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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31
worth Remembering.

That in all cases OF Group delays are dam
gerots. and prompt attention Is almost
certain to save the life of the child. Ham,
Inns Wizard Oil is specific for Group. and
will relieve the most severe paroxysm i'm
mediately. Be sure that you keep it. Sold
by all druggists: so cents and 81.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31

THE Texas census bureau has estimated
returns showing the population of Texas
in January, 1887, to have been, in round
numbers, 2,025, 900, an increase Of 26a per
cent. since 1880.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31
0IlM0A0 DYEs Gre Esser md Brighter

ExPERIMENTERs at Manhattan, Kansas,
have discovered that the use Of salt on
wheat fields will greatly increase the yield.
It is also announced that salt will kill po-
tato bugs.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31

-Ihave been occasionally troubled with
Coughs. and In each case have used
Browns Bronchial Tr0ches, which
have never failed. and must say they are
second to none in the world. --Feiiz A.
Mar, Cashier, ST. Paul. MINI.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31
Cancer Cured.

Dr. r. Il. Pond is. having wonderful sue
the cancer hospital at Aurora. I'll. There
are numbers Of cures recently made by him
which are truly wonderful. Those afflicted
should not hesitate. but should 60 there for
treatment at once. For Information. adj
dress DIR, =. L. Pond. Aurora. Ill.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31

CONSIDERABLE damage was done by q
recent cold snap on Indian river, Florida.
Bananas, pine apples and CANVAS suffered.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31

ONE Of the best lawyers in Virginia says
he would on no account leave his children
any considerable amount of property, and
he gives away not less than $4,000 a
vnar
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31

PHILADELPHIA has S47, 900 people and
179, 900 houses, while New York, with
1900, 900 inhabitants, is said to have but
90, 900 houses.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31

A GRIZZLY bear that weighed /. ZOO
pounds was killed OF Big Horn Basin,
Wyo., short time ago. One hundred and
nine shots were fred from nine rifles be-
fore the brute was killed.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31

Consumption IL the most dreaded ol
diseases; MAGEE's EMULSION has cured
several cases whore physicians pronounced
the case hopeless.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31

4 LEAVE Paris to-day; what can buy
as o memento?" asked a tourist Of o
fliend. How would Paris leave buttons
dor" was the reply.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31

TIE man who hunts in the swamps
should wear duck pants.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31

WHEN second childhood comes man
forgets he is old.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-31

COAL AND DIVISION MAI OF DAKOTA.
eastern Dakota. and Deadwood to the Black
Hills
In all that goes to make up we'll organ-
lied society population. wealth. and char
acter-such as should be the basis ct
Statehood. Dakota has been up TO the high
est standard for several years. That It Is
large enough for two States. or even four.
We think Il fully shown by our diagram.
The two Dak9tas. with $4,000 miles square
each Of land, will each sarpasa In size thirty
Of the present States. and each lead al the
other Territories In population and wealth.
MogEs EoLzoN
The Sunday morning news., 1889-08-25

49,.
But the genius OF MISS Goggles rose
superior TO TRIVIAL obstacles OF TINS KIND.
pays ago she haa seized cnance 70 enter
she Clsypoie apartments ana unIaseen tne
button winch heid the transom closed.
lhis maneuver naa evidently not been
noticed, SINCE only tnat morning, whle
she had tried the transom and found 1t
worked responslvely and noiseiessly to her
souch.
The Sunday morning news., 1889-08-25

following day her father received a visit
from q stfenger, who poured poison into
his ehF concerning his prospective son-in-
law. The stranger was promptly kicked
out Of the office, but whom Vie lumber
mans daughter admitted THAT evening
that the leces Eerc the gift of Hadley
some months previous the old man waxed
angry and told her to throw them in the
fire. As
"There's something wrong about the
fellow, he cried; clerks cannot afford to
buy such expensive gewgaws. Perhaps
he helped Mefdelsohn to rob himself "'g
And Hadley was beside himself with
grief wI1en the very next morning, dis
trict messenger brought him parcel con-
! taining the laces and other presents he
had made to his sweetheart, together with
o note blotted with tears, stating in sim
plo but excruciating terms that her heart
was broken, and that they must part for
ever more.
It was several months before Hadley
could clear himself in tho eyes of tho
young lady and her father, and during
that time he had wasted away to mere
shadow and suffered the tormen Sof lost
soul in purgatory.
There was ot,e member Of the city de-
b6CUdVo fOrce VINO pOoh no SuocK III tn0
story that Mr.. Mendelgohn was his own
burglar. This was Denis Simmons, one
of the oldest and shrewdest of Chicago's
able officers, who for the last seven years
had been detailed on bank work.
''Nfr. Mehdelsohn," said Denis to the
grief stricken merchant, don't worry
yourself TO death. am convinced that
the robbery was the work of professional
thieves, and I'm Dutchman if don't
pinch them before I'm many weeks older.n
The Sunday morning news., 1889-08-25

