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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
THE OAK CHEST.
A Relic OF Primitive Luxury Much IN
Demand Nowadays.

Every one who pretends to have 8
little taste nowadays lays out some
money in buying a genuine old oak
chest-that is TO say, an oak chest
which he believes to be genuine-and
the blacker it is the more confident
does he feel that he is the possessor of
a genuine article. II, moreover, there
be a date on the chest, then his conf
dence is complete. The dealers know
exactly what he wants, and they man.
ufaeture dates and blacken the chests
they make to meet his requirements.
Il is a fraud to date the chests, but a
buyer has no reason to complain if he
gets a copy of a good antique. He has
but TO take his p~enknife and try the
wood, and he can easily convince him
self whether the article be new or old.
Two hundred years passing over an
old chest or old cabinet harden the
wood, till the penknife blade viii make
the modern antique is fresh and soft
and when a chip is removed the dye IL
shown to be but skin-deep.
The oak chest is the mos primitive
of all articles offurniture, and it served
a great many purposes. 1t was the
receptacle for clothes, for money, for
every kind of yaluables; but it was
also a seat, a table, a bed and even a
coffin. And as the oak chest is the
most primitive and necessary of all
articles Of furniture, so has it been one
of the first to have attention devoted
to it TO make ii ornamental. Every
maiden and every man must have had
his chest. 20 contain her and his treas
ures, and not treasures only, but gar
ments as well; and in the long winter
evenings what more natural than that
each should endeavor to decorate the
exterior of his or her chest according
to taste or fancy, and thus impart TO
it an individual character? 1t is not
likely that a girl would carve the oak
Of her chest, but it is extremely prob
able that she would exact the orna-
mentation of ii with craving tool as
repayment for her needlework on the
garments of men. Nevertheless some
of the decoration may have been the
work of women. notably that which is
produced by hot irons. Smaller boxes
certainly were made beautiful by the
hands of their mistresses, and many of
these remain incased in white satin,
richly embroidered or decorated with
beadwork. The maiden's chest con
tanned the linen she had spun, linen
that was to serve for the house over
which on marriage she would become
mistress. In Tyrol TO the present day
the bride is brought to the house of
her husband seated on top of her chest
in a wagon, and that chest is filled
with sheets and many ellis of linen that
she has woven during her spinster
days.-CorahW Magazine.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
Light Coins in the Scales.

There is not n little spice OF humor
in the way in which both sharpers and
those whose business IL is TO circum-
vent them have to electrical
methods for the attaining of their
ends. A large consignment in gold
eagles was sent to a New York bank
from California which, on examination,
was found to contain twenty light
weight coins bearing the date of 1891.
These were apparently new and bright.
but they were rejected on being passed
into the electric light-coin detector.
On being examined with a lens their
surfaces were found to be covered with
intiniteSimal pores.
About 81 worth of gold had been en-
tractcd from each eagle by e~lectrolysis,
which is a process now in high favor
among professional coin sweaters"
of whom the American Chinaman has
the reputation of being by far the most
adroit and diligent. In the coin de-
tector the coins are pushed in success
sion from the balance pan on to a knife
edge, and according as this knife edge
is at the right-hand limit of its range
OF the left-hand limit the coin, when
pushed on it, tits of to the Eight"
channel or the lightweight" channel.
al the case may be.
The right or left position of this
shifting knife edge is determined by
an electric contact made by the bal
ance beam. and thus an electro-mag-
net is brought into action. The coins
run through the machine al the rate
of about sixty per minute by the turn
ing of = handle Piasbarg Dipdtca.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
An Inventor on Railroad Speed.

