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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-01
LIVE STOCK.

Cattle Active at Higher Prfces-Hogs Active
and Higher During the Day.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
Point Of Etiquette.

The "point of etiquette" in regard
to not sealing letters sent by the
hand of a friend, is to be considered,
undoubtedly, as settled by the usage
of polite society, And yet there are
two sides to the question. To in
trust TO u friend an unsealed letter
toa t}fird person is a compliment TO a
fr-:a, but why should it be thought
necessarily uncomplimentary If the
letter be sealed? On the other hand,
the sealing of II letter may be deemed
always advisable, for one good
reason at least. The contents ofan
unseGled letter are never safe. They
are safe so far as the honorable
friend is concerned, but not safe in
any other sense. They may be lost
from the envelope easily and inno-
Gently. They may beabstracted and
read by the servant to whom the note
is delivered at the door, or by any
prying individual who may find the
missive lying ON the'hall table await
ipp The owners arrival. Especially
unsafe it is to placean unsealed pack
ace articles of money value. Would
any sane man send $50 bill in an
unsealed envelope by the hand ola
friend or anybody whomsoever? The
friend himself if he knew the nature
of the Enclosure, would be very apt
TO protest against this sacrifice OF
common sense Mt the shrine of Ell
uuette.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
Two Newly Made Widows.

Frop She Boston Post
1t is said that some of the chief
railroads in the country employ spec
ial persons to inform the bereaved
family when an employee has been
killed. Considering that every year
a small army of men meet their death
on the track the statement is not in
credible. An old railroad man at
Reading, who has discharged this
painful office, gives the following
among other experiences:
at was only a few days ago that |
went to II home and found the wife
chatting and laughing with n neigh.
boris wife while she was at work
among her rose-bushes and flowers.
She hadn't been married very long.
| first asked whether her husband
was at home. She stared at me, be-
came white as piece of chalk, then
shrieked and fell among the plants.
| helped to carry her into the house.
He's dead; my husband is dead,
] know he has been killed.
Who told your | asked, when
she revived
mo one. ! only thought so. Is it
true?'
at was easy then to finish my
errand.
Il once called on q woman to tell
her her husband had been killed by
striking against an overhead bridge.
This was three years ago, near Phil
adelphia. The wife curled up her lip
and replied" If he's been killed, hea-
ven has revenged me. He abused me
long enough. He'll abuse no more
women now
'That was the easiest job in my
line ever had. Five minutes later
the woman was in Mysteries and
tears.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
A Horse.Race as a Moral Agent.

"You have heard stories of con-
science money, perhaps but / think |
never heard of the refunding of Dor
rowed' funds being due to a horse
race said Mr.. W. II. Williams, OF
the Union News company, to the New
York Evening Sun. Recently one
of our former agents called and
asked for n private conference.
When we were alone he said that he
had defrauded the company of $500,
and that he wished to return it. |
told him he was perfectly at liberty
to do SO. Then, with native shrewd-
ness, he requested that no interest
should be charged ON the loan,
which was made when the system
was not as perfect as now. | admit
ted that the face value of the loan
would be sufficient under the cir
cumstances and he laid down the
money. When n receipt had been
given him ! ventured to ask what
had prompted him to restore
the funds. | gathered from him that
he had several times had enough
money together to pay me, but that
being an insane lover of trotters, he
had invested the money in horse
every time. Thus for five times he
bought n horse, and each one died.
1t looked like dispersion of Provi-
dence, and finally, when for the sixth
time he secured the money, he came
and paid me. ! hope his luck will
change as his morals have"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
The Women Of Burmah.

PROM Carter Harrisor's Mandalay Letter,
The women are far from ill-looking,
and many are not only pretty but
really beautiful. They donot fade and
grow old as in japan and Siam, but
continue fair when fat and forty. When
looking into their full faces one sees
,Ieci.ssd beauty. profile, however
Is defective They all have the Mon
golian cast of faee-high eheek-bones
short noses and fiat visage. These
maze n bad side-view. They are al
selfposscsscd, without boldness.
Easy and graceful in department,
without either eoyness or coquetry.
You viii ask how can form an opin-
ION on so short an acquaintance. /
viii reply | saw many women at the
yariouspagodas visited, in the shops
and attending the bazaars, and have
iortiiiedthe result of my own observa-
ton by information gained from men
and women who have resided hereto
many years. Europeanshave oppor-
tunities for studying this people not
given anywhere else in the East-for
the intercourse between the sexes is
quite as free as anywhere in Christen-
dom. Marriage is simply a civil con-
tract, dissolved at will. When dis
solved the property isequally divided
between the parties Certain forms
aregone through before theelders and
the knot is united. Not only do the
women trade and attend the shops,
the household and do light
field-work, but we saw squads ofthem
sweeping the streets in Mandalay.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
Dashing American Thieves.

