every ma can't climb.
and lots of 'em who can wouldn't
fuss around electric lights for $50.
much less S12, a week. So the rsru.
company any length OF time. and
kept solid with the boss, have MOTH
ing to do but to do their work and
draw their money Saturdays and no
fear of being bounced.
but here's what I hate" and thu
Young fellow held out his hand to
show q red scar across three fingers.
That's q burn, that is, and if pve
had one I'll bet Pve had a million on
these fingers. Some way or other a
fellow always gets his hands On the
bot end of the points when he's taking
'em out. My 'iippers' have got 20
tough now, though, that | wouldn't
be afraid to put up money that 1
could hold that cigar of yours halt
minute without ~squealing. That chan
that picks up the red-hot bar OF iron
up at the museum in the Bowery used
to work for the company. I'll take
my oath he didl".
ibid you ever get a shock?" asked
the reporter.
"Once, and that's all. I'll tell You
how / came to do it. Mind. I'll give
it to you straight. You see. l was
working the line down Nassau street
last fall, and one night in August or
September-no, August-about a week
after our association picnic it was-I
was perched up on the top oil a pole
down neal William street, singing
something or other, | don't remember
what Just now. and two girls, regular
daisies, came down on the other side.
So says / to myself. TIl give them a
scare and with that l chueked q
point and 1t landed right behind them.
We'll, sir, you can hang me if one of
EN-, the smallest, didn't jump a rod.
When they see who 1t was as chuck
ed 1t, / sung out, 'Ah, there!' just for
the fun OF the thing, and / leaned over
and began to laugh. But / caught
hold of them wires, and, holy Mosesl /
got a dose that'il last me, I'm telling
you. 1t came and went sudden like. |
guess l only touched that connection
but it knocked me out for a week. /
thought / was a smart Aleck, 1 did,"
said the young man as he started for
the next pole, but ! vas too fresh, !
was."-Cor. Chicago Times.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

The prosperity of the State OF Cali
lorna during the year 1887 was as
marked as any previous II months
within its history. Some 500 miles OF
new railroad have been laid; the as
sessed value OF property has increased
1892. 600. 600. The wine and brandy
products were very large, and no less
than $4,000. 900 pounds of canned
goods and over 35, 900, 900 pounds
OF green fruit we're shipped. 1t
the banner yearfor immigra.
ton and tourists.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16
"a ordera VIM be iased for their ei.ct.

and orders win be Used for their eject.
ment forthwith.
Wilfred Blunt has been suffering from
rheumatism three days at Dublin. owing
to his cell being unheated. It is alleged the
prison o~ffeials refused to permit him to
20 into the infirmary. Cox, NJ. p, arrested
in London, is 10 the Ennis jail. The wsllIs
OF his cell are reeking with moisture. The
window frame has rottcd from the effects
of thedamp.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

The popular novelist, Rider Hag.
gard, is the brother of the secretary Of
the British legation in this CT country,
whose marriage at Washington IN
1886 to Mrs. Carrie Carroll, a lady
considerably older than himself, caus.
ed much talk at the time. The mar
rage was not a happy one. and a di.
vorce-the second one in the wife's
case-was the result.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

DR.. Norvin Green, who represents
Jay Gould as President of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, al
lows that. if the Government insists,
it might purchase the wires of that
company for 500. 900 900 or So, but
that they would rather not sell.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16
Farm Notes..

Indiana Farmer remarks: A few
carrots given to horses during the
winter months are relished by them
as much as apples are by children.
The horse that sells for the best av-
erage figure now is the heavy draft
horse. The fast horse may sell for
more money if he is fast enough, but
taken altogether the average price of
the heavy draft horse is above that
OF the trotter.
According to an exchange, one OF
the best foreign markets for Amerl.
can butter is the West Indies. Near.
ly thirty-five per cent of the exports
the past year have been thither.
This market takes the lowest grades.
Dairymen will please bear in mind
the fact that zero weather does not
promote milk secretion, and it ia.
therefore, wise economy to take the
cows In out of the weather, and give
them abundant good food from which
to generate internal warmth.
Sheep are injured more by snow
storms than any other animals. as
the sheep are compelled to remain on
damp locations in the event of a
thaw. Foot rot in sheep often results
from too much exposureto dampness.
and the flock should have a dry. omen
shed. It's floors should be cleared of
snow and the yard well drained. Ewes
that are expected to lamb should be
kept IN the barn shed. warm and well
protected.
Holland, with an area of 900, 600
acres OF arabic land, worth from $500
to $500 per acre, feeds $50, 900 cattle.
produces annually 81, 900, 600 pounds
ofcheese and ]. 900, 900 pounds of but.
ter beside her other varied farm prod
ucts, a production probably not ex.
celled by any other equal area on the
globe. But the west can do as we'll
when the increase OF population rem
ders as intensive farming profitable
here. The mich cows OF Holland are
known as the deepest mixers of anv
known breed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16
Cold or Warm Weather for Cows.

