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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

The history of the Salvation Army
proves anew that the more unpopular
a cause is the more certain it is to
succeed in the long run. If you
advocate a cause which in your heart
you feel to be right, and all your
friends and society laugh at you--are
ashamed to be known as favorlng
your opinions-if wealthy and
respectable society is down on your
movement and would like to
imprisoa and silence you; if, more
especially, resistance by violence is
offered to you, then know for certain
that the success of your cause is
assured, and rejoice. This is the
history of every great advance of
whatsoever kind, even to the substi-
tuition of steam power for hand
labor. When the Salvation Army
first landed on our shores women who
wore its uniform were stoned in the
streets. Now the most conservative
preachers and churches bid it
godspeed. And now is the time for
the great army to beware lest errors
and dissension appear in its own
ranks.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

More money has already been paid
out in creating the worlds fair than
the directors thought would be nee
essary to Corr. IT. when congress
-ppeu 70 send the exposition 70 CIR
cago. Ten million dollars was thought
to be the limit then. Auditor Acker
mans report, just issued, shows thai
the expenditures to December | have
been So, 400, 235 81. The receipts have
been s13, 229, 451.9 s. The availabl,
balance on hand on December ] wa.
$3.50, O6s-33, about enough to last two
weeks at the present rate of expendi
ture. But the souvenir coins are com
ing 0 and the directors have nearly
$1,000, 900 yet in exposition bond.
from which no cash has been paid, 81
the machinery will be kept well lubri
Gated
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29
Slightly

The following paragraph is going
the rounds credited to the Albuquer-
que, (Ar.1 Citizen: A newspaper
man has no business to seek office. 1t
is his business to try and get an Office
for the other fellow; to sound the
praises Of the candidate and keep
quiet his own feelings: to whoop her
up for his nan and let his man forget
all about him when he is elected; to
defend his candidate against the
unjust attacks of the opposition, and
SEE that whatever favors his candi-
date has to bestow goes to the other
family. 1t is his business to boom
the city for all it is worth, month
after month, and then see 800 worth
of printing go out of the city because
ten cents can be saved by doing so.
1t is the business of the newspaper to
give every enterprise a frequent
''send off," and then catch sheol
because he had failed to record the
fact that some prominent citizen had
his delivery wagon painted. To sub
scribe literally to every public, char
liable and church entertainment,
advertise them for nothing, pay his
own way to everything, and then be
called prejudiced and mean spirited
because a column is not devoted to
that particular affair. Do you won
der that there are many cranks in
the newspaper business? 1t is bound
to make either a crank or a philoso-
pher out of a man.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

Jay Gould, though he was one of
the richest men that ever lived, had
failed to learn one lesson, and that
was to let up and take things easier
after he became a multi-millionaire.
Commodore Vanderbilt found his
JOY and relaxation in driving gold
horses, so he lived to a good old age.
His son William and the Astor men
had also their favorite amusements,
travelling extensively and leaving
much of the business detail con-
nected with the management of
their millions to their trusted
agents. A millionaire must do this
If he would even leave his brain clear
and fresh to plan for the accumu-
lation of more wealth. But Gould
never did so. He had no relaxations,
no fads. He was a t~ireless, money
making machine, remorseless to him.
self in the expenditure of his
energies. If he had lived till 1900 he
would probably have gone on record
as the wealthiest single individual
history had known UP to that time.
But he wore himself out in the prime
of his life.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

"BY GOSH. IdAl n I'n
the Office of Lawyer Edward X. Jones
IN the tenth Hoor of the Stokes build
ing, A Cedar street.
@Mr. Jones in?" he asked OF the
iswyer's clerk, who smilingly recog-
nized the eccentric visitor of the pre-
ceding day.
~Not yet, sir" was the courteous re-
pig. 80,
well I'll be gosh darned' Amt /
ever going T. get the money on that
bond? I've waited twenty-one years.
Amt that long enough" .,
AT you'll sit down, Mr.. Todd" SAID
the clerk so~otbingly. "Mr. Jones will
Mr.. Todd deposited his carpet bag on
the floor and sat down with a jerk. de
got up with an even more decided jerk
q minute later when the telephone bell
suddenly rang.
sBy gosh! that's a fee!" shrieked Mr.:
| Todd,as he grabbed his bag and rushed
for The door, thinking of his precious
bond and his ten fights of stairs be-
tween him and the sidewalk
@No,no," explained the clerk, "thats
only the telephone bell"
"The telephone bell?" said Mr.. Todd
do%ubtfully, where's the bell?"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