II Hadiey had been a man of kood COM
mon sense he would have thought twice
before meddling with the conjugal affairs
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Claypole. Students Of
social philosophy have long recognized
the dangers Of such interference. Hus-
bands and wives may fight like cats and
dogs. they may be guilty of the grossest
rash individual who essays to patch up
their quarrels or smooth the wrinkles ii,
their code Of mutual morality
Hadley, however was young and I'M
not accustomed 20 philosophical
an CIRCULATION aud he learned bis first lesson
o'eses s19s worldly wisdom from the bitter tongue
( gmlthe iraseibie lawyer Il was not long
III ho regretted tho foolish step he took
I =, +nsas slie lnsti9ation Of his fellow boarders.
tltiino,
haffpA
The Sunday morning news., 1889-08-25

eYou confounded idiot" cried the law
yer. shaking his fist in Hadley's face; you
lace peddling doltl II lear another word
of this I'll break every boHe in your ASST
nine carcass"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
Motley's American Spirit.

He was passionate American; but his
ideal of his country was noble, not
ignoble. Lincoln's "plain people" were
not, in Motlev's view, mob to be fiat
tered. They were intelligent men, with
whom, as one of them, to reason and
demonstrate upon proper occasions; and
he scorned to fatter the people, as he
would have scorned to cringe to king
or to insult him because of his crown.
Itwas always the best, not the worst,
qualities of his fellow-citizens that Mot
ley had in mind when he spoke of
America. His work was necessarily ac-
complished in Europe, where the docu-
ments could be consulted; and after he
was made known by it both at home
and abroad, he was very little upon this
side of the sea. This made personal
misrepresentation easy, and Senator
of the United States, arriving in Lon
don firmly persuaded that Senators
make foreign minister's" was comically
wroth with Motley because, upon the
Senator's demand to be taken at once
to Windsor Castle and introduced to
the Queen, the Minister replied that
certain forms must be observed. The
indignant Statesman returned to
America vehemently proclaiming that
our Minister in England was a crawling
parasite of royalty.
It was fortunate for us that Motley
was not only SO true, but so intelligent
and able and conspicuous an American.
For at the beginning of the civil war,
when he was parsonage in London
society" and that powerful society
with mingled disdain and ignorance
scornfully turned it's sympathy and its
voice against the Government of the
Union, Motley in his two letters to the
London Times stated the American sit
uation so accurately, comprehensively,
and vigorously that even the dullest
could understand, and no Englishman
afterward could pretend ignorance.
There was no American at that time in
Europe who could have spoken with
such authority; and his lofty enthusiasm
for liberty and America not only abso-
lutely indicated the cause of the Union,
but it was great public service, illus
trating the spirit and tone with which
the cause was defended.-Geo. ".
Curtis, I'M Harper's Magazine.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
Coon Hunting.

