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The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
THE SILVER WEDDING.
EUGENE sECoR.

For five and twenty years we have travelled on to
gether, Love,
Side by side and hand in hand along the path OF
life,
For five and twenty years through bright or cloudy
weather, Love,
But Sheltered now In loves own bower beyond
the fear of strife,
Wen live again in memory sweet the happy days
The five and twenty years we've spent as man and
wife
All, five and twenty years, how short the time ha;
been, Love.
1t seems ~ tho 'twere yesterday that saw your
And If rude time and many cares have made your
brown locks thin, Love,
prize devotion's ample proof far more than
only wish that we could live those years again
together, Love,
That better days and richer joys might fill the
happy space.
How many changes have in these Iew
"Life is stage indeed, and we the actors are,
and friends.
One hour the wedding bells are rung the next is
filed with tears, Love,
With the music of our childrens songs the funeral
anthem blends.
But changefuI years. or glad or sad, have banished
jealous fears, Love,
Confding hearts for many grefs doth make com.
plete amends.
CuiiuEen LHhl were DOEu 10 US are not Ill mere
to- light, Love,
Six little ones in tear stained graves lying
there,
Six little ones so sweet fair, are lost to earth
ly sight, Love,
The patter of whose dainty feet did bsnish many a
care,
But faith and hope the dark void span and hail
the coming light, Love,
When aching hearts for those we love shall no
more parting bear.
But then the ones who yet remain are ample com
pensation, Love,
For many years of anxious thought of watching
and of prayer,
Bright stars of hope are they to Us in our home
constellation, Love,
Rare gems whose luster thou hast wrought with
such maternal care,
Full well thou'st done thy duty in thy chosen oc-
cupation, Love,
And these are jewels in thy crown that thou art
proud to wear
The blessings that we daily get outnumber far
the Ills, Love,
And life is sweet with such thou in many tolls
to share,
The fragrance which unselfshness and loyalty dis
tiIs, Love,
Like dews of Hermon, cheer me on as memory
fingers where
In times gone by-yea even now, my wish your
own wish stills, Love,
And ministry TO others wants Ia all thy thought
and care.
Farm journal.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
Some Figures Which Have an
Important Bearing on the
Election Of 1892.
Significant Increase In the Repub.
lican Plurality During
Recent Years.
The Protection Gain Shown to
Be Over 100000
Since 1880.

New York Tribune: The statement was
recently made that the popular support of
the protective policy In states having fair
and free elections was relatively greater in
1883 than it had been in any previous
election. This statement has been chal.
lenged, and it seems important at this
time TO show its correctness.
In the ten states below Virginia, Ken
tucky and Missouri elections have been
farce and f aud for years. Opponents
admit that the republicans in most of
these states have either neglected or have
been unable TO cast their votes, and the
crimes by which they are in fact prevented
need not here be discussed Taxing the
other states in which elections have been
generally fair and free expressions of the
popular will, it will be found that the re-
publican policy was stronger in 1888 than
it was 1880. But the latter was the first
election since 1860 in which the tariff
question was predominant, and in 1860 the
republican party was in the minority
For convenience the states may ue consid-
cred in blocks; the six New England
states; three Eastern states, New York
New Jersey and Pennsylvania; five Central
states between Pennsylvania and Missis.
sippi; five Western states which voted in
1888, east of the mountains; three Pacific
states then voting; and six border South.
ern states, Delaware, Maryland, the Vir.
q las, Kentucky and Missouri The votes
i'll these states at three presidential cleo
tions were:
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
Value OF skim med MIX.

skinned milk is valued by the German
feeding tables at % cents to the hundred
pounds, and. as it contains 10 per cent
of solid matters, this makes the solids
worth $3.50 per hundred pounds, which
is twice Us much as cornmeal Is worth
This high value is due to the large
quantity of nitrogenous substances con
tanned in it, These are valued at two anc
a half times az much as the starch of the
cornmeal. On account of this excess Of
nitrogenous matters the milk is best fed
with some starchy food, as cornmeal.
which is the best of all this class of food to
mix with the milk rs it has SIX per cent oi
fat in It, For feeding to the pigs it has
been found that tue milk has better
effect than is due TO its own value, because
it is wholly digestible, and thus assists in
the digestion of the meal. On account Of
this value IT is worth more for feeding
than for selling, and it is cheap food to
buy at the creameries at the current rate
at which il is sold.-Exchange.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
Things Money Cannot Buv

