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The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
4 RObber Syndicate,

1t is hard enough on the United States
TO be to great extent, made the dump
ing ground of the paupers, malcontents
and shiftless of all nations, but surely
insult is added 10 injury when emissaries
of alien syndicstes attempt to rob Uncle
Sam in broad daylight of his rich timber
lands, by means of fraudulent entries
brought about by subornation Of perjury
We rejoice in common with all other
patriotic Americans that the inwardness
of an intended gigantic land grab in
California by foreign syndicate was last
week brought to light, and Justice meted
out 10 one OF the audicious rings hire
lings.
From information received in Wash
ington onOct. 13, by Acting Commissione g
Anderson OF the general land Office, it is
earned that Charles T.. Beech was con.
victed of suborna:ion of perjury IN con
nection with the entry of large tract of
redwood timber land in California. The
land so entered amounts TO about 81 600
acres, the timber on which was estimated
by one OF the interested PARTIES TO be
worth $1l,000,000. A syndicate com pos
ed principally OF foreign capitalists Was
organized, i5 is alleged, for the purL cF 8
of securing 2 title TO this valuable tract
from the government, and an attem pit
was made to do so by means of fraudu-
lent entries,
Some 300 such entries were made, em
bracing about 16O acres each, in which it
is claimed perjury and suboruAtio1 OF
perjury was recklessly committed. OF
these entries many have been held for
cancellation, and steps are being tgker
TO secure forfeiture to the government IN
the other cases.
We trust the exposure of this bare.
faced atteSapt al public robbery will act
as warning to foreign carpet baggers
to keep their hands off Uucle Sans
property. Trusts, synoicgtes and all
other forms of monopoly, however harm
less .helr intentions, are among he
greatest curses Of our modern civiliza
ton. They are un-American and must
go.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17

the smoke; "that is to say there is less
violent crime. But do you know what
kind of crime gains relatively-yes, and
think ab olutely toof" I deferred to his
superior knowledge. at is what might
be called selfish crime-crime of calcula-
tion as distinguished from crime of pas-
sion and violence. A few days ago The
New York Herald Published list of great
embezzlements in this country in the past
ten years-or to be exact ten and half
years. IL shows total of $50, 750, ,472, A.
The six month of 1888 show total of S.
2tO,0OO,063. That's well up TO the average,
and the biggest of them is within a month
passed-Juue 27, when teller Pitcher of
the Union bank, Providence, disappeared
with SSlS, GA. This is the growing crime
or ons of them.
The other IL the abuse and abandon
ment of wives. You think detectives are
hardhearted. Well, they have 10 be in
way or they wocld mclt at the sight of
sorrow We meet day after day. Poor,
hard working women washing aud scrub
bing to support Icuts of men, Who drink
up all they earn, Tender women with
little babes at their breasts deserted and
struggling from sunrise till late at night
10 support their little ones and scarcely
seeing their children that are big enough
to be out of their arms from one day to
another. That is the kind of ex 1erience
that makes man case harden bimself in
very self defence, and it is growing. As
we become more English in other things,
we become like them in our crimes. We
become wife beaters and wife deserters
like them. 1 tell you, if the women would
promise TO establish the whipping post
for wife besters and chain gang for wife
deserters, would be suffragist ia no
time,' and he talked SO earnestly that his
cigar went ont, and he flung it from him
with an angry vim that showed one thief
catcher hadn't been hardened farther than
the sarface.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
AN EASTERN MONARCH,
With I,5cO Wives Five of Whom He Kill

