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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
MAKING DEMOCRATS FAMOUS.
[Des Moines Capital. /


Republicans have many sins to answer
for, but none greater than the starting
of Grover Cleveland on the road to So
called greatness and fame. The repub-
licans of the state of New York elected
Cleveland governor OF that state over as
good man as the state ever produced,
Secretary Folger, who had served long
and acceptably as a supreme Judge.
There was no real excuse for such re-
publican conduct, and the only pretended
one was that Folger was an admins
tration man and the administration
must be s.rebuked 2 In .rebuk-
ing the Arthur administration Grover
Cleveland got 10000 majority, and
every democrat was driven to lunacy in
admirationof tho reform mayor Of
Buffalo Subsequent events cot him
even with those republicans BY making
g rover Cleveland president. Az the re-
cent election republicans again helped
/ to crcatea grea democrat iii the person
OF ex-dog. Pattison, OF PENNSYLVANIA.
who Will probably ornament tho second
place on the flntional democratic ticket
~ iep4l kapubiicans VIA helt their
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

puffed effect. A big white hat tim
med with thick silver cord and white
ostrich tips finishes thi, dainty cos
tune.
One of the most artistic coats is the
Princess. 1t is made very effectively
in rich, warm, golden-brown, moss
green, or roya,-purrle velvet. The
quaint, deep cape, with it's very high
shoulders, crosses just a. the waist,
where it is fastened with three big
steel buttons or wide steel buckle.
At the throat there is a rundown
collar, and the V-shaped opening of
the cape shows vest of velvet, fasten-
ed with small steel buttons which
match in pattern the larger ones. Two
big buttons are sewed in the back just
at the waist line. where the skirt full
ness is made by four deep plaits.
The wide brimmed hat is of the same
shade of velvet as the cloak, and is
trimmed with ostrich feathers of con-
trastiug shade.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
Badge-Wearing the Latest Fad,

Il just met very distinguished man
on Broadway" said an English tour.
list lately landed to me the other day.
He was a member of some order OF
other. I'm not sure whether it was
French OF Italian. I think he belongs
to more than one"
Ten minutes later / met this distin.
guished man, and his orders were
neither French nor German. He was
a member of the BARRIERS Protective
Association, an East Side athletic
club, and q dancing coterie.
This mistake on the part of the Brit
ish tourist calls to mind the fact that
one man out of ten that are met on any
of the upper thoroughfares wears
badges of some sort or other. Most of
the badges are small, and some are
rich and costly in design, and as rule
they are worn on the left lapel of the
coat where boutonniere usually ap-
pears.
When the reader remembers that
there are in this country over 5000
secret societies, some large and pros
porous, but most of which are con-
fined to the town which gave them
birth, and that most of the members
wear some distinctive badge, this
wonderful growth in the badge-wear-
ing fad is not really so wonderful af-
ter all.
Yesterday 1 met on Sixth avenue a
tall man with military air, who
would have been taken for a field
marshal at least in any foreign city I
analysed the badges that covered his
waistcoat like the rounds of the
Jacobs ladder" that national guards
men wear. The list was as follows.
Masonic i Blue Lodge, Chapter,
Council, Commandery, Lodge of Per
lection, Temple of Mecca.
Knights of Pythias.
Order of Foresters.
Ancient Order of American Work
men.
Legion of Honor.
Grand Army of the Republic.
Ninth Regiment, National Guards.
That was all, but as each order had
its badge, and as each badge was worn,
the waistcoat looked like the breast Of
the Prince of Wales. in his dress
parade costume.
Of course few badge wearers go to
this extreme. but enough of them have
their special vanities to make the fad
marked one in New York City
Neto York Herald.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
FOURTEEN TIMES AS HiGH
Iflhieaeo Inter Ocenn. 1

