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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-09-04
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The following extracts from letters Of
Daniel Webster and his brother Essk-
iel viii indicate how the young men
had to struggle with poverty thssush
their college days. The reader viii r.
member that the homo farm was mort.
gaesd 70 pay Daniels expenses throueh
o0i3eg4 and MheA - was proposed q
give Ezekiel similar advantages the r.
Their and mother held council. @The
farm Is already nortgaged," said the old
gentleman, "and il we send Ezekiel 70 the
collage 1t will take all we have; but
the boys think they can 4, Ae care Of N.
1t did not take the strong-hearted,
sagacious woman long to decide the
matter. we can trust the boys" she
said.
SO the matter was settled. Daniel
went back to Hanover, while Ezekiel
went. bundle in hand. to Dr.. Woods
and began the study Of Latin, his ex-
penses being but . dollar . week.
In November, 1902, Daniel was at
home in Salisbury, while Ezekiel was
struggling with poverty at Hanover.
Funds were getting low in the Webster
homestead. Daniel writes under date
Of November Fourth:
Now. Zeke, you will not read half q
sentence, no, not one syllable, before
you have thoroughly searched this
sheet for scrip; but my word for it,
you'll find no scrip here. We held &
sanhedrim this morning on the subject
of cash. Could not hit upon any way
to get you any. just before We went
away to hang ourselves through disap.
pointment it came into our heads that
next week might do.
"The truth is, father had an execu
tion against Hubbard OF North Chester
for about one hundred dollars. The
money was collecting and Just ready to
drop into the hands of the creditors,
when Hubbard suddenly died. This,
you see, stays the execution till the
long processes OF administering is com.
pleted.
Il have now by me two cents in law.
full federal currency. Next week !
shall send them, if they be all.
~We are all here just in the old way,
always behind and lacking. Boys
digging potatoes with frozen fingers.
and girls washing without wood"
Ezekiel writes to Daniel about the
same time, the two letters probably
crossing each other.
"These cold frosty mornings very
sensibly inform me that I want warm
great-coat. wish, Daniel, it might bl
convenient to send me cloth for one
otherwise shall te necessitated to pur
chase one here. I do not care wha
color it is-anything that will keep the
frost out, Some kind of shaggy cloth,
l think. would be the cheapest. Dea.
con Pettinglll has written offering me
s14 month, to keep school. believe
shall take it.
|. "Mopcv, Dan, money! As I was
walking dowr to the Office after letter,
J hsppend to have one cent, which ID
the only money l have had since the
second day after came on. 1t is fact.
Dan, that was called on for . dollar
where owed it, and borrowed it, and
have borrowed it four times since to pay
those ] borrowed Of"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-09-04
Under the Earth.

The wcrkmen in the deepest mines
of Europe swelter in almoet intolerable
heat, and yet they have never pene-
trated over 1-7009th part OF the distance
from the surface to the center of the
earth. In the lower levels OF some of
the Comatock mines the men fought
scalding water, and could labor only
three or four hours at time until the
Sutro tunnel pierced the mines and
drew of some of the terrible heat,
which stood at 120 degrees. The deep
est boring ever made, that at Speren-
berg, near Berlin, penetrates only
4, 172 fees, about 1000 feet deeper than
the famous artesian we'll at St. Louis.
While borings and mines reveal to Us
only few secrets relating solely to the
temperature and constitution of the
earth for few thousand feet below
the surface, We are able. by means of
volcanoes, to form some notion of what
is going on at greater depths. There
have been many theories about the
causes Of volcanoes, but is now gener.
ally held that though they are pro-
duced by the intense heat OF the inte.
rior of the earth, they are not directly
connected with the molten mass that
lies many miles below the immediate
sources Of volcanic energy. Everybody
knows that many rocks are formed on
the floor OF the ocean, and it has been
found that twentieth to q seventh Of
their weight is made up Of imprisoned
water. Now, these rocks are buried in
time under overlaying strata which
serve % blanket to keep in the enor-
nous heat Of the interior. The heat
turns the water into super-heated
steam, which melts the hardest rocks,
and when the steam finds q fissure in
the strata above, it breaks through to
the surface with terrific energy, and
We have volcano. We find that these
outpourings that have lain for count
less ages many thousands Of feet below
the surface are we'll adapted to serve
the purpose OF man. Many vineyard
fourishes on the volcanic ashes
from Vesuvius, and volcanic mud has
clothed the hills of New Zealand with
fine forests and its plains with its lug
urisnt verdure. The most wonderful
display Of the results OF volcanic energy
is seen in the northwestern corner Of
our own land, region Of lofty forests
and OF great fertility. G0ldth,Uaite's
GeOOrQDhiCQl Md00zine.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-09-04
I'm the Lightning Nod.