George Westinghouse Jr.. the in:
ventor of the air brake that bears his
name, is very much interested in the
attempts of railway companies to in
crease the speed of some trains. He
said recently: at is possible TO make
a locomotive perhaps, which al run
and draw a train at the rate of eighty
miles an hour. This has been done.
But it isn't a matter of getting speed
so much as it is a question of slowing
up. The problem of the future, so far
as fast travel is concerned, Is how to
get trains under the quickest control
when they are running at a high rate
of speed.' Mr.. Westinghouse went Oh
TO say that it had been demonstrated
by experiments. conducted Under bis
eve, that under the most favorable cir.
cumstances the best that a brake could
do would be to slack a train at the rate
of three and a half miles a minute.
"Now." said he, surprising a train is
going at the rate of eighty miles an
hour. The engineer sees a danger
signal or an obstruction 1000 feet
ahead of him, which is about as far as
signals can be observed with reliance.
He applies the best possible brake un-
der the the best possible conditions
and yet he will be running when he
has passed over that 1000 feet
at the rate of about fifty miles an
hour. So far as accident is concerned
he might as well be running eighty.
The disaster which would follow de-
railment or collision to a train running
fifty miles an hour could be but little
less than to u running eighty."-M.
Y Press
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
crrs SUNDAY ArrrRSooS.
bishop Harc's Compounds oa sh'
WORLDS Fair sunday Question

II believe the worlds fair should
be open on sunday said Rt. Rev. w.
III. Hare, bishop OF South Dakota,
who is stopping at the Grand Pacific,
Chicago. IF this question were
asked me: Should Christians attend
a fair on Sunday l would say no..
They should have regard for Sunday.
and under ordinary circumstances
should not attend such expositions on
that day. Should Christians, by adj
rocating legislation, seek 10 force
other persons, holding views differing
from their own, to conform TO their
views?' Most emphatically no. Look
ing at the matter practically, / would
say that a great many persons, who
will attend the Worlds Fair next
year will go somewhere 10 spend the
Sunday. 1t would be eminently bet
ter should they spend Sunday at the
fair grounds than in saloons. Those
who feel il a duty not to attend the
fair on Sunday, may remain away,
but should not, by closing the gates,
forceothers TO remain away. | think
a compromise should be arranged.
1t seems to me that IL the fair were
open Sunday afternoons both sides
would be satisfied"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
SOUTHERN e.STImEnT.
II seems - BE sim Adverse TO he
Soldier Element

The tariff IS a job from one end to the
ether, the more ubiquitous because whiIc
levyiag tribute upon the masses for the
benefit Of the Glasses it is supplemented
by a steadily increasing pension list,
iooting the treasury to the tune Of $780,
10000 a year, two-thirds Of which go
to the support Of coffee coolers and camp
followers and other red nosed patriots
that loaf about the doggeries and broth
els q the country, swearing one for an
charlottesville Courier-Journal.
1t requires the proceeds Of 1,OO0. 900
bales Of cotton every year to pay the
soath's part Of the pension fund, two
thirds of which ispaid to support tramps
and beggars who claim to have fought
for the Union. This is 4 Of the means
invented by the Republicans to drain
the southern people of their money
Americas (Ga.) Times Recorder.
Some of the northern papers are howl
ing about the positive fact hat Grover.
Cleveland hired a cheap man to repre-
sent him when the north pillaged and
plundered and burned and ravished the
south. There could not be a better
recommendation. The scamps at the
north who went into the war went in
for fourteen dollars a month, with an
explicit understanding that they should
and could steal all that was in sight.
Grover Cleveland knew that the country
would need his services in 1884 and
again in 1892, and he did not propose TO
have his body filed with lead in order
TO give a Yankee a chance to pick his
pocket after he had been killed. lie
simply did a good business job, as he
did when he slapped the dirty beggars
called pensioners-in the face. Why
should he, a statesman and a man Of his
intellect, take the chance Of war when
he could hire acheap fellow to represent
him? There is no reason. The Globe
regards that as one of the best things
Cleveland ever did. If Cleveland had
fought he would have been lowered in
the estimation of the south. Heidi not
propose TO use his skill in killing the
boys of the southland. The solid south
owes a debt of gratitude 10 Grover
Clevcland.-Durham On. c. Globe.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS.

