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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-22
SIOUX VALLEY NOTES.

Now commences the in-gnthering
OF the golden grain; the fields are
dotted With men and teams. The
major part Of the small! grain will
be III the stack by Saturday night
if the weather continues fair. The
generous yield OF sustenance by
Mother earth this season is silent
appeal to our grateful alteration to
that benefcent Being who "gives Ills
all things richly to enjoy"
Some Of the bridges across Union
Crces have been washed out by the
recent heavy rails.
From the present outlook the
corn crop will be an average one,
ranking well up with former years.
Miss Christine Malmgren COM
menced q fall term of school recent
+, in the Hyland school house.
Sportsmen are daily seen hunting
prairie chickens.
S. d. McUmber, of Calliope, Ia,
breaches every two weeks at the
Bonney school house. AMBROSE.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-22
For the CougtEf.
REaELkND REPLIES.

E:1EhEND ksrplsES:
SNIpE, is having big run fer a
little word. O! humanity, thou art
a delicious fraud!
The Richland Diamond Diggers
have world Of muscle and entl,u-
siasm, last Saturdays scoring will
be transposed soon all the boys
need is a little more practice togeth-
er.
John Sinclair had one Of his best
horses fearfully gashed and slashed
the last Of the week, in Il barb-wire
fence.
A brother of John Frits is here
from Iowa.
Chas. Smith has vacated his town
cottage and moved down ON his
father-in- laws farm by the Watson
bridge.
Mrs. JAS. Jeiiry, OF Elk Point, is
visiting Richl,nd friends.
Miss Minnie Chamberlain Is home
from Elk Point.
Frank Ball has been thrcshing
big yield OF tinothy-yield about
average.
Mrs. A. Shurtleff has an elegant
flower bed as the school girl would
say.
Some persons, there are, who
think that ability in writer or
speaker rests i'm his use Of mighty
many -jointed words. To prove the
absolute folly OF this error, allow
me to give a few striking examples
of pure, ungarnished language, that
will live for years and years after
the long-worded sirens have become
sweet memory. Did you ever
hear OF Home, Sweet Home2
mid pleasures and palaces tho you may roam
BE IL ever SO humble there's no place Ike
home"
Rather simple, isn't it.
Every school-boy has read this
ardently-
"Sink or swim, live or die, sur
vive or perish, | give my heart and
hand to this VOTE" Those little
words Of Webster's have not been
forgotten.
See how pointed the old Roman
was in his dispatch Il came, saw,
! conquered
The Lords Prayer is one Of the
best examples of condensed ideas
in our language. Hnmilton's
address is powerful and con-
else. Maybe you have sung this
simple lyric
Way down upon the swance river
Far. far away.
There's where my heart IS turning ever
There's where the old folks stay
Where are your formidable two
inch jaw breakers. Country editors
as class use very simple garb for
their thoughts; they are away
ahead Of their city brethren, who
write ON abstract themes, in long
winded style. The country editor
lives near TO natures heart. His
language springs from the ground.
He writes Of rains, fishing, crops,
pigs, horses, cattle and rural feuds.
He is the real, future newspaper
man. Atoms.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-22

lss Insl isas Il, latis
sSs asate 4 portion
IN etv.tioii under tie
e,.ssessss during
= \ ssat disapppint-
\ q a 81 Dakolu, tenn
nv result III an m
I,sssby these dirty,
blo,.l stlirsty wiiclps
1| llsil d yscate and ae-
T. l mi \ d nst he 50 benc-
g.! q tls one proposed.
4 1ss people IL aha North
4 4 NH ssstand Why these
~ ll \ Ire treated Will, such
( @ I,y tlls government
d srsl wusking people u
y l nm taxed to feed
lazy louts, and
/ W lsl,ess. The idea that
anent 81 the United
4 stop md parley and
@ y sake terms with much
Il y + viIlafl ~ Sitting Hull, il
81 eellss 81 justice ii civil
3 4 GOOD healthy vigil
1lal,lttec would ~ the prop
q onanli.tee 10 settle With
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-22