With I,5C0 Wives Five of Whom He Kills
Daily Just For Amusement.
\ French missionary who has jast re-
turned from Uganda shares the opinion
held by 40 many authorities that Stanley
i safe. He declares it absolutely i'm
possible that, II Stanley has succumbe
TO an attack, the news should not have
reached the missions. 1t Seems that
when the intrepid traveller started from
the Tails report was spread that he was
going 10 eat up Uganda, according to the
expression in fashion in those beDishted
regions. The missionary thinks that
Stanley Is keeping quiet for the present
either because no has 81 ms political pro-
lect IN view, which IL not yet ripe, or be
cause he fears that his appearance might
lead TO the m assacre of the English and
French missionaries, partlcu aIly the
former, r,who are now at the court OF Mon
anga, the sovereign of Uganda. This sa ne
Monanga is described by the Londou
Telegraph ass pussiaut negro king. raj
ing over 10,000000 subjects, and as fero
cious "a he Is powerful. He is accredited
with being the happy possessor OF 500
wives, five of whom he daily kills off Tor
his amusement. Sons time ago, NJ bn-
ango received from Asia Minor, through
tho medium of slave d. aiers IN Egypt, IN
telligence of the acquisitions IN de by
England and Germany on the II anzihar
coast. He ut once assembled ali MS cOur
tiers and made them swear that they
would eytermlna.e all the whites Who
might seek 10 "eat up Ugunda'" The
gra5 Result OF the ceremHa' was the i'm
prtsOnment of Mr. Cor Ion, an English
misaiuuary, VINO had uuluckIly selected
thai very day to read out - MDnonga a
lrt1er fruC Mr.. Parker, fellow mission
ary, r~pcoaching that monarch with his
en- rmities and exhortIug him To turn
over new leaf. Mr.. Gordon il, or was,
il durance as q hostage. Monanga's
very unpleasant behavior to him warned
the French missionaries ~ Withdraw
from his dominions, the only one who
has remained behind being NJ. Sourael,
whose medical skill is highly appreciated
by the tyraut, WAC has a decided horror
of death. NonoDga Is one OF the largest
slave dealers In Central Africa. He sup
plies the Motammedan dealers annual
with about 100000 slaves, whicl are tran
ported from the Ztnzihar coast to the
Persian Calf and the Eaphrates. Landed
on the shores of Arabia, the victims are
sent on th AsIastic Turkey, where they
ar solu "on the SLY" through the medium
of the pashas, who receive about 10 fras 6
per head for their trouble. Many how
ever, die on the road, and sometimes a
whole cargo Of these poor people are car
ried oil by sickness. In short, the story
related by this missionary IL sim pl y
heartrending, and he evidently iaclines
to the view that Stanley has been Keep
ing dark through the fear that the
whites whom Monansa has in his power
might be summari!y put to death with
insult and torture.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17

red cedar, maple, ash, cherry, cypress,
cottonwood, and of less i'm portance in the
commercial value the oak, walnut and
hickory. The willow is used quite ex.
tensively for the manufacture of baskets;
it grows quite rapidly, and in many
places willow farms started are returning
q handsome income.
Some OF the more highly priced woods
are becoming quite valuable on account
of their scarcity; among them we find
the poplar, walnut, oak and hickory. The
softer woods are more abundant, and also
grow to much larger size than the Same
species farther north; the cottonwood for
instance, often reaches fifty feet to the
first branch; the grain is not SC close but
almost all make a beautiful finish. The
red or sweet gum is now more extensively
used than formerly; it is somewhat dis.
posed to warp in drying, but its beautiful
color and the fine finish OF which it ad-
mits are rapidly bringing it into Il high.
er estimate as O. commercial wood. From
the present ontlcok the red gum, cotton
wood, sycamore aud overcup oak will
soon play the principsl part in the lum-
Der business OF the South.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
THE METROPOLIS OF ICELAND.
A Little Trading City in the Far away North
eru Island.