HI dix 4l1EN1A~No
begin the publication OF a history OF
the Red River valley from its earliest
settlement.
F. C. Hendershott, recently city
editor Of. the Fargo Republican, has
leased the Dawson Standard FOR a
year and SAYS he viii run it as a
democratic sheet.
Deputy Sheriff Rayeling, Of San
born. has arrested Bill Timmons on
charge Of rape committed on the
person of Mrs. Mary Sullivan. Tim
mons is a boot logger and a tough
character.
w. W. Tousley has severed his con-
nection with the Independent of
Cakes and will start a paper of his
own as son as an opening can be
found. 1t is reported that a divine
of that place viii join him in the
enterprise.
The board of railroad commission
ers have received bonds from the
elevator companies for $4,000 filed
BY the following companies: Cargill
Elevator Company, North Pacific
Elevator Company, North Dakota
Elevator Company and Minneapolis
& Northern Elevator Company. The
Southwestern Elevator Company, of
Shelton, filed a 5000 bond. The
bonds are awaiting the leisure of the
attorney general for examination
before the board passes upon them.
4 New Orleans dispatch announces
the execution of "Brubaker, the Da-
kota sharpshooter, as an insurgent
leader" This probably refers TO p.
S. Brubaker, of Fargo, who has a
large banana plantation in Honduras,
and has been there since Feb. 20 last.
His family reside at Fargo and have
not heard from him since. He en-
listed in the government forces when
he first went to Honduras this time,
and his family therefore doubt the
correctness of the report. He was a
32-degree Mason and prominent in
other orders.
Secretary of State Flittie has had
prepared and is now sending out
from Bismarck a specimen of the
official ballot for state officers, to be
used under the Australian sys.cm for
the first time this fall. In voting for
governor the name of Roger Allin is
printed as the independent prohi-
bition candidate, because though
Allin has declined through the
papers, and declared that he is a
republican this year and not an indie
pendent, yet he has not filed his
declination with the secretary OF
state, as required by the new law.
Charles Lupnitz, a German shoe
maker of Bismarck. has on several &C.
casions shown signs of insanity, and
recently became violent. The county
Judge issued a warrant for his exam
nation, but he defed the officers, ana
held them off at the muzzle of q big
revolver. He fortified himself up
stairs in his house, and was armed
with an axe, butcher knife, bludgeon
and revolver. 1t vas thought best TO
starye him out. He cody informed
the watchman that he didn't propose
to be taken alive. About 5 o'clock in
the evening two shots were heard in
the house, followed by an alarm of
fire. The mailman had set fire TO his
bed and deliberately shot himself
dead.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06

The cackling OF geese saved Rome.
And the barking of a dog awoke a
woman in Brooklyn the other night.
She found the whole house IN fire and
she had barely time to rouse her
husband and Ave children aud get
them out before the whole building
was a mass of roaring flames. In
like manner a cough is nota disease
but natures warning, to show that
the blood vessels in the the throat or
lungs are c~ongested. II you take an
opiate it paralyses the muscles SO
that you cannot cough but you do not
remove the disease. REIDfS GER
MAN COUGH s. KIDNEY CURE
stimulates the circulation and thus
relieves the congestion. In this way
the cause is removed. Fer this rea-
son Reid's German Cough & Kidney
Cure cures pneumonia whereas a pa
tient with pneumonia taking the or
binary cough medicine only aggravates
this complaint. When you go to your
druggist ask for Reid's German Cough
& Kidney Cure. The small bottles
are 25c- the large ones SOC.
SYLVAN REMEDY CO, PEORIA, Ill.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
business Maxims.

The elder Baron Rothschild had
the walls of his bank placarded with
the following curious maxims:
Carefully examine every detail of
your business.
Be prompt in everything.
Take time 10 consider, and then
decide quickly.
Dare TO go forward.
Bear troubles patiently.
Be brave in the struggle Of life.
Maintain your integrity as a sac
red thing.
Never tell business lies.
Make no useless acquaintance.
Never try to appear something
more than you are.
Pay your debts promptly.
Learn how TO risk your money at
the right moment.
Shun strong liquor.
Employ your time well.
Do not reckon upon chances.
Be polite to everybody.
Never be discouraged.
Then work hard and you will be
certain to succeed!
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06

Reciprocity with Cuba has resulted in
the sending to that country a vast
amoun of goods manufactured in this
country, the principal articles being
-four, bacon, butter, beans, lard. pota-
toes, lumber, hams, hops, trunks, sad
dies, harness, saddlery hardware,
leather goods Of all kinds, boots and
shoes, hats and clothing for men and
women, cutlery, boxes for sugar, hogs
heads and tools of various kinds. Be-
fore the establishment of reciprocity
the Cubans were in the habit Of buying
all that they wanted from England,
France and Germany. Today this is
largely changed, and a strong feeling in
favor of trade with the United States
has set in.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
WISDOM OF THE cow.
There Are Occasions When Bovine Intel
ligence Is Really Remarkable.

