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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Toxic, Japan, now meets once
month and has taken up twelve de-
partments of work. Miss Ackerman's
recent visit greatly strengthened the
organization. During her stay new
temperance society of young men was
organized, 400 of whom signed the
pledge through her influence.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24
He Was Used to 1t.

Chief Of Montana Regulators (unty-
ing the prisoner) Some Of the bows
hev just come In with the teller that
really did steal the mule. You're limo
cent, and we've give you this boss,
whippin' fur nothin'. I'm mighty sorry
fur the mistake, pard.
Prisoner Quitting on his vest and
coat Don't mention it. It's nothinr.
I'm Mormon missionary
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

THERE'S standing on the banks of the
Augusta, Ca, canal, in somewhat di-
1apidated condition, the house where
George Washington was entertained
on the occasion of his visit to Augusta
over one hundred years ago. There is
said to be a negro woman in Jefferson
County who was in Augusta when the
visit was made, but was too young to
remember anything about it.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

A STORY comes from China that the
people of Soochow are greatly alarmed
by atmospheric phenomena. They ap-
pear first over rivers and creeks in the
form of black cloud which bears some
resemblance to boat, which gradually
becomes ball of fire, and after time
bursts into myriad of starry flashes
of light that float about in the air for a
while to the great terror of the be-
holders.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

The agricultural college professors
have figured it out that two little spar
rows in ten years will produce an an
cestry of 275, TIC, 9s3, 619s birds. Well,
that isn't more than bird or two out
of the way at most.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

A DAYTON, Me-, man says his town
doesn't owe cent and has 80, 900 in the
treasury, and that neither lawyer,
doctor nor minister resides within its
limits. Neither is there any church in
the town.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

THE Kentucky legislature of 1915
was noted for its misspelling. It named
Green County after General Greene,
Muhlenburg County after General
Muhlenberg, Menifee County after
Richard Fl. Menifee, and Daviess
County after Joseph II. Daveiss, and
the photography disfgures the map to
this day
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

since last fell ii has rained and been
muddy almost necessarily and unin-
terruptedley. Corn is just being
planted; oats are drownin, but still
nonopolies are furshing. Wheat 80
cents at the station, butter 10, eggs
10, while on the other hand coffe is Is
and sugar is still cornered. Some
thin's got to be done, or bust. Farmers
alliance to the rescue!l Alliances are
forming all over the State Miller
Purvis is organizin EN- right n left.
Farmers are wakin up, it's high time.
Invent to hear Purvis the other night.
On my way over I had to CROSS ragin
streem on log. On this particular
evening the streem was howlin. The
water came up to the log almost. I
got down n crawld carefully out over
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

w. j.. SCOTT, the ceal baron, and the
man who wrote to Mr.. Chauncey M
Depew that he could be relied upon
to stand by the corporations If he were re-
elected, as he was friend of the mon
opolies, has been nominated again for
Congress by the Democracy. Had such a
man been nominated by the Republicans.
the Democratic organs would have howled
themselves hoarse in denunciation, and
would have charged the Republican party
with coddling. nourishing, and producing
just such men; but, being Democratic
monopolist, they will have nothing to
say. Had he been Republican, the OPP
pressoF of the Spring Valley miners would
have been the object of vilifcation and
righteous Democratic Indignation. Being
Democratic monopolist, they nominate
him to carry Republican district upon
the pretense Of his popularity among the
working people. 1t is only necessary for
o monopolist to be Democrat in order
for monopoly to be virtue in the esti-
NATION OF these hypocrites. - Chicago
l'ribgne.
And Paid from Revenue Easily Raised.
When Abraham Lincoln became Presi-
dent in 1861 the total revenues OF the
Federal Government, including the sale
of public lands, amounted to only $40
100000, and the entire expenditures of
the Government for the fiscal year end
ing June, 1861, were less than So, 000,-
900. The coming year the expenditures
for pensions will be at least $150,0C0.-
0o0, nearly three times the total expendi-
lures in the year preceding the war. A
striking example Of the results of the
Democratic rebellion. and OF the giati-
tnde of the country to the men who de-
Tended her in her time Of peril. CIeue-
land Leader.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

QU1LL toothpicks, as rule, are inn
ported from France. The largest fac
tory in the world is near Paris, where
10000, 900 are annually produced.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