eru Island.
Reykjsvik, poor little metropolis of
1000 inhabitants, has, neverr helsss, itr
sights and sounds. Its houses, with but
few exec ptions of wood, consist usually
of a single story, but in isolated instan
ces rise 10 the dignity of two. Throush
the town raps wide and tolerabIy
straight street on which live several OF
the dignitaries of the island-ths bishop,
the governor, the chief Justice and
otner great members of the government.
Upon the side, surrounded by wooden
pGlinss, IS the publIc square, In the cen
ter uf which stands a bronze statue of
Thor Vaidsep, presented by the Danish
government TO the naive country OF the
rcni ptor.
At the further end is the little cathe-
dral, which contains r marble font by the
artist himself. Arouud the ff.ren,
sides OF the square are grouped the new
parliament house, the postoffice and a
school for Z iris, which draws its pupils
from all parts of the country. One o.
the most lm posing buildings ot the capi-
tel is the iaii, ana two of the most ave
inspiring of her cltiz MS are the police
men, who in turn patrol the streets in
felt helmets aud uniform.
1t was not discovered, however, that
they ever arrested anj body, necause no
body ever so far forgot h'm-~if as to war
rant arresr, the All nsrqurntly is al
ways empty, a fac that can be but im per
f-ctly understood when one sees ITS mani
t.st superiority TO all o'her dwellings.
Oae of the policemen exercises, in addI-
tiou To his function of guardian OF the
NJ af ha T..
laudic literary society, which was es'ao-
fah!shed as long ago ~ 1916, and hg.
published many works. He is also All au
tuor, and has written ~ least one vaiua.
bic book.
The streets of Reykjavik are unpaved,
but ut certain cornel-, wide apart, stand
lamp posts, wht reoh burn Kerosene la III Or
20 light the belated citiz II to his door
One of the most characteristic of street
nights Is the long line of ponies that al
most continually come and go, bringing
losos of dried i-h aad carrying back the
uecessarles OF life, and tlmo-t all of life's
necessary demands in Iceland must be
Srpplle from without. Even the wood
with which the houses are framed comes
from Norway and mus, be taken into
The interior on the bRcEs of horses. A
frequent sight is n procession of ponies
each with IA board on either side, fssten
ed ut one eui To he pack saddle, while
me other eud IL left 10 trail and bump
aloug the ruevrr road.
Ou pleasant mornings another kind OF
procs- sion is often seeu. | j. com posed OF
women and girls, each WI h "A wooden tub
and AL going to the warm spr,ngs to
do the household washing. The water
can be had ~ all temperatures, from
boiling hot, where it bubbles up out OF
the earth, to tepid, farther down the
i'ttie stream formed from the overho S
ID pptng up tubtnl of not water, the
0asher woman pGts her washing tn soak
and 'heL selects suitable place pom
the bank near the waters edge, where
she kneeis and rubs aAd wringss piece
by piece.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
The India Rubber Plant.

As rule this plant, says An exchange,
is a general favorite with most amatuers,
inRsmuch az it is very Ornamental and
having n hardy constitution, it is special
iy adapted for tina: class of cultivators.
Whel we'll grown, few plants have a more
majestic appearance, either when group
Ell with other foliaged and lowering
plants III the green house, in the window
garden, or indeed in the flower garden
during the summer months, for such in
some parts of the country they are used
extensively, although not SO much as they
deserve. Again, for embellishihg bal
comics, rooms, strircases, etc., or in fact
any pars of the dwelling house, few
plants are better adapted. Indeed, if que
attention is given TO watering, it will
thrive under the most adverse conditions,
and in the dry atmosphere of any room.
II thrives best in compost of loan and
sand, which should be somewhat rough,
especially if it is II good sized plant. The
potting, If it requires any should be done
in spring, as this will give the pant AN
Pile time for making wood during the
summer. At this period OF the year it
requires abundance of water, which, how
ever, must be given more sparingly dur
ing winter.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
How to..Eat.

IL is reported that Mr.. Gladstone as
cribes his splendid health and longevity,
says the Sanitary Fra, TO having carly
leaned one simple physiological lesson,
namely, 10 make twenty five bites at
every bit OF meat. Although the twenty
five bites might not make any i'm preston
on the meat in some cases, the interest
ing process of counting in every mouth
tu! must be species of rumination very
diverting TO the mind, and copgenial to
the statistical bent of the great treasury
minister. For the purpose OF mastica
tion, however, shaving the ment off THU
across the fiber with a sharp knife would
be more effective, and more favorable TO
sociability at meals. Most people eat it In
chunks, and so swallow it, after a treat.
meut that is merely luoricative, like :hat
of serpent.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17