ino m~AAeans Expect More Trouble with
Insurgents---Clerieals Making Them.
A Monterey, Mex, dispatch says:
1t is learned here that Cecilia Sail
uns, who was Thursday sentenced to
three years Imprisonment by the fed
eral court at San Antonio, Tex, for
violation of the United States
neutrality laws, spent the months of
August, September and October in
Monterey and other points In the in
terror of Mexico working up a senti-
ment of the revolutionary movement
recently inaugurated on the Rio
Grande border. He was at that time
indicted by the United States federal
court and was out on bond. He is
known to have spent fully two
months in the different military
camps in the northern part of the
republic and distributed secretly a
large amount of revolutionary litera-
ture. He is believed to have secured
many adherents to the cause among
the army officials, who stand ready to
join the movement the moment the
time arrives for the uprising and in
vasion. The high military and fed
eral officials in this city no longer at
tempt to conceal the fact that they
fear there are turbulent times in
store for Northern Mexico in the
near future. 1t has also been au-
th~oritatively learned by Gen. Berado
Reyes, governor of the State of Nueva
Leon and commander Of the military
zone, that Julian Flores, who com
manded one Of the divisions of
Catarina GarZa's revolutionary army,
has been in Mexico during the past
seven months, and that he even had
the holiness to visit the City of Mex
leo, where he is believed to have had
a secret conference with the leader of
the clerical party, which has been
SO severely oppressed under Presi-
dent Diaz's administration. Flores
is nov thought to be in the vicinity
OF Matamoros, in the state of Taman-
lipas. He is a wealthy and educated
man, and is regarded in Northern
Mexico as being just the person to I'M
dertake the bold game that is now
being played. Another significant
fact in connection with the recent
revolutionary outlook is that Alexan-
rdo Gonzales, the father-in-law Of
Catarina Cara, six weeks ago raised
$4,000 in cash by mortgaging his
extensive rancho in Texas. The
mortgage was filed in the clerks
office of Neuces county. Many peo-
pie here think that this amount has
gone into the fund to forward the
revolutionary movement now in
operation.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Washington, Political, Foreign,
and General Domestic,
Happenings OF Note.
Telegraphic News of the World
Condensed for the Benefit
of Busy Readers.
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS.

The international monetary con-
ference has adjourned to meet next
spring.
Dun's Trade Review reports
domestic business healthy, with a
heavy gold outgo toward Europe.
Great distress is reported in
western and northwestern Kansas as
a result of the cold weather.
Frauds in the weighing Of sugar
for bounty have been discovered, so
government officials of Atlantac say.
Dan Folman, charged with robbery
at Dallas, jumped from a train on
which he was being taken to prison
and escaped.
The celebrated trotting stallion,
Stamboul, was sold in New York
last week at auction for $4,000. He
has a record of 2:07s.
VIM. H. Humphrey entertained the
people in New York hotel by antics
based on his erroneous belief that ne
had swallowed his false teeth. They
were found behind his trunk.
The Pacific Short Line Bridge COM
pany commenced the work last week
of building a 81 $4,000 bridge across
the Missouri river at Sioux City.
The bridge will be a combination
wagon and railroad bridge and viii
be completed July 1, 1898. 1t is 10 bt
an independent toll bridge open Il
tie use Of all railroads.
Mrs. Wharton, "a years old, o
Brooklyn, met with a horrible dealt
Friday night. She was alone in he
apartments preparing the evening
meal, when the stove proved unsatis
+ factory and she poured kerosene o.
it. No sooner had she done thi
than the flames sprang up an,
: ignited her clothes, which wer
burned entirely from her body an
$ she died in great agony.
{ On Thursday Mrs. S. Kyle LOCKER
: OF Viola, Wis.,. whipped TO death he
siS-year-old stepdaughter, because sh
asked for something to eat. Whe
: Mr.. LOCKER, who was absent at til
time, came home, he asked for HI
daughter and was told by his viii
/, that she did not know where the gi
was. He Immediately commenced I
4 search and found his daughter in
closet dead.
S One of the largest purses ever otfere
for two pugilists was hung up las
n week for Pugilists Jack McAulif
and Dick Burge by the Coney Islam
Athletic club. The sum offered is
purse OF $4,000. This latest bid con
e pletely overtops the $50, 900 purse {
$ the Crescent City club, New Orlean.
!, and created a big sensation in spor
{ ing circles. The agreement stipl
lates that both men are to fight q
: 1873 pounds for the championship {
the world.
The first $4,000 of the Worlds ia.
souvenir half dollars were shipped I
Chicago Friday by express in care {
the, United States sub-treasure.
I They occupied five kegs and includ
all of the first $4,000 minted exceI
: No. /. for which the exposition con
S pany is to get 5000 o and three other
1t on account of their extra vafue, es
r mated to aggregate $4,000, we
carefully put up in separate packag
Ie and packed in a special keg oy the
70 selves.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