How much the happiness of individual,
lives Is made up OF priceless things, un
saleable in the coin of the land, yet found
quickly when the heart of the searcEei
honestly desires them. Many of these rel
treasures are qualities that simply d;ffuse
themselves through the moral and mental
atmosphere, and are sometimes little
valued because they seem too vaporous and
too Elusive TO be practically grasped; but
trey are genuine possessions, and won by
heart service.
Who does not rejoice to have an honor
able name-n not necessarily distinguished
name, but clean one? Truly, pride in
such an inheritance, which cannot bt
boug ght, is justifable if with il there are
mingled a feeling of humility and desire
To do ones own part to transmit the
name DIS unsullied as it has been bestowed
What makes home love dearer and sweeteI
than all else, and treasured .hile life
lasts2 Not the tables and chairs. not the
delicacy OF porcelain, or the aesthetic beau
ty which the loom achieves. These minis
ter TO the comfort, taste, and artistic
nature; but beyond these there is some
thing which minister's to the heart ano
soul, glorifying plain surroundings ant
homely details-something Elusive tc
measure or weight. yet potent to guide, tC
comfort, and TO help. What is this but
the sympathy, the trust, the spirit of sacri
fee, the gtntltness, the faith, the readi
ness to do and to bear, which blended to
gether. make the chain that binds us Il
our homes?
What beautaouS prospect, what luxurl
Gus surroundings, what wonders of mature
or art but lose their mysterious ch harn
when viewed by eyes that seeing see not
or when shared with cold thankles,
heart? The power to enjoy, the powel
to appreciate these are what render pleas
ure real and bring the JOY into them
This thankful receiving of pleasures grea
or small, and extracting the honey of en-
ioyment from them, is not to be found a
any store, yet it is another and large factor
in true happiness.
Contentment, too, that balm against
the ravages of worldly unrest. where car
ii lie found, and what is It's priceI No
silver or gold. but patient striving with
thankful heart will bring it to the sou
who desires it, and in its possession lurk
the charm to chase away unhappy visions
to still unwise longings, and to open the
inner vision to the peaceful delights of the
home, the friends, the advantages which
may be ours. And so through all tn,
phases of human happiness We may go
finding always that its true essence
something that must be gained withou
money and without price. Harper
Bazaar
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12

tennessee. Then, says the Memphis APP
peal, tdem J, there is no doubt what the
republican national convention will do In
regard to silver; it will stand for IA princi-
pie which will keep gold and silver on a
parity, SO that The one will not crowd the
other out of the market. This is financial
common sense, and the republican party
never committed itself to any other.
But the foregoing note from the dem
ocratic Appeal Avalanche, of Memphis,
shows in what an uncomfortable fix the
democrats are respecting the silver
issue. The facts as given by the New
York Press, indicate the utter lack of
principle a harmony ON that question:
The democratic conventions in nearly
every southern state and nearly every
s.ate west of the Alleghany mountains
have indorsed free silver coinage. New
York is essential to democratic success in
the presidential election. The better class
OF New York democrats are. like the re.
white metal. With the tency in the
democratic party in other states, however,
to favor free silver coinage the democratic
party cannot escape from adopting in its
platform next year an expression in favor
of that policy. Neither can it avoid pass
ing in congress this winter free coinage
bill. The leaders of the democratic house
are all free silva coinage advocates. They
cannot be overruled by the opinions OF
eastern democrats that the Empire state
will be lost to them In the presidential
election if they pursue this course. At
this juncture the republican party has only
to hold steadfastly TO the fundamental
principles that have marked its entire fin
ancial history. The country may be Ger.
tain from the utterances OF Secretary
Foster that the administration will keep
gold and silver together asa money metals
and as the basis Of currency. without trying
any dangerous experiments.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
FARM AND HOME.
THE LOST OPPORTUNITY.
ELIZA LAMB MARTIN.