The Sheffield (Eagland TELEGRAPH Inns
been interviewing some citizens and
manufacturers of that great center Oh
the British iron and steel trade who &C.
companfed the members or the Iron and
Steel Institute on their visit to the
United States. 1t is with great pleasure.
that we transcribe certain passages of
these interviews
Mr.. George Senior was asked by the
reporter:
Can you give me any idea as to the
cost Of living in American"
Mr.. Senior responded quickly: In
Chicago saw meat ticketed ait from to-
IL cents per pound, and this was about
the New York rate. might say that in:
Chicago saw 400 or 500 fine cattle sold
at az cents per pound, taken alive.
Bread and meat are much cheaper than
In England. Z
What is your opinion of the condi-
tion of the worlxmen in the United
States
Men work in our own trade iron
and steel) much harder and steadief
than fiji England. The workingmeE
earn bigger wages and the artisan proper
is much better off than his brethren in
England. =
Mr.. Senior employs great number Of
workmen in Sheffield; his testimony,
therefore, Is unimpeachable. Moreover.
he is a free trader.
The reporter asked him this qnestiofsy
we beg the readers attention to it ard
to the answer:
ssDo you think the prosperity of thc
American workman is caused by tn,
operation of the protective system?'
4 have given the most careful COR.
sideration to this matter. said M.
Senior, tsand have found that people e:
means who are not engaged in trade are
free traders"
We beg a consideration of this testi-
mony, tho ''peoplc of means who are not
engaged in trade are free traders" That
is to say, the rich who consume but dc
not produce. The gamblers, whether III
stocks or cards. the rich and idle, who
wish to hire cheap servants and to pur.-
chase cheapluxnries. The money sharks
of Wall street. The moneycd nabobS.
are not free traders.
As to why 50 many farmers are pro-
tectionists Mr.. Senoir says:
s'They argue that it is better to be-
saddlcd with little moro expense for
clothes than to be called upon to bear
the heavy taxation imposed in England.
The average taxation of America does
not exceed six pence twelve cents per
acre.
The average taxation per acrein Great
Britain is just fourteen times as much az
in America, being (sec Mulhalfs Die
tf0nary or Statistics, page. 8, seven
English shillings of twcnty-four cents
each per acre.
Mr.. Senior is free trader, and Mr..
Mulhall is free trader, and both OF
them are Englishmen. We submit their
conclusive testimony to the consideration
Of American free traders who tell the
American farmer that he is taxed by
the tariff" and we ask them: Is there
one article for which the Americans
farmer pays fourteen times the price
paid by the British farmer? We have
shown that the British farmer pays
fourteen times as much tax on each acre
of ground as is paid in America.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
BAGGAGE SMASHERs.
Kate Thorn Gives Her Experience will
That lass of People


That { lass of People,
Almost every body who travels com
plains of how dreadfully baggage is
smashed up. A new trunk, they say,
which costs twenty dollars, will be
done to death in making trip from
Washington to Quebec, and homo, by
the way of the great lakes.
A friend ofe ours, who i, a great
traveller, and who is ger orally accom-
panied by a couple of Saratogas, tells
us that she never enjoys the scenery
anywhere, because she is worrying so
about her trunks. In her experience
she has had dozens of them broken
open, and the contents scattered, and
is always expec ing such a catastro he
All travellers indulge in gloomy Fore
bodings of that kind, to some extent
The only really independent traveller
is the Boston drummer, and there are
about twenty of him on every train,
and he occupies two seats, ard carries
his luggage three boxes and two bags
in his hand.
OF course, great deal of blame is
attached to the railway o fieials who
hlndle tho luggage. We have heard
them called almost anything except
decent men. Everybody feels at lib
erty to show them up, and then if they
venture to say am thing in return, they
are reported TO the company for Ia
science and disrespectful conduct.
Now baggage smasher' il man
with mans feelings.
He isn't q Samson, or O California
pack horse, or q Virginia mule.
No matter how good his will may be,
he cannot move q meeting house.
He cannot take trunk which weighs
two hundred and carry ii in his arms
as he would his first baby, even.n it
be filed with Iare old china and geo.
logical specimens mixed up together.
And when, after drawing in d full
breath and setting back his cap and
braeing himself, lie manages to lift one
Of these trunks to q level with the
truck he cannot let ii down easy, Int
has to TAT il 40, ana il goes down with
Be 81
And ilille u he be i Hercules how is
he goif g to help is9
Jast consider the number e9 trunks
aid heavy packages Il haggsge mAstss
II Ia
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
THE Garter arast Co.