make enemies Of I'LL men in the re-
publican parry by your fight against
them, and what is the RESULT. You
keep fres whiskey democratic
party in power for a generation at
least.
But you begin to compare your
self with the abolition party. You
have studied history to little adyau-
tage II You can see anything in that.
II tho abolition party had continued
on its radical ground what would
have been the result? Slavery
would hnve been national to-day,
ii Abraham Lincoln had taken his
stand on platform Of absolute abo-
lition, he would have been defeated
and slavery would have been more
firmly entrenched than ever. And
SO the good sense Of the people said
we will prohibit staaery in the ter
ritories. where wehaye jurisdiction,
aud leave the matter to the states.
aud on this principle they won. So
IL MI. Harrison had stepped on q
radical prohibition platform at Chi
caG0s he would have been defeated
and whiskey entrenched for gene
ration. hut as lie is on the
common ground in favor Of local
government Of the matter by
the states, while adopt
ing the general principle Of temper
lance in MI ways, OF rather on anti
saloon ground, he will be elected
and the great temperance reform
will move on. Why cannot you be
as wise as the old ab1litionis,s who
supported Fremont and Lincoln on
q less radical platform than they
deemed exactly right. You may
talk Of conscience end all Of that,
but conscience without common
sense is only hnaticism in repub-
lie like ours. 1t troubles my con-
science to think that the only oh.
stacle in the way OF ultimate prohibit
ton is the utter impracticability Of
those who blindly put out a hope
less third party ticket to stop the
progress Of events to that end. Be-
sides, your party is not acting en- n
high moral plane. You confess
that the democratic party is oppos-
ed TO prohibition, md that you IN
tend TO oppose it after you have
beaten the republican party. When
my good brother, did you adopt the
principle, We will do evil that good
may come? You will put the devil
n power that you may fight him.
Verify, il that is conscience, / am
thankfnl that | havo none Of that
kind.
will not burden you with the
many Inconsistencies vi your oppo-
sition to the republican party. Be
Ecause the republican party says
that rather than to break down the
protective tariff system they would
ia contingency repeal the INK On
liquors, you abuse them, or rather
your spokesnen do, and call them
the FREQ whiskey party when ii
the very platform on which you
stand there is a declaration in favor
sof the unconditional and immediate
repealsof that tax. Does your heart
endorse such consistency? If it
does, am happy to shy mine does
not. a.
Relieving, as / do, that your
movement is an injury, and a foe to
the cause Of prohibition, | can only
hope, and pray, and vote for The
success of the republican party.
Wishing you suceess III all laudable
work for the cause Of righteousness,
n subscribe myself very kindly and
fraternnlly your brother.
p. r Lucas.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-22

some OF the LyabAirs hgures down to the present
lddcd by the present writer.
much indebted for its remarkable growth in cireu-
lation to the persistent adherence on the part
of the other Chicago dailics to the blanket
sheet style Of journalism OF all the people in
America the average Chicagoan is most in a hurry
and least inclined to wade through columns Of
verbiagc and stuff THE DAILY News is the only
Chicago daily that has the facilities for giving all
the news, and at the same time the good sense to
present it in concise form. The result Of such a
condition Of affairs is that THE DAILY News prints
more papers than all the other Chicago dailies
combined
In considering all the causes which have
entered into and produced so phenomenal Jour-
nastic growth the most important one unques-
tionaby has been the controlling conviction Of its
managers that the "cheap paper should be cheap
only in price; that its news should be as fresh and
complete, its editorial discussion as able and its
general tone and character as pure and heathful
as its best and highest priced contemporary. All
this the cheap paper may easily be even at its
reduced price.
The difference of revenue between the two
cent paper leven more so when the price is one
cent?, and the hgher-priccd banket-sheet,' the
latter throws away in useless and unasked for
size, that not only is Of no worth to the reader,
but is even an annoyance, in that it compels him
to CLEAN what is Of real news interest from mass
o. verbiage and worthless implication
1t is because its managers have been wise
enough to practically recognize these essential
elements Of the best American journalism of to-
day that THE DAILY News is the best and most
popular general family newspaper published in
Chicago or the West"
1t of merit could be framed in stronger terms than
s not the achievement now that such journal as
it the reduced price of ONE CENT A DAY
W go ,isy. Certain that THE DAILY News leads hevan
at One Cent per copy will be nailed postage paid for
especially called to the fact that this metropolitan daily
+ will now have his daily market reports. Address
F. LAWSON, Publisher THE DAILY News, CHICAGO.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-22