been quiet but general emigration from
the bottle. The bees, with their wings
logged with the water Mr.. Middlerib had
poured upon them to cool and tranquil.
ize them, were crawling aimlessly about
over the sheet. While Mr.. Middlerib was
feeling around for it, his ears were sud
denly thrilled and his heart frozen by a
wild, piercing scream from his wife.
"Murder" She screamed, murder!
Oh! help me! Help! Help"
Mr.. Middlerib sat bolt upright in bed
His hair stood on end. The plight was
warm, but he turned to ice in minute.
"Where in thunder" he said, with pal
lid lip, as he felt all over the bed in fren-
zied haste-"where in thunder are the IN
internal bees?"
And a large "bumbls" with sting as
pitilegs as the finger of scorn just then
climbed up the inside of Mr.. Middlerib's
night shirt, until it got squarely between
his shoulders, aud then it felt for his
| marrow, and said calmly:
'"Here is one of them."
And Mrs. Middlerib felt ashamed of
her feeble scream when Mr.. Middlerib
threw up both arms, and with howl that
made the windows rattle. roared:
"Take him of! Oh, land of Scott, some
body take him off,
And when little honey bee began tick
ling Mrs. Mldderib'5 foot, she shriek-
ed that the house was bewitched, and i'm
mediately went into spasms.
The household was aroused hy this
time. Miss Middlerib and Master Mid
dlerib and the servants were pouring in
to the room, added to the general con
fusion by bowling at random and asking
irreve,ent questions, while they gazed at
the figure of man, little on in years,
arrayed in a long night dress, paving
fiercely at the unattainable spot in the
middle of his back, while he danced q
unnatural, weird, wicked looking jig by
the dim religious light of the night lamp.
And while he howled and danced, and
while they gazsd and shouted, navy
blue wasp, that Master Middle-ib had
put in tho bottle for good measure aud
variety and to keep the menagaric stirred
up, had dried his wings and feet with q
corner of the sheet, and after circle or
two around the bed to get up his motion,
and settle down TO a working gait fired
himself across the room and to his dying
day, Middierib will always believe that
| one of the servants mistook him for &
burglar and shot him.
No one, not even Mr.. Middlerib him
self could doub. shat he was at least for a
time, most thoroughly cured of rheu-
matism. HIS own boy could not have
carried himself more lightly or with
greater agility. But the cure was not
permanent and Mr.. Middlerib does not
| like TO talk about it.-Burdette
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
Mhlern LernsaieIn.

the ancient city. The wall surrounding
it Is two aud half mules in circumfer nee
from 20 70 30 feet high and feet thick.
There are tive principal ga'es tn the CITY,
named Jaffa, Damascus, st. Stephens,
Golden and Daylu's. Through Jaffa goes
the greater portion of the commercial
traffic. The tower is named after DAVID
and is used as citadel. Within four
quarters the Mohammedan, the Chris
tlan, the Armenian aud the Jewish. The
population Ia less than 25,H00, most
of whom are Meham nedans, who hold a
tradition that the city is 10 pass from
their control into the hands of the Chris
tians.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
Properly Worked Rnttcr.

Never lose sight OF the fact, says the
American Dairyman, that the all-impor-
tant point in making good butter lies in
working it properly. All other CON
ditions are simply tributary to this. One
wise man says ne can take melted butter
and by properly hardening it, he can
work it into fine grain once more. This
is a pretty bold statement, and yet it may
be possible, and shows how skillfuI one
may become in this line of dairying. II
we wished TO test the butter. making ca
paciiy of an applicant for an important
position, we would be satisfied 20 watch
his work on the butter worker aud putting
the butter in the Tub, then put the tier to
to it and note the gr&in. This would tell
the waole tale, 40 far as his skill was con-
cerned. We therefore advise those who
wish to become proficient in thus produc-
ing corrccE grain, for withou, this
knowledge your study ana labor viii be
all thrown away.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
CHoRus.
FARM NOTES.

A Russian is reported to have succeed
ed, after many experiments, in solidify
ing petroleum so that it may be handled
in cakes, like tallow. His very sim pie
method OF effsc:ing this result is to heat
the petroleum, and to add from one 20
three per cent. of soap. When the mix
ture cools it has the appearance of ce-
mept, and is as hard as talov. 1t
does not catch fire easily, and burss slow
ly, giving out a considerable amount of
heat. Much caution would seem TO be
necessary, in heating the petroleum, 10
avoid taking fire.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
SCIENTIFIC GLEANISGS,

By means of teceut i'm rovemrnts
made III the manufacture uf riiie-. as
many As l2O barrels can now hr rolled in
an hour by one machine. rhey are
straig htened cold and bored with GORE
spending speed, and uvan me r'tiing in
done automatically, SO that one man
tending six machines can turn out so or
40 barrels Der day. With tie "'d riding
machine 20 barrels were about the limit
of days work.
From an estimate oy W. KpAErausca it
appears that II the energy OF lightning
were stored up and distributed for cleo.
trio lighting, from seven - thirty five
flashes would be required to keep one in
candescent light aglow an hour.
4 construction Detail that is gaining
much popularity in some western cities
Is the brickiLg in of frame houses. The
building Is sided up with matched stuff
IA If complete, then brick faca wall,
four inches thick, is laid in contact with
the exterior, tied on by spikes about
every sixth course. A boy distributes
them all --around on top of the wall.
They are laid in the morther bed ready,
and driven through into the siding till
the heads are flush with the face of the
wall, when the next courses are laid, and
&C on. The walls present the appear
gnce Of solid masonry, are durable, and,
as they add to the warmth OF the build
ings, ssem to present substantial recon-
mepdations, especially in sewers climates.
Mr.. Denmau 'ss has published book
on land holding in Germany. He believ-
ed that the oommunistic system did not
prevail in the time of Caesar and Tacitns.
He takes the singular position that iso-
lated households developed into clan viii
lagos, and those into a community of
ownership, which worked out again into
property in severalty. Free villages and
serf villages existed as a late out out
growth of primotive organization.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
1T NEVER PAYS.