A GEORGIA colonel named Scott has
attracted considerable attention by his
determination, that the wealth which
he devotes to public and philanthropic
purposes shall be applied during his
lifetime. Having recently come into
possession of $3.50, 900, he has bestowed
liberal gifts upon educational institu-
tions, and declares that he intends to
leave his heirs only merest compe-
tence. Colonel Scott deserves the
praises that are given him. His head
is level and his heart is in the right
place.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

Now you must
excuse this short
letter, for it had
quit raining ans
I must go and let
off the water from
my corn ground.
Excuse haste and
a bad pen. Yours
affectshionatly,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24
Totals. 81 AS Qs9 34s 4o2152s ss54. os25. O
The Nationa, Election Bin.

Compiled from report Of the Comptroller Of
the Currency for 1885, Missouri has no savings
Observation-Disclosures Press
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24
.CORKER TAKES A Plunge BATH.

EER Mr.. Editer:
The food gates are
opened and the rain
descendth in tor
ents and our later
patch is o float.
For 6 months it
has rained more or
lessin many cases
more, in others
less but in all
cases w 3 cry
enough O, yes !!
a ID O II a b I Ever
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

F1zzINGToN CoRKER.
N. B.-We are all well and hope
these few lines may find you all enjoy
ing the same blessing. f.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

leone up finally and
struck out bravely
for the 8 hore.
With Herculaneean
efforts I grabbed a
root and pulled my
self on land more
alive than dead, but
the adventure had
dampened my spirits
for the night, and.
as I wendell my
weary way home my
reflections were to
the effect that there
is "many a slip a
'twixt the cup and
II got on dry clothes
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

SPEECH is external thought, and
thought internal speech.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

SOME very interesting facts of crime
are revealed by a Scotch sheriff. He
knew OF one woman who, between the
years 1874 and 1866, was committed 167
times for being drunk, and when drunk
her invariable practice was to smash
windows. "A man when drunk stole
nothing but Bibles, and was trans
ported for his seventh theft. Another
man stole nothing but spades; o wosa-
an stole nothing but shoes; another
nothing but shawls; but the queerest
thief was one who stole tubs, and was
sent to penal servitude for bis seventh
tub.
VfCToR BoULEr, q poor workman as
KecnviIIe, N. H, has made . lucky
ind; HE path from his house to the
rate had worn SO that some stones IN II
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

seemed like railroad train; water
rored in my mouth, my eyes and nose.
I gurgled and spurted and strangled,
but to no purpose. 1t seemed a young
eternitey before come to the top. but
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

the lip" But when I got on dry clothes
felt hattar
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24
sTURGIs ADVERTISER.
sTURGIs, MEADE CO.. s. D,

/. R. CROW. PuBr1sHER
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

The industrious hen does NOT require
) patent nest to induce her to lay eggs.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-10
A TRUE STORY.
IFrnm The Afchisnn. Kans

From The Atchison, Kansas, Patrlot.I
The American workingman returns at
night from his toll clad in woolen suit
taxed 55 per cent. stockings and UNDER
shirt taxed 75 per cent. cotton shirt
taxed A per cent, a woolen hat taxed
10 per cent, and perchance pair of
gloves in winter taxed 40 per cent
He carries in his hand dinner pail
taxed 40 per cent. and greets his wife
with CHEEKY smile rs she looks at him
through a window pane taxed 80 per
cent, from which she has drawn aside
the curtains taxed 40 per cent.
After scraping his boots on a scraI er
taxed 40 per cent, be wipes them on a
mat Of bagging taxed 10 per cent. he
| lifts the door latch taxed 43 per cent,
steps in on carpet taxed 6S per cent,
and gives kiss to bis wife i'm wooden
dress taxed 20 per cent. She has a
needle taxed 25 per cent. in her hand
with which she has been mending with
thread taxed 40 per cent. an alpaca
umbrella taxed 80 per cent.
Ii Is a small brick house which they
have bought with their baru earnings
of building association. The bricks
were taxed 20 per cent, the lumber
taxed 16 per cent. and the paint 81 per
cent. The wall paper, taxed as per
cent, makes the room brighter with its
plain furniture taxed 35 per cent. He
hangs his pail on steel pin taxed 45
per cent. ,and proceeds to get ready for
his supper. He washes his hands with
CASTLE soap taxed 20 per cent. in tin
basin taxed 45 per cent. He then goes
to looking glass taxed As per cent. and
fixes bis hair with brush and comb
taxed 80 per cent.
He is now ready for his supper
which his wife has cooked ON a stove
taxed 40 per cent. with pots and ket-
ties, taxed SO per cent. The table is
spread with the commenest crockery,
taxed 56 per cent, and be drinks his
water out of cheap glass tumbler tax
ed 45 per cent. The little sugar that he
puts in his tea is taxed so per cent. and
he stirs 1t with q spoon taxed 45 per
cent. His meal 10 q frugal one because
hard times have cut his wages down by
making dollar buy less, land he is saw
ing every cent to pay the next install
ment due on his house.
With an appetite worthy OF an
ampler meal he takes up his knife and
fork taxed 45 per cent. and begins to cal
a piece of salt fish taxed 25 per cent. He
pours on vinegar, taxed Sc per cent
Upon his boiled potatoes, taxed 40 pei
cent, he spriukles salt, taxed 80 pei
cent. and eats a small pickle taxed 81
per cent. He ends his meal with pud
ding OF rice, taxed 1l2 per cent.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-10
THE TARIFF REVISION SHAM.
TFrom the st. Louis Post Dispatch.