#ss paper entitled To the distinction Of
zsing the largest daily circulation ID America is
4 IAH EflicAno pAiLY News (Sincc this state
ulent Vas silasaclt Is possible that the growth Of
me- NM Fork Hoysa entities it to FIRST placc)
7hs LsyuNsG tc-day tlcsotes page to sketches Of
scencs il and about its establishment. The his
tory of this paper il probably without parallel
ii ths annals of American Journalism It was
fonided December 10Th. 1875, and was the first
low-priced daily successfully established in the
West All the end of its FIRST year it had achieved
Il circulation of about 10000. From that time on
lis growth has been remarkable Il now prints
seven editions daily, comprising both morning
and evening issues It's statement Of circulation
Tor the year 1874 shows daily average of I2s,I78
copies unqucstonably the largest daily circulation
on the American continent The sworn state
ment for 1887 shows daily average Of I6s, 37o)
In politics The DAILY News. is always indie
pendent, never neutral. While its editorial ex-
preston is sometimes vigorous to the degree Of
severity, there is always in its utterances Of opinion
SO manifest purpose To be impartial and fair to
All opposing interests that it rarely loses the con-
fdcncc Of the reader, however much it may fail to
bring him 10 an acceptance Of its own view con-
cernng the matter in hand.
AS newspaper proper, THE DAILY News
has earned reputation for cntcrprsing news
gathering second to none in the United States
AZ is the only cheap paper in the West that is a
member Of the Associated Press. 1t gives its
readers all the news worth giving and gives it for
two cents. Now it does it for one cent a day.
Aside from its own deserving merits as
complete and cheap newspaper, it is doubtless
II seems hardly possible that an endorseme
the foregoing analysis, and yet how much greater
HE DAILY News is placed in every mans hands
7af firmly naysxons enterprise Of Amean journalism can la,
The CHICAGO DAILY News is sold by all newsdealc
E1o year. cents per month The attention Of farme
costs but little more than the old time weekly The shewd farm
YlcTO
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-22

Say! do sou know that Freemans
have the best roasted Coffees in the
City? Try them and see.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-22

acrhca
N q shs ouA ln loo DAILY News which forth clearly Of tn
reading
prsen
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-29
Death of Judge Waite.

The Nation meets with great
loss in the death Of Chef Justice
Waite, which occurred Friday last.
He was appointed by president
Grant in 1874 and proved himself
as great a judge as ever held the
exalted station. If President
Cleveland appoints such a man as
General John c. Black as Judge
Waites successor, fridays calam-
ity will not seem SO great. General
Black is we'll equipped for the office
and he deserves we'll of his
country. But we fear there is no
reason to hope for SO good an
appointment as that. Mr.. Cleve-
land is more likely to select man
who distinguished himself in the
rebel army or in the rebel civil
service; or what is worse, a rock
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --the-
Observation-Disclosures demo
crat. In either case the death of
Judge Waite would indeed prove
a blighting, blasting calamity
Sunday Telegraph.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-29

advantage to the world Of a uni
versal language and money. To
learn a language is a different task
and it is amusing to see those who
have learned French out of d book
assure one that they are fully caPa-
BILE to get along with the speech
when the'very first sentence from
the native Frenchman absolutely
confounds the book-iearned-
French. He cannot converse on
the slightest matters. Though
unacknowledged it requires this
learned man several months before
he fully understands French, yet
he has studied it two years out Of
a book. But really this is the
concrete ground Of concrete
France, where long ago most have
read of the sunny vine clad hills
of sunny France. Those vintage
grounds where hung on trellised
vines the clustered spheres of wit
and mirth. Here are those lovely
plains the silk worm Weaved his
glossy coat and over the grazing
pastures have galloped fat sleek
norman horses for ages past. The
taste of France has been the pride
of every nation. Its fashion yet
rules the world. It's style is
French. 1t is a nation after its
own heart. 1t copies none but
forces others to adopt its customs
1t has been and is a nation of the
widest changes. The pendulum
Of its life has swung from far of
Dan to extreme Beersheba. 1t has
gone the nearest to anarchy anc
saved itself Of any nation. 1t has
a changeful mind and builds ur
and tears down as a habit. tt
science has been brilliant in the
galaxy Of progress, its religion the
fabric Of vision, its morals al
Interrogation point.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-29
The Dependent Pension Bill.

