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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-17
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June Is, Wisconsin win dedicate
seven monuments at Gettysburg, in
honor of the lis heroes from the
Badger State who fell In that memora.
Bile battle.
st. Paul Camp, No, i. S. of ", is
now an independent military organ
ization. The camp has forty stand of
new Springfield rifles, and equipments
complete.
The first meeting of the Vermont
Ex-prisoners of War Association will
be held in June next Already thirty
per cent of the resident prisoners have
been enrolled.
"Mum" socials are fashionable in
Kansas. SCUM socials would be a
novelty. Charge 10 cents admission
and give the ladies all the gum they
could chaw. Let the men go without
mum.
The Department of California, W.
X. c., expended $1,000 in relief, and
500 was turnsd over to the posts for
disbursement. The Department has
Iunu Oh S0,oOU cOnecteu JOWaru the
W. II. @. Home.
Benjamin Franklin, of the Second
Minnesota Volunteers, is the only man
on the government pension rolls who
lost both feet and both hands in the
late war. 1t is proposed to increase
his pension by special act to ST. per
month.
The w. r. c., of Minnesota, during
the past year organized twenty new
camps, and increased the membership
400. The total membership is now
1,148. The amount expended in char
ity, and turned over to the posts to be
used for relief was $2,395.32. Aid was
given to 246 soldiers families during
the year.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-17

ease and unfaIlen worldY Not oae rban
o Z sgs said; .sLoi come 10 a. INV viii
~ y Ioa and he went down through he
uara ssAirs OF our sin. and wreteheslness md mi
md TX ana woe. and lie stopped Tie peril
on tse S Ilsa thaa youand might be free.
i.oErors OF the saerifcei Shall moi osr s,ssSs
=. ..I'a IN morning go out toward Hin. sayins:
=, a.ora Jesus Christ, take INV so,ll. 'Tbeu
ST. ~ verify to have it Thou hast died 10
~, I'M ~, nelp you this morning rightly to cipher
snail Il profit man ii he shaII q. in a ~
"hole world and lose his own soulai,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-17
Great Eaters

1.-THE eaters of my time" wrote
careme in 1882, "were the Prince de
TalIeyrand, Murat, Junot, Fontanes,
the Emperor Alexander, George w.,
and the Marquis de Cussy. Men who
know how to eat are as rare as great
cooks. Look at the great musicians
and phi ysicians, be goes on with en-
thusiasm, "they are all astronomers;
witness Rossini and BoIeldieu, Brous.
sails. and Joseph Roques" The last
named backed this up in his treatise
on Edible Mushrooms, maintaining
that doctors who make name-Cor-
visart, Broussais, and half dozen
others-are epicures for their pa
TENTS sake as well as their own.
They can get q convalescent to eat
when nobody else can, TACT which
explains their success. Modern Lon.
don, too, We are proud to say. can
boast its successful medical gourmets.
De Cussy--it is vain to expect an
authority from him SAID that
Leonardo da Vinci. Tlntoretto,
Paolo Veronese, Baccio BandinelIi,
Guido, and Raphael were all noted
gourmands, fact which has not yet
perhaps had its weight in estimating
the naive abstinence OF the Dire
Raphaelites. who might even have
been veeetarians almost TO a man to
Judge from the type of their landscape
gardening. None of the foregoing
great men had the beatitude OF dying
at a table like some of the smaller fry.
DR.. CASUALLY, a man with wit and
palate so often met with in the
Almanach des Commands, died with
champagne glass in his hand and
joke in his mouth. Grimod de la
Reyniere's great-grandfathers death
was exactly alike-in a fit of laughter,
his lips still wet with Ay. Here is a
TACT for Mr.. Cation; Observation-Disclosures,
too, were hereditary in this family of
farmers.eeneral OF the revenue. The
Saturday Review.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-17
Amt ReekyYouns