1t is certain that the swiss anthori-
ties will obtain the extradition of
Billy Porter and Frank Buck, the
American burglars, who were arrested
in London a few days ago on charge
Of burglary committed in Munich.
Porter had been Swallowed from the
time he arrived in England, in 1887.
The jewel robbery at Munich was the
most daring in the annals of the
German police The robbers forced n
side door, cut through two ceilings,
and decended into the jewelry shop
by means ola rope ladder. They
left the ladder in the shop, together
with n piece of linen, which was after
ward found to be identical with
piece of linen found in Bucks house,
and in which some of the stolen
jewelry was wrapped. With the
jewelry was found a letter saying,
"Have left you something TO go on
with" Buck tried to conceal in the
waistband of his trousers u large
packet of loose diamonds. Both
dressed stylishly, and frequented
American resorts in London. They
were on friendly terms with Bond,
the famous bank burglar, and a re-
ceiver named Johnson. who owned q
steam watch. The latter formerly
lived in chambers, Picadilly, paying
rent of 300 farthings yearly. Re
Gently he took mansion at Clapham.
Not long ago Porter, Buck and
Johnson had u carouse in Porters
house at Chelsea. Getting into
fight, Johnson hit Buck ON the head
with fender and Buck fioored John
son and trampled upon him, smash
ing his nose. They were arrested,
but each declined to make a charge
against the other. subsequently the
three men had another carouse, when
all were arrested and fined in the Bow
Street Police Court for drunkenness.
On that occasion johnson gave an
assumed name. Porter was present
ut the fight between Mitchell and
Sullivan, and was the man at whom
the gendarmes fired when the specta-
tors were trying to escape after the
fight. Buck recently married a res
pectable English girl He bought a
fine house in Walham Green and pur-
chased a pair of horses and a car
riage.
Superintendent Shaw, of the Lon
don police, cleyerly recovered por-
ton of the Munich plumber, consist
ing of 800 unset stones, bracelets,
rings and other articles of iewelry,
and $500 in English and French
bank notes. The total value of the
booty recovered is about 100000.
In each house were found loaded re-
volvers, DISCUSSES, superb sets of
burglars tools, and scores of suits of
clothes and hats suitable for every
country in Europe.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
Counterfeiters at Sea,

The Rapple says that the gang
which has lately issued false French
bank notes is composed of wealthy
Russians and Austrians. They poss-
ess ships and crews and all the neces-
sary apparatus. The notes are en-
graved at sea-, and the plates are
thrown overheard into the water.
The ships put into ports where ac-
completes receive the notes, scatter
them, and give back those unused.
Then the whole establishment travels
to neutrality-suspicious. York Sun.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19


Edward Hnrrigan. the favoritq
actor, tells some amusing stories
about his early experiences in Califor-
MIA. Nearly twenty years ago he
was coming DOWN from a small town
to Sacramento by stage-coach. 1t
was cold, snowy night, and he and
misconceptions We're huddled together
smoking their pipes and longing for
the nights toappear Thestage-
driver and friend were holding a
desultoEy conversation on the box,
to which Harrigan listened for want
ofsomething better TODD.
Say, Bill, were you at that show
last night in the Eldorado Opera
House?''
"Werc /? Well should say / were,
and Jim, if / ever lay hands on those
crows that gave that show, III blow
'em full of holes, or my name amt
Bill Simmons. They amt worth a
pint o. beans.o
Harrigan was slightly amused at
this open-handed criticism, but the
next words of Jim him made u triile
uneasy.
"Bill, said Jim, "you d6l't mean
to say you don't know who them
fellcrs inside is?
mo, | don't" responded Bill.
why, they're the very actors
themselves
Then Bill shouted whoa" to his
horses and brought the stage to n
standstill. He descended to the
ground and opened the door of the
stage.
cit DOWN. was what he said to
the occupants. They did not seem
to understand bin. Git down, | tell
yer" he shouted again, 'or I'll pull
you out by the heels"
The people within tumbled out
with great deal of grumbling and
great many threats. When they
were all ranged about in the SNOW,
Bill looked from one to the another
and addressed them rs follows:
II haven gotmuch to say to you
fellers. But this is the way it is. /
saw you tryto givea show last night,
and you can't ride on my stage. It's
eight miles to town, and you can
tramp it. iouwon' tsuffer half what
| did last night"
The driver then mounteu the box
again, whipped up his horses and
disappeared. Harrigan and his
friends walked into Sacramento, veiy
mad, but not daring to give their
experience any publicity.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
The Flight Of a Cannon Ball.