at IS a popular belief that the dog is
the most intelligent of all f~our-footed
animals, and that next in the mental
scale is the horse" said George Nc
Daniel to a St. Louis Globe Democrat
man 1t the I.indell. That is a mis-
take. The COW knows more than a
horse and dog combined are capable of
learning. An ordinary town COW who
has been accorded reasonable facilities
for acquiring general information ia
much wiser than some men who have
been honored with proud positions and
expensive funerals. The average town
cow can open 4 gate that fastens with
time lock, get into the garden, aud
do so worth of damage before the ex-
asperated owner 4 ram a charge OF
slugs into a muzzle-loading gun. |
once lived in a village where onc-half
the inhabitants kept cows and expect
ed them to forage their living of the
other half. Pnding the usual gate
~fastenings of no avail | added a bolt
and slept that night secure.
The next morning every COW in the
village was in my garden and so full
of cabbage that cost me s. 4 head to
raise that they could not go through
the gate, and | had to knock down 4
panel of the fence to let them out.
That night | added a log chain and a
patent paddock and sat up in company
with a double barreled gun 20 watch
proceedings. An old brindled She
pirate came up and surveyed the
house to make sure we were abed.
Then she shook the gate, and again
Surveyed the house. Next she wen to
work on the bolt with her tongue. In
five minutes she had it drawn aud
started to come in. She looked sur
prised to find herself still on the out
side. Half a dozen of her companions
came up and surveyed the new jewell
nv. Then brindle broke a horn in try
ing to lift the gate off its hinges.
They appeared to hold a council Of
war; then an old spotted gourmand
inserted a horn under the chain, lifted
it ever the post, and the whole drove
marched inside. l gave it up ami
took the gate of its hinges. | now
raise all my vegetables at the mar
ket."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06

"Hell Grummets' is the kind of bait
Mr.. Cleveland is reported as finding most
effective for fishing at Buzzard's Bay.
His friends in the west are using the
PEOPLES party as their Hell Grummet,
and hope to catch enough Republican
votes with it to deprive the grand old
party of the electoral votes OF certain
states which have always been Repub-
lican. Hence a vote with the Peoples
party merely means a vote to ald the
Democrats.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
DIE LIKE FLIES
Letters From a Physician I'm a
Cholera Hospital at
Hamburg.
Corpses Piled i'm Layers of Six
at a Mortuary-Terror
Kills Many.

The Berlin correspondent of the
London News says: The following
extracts are from letters written by
DR.. Hulseman, a volunteer physician
serving in two cholera wards in Ham
burg to relatives, under the date Of
Aug. 81.
''There is a great scarcity of
physicians and attendants here. One
of my attendants hanged himself
behind a door to-day. l have now a
young clergyman and members of the
Young Mems Union as attendants,
They accomplish their duties admir-
ably. You cannot imagine the
terrible odor in the wards. The
moaning Of the sufferers is dreadful.
About one-half OF them die within a
few hours, There are about 5000
lying Ill, but the papers contradict it.
l am dreadfully tired. At the
mortuary the eorpses arc piled on
each other in layers of six. Do not
write me. l will advise. Every one
lies naked here. Shirts are worse
than useless"
Sept. ,, he wrote:
Am still well. Cases are now
more acute and more frequent. Ter
ror reigns here, My clergyman is a
splendid fellow, being at his post
night and day. am always on foot
is hours, and then sleep like a rat in
an ante-room of the ward. 1t is i'm
possible to stand this long. Every
day death half empties my ward, and
every time my beds are filed again"
In a latter letter, after recording
his release from quarantine and the
refusal of various hotels to admit
him, the doctor says he had corpses
in his ward from eight to ten hours
before they were removed. Hethinks
terror killed many before their time.
In describing the apathy shown by
a comrade since he left the hospital
the doctor declares that he wa
himself in q similar state of mind.
He says:
"All objects around completely lose
their value on seeing men die like
flies. / would not hesitate a moment,
If l had had it, to give $40, 000, 900 to
save a mans life. Nobody is able to
conceive of such feelings unless he
has been placed in a similar position"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06