There was sport in the coon hunt for
our fathers, and in measure mans
Importance in some communities was
judged by the number of coon skins he
could nail to his barn door after hunt.
by sportsmen in these latter days is one
of those things about which the remark
has once or twice been made that no
fellow can find out. He is as cunning
as the fox and more difficult to trail.
He is, moreover, the cleanest of ami
mails, and eats only the most wholesome
of food. He should not be despised,
surely, because he can be hunted only
at night, for in threading the woods in
the darkness, following dogs that you
cannot see, and whose baying alone
breaks the stiffness, there is most sim
gular enchantment.
Even in localities where coons are the
most abundant, nine out of ten of the
present generation never saw one, and
few people know anything about them
OR their habits. Although the coon pre-
fers the vicinity of civilization as his
habitat, he plans to keep aloof from the
eyes of men, and his habits render this
an easy task. By day he lies in out-of-
the-way retreats in the depths of hollow
trees or isolated crevices and holes in
the rocks. He wanders forth only at
night and although his foraging expedi-
tions may take him to the very doors Of
farmers, and even within the boundary
lines of villages, he never betrays his
presence. If more than one coon is
brought to bay in a tree they will inya-
riably be females Or mother coon and
her offspring. The scent the coon leaves
on the trail is at all times less than that
of other game quadrupled, but when
the female is nursing her young during
the summer months her scent is hardly
perceptible to the dogs, thus saving her
and her litter from many race for life.
The scent of the coon grows stronger as
the cold weather advances, and through
November and December the dogs fol-
low it with comparatively little diff
ty.-PhiLadelphid Press.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
Too Nice to Miss.

"In my opinion" said the Rev. Mr..
Sincrusher to pretty though pious
young woman of his congregation, "the
waltz is very wicked indeed"
$50 have always thought" she re-
piled, eand have never INDUCED in
it."
Eyes, yes," he continued, @the waltz
whirls its gay kaleidoscope around,
bringing hearts SO near that they almost
beat against each other, mixing the
warm breath together, during the fire
of electricity between the meeting fin
gers, flushing the face and lighting the
eyes with a quick language, pulsing
every fibre"
"Jerushy, Mr.. Sincrusher," she ex-
claimed, jumping up, sis it anything
like that?"
More" he said, solemnly; @much
more"
well, that's enough. I guess I'll go
and learn. never knew before what I
was missing. p Wdshi71g tom Critic.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
GALLOPING DOWN HILL.
Indians Teach Cayalrymen . Lesson In
Horsemansllip.

Indians Teach Cavalrymcn Lesson In
Horsemanslhip.
Riding rapidly down hill is excep-
tiona1 in the American cavalry, in which
are hundreds Of bold and skillful riders.
It is practically forbidden in the schools.
and, says Capt King, in the Philadel-
phia Times, ] never yet have met and
ridden with civilian who did not rein
in and check his horse whenever we
came to sudden descent in the road or
to steep slope when coursing antelope
or lack rabbits" on the prairies of the
Great West. Nine out of ten of our
cavalry officers will do the same to-day,
especially if they be "heavy weights
and yet have watched horsemen day
after day who never thought Of such a
thing, who darted down hill full tilt,
giving their steeds their heads as they
did SO, and, simply leaning back little,
rode with loose rein down any and
every kind of slope at speed that al
most took ones breath away to watch it.
These were the mounted warriors the
Indians of the northern plains.
On the afternoon of Sept. 8, 1876,
when the noted Sioux chieftain, Crazy
Horse, swooped down with 700 or 800
braves to the attack of Gen. Crooks
command at Slim Buttes, Oak, these
daring riders dashed into view from be-
hind high ridge to the west Of our
picket lines and charged down steep
slope at top speed, yelling like demons
as they came. There was one point of
bluff around which trail led down into
deep ravine. 1t was mere buffalo
track or game trail on which they had
to ride in single file, but, one after an
other, counted at least fifty warriors
who shot around that point on their
nimble ponies and plunged at the full
gallop down an incline, steep as the
"Horseneck Stairs" where stout old
Israel Putnam left the British dragons
in revolutionary days. That year Of
1876 the Crows and Shoshones were our
allies, and several hundred of them
were with the column. They rode down
hill as daringly as the Sioux and Chey-
ennes, and when it came to climbing up,
never dismounted to ease or aid their
horses. We cavalrymen, on the con-
trary, Slowed up" going down and gen.
orally dismounted going up-mainly, it
is true, to save our worn-out chargers,
but the Indians laughed at us. They
pointed out that horse or any other
quadruped scampered up or down
slope without slack OF hesitation. Why
should we fear to let them do as they
would unencumbered by bride or
rider? We were always taught to "hold
taut" ON the rein and so to raise the
horses head when going down hill.
whats the use?" asked the Indians.
"You only prevent his seeing the ground
and so make stumble the more likely"
1t led to change of principles on the
part of several of our number, and We
found that common sense was on the In
dian side Of the question, and that, bar
ring certain jar, it was as easy to ride
at the gallop down hill when occasion
required it as on the level. The rule
to the contrary is very probably mere
precaution against the severity of the
accident should stumble occur.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
The Rules Didn't Work.

