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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30
ADMONITiON TO FREE TRAD
ERS.
[Des Moines Register

We want TO call the attention of our
low tariff people to two happenings and
leave them to judge for themselves
whether the occurrences have any bear
ing upon tariffs, as our people want
tariffs. The first is the election Of 1888.
The people elected Gen. Harrison presi-
dent that year over one Cleveland. Har-
rison was out and out for protection to
American industries. Cleveland was
not. The people also elected protec-
zionist majority to the house of repre-
sentatives. All the talk and noise we
hear now from England, New York,
Texas and other democratic places, was
heard then, word for word, yell for yell,
scream for scream, from all democrats,
and by all who are paid by them. Third
parties run, the stool pigeon cooed, the
bogus prohibitionist lied, and the side
walk farmer wormed around. Papers
that sail under republican colors, but
have neither convictions nor prin-
ciples, advocated lower duties, threat
ening like a policeman at county
fair. We had the whole outfit
served up as we have it to-day, only more
so: more fully, because there was more
money in it! The farmers were told
about being robbed and taxed, but all to
no purpose. Cleveland and crew went
not, and Harrison and republicanism
came III, charged to remodel the tariff On
protection principles. This is the first
thing We respectfully call attention to-
The tariff bill has been gotten up and
only needs the edges cut by the confer
ence committee.
Second, On appeal has been made TO
the people OF state to see how they
liked it. Maine has held an election for
congressman. Reed went back to the
people to be endorsed for his share of the
tariff work or retired, that same Reed who
sat down on Springer and Mills and Breck-
inridge, and tiattened them. The very
Reed who counted democratic members
present who refused to vote, who OF all
men of our day has drawn upon
himself the bittcrest denunciation
of all democrats and all low
tariff men since Lincoln and Grant. has
received the worst their i'll scraped
| tongues could say. Reed not only is re-
| turned, despite all the Golden club and
| its money could do, but returned by such
| a majority as he never had before. and
| so are all the other Maine congressman!
| This Is the second happening. Now. to
| what end has all this democratic rhodo-
| montade been dinged in our ears? They
| do nos represent the American people.
| That is all there is about 1T. Our conn-
/ try will not legislatc to please an alien
! sentiment. The Golden club has not
money enough to buy up our votes. We
| do lose majOrities when Stomachs crave
whisky. we lose by apathy, we lose by
| false pfohibtionists and other false
| brethren, but when the comfort of the
! homes of our workingmen comes in issue,
the elections always go our way. The
| issue this fall is protection to American
| industries against frecr -importations of
| foreign goods, and the enforced idIcness
OF our people. The voters will east their
ballots as they always have or this issue.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30
THE NEW TARIFF.
1t will Help the Republicans In the Com
gressi0naI Canvass.

On the whole the new tariff will help
the republicans in the congressional can
vass. The advances in rates which have
been made in some of the schedules, as
compared with existing law, were, Of
course not looked for by the great ma
jority of the party before the measure
first appeared in the house. and, in the
opinion of the western section Of the or
ganization, these changes weaken the
bill and leave it open to serious attack
But its good qualities more than offset
its bad ones The cut in the sugar duties
strikes blow at the trust and will re-
duce the price of one of the staple COM
lnodities. Relief is thus furnished in a
quarter from which it was sorely needed
1t is relief which affects all classes and
which will be particularly grateful to
that most numerous and important class
Of all-the poor. The sweeping reduc-
ton ON binding Irvine, too, will aid the
farmers and strengthen the republicans
with an element of the community to
which the party has always looked for
material aid.
The republicans thus find themselves
in a position to make an aggressive and
winning canvass. It's pledges to the
people are being kept with a fair degree
of prOmptness and sincerity. Several
weeks ago the chances for the adoption
of tariff measure as favorable to the
interests of consumers as the one which
has just been agreed on is were not
looked for. The democrats. as consc-
qucnce, began to find the prospects. for
their success brighter than they have
been in several years past, and discour-
agcment was felt in the ranks of the re-
Pr New h he the si+aat ie4.
is entirely changed. Once moro the out
look becomes full of hope for the repub
lcanS. There can be no reasonable
doubt that government by the republ-
cans ordinarily is favored by the great
majority of voters. The party can al
ways rely with confidence on command
ing and holding the popular approval
whenever it is true to it's best impulses
and traditions. The change shown in
the past few days on the tariff in the di-
rection of progress shows that the old
spirit of liberality and regard for the
rights and privileges of the masses has
again begun to assert itself. Whenever
| the republicans deserve to win they do
win, and they deserve to win this year.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