A reporter for the New York Ne,ps
called upon IAN old Russian ex-sea.
man" who is said to be the most expert
"rigger' in that city. The reporter
wished AL interview for his paper, on
the subject of steeple-climbing and the
like. He found his man pacing the floor
OF loft on West street, and quite vii
ling to talk.
remember we'll my first climb OF.
land. 1t was when / was . young fell
low, just arrived in New York. I was
walking down Broadway. when l noticed
. crowd standing in front OF church.
As / afterwards learned, the church,
with its fixtures, was being sold.
l mixed with the crowd. and pretty
soon I heard man near me say:
III was sure that cross on the steeple
was brass, would make good bid for
it."
Hooked up to the top Of the steeple,
which was about o hun ndred feet high,
and saw big cross glittering in the
sun. l noticed, also . lightning rod
running from the cross. Twas Just reck.
less enough to determine to shin up that
rod, and find out for myself just what
| the cross was made OF.
Before anyone could stop me wa
ont of reach. The rod was pretty rough
on my hands, and I did not reach the
end Of my climb without risking my
neck; but I got to the cross at last,
whipped out my jacknife, and scraped
away. Having satisfied myself that the
cross was made Of wood. I slid to the
ground. amid loud cheers from the
crown, and pushed my way back to my
old position. Presently the man who
wanted to bid for the cross came up r.
ma
tell me. young man. said he. ii
that cross made Of wood or Of metal p
"Whst would you give to know
said ].
He slipped five dollar note into my
hand, and remarked: ] guess that will
pay You
sThank you," said I. THAT cross Il
made Of ood--rotten wood at that
That was the first money ! svel
earned ashore.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-09-04
POINT COUNTY SOUTH
after grasping once or twice he braces

after grasping once or twice he braces
up and replies:
"Very we'll. Mrs. Bowser! Next time
! 60 homo I'll take my shirts along and
see II mother can't posslbly find time
to sew on some buttonsi I've had to
use these because had no othersl"
The other awfully hot day he came
limping home aud fell into chair and
groaned:
"I1l be hanged il don't hire blind
woman tc come here and look after my
things! My feet are all cut to pieces
by these internal old socksw
"Old socks! Why, I bought 'em new
for you only three days agor
Holes in both Of 'em, but I might
have expected that Look therev'
He pulled OF his shoes and displayed
. pair Of All.wool socks with . hole in
the heel Of each.
What on earth are you doing with
those socks on?" she exclaimed. II
told You last night where to find six new
pairs OF summer socksw
They weren't there"
"Bnt they were. and you went into
the clothes-press and dug these out Of
the bottom of the trunk!''
Mrs. Bowser, you said I'd find socks
in the bottom drawer of the bureau"
"Yes."
"Well, there isn't u sock there. There
isn't the Iilightest reason to believe you
ever put q sock there I'll bet mil
lion dolls RS to cent there are no socks
there!"
Come upstairs"
he followed her up, and she went to
the bureau, pulled out the drawer and
pointed tn the six pairs of socks resting
there.
"Yes, [ see!" he observed, as he
backed of. But where were they last
night whsn / wanted them?"
Right there!"
"Um! Mrs. Bowser, / don't want to
criticize your way of keeping house. No
husband ever finds fault with his wife
when it is possible to avoid it, and he is
always willing to suffer and endure.
But, Mrs. Bowser, feel it my duty to
sit down md have long talk with you,
and speak to you very plainly. We
mnst have q system here or it will be
better fec you to go back to your
mother. You can get four trains out of
here day for Detroit, Mrs. Bowser-
four trains . day-and your mother
would meet you at the depot there.
Socks! Yes! I see them now; but
where were they last night, Mrs. Bow
ser ?"-N y. World.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-09-04