An edict has gone forth from the
State Normal School at Oswego. New
York, forbidding the Young ladies
there wearing the garters now in
vogue. DIR. Mary Y. Lee, who has
charge of the physical instruction of
the young ladies. will see to it that
they wear their hosiery suspended by
side elastic attachments to an under
garment at the waist, OF by none at all
The old STYLE, she says, whether worn
above or below the knee, hinders free
circulation, prevents development, and
is injurious. She believes healthy,
active mind should be supported by q
healthy bodily development. DIR. Lee
first made war on corsets, then she
gave her attention to high heeled shoes,
and both have been abolished.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

front of the gown are fastened soft folds
of the cashmere, which are gathered into
the belt, just where the steel clasps
fasten.
A stylish church costume is OF
Reseda-green lady's cloth, trimmed
with rows of moss-green velvet ribbon.
The skirt is made of deep box plaits,
trimmed with two rows of the velvet.
The coat, which is tight-ftting in the
back, opens to show vest, finely
plated surah silk, of old rose color,
gathered into collar, and belt of
the green cloth, trimmed with q single
row of velvet, just at the waist line in
the back. In place of buttons two
full rosettes of the velvet ribbon are
fastened.
The CATERS, which fit SO snugly over
the shiny patent-leather shoes, are
made of green cloth, the color of the
gown. Tho hat is made of dark green
velvet and is trimmed with q large
bunch of mingled Reseda and oId-rose
ostrich feathers.
A party gown, warranted to make
any little maid look as pretty as a
pink" is of soft white camel's hair.
The yoke, cuffs and bottom of the very
full skirt are embroidered in white and
silver, in Grecian or geomet1ical pat,
tern. The camel's hair is fastened to
the yoke by two rows of shirring, and
the long waist is made by shirring
three lows OF the cloth on an inside
belt, which holds it in place.
The sleeves are made with fine tucks
running from three inches below the
arm seam to the elbow; the fullness
above and below gives the pretty
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
POLITICAL NOTES.

The difference between Mr.. Mills and
the other democratic leaders is that he
frankly declares himself free trader,
while they think as he does, but are not
honest enough to say SO.
THE democratic papers are criticism q
Senator Carlisle because he failed to at
tend the Thurman banquet; and yet Col.
Bill Springer made one of the worst mis-
takes of his life by not doing likewise.
If the democratic senators are per-
mitted to have their way Mr.. Cleveland
Will not be the next candidate of their
party for president. However, most of
them were against him in 1888, and still
he snatched the prize in spite of them.
SENATOR VANCE, OF North Carolina.
is not likely to be reelected, it appears.
He made the mistake of antagonizing
the farmers before the election, and now
they refuse to grant him the privilege OF
readjnsting his views to suit the re-
turns.
The total vote cast in Mississippi for
congressman was about 81 600. the num-
Der OF congressman elected being seven.
sIhat IS to say, q congressman from that
state represents less than 5000 votes. BY
reason mainly OF the suppression OF suf-
frage In the interest Of the Democratic
party.
IT is said that Mr.. Carlisle protested
against MT. Cleveland's celebrated free
trade message and urged that IT be not
sent 10 congress. This Is another proof
sof the fact that the republicans always
benefited when Mr.. Carlisle's advice is
not taken.
HE Arkansas clergyman who says
thai ne II unpopular with the democratic
leaders Of that state fer righteousness
sake ollly may readily be believed. a
righteous man IS the pet aversion Of men
who carry elections BY stuffing ballot
7: / md assassinasing opposition GAM
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

ABOUT the only meat the Bolivian In
dian INDUCES in is chalona or dried
mutton, which is pre- pared in this way !:
When sheep has been killed it is laid
out fiat, frozen, soaked in water and
frozen again; after which it is hung up
and dried and is then SO hard and
tough that decay is impossible and no
yermin will modest it. To render cha
Iona edible it must be cut into small
bits and boiled very long time; and
In its best estate is about as tender and
JUICY as sole leather. Bolivian Indians
rarely eat fresh meat of any kind and
have no fondness for the picanter and
peppers SO priced by the Spaniards and
Cholos. Their greatest delicacy in the
line of food is frozen Hema flesh; while
coca is considered the first essential of
life, and alcohol, or it's equivalent, far
more necessary than water.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

get almost q fabulous price for their
skins. AS the herd comprised the only
known buffaloes ID q wild state, their
loss is . serious one and their slaughter
would almost complete the extinction
of q once countless race.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