One of the women who is idolized by
che veteran soldiers of Iowa. is Aunt
Becky Young, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
She went from New York State as a
member of the Women's Relief Corps
and served through the war. She never
failed the boys, as they well knew.
One of her patients who fingered a
long time after receiving a mortal
wound expressed great repugnance to
being buried without a coffin. Aunt
Becky promised him she would see
that he was "buried in box" When
the poor fellow died she found with H.
finite search scrap of lumber out of
which she set one of his comrades to
fashion a rude coffin When this was
completed, and they went to lay the
body within it, they found to their
horror that it had been removed. She
hurried TO the burying ground just in
time to find the chaplain offering up a
prayer over the open grave.
"What is prayer TO a promiseg" she
cried, and insisted that the body should
be taken from the grave, which was
done in spite of the chaplain's protest
and evident hurry TO get through his
part. Having carried her point, she
washed the poor face, brushed the hair,
and made all as decent as possible, and
then saw the soldier buried, having
kept her promise" through many diff
ficultips
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The old Blue Coat.

Very often before he died
Either wore his old blue coat,
Especially on Grand Army day
And when he went to town 20 vote
II was filled With holes aud buttons were
gone,
Aud his once straight frame had witbered
down,
So that il fit like the flowing folds
And the threadbare issue of an ancient
gown.
One day as mother stitched rent,
From an inside pocket paper fell
Yellow with years. and brittle aud stiff,
And this Is the story it meant to tell:
"Dear Martha, If / should never come home
From this cruel war. with its crimson dye,
Think Of ME sometimes--I know you VIII;
Martha. my wife, goodbye, good-byel
And saw the tears IN my mothers eyes,
Shining like drops Of silver dew,
As up 10 her lips the shred she raised,
Aad murInuged: "pll remember you,
Even till death and away beyond,
Where rivers wind DER golden sands;
NV soldier love. Pll think Of you
On the deafness shores CT the better land p
But shortly the old coat was hung away,
And VANISHED coffin stood in the room,
On which the candle light played and danced,
Tho ilie Watches there were filed with
gloom.
Jiist as twas took from the dead old man,
Tie old blue garment still hangs on the
wall.
And there we intend to let it remain
Iill the sleepers crasnble and tiinbers fall.
~. p. Chamberlain.
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The MedievaI Devil.

10 gain his end there we're no pains
she devil would not take, no situation
N whi,h ne would not place himself.
ne assumed the likeness of an elegant
young nan in order to lead astray a
giri called Maricken, whom he not un-
natura " induced to change her name
to Enmeken, any alIusion to the
Blessed Virgin being specially distaste-
ful TO him. Through her means he
gained more than a thousand souls.
out was at last robbed Of his chief
victim and accomplish through the
ehorts OF her uncle, a holy priest, in
spite OF all his exertions. for he feared
that on his return to hell he would be
tormented for his partial i'll success.
like q Carthaginian General. He
clothed himself with the BODY of a
beautiful Princess of Constantine.
pie, lately dead, in order to
marry Baldwin, Count of Flanders, on
account of the unrivaled opportu-
mites for evil which this position
would give him. And he acted for Is
years as iady's maid to a Portuguese
woman named Lupa, but was robbed
OF his prey after all; for since, amid
all her wickedness she had not ceased
TO reverence st. Francis and his dis
ciple st. Anthony, they brought her
the habit OF their order on her death
bed, and so saved her from the clutch.
es OF the fiend. Yet, in spite of this
zeal and versatility. he cannot be &C.
quilted OF the grave fault of some
times wasting his time. 1t could, for
instance, serve no great purpose for
the devils TO leap about the refectory
tables OF st. Dominic's convent. And
from the time which he devoted TO
teaching in the Black School hs did
not reap an unmixed benefit, for,
though 1.-THE devil took the hind
most" this was sometimes the mans
cloak or his shadow, and his more
able pupils, sueh as Semundr the
Learned, learned among other ac-
complishments, to exercise and cheat
their teacher.-The National Review.
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Fraternity. Charity. aIoraltr.
1t can never be said of the poor and
unknown Union soldier

