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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
Clcseland.s Weakness.

President Cleveland has given two open
PROOFS OF the extremity TO which his cam
pnigu is reduced-the delay in his letter OF
acceptance and his sudden change of base
on the fisheries question. The general public
~disapproyai of Free Trade has made the
preparation Of his letter a task which a man
neither undecided nor d~ilatory has put of
long past the latest date in the past, The
complete change Of front on the most i'm.
portant issue ia the foreign affairs OF his nd
nlinistration is one which no president wouId
have taken unless he felt the pressing need of
creating a diversion in his iayor.
Whether he has succeeded IL is yet too early
to say, but the confession of wcnknessjnyoIy
I'd is already plain. Step by step Mr.. Cleye.
land has surrendered TO the demands of
politics. The first surrender was on civil SER
vice reform, first in appointments and next
IN the free presence OF public officers at con
rentions. Their assessment is steadily in
progress, ms we show in another column.
Ills next concession was in letting poEs the
River and Harbor bill. The President who
had gained no small share of his reputa.
ton both at Albany and at Washing
ton by the zeal with which he had vetoed
assaults on the Treasury, large and small,
permitted the largest River and Harhor hill
on record to become a law without his assent.
The misdireeted vigilance which had been
applied to pension bills upon the principle
that it was better that nine deserving pcr-
sons should fail of their pensions than that
one person without merit should 90 on the
rolls slept when confronted With a bill whose
needless extravagances were larger than nj;
the savings Of all the President'e pension
vetoes put Observation-Disclosures Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
Flowers in the HAT.

1t is the custom in the Tyrol ifs
man, when he is engaged to Be u
ried, to wear n bouquet in ms =
Thedamsel gives him, every daI :
two, a fresh bouquet, picked y
the tiower-pots in her wlnogz
Should she prove tickle, and jlt
swain, the other young men q z
village assemble under her wibas :
and throw down the iiowerspoe
stranger wonders, on seeing 90 ~
men with bouquets stuck n "
hats, why they do not marry,
tally as not n few Of them are "
we call "old bachelors 1S
PLANTATION is that the village ~
mune will not allow any persea !.
marry unless he can show tass
has laid by a sum of money sup !
to support n family.
A lady, travelling through ",
IN a stell-wagon, q cross betwe7
dilligence and an omnibus,
heard the driver talking to a W.
iils side on the box, and confpia1s
oil his occupation. He had
hard for many years, he said
money enough to marry; bus
sum was far below what It ~
before the commune would ST
psfmission to marry the wolias
Mnom he was engaged. It incf
81 slowly that he did not knos :
snouid ever get the coveted
enm sometimes a dozen or 11f<
aged young men and wonas1
eponaE OF ever getting
m;ss;s 70 secure the commaas
b %nso.on, go on a pilgrimagets
snere, they are marr;sS.a.ss e t szs
return to the nssvlye {4e go
are fined as a ~punishnsdz
ing the law.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
The First Railroad In Russia.