IFrom the St. Louis Post DIspatch.t
The republican tariff bill proves again
that party cannot rise above the men
and the influences which place it In
power.
There have been prodigal promises
on the part of the republican organs
that the trusts would be destroyed and
the tariff taken out of politics as an issue
by the Mckinley measure.
Few sensible men, acquainted with
The political situation, placed any con-
tidence in these promises, because they
knew that back of the republican ma.
jority in the house stood the protected
manufacturers who made that majori-
ty possible--whOse money furnished
the huge corruption funds expended for
the purchase of voters.
The result of the labors of the house
ways and means committee justifies this
skepticism. The advance reports con-
corning tho tariff bill show that the
committee fully appreciated the fact
that it was appointed to delude the far
mer aud wage worker and protect the
profits of the monopolists. Some of the
tariff taxes are untouched; others are
subjected to sham reductions, and
delusive sop is thrown to the agricul-
tural interests by the imposition of
taxes on grain, vegetables and dairy
products which, fortunately for the peo-
pie, do not count. The trusts are not
hurt and the sugar trust is strengthen
ed by reduction of the tax on raw
sugar aud an increase of the tax on re-
fined sugar. There is little hope of the
house materially changing the bill for
the better.
The tariff cards were stacked by the
monopolists at the polls and the people
will have to struggle along under heavy
discriminating taxes until they fill the
ballot boxes with tariff reform votes.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-10
A TARIFF POEM.

From the KinRman, Kas., Democrat
lie sat at his door at MONDAY, lonely
and gloomy and sad, brOoding over the
price of his corn and figuring how much
he had. lie had worked from early
springtime, early and late and hard,
and he was counting his assets and
figuring out his reward. lie figured
that it took two acres to buy his two
boys new boots, and ten acres more on
top of this to fit them out with new
suits. TO buy his wife protected dress
took 100 bushels more, while five acres
went in u solid lump for the carpet on
the floor. His tax and his grocery bill
absorbed mis- crop of oats, while the
interest on his farm mortgage took all
his tattened shOats. The shingles on
his Cowshed and the lumber for lis
barn had eaten up his beef steers and
the balance of his corn. So he sat in
his door at MONDAY LONELY and gloomy
and sore, as he figured up his wealth a
little less than II mas the year before.
"By gum, they say l'm protected, but
know there's something wrong; I've
been deceived and gulled and hood
winSed by this high protection song.
They told of rebellious traitors, and
held up the bloody rag, and followed
along like pumpkin, and now | am
holding the bag. But from this time on
I'll investigate, and get to the bottom
OF facts, and III bet 81 to begin with
that the tariff Is tax"
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-10
THE AUSTRALIAN PLAN.

II seems to have worked well. The
Globe Democrat says it helped the re-
publicaus, and it was their plan; below
is clipping from the Howard Co. Ad.
vertiser which does not justify the &.
DIS claim: "In Indiana II of the IS
republicans in the senate and all of the
republicans in the house voted against
the Australian ballot system. In Ten
nessee every republican member of the
legislature voted against il. In Maine
it was defeated by the republicans. In
Pennsylvania 81 republicans and
democrat voted against 1t and defeated
il. In Delaware II was beaten by re-
publican votes. In Arkansas the repub-
lican members numbering % joined
with a sufficient number OF democrats
TO kill it. In the Illinois house every
vote against it was cast by republicans
In all these states an almost solid sup.
port was given the system by demo
Gratis These facts are important tC
remember when the claim is made tina,
the republicans are the friends of honest
ballot reform and the democrats IL.
enemies.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-10
WILD BEASTS In INDIA.
They are the Curse md scourge OF
That Old Land.