Snow may melt from OFF the hill side, verdure
vanish from the plain,
Blossoms fade from vale and meadow, yet they all
will come again
Even harsh words are forgotten, the malicious
wicked act
May In some proptIous future bring the barb of
vengeance back.
In some human souls deep longing, In some
thought or deed sublime,
Leading others out of bondage, up the fruitful
hills of time,
Compensation for all losses, save one, grander
than the whole,
The lost chance when once neglected, gone for
ever to the soul.
When the grand, supernal moment, life's one
moment borne of fate,
Flashes on the conscio is vision, passes through
the golden gate,
When your grand and central hour comes and
goes from God great plan,
Calling you TO nobler duties, comes and goes with
out the man,
Never never through the ages TO return TO you tis
pastl
Like a sun from out the darkness, its one rlsng
its last
Though he issues of your earth life from its
golden chalice swung,
Though IL held your souls whole future, though
your life upon IL hung,
Though the memory clothed In blackness walks
forever on lifes shore,
Rayless imagery of darkness, burden bearer ever
more.
Though your sad soul break with anguish, all its
travail is In vain,
Nothing in Gods whole creation can restore your
loss again.
an eternity of penance gives you not its bitter
God himself cannot repay you for the chance for.
ever lost.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12

Excessively fat cattle are not as often
seen in the markets, nor is that condition
as much sought, as formerly, says the
American Farmer. The demand now is
for early matured lean, or well marbled
meat. Great bulk in fat is improbable,
and feeders have come to understand this.
and now cater to demand that pays bet.
ter and ut the same time furnishes class
of beef that gives greater and more gener
al satisfaction. Even Christmas cattle,
hat in the by-gone times required SO long
and expensive care to fit them for the
occasion, are found in the pink of CON
ation, but wanting that superabundance
of fut that was deemed so essential finish
to nigh class beef few years ago. Young
beeves with early maturing qualities, are
the requirements of the times, and these
are reached most successfully by intelli-
gence and skill devoted to breeding and
feeding, The demand and the markets
have been revolutioniz d within few
years through these sources.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12

Lawyer: Now Mr.. Costello, will yor
have the goodness to answer me, di
rectly and categorically, a few plain ques
tionsp"
Witness: "Yes sir.
Lawyer: lis there female living with
you who is known in the neighborhood a
Mrs. Costello?"
Witness: ''Yes sir.
Lawyer: Have you ever been married
to her2"
Witness: No sir.
(Here several jurors scowled gloomily al
the Witness
Lawyer: That is ALL Mr.. Costello
you may go down"
Opposite lawyer: "One moment, Mr.
Costello. Is the lady il question your
grandmother
Witness: Yes sir, Chicago Lega
Advise.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
Bran Xersus Cotton-Set 4 Meal

A feeding comparison between bran and
cot,onseed meal, is the subject of IA buil~'
tin from the Pennsy lyania Experime Mt
Station. The results briefly stated show
their cows were not affected in health 10y
feeding them six pounds of cotton.seed
daily. Greenrye or ensilage was fed with
the meal. One pound per day was toe
much for calves. The cotten-Seed meal in
creased the milk yield about one fifth, but
the per cent of fat in the milk was not
pteceptibly char ged The commission
men rated the cotton-seed meal butter low
er in quality than that made from bran.
The bran butter melted at 93 degree,
while the other stood till 80 degrees
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
smoke Clouds

Between the government rainmakers
and the people in the northwest who have
been trying to head off Jack Frost by
means of huge smoke clouds, we seem in a
tair way TO counteract all the evils that
nature interposes between the farmer and
good crops. In regard to the smokemak.
ers. ii seems strange to us that they
should consider their idea at all new one.
The writer remembers having seen the
same thing extensively practiced in florida
IL years ago for the purpose of protecting
the orange groves from damage by frost.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
CHE CHANCES IN 'oa.
With Indiana or New York the Reputli
cans VIII Elect Il President.