To untutored hearers q formula set
down in algebra would convey less
idea of q hindered though not van
pushed cannon ball than would the
simple speech of a savage who, after
tracing its course (as only savages
CAM has ealledi it ga demonlet loose"
For not only doesit seem to be aimed
with a mighty will, but somehow to
govern it's action with ever-ready in
telligence, and even to have ''policy.
The demon is cruel and firm; not
stupidity, obstinate. Against things
that are hard and directly confront
ing him he indeed frankly tries his
strength, and does his utmost to
shatter them and send them in splint-
ers and fragments to widen the havoc
he brings; but with objects that are
smooth and face him obliquely he al
ways compounds, being ready on
even slight challenge tocome, as men
say, to flair terms" by varying his
line of advance, and even, if need be,
resorting to crooked, TO sinuous.
paths. BY dint of simple friction
with metal, with earth, with even the
soft, yielding air, he adds varied rota-
tory movements TO those first enjoin-
ed by his mission; he improves his fell
skill as he goes; heacquires strange
nimbleness; can do more than simply
strike--can wrench, canl lift, can toss,
can almost grasp; can gather from
each conquered hindrance new and
baneful power; can be rushing, for in
stance, straight on in II horizontal
direction, and then, because of some
contact, spring up all at once like a
tiger intent on the throat of camel.
-Kinglake's "Crimea."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19


CHcaeo-No. spring wheat, s1@s2ssc,
no red s2lsc: No. 2 corn, 4SIsc; No. 2oats;
Ole, No 2 rye, 53c; No. = barley, 63c; No.
! TAX seed, s11o@1 IL; prime timothy
ssfds $40; mess pork, per Dbl, $13.l5es
1870, lard per 100 lbs, S.l0mS. l2ls;
snort ribs sides (loose1. 1856; dry-saited
shoulders tboxcsi), Sc 5o@6 .62Is: short clear
t1sies fboxed), S7.9Jets; whiskey, distil-
ieTs finished goods 81 20; sugars. cut, loaf,
- gsssc; butter. creamery, 15ta1 SIZE; dairy,
iSez@lslsc; eggs, i3iz@14c.
Wheat: no. ! hard s17se; No.
1 northern s0btc; No. 2, northern. IJ5tc; corn
5e@4Ge Oats, 30@32iSc Barley 30@5Oc.
fiaa. 81 OF. MiSed feed, s16@19perton Hay
Ss9s50
81 PrL-wheat No. ] hard, s2bsc; No
! Northern, Sic: No, Northern. Isc.
Tern, Sample, Ace; No. 3, 81 cents
Vats, No. 2 mixed, 32c bid; No 4,
shite. 3ic bid; No. ., 32lsc bid; No, .,
s''e- MiIlstuffs, Ground feed, $lI 90
corn neai. unbolted, $500; bran, bulk,
Ss.50, $3.50 asked. Hay, No. l,
~. No. l upland prairie s!.2v
isinothy, $40 asked; Flax Seed-Si. 90
New Potatoes, 81 .5o@2. IS per barrel asked.
Legs. lac bid, Ice asked.
hnsAuKEE-Wheatc cash. Zoe; July, IsMS;
august. IIlsc. Corn; No. 3, 41c; oats no.
! white, See Rye: No, l, soc. Barley; NO.
Z. 59c. Provisions steady. Pork Si3.oo.
Lard $50; August, $S.12z. Butter
larry, l3@ lie. Eggs; fresh, 13lsW lac.
theese; eheddars, si4tI 111sc.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
A Live Man Packed in lee.
ID tho St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