in cushioned carriages to philanthropic
meetings for the alienation of distress
of every character, the conversion OF
heather who do not want to be con-
yerted, the suppression of all kinds OF
outrages; and leave at the doors of the
hall the outward and visible animated
evidences of their own lack of common
humanity. This is strong language
were [ to say what I think ON this sub
ject, 'twould batter the type-this pa
per would refuse to publish it.
A frightened rein is useful; it is a
steady support to the animals head
from distinct and intelligent source
the driver. That abomination of abom.
nations, the check-rein, is an uny;eld-
ing, agonizing fastener of the animals
head to his shoulders, bearing hardest
ON the most delicate, sensitive portion
Of the horse-his mouth. The horse
raised and driven Or ridden by hu.
name man can be guided, through
pressure on the mouth, with piece Of
strong thread.
Humanity aside, the use of the
check-rein is productive of disease. II
leads to distortion of the windpipe tc
such degree as to impede the respira
ton ever afterwards, to excoriation Of
the mouth and lips, and perhaps of the
MUSCLES of the face.
If horse in pulling load, light OF
heavy, has his head held up and in, ht
cannot throw his weight into the col
lar, and is hindered from giving his
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

after the adoption Of theconstitHtion tbs
men who stood by that mstrnmcnt--tha
fedcralists--were the ones who, with
Washington at their head. had done the
hard fighting during the war OF lnde-
pendence. Among the anti-federalists,
afterwards democrats, We're found the
trimmers and the men who had not
courage enough to serve their country in
tho field and those opposed to NATIONAL
ity.
OF the two provisions referred TO IN
tho ordinance the one about slavery was
asserted to by the southern members be-
cause they thought, in their ignorance,
that the territory north of the Ohio
river, deprived of slave labor. would not
advance as rapidly as that south of the
Ohio, where they persisted in retaining
the peculiar institution" As for the
land grant of section liz in each town
ship for schools, it was insisted on by
the Massachusetts men who made the
Marietta, o., settlement. As they were
all brave soldiers during the revolution
they cannot be called democrats. Nc
stakeholder or southern democrat would
have dreamed of making provision fol-
free schools,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

it will invariably be found to be on
some poor animal, whose wearied and
haggard appearance is attempted to be
disguised by this instrument of tor
ture.
"The check rein is, in nearly every
case, painful to the animal and useless
to the driver. Because, it fastens the
head in an unnatural posture; and, as
the horses shoulder and head fall to-
gether, cannot be of any real support
in case of stumbling.
when, from some defect in the ami
NAL, or other cause, the check-rein is
used, it must be slackened. Because,
in addition to the easier position of the
neck, greater portion of weight can
be thrown into the collar, especially
going up hill, thus saving great and
unnecessary expenditure of muscular
power.
"There is an important difference
between tight check-rein and tight
ened rein, although not generally un.
derstood. The first is injurious, and
cannot help the horse, while the latter
is often useful. Because, the latter il
a steady support to the animals head
from distinct and intelligent source
the driver; whereas. the former il
only the horses head fastened to his
own shoulders. That the check-reir
is inconsistent with the action of The
horses head is clearly shown by thu
fact that, when O horse falls. it is al
ways broken. ALEX. DUKE BAILIE.
L ErJTD
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