Every country Oh the globe has its
own special curse. Wild beasts are the
curse of India. They destroy on an
average about $4,000 persons a year,
most of whom are killed by the bite or
the hing of snakes. The British govern
menis in India, which pay rewards for
the Staying of wild beasts, keep also
exact accounts of their depredations,
which are published from time to time
in the newspapers. The London Times
summarizes the last report thus:
during the year ~, ,134 persons were
killed by snakes, 928 by tigers, 222 by
wolves, 1914 by leopards. 113 by bears,
dfty-seven by elephants, twenty-fonr
by hvenas, and l, 1859 by oihsr animals,
including scorpions, jacka.s, lizards,
1".r. ""ocodiles, buffaloes, mad dogs
and foxes.
In the same year nearly 10000
domestic animals were DESTROYED by
wild animals, but In this case the pro-
portions are quite different, for while
snakes were responsible for the deaths
of eleven.tweliths of the human beings,
! they only killed two in every fifty seven
animals, tigers and leopards doing the
greatest damage.
"ln the case both of human beings
and animals, the destruction appears
to be on the Increase; in the former
| case, the number is higher than In any
one OF the previous ten years, and in
he latter IL 's 'h'rd In ten wears in point
of numbers killed.
''At the same time the numbers of
wild beasts killed and the rewards paid
Tor that purpose are increasing. In 1886
22,OO0 wild beasts were destroyed, and
All, 200 snakes. sAmoug the wild beasts
were nearly 1000 wolves, 1900 leOp-
ards, about 1000 each OF iigers, bears
and byenas, and seven elephants
India contains q population of 270
millions of people. and IL seems sur
prislng that the wild beasts can hold
their own against such a multitude ;buf,
in fact, large portion of the territory
Is covered with dense growths of forest
or bamboo scarcely penetrable by man,
In which huge snakes and savage tigers
and other beasts find themselves per-
fectly at home.
Besldes,it Is not every man that dares
face tiger, wild elephant or a boa
constructor; nor can the Indian villa
gers in remote places command the
weapons which make the conflict equal
between men and savage animals.
| The people there are effeminated by
the warm climate, and are kept ex-
tremeIy poor by the various tax gath
erers who prey upon them. Two hum
dred and seventy million people of our
hunting race would soon do for India
what Saint Patrick is said to have done
tor Ireland.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-10
SOME STARTLING FIGURES,
From the Courier-Journal. !

from tne OOuTttT-JOuTuhi.l
1t appears that prices of corn and
oats are lower than they have been be-
tore for twenty-six years. The agri-
cultural department also shows that
the average price of farm products in
December was lower than ever before
The average price of corn in ls7l was
3D. per bnshel, the lowest up to that
time; the present crop is worth, on an
average 21.1. The prices at the point
of production in some of the great corn
growing states are, however, much
lower; a. nineteen cents in Iowa, eigh-
teen i'm Kansas, seventeen in Nebraska.
The capital question for the farmer. OF
course, is what his produce yields HIM
OH the farm where it is grown: the
price in distant centers of trade is OF no
moment to him, except as ii affects the
price he actually receives.
The wheat crop OF last year is esti-
mated at 490, 900. 900 bushels, worth at
the places OF production $346, ,00O, 900.
The wheat crop of 1879 was ASS, ,000, 900
bushels and its value was $509, 900, 900.
Comparing the two years. we find that
the farmers of the United States raised
last year, 100000 bushels more
wheat than in 1879. This is not q
great increase, considering the large
growth in population, but the yield OF
crops is not dependent on population
alone, but also upon conditions of tenn
perature beyond human control. Allow
ing for such differences, the increase in
production is, considered by itself, &
favorable showing. The significant
fact is that while the yield increased
as stated, the value of the crop of 1Sa!
was S163 ,000,000 less than that of 1879
In other words the crop of 1879 though
more than per cent. smaller han tina
| of last year, was worth over AZ pei
cent. more money .Curiously enough, ,thi
AZ per cent is nearly the amount of tax
alton to which the farmer submits fol
the sake OF a home market. Does il
not look like some one else is getting
the benefit of the home market?
1t may be surmised that the figures
of 1879 have been selected because they
show different result from those o.
any other year. Such was not the case
except TO slight degree. The yield o
1880, 49S ,000, 900 bushels, was but little
larger than that of 1889; its value wa.
$474, 100000, or $l2S,O00, 900 more
than that of last year. The crop of 1881
was 1888 100000 bushels; its value
$45S, ,000, 900.
Protectionists claim that the decline
of pig iron. steel rails and many Other
articles is due to protection. What
then, has cost the wheat growers $163,
100000 in 1889 as compared with 1879
That must be due to protection, too
II so, tAe farmer would probably like {
little less of il.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-10
A HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY.