From the st. Louis Post-Dspatch.
Simpson Travelled on horseback to
a landing or the upper Missouri, and
boarded u boat bound for st. Louis.
He had not Travelled far when his
suspicious were aroused by tho acts
of half dozen men ON the boat. At
least once day, and sometimes
oftener, the boat would stop near a
sand-bar, and these men, getting of
the boat, would hastily dig a hole in
thesand, throwing intoit some object,
cover it up, and then Fastening on
deck, the boat would again resume
It's trip toward st. Louis.
"Who are you, and what is it you
are doing on those sand-bars? final.
" asked Simpson ofone who appeared
to be the leader of this particular
crew.
al have charge OF the death crew, "
he replied
death crew." replied Simpson in a
startled manner. "What do you mean
by that?"
"Why, stranger, don't you know
that the cholera is all over the coun-
try, and thousands of people are dy.
ing every day."
This was news 20 Simpson, SO isso-
lated a life he had been leading in the
Rocky mountains, and he hurriedly
inquired:
is there cholera on this boat?"
EYES," replied the boatman, "and
they are dying pretty fast. Look
out, stranger, your time may come
next. This was emphasized by the
boat again stopping and another
corpse hastily buried in q sand-bar.
The next day Simpson was attacked
with the cholera, and lying
down near the smoke-stack thought
his time had come. One of the death
crew coming and rolled him over,
and, giving him shove with his
foot, caused Simpson to utter a cry
of pain.
"Not dead yet, uttered the boat
man, "his time will soon come" The
boatman was starting away when he
heard. Simpson faintly cry out:
Come back" The boatman returned
and Simpson said "Tell the cap
tain or clerk of the boat that | wish
] to see him.
The ofiicercame, and raisingupon his
elbow, Simpson began to gasp out:
| don't want to be buried on sand
bar on the Mississippi river and be
eaten by the catfish. / am very sick
and don't think | can live long. !
want you to take my body to st.
Louis for burial. | have little gold
dust" continued Simpson, handing
it to the officer, "here take, it. II
that is not enough my father in st.
Louis will see that you are literally
paid
whats your fathers manner"
| Simpson
Ellis full name?"
'Dr. Robert Simpson,
"My God, manp' said the officer,
CDR. Simpson is my family physician,
and you-you are his long lost son
George. Why, / have heard more
talk about you than any other young
man that ever left st. Louis"
Simpson was given the best of care,
but after going through Il terrible
paroxysm of pain, was considered
dead, and the officer had his body
packed away in n box and covered
with ice. Some time after one of the
crew, passing near the box, saw the
ice moving, and then piece after piece
of ice was crowded over the sides OF
the box. fastening to the office, he
shouted out: "That dead man is
coming to life." Simpson had only
tainted away, and was not dead.
He finally reached st. Louis, and his
reception at the old home was indeed
a royal one.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
without the MiedIeman,s Aid.

Every morning there comes to the
house In which ! live fine hale, old
man, with the fresh scent of country
lanes about him, who brings an
abundant supply ofvegetables, of a
quality one can only find In the most
expensive green groceries and fruit
stores. He makes a business of
serving the products Of his little
market garden a-ross the North
river to IL choice list of customers in
certain apartment houses of the bet
ter order. He sells all that he can
deliver, and the prices he gets, while
reasonable enough to satisfy his
patrons, are sufficiently liberal td
compensate him handsomely There
are other men, notice, who make d
speciality Of milk, eggs and otlierfresh
table commodities, which they deliver
after the same fashion. directly from
their farms or poultry yards. They
pay no tribute to middleman, nor
are they under any expense for d
city shop. They begin by drumming
up customin good houses, and; as
they serve the best Of material; Are
not long in establishing d profitable
connection. After this it is plain
sailing with theia.
The business of putting up pre-
serves and jellies seems also to be ex-
tensivelyfollowed byr rural housewives
who seek their industry in much the
same way. Some of them advertise
in the family papers. The majority
employ drummer to beatup custom
III town: The fact that they can afford
the expense of advertisement or the
salary ofan agent, and still make a
greater profit than ii they sold their
products to the shops, may serve as
a slight hint of the proportions of
gain that fall to the middleInan or
retailer, A man iii Fordham who
has quite an extensive fruit farm
which, thanks to his passion for i'm
proving .varities, produces some of
the finest fruit in the country, in
forms me that he now gets nearly,
three times as much for the product
of his orchard, which he retaiIs him
self, than he did when he sold it to u
fruiterer. And still his customers get
it cheaper than they did from the
fruit shop.--Alfred Trumble in New
York News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
Down On His Luck.