body that position which is the most
natural and effective. He has to pull
by the strength of his muscles only /;
the weight of the body is lost, and so
much pulling force is thrown away.
What remains is exerted at great ex-
penditure of the horses power and
health, to say nothing of his comfort.
The consequence is that his limbs and
muscles become strained and distorted
his knees are bowed forward and his
hooks backward. Ii man pulls load
by strap across his shoulders, he
bends his head and chest forward, and
relieves his legs; he pulls with his
weight. A horse does the same when
he can, and ought always.
The confinement of the head in an
unnatural, constrained position, while
the heart and lungs are excited BY
action Or work. binders the breathing
and the circulation OF the blood in the
head, makes the horse miserable and
irritable, his head aches, he becomes
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

strength of muscle as the exception,
when extra resistance is to be over
come.
Women are much to blame in this
matter, women who admire a horse
because che carries bis head so stylish
ly." / hope that they are ignorant Of
the torture with which that "style" is
purchased. l hope they will learn
better ana inaugurate crusade hav-
ing for it's object the adjustment, the
extinction of the check-rein. [ would
have every policeman in the land in
structed, authorized, ordered to cut
the tight check-rein on every unfortu-
nate horse tortured by the barbarism,
the owner of the animal severely pun
ished, be he moneyed king of the
earth or some thoughtless human don
key aping the "style" of those he con-
siders his betters. The preacher
could occasionally, to advantage, drop
doctrinal discussions and appeals for
foreign missions and discourse most
feelingly, if they studied the subject of
the check-rein, on that sound text :
"The merciful man is mereiful to his
beast" to the edifcation, possibly to
the conversion and reform, of their
wealthy, enlightened, and tender
hearted" pew-holders.
An eminent authority, the London
Horse-Book," in discussing the check
rein atrocity, uses the following Ian
guage:
"The horse is often prevented from
throwing his weight into the collar by
tight check-rein-a useless and pain
full incumbrance, introduced by vanity,
and retained by thoughtlessness
amounting to cruelty. Few of the
London cab-drivers use check-reins,
knowing them to be inconsistent with
proper work and when one is observed,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

SOME wonderful work has lately
been done in the removal Of diseased
parts of the human body by electricity
sis. DIR. Abrath, who has paid special
attention to this branch of surgery.
states that he has removed tumors and
cancers with ease by electricity where
no surgical interference with the knife
was possible, cases which have baff1ed
all medical and surgical treatment, in
Guiding liniments or injections. Grown
up people who had been under hos
pital treatment and dismissed as in
durable, have thus escaped the horrors
of suffocation or other miserable death
These he had photographed in their
perfectly cured state after electric
treatment. He not only finds that the
electric current will kill the cancer cell
beyond where the knife can go, but that
hemorrhage and shock are more or less
prevented with the use of electrolysis,
and scepticamia. or pyamia, which SC
often follows removal with the knife, il
nearly always avoided
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

ing maniacs in ten minutes time. And
this is done for the sake of "style," be-
cause it is "the fashion"
The poor and ignorant, the "lower
classes" are not the gross offenders
in this outrage; the guilty ones are the
"ton," the quality" Their well-fed,
well-groomed steeds stand before
church-doors, suffering in silent mis-
cry, only By impatient pawings and
champing Of the bit telling Of their
agony, while the owner kneels on pad
ded stool mindful of self-comfort even
when praying>, to worship Him who
taught that "the merciful man is mer-
ciful to his beast" They are conveyed
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30
the desert.

refer to that internal instrument
of torture, the check-rein for horses.
I say infernal--it is the only word adj
missible that is sufficiently expressive.
The use of the check-rein is a stand
ing arraignment of those who permit
its attachment to the harness of the
animals they own, as it is also an evil
dence of their thoughtlessness, cruelty,
or ignorance if they are not ignorant
on the subject their crime is the more
atrocious. Hour after hour, day after
day, they infict upon noble animals a
torture, the like Of which, applied to
themselves, would render them howl
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

restless OF violent, and the fool or brute
of a driver Furnishes him. The muscles
of the neck are on constant strain, to
relieve this he must rest the weight Of
his head on the rein. thereby his
mouth is violently stretched and hee
changes one agony for another.
This is the testimony of DIR. Kitch-
ing. an eminent English writer on
horses, and about five hundred veter-
mary surgeons of Great Britain have
Endorsed his opinion by signing a
paper condemning in strongest terms
the use of tight check-reins.
Whether the horse has work to do,
weight to draw or carry, or is gallop-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30
A Good ReUortep.