The following from we'll known
and good man shows how indispensable
an article the Intelligencer is in ma.
jority of the well ellregulated households
OF Lafayette county
CORDER, Mo-, April 2l, 1890.
EDITOR INTELLIGENCEH:- Ne find
we cannot get along without the Intel
ligencCr Find enclosed one dollar for
the same, Yours truly.
JOHN Z. SHACkELI ORD.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-10
SHERMAN AND THE TRUSTS.
From the New York world.l


There is only one effective way in
which the federal government can pre-
vent the formation of trusts, and that
is by permitting the natural growth of
competition by means of foreign CON-
merce. The metal trusts, the sugar
trust, the oilcloth trust, the oil trusts,
would all collapse If the American
manufacturers were compelled to COM
pete with similar foreign products. A
year ago Mr.. Sherman seemed to think
that persons who formed trusts abused
the privileges of the protective law and
he professed to be in favor OF with
drawing the blessings of the statute
from the trusts. We have searched the
bin in vain for some such provision.
Mr.. Sherman has evidently repenteti
of what must now seems to him a rash
promise.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-10
III. j. DOObIEY,

A TTORNEY -AT-LAW, IIigginsvillc, Mo
n will practice in all the state and federal
G ,urts. Prompt attention given to collections
examinations of land titles, writing legal inden-
lures, etc. Loans money Rt u low rate OF inter-
est, writes insurance policies in standard oom-
panies, and, in Iact. attends TO all kinds Of
busint ss In general. Office over Globe Cloth
ing House. HiggInsyiIie, Mo npr2GyI
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-10
Santa Fe Route.

TRAINS ARRIVE.
7:i0 II. m. from Richmop d'snd east.
l045 u. III. from Lexington Junction.
l2:35 p. IN. from Kansas Cityand 81, Joseph.
$3.50 p. IN. from Richmond.
5:la p. IN. from Lexington Junction and east.
TRAINS LEAVE.
7.40 u. m. TO Lexington Junction.
10 - II. IN. to Lexington Junction and east.
l2:40 y. III. to Lexington June and Richmond.
3:t5 p. m. TO ST. Joseph and Kansas City.
7:l5p III. to Richmond and east.
TIcketH sold at city Office to all points. Buy
your tickets and get reduced rates.
JOHN TAUBMAN, Agent.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-10
SRY @. WALLACE. wh. II. CHILLI
WALLACE g. CHILES.

A TToRNFYS AND COlINsELLORs AT
a Law, Lexington, Mo. Office, front room
over the ''Lexington Savings Bank" opposite
Lafayette ami surrounding counties, and also in
he Suprem, court OF the state OF Missouri, and
the w. y. circuit and District courts for the
Western ID strict OF Missouri.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-10
An Awakened Conscience.

[Nettie II. Pelham, in St. Nicholas for May.
Through my open window, summer breeze.
straying,
Bring tie shouts OF school boys with theiI
marbles playing.
Merry little urchins, full Of fun and noise.
Not a care or trouble. Happy little boys!
Watch that little fellow; hear hIm gaily Jest
He Is very lucky, winning from the rest.
hear a giIl's voice saving: Tom. You must
not play
And keep the marbles that you win. What
will mamma sayE'
"Oh," replies young Ton my, with happy
smile,
As he adds more marbles to his growing pile
"NObody's a cheatin'. we're all Il playin' fair,
And I'm almost certain mamma would nj
care"
5, the game continues. Tommy still IL win
ming,
And he never questions whether he Is SIM
ming.