TEN years ago China had amost a
monopoly of the English tea market,
but now India and Ceylon furnish SO
per cent. Of the quantity consumed.
The India and Ceylon teas are said to
be stronger than the Chinese. Coffee
is rapidly superseded by tea as bever-
age in Egland.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

The human race must have had it's
origin in the torrid zone, otherwise we
could not support the heat which would
give an African monkey fits. In very
warm weather Sidney Smith used to
wish that he could take off his flesh
and sit in his bones.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

A AiAssAoHUsErTs man has taken
out q curious patent for funeral car
riage. It's built like an old country
omnibus, with compartment on the
roof for the coffin There is not much
In this notion that IS startling1y new,
but the patent has been issued specific.
ally for an endless chain and pulley ar
rangement which lifts the coffin from
the hands Of the pail bearers to the
place designed for it on the top. About
q dozen varieties of air-tight collins
have been patented since January, each
being graced with some particular
quality. In one the air is pumped oft
through small hole after the coain-lid
has been closed, and the hole auto
matically closed by an apparatus inside
the air exhausting machine.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

The current number of the Medical
Journal says that a well. healthy man
will suffer more from the prick of a
pin than he will from the pain of disso-
luton in case he dies natural death.
IL assures the tlmlu mat Jnere Is no pain
connected with the act of dying, but
though the Journal is such high au-
thoritY most of us beg to be excused.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
A Canard.

What is a canard, my dears' said
Mrs. Littlewit to her husband the
other morning at breakfast.
What don't you know what q
canard il? ~ asked IL. scornfully.
Why, the word itself conveys its own
meaning
Does it? Well. may be stupid,
bnt / really don't see 10 Do tell me,
dear.
willy, q canard Ii something one
canartlly bslieys. ef coarse, - galsfeg.
Adj
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

A BOY has committed suicide because
there were ne ether isegs ia the the neigh
borhood where he lived with whom he
could have "some fun" The average
boy who spends his waking hours in
studying plans whereby he can get
into trouble, or in other words, have
some fun, " can appreciate how barren
the young suicides life must have been
when he had no companions in mis-
chief.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

ONE of the points especially noted
by military observers during the recent
maneuyers abroad, where smokeless
powder was used, was that in a clear
atmosphere, unobscured by the smoke
Of battle, all bright accoutrements
were seen at great distance, thus be-
traying the positions of the various
bodies of troops.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

A YANKEE engineer proposes to build
Q passenger elevator which will lift
tourists to the summit of Mount Blanc.
There is nothing on this earth that a
Yankee can't do.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
TOM AND JERRY.

EFF / hadn't seen it with my own
eyes," murmured the old man, as he
turned back toward the depot, I'D
never believed it, But I'll not bother
the boys I'll not bother 'em. " -
Pioneer Press.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

THE man who invented the pigs-in-
clover puzzle has been sent toa lunatic
asylum Ia st. Louis.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

The American college "yell" is some
thing Europeans, and particularly En-
glishmen, never get used to. Their
colleges have no "yell." and the En-
glishman does not see the fun of it at
all. On the contrary, more than one
learned professor has endeavord to
prove that the yell is an Indian war
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

The projected elevated road in Bos;
ton will almost Craze the Old South
Church and the Old State House, and
will cross very near above the ground
of the lannon's Boston massacre.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

noon dress for a girl Of four is made Of
-colored cashmere, trimmed around
the skirt with gallon of old roso, pale
blue and wine-colored silk; the belt,
collars and cuffs are formed of the
same gallon.
The gown is made with medium long
waist, and is tasted with tiny buttons
down the back. Diagonally across the
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

AN association Of housewives in Phil
adelphia is to abolish kitchens and es-
tablish cooperative central cooking
hoI1sa
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
A voyage in a Small Craft.

