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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

REV. r. H. NASSAU, formerly of Phil
adelphia, has been living in the Ga
boon and Corisco mission on the west
coast of Africa, and for several years
has been on the hunt for gorilla brains
for DR.. Morton, of Philadelphia, who
wants them for scientific purposes. He
writes home of the fruitlessness of his
long search. It seems to be the super
abundance of gorilla brains which
makes it difficult to procure them, as
the gorilla is too wise for the average
hunter. =. ~.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28
The Threatened Boycott.

"From what heard in Washington, 1"
said Hon. John M. Thurston to Chicago
Tribune reporter, III believe the Lodge
bill will pass the Senate. lam confident
also that Congressional reapportion-
ment bill will be passed at this session.
Nebraska will get seven members on
basis of $4,000, as against three at
present. The Republicans In our State
will carry the State ticket and elect all
three Congressman this fall. The State
Convention is being held at Lincoln to-
day. The alliance Is quite strong in
Nebraska. 1t will be at the height of
its strength this fall, think. The vote
will be shown more in the legislative
elections, however, than In State or Con-
gressiOnal. There Is quite contest
within the alliance for supremacy be-
tween the farmer Republicans and far
mer Democrats, with the chances in fa-
vor of Democratic interests controlling it.
"The league is organizing largely in
several Southern States. Nearly 100
clubs have been lately organized in Flor
ida alone. Wherever they are organic
ing they await the passage of the Lodge
bill to give them the opportunity of a
fair field. The Lodge bill will give them
chance to fight for their rights. 1t is
not the colored voters alone who look to
it for deliyerance from political slavery
but the many thousands Of white South
ern Republicans, whose numbers are
constantly increasing.
aThe North can laugh at such yapor-
ings as Gov. Gordon has lent his re-
spected name to. The South will not
boycott the North. 1t needs Northern
credit, commerce, and capital. The boy
colt plan could not be carried out
whether the fire-eaters Endorsed it or
not. The commercial people of the South
are not politicians. They would just as
soon see free elections as not At any of
the new trade centers la the South you
will find one-third of the stores run by
Northern men.
aIf the boycott plan was ever attempt
ed Northern credit and business would
be withdrawn from the South and the
South can't afford that. Why, Secretary
Humphreys, of our league, tells me since
the Nashville convention in March over
$5, 900, 900 that he knows OF has been In
vested In the South either by delegates
or their friends who became interested
in the South at that convention. The
South threatened to boycott us IL we did
not let slavery alone. Let the South
threaten. Southern intimidation, OF
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28
How Uncle Jerry w emit Back on the Crow,


Every boy of us in the village knew
Uncle Jerry Crawford. He was a
driedup old man, and never seemed to
get any older, although always COM
planning. The form of salutation was
invariably this: -
Hello! Uncle Jerryp
"Yass, yass."
"How you feeling?"
"Wretched, wretched, thank ye."
I've heard that at least one thousand
times, and never knew deviation but
once. A drummer who used to come
up occasionally from st. Louis got on
to it, and one day when dozen of us
sat on the steps of the drug store Uncle
Jerry was seen coming up the street.
"Isn't that old Crawford ?" asked the
drummer, as he shaded his eyes with
his hand.
Eyes" .-.-.,-
Hes the man who always replies
that he's pretty well, praise God?"
ooh, no. He is the man who always
replies that he's wretched, wretched,
thank ye."
Il may be mistaken. but I don't
think So"
"Of course you are"
well, I hate to give in. I'll bet $40
that when he comes up and you ask
, him how he is he'll reply as I said"
There were seven of us there, and
all we could raise was $40. We hand.
ed that out fast enough, however, and
it had been covered when Uncle Jerry
came along. We were ON the grin 40
the drummer called out:
Hello! Uncle Jerry~
"Yass, yass. ;"
How you feeling?"
pretty well, praise Godl' replied
Uncle jerry, as he passed on.
1t was about two minutes Before we
could get breath, and then the drum
mer had gone with the stakes. An
hour later / asked Uncle Jerry what
he meant by such conduct, and he re-
piled:
"Took me all day to learn it, and the
teller gin me two big dollars. '-Nelo
York Sun,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