Mrs. Youngwife oh, dear! I'llnever
believe word these horrid newspapers
say again.
Why, what's the matter?
Yesterday 1 read an article about
how to keep husband just as devoted
as he was when lover. It said you
must keep your temper, attend con-
scientiously to the kitchen and pantry,
see that his clothing is in good order,
have plenty of sunlight in the house
and in the heart, don't bother him
about going to places of amusement
when he is tired, keep the hair becom-
ingly fixed and never let him see it in
curl-papers, avoid friends who would
only bore him, and dress we'll"
Every good advice"
"Good? Why, as quick as he got
home I told him I wanted lot of new
dresses, and he got mad, right OFF,
NeaU York Weekly.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
Mrs. Jay and Mrs. He.

Mrs. Ye Sang jay and Mrs. Sin He,
the ladies of the Corean Legation at
Washington, have made good impress
sion upon society at the Capital. The
former is "a years old, the latter 10.
They are pretty, petite, and look as
though they had not seen more than
sixteen summers. They are not over
4 feet inches in height. They have
picked up about twenty phrases of En-
glish, and their pronunciation of our
language is charmingly peculiar. They
are studying hard and hope to master
our vernacular in short time Their
faces are pale brown in color, their hair
is jet black, and their features are deli
cate and pleasing. They dress beeom-
ino1y
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
At a TailOrS.

Let those who think that the vanity
of earth is conferred in womankind read
the following and be convinced of their
error:
Mr.. Satinet (tailor)-There, Mr..
Sissybud, don't think you ever had a
better fit than that. It's perfect.
Mr.. Sissy bud-Ah, think SO? Baw
Jove, but it does feel vewy snug. How
is it in the back?
"a perfect fit"
@Ah, WEAKLY so it-bah Jove, if there
isn't Wrinkle under the left arm-a hor-
wild winkle!"
ooh, no; that's just little natural
fullness. It doesn't show when you
walk"
Nav? Mighty glad. I couldn't
weah coat with a. Wrinkle in it, yah
know. But 1 say, Satinet, isn't this
coat twife, just twifie long"
"Not the sixteenth of an inch.
"Naw? Bah, jove, but I'm glad OF
that. A fellah naturally likes to be
corwect in his dwess, yah know"
"Oh, yes; of course, OF course"
IT say, Satinet, aren't the sleeves a
twife long? Weally, they seem so to
me; hanged if they don't!"
you're mistaken. They're the regu-
lation length"
you're sure of it, Ell? At least two
inches of the cuff should show. yah
know"
"Oh, the sleeves are all right, Mr..
Sissybud."
"Gad, but I'm glad to heah you say
so-deuced glad! Wouldn't the boys
at the club guy me if they weren't I'd
be wuined; yes, 1 would. And now
about the trousers. Hang me if I'm
not afraid they're trifie narrow"
"Oh, no; not at all. They're full
half-yard wide"
"They look narrow, Satinet: hanged
if they don't. Bah jove, but wouldn't
have them even trife narrow for
They're full ten inches wider than the
last pair I made you"
"Only ten inches, Satinet? Didn't ]
say to make them ten and a quartah
inches wider? Hang me if didn't
Ny Ge71tlenaan's Magazine says they're
being worn wider every day. I'm afraid
can't wear these, Satinet."
My dear sir, they"
"And there is a Wrinkle in them-a
great horwid Wrinkle. Hang me if I'd
weah them down Broadway for any
thing; I'd wuin my reputation"
But assure you"
Nav, nav, Satinet, they won't do.
What! I weah a pair of trousers whole
quartah of inch too narrow? Cad,
man, you don't know mel All, no! It'd
nevah do, sir. Make me another pair al
once or cawn't take the suit, I WEAKLY
cawn't. Detroit Free Press.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
The Antiauity OF Man.

