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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-12-25
Sweet mixed and straight vinegar
pickles in bulk ut freeman Bros
Anything in the line of enlarging
promptly attended to and satisfac-
ton guaranteed.-Will Lawton.

The western farmer loses Just
about one-half Of the value OF his
corn crop by not cutting and feeding
the stalks. Properly saved these
would pay all the county and school
taxes of the farmer and in ten years
wipe out his part of the National
debt. What a grand thing it would
be if this matter Of saving the corn
stalks could be made n national
issue SO as to give an opportunity for
some body to get elected to Congress
on it. Unfortunately no body has
m interest in the matter except the
farmer, and IRE seems to care very
little about it as a rule.-Farmers
Institute.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-12-25

The UNION County Courier gives
the nam s Of one hundred and six
teen farmers Of that county who
have this year raised an aggregate
Of 10000 bushels Of corn. And
South Oak ota is not very widely
known as a corn state, either
aberdeen Sun.
The Courier publishes a list
| of Sc farmers in that vicinity who
have raised 241 900 bushels OF corn
this year, and adds GO more names
whose crops will yield 10000. The
116 persons named, therefore, owl
nearly 100000 bushels o fcorn, which
at the present price-25cents- il
worth 100000. It will be sold fo'
more than that, however. No fam
inc in "Old Union" this year.-Beres
ford Me,rs.
The Courier after giving q list Q
the foremost corn producers in th
county for the past season very nut
urally concludes an estimation Q
100000 bushels Of that commodit.
which, at Is cents per hushel, woul'
amount to no less q sum than 100
Loco. Evidently. not . bad shown
for Union county South Dakot'
for the year 1891. Truly, tn
people have reasons to c~ongratulat
Tia Lord on their wonderful su'
cees.-Anrtr Uaion
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-12-25

Shorthand, Typs-vfi.inu and Elocutiou.
Miss Lillian Irvine is prepared TO
give lessons in Shorthand, Type
writing and Elocution. For terms
apply at the residence, Washington
street, three doors east Of C~ongrega-
tional church.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-12-25

There is considerable talk and
some action taken in regard to the
reduction Of postage on letters to one
cent. This movement is primarily
agitated by the large business houses
of the country that send out mil
lions of circulars annually. They
think that if such circulars could be
sent as letters their value to adver-
tise would be increased. If the in
come Of the postal department is ad-
equate to warrant this reduction,
there can certainly arise no disad-
vantage to any one concerned; but
the attention of the department
should first be turned to the COM
%pensation Of the fourth-class post
masters. They receive entirely too
small compensation to enable them
to perform their duties withou! sac
%ritice, especially in the country. The
country mail is mostly papers and
circulars received, which create a
considerable amount of work but no
pay, since all such matter is mailed
in larger offices. The postmasters'
compensation is based on the mat.
ter mailed and in country Offices
there is but little else than letters
mailed, and but few Of them.
The fourth-class postmasters all
over the country are ~agitating this
matter, and county, state and ma
tional conventions will be held. The
national convention will be held in
January. A county convention was
called here last Tuesday to arrange
for representation in the state con-
| vention soon to be held. Postmasters
Finn Of Alcester, Benjamin Of En-
met and Roning Of Nora were here,
the bad roads preventing The others,
who had nearly all promised to be
here, from being in attendance. No
delegates were chosen, but Mr..
Finn was selected TO represent tho
feeling Of the postmasters of this
county in the state convention by
letter.
While We editors father was post.
master Of Big Springs P. O. we had
ample opportunity to observe the
needs in this direction and there.
fore a speak more advisedly than
otherwise. We are heartily in favoi
Of any legislation that will increase
their pay.
T. NorE.-The above article wss pre-
pared for last weeks paper but wat
crowded out by other matter. II
therefore refers to that week.
-----O---
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-12-25
CHEAP WHEAT

You can buy 100 lbs. at 1926.
Richland Mills best Flour.
Every sack guaranteed ask
Fisk, Thornten. er Kelley
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-12-25

Every young man wanting
q nice, nobby overcoat before
the holidays, should inspect
our line. We have the goods
and.are selling than at right
prices.-A. q. Ringsrnd.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08
Remarkable Group Of Mines.