$50 the Hudson River might run
into Lake Erie! It's far more likely
that you carried that shirt up in the
garret or down cellar. I shouldn't be
surprised TO find the girl using it for q
dust-rag in the kitchenls
"Mr. Bowser, you've got that shirt
oni Iknow it'll I'll dare you to remove
your collar!" she exclaimed.
II have said that this house had no
system" he slowly replied IS he rose
from the table. sTo prove that I am
right will take of my collar and un.
| button the band of my shirt Now, then,
are you satisfied that it is owing to your
want of attention" -
"You've got il onl" she interrupted,
q she pulled 1t the b6nd Of his night
shirt.
1T can't bel"
sBut here itisl You forgot TO take il
orr
Mr.. Bower turned pale and walked
OF upstairs. Ten minutes later he came
down and said:
sMrs. Bowser. don't ever play another
such trick on mel"
@why, what had ! to do with iti" she
asked.
sNever you mind about that. but don't
attempt anything moro Of the kindl ]
have already stood far more than most
husbands wouldp
Regularly every morning at certain
hour Mr.. Bowser goes up-stairs TO dress
himself. Five minutes after he has dis
appeared his voice Il heard calling over
the bannistss:
.Mrs. Bowser. do you pretend to run
this house, or are you . lady boardor
with . cart load Of novels for bagGagei. :.
sWhats the matter, deaRr
Don't dear mel I'd either have .
ystsm OF aoknowlsdgs that ! ~ )
| iailurer
sBut whst = itis
sLook herel"
He holds . olsan shirt 10 his LETT
hand, and with his right ho points 10 It
IN dramatic way and hoarssly whis-
pers:
sButtons, Nrs. Bovssr-buttonst'
what about but4onsr she asks.
mot button On this shirt-not .
one! Four bottonholss, bat not bat
sonl All bssn waahsd 81. and not oas
Mr. eowsse, Jon havsa't had : shiss.
uutton d ypur shirts sinee ~ woee
maxriedl Xca - III 1GG1oyabaA mA41l
buttons: theee thar ars just - %
tDok then - u yeur ctAas - 81
I n = Ga1nAk - r1A ~
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-09-04
Dakota FIGURING Mills!
NEW DEAL new FIRM

These Mills having been thorugh.
" repaired during the recent "shut
4 eyI n Hslsr anp sgitA simproysd
aciIstiesswttii d new firm and 4 new
an'l skilled miller. We are prepar-
ed to do merchant and exchange
work and guarantee results. We
desire to purchase corn aud nat,
and will pay the highest market
price, and we intend to make good
market for these products, our facili-
ties for handling corn making it an
object to sell to Us. We want inn
meliately, large quantity of corn
and oats. Call and see us and bring
your grists for -four.
SHEAFE & BoYNToN.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-09-04
Hubby wss . Drsts.

sCharles, said Broad street woman
the other night after church, Il think
We ought to have coachman. We're
away behind the style
Knight . we'll be behind the style -
behind : rsd-nossd coachman.' was the
reply:
you know
~Are the worst buffers aud plugs
imaginable said the unreasonable
man.
j Fl think coachman with : beaver
ten auit, tall, silk hat and white psarl
battons adda 10 the style Of . turnout
why not drsas him n rcd. whtta
ana blus. 70 represent Unole 6amf
s0h, ChaxlesI Why, The prince q
Waloss taSnout
sOh, yes-pdn mortgAge 70 youl
ooaohmans soat md call him the prince
q WaleA :
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a. ~ m elcsoA - diss -
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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-09-04

d like to get my
hands on the
chap who made
this shirt for
about . min
ute!' exclaimed
Mr.. Bowser the
other morning
- he showed
away from the
breakfast table.
Anything
wrongf" quer-
led Mrs. Bow
ser. N
u Anvkh;rs, !,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-09-04
whose Fauie.