with Indiana or New YORK the kepuEl :
cans VIII Elect II President.
There will be a44 votes in the next
electoral college, and the party that
secures 223 of these will win the presi-
dency. Which parry will gain these 223
votes? This is question which tens of
thousands of persons in each of the great
organizations will frequently ask them
selves between this time and the Sth day
Of next November. II is now pretty well
conceded by reasonable men of both sides
Of the political fence that the recent
elections altered nothing as to the chances
for 1892. We may assert, therefore, with
a tolerable degree of confidence, that all of
the states, with two or three exceptions,
will, twelve months hence, vote as they
have usually done in the past. From
pr esent indications the states will align
themselves thus in the Electoral college
next wear.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12

The plurality in New England fell from
Ill 900 in 1880 to 10000 in 1884. but rose
to sc, ,000 in 1888. The vote in the eastern
states rose from $4,000 plurality in 1880
to 10000 in 1884 and 81 900 il 1888. Thus
the total eastern vote gave l67 900 plural
ity in 1880, 152, 900 in 1884, and 1T 900 in
1888. and this in spite of the migration OF
thousands of republicans to other regions.
The western vote varied more widely E,
for reasons which will presently be con.
sidered. The plurality fell in each secti n
excepting the Pacific states in 1884, INT
rose ag ain 10000 in the central states. ard
80 600 in states west of the Mississippi,
nevertheless falling short of the plurality
in 1880. This was in part b, cause Of the
migration to new states and in part be
cause of the great increase for the pruhlbl.
tion ticket
The vote in southern border stat = was
democratic by 1884, 900 plurality in 1880,
only $4,000 in 1884, and only $1,000 in
1888. This was in part because Of the
establishment of many iron and other
new works. largely with northern capital
aud labor. by which republican voter,
were drawn from other states, but also IN
pant 1ecause the development oi the IN
dustries increased the support of the pro.
tective policy.
Thus the total plurality in all the states
was 403 SIT republican in 1880. only 300.
258 in 1884, and 403 6l3 in 1888. a little
larger than ever before. But this does not
tell the whole story. DURING these year
six new states have been settled which
have been admitted The Q gave repub-
hcan plurality i'll 1888 for congress of Al.
600 and as the popula ion had been large
iy drawn from the old republican states,
this majority must be considered in ascer-
tanning the true expression of the popular
will. Hence the actual plurality was about
453, 900 in 1888, against, 4O4, QUO In 1850,
substantial gam.
But 1t is necessary further to remember
that the prohibition ticket in 1888 drew
off l30, 900 more voters than In 1880, and
$4,000 more than in 1884, and mainly from
nearly all remained supporters of the re-
publican policy in national affairs, though
choosing 10 vote separate ticket for the
presidency. ,.s their votes in congressional
elections show. Thus the actual Increase
in plurality for the protective policy was
more than $4,000. But it was really
much more, for the greenback force main
ly drawn from and in sympathy with the
democratic party, numbered 36S, 900 in
1880, only It's, 900 in 1884, and only l46,-
600, including the labor vote. in 1888
Most of the difference represents voters
who returned to the democratic party be-
tween 1880 and 1888, thus swelling Mr..
Cleveland's vote, though they were in re.
ality no less opposed to protection when
voting for the free trader Weaver in 1880
than when voting for the free trader
Cleveland 1888 With allowance for this
difference the relative gain of the protec-
tive strength in eight years appears TO be
more than 100000. We shall see next
year whether there has not been further
gain.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
Profit In sheep.

Sheep husbandry is something like
fruit-growing; it is about the poorest kind
of an occupation for careless man. But
the man who is diligent in business can
make a higher percentage of profit with
sheep than he can from mixed farming,
and this will always be so, because the
sheep business is not permanently attrac.
tive to the majority of farmers. II is not
even necessary that a man should have
special knack or eye for Judging sheep,
If be is only thoroughly attentive to their
wants he may be tolerably Indifferent to
fancy points" and yet make handsome
profits.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
ANTS AN OFFICE.
Wisconsin Candidate for u Congressiona
Postmastership.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 80. - Wisconsin
has candidate for the postmastership OF
who was chief clerk of the postofiice de-
partment when Col. Villas was in charge
of it during President Cleveland's admin
istration. In view of the fact that Wis
consin had the postmastership when the
opposite party controlled the last house,
Mr.. Roy believes that it is due the demo.
Gratis of that state for their magnificent
victory last year Ii is said that he is
backed by the united delegation of his
state and his chances are considered excel
lent
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12