A group of old Spanish or Aztec mines
has recently been discovered at Las
Placitas, about twenty miles from AL
buquerque, New Mexico. An extensive
system of underground work has been
brought to light. The mineral discov-
cred, while not of the highest grade, is
rich enough to nay handsomely and runs
generally from $50 to $50 to the ton.
But what is more interesting is the fact
that these explorations have developed
unmistakable evidences that the work on
these mines, which was performed, no.
body knows how many centuries ago,
was brought to a summary conclusion by
an earthquake or general upheaval OF
some sort. Not only all the mine work.
ings, smelters, furnaces, etc., were
buried under some fifteen feet of earth.
but there has also been found on the
same level the ruins of what was once an
aqueduct for bringing water to the camp
from source about ten miles distant.
The camp of Las Plactias is on the east.
ern slope of the Scandia Mountains, about
twenty miles from Albuquerque, and
promises to become one of the most in.
teresting fields of archaeological research
yet discovered in that ChicaQx
Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08
The Curve Of Health.

DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes has made
discovery. It is that of the law of the
curve of health. "It is mistake" he
says, "to suppose that the normal state
of health is represented by straight
horizontal line. Independently of the
we'll known causes which raise or depress
the standard of vitality-there seem to
be, think / may venture to say there is
"a rhythmic undulation in the flow of
vital force. The dynamo which fur
nishes the working powers of conscious
ness and action, has its annual, its
monthly, its diurnal waves, even its mo-
mentary ripples, in the current it fur
nishes. There are greater and lesser
curves in the movement of every days
life-a series of ascending and of de-
scending movements, periodicity de-
pending on the very nature of the force
at work in the living organism. Thus
we have our good seasons and our bad
seasons, our good days and our bad days,
life climbing and descending in long OF
short undulations, which I have called
the curve of health. From this fact
spring great proportion of the errors of
medical practice. On it are based the
delusions of the various shadowy systems
which impose themselves on the ignor-
ant and half-learned public as branches
or schools of science. A remedy taken
at the time of the ascent in the curve of
health is found successful. The same
remedy taken while the curve is in its
downward movement proves failure.
So long as this biological law exists, SO
long the charlatan will keep its hold on
the ignorant public. So long as it ex-
lists, the wisest practitioner will be liable
to deceive himself about the effect of
what he calls, and loves to think are, his
remedies"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08
According to London Truth the orde

According to London Truth the order
against extravaganza in the German Army
has led to the resignation of nearly all
the wealthy officers, and the Emperor
now has no regiment at Berlin or Pots
dam which can afford TO entertain "dis-
tinguished foreigners" in the old fashion.
Formerly, foreign guest who had wis.,
tied the barracks of crack regiment
was invariably invited by the officers to
dinner; but now there are no entertain
ments. and the Emperor has tardily dis
covered that he had better not have
meddled in the matter, for all the Rus
sian, Austrian and Italian visitors leave
Berlin excaiming at the poverty of Prus.
sian officers, TO the infinite modification
OF His Majesty,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08
NO. 80.
A DREAM OF THE SEA.

A farmer lad in his prairie home
Lay dreaming of the sea:
He ne'er had seen it, but well he knew
Its pictured image and heavenly hue;
And he dreamed he swept Ger its waters
blue
With the winds a-blowing free,
With the winds so fresh and free
He woke! and he said: 'The day will come
When that shall be truth to me-"
But as years swept by him he always found
That his feet were clogged and his hands
were bound,
Till at last he lay in a narrow mound.
Afar from the sobbing sea,
The sorrowing, sobbing sea-
Oh, many there are on the plains tonight
That dream Of voyage to be.
And have said to their souls: 1.-The day will
When my bark shall sweep through the
drifts of foamn -
But their eyes grow dim and their lips grow
dumb,
Afar from the tossing sea,
The turbulent, tossing sea.
Albert Bigeto,o Paine.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08
The Thermometer.

Hero of Alexandria, who lived about
130 years B. c., is said to have been the
inventor of an instrument for measuring
the heat or cold of the atmosphere,
which instrument continued in use until
about the close of the sixteenth century.
1t was then reduced to a more convenient
form by one Sanctonio, m Italian, and
was afterwards considerably improved,
especially by Fahrenheit, who, in 1920,
affixed the graduated scale and added
other details which chiefly tender te
render the thermometer the instrument
Of practical utility which it now is. -
st. Louis Republic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08
OUR SPRING-rIMES.

When spring comes to seek her own
Do they all rise at her wordss
Is the little fiedgeling's tone
Sweet as was the parent bird'se
When once more the streamlets roam
Do the robins all come homer
Here's nest upon bough,
But there comes no bird to claim;
Has she made a new nest Low2
If from some far land we came
We should all the home nest know,
Even were it filled with snow.
There are blue eyes that we miss
In the flush of violet time;
Something lacking in the bliss
OF the bird-bells sweetest chime;
In the heart are many spots
Sacred to forget-me-nots.
If perchance youth cometh back
Through some treasure on your knee,
Still the heart will prove lack,
Lovely though the child may be,
For if it so needeth you,
You still need your mother, too.
Sometime will the far-off springs
Come back with these later ones;
There will be no missing wings,
There will be no missing tones,-
All the joys, but dearer grown.
OF the spring-times we have known.
Mary A. Mason, in Frank Leslie's.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08