The man was carrying large basket
covered with . newspaper, the woman
carried baby. There was . cry of all
aboard! ~ they hurried through the
gate at the railroad station and they
ran forward as fast as they could with
their burdens.
"Next time you'll begin TO get ready
sooner, ! guess, growled the man hur-
riedly tossing his basket on to the car
platform and pushing his wife up
after it.
II guess you'll walk faster. that's
what ! guess" she replied, reaching
down for the baby's blanket, which had
slipped of. Il told you al the time
you'd have TO hurry"
.Y-a-as, you did"
@Y-a-as, / did"
"A good deal You did; you told mo
nothing. that's what you told me. Now
we've got to have that trunk come by
expresA We've got no check and no
time to get no check. There's 75 cents
lost through your dilly .dallying.'
Through my dilly nothing. Why
don't You get into one Of these ssstsl
Do you want me to lug this baby
through the whole train
They bundled into . seat and the man
looked at his watch.
"6ay. he said, @it was the conductor
Of that other train that hollered al
aboard. We've got fifteen minutes
yet.
Well, why don't you 60 and get the
trunk checked. thenf You're slowern
molassss anyway
-Ys-as, ! am.
sYaras. you are
The man shufisd ont Of the car at
this point and LETT the passengers with
ont any Amusement 70 speak Of until hs
rafnynad - ErAA prnas
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-09-04
MR. AND MRS BOWSER,
6OWsER'S EXPERIENCE WITH
AN lLL-FlTTINo SHIRT,

a House withous System and \ Shirt
Without Buttons = Ar. Bowssr Vehs.
nnently Declares That He win Take His
SHIRTS aoths to kais Nothing tor Msnd,ns.
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-28

the Detroit Board of Trade have protested to
Secretary Blaine against discrimination in the
levying of canal tolls by the Canadian authori-
ties against vessels and cargoes bound for ports
In the United States, on the ground that all such
determinations are forbidden by the treaty of
Washington, which guarantees citizens of
both countries equal rights in this canal. The
regular toll on vessels passing through the
Wellsnd canal is 20 cents a ton, and this full
rate has been charged on all vessels which
tranship cargoes at Oswego, Ogdensburg, or any
port on this side the line. If the cargo be
carried to Montreal and there transhipped, or If
it be transhipped or unloaded at any Canadian
port the rule has been to grant rebate of Is cents
a ton on such cargoes. Last year this rebate was
granted on 2l2,0S0 tons out of total of $685.
$50 tons for Canadian ports, and on only II, 4ss
tons out OF S27,SS3 tons to the United States
ports. American bottoms carried 62,477 tons
through the canal last year and paid toll on 3d.
o0S tons OF it, while in Canadian bottoms S26. l4s
tons were carried, and 4,275 tons paid only the
reduced toll. The United States ships paid in
ali si9,lS6 on grain, while the Canadians on al.
most the same number of tons OF grain paid only
$3.50 in tolls
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SEATTLE. SATURDAY, nor. es.
THE GREAT NORTHERN.