During the civil wal "Parson''
Brownlow of Tennessee, editor, states
man and preacher, was often in great
peril on account Of his intense and
outspoken loyalty to the Union. One
of his experiences in those days was a
visit from a mob that intended to
lynch him, but his own daughter,
standing upon his doorstep, held the
the rufians at bay until her fathers
safety was assured. The daughter,
now Mrs. Anna Patrick, and in many
ways a remarkable woman, is suffer
ing from a lingering, painful and
fatal malady. Her home is at Knox
vile.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29
Reducing Sentiment to theMinimum.

In a recent English novel the girl
exclaims 20 her cousin: "What? is it
so hard to part with the fortune that
you would even marry me rather than
give it up?' And he replied kindly:
aYes, it is an awful wrench; out don't
you imagine | should have any OBJ
lection whatever to marry you. o
are a nice, sensible girl, and l don't
believe you'd bother me a bit" This
is reducing sentiment to the MINI
mum. it does not matter at all after
such n conversation how the story
turns out Boston Transcript.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

When the little silver plated thing
was pointed out to him, he sighed:
aBy gum. New York's a great place
Efr. Jones came in before anything
further occurred to excite Mr.. Todd's
establishment. The lawyer was soon
debating an affidavit in the Canadians
ease to a st~enographer. Mr.. Todd
watched the writing machine closely
while the document was being dashed
off, and asked a great many questions
about it when the operation was com
pleted. He had never seer such a thing
before, he said. He hesitated a long
while about signing the affidavit, and
when an order on the Union Trust Com
pan for S234.43 was handed him h"
iarned the p over suspiciously.
"That's good, is it?" he queried.
ayes, it's good" Mr.. Jones assured
him.
"And I'll get the money on it9" per-
sisted Mr.. Todd.
"Yes.n
well, good day." and Mr.. Todd,
carpet bag, money order, and all disap-
peared. Not long afterward he re-
turned in a very excited state of mind.
look here he said despondently.
aAin'tI ever goin' to get hat money!"
| When he cooled down a little he told
Mr.. Jones that the people at the bank
didn't know Todd of Wainfeet, Canada,
and wouldn't give him the cash for his
order. Then Mr.. Jones sent him back
with a clerk to identify him. At the
tnion Trust Company Mr.. Todd re-
ceived an order on the Manhattan Bank,
and the clerk followed along to see that
he got his long-deiaved money. When
the bank clerk asked the old mar to
sign the order preparatory to handing
over the cash, Mr.. Todd's suspicious
were again aroused.
al dunno about that, " he said.
"That's all right, the lawyers clerk
assured him, and Mr.. Todd, with grea,
deliberation, affixed his signature to
the paper.
Now sign that" said the banl
clerk, pushing a receipt toward Mr.
| Todd.
sNo, iii be gosh darned IL I will.
was the determined reply. "IT no,
sign another burned thing till | ge'
my money. I've waited twenty-on,
years for il, by gosh! and ! want it RICH
off
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

With some persuasion Mr.. Jones's
clerk induced the old man to write his
S234.43 was counted out to him. He
went over the bills and small change
half dozen times to make sure that
the amount was correct. Then he
pulled up his waistcoat, slowed the roll
away somewhere in the region Of his
waistband, and, tucking his trowsers
into the legs of his boots, he remarked,
with a knowing smile, aft it drops,
why, it drops into them boots"
At the door of the bank he asked Mr..
Jones's clerk which way the Bowery
was, and being directed there he hur-
ried off muttering something about
buying some toggery that would sur
prise folks at Wainheet.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29
MARRIED ON BET.
Humphrey Steele and Miss Carrie sayres
Novel Union.