When the railway was first opened
between Moscow and st. Petersburg
it was an object of great terror to
superstitious peasantry Of Northern
Russia, who thought there must GER
tainly be some witchcraft or magic
In an invention which could make q
train of heavy a r run along with
out horses at tho rate of twenty
miles an hour, when the best speed
of the wagons to which they were ac-
customed was only three miles an
hour, or four at the very outside.
Some of them would not even GO
within sight of a train, and madethe
sign of the cross whenever they heard
one rattle past. Others eeped timid-
ly over the palisade of the railway
station TO catcha GLIMPSE ofthe fear.
full smoke-breathing creature, which
they believed to be n living monster,
and when the steam whistle sounded
they cried out, Hear him screaming
He's hungry, and wants to eatsome-
bodyl' and took to their heels at
once.
But little by little this terror began
to wear AWAY. The village priests
were seen to go to and fro by train,
and the simple country folk thought
that what they did could not he
wrong. By degrees the peasants
themselves began to try the "'smoke
wagons too, and one day an old
man named Ivan Petrovitch MasloG,
who had never been out of his own
village till then, made up hismind to
go and have a ] look at "Mother Mos.
cow" which all Russian peasants
reverence as the finest city in the
world and the real capital of Russia,
Now it happened that the down ex.
press and the up express met each
other at the station of Bologoe, mid.
way between Moscow and st. Peters.
burg, where the passengers of both
trains stopped to have supper,
Among she crowd of people that got
out of the other train Ivan suddenly
| recognized an old friend. The two
went into the r~efreshment room to-
gethcr, had q chat over their steam.
ing tumblers of tea and lemon juice,
and then Ivan, without thinking Of
what he was doing, got into his
friends train instead of his own, and
was soon travelling back tow ards tho
| spot whence he had started.
Their talk went on merrily for q
while, for Ivan's friend never thought
of asking the old man which way he
was going. But presently Ivan be.
gan to grow silent and grave, as i
bordering something which puzzled
him very much; and at length, after
sitting for nearly five minutes with
out uttering q word, he suddenly
broke out:
"Ah, Paval Yurievitch" paul, sor
of George), "what q wonderful thing
these railroads are, totbe surel Her,
nm / going to Moscow, and here arr
you going to st. Petersburg, and YET
we're both travelling in the sam,
: carl'-Harper's for August.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
.A,.a that WINS aiias

m.And that was all?' asked s..
Maxwell, he didn't gag You and
servants? He was alone? He d;dss
offer violence TO you2
why, mol He was very no,.
and gentlemaniy--quite as snueh
YOU are at this moment, Georrep =
"sOb, the devill' exclaimed GeoxM
with a wild outburst. What 81
fcrnal ass I've made az myseln
cuse mo. pet, but | can't helm il -
drive over and tell the police aha.
it,
That's what he did, coneIns
| Bonfield, ''and that's the way enz
TO know about it. But after talt:zs
the thing over with me, and ~
consulting with the smartest dssasz
ives we had at the time, we cam
the conclusion that there Wa
chance of recovering the monev n e
pair were toe slick. And in MI. ls
all we've done since then We W NJ
nothing more of the $40, 600. no.
Mr.. Thomas Jefferson 0dell and Y
PAIL -
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

It is stated that the marriage oil
the Prince OF Wales daughter is
postponed because Parliament is not
in a huinor to grant the usual dowry.
This suggests the foreboding that il
they cannot marry till Parliament
gets in the humor to put the funds
for that purpose, the royal young
ladies win be doomed to a life of ce-
libaev.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
News about People.

Tho funeral services Of the late Chief Justics
Jones', of Washington territory, were held at
Rochester, MINI. Early In the day
people began TO arrive by teams from
the sirroundingcountry, and thatrains from
different points arrived during the forenoon
with Communicates from Winona. 0watonna,
waseca, Austin and other places, in uniform.
The number Of Masons in line was nearly soc
and said to be the largest Masonic funeral
ever held Ia Southern Minnesota.
Charles crocker's viii, fled mt San Fran.
cisco, appoints the widow rs executrix, and
disroses of an estate worth something over
$25 ,250, 600 as follows: Real estate, 81,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

A contemporary remarks that the
cash prices Of lions and tigers have
been slowly advancing of late, until
ore of these animals costs fully lie
per cent more now than it did five
years ago. We fancy that this an
nouncement viii create dismay and
co~nsternation in many an American
home as another evidence of the
manner in which monopoly is slowly
but surely advancing the cost o
household necessities.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

nthe Governor of Kentucky has
any militia AZ bis disposal he shoald
turn them loose upon the McCoys
and the Hatfields. The only way to
end the feud of these two families
seems to be to Kill them all of, and
the sooner this is done probably the
better.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

An amateur gardener mistook one
of The rankcst and most prolific
weeds that grows for rare towering
shrub, and took it home and plented
it in his garden. He tended it cure-
fully and watsred it daily, but the
blamed thing wiited and died. Thenhe
plucked it up by the roots and threw
it over the back fence, and in two
weeks it had grown so rapidly that
four feet of it crawled between the
fence pales, and viii overrun the en-
tire garden, if the owner dosen't at
tempt to cultivate il.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