1t never pays TO fret and growl
When fortune seems our foe;
The better bred will look ahead
And strike the braver blow.
Your luck Is work
And those who skirk
Should not lament their doom,
But yield the play,
And clear the way,
That better men have room.
IL never pays To wreck the health,
In drudgiDg after gain,
And he IN sold who thinks tuat gold
Is cheapest bought by pain.
An humble lot,
4 cosy cot,
Have tempted even kings,
For station high,
That wealth will buy,
Not oft contentment brings.
II never pays! A blunt refrain
Well worthy OF a song,
For age and youth must learn the truth
That nothing pays that's wrong.
The good and pure
Alone are sure.
To bring prolonged success,
While that is right
In Heavens sight
Is always sure 10 bless.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17

The timbers OF the Southern States are
becoming searcer every year. There, as
in the North, the early settlers regarded
the forests rs obstacles TO be got rid of.
by cutting and burning, TO make way for
the plow. Ia this respect they far sur
passed the North in the destruction of
the timber, burning, drawing away-any
thing to get rid or the wood and clear a
place for cultivatiug the soil. As con
sequence, aided by the more recent saw
mills, many species have become scarce;
there are still, however, large forests to
be found. The species most numerous
now are the elm, pine, white oak, poplar,
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
HONE, SWEET HOME.

Mid pleasures and palaces, though we may
roam,
BE 1t ever so humble, there's no place like home
A charm from the skies seems to halow us there
Which. seek through the world, Is neer met
with elsewhere.
CuoRUs:
Home. Homo Sweet, sweet home,
There's no place like home, there's no place like
home.
An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain; ;
oh give me my lovly thatchd cottage again
The birds singing gaily, that come ut my call:
Give me them with that peace of mind, dearcr
than ALL
CHORUS.
How sweet 'tis 10 sit meath fond fathers smile
And the cares of q mother to smoothe the be-
guile;
Let others delight mid new pleasures to roam.
But give me, Oh! give me the pleasures of
home.
CHORUS.
To thee I'll return, overburdancd with care;
The hearts sweetest Solace will smile on one
there
No more from that cottage again will roam.
Be 1t ever humble, there's no place like
Hcmc.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
PASTURES AND MEADOWS.
Their Fall Treatment,


1t would seem waste TO feed or take
stock from pasture ano meadows about
the middle of October and give them dry
food; especially If there Is considerable
grass remaining. Yet considering the
advantages, II wilt generally pay. BY
taking of all stock early il wIIl give the
roots chance uot only 70 strengt hen
mselves but 70 form protection
against the cold ana storms Of winter,
producing a growth of top which ac,s As
mulch. The results are a apch earlier
pasture, ia the spring Nhen il = most
needed, and a stronger healthier growth
the whole season following. There are
many fields of com stalks and meadows
going To waste practically by not chang
lug the stock from he meadow to the
stacks early enough. The fall rains 5000
destroy the value OF the stalks as soon rs
they began to ripen or after frost, while
that Is Just the time the meadows want to
be left alone--except that they will all
welcome good top dressing of manure.
Otherwise they should be allowed to pre-
pare themselves for winter the sama as n
tree tipens up, or an animal stores up fat,
FOR the cold season. The hay field has
done its duty by producing its crop. and
il imposed upon by pasturing it in the
fall, exposing its roots to the changes Of
the weather, it will always show the
effects in the future by decrease in yield
and quality.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
A Detectives Opinion or Crime.

ives, supp ose men are growing bet
ter" said a prominent detective, thought
fully, slowly putting at a cigar as if he
drew trial balances of good aud evil with