Mr.. and Mrs. Humphrey Steele, Of
Canton, Ohio, recently put up at the
Great Northern, Chicago. They
are a newly married couple. In fact,
they have been married since Grover
Cleveland's election to the presi-
dency. Humble citizens though they
be, their future veal or woe was
made dependent upon the result OF
the election of Nov. s, 1892. Mr..
Steele has for a long time been
desperately in love with Miss Carrie
Sayres. She says so, and he doesn't
deny 1t. He is a democrat and she
was a republican. Said she:
1--WE were married Monday. Mr..
Steele had asked me to be his wife
three times, and three times l
refused. 1t was not because l dis
liked him, for l don't, do i, Humph-
rey?n Humphrey said something
that might have been anything, n
she went on: "But / had made up
my mind TO live and die an old maid.
| have heen a school teacher Tor a
number of years, and | believed !
was fitted for a different mission In
life than to get married, but you
know the old saying: "Man proposes
and God disposes" Here | am a
ried and have given up my school,
"well, as ] was saying, l refused
Mr.. Steele three times. The poor
man really got thin" If Mrs. Steele
didn't exagerate here her acceptance
of Mr.. Steele has had a remarkaple
effect, for he weighs 200 pounds: 1--WE
always" she continued, quarrel over
notifies. He's a free trader and I'm
a protectionist. l am only a woman,
hut | have studied Just about as
much as he has, and know just as
much about it,"
"she don't know the first princi-
pie"
Now Mr.. Steele, we won't have
an argument here before a stranger"
They settled it. They didn't.
Taking up the broken thread
again, Mrs. Steele said: 81 was sure
, Mr.. Harrison was going to be elected,
and Mr.. Steele was sure that MI
Cleveland would be. We each
became so positive during the last
week of the campaign that we came
near never speaking to each Other
: again. He wouldn't stand that, SC
. he suggested that he would have M
: more discussions until after election
He was real sweet that evening, ant
g proposed the fourth time. l feli
e foolishly soft myself, and so, not Il
e discourage him absolutely, l pro
posed that @e make d bet. If hi
e candidate, Mr.. Cleveland won, L wa
t to marry him; if Mr.. Harrison, h
wasn't to even make love to me TO
r six months.
e "You see l was sure that MI
Harrison would win. Ny father ant
/ nv brother said so, and so did ever.
one else in our town. l thought
), would win, and would still have hin
hoping for the future and to go GU
y with and all that sort of thing. Blu
d | lost. and don't you know / am no
one bit sorry yet. OF course, W
can't tell yet what may happen il
the future. The day may come whe,
It we will both hate Mr.. Cleveland 70
being elected.
"Do you know" she concluded, ="
d didn't want to get married, but
p think lots of girls are not very smart
Fl Many of them who will never b
It married might have had a chance
e ,'s+haysh had hat one way or the other.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

The twenty restaurants atN the
Worlds fair will allow 5000 persons
to sit and eat at one time. Heavens,
what a sight it will pe-all those
creatures feeding! All a hungry
person who is in the least squeamish
will have to do will be to stand
awhile and watch the herd devour
pie. His appetite will soon be gone,
and he will save the price of a
dinner.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

Paper is now used for glass in win
dows. The manufacture of window
panes of paper was first tried in this
country and proved a success. The
panes are said tohave the appearance
Of milky glass, and the property of
intercepting the light rays while
letting the heat rays through which
makes them suitable for greenhouses.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29
0 D GETS HIS MONEY,
am WHEN LAST SEEN he WAS MAX
ING FOR THE 6oWERY.
TIL. Old Man from wsinieet, Canads,
After Twenty : one Years hea
sas4.4a on His Railroad Bond