A FARMER, not less than sixty-fve,
entered the Office of one of our cotton
mills the other day and asked the
general agent for job at bookkeeping,
says the Lewiston Journal. He said
he'd farmed it from boy up and that
he had decided to try something easier
the rest Of his days. He said, too, that
he had not been educated in keeping
books, but he was confident he could
do it. The agent who tells of theinci-
dent says he heard the old gentle
mans story and kindly told him that
he saw no vacancy then, but that he
would remember him.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28
Of the waves. All is beauty, all is

or the waves. All is beauty, oil Ii
splendor, yet all is gloom.
Beyond that fringe of kelp, along
parterres still more protected, we
tread upon the tender forms of the
bronze and pink and yellow masses
which only the most fierce and pro-
tracted storms have hitherto brought
to light, and strewn their lacerated
and distorted forms on the beach to
excite our admiration ceramiums,
grumellias, delerrerias, and countless
myriads of their fairy companions.
Here where we are standing, less than
half q mile below the surface, these
fairy plants grow in the utmost pro-
fusion, unvisited by the world of hunt
ers and adventures from surface life,
which look enraptured on the mangled
bodies of these beauties which the ter
rible storm king wrenches from their
deep obscurity, where they wave in
softness over the watery graves, made
wide and deep, of old Oceans silent
majority,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

A CASE of special interest to photog-
raphers has been decided at st. Paul,
Mimi, by the Supreme Court. A pho
tographer named Rugg sold a picture
of Mrs. Ida Moore, of Minneapolis,
which was put on exhibition in improp-
or places, much to her discredit, and
she brought suit for damages. The Su-
preme Court holds that it is case in
which there is ground for the recovery
of damages; that the photographer has
no right to dispose of pictures which
are the sole property of the sitter.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

The Emperor of China sleeps on a
bed of carved wood magnifcently in
laid with gold and ivory. 1t is said con-
corning the Chinese court that the
strictest observance of etiquette ex-
tends even to the parents of the mon
arch, who, on visiting their son, dare
not omit to bend the knee, while the
younger brother of his celestial males
ty is subject to observances no less
rioid
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

They use clothes wringer for let
ter press in one Of the largest of the
Wall street telegraph Offices in New
York The messages to be copied are
treated as usual until the time for the
putting Of them into the press; then
instead Of the ordinary screw press,
which it takes time and muscle to use,
the message and damp tissue copy
1aper are simply run through q clothes
ii ger rho rubber rollers answer
every purpose Of press, and the oper-
aticn is almost instantaneous and much
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

BETSY ARNOLD, sister of Benedict
Arnold, lived for years and years after
her brothers disgrace in Norwich on
public charity. When she was ninety
years old, she was taken to the aims
house by old Sheriff E. G. Thomas.
Betsy made great how-to-do about it.
and was so grieved that she lived only
a few months. She was strong old
woman, and had much of her brothers
temper,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28
Il Expressed the Popular idea

Hsthetic gentleman 7 presume you
strive to make each article suggestive
OF it's use in both form and decoration !?
Silyersmith That is our constant
aim.
Esthetic gentleman Then why
don't you decorate your cream pitch
ers with pastoral scenes, instead Of
the allegory of the old oaken bucket !?
Silyersmith The latter is more
thoroughly in accord with the prevail
ing idea.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

PROF. SAMUEL CUsHMAN, apiarist of
the Rhode Island Agricultural Expert
ment Station, maintains, as the result
of personal observation, that bees do
no damage to growing or fair fruit.
"The juice of fruit is, in fact, injuri-
GUS to them, and they do not attack
sound fruit, but only bruised fruit, or
that which has been previously injured
by other insects"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

A PRIZE of seven hundred marks has
been offered by the Hufeland Society,
Of Berlin, for an essay on the influenza
epidemic of 1889 and 1890, and another
prize of like amount for an essay on
the penal responsibility Of physiciana
and surgeons in the use OF inhaled
anaesthetics. Papers may be written
in German, English or French, and
must be submitted by April ], 1891.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28
The Old Crx Raised Again.