What is known as the Depend
ent Pension Bill passed the Senate
last week by vote of Al to 10
enough to "down" veto message
of the President, if he should feel
that way.
The text Of the measure is as
follows: The bill grants a pension
OF SI2 per month to all persons
who served three months or more
in the military or navel service of
the United States during the late
war of the rebellion, and who have
been honorably discharged there
from, and who are now, or may
hereafter be suffering from mental
or physical disability, not the
result Of their own vicious habits,
which totally incapacities them for
the performance of manual labor,
the pension to date from the filing
of the application in the pension
office. If any invalid pensloner
has died, or shall hereafter die,
leaving a widow, minor child Or
children under eighteen years of
age, or in case there be no widow
or minor child or children, a
dependent mother or father, such
widow, minor child or children, or
mother or father, shall be placed
on the pension roll at the rates
established by law for such, with
out regard to the cause Of death of
such pensioner; provided, that the
cause of death of such pensioner
was not or is not due to viola
ton of civil or military laws, or
the result of vicious habits; and
provided further, that said widow
was married to said deceased
peusioner prior to the passage of
this act. That the increase of
pensions for minor chileren shall
be at the rate of S. per month
instead of So per month, as now
provided by law, and in case a
minor child is insane, idiotic or
otherwise helpless, the pension
shall continue during the life of
said child, Or during the period of
such disability. The fee Of claim
agents is limited to $40, and fine
not eNceeeing $500 or imprison-
I'ment at hard labor for not more
than two years, or both, is the
penalty prescribed for withhold
ing from pensioner or claimant
the whole or any part of the
pension dine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-29
The Governorship.

The Madison correspondent of
the Chicago Tribune, who is we'll
acquainted with Wisconsin poll
tics, said, in recent issue of the
Tribune, among other things, the
following on the governorship and
the secretarship:
AS to state politics, there are
three pronounced candidates for
governor-George c. Ginty, E. C.
McFetridge and H. A. Taylor,
while Congressman Guenther is
occasionally spoken of. The con-
test promises to be friendly one.
Taylor's strength is as yet unde-
veloped, and it is possible he may
conclude to keep out. General
Ginty, or as he is best known,
George Ginty, is a big-hearted,
and whole-souled sort of man,
with plenty of brains. He is pop
ular with the soldier element, and
there IS no disgusting the fact that
boys who wore the blue are rally
ing to his support in large numbers.
His father and two brothers, as
we'll as himself, saw active service,
both the brothers being killed.
Ed. McFetridge is able, cool-head-
ed and adroit-a man who has
lots of warm friends. He was five
years state treasurer, and he is
we'll and widely known. These
two men are making a neck-and
neck race, but whoever wins there
will be little feeling or friction, as
they are close personal friends.
Either would make a frst-class
governor. There seems to be a
growing tendency to renominate
Secretary of State Tlmme. He is
justly the pride of the large
German element in Wisconsin, a
one-armed soldier, and his admin
lstration is conceded to be eco
nomical and able. His nomina-
ton seems probable. There is no
question that all the other present
state officers will again be chosen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-29