liza dairyman wishing to try a sat
isfactory experiment will proceed as
follows he will contribute to the soIu.
ton OF present and timely problem
and prove the fitness of q scientific
fact. Take two cows as near alike as
possible. Give one the ordinary feed.
Ing OF the herd, but for drink nothing
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

The Bank of England, the Bank oil
France and the Imperial Bank OF Ger.
many held together on December 31st
a specie reserve aggregating $780,.
635.315. This was a gain ofSlS.1 49,
Sal over the 31st of December, 1886.
The Bank of England held 500, $685.
41o; France, S46l, Oil, 9o6; Germany,
$195,l7O,O0o.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

The Pre~sbyterians o. the United
States propose to honor themselves
and their centennial anniversary this
year by raising 81, 900. 900 for the
benefit OF saperannuated ministers.
their widows and children.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

The ice carnivalat st. Paul is pro
gressina TO the satisfaction of it's par
Elephants, especially the younger por-
ton. The visitors from abroad are
not quite so numerous as on former
occasions. owing to a variety OF
causes. principally fear of blockades.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

MOI IN BeSSl on.
HOUSE.

The house committee on elections de-
cides against White OF Indiana, whose seatis
contested by Lowry, but did not give
Lowry the seat.
Mr.. White OF New York, introduces a
bill in the house for the protection and adj
ministration Of the forests on the public
la
1t withdraws rom disposalth uDsurvey-
ed public lands embracing natural forests,
and all public lands returned by the public
survey as timber lands; and provides for
the appointment of a commissioner of for
ests and four assistant commission srs,
whose duty it shall be to classify
forest n timber lands and
to determine what ~rurtion of
those lands shal be permanently retained
in the reservation for climatic and other
economic and public reasons, and what
portion may be disposed Of. Lands which
are more valuable for agricultural than
timber purpose shall be restored to home.
stead entry and sale.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

A st. Louis gas company that ley
er put 500. 900 outside of loans and
earnings into the work OF eonstruc-
ton, has watered its stock up to
100000
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

Lincoln Jurist: There is a res tau.
rant waiter in Lincoln who deserves
to be honored. A patron said to
him: Waiter, pass me those molas.
ses," and be repliedi "Hsw msnyfn
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-16

George Bancroft, who is physically
ana mentally active at nearly ninety,
says that his strength is due to inhex-
ible Observance of a rule TO get four
hours a day in the open air.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-08
Leaye.Taking.

Few have learned the art of leaving
in an appropriate manner. When you
are about to depart do so at once,
gracefully and politely, and with no
dallying. Don't say, "It's about time
l was going" and then talk aimlessly
for ten minutes. Some people lave
lust such a tiresome habit. They will
even rise and stand about the room in
various attitudes, keeping their host
also standing, and then by an effort
succeed in getting as far as the hall,
when a new thought strikes them.
They brighten visibly and stand for
some minutes longer, saying nothing
of Importance, but keeping everybody
in a restless state. After the door is
opened leave-taking begins and every
body in general and particular is in
vited to call. Very likely last
thought strikes the departing visitor
which his friend must risk q cold to
hear to the end. What relief when
the door is finally closed! There's no
need of being Extensively abrupt, but
when you are ready TO 60, 60.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-08
Suffering in the Storm.

The countryman came with his
horse to town in the early morning,
and has found refuge, drink and
amusement in the saloon. The horse,
fastened by the roadside, has stood
through pelting storms OF sleet and
rain and snow, quite likely, from
morning till night; and possibly
while its owner has been sleeping off a
drunken debauch, has remained there
all night and into the next day, and
perhaps longer. The cause for the hu-
namely disposed to pursue with the
horse found thus left by its master, ex-
posed to inclement weather, is to make
complaint to the first police officer
found, or to some one in authority,
who should place the animal in near,
warm stable, to be cared for until the
owner calls for his animal and pays
for its keeping. If the authorities de;
cline to act, the humanitarian should
take the responsibility himself.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-08
"Not Many Wise Men,"

Christianity is not really concerned
whether the devotees of science re-
ceive or reject it. Their treatment OF
it neither affects its value, nor its evil
dences. 1t was true III the beginning
that not many wise men after the flesh
were called, and it is likely to remain
true unto the end. Probably the pride
of learning will continue to seorn the .e
simplicity of the Gospel, and find 1t
still q stumbling block. Therefore it
gives us no anxiety though the leaders
in physical science should leave the
lessons of the Gospel to be learned by
babes, while they boast themselves to
be the only possessols of truth which
can be verified. Divine truth comes
with sufficient proof its origin, but it
only proves itself to be the power of
God in those who receive it. If it is
set at naught, or dcspised by any, it
does not thereby suffer, the loss IS
only and altogether to those who neg
lect it. - Word and Work.