There are people in the world who
are continually speaking of their ILL.,
luck. One of these discontented beings
was passing through the street where
/ am mt present working. Something
glistened on the sidewalk and he
stopped to pick it up. 1t was six
pence. Dang it, he exclaimed in a
tone of petulant disappointment, ''ii
anybody else had found it it would
have been a shilling. dundee News,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
\ X X \
The Animal Millennium.

Al not go to the extent of some
.ntist /. said a distinguished stu
afthe animal kingdom recently,
tbs opinion that d time will ever
i when the lower animals will
- the power of speech, but
|-alv believe that in d few genera
- certain of these animals will
rss,e 10 a wonderful degree in the
alter Of intelligence. Experiments
81 been already made in England
IN demonstrate that some of them
capable OF almost everything
ant thepowerto speak. Shepherd
rs have beeen taught to count,
81 Al the order of their master.
II bring back certain number OF
sep from the pastures, II credences
10 be placed IN the reports which
IsFe bsn made from time to time
kithin the last few years, and which
ears the stamp of authenticity.
| Elm order that the education of ami
nalx like cats, dogs and horses,
Ebich have already shown a certain
6erree Of mentality may be brought
Is the highest state of perfection it is
Sseoessary that the more intelligent
kfthose brutes should he kept apart
|fpm others of their kind and should
Is interbred while their offspring
|aeu.a be treated in the same way.
A horse trainer of national renown
soli me not long ago that he had
lsen working on that theory for
pssny years, and that he found the
offspring Of trick horses were much
more easily taught than those which
saiae from animals never trained in
he ring.
sThe associations with which i'm
snmai Is surrounded have a wonder
aleifect uponitsmental development,
,srn though no special pains have
Been taken to educate it, as it is the
'ase with oureommon household pets,
Ehich have for generations been sub
rted to gentle influences. Yet the
,rogenitors of these domestic animals
,nce roamed the forest as wild and
as thcpantherin the Indian
ungies, ard even now are found wild
md ferocious in certain parts of the
forld. How, then, can we forecast
he extent to which they can be edu-
atel during the myriads of ages OF
lss fyfure?.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19

Patrick Joseph O'Brien, mcmber of IN
British parliament, was released fromthe TUT
lamore Jail, his time OF service under the sen
teIco of three months Imprisonment imposed
on him fur violation of hecrimes act having
expired. He was Immediately taken in
charge by officers and conveyed to the Kill
kenny Jail. where he will undergo further
Imprisonment OF three months for an offcnse
of the same nature.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19

In Japan the oid-sehool physicians are per-
mitted 20 wear only wooden swords. This
is a gently sarcastic way of expressing the
opinion that they kill enough people without
using Weapons But the druggist who in-
PRODUCED DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry into the Empire, carries a tine steel blade.
II was found that all who tried this wonderful
remedy for coughs. colds. eonsumptive tend
encies, blood, skin and liver troubles, were,
without exception, greatly benefited. The
Mikado himself is said to have "tone'l up"
his system by it's use, and the importer was
therefore permitted the exceptional honor of
wearing the sword of the nobility.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
DO moi rhink for a nomept.

that catarrh will in time wear out. The the
DRY is false. Men try to believe it because Il
would he pleasant il true; but il is not, as all
know. Do not let an acute attack of cold in
the head remain unsubdued. 1t is liable TO
develop into catnrrh You can rid yourself
of the cold aud avoid all chance of eatarrh
10y using Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. II al
ready afflicted rid yourself of this trouble
some disease speedily by the same means.
At all druggists.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-19
p: W. 20 l..
f: 1S35-1S40.

Then he carried it home to his wife. And
Mt the gaycst moment of the evening, for
the young couple INDUCED in q little spree in
honor of the day, Lucy found time to escape
from the light hearted party of friends and go
and spoon with her fool of husband for two
minutes or SO in the nursery, and hold her
den perception of one of those strange shad-
ows that sometimes fall-from heaven knows
where-across our sunniest path, she said:
do you suppose shall ever be so hungry,
dear, that shall have 60 part with this?"