There seems to be no exaggeration
in the reports of the recent discovery
of gold in Michigan. 1T is estimated
by experts that the quartz viii yield
from s3e,0O0 to 100000 per ton.
There are two aso why prospect
ORE are not rushing into this terri
tory as they did into California in
1919. In the first place it takes
time and capital to get at the
quartz, and then every acreo Of ground
Is owned by some one. There is no
room for squattersas there is farther
,ros
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
A Washington Sensational pre.eA.,

The nations capital has a young
preacher who is trying to blossom
out as the most sensational pulpit
orator in this part of the country.
He bears the peculiar name of Ed Hen
Sven, and is Mt present in charge Of
one of the Baptist churches. Hegaw
notice a few weeks ago that hewouH
commence a series of Sunday evening
sermons on Washington wickednes
His opening shots were scattering as
if he wanted to be certain that hs
new style of preaching would take
with the press and the people. Ina
general sort of way he told his hear.
ers in effect that the Capital city vas
worse than ancient Babylon, and
promised details later. Only one pa
per noticed his sermon. The parson
is young, and has a dudish appear
ance. A few daysafter his first effort
he was around on Newspaper Bow
leaving his card, andincidentally trg
ing to discover if any of the OUTSIDE
papers had referred to his sermon
Indeed, he said that he had beentch
that one of the London papers had
an account of his first sermon. He
was told that nc London publsha
had become crazy enought0 orderly
telegrapha Washington sermon. Tn
last effort OF Rev. Ed Hez Sven was
aimed directly ateditors, correspond
ents and reporters. Hepicturedt then
rs a horrible class of citizens, and
said that the reporters would gladly
lie for their editors and that theyga
their orders from their superiors. ix
Post has taken hold ofthis cleria
STRIPPING, yearning for n%otoriety, ans
has published one of his letters MAJ
ing n request that a reporter be So
without fail to write up his sermon
Such a man as this can't last long 9
a preacher, and when he pleturs
Washington as being worse that ~
other city Gifts size he simplydosa
know what he is talking about ~
according to the common expressaa
so often heard, he ought TO take :
the town. and find out something
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
News From all Parts Of the World
In a Condensed Form
WASHINGTON grieaets

Fhepresident returned 10 the SENATE with
3nt approval the bill for the erection OF I
pubic building at Sioux City, Iowa. He re
turned 20 the house also without approyai
Inc bIil appropriating S1,214.51 for the 10
gel OF Clement A. Lounsborry, late postmas
ter at Bismarck, Oak.
Inst Sunday Benjamin Franklin Of Blue
Earth City, MINI, went TO Washington to se
silfe aa increase Of pension. He was caught
IN a blizzard in 1866, and lost both of his
arms and both Of his legs aud now drawing
k72. He found Mr.. Lind, who went with him
and occurred a report recommending 500 per
month. and by unanimous consent, the bill
was passed for this mount. THIS is probab.
IL the quickest legislation Of the session, with
he exception of the Sheridan bill.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

Huge r.. Crawford, a strong temperance
man ofNew York, was appealed to for aid 10y
the third party managers. They received
this scoreherin reply; Il would consider y a
shame and a disgrace to aid the unloyal free
trade Democratic party by voting with the
Prolnbitionists. l have given my limited
means to the cause of temperance, but l do
not propose to aid and abet the promulga-
ton Of all kinds OF crime by assisting the
Democratic party and the wbiskey ring Of our
State, as led by Gov Hill and its National
exponent. President Cleveland, by throwing
my vote on Fisk and Brooks"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

EA-President Hayes keepsh his youth
remarkably. With the exceptions OF
q few strcaks of gray in his sandy
beard he shows scarcely any change
in appearance since leaving the
White House.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
Democratic Hostility to Pensioners.