Anything more senseless than this
threat of Q sectional boycott would be
difficult to imagine, but the North will
not fail to note the spirit of intimidation
and rebellion which is breathed in the
resolutions Of organized meetings and in
the public utterances of representative
Bourbons. Resistance to the laws of the
United States Government is implied not
only but threatened, and again we hear
the cry SO familiar thirty years ago: aLet
us alone; that is all we ask. Rochester
Chronicle
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

On his way back to France, Eyraud,
the French straHgler, asked for knife
to cut his finger nails. The officers
in charge feared that he contemplated
suicide and refused to give him one,
whereupon he said: eff I wished to
commit suicide could readily force my
hands between my ribs and make away
with myself" He was soon afterwards
manacled to prevent him from doing
this
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

PEOPLE in the country who are an
noyed by flies should remember that
clusters of the fragrant clover which
grows abundantly by nearly every
roaside, If hung in the room and left
to dry and shed its faint fragrant per
fume through the air, will drive away
more flies than sticky saucers of mo-
lasses and other fly traps and fy-papers
can ever collect.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28
Where q Boycott would BE in Order.

II the sunny South organizes any boy
colt at all 1t should not be against
Northern goods but against the dema-
gogues and cranks who are urging her
to adopt such methods. The boycott is
essentially Bourbon weapon and it fits
the Southern mossbacks to nicely
PTliLGdeJDhtu Press
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

The invention of smokeless powder
has been followed by counter-inven-
ton in the shape of a "smoke rocket"
to be used to screen the advance of a
body OF troops. It has been tried with
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

ACCORDING to recent figures the
people of this country are longer lived
than those Of Europe. In this country
Is persons out of every 1000 die each
year; in England the average is 20 and
in Germany 26.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

easier than the usual way. The ma
chine is placed at basement window
and there is always little throng on
the sidewalk watching the boys wiring
out messages.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28
The Power Behind the Law.

Call the Federal elections bill "a force
law" So is the law to punish murder
force law for those who violate 1t, and it
is hoped that the proposed election law
will have sufficient force to restore the
right Of suffrage to every voter who has
been denied it.-Indi 0nOpOds Journal.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28
This Must BE Understood.

Brag, bluster and bullying went out
of fashion at Appomattox. The South
will be governed by. snch laws as the
people of the United States, through
their honestly elected congressman, may
determine to enact. - Arkafasds State
ReUister
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

The latest contributor to the United
States conscience fund, who sends in
his check for S., 900, is the same man
who sent in a check to the same
fund for $1,000 several months ago.
This looks as if his conscience was tax
ing possession of him only gradually.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

p. T. BARNUM's fortune is estimated
at $11, 900, 900, every cent of which he
has accumulated since he reached his
fortieth birthday.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

To INDUoE country custom, an enter
prising Chicago hotel man has issued
the following advertisement liz your
lungs are too weak to blow out the gas
please use hand bellows, which you And
IN the washstand drawer.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

FRANCE and Newfoundland are an
gagged IN . dispute over the fishery Dues
ton. VIII Newfoundland dog France
nto war.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