weeks end to another. IL it is standing
meanwhile, exposed TO rains, SHOWS and
alterations of freezing and thawing, the
farmer is losing money faster than he
thinks. When wagon begins to want
repairs, except the annual painting, it
costs as much to keep it in order as the in
terest on the cost Of a new wagon, besides
losses from delay because the wagon has
broken down. Keep the wagon new as
long as possible. When it begins to fail
the wagon. maker will probably allow you
more for it towards payment ON new
wagon than it is worth for a forehanded
farmer to keep. A wagon house, made
happers in connection with the horse barn
and used exclusively for storing wagons
and other wheeled tools, pays better inter
est on its cost than most investments farm
ers are able TO make.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
A TwO-EDGED SWORD.
That Is What the silver GU, stion VIII lie
to the Democratic Party.

Mr.. Pugh (who wants the democrats to
renew the fight for free silver wou!a have
rs throw away all chance of carving New
York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connec-
ticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island
in the East He would have us surrender
the tariff reform flag to the enemy. /.
There is relatively as little free-siver SEN
timent in Memphis rs there is in Boston
or New York or Hartford. We
do not believe that he represents the opin
ion of Alabama democrats with any degree
Of accuracy. He does not, we are sure,
represent the opirion of the democrats Of
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
Surplus stock

Every year about holiday time farmer,
be think themselves of disposing OF surplus
stock from their poultry yards bred durir G
the summer. They all think this at once;
perhaps, too, they fancy that the extra
growth m.de in the last few weeks will
more than pay for the extra feed. Usually
however, lot of young ROSTERS large
enough to sell for spring chickens and
broilers are worth more a month befor the
holidays than Just at that time.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12

The growth of pure bred stock is 20
rapid that farmers who have not inform
ed thems' Ives in regard to the advantages
Of pure breeds may suppose the claims
made in behalf of the pure breeds to b.
unsupported In California Holstein
calf, 6 months old. weighed 44l pounds,
having gained at the rate of two pounds
per day from birth, the gain during Che
last three months being two and one fourth
pounds per day.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-12
2lO Total.
DoUBTFUL.


The democrats are here allowed every
state which Cleveland carried in 1893, and
part of Michigan. That state will choose
electors in 1892 by congressional districts,
and two by the vote of the state at large.
We have given the Democrats five districts
in Michigan, which is pretty liberal con-
cession in view of the vote on congress
man at the special election recently hello
in the fifth district to choose successor to
Ford, democrat, who died few months
ago. The republicans have carried the
district, although Ford had plurality in
1890 of 2 298. Undoubtedly two Or three
others of the eight stricts carried by
the democrats in 1890 would go republi-
can it the elections were held now. and
will go republican next year. The repuh.
licans we allow the states carried by them
in 1888, except Michigan, New York and
Indiana. We are giving the republicans
seven out of the twelve districts in Michi-
eln and the two electors, which will be
chosen at large, or nine electoral votes in
all. Five of the six new states - the two
Dakotas, Washington, Idaho and Wyom-
ing-are also placed, where every reason
able democrat will concede they belong, in
the republican column. The other new
state, Montana, we put with New York
and Indiana, in the doubtful list,
There are, therefore, 2l0 electoral votes
which are reasonably certain to be secured
by the republicans, and there are lSt
which can, without any question, be
claimed by the democrats. For the fifty
four debatable votes of New Yors, lndi.
ana and Montana, the great contest will
be made. Either Indiana or New York
will give the republicans the victory
With Indiana alone they will have two
more votes than the 203 required to elect,
and with New York alone they will have
twenty-three more than they need. The
democrats, on the other hand, must gain
both New York and Indiana to win. New
York and Montana will leave them fou;
votes short of the number required for u
choice, and Indiana and Montana will
leave them twenty-five votes short. st.
Louis Globe Democrat