John NJ. Hoffman of Lake View wants to
know why he can't get his pension under a
Democratic Administration.
IL enlisted in Company III, First Illinois
Artillery he said, Gin 1861, and served I'M
til 1865. ] was q prisoner in Andersunyille
EOS days. i went into the army as sound as
q dollar, and | came out a cripple for life.
Audersonviile was the cause of it. | have
almost entirely lost the use of my right side,
and cannot see out of my right eye. / stiIl
have the marks of the seurvy about me. In
1866 applied fora pension aud was allowed
~ II month. As was almost wholly disa-
bled Ibid not think that a large one. and in
1879 ! applied for an increase. The little h
| Ia was then stopped. served under Gen.
Logan and he knew me, so ] applied to him
to help me, and in 1881 he got me a pen
sion OF Sl2 n month. He told me then that
| onght to have more, and advised me to up
ply for M increase in about two years. So
about three years ago | did so. Ny pension
WIS Immediately cut of again.
Was any reason given for it?'
yes; they said that was blind and dis
ablcd when ] enlisted. wnssouud az n dol
lar. They don't take blind men into the
army"
Were your proofs all right?"
Certainly. ! had my discharge and all the
necessary documents, and my superior of.
flcers all certified TO my case. That's how |
got my first pension, Now, what | want to
know is: On what theory Gen. Black, who is
not disabled. can get 800 n month, and L,
who am disabled, can get nothing? And /
wnut to warn every Union soldier to take
pains to see what ballot he casts in Noycm-
her. Cleveland has shown pretty often what
he thinks Of the soldiers, aud as long as the
Pension Commissioners gets his 500 he
docant seem to think any one else was in the
var. There is no flaw in the record of my
service. | can prove il from beginning 10
end, and have Done SO, but it does no good .
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

Lord Tennyson, as the Poct-Laur-
cate of England, and at the bidding
of QuieenVictoria. is to write a memo
rial poem in honor of the two lately
deceased German EInperors.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

There is an anti-mastaehe agita-
ton now going on in England. Some
day an English humorist win get off
the cid chestnutabo the ladies set
ting their faces against m~ustaehes,
and become famous.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

T~eiegraphic communication has
just been opened between the Dutch
colony Of Curacao and North Amer
lea. Congratulatory cablcgrams
from the President of Santo gomin-
20 and from the President of yenezue-
la were received and answered by
President Cleveland.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
..unrIs ahe.,. First speech.

Abraham Lincoln's first political speech,
khen n candidate for the Illinois legislature
In 1892, wins as follows: Gentlemen, fellow
citizens, | presume you know who ] am. l
am humble Abraham Lincoln. ! have been
solicited by many friends 10 become q eandl-
date for the legislature. My politics can be
briefly steted. Lam in favor OF the internal
Improvement system and a high protective
tariff. These are my sentiments and poini-
cal principles. If elected ! shall be thankful;
il not, it viii be all the same
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

Owen Jones, of Australia, who is
now in Ottawa, Canada, in the inter
est of the trans-P aciiccable between
Canada and Australia, thinks the
cable win be completed within eigh-
teer; months. Sir John Macdonald
has agreed, on behalf of the dominion
government, to assist The enterprise
if tnsother colonial governments in
Iterested do likewise. Mr.. Jones ex-
|pects aid from the British, Australian
and Canadian governments, the lat
tiers subsidy being between S35,000
|S50,060per year. WorkwiA be com
meDced as soon as a guarantee OF
1915. coo per year is assured.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

One of the most remarkable liter
airy careers in this country has been
that of Mrs L. u. +. N. Southworth,
who is now-aat 20 years of age
about to publish her forty-fourth
novel. Somewhat more than 30
years ago she made her first success
witt ..1shmael, or, In the Depths"
Fer many years Robert Bonner paid
her annually $4,000, with no con-
ditious attached except that he
should have the first right to what
ever she produced with her pen.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
The iavsssgation Of Che White

Caps hy Attorneyxt ieneral 4ieAhcTef,
Of indiaaa. has rs-s1iIed in one Of the
-f11S lps3lng states evidence. He
charges the order with being iniu-
encei ID theiraets by revenge for pri-
vate srongs. The headquarters OF
the ORDER is near English. The White
Caps have issued acircular threaten
ing to fsist the states investiga-
ton wish bloodshed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