III can never De SAID OF the poor ana
unknown Union soldier
Rattle his bones over the stones,
He's emily a pauper whom nobody owns
The Grand Army owns him. His
record makes him its care. He should
be the nations care. But when his
old comrades see that he is not such;
is 1t any wonder that they are drawn
together and, feeling that they must
stand alone, say with Tiny Tim, "God
bless you every one.g'
The Grand Army does something
more than lay away the dead. 1t
places comforts and flJwars at the sick
mans pillow; it makes the lot of the
widow less bitter and hard, and shields
the soldiers orphan from harm. The
flowers that will be spread to-day upon
the graves of dead heroes are emblems
of its sentiments-th fraternity, char
ity and loyalty whose influence is al
ways abiding in making the world bet
ter and brighter and happier.
1t will not be long until the old SOL
dier's pens, and books, and needles,
and towels, and pard- sticks, and saws,
and pickaxes will be laid away; until
all the comrades. after the weary
march, viii be gathered around the
still camp fires of life's great battle
field; and when that time comes, let us
hope that they viii be mustered into a
brighter Sunday morning than this, or
than earth ever saw.
The Logan Monument.
The Department Commander of I'LL
nois in issuing the order for the annual
decoration in that State, makes the
following reference to Gen. Logan, the
founder of Memorial Day: The De-
partment Commander does not need
to remind comrades of Illinois of the
debt of gratitude which they owe to
the immortal founder of Memorial
Day, and he trusts that they will vie
with each other in raising general
fund which will enable us, with the
appropriation the State has made, to
bring his honored remains home, and
give them sepulture in the soil of the
State he loved so well and served SO
nobly, so that when this most sacred
of days comes round each year we can
strew flowers of remembrance and af-
lection over the grave of our comrade
here in his.own home. We remember
how he sacrificed his life in his untir-
ing efforts to relieve the wants of his
old comrades, always ready to assist
them by wise legislation and bys gen
erous contributions from his own mar
row fortune; he fell at his post pre-
maturely worn out by his indefatiga-
BILE labo-s. Let us show that we are
not ungrateful, and let us do our part
toward erecting monument that
shall testify to posterity how Illinois
honors her greatest of volunteer
soldiers, as well as one of her greatest
statesmen. The Commander trusts
that each post win make special and
judieious arrangements in ample sea-.
son TO make this effort effectual
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-17
Up and Down the social Lad.

der.
Everybody knows the way up the
social ladder. 1t has been shown to
those below my millions OF twinkling
feet. 1t is a broad ladder up which
people are always climbing, some
slowly. some quickly. From isordu.
roy to broadclcth; from workshop to
counter; from sHop-boy to master;
from shop to Office; from trade to
profession, from the bedroom over
the shop to the great country villa.
The other day brickIayer told me
that his grandfather and the first
Lord 0.'s father were old pals; they
used TO go poaching together, but the
parent OF Lord o. was so clever as to
open a shori, where he sold what his
friend poaciied. The shop began it,
yon see. The way up is known to
everybody. But there is another way
which we seldom regard, it is the way
down again. The Family Rise is tho
commonest phenomenon. Is not the
name Legion of those of whom men
say, partly with the pride OF connect
ing themselves with greatness, partly
with the natural desire which small
men always show to tear away some
thing ofthat greatness, "Why. ! knew
him when his father had that
shop" The Family Fall is
less conspicuous. Yet there are always
as many going down as climbing up.
You cannot, in fact, stay still, You
must either climb or slip down-un-
less, indeed, you have got your leg over
the topmost rung, which means the
stability OF hereditary titles and
landed property. We all ought to
have hereditary titles and landed
property, in order to insure national
prosperity forever. Novelists do not
as, q rule treat OF the Sinking Back,
because it is depressing subject.
There are many ways OF falling.
Mostly the father makes an ass OF
himself in the way OF business specula-
ton, or he dies too soon. or his sons
possess none Of their fathers ability,
or they take to drink. Anyhow, down
goes the family; at first slowly, but
with ever-increasing rapidity, back to
its original level. There is no country
in the world-certainly not the United
States-where young man might
rise TO distinction with greater ease
than the realm of the Three King
doms. There is also none where the
families show greater alacrity IN
sinking. But the most reluctant 70
go down, those who clings most tight
ly to the social level, which they think
they have reached, are the daughters:
so that when misfortunes fall upon
them they are ready to deny them
selves everything rather than lose the
social dignity which they think belongs
to them. --WalterBesant inLongman's
Magazine.
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never Too Late.