A good reporter, then, must, first, be
a man of quick intelligence, great per-
severance, good manners, courtesy and
tact. In the second place, he must be
able to write good English, and to do
it anywhere, at any time and at a high
speed. Then he must have a good
local knowledge of the city in which
he works. He must be able to look
up" subject quickly and at moments
notice. A good generalreporter should
know something about verything, but
that being out of the question. should
come as near to it as possible, says a
writer in the Epoch. He may be sent,
without any preliminary preparation,
to interview an Irish member of Par
lament, an astronomer just returned
from an eclipse expedition, ward pol
itician, a doctor of divinity or a pawn
broker He may be called upon to
report Methodist conference Or po-
litical convention. or to trace q muir
derer whom the police are slow about
finding. 1t is true that newspaper
work is now so specialized that men
are detailed to many departments per-
manently. There is the "horse" re-
porter, q baseball reporter, boating
reporter, reporter for local politics
generally called the "city hall report
err, reporter for general politics, to
interview visiting statesmen and the
like, weather reporter, and so on
but nevertheless good general re.
porter needs to be well enough &C,
quainted with these and other depart.
ments of human knowledge to get an
interview or work up story in any
of them. Last, and by no means least,
the reporter must read newspapers and
know what is going on. In his own
department, il he has one, he should
be walking cyclopadia with daily
automatic supplement-.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

In order to prove that an electric
death must necessarily be instantane-
Gus, consider two simple facts. The
speed of the electric current, approx
mately, is about one hundred and
eighty-seven thousand miles per second !;
or, in other words, start current at
any given point and (under the most
favorable circumstances) while the
clock ticks once, the current will have
made seven and one-half complete cir
cults of the earth. Think of it On the
other hand it is now generally conceded
that sensation, muscular sensation,
travels only about two hundred feet
per second. Suppose then that the
death-dealing current were applied at
the tips of the fingers. While the mus
cular sensation responsive to the shock
travelled two feet, the electric current
would have moved at the rate of n early
two thousand miles. In other words,
there would be no return of the mus
cular sensation, for the death dealing
current would so many hundred times
outstrip the swiftness of the muscular
sensation that the latter would never
be recorded. To die an electric death
is to be hurled into eternity even
sTifter than the twinkling of an eye.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30
bruised and the berries are very sour.
1t has no poisonous effects.
Was Indignant.

A man wearing number of badges
went into Chicago saloon, kept by q
German, and, calling the proprietor,
said:
II had come in here to take drink
at your bar, but 1 have discovered that
should not patronize you"
"Vell, how vas dot?"
+ Because, upon looking round after
coming in, see that you have an avn
ing made in imitation of the flag OF my
country. 1t is shame, sir; miser-
able shame. I fought for that flag
fought for it while you were doing the
work of slave in an oppressed en-
pire. / stood in trenches knee deep
in water, watching for the ensmy.
while you occupied bed of straw in
your masters stable. Now you come
to this blessed country, where there is
no slavery, and, with the freedom
which We grant you, get money enough
to start saloon; and how do you re-
pay this country for the chance it has
given you? The first thing you do is
to take the blessed emblem OF the re-
public and use it for an awning. I say
1t is shame, and, furthermore, / say
that you are AN ingrate--a man that
has no heart Of appreciation.
The German was staggered.
Wy, mein frient, no thought me Of
dot. don'd wander brink de ylag of
de goundry in disgrace"
But you have done it. Look at that
awning"
"Mein frient, let me dell You dot I
meind no harm. I hobe you will nod
hold i'd againsd my house 2
aHow can help it?
II dell You, You have Something's
NIT me bottle wine.
Ill right; IS you seem to be aeni-
tent I'll join you.
When the fellow had gone, the Ger.
man stood for time with his elbows
on the bar, and then, mnsing, said:
i do belief dot man haf made q TOOL
of myself. - 'ka4asa7U ITaUeler.
CAN 1t be said that young man il
heartless just because he has given his
heart to d beautiful maid
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