At the first professionaltype-writ-
ing match eve held in this country.
and which took place at Cincinnati
last week, the winner wrote nearly
1890 words in ninety minutes.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

500. 900; stocks and bonds, $4,000, 900; &C.
counts, - 500, 600; promissory notes, S..
500, 0eO; cash, $500, 600, half of which gees
to the widow, including the residences in San
Francisco and Sacramento. and the other
hslf Is divided among the three sons and one
daughter, with provision for other relatives
and for family servants.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

General Won Moltke has been placed
onthe retired list. Ii some miracle
could place the fresh young Emperor
on the retired list Germany might be
happy yet.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
Republican Ammunition.
AstrIkine Comparison.

Seldom has the contrast between tho mag
netic Blaine and thestolid fsh-like Cleveland
been stated more forcibly than by Judge Nor
rison of Arizonn at New York the other day,
when he said; II have just been thinking that
if Grover Cleveland had been defeated four
years ago, and was coming back from Europe,
how many people would come this fartomeet
him.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

UUWWFTy
Streeter
LockMood

II would be "a pleasure to place the long
mark opposite the name Of Mrs. Lockwood,
but an unswerving fidelity to the truth eom-
Pels n contrary eourse.-Nebraska State
/ IOuFnaI
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
ACat, a Fox and a Man.

The New Haven Palladium tells
this story: Merwin's Point has been
infested with foxes this summer and
Wilbur Z. Bray, a farmer residing
there, has lost fifty chickens. He
was aroused by a noise in his hen
merry, and looking out saw n red fox
making off with "a chicken. Mr..
Bray grabbed his shotgun and start
ed after Reynard. The fox saw him.
and made haste to escape across a
pasture lot, when he met the house
eat, a venerable Thomas, whom he
sought to kill. The cat was q fight
er, and gave battle to the chicken
thief. He was being worsted, how.
ever, when MIR, Bray came within
shooting distance and killed the fox
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

There are 3.1oo Smiths enrolled in
the city directory Of Philadelphia.
There hre $50 John Smiths and $40
William Smiths.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
Ahont How II stands.

With object and p%rofuse apologies to the
baking powder companies, the Journal would
offer the following diagram showing the rela-
tive chances for election of the various presi-
lentialcandidates:
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
Gahrlel Mnrrilln dind M nnI..l

Gabriel Marble died at Dulutb ~ -.
lar accident. Working on the streets senasa,
DAYS ago, he was hitin the face by Il hydrant
stream, and his false teeth were knneLa.i
down his throat. He died of hemorrbaes
following their removal. uose
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

George A. Matthews, of the town ofBrook.
ings, BrookiDgs county, n young lawyer ard
speaker of the last legislative council,
was nominated ms the Republican eandidate
for delegate to congress from Dakota, the
ballot being the seventeenth of the day
and the convention. On the fourteenth
ballot Clifford showed such strength
that he would bayc been nom
mated on the next roll call had not the anti
Giffords united and forced an adjournment.
During the evenings recess Grigsby was urged
TO withdraw in favor OF either Of them, but
would not do so, Minnehaha comfy declining
to give color to the charge hat their towns
man had been put up as a straw man. while
tho delegation was really for Clifford, Mime
haha was also determined to beat Judge Pal
mer, and did not much care about anything
else.
THE PROCEEDINGS.
Col, Geary called the convention to order
three quarters of an hour later this morning,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
nErunLrcas CONVENTION.
patots's Republican Convention Assemblies at
Watertovn.

Liberal and well directed Efforts had made
Armory opera house a bright and patriotic
place for the holding OF Dakota's mammoth
convention. The ~eighty-seyen counties were
designated by banners, streamers Of bunting
ioated from the ceilinga and on the walls were
many notices.
Harrison Allen, chairman of the territorial
central committee called the convention to
der. After prayer by the Rev. E. s. Updyke Of
Brookings the convention proceeded to elect
q temporary chairman, and after consider
able balloting Nash Of Beadle county was
elected. The convention then adjourned till
Z O'clock in the evening.