Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-05

candidates Tor county offlcefs
now take the humble voter by the
hand and enjoy hearty, friendly
shake. How pleasant it is for gen.
tlemen to dwell together in unison,
once year.
Printed calico is the Oldest and
most aristocratic goods in the world
having been in use 146S years be-
fore Christ. The Rhenicians used
aud manufactured calico in their
palmy days.
JUDGE SPENCER will be
here ON the 10th of this month to
enable all who desire it to take out
citizens papers. Remember the
time and come III and be made all
American citizen.
Amt 1t funny, though, to see
u doctor look solemn when he is
told there is a great deal of sickness
around. The only thing that is a
parallel is to hear a lawyer talk about
the folly of going to law.
-"No girl ever gets along well
without mother, "says an exchange
We are prepared to fully endorse
that proposition-it would be diff
cult for a girl to even get start in
the world without a mother.
AN eminent bee man says he is
satisfied bees have memorses. So
are we-they have way of sitting
down suddenly and leaving their
memories Behind them, that is both
impressive and entertaining.
"A dreamy philosopher has dis
covered that mosquitoes ase anima-
ted by the souls of wicked men,
who have gone to their last account
If this is true a good many wicked
mems souls are being plastered up
on bed room walls these days.
The dignified father of the
family now roameth about the house
at night. He has bundle Of cloth
in his hand, and he gazes at the
whitened walls with murder IN his
eagle optios-he's looking for mos
quitoes to flatten out.
-"Luther at the diet of worms"
was picture before little boy in
town the other day. After a care
ful examination he exclaimed: INA
/ see Luther and the table, but
where's the worms?" His mother
laughingly gave it up.
"A fellow who has taken our pa
per for four years and never paid a
cent, theatens to be our 'fpatron"
no longer. He is just such pat
ron as rat i'll the corn crib, cat
in pot of cream, or Democratic
office. holder in the public treasury.
Hogs planted in hills two feet
apart aud well cultivated, at this
season, are very profitable. Cattle
are ripe in November, but in get
ting them off the trees care should
be taken not to brulss the limbs.
as an agriculturalist se are bound
to keep our readers posted.
If girls don't get square down
to business in this year, peculi-
arly their own, it will soon have
ghded, on the noiseless wings of
time, into the bosom of the ages,
without their having fulfilled their
destiny. Girls let not the emerald
yerdure elevate itself under your
footsteps.
"A bashful young man was out
riding with his girl the other day,
when he had occasion to get out and
buckle the animals cruper-strap.-
lie gazed straight ahead, stammer-
ed, blushed, but finally explained
that he chad to get out and fix the
horses bustle--its got loose some
howl" No cards.
I'm political discussion last
Saturday u Democrat insisted that
Thurman was not the father of nor
on the committee that framed the
famous fwar failure" resolutions
so confident was he that he said he
would bet his ears on it. "My dear
sir" replied his opponent, Hyou
shouldn't carry your betting to such
extreme lengthsw The boys all
grinned.
An exchange truthfully re-
marks: can editor can go through
the streets and ask a hundred peo-
pie, Whats tho news?' and ninety
nine out Of the lotswili say, Moth
ing special!n and yet fifty of that
number know something, which If
not eound in the next paper will as
tonish them greatly, disappoint
them more, and perhaps make them
mad as hornets" Don't be afraid
to tell what you know when the edi-
tor comes round, and thus help
make q newspaper.
Except living man, there is
nothing more wonderful than q
book, a message to US from the dead
from the human souls wo never
saw, who lived centuries ago, or
who resides now thousands of miles
away. Their ideas speak to us,
arouse us, teach us, comfort us,
open their hearts to us as brothers.
1t is a wonderful thing that we
should know the thoughts Of 9TH
els who have lived way back in the
dim vista of centuries.
Yes" said a husband, dream.
lily to his practical wife the other
night. "We grope in darkness, we
stand upon the verge of infuity and
try in vain to bridge it with the
soul warnings that possess u.s."
les, she replied, ''that reminds
me | wish you'd leave one of your
old nightshirts, | want it for pat
term" and then she gaily pranced
into the next room humming "My
Johnnie was a shoemaker" while
he sat still and medltated.
The reason why SO many boys
fail to be successful in their life av-
ocations, is because they fail to
make specially of their callings.
1t may be set down as an indisputa-
bic fact that fully nine-tenths of the
successful men in this country are
those who choose q business or pro-
fession and devote their whole at
tentlon to that choice with a deter
mination tn suoceed. No matter
what man follows, if he deyotes
his whole time, attention and abili-
| tY to it, he will succeed. It is q