An empty harder ought to be enough
To keep the wolf from the door.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28
PRACTICAL .SCIEN CE,
BIT PROF. J. v. ELsoM.
WONDERS OF THE MIGHTY DEF

lHE seal the sea !
the open seal
The blue, ID Q
fresh, the ever
freel
Without q mark,
wi t h o u E q
bound,
1t runneth the
earth's wide re-
gion round;
1t plays with the
clouds, 1t Knocks
the skies,
Or like o graded
creature lies.
Standing on
the s trand,
we watch the
rude, relent-
less 8 urg Q 8
G ! q 8 b i n g
against t b 9
ro cky shore.
We see tn Q
pillows chas-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-28

SOME enterprising Southern men
propose to give an exposition of South
ern products in some Northern city.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-01-23
poNora, whIch ono daywlll eome out and

powers which one daywill como out and
proclaim themselves.
Well. II is about time thoy were COM
ing out and proclaiIlng themselves.
Lord Lytton Is iifty-soyen years old.
Tho statesmanlike powers ought 10 be
''hurrying up" as you say In America,
or they win run the risk Of not showing
themselves in time 10 got recognized
certainly do not regard Lord Tenny-
son as loader OF the House of Lords.
The poet has never, believe, opened
his mouth in the august assembly OF
which he is assuredly one OF the most
distinguished members. Lord Tenny-
son is, / think, the only professional
author in the House Of Lords, for
hardly look ON Lord Lytton as any thing
more than an amateur.
There Is a very considerable number
Of lawyers In the House, most OF them
men who have held the Office of Lord
Chancellor When man is made Lord
Chancellor he is invariably raised 10
the Peerage. Perhaps year or two
after he enters the House n Lords his
party is turned out OF oiiice, and he
ceases TO be Lord Chancellor; but he re-
mains member of the House OF Lords
all the same, and thus the House is con-
stantly receiving little reinforcements
Of lawyers.
Eminent lawyers who have not held
the position Of Lord Chancellor are not
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-01-23
TRANsPIRlNo ABROAD.


nx paying two dollars la spot cash
you can got divorce in four hours In
Japan.
EMPE~ OR WfLLIAM, Of Germany, re-
GENTLY discharged an attendant who had
been reading French novel.
Tm Edison waltz and the Buffalo Bin
galop have supplemented the Boulanger
march as popular music In Paris.
THE Chinese coast, two thousand miles
in extent, Is lighted at night by as COM
plote system Of lighthouses as the
shores OF any civilized country.
FREDERICK KRuPP, the head OF tho
great metal and gun foundry AZ Berlin,
has established a fund OF 500 600 70 en-
able his employees TO build their own
houses.
THE labor question is said TO bo push
ing every othor out OF public interest In
London, the demands Of the laboring
classes for the betterment OF their con-
Aition having become so loud and FREE
quent.
THE Turkish Government refuses to
interfere with tho trade in Circassian
WOAtHt anu has AhothAAeo0 10 NoAD-
gates In tho African conference at Brus-
sells to oppose any Intervention in the
traffic.
ONE Of tho pet dogs OF the Princess OF
Wales strayod away the other day from
the Hotel Bristol at Paris. Ittook refuge
in shop, where IL was recognized by
tho inscription on its collar: Tommy
belongs TO the Princess OF Wales"
THE Shah OF Persia has added to the
bewilderment OF his subjects by appoint
ing special commission to draft new
civil and criminal codes, and has upset
his sons and courtiers by expressing his
willingness to forego some of his per-
sonal prerogatives.
AN Englishman has bought the con-
tents OF the royal castle OF Nuremberg,
containing the most complete collection
OF instruments OF torture extant, costing
&C, 900 in all. There is library Of 8, 900
volumes, giving the history Of crime
and torture for many centuries.
Two OR three years ago the Russian
Government established credit hanks
for the purpose OF assisting the owners
OF large estates who happened TO be
pressed for money. The effect has been
that the number OF mortgaged estates is
much greater than ever and many be-
longing to high mobiles arc TO be sold
this year for non-payment Of the inter
est on loans.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-01-23