THE stories OF the crue1ties with
which prisoners in the Colorado State
Penitentiary are tortured are almost
beyond belief. The Spanish inquisition
never carried the art Of human torture
TO any such ingenious and diaboical
extremes. One of the favorite meth
DDS Of furnishing q convict pursued at
this institution is to confine his head
under d faucet. from which the water
falls drop by drop upon his for ehead.
Though simple and apparently harm
less, this Is really one Of the most ex-
cruGiating punishments that can be in
Aicted The victim, who remains in
this position for hours at time. is
driven almost to distraction, and in
most cases he never RECEIVERS from the
ehock Reform. 81 i very radical char
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

"ENGL1sH as she is writ" receives a
curious illustration in the circular
of German manufacturer, which is
headed: 1000 Nix. reward to any one
who will procure me the proves of a
Justification to be legally prosecuted. "
The opening proceeds in the same
style: "The surprising results pro,
auced by my new Gold-sizes encourage
me asking you to make trial no doubt
that you will at once derive from it the
great advantages they present"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

AN Eskimo girl has an indolent time
of it. There is no Homework to do.
There are no household utensils of any
kind; no brooms with which to sweep
even no water for washing. The blub,
Der of the whale, the flesh of the polar
bear, and fish-their only article OF
food--are eaten frozen and raw. Only
the very sick or old, or infants, ever
taste heated meat. AS for washing, an
Eskimo does not understand the term,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

N this age of civil
cation and land of
the Christian re-
ligion, in this and
other cities claim
ing advanced in
telligence, d a lily
and hourly, in the
most crowded and
most fashionable
thoroughfares, can
be seen exhibitions
of cruelty to ami
Anals that would
shock the most
savage Indian of
our plains, or the
widest Arab Of
tho dacapt
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30
seter is necessary iii the Colorado
!, rr,,

THE town Of Sweden, Me-, got ex-
cited recently, according to the Oxford
Democrat, over reports Of various per-
sons who declared they had seen wild
woman in the east part of the town.
One said he saw her trying to milk q
cow, second that she was in another
pasture picking berries, third that
she was walking through some bushes
near the road, and when she saw that
she was observed beat a hasty retreat.
Some said she was dressed in light
clothes; others that her clothes were
dark and she had on o white apron. A
searching party was made up and
armed with handouts, etc, but the ex-
element quietly subsidized when, after
following the trail some distance, it
suddenly ended at red and white cow,
peacefully chewing her cud and won
dering what all the commotion was
about.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

FRENCH aeron auts are to cross Eu-
rope in balloon, starting from Nancy
and landing somewhere in Russia and
Norway. Should they be able to com,
plete reliable charts of the aerial cur,
rents and settle the question of utiliz-
ing them for travel, France may scare
Europe with feet of air ships that
CAN drop dynamite upon Williams
palace in Berlin and toss bombs over
into England in a way to make them
think that the ghost of the First Ma
poleon has returned to complete his
campaign cut short at Waterloo.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

DR.. FINDLEY, of Havana, in an article
in Science some time ago expressed
the conviction that mosquitoes are the
principal means of the dissemination of
yellow fever, that yellow fever never
appears in regions unyisited by mos
quitoes, and that in other regions it
comes and goes with them. In the sum
mer of 1885 mosquitoes were scarce in
Havana, and yellow fever cases were
rare With the autumn came nnllsnall Y
large swarms. and the yellow fever
came at the same time. Another writer
in Science says: an 1889, during a vel.
low fever epidemic in Augusta, Ga, no
cases originated at Somerville, neigh,
boring suburb among the sand hills.
There were 10 mosquitoes at Somerville,
which was approached by circuitous
route from Augusta. Some years after
straight broad road was built through
the swamps directly to the sand hills
cisterns were also built: and mos
quitoes appeared and became an intol,
cradle pest. During the yellow fever
epidemic of 1854 a number of cases
originated at the sand hills Astounding
with mosquitoes.