"My friends" said man at an ex.
perience meeting in Chicago suburb
a few evenings ago, as be arose and
looked around him with deep contri.
ton, 81 trust have begun new life
and yet my conscience impels me to
make full confession before l can
ask you to extend to me the hand of
fellowship. For fifteen years before |
came among you was manufacture
er of maple sirup"
"My brother, there is hope for your
exclaimed man on the seat In front
as he rose up and cordially grasped the
speakers hand 81 sold real estate for
five years in Los Angeles"
"Brethren." exclaimed the minister
in a voice broken with emotion, '.lei
us sing
"'While the lamp holds out to burn
The vilest sinner may return"
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vu,cKe., Courr.n,p ON neeora,


A certain young lady went out last
Wednesday morning to make some
calls. On her way she met a friend
who suggested that she should go tc
the matinee with him. She accepted
the invitation and he bought the tick.
cts. At the end of the first act he pro.
posed to her. She refused, thinking he
was joking. When the curtain went
down for the second act he renewed
the proposal, and so earnestly that she
asked time to consider it, which was
willingly given. No sooner was the
third act finished than she softly muir.
INJURED, yes" After the matinee was
over the engaged couple hailed pass.
ing street car and crossed to Camden
where they were married. The whole
occupied three hours and fifty min.
utes.-P hilapelpiia Times.
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An Interesting Curiosity.

One of the most interesting curiosi.
ties in the United States is piece of
mosaic from the floor of the temple
of Astarte, built by the Romans at
Carthage. which is preserved in the
National Museum at Washington.
1t is two thousand years old, and
represents yellow lion in the act OF
killing q horse. Eyes. teeth, blood
spots and all are depicted by bits of
stone. The fragment is about seven
sst square, and 10 valued at $40. 900.
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what coward that Major Smith is. ,
said Jones to Robinson, why, the very
sight OF gun-powder would make him i'll.
How did be ever manage to become an
officer in the army2" Don't cay any.
thing against Smith, " answered Robinson.
The once saved my life. /" Saved your
lifel Nonsense. impossible! What do you
mean?" Il mean that | was in the first
stages OF consumption; | was losing
strength and vitality every day with the
terrible disease, when Smith advised me
to take DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis.
covery. had tried all kinds of medicines
without success, and my physician had
given me no hope; yet here | am, as
well as ever a man was, and | owe my life
to Smith, and to the wonderful remedy he
recommended"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-17

Judge NJ f. Force. OF Cincinnati. has
been appointed commander at the soldiers
and sailors home at Sand usky. o.
Robert c. Hall and David Vincent were
hanged at Philadelphia. Hall murdered
his mistress, Mrs. Lillian L. Rivers, in Phil
adelphia, June 3, 1887. The crime was the
outcome OF an insane jealousy. David
Vincent, or Vinzenzo di Vita. the italian,
was runner for sailor boarding house
and during a drunken quarrel killed George
carlotfatti, Greek sailor. by stahblng
him.
The horrible human holocaust at Ar
Iington, Nebraska, by which seven human
lives were lost still remains an iinpenetra-
bic mystery. Not u mark could be found
on any OF the eharred remains to indicate
foul play and thorough nsestigation
fails to discover even a clue upon which to
base suspicion. The eoroner's jury return
ed a verdict OF accidental death by burn
ing. some intimate il might have been
the work oil rejected sutton FOR the hand
OF Emma Freeze. the only survivor OF she
family who was absent on visit. The
remains were gathered together and placed
in ioar collins to await Mics Freeze ar
rival for burial.
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Gen. Grant.

thine has developed the affection
ate regard which the people of all sec
lions entertain for the virtues of this
illustrious man, and 1t is fitting that
those of us who knew him should set
the example to those who are to follow
of thus annually doing honor to his
memory" General Sherman to the
Southern Generals.
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rarson'. oratorIear CHART.