Says the New Orleans New Delta.
From all over the section of Louisiana
which is devoted to the cultivation of
cotton comes the news that the planters
are preparing to decrease tho acreage of
that staple and diversity their crops to a
greater extent than heretofore. This de-
termination is the result of the low prico
for the fieecy staple the present season.
This is wise move on the part of the
planters, as nothing tends more to keep
the farmer poorer than the one-crop sys-
tenn. If the low price of cotton has bad
the effect indicated above, 1t has at least
taught the plantera wholesome lesson.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08

The New York Sun believes that no
one in New York who has not been out
in the far West can understand the lone
illness of those Minnesota farmers who
have written to Mayor Grant to send
them women for wives. There are re-
gions on the plains in this country and in
Canada where men go mad from lack of
human neighbors, where kittens can be
sold for s., where almost the only wo-
men are Indian or half-breed squaws, and
where bachelors tame wild birds and try
to tame wolves for company.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08

The farmers in the Northwest who
burned nearly all their hardwood timber
when clearing land have now cause to
regret it. A Michigan paper gives
case in point. A man at Riverton is
selling hardwood logs to mill men at
good prices, and supplying what is un-
marketable to his neighbors who have
cleared off their land and are forced to
buy fuel.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08

The Philadelphia Inquirer is scared
and is trying to scare others over the re-
ported discovery of bacteria in imper-
fectly refined sugar. 1t declares that
samples show an analysis that $50, 900
Of these dangerous creatures are con-
tained in some qualities; but whether
this is the census of a pound, of ton or
of cargo is not stated.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08

According to the st. Louis Republic
the Japanese Consul at San Francisco,
CAL, appeared before the Trades Council
to ask that no boycott be made on the
Japanese houses. He said that Japan.
ese workmen would never affect Ameri-
can labor, and that instead of sending
their earnings home they spent them
with Caucasians.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08

The Chicago Times alleges that some
of the missionaries of the North India
conference have had their hands grow
tired in baptizing the converts who are
fiocking to the gospel because of their
1alors.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08

A writer in the Southern Farm makes
strong argument in favor Of female ply
sicians for women. He says that certain
specialties were in the hands of women
practitioners in all countries and all ages
until comparatively recent times. In
support of his position he quotes from
the Old Testament.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08

Women are excluded from the galleries
of the japanese Parliament ''because,"
says japanese newspaper, "they might
be moved by the debates to further
political agitation in the empire"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Berlin will not permit an electric road.
Denver, COL, will have mineral
palace.
Cork covering for steam pipes has
proved very successful in England.
Many of the explosions in flour mills
have been traced to electricity generated
by belts.
In Denmark the life-sa wing stations are
all supplied with oil for stilling the
waves in storms.
A new bag machine both cuts and
sews the bag, and thus saves the labor of
fourteen operators.
1t takes about three seconds for mes
sage to go from one end of the Atlantic
cable to the other; this is about 700
miles a second.
In welding pipes by electricity, it has
been the usual practice to employ inter-
nal mandrels to prevent collapse or
change of circumferential ontline.
A large body of antimony has been
found in Inyo County, California. The
owner says he has in sight powders of
the metal weighing from two hundred
to three hundred pounds. 1t is a val
liable find.
Miss Frye, school teacher, has dis
covered method by which better tiles
can be made than have ever been made
before. She has patent and is likely
soon to turn from school teaching to
financiering.
The exhaustive experiments at Stafford,
near Manchester, England, with view
of ascertaining the most efficient method
of purifying sewage, has resulted in the
recommendation of an electrical system
as the most satisfactory.
Small articles made of malleable iron
are now finished and polished bright by
being placed in revolving drums with
curriers' shavings, from which they
emerge with all of the rough edges
smoothed and the surface highly pol
ished.
A secret chemical powder introduced
abroad, when sprinkled over the top of
the coal in newly made fire cements
the upper part of the fuel together aud
causes the coal to burn at the bottom
and throw the heat into the room in
stead of allowing large part of it to go
up the chimney.
A process has been recently invented
by which iron may be copper, the sur
face of the iron being protected by a
layer of melted cryolite and phosphoric
acid. 1t has been found that if the ar
ticle, when immersed, is connected with
the negative pole of a battery, the cop
pering is done more rapidly.
By new process waste leather scraps
are STEPPED in solution and subjected
to hydraulic pressure to mould them
into railway brake shoes. The leather
shoe weighs ~ pounds against 21s
pounds for iron, and it will wear three
times as long. Such, at least, is the
claim of the compressed leather men.
A permanent and durable joint can be
made between rough cast-iron surfaces
by the use of lead to make q very stiff
putty. This will resist any amount of
heat, and is unaffected by steam or wa
ter. 1t has been employed for mending
or closing cracks in cast iron retorts used
in the distillation of oil and gas from
camel coal.
High tunnels seem to be growing
more and more popular among the build.
ers at the yards of the British navy. The
Merseo has had hers doubled in height,
while those of the Blake are not less than
fifty or sixty feet, reaching as far up as
the tops. It is said that the result, as
far as appearances are concerned, is any
thing but pleasing.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08