After waiting twenty-onc years iot
the money, Mr.. George W. TODD Q,
WainAeet, Canada, yesterday realized
so2a az on his $1,000 Midland Railway
bond says the n. Y. World lie ano
his quaint carpet bag had only been u
town twenty-four hours, u IN tha'
time Mr.. Todd did such tall hustllng IN
the furtherance of the mission thai
brought him from his far-away nome
in the Dominion hat a successful re
suit was inevitable. The earlier par
90 yesterday morning Mr., Todd spen'
Sightseeing, but promptly at 9 O'Clock
bag in hand, he presented himself a
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

The London Financial News
declares there is nothing extraya-
CANT in the expectation that at least
$3.50, 0o0, 900 of foreign money will be
left in America as the fruit of the
Chicago exposition.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29
Country Boys Who Grew Famous.

The two Adamses were citizens Of a
little village a dozen miles from Bos-
ton. Jefferson lived on a country es-
tate far from the cities. Madison and
Monroe were country gentlemen and
so was Washington. Jackson and
Polk lived in the suburbs of Nashville,
Taylor was a planter in Louisiana, Lin
coin was the product of a prairie town,
and a host Of the political leaders of
to-day we're originally countrymen--
Atlanta Consultation.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29
Wa Convinced That tie Had EN-

81 was always a great lover Of
snakes" said E. G. Senter to a st.
Louis Globe Democrat man. when
a boy | lived near Bonneville, Mo-,
and my parent on my fathers side
was somewhat addicted to the habit
of looking upon the wine when 1t
wore its warpaint. He came home
one Saturday night with a pretty
good Jay aboard, and the next morn,
ing had a head that was wondrous to
behold. There was a sharp frost
that night, and when l went cut to
do the chores / appropriated my
fathers overcoat. During the morn
ing 1 found nearly a dozen garter
snakes that had been tied up by the
frost, and l put them in the pockets
of the overcoat, intending to thaw
them out and put them in my
menagerie. When the breakfast bell
rang l forgot my pets and left them
in the coat pockets. After breakfast
we went to church, and, as the old
gentleman felt pretty shaky, he kept
his overcoat on and Rugged the stove.
On the way mother had lectured him
soundly and pointed out that he was
only a little ways removed from the
delirium tremens. AS he sat by the
stove the snakes thawed out and
began to circulate themselves. The
old gentleman was so wrapped in
meditation that he did not notice
them until he vas literally covered
with them. Then he raised a war
whoop that could have been heard
from Tadmor in the wilderness to
Yuba Dam. He made a break for the
door, shedding snakes and exclama-
ton points at every jump. When we
got home we found that he had
emptied his pocket flask into the
sink and was wearing a blue ribbon
in his button-hole."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

Every year a great many hero-wor-
Shipping pilgr.m ms go to the house in
which Carlyle was born and try on
the sage's old hat, which is preserved
as a relic Of interest. OF the
thousands of visitors during the past
few years only thirty-four had heads
large enough to 1T the hat.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

Colonel Henry Watterson has
shaved off his luxuriant mustache
and intends to depend upon flowery
whiskers as facial adornments
through which the sweet south wind
can whisper its ideal messages.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

The Emperor of Germany has con-
sented to send to the Worlds Fair a
remarkable and attractive feature.
1t will consist of a collection OF
presents received from his grand
father, the Emperor William; his
father Emperor Frederick; and him
self. from their fellow-sovereigns in
Europe, as well as from the people OF
Germany.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

An International legal tender coin
would be a great convenience,
especially Just now, when Canadian
dimes are scorned in the market
place in the United States and
American dimes are in like manner
rejected in the Canadian cities.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

The financial ability of the Jewish
race is apparent at a first glance at
the composition of the international
monetary conference. The president
of the conference is M~ontefore Levi,
and a Rothschild devised the plan of
compromise between gold and silver.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

A new mineral has been discovered
in Columbia in immense deposits
with properties not unlike those of
asbestos. 1t is reported to he the
color of amber, perfectly transparent
and incombustible.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

Cape Colony is the natural habitat
of the largest known species of earth
worm. 1t is a soft, s~caleless thing
between six and W. feet long, and
much resembles our common angle
worm
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29

1t is only a question of a little
time when we shall have the Mica
ragua canal. The United States
cannot afford to do without il.