Convict labor, like slavery, is an en-
envy to the wage 1t diminishes
the quantity of work for the honest
man, and tends TO reduce wages. This
kind of labor is authorized by law and
encouraged largely in Democratic states.
1t is not permitted in Republican states.
Secretary of War Elkins.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06

With a deep n of responsibility to
the Democracy of the United States, we
are constrained to make answer that in
our best Judgment Mr.. Cleveland's
nomination would imperil the success of
The party and would expose it to the loss
of the electoral vote of the state.-Entire
New York Delegation in Democratic
Convention. 1852,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06

At the time when most Of the civilized
countries of the world are adopting pro-
lection Grover Cleveland and the Dem
ocratic party come forward in TINS cam
paicn, in the face Of these facts and TINS
testimony, and make war ON protection,
advocate free trade, and demand tnat
raw materials should be free. The Dem
ocra4ic marty has made the issue broad
" and definitely. The Republican parry
meets it eagerly and is ready Tor 'he
contest.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
Sorry Now That He Didn't Go Himself.
LII .A.4l u-ha mnS tnn Lazy OF

A gilded youth who was too lazy OF
too occupied to pay due attention to ms
..duty visits" and who yet felt 1t was
incumbent upon him to make personal
visits at houses where he had incurred
social obligations, concluded to take MS
nance of finding his friends out, n Sc
lectine a tempting afternoon sent a
messenger boy around with his ara
This modern Mercury, however, with the
neculiar obtuseness of his insisted
in every instance upon having a receipt
Given him for every batch Of cards deiiv-
erred. and brought back with provoking
honesty to his enraged employer a dozen
or SO Of signed papers testlfying tna' Tue
cards had been received. -
What was still worse. a couple OF nus
fair friends, rather quickly approaching
,ha situation. took the opportunity OF
sand;ng him back the following; "Mrs'
& has received from MIR. b one
visiting card in payment OF uinnes
-a;van." and another had scrubbed across
.hs naner Full satisfaction for all sociai
.rrat;ors incurred.n-New York "a
bune.
With cheap sugar American preserves
80 driving the Scotch jams u mar
molades out of market, and the farmers
IN western New York have found a new
m,rket Of home for their small fruits
60 muchf for the repeal OF a revenue au''
and its effect upon fruit CANNING
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
v.ster, nomesteaaers Indorse Harrison.

Western HOme Steaders Indorse HARRISON.
Farmers and homesteaders in the
western states ere reported greatly i'm
pressed with the contrast between the
Cleveland and Harrison administrations
in the matter of granting patents to
those making homes on the public lands.
The Cleveland administration put every
obstacle in the way of homesteaders and
as a result left an accumulation of over
100000 cases. The Harrison admins
tration has cleared these all up and dis
posed Of those fled meantime, and pre-
sents now q ''clean slate"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06

The free importations under the first
fnll year of tie Mckinley bill were
s1ee. 33o, 143 more than under the last
fnl wear of the old law. The saving to
tbe masses in the duty on sugar alone
has been S75, coo, 000.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
A Lesson in Appropriations.


40 hh-hs ~ AS IduShS tltsNs
Chairman Harrity, Of the Democratic
national committee, congratulated the
Democracy of the country ON the Dem
ocratic victory in Maine" But he was
evidently a little previous" He should
have waited until the returns were in.
Here is what Chairman Manley, of the
Maine Republican committee, had to
say after the full count was made:
1.-The Republican state committee de-
sires to congratulate the Republicans of
Maine upon the full and complete VIC
tory achieved on Monday last. The
Democratic party, with the best organ
Hation it has had for years, failed to
poll as many votes by 5000 as it gave to
its candidate for governor in 1888, and
did not cast as many votes as it gave its
candidate for governor in 1884, in 1890,
or in 1876. Complete returns show that
the Republicans have elected Henry B.
Cleaves governor By 1880 majority
over the Democratic candidate; have re-
turned to congress Thomas B. Reed,
Nelson Dingley, Charles A. Boutelle and
Seth L. Milliken by large majorities,
have elected so out of 81 senators, 40
IA of $50 representatives to the legisla-
ture. and have elected a majority of
county officers in every county In the
state.