With regard to the discoveries on the
slopes of the Sierra de Managua, DIR.
Flint considers that the human bones
prove indisputably the existence of man
in Pliocene times. Still we must rec
ollect that in such an active volcanic
region as Nicaragua, with its hot and
moist climate, sudden upheayals and
subsidences may be expected to have
occurred, while the rich tropical yegeta-
ton would rapidly repair the rayages
caused by the most devastating erup-
tions. The footprints themselves tell
us little as regards their antiquity. As
before mentioned, they present no evil
dence of belonging to an inferior type
of man, while the sandal shod footprint
indicates certain advance in ciyiliza-
tion, since a man who wears shoes at all
can hardly belong to the earliest stage
of human culture. Considering all the
circumstances, therefore, it viii, per-
haps be wisest to adopt DIR. Brinton's
cautious conclusion, that there is not
sufficient evidence to remove these re-
mains further back than the present
post-pliocene or quarternary period. -
Knowledge.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
Somebody's LeaYings.

A lady was recently obliged to dis
miss her cook on account of an excess
of visitors in the shape of fremen and
private soldiers in the kitchen. In en-
gaging her successor the lady mentioned
the fact, and begged that the new can
didate would not err in the same way,
and she promised that she wouldn't.
II can endure good DEAL" said the
lady, "but soldiers about the kitchen I
qUo7a't endure"
A week or ten days later the lady,
CHANGING to come into the kitchen,
opened the cupboard, and discovered a
youthful military man.
What did I tell you, Mary?" she
said.
ooh, ma'am," cried the girl, Il as
sure you I.never saw that soldier in my
life; he must have been one of the old
ones left behind by the other girl"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
WHATS IN A NAME

An Englishman whose name was WemYss
Went crazy at last. SO 1t semyss,
Because the people would not
Understand that they ought
To call him not Weemis, but Weems,
Another whose last name was Knollya
Tried vainIy to vote at the pollys;
But no ballot he cast
Because till the last
The clerk. couldn't call Knollis Noles.
And then young butcher named Belvoir
Went and murdered q man with clevior
Because the man couldn't,
Or possibly wouldn't,
Pronounce his name properly Beever.
There was an athlete named Strachan
Who had plenty of sinew and brachan,
And he'd knock man down
With an indignant frown,
II he failed to pronounce his name Strawn.
London Times.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
Chopin and George Sand.

The truth is about to be told concern
ing the famous liaiso11 between Chopin
and George Sand, or, at any rate, as
near an approach of the truth as can be
arrived at, most of the chief actors in
the tragedy being dead. Chopin him
self described his life as an episode"
without beginning, but with a sad end.
The episode in question was Chopin's
meeting in 1886 with the famous French
novelist, George Sand, on the intro
duction of List. List was then living
with the Countess d. Agoolt, under con-
ditions of free love which eventually
made him the happy father of Nine.
Olivier, late wife of the French minis
ter, who was going to Berlin with light
heart, and of Nine. Cosima, the widow
of Richard Wagner. Free love like
wise entered into the relations between
Chopin, the pianist and composer, and
George Sand. These relations lasted
in happiness for two years when Chopin's
health broke down. They began to be
somewhat strained during visit to
Maiorca, and some time after the return
of this curious pair to Paris they were
broken off altogether.
George Sand, in her novel @Lucrezia
Floriani, subsequently held her former
sweetheart up to public ridicule under
the sobriquet Of Prince Karo1, self
seeking simpleton with ridiculously
lofty ideas, but with sentimental
affection for his bronchitis and his piano
lin short, an unmitigated nuisance to
all his associates. Public opinion in
France was at first on the side of the
brilliant woman. Liszt, who knew the
truth and was Chopin's friend, did not
care to be ungallant after the composers
untimely death, and George sand has,
in the opinion Of her worshipers, since
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

wild deer In the streets, nibbling melon
rind out OF his hand, as tame as calves
and lambs on our Michigan farms. A
dog goes to sleep in the busiest streets;
men turn aside SO as not to disturb him.
One day, beautiful heron alighted on
the limbof tree; and the busy, iostling
throng stopped. Every mans hand
went into his pocket. just as they would
with MS; but, instead of bringing out a
apopper," out came pencil and sketch
parnr