"One of our prominet local minis
ters was called away from the city yes
terday," said a deacon who possesses
considerable dry humor, ''and a substi-
tute preached to the congregation. Not
having sermon prepared, he made
Use of one of Rev.--'s manuscripts,
and could not help showing US the trac-
ings on the margin, which kept him
smiling all through deep and serious
discourse, much TO the wonder of the
congregation. Among other notes on
the margin were: Bite lip bitterly
extreme agitation 'pious smile, loud,
ringing voice, and similar inscriptions.
When Rev comes back I'll wager
that he drops elocution for some time
to come. "--LOaisr;tie Courier Journal,
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THE CAMP FIRE.
Memorial Day Order Fraternity,
Charity, Loyalty The Logan
Monument.
slustered Out-une E.x ono.

Mustered Outline BY One.
One by one our comrades fall,
One by one they pass away,
And beneath the sable pail
Ono by one are laiu away,
Comrades, who the next will be
That the summons will receive
None MAY know, but certainly
Never yet had one reprieye.
One by one they pass from earth
One by one we bid adieu;
Then remember all their worth,
All tn y did and bore for you'll
Loyal were they, true and tried,
IN their country's greatest need,
Trea on everywhere defied,
Ana 10 traitors death decreed.
sosn the last one will be gone
OF the men who fought for right
Then no longer one by one
Nflll be buried nom oar sight,
Then. O | nd of ours. bewarel
Let them want ter nothing now,
Give t. all thy love nd care,
Ilaee the iamel on each brow.
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"BuRss AND ScALps III you are so
unfortunate as to iniure yourself in this
way, we can suggest remedy that viii
I've speak from experiencel soon relieve
you OF ell pain and quickly heal the wound;
it costs but twenty-five cents and is sold
by alldruggists-askfo for Perry Davis PAN
KILLER.
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His own diagnosis.

Mother-"And do you really feel so
very bad, Bobby"
Bobby es, ma. amt quite sick
enough to need any medicine. but I'm
little too sick to go to school" -Nesc
York Sun.
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sTMPToNs-Aoisturs; intense itching ami etingin :;
most at night; wcrse BY scratching. IL allowed 20
continue tIinors form. which ofte1 bleed AMI ulesr
ate. becoming very sore. SwAYSKs OINrNKNr stop.
the itching and bleeding. heals ucer1s ioa and In
many cases removes the tumors Hiseqaly eficaciop,
In curing al Skin Diseases DR. SWAYSE & SON
Pronrietozs. Philadelphia. SwAYEE's OIsTNESr car
10 obtained Of druggists. Sent b. mal 10. so Centa
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-17

Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers il
easy ri application. and never fails ia
color the beard brown or black as may be
desired. Try it.
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Better Than a Hero,

East St. Louis has a Judgment for ST..
900, 900 to settle.
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at seeing her charms OF face and form, de.
parting and her health imperiled by func.
tional Irregularities, at her critical period
OF life, was turned to Joy and gratitude
after efself treatment with DIR. Pierce
Favorite Prescription. 1t purified and en-
riched her blood, gave healthy activity
to thu kidneys. stomach, bowels, and other
organs. and her return to robust health
speedily followed. 1t is the only medicine
for '-omen sold by druggists. under posi-
tive guarantee from the manufacturers
or money will be refunded. This guaran.
tee has been printed on the bottle. wrapper
and faithfully carried out for many years.
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A Now JournaIlstio Development.

The American Medical Association will
meet in Now York next year.
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jeff Davis viii lay the corner stone OF
the confederate monument at jackson
Miss Nav 2
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Don't hawk. and blow, and spit. but use
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
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ltohIng PIlea.

The North Star Lung and Throat Bal.
sam is sure cure for Coughs and Colds.
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Nearly two blocks OF the business part
of Hot Springs, Ark. were destroyed by
fire, entaiiing a loss OF 500. 900.
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Thecommittee havingin charge the Chris
topher Columbus celebration offers prize
OF $40, 600 for the best book in any Ian.
guage. on the geographical discoveries OF
Portuguese explorers prior to the time oil
Magellan.
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A Young cIrl,s Grief

st. Paurs Cathedral Buffalo. was de
stroyed by fire. Loss, $3.50, 900.