The people Of Seattle, in common. with
those of the entire state, have reason to
rejoice over the completion of the first Sec
ton of the Great Northern railway system
to be built in this state. This section gives
to Seattle new and Independent connec-
ton with the Canadian Pacific and binds
our city more closely with its sister cities
of the lower Sound. Its building is,
moreover, but the beginning of the work
of the Great Northern in the state of
Washington How great that work is de-
signed to be the people already know.
Almost simultaneously with the conn.,
pletion of the British Columbia section
comes the announcement that contract
has been let for the immediate building of
a line from Puget sound eastward over the
Cascade mountains. This means that the
main line of the Great Northern system is
to be hurried to completion and that the
cities of Puget sound are soon to have a
new connection with the East. 1t means,
further. that there is to be competing
line between Puget sound and the wheat
lands of Eastern Washington. COMPETE
ton may be relied upon to remove in the
near future the defects in our transporta-
ton system, against which the farmers of
Eastern Washington and the lumbermen
OF Puget sound have alike protested in
vain.
Altogether, then, the people of the state,
and those of Seattle most of all, have
reason to rejoice. The important addi-
tions to our railroad facilities already
made and soon to be made, promise in
creased and lasting prosperity.
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of them. Under revenue tariff we had
nothing but raw material; under the poll
icy of protection was created our vast
manufactures which furnish a home mar
ket for this raw material. For this situ-
alton Roger Q. Mills would substitute free
trade and an income tax, but the time has
not come for free trade. Answering the
question, when can we have free trade ?"
Major Mckinley said:
Whenever the nations of the world will bring
their conditions up to ours Whenever they
will pay 10 their labor the same wages we pay
to ours, we will meet them in the neutral
markets of the world and ii will be the sur
vival OF the httest.
The inferiority of the Democratic policy
is proved by the history of the tariff of
1916, which the Democrats now hold up as
a model. This tariff levied duties on raw
material as rule and cut down those on
manufactured products. The practical
working of this model Democratic revenue
tariff, so much admired by Democratic
tariff reformers, is illustrated by the prices
of pig iron under the low duties then and
those prevailing under the present higher
uutles. Inc average price VI CCOsCn PAS
iron for the fifteen years from 1916 to 1851
was 81 shillings and pence. say $14.35 per
ton, while the average price of No. an
thracite foundry iron in Philadelphia fer
the same period was $26.97K per ton, or an
average difference between the foreign
and domestic prices for the whole
period of revenue tariff of about
S12 per ton. In November, 1891, the
best quality of Scotch pig iron was quoted
at 81 shillings and pence per ton, or
penny higher than the average for the en-
tire period referred to. No. foundry iron
at the same time was quoted in Philadel-
phia as low as $l6.50 per ton. The price of
Scotch iron is practically at the level of
prices from 1916 to 1860, while American
iron has declined in price nearly $40 per
ton. Less than fifty years ago the English
foundries were large consumers of Scotch
pig iron, while today Cleveland sends more
than 1000 tons day to Scotland. A half
century ago the Cleveland district pro-
duced less than per cent. of the product
of Great Britain, while in 1854 it produced
nearly one-third of the whole. And yet
in face of these facts the visiting Demo-
cratic orators from the East dogmatically
reiterated Grover Cleveland's creed, "The
tariff is tax"
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In 1888 Cleveland was defeated for re-
election standing on the Mills platform of
free raw materials, in shape of wool, and
taxed wooden manufactures. Ex-Speaker
Tom Reed demonstrated the utter rotten
ness of this platform when, in his recent
Boston speech, he said:
You cannot lower the wages OF one class of
men without lowering those of others. II raw
material is that upon which no human labor has
been bestowed, as has been said, where In the
world is such thing9 1t is a strange idea that
what goes into the mill should be free and what
comes out should be protected. 1t is q clear
case OF endeavoring to kill by decay. The same
principle which protects some business men on
the high prices of labor must protect others on
high prices Of their labor We are in favor of
protecting existing Industries, because to re-
move the barrier will reduce our laborers to the
condition of foreign laborers, and no considera-
ton of infant industries will induce us to re.
move 1t.
Mr.. Reed is right, eternally right; and if
Cleveland had been elected on the Mills
platform the Western producers in their
indignation would have all turned free
traders and voted the Eastern manufacture
ers into the earth.
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4 Society Man Found Ont.

J. J.SAeEnery, a well-known young Victorian
who moved in the most select society, has been
found ont and IS missing. Last Saturday he OBJ
tanned more than sl00 from Joseph Phoenix in
return Tor a check on local bank, which vas
met with the reply 'no funds" when presented
Two other checks, one for rent, met with a like
reception, and the creditors are now moving to
protect themselves. Mr.. Francis Bourchier Is
one of the heaviest. his claim Amounting 10
about $50, partially covered by bill of sale for
500, and the Hudson Bay Company is next in
Order
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lection as the Dominion government
claims and enforces for its North Atlantic
fisheries; that England claims and en-
forces for its Indian ocean pearl fisheries.