A good deal of excitement was ex-
hibited along the Thames by the arri-
val at Millwall of Capt. Sundsvall, a
Norwegian sailor, who had succeeded
in crossing the North Sea in a small
boat. The little craft, which is called
the Nigten. is only fifteen feet from
stem to stern, with four feet breadth
of beam. 1t is. covered in with kind
of decking to prevent swapping by
heavy seas, and it carries but one small
sail.
Capt Sundsvall commenced his adj
venturous voyage nearly three weeks
before, starting from Christiana with
the intention of proceeding to Edin-
burgh. All went well for time, but
being driven somewhat out of his course
by contrary winds, he decided to at
tempt the journey to London. although
such voyage in SO small craft was
attended by considerable danger, par
ticularly as the Captain had no one TO
assist him in the management OF the
boat. He made fair progress, however,
until he was for some DAYS again dis
turbed by unfavorable weather, and
was driven very much out of his course.
Capt. Sandsvali also began to run
shor. Of provisions, and beganto suffer
from fatigue basing to keep sharp
lookout at night. and getting only oc-
casionaI snatches OF sleep during The
day. He fell In with the steamship
Assem- bound for Rotterdam. the crew
Of which endeayo ed to dissuade him
from his hazardous enterprise, aud in
vited him to come on board. The adj
yenturous seaman, however, expressed
his Intention to continue the journey;
and having obtained o supply of pro-
visions, proceeded to London, safely
rnachinr the Tha1rlas is 49, $3.50
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
wouldn't Have Believed 1t If He Hadn't
Seen 1t.

Wouldn't Have Believed 1t If He Hadn't
Seen 1t.
Eben Fowler was good old farmer
whose particular hobby was to bring
up his boys right. He had two of them.
Jerry was the brightest, but not SO old
as his brother, and as the precedence
of birth rules on farm, as we'll as in
royalty, the old mans son Thomas was
rather the favorite. The old gentle
man daily lectured his two sons on the
cardinal evils of the world, mainly
bearing on temperance as the best Of
all principles. The boys listened al
ways and promised to heed their old
fathers words throughout their lives.
At length the younger boy said he
must go to the city. There was sorrow
in the old mans house. He was
troubled and his good old wife was
troubled. 1t seemed best that the boy
should 60 out into the world, but he
was too young. It was finally agreed,
however that Ae-sheH44a go and that that
the older boy should go with him. The
two youths setout with the best wishes
of the neighbors and fairly over
whelmed with fatherly and mother1y
advice.
"Be careful, boys" sobbed the old
man, don't drink and don't hoss-race
eff We don't want to break your daddy's
and mammy's hearts"
The boys promised. They went to
the city, hourished, made money, and
wrote back to the old home that they
were too busy to leave on O visit, but
urged their father to come and see
them. The old man finally concluded
to go, and one crisp December morning
he reached the city. He was not very
warmly clad, and as he scurried along
he wondered il it would be wrong for
him to take small fpge" OF whisky.
He decided that he needed it he was
too old and could not contract the drink
habit, he argued to himself. He went
in through one of the doors of the great
gilded places and stepped up to the
bar. just as the old man called for
his drink the bartender saw him start.
whats the matter, old man ?" called
the mixer of drinks.
Would We mind tellin' me whar the
boss is? ?" he half gasped, holding the
small glass trembling in his fingers.
ooh, they're out at the barn looking
at their bosses"
The old man turned away. He
dropped ten cents on the bar and left
his whisky untouched.
"I'm goin' home" he muttered; "this
is no place for the OF man. I'll go
back to the OF woman an tell her that
her boys is succeedin', but-thet
is all I kin tell her"
He reached the door, then turning
around he looked again at the big sign
on the bar. Tt read:
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

A LAPEER. Mich, man took home
two bottles of beer one day last week,
and instead of drinking the stuff put
the bottles down on the woodpile. By
some kind of hocus pocus one of the
bottles got into the stove, and the ex-
plosion that followed wrecked the stove
and scared the man out of years
growth. The man promptly drank the
contents of the other bottle and went
out to buy new stove.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

1T would be well for the patrons of
the electric cars to take notice of the
fact that the courts have non-suited a
man who was injured by trying to get
aboard the car between the regular
stopping places and sued the railroad
company for damages. The railroad
company is held to be blameless, and
the plaintiff is censured for his reck-
lessness. People who cannot reach the
regular stations of the electrics would
do well to find some other mode of con-
veyance or 60 afoot.