A child in England stole q piece Of
literature valued at less than one shilling
and was sentenced to three months in
Jail. Then, when a hostile mob ad-
vanced upon the temple of justice, the
sentence was annulled and the child
set free.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08
VOL. TX.
An English court has decided that to
call man convict after he has served
a term of imprisonment, and is legally
free, is libelous.

In America, puns the Boston Tran
script, that family which is becoming
more and more widely known is called
bacilli; in Paris, parasites; in Germany,
germs, and in Ireland, microbes.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08

The last stone in the Government
granite dry-dock at Mare Island, CAL,
has been laid. The structure, which has
already cost $4,000, 900, is now nearly
finished.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08

BY the failure of the Cape of Good Hope
Bsnk seven dioccses in South Africa lose
between them the sum Of $135. 900.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-05-08

The shad fishing industry In Con.
necticut is threatened with destruction,
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-22

"'Tis you who are beside yourself.
Thanksgiving was a week ago"
Thus in strange confusion they agreed,
but Anna cared not for these words for
Abner was by her side.
The minister by chance came in and to
him they appealed, and when he had heard
them, then with much of confusion in his
manner he cleared away the mystery.
MY fault, my fault he said. 1.-THE
governor of this state appointed, after i'm
memorial CUSTOM. the last Thursday of
November Thanksgiving, but President
johnson 1 now remember appointed the
first Thursday of December for Thanksgiv-
ing. Here in this quiet village we thought
only of the governors proclamation, but
Abner in the faraway west knew only of
the presidents proclamation. should have
remembered it. Forgive me-"
In an hour all the people were notified
that Abner had come, and grief changed to
Joy. The bushes came to Annals cheeks.
The neighbors sent baked meats and there
was great rejoicing, and at 6 o'clock on the
wrong Thanksgiving day Anna became
Abner's bride.
You nave heard of the great wheat farm
of the Missouri valley, where thousands OF
acres yield their goodly fruit; where are
scores of reapers and hundreds of laborers
and miles of granaries. 1t is the noble
place of Abner farmers husbandry, and OF
all his possessions, they say, none compares
in worth or beauty with her who became
Abner's bride On the wrong Thanksgiving
day. E. J. EDWARDS.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-22

that wciN GiIJri.c Was quite equal to THAT
they bore for appropriating other peoples
goods, and the v~igilantes set a sharp watch
around the laundry quarters.
For fear the bummers would anticipate
the day, pickets were placed on duty some
days before. Every kettle on the fire was
looked after to see that it contained cloth
ing. Devil Dan was serene and answered
all questions, acting as though he pitied
the incredulity of the regulators AND
would save them all their trouble if they
would but take him at his word.
The regulators were trimming with hap
piness of the ''dog-in-the-manger" kind.
There were six of them and they fiattered
themselves that they could raid any mess
that violated their prohibition. Thanks
giving came and Devil Dan had an
immense washing on hand. All day his
kettles sputtered and sent up clouds of
steam that kept his quarters in an impene-
trable mist, while the fumes of the suds
filled the air. The y~igilantes grew ashamed
Of their suspicious, for they were known
to all the company.
Finally dress parade came. Devil Dams
kettles were still steaming, and he and his
men were excused from parade. After the
parade, to the establishment of the vigi-
~lantes, the orderly sergeant marched all OF
the men to the laundry quarters instead
of to the cooks tent. Devil Dan and his
helpers were reclining on the ground be-
fore a lovely spread of pot pie, their eyes
bright with merry wrinkles. When the
company drew up before them the gang
sprang to their feet, took two kettles from
the fire, and served out a lavish plate full
to every one of their comrades excepting
the vigilantes.
"Now boys" said Devil Dan, 'enjoy
yourselves. This is for your kind patron
g of my laundry"
The pot pie had been boiled in cloths that
swelled at the top, thus hoodwinking the
vigilantes, who didn't hear the last of that
Thanksgiving for a long time.
GEORGE L. KLMER.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-22
THE DAY IN THE FIELD.
A Celebration Under Canvass aud
Under Many Difficulties.

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