Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-03-01

dent of the board. "Why not Eas
it aroundw Well, Mr.. Norton i
perfectly familiar with our GENE
terry matter and is the best man il
the city to look after it till it i,
straight and serenely arranged fol
the b9st interest of all concerned
is the most important reason. We
could name so others if it wa;
necessary.
II. Ii. Russell met with a ser
ious misfortune last week in the
loss of a fine horse which he valued
at 1925. The animal died of infa,
nation of the bowels. 1t never
rains but it pours. On Saturday he
brought fine young mare to town
to be shOd, and just as he turned
the corner at Norton's, the animal
slipped and fell, breaking her hip.
The loss to Mr.. Russell is quite
considerable.
AS the warm weather appro-
aches see that the cellar is through
ly aired on pleasant days. Garry
out all decaying vegetables, and
anything else that has a tendency
to make the air lmpure. Attend to
this while you have plenty Of time
If neglected until warm weather you
will then be too busy and your fam
lily must suffer the i'll effects of liy-
ing over a cellar that will poison
the atmosphere of the whole house.
"A petition was circulated and
numerously signed by our citizens
on Monday, asking the Post Office
department to remit fine Of $50
dollars, assessed against Chas. Rus
sell of the Wooster and Fit. Sisseton
mail line, for failing to make his
regular trips during the blizzard of
Jan. 18th. To assess the fine,
under the circumstances, was the
act Of a nonpareil officer rafting
around in a double great primer
office trying to fill it.
The farmer who refuses to ex-
pertinent; who will not relax his
hold on one dollar until he sees two
in his pocket; who only breaths
from force Of habit aud is not pre-
pared to give reason for existing at
all; such a man will be left as far
behind in the long run as though
sh0d with leaden shoes in a race for
life. The progressive, wide awake
man always succeeds, or dies in the
attempt, and better such an end
than an uncertain faltering life.
The rotary snow pillow is the
salvation of the blockaded north
west. 1t biteth like serpent and
bloweth like blizzard. 1t bring
delayed mails, refilIs coal bins, res
torres communications, digs out be-
leaugered towns. 1t is worth a
brigade Of shovels. 1t goes through
a drift like buzz saw through Il
knot. 1t is tremendous steam
anger in a box on wheels. 1t vom-
its the snow through a discharge
pipe with enough violence to knock
over chimney. 1t eats up a heavy
drift at the rate of six miles an
hour. II is the mechanical express
sion of northwestern energy. it
will sweep Dakota into the Union.
Even Springer can't stop it.-Chi-
cage Inter Ocean.
Last Thursday the writer here
of was agreeably surprised by visit
from Mr.. ID. W. Paul, who, laying
down a gOodly package, remarked
that Mrs Paul sent it in to us with
her best wishes. We took off the
wrappings and were agrccably sur
prised to see jolly fat and tooth
some turkey drop out. Grandma
Paul seemed to know exactly in
what our sickness consisted, and
applied the proper remedy the very
first trial. Owing to the blIzzardy
condition of affairs, these kindly
remembrance from the neigh5ors
have been highly appreciated and
we have lived high. Right here We
take off our hat and with our most
elaborate bow, tender Grandma
Paul our earnest thanks for her
pleasant remembrance and hope she
may live long to bless her family
and her friends by her presence.
The newspaper is in a very i'm
pOrtant sense public institution,
DONG very much for each indiyid-
ual and for the community as
whole, that receives neither reward
nor acknowledgment. In view of
this it is certainly as little rs any
man can do to give his patronage to
the local publisher, who Is at the
same time nearly always a job prin-
ter. Yet it seems to be a growing
custom for business men to send
their work abroad. This is proba-
! bly, largely owing to the principle
in human nature which ever gives
enchantment to distance, and makes
the prophet not without honor eX-
cept in his own country. The men
who condemn their fellow citizens
for going abroad to buy their dry
| goods and groceries seem entirely
Obvious to the fact that they are
committing the same offense when
ordering their commercial printing
from some distant olty.-Prlnter
and Publisher.
Say, what is your boy dong on
the streets at night? Did it ever
occur to you that he is getting a
species o. education that will sadly
demoralize and unfit him for the
stern duties and responsibilities of
life The Public street is where the
criminals of the country are educa-
ted. Ask a man who has run his
course and landed at the gallows or
in the states PRISON, aud he will tell
you that his first step downward
was when he was permitted TO run
| the streets at night--to go to the
store. shop or &aloon, where vulgar
stories are toll and the most fright
! full profanity INDUCED in. The
first contact startles him, for "vlce
is monster of hidsous mein;" but
he soon becomes accustomed to this
learns to swear, to chew tobacco,
to smoke, to play billiards, pool
and cards, and from this point he
rapidly accumulates an education
that destroys, or rather blunts all
the better elements of his nature,