Bart Scott, Of Ashland, tells a funny
story about member Of the Wisconsin
Legislature. The old man was elected
70 the State Senate from one Of the lum-
Der counties and was proud Of the honor.
When the Legislature met in Madison
Senator Blank was daily in his seat be-
fore the time for calling the Senate 20
order and spread the Madison Journal
before him to read the news Of the day.
One morning after the chaplain prayer,
while the Clerk Of the Senate was read.
ing the Journal Of the proceedings Of the
previous day, a gentleman arose and
said: ''Mr. President. I move to dis
pense with the reading Of the journal. .
Senator Blank quietly folded his Madi-
ison Journal, arose and said: ''Mr. Pres.
ident, l move also to dispense with the
reading Of the Times, the later Ocean
and all other papers. There should be
no distinction against the Journal"
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-01-23

The equivalent English money $4,000 offered by
old lady London for the Of vorie which had
sayed been stolen People called her crank and perhaps she
that gcntlcr should gain
this title many however frequently their
Often functional arrangements will apparently change womans
entire Don't blame such sufferers they cranky
tell them DR. Pes Favote Prescription, which is nbe
remedy for "fcmale weaknesses"
"Fayor has thousands of poor bedrddcn
suffering Of female weakness painful Irregularities ucera
organic dspacements and kindred ailments
only medicine sold by
positive guarantee that WILL in every case give satisfaction the
($l00 will be refunded Book Of pages,
which "Fayorte Prescription sealed plain envelope
receipt Of ten n stamps
Address, WORLDS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Pope-
tors No G03 Main Street. Buffalo, N. Y
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-01-23
A CLEVER ARTIST.
How He Manages to Get Plenty to Do at
Good Prices.

How He Manages to Get Plenty to Do at
Good Prices.
There is man in Washington with
business ability, and he is an artist.
Strange, but true, that an artist can be
business man; but this is one of the
freaks OF nature. He is the one and
only of his class. Whenever a new
Congress meets the business artist
spends several days in the gallery
studying the faces of the new members.
Whoever has vanity strongly marked
upon his features, or exhibits 1t in his
walk or other mannerism, falls victim
to the artist He first selects his man,
then seeks an introduction, talks to
him about his past, present and future
prospects, uses diplomatic fiattery to in
gratiate himself, and then goes TO work.
He purchases a photograph OF the Con-
gresham, has it enlarged to life size,
and makes an excellent crayon portrait.
He is good artist and does superior
work. As soon as the picture is fin
ished the business artist frames Ii, car
ries it to the committee room OF which
the member is a shining light, and
mounts 1t npon chair.
Then he invites the victim to view 1t
and bring his fellow-members to see It.
They all pronounce IL a splendid like
ness, as IL really Is. The business artist
then informs his iattered friend that
the picture was made from sketches
taken in the House gallery, and says that
1t is worth $50. The fact is that the
crayon is worth about $40, and no more.
But the new member is fattered by the
attention which has been paid TO him,
to think that the artist selected him
from the distinguished body Of states
men for picture, and he buys it The
artist usually works" from fifty to sew
enty-hve members that way every year,
and you can see that he docs a paying
business. He makes over s., 900 per an
mum out Of the House. and has fair luck
besides in the Senate playing upon the
same weakness of the great men
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-01-23


House Of Commons that success will de-
pend.
Therefore am afraid the great and
genuine capacity Of Lord Rosebery will
never have . fair field on which TO dis
play itself. He is only forty-one, which
In England we consider youthful for a
statesman. and he might have such q
career before him If he were only in the
House Of Commons.
/ do not know whether OF not Lord
Lytton ought to be called a leader in
the House Of Lords. He does not have
much 10 do with that assembly. He
was Niceroy Of India, he is British Am
bassador az Paris. He has written some
charming verses, a great many verses
that are very poor, and a novel
He has made some elaborate speeches
In the House Of Lords; he is very win
ning and persuasive in manner, and
those who know him intimately insist
Ehat 10 has splondid statesnanlike