up in their devotions to self, and
cast a disdainful look upon all
sweet, innocent girls whom they
chance to meet. They imagine
their sphere envied by husbands
Of even happy homes. But what
if the doors Of all true, devoted
wives were closed upon these
supposed envied bachelors, and all
the pleasant words and bright,
happy faces of the young ladies
were completely shut out from
them. | wonder if even the pet
club would not lose some of its
charms. l wonder if those brainy
men would not wish they had Just
a little more brains; enough to
invent something to fill an aching
void. I refrain from saying the
aching void Of a heart, because |
think that in those men, that most
needed organ of life is prehaps
only metal; or at least there is
nothing there which the precious
sentamentality Of this world can
touch. Prehaps he does not know
that only in one instance has the
White House been without a
woman at its head, and when
Grover Cleveland had padded his
own canoe for half century, in
the last great undertaking of his
life he found there was something
lacking that even money and
position could not fill; and he
stopped low enough to take to the
bosom of his life a-woman. But
ah! dear bachelor I forgive you
the slur you have thrown on all
pure, devoted wives, because you
have never tasted the sweets of a
happy home; you have never
known the blessedness of receiving
the smiles Of wife and children as
they greet you from the club, and
even when your fingers have been
dipped in sin, you have not known
the joy Of having a companion
whose lips bless you and whose
tears of tender sympathy gently
lead you back and help from the
slippery way into the path OF
righteousness. Yes, there are
even business men in this world
who know the sweets of such
blessings, and when my precious
darlings Chamber upon my hus-
bands knee and he kisses the
innocent baby face, caresses the
sunny curls and tells me that my
little one is worth more than all
the world to him, | know, poor,
dear bachelor, that there is one
married man in Merrill who does
not agree with you. | would like
to say much more upon this sub
ject to you and those young men
who are contemplating matrimony
to encourage them in their grand
and great purpose in life; but time
prevents and | bid you goodbye.
/
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-29

The Bronson homestead and two lots
for sale cheap. A bargain for some
body. Fol- sale by A. L. Fontaine.
FARM FOR SALE.-In the town of Mon
roe, Adams County. 1S4 acres of land
with 90 cleared and under cultivation.
For further particulars apply at this
office. A bargain for somebody.
For SALE.-Four forties of wild land
lying three miles east of Grand Rapids
on the Plover road. For particulars
apply at this Office.
FARM FOR SALE.-A good farm three
miles south of Grand Rapid for sale
cheap. Inquire at this Office for par
ticulars. Price $500.
Seven hundred dollars will buy a
house, barn and three lots, in the second
ward. The house contains 10 rooms.
This is the best bargain we now have on
our list
Four hundred and fifty dollars will
buy the lot and residence just opposite
Frank Woods residence in the second
ward. For sale by A. i. Fontaine.
A BARGAIN FOR SoMEBoDY.-A nice
farm near Baskerville, this county
North half of the SW4 Of Section 26, Tp
% North of Range East. Frame house
1Sx26 two stories, with a log wing 14x2O
Frame barn 26x36 with basement full
size. Farming tools, &c. For sale
cheap. Apply of A. L. Fontaine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-29
Matrimonial Bliss.

a lady in the Lincoln County
Advocate presents the following
encouragement to the old bache-
lors of that city:-My feelings were
just a little injured the other day,
when my husband drew my atten-
ton to the article in the News
concerning 'some young Bache-
lors, single Blessedness," here in
Merrill. Yes I know there are
men in this world who are Just
selfish enough TO wrap themselves
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-29
RuckIen,S Arnica SAIER

Tie best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, litter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains Corns, and all Skin Eruptions
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price % cents per box. For sale by W.
/. Wood & Co.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-29
MORGAN'S, MILWAUKEE.
" Our Infant Winter Sinks /

Spring and Winter are still
hobnobbing, and taking turn and
turn about. But Spring is evident
ly in the ascendant, so we now
direct your attention to our new
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-29

INVENTION s; 49, : 5: : $::
method and system of work that can be perform
ed all over the country without separating the
workers from their homes. Pay liberal any one
can do the work; either sex, young or old; no
special ability required. Capital not needed;
you are started free. Cut this out and return to
us-and We Will send you free, something of great
value and Importance toyou, that will start you
in business, which Will bring you in more money
right away, than anything else in the world.
Address TRUE &. Co., Augusta, Maine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-29
A. L. FONTAINE,
Notary Public
AND AGENT
For the Sale Of Real and
PERSONAL PROPERTY.

Persons having either kind of
property for sale or rent, will re-
ceive prompt attention by placing
it IN our hands. We also assist
persons in the prosecution of Pen
sion claims.