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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25

A late invention that promises to
become very useful in identifying and
capturing criminals is the electro
photo-detective thief catcher. The
Scientific American contains an
illustrated article explaining fully the
working of this new invention. The
first Illustration is a photograph of
two lads in the act Of opening a cigar
case which act closed an electric cir
cult connected with the camera, thus
photographing the boys in the act of
taking the cigars from the case. The
apparatus consists of a camera placed
IN a box and so connected with
electro magnets that when the
electric circuit is closed a match is
ignited which in turn ignites some
flash powder. simultaneously the
shutter is opened and closed and the
image formed on the sensitive plates.
There is no escape for the intruders
as the work is all done in a second or
two and all is dark again. There is
no reason why this apparatus will not
be used in banks and wherever
vlauables are kept. A thief would
never modest a store, in which it was
known n of these machines was
concealed. This invention will
doubtless go into general use.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
A Grain Pipe Line.

Mrs. n. E. Beasley is the inventor
of a grain pipe line for carrying small
grain through pipes. The project is
still in its infancy, but Mrs. Beasley
is confident of its final success.
The scheme is to lay pipes from
Chicago TO the Atlantic coast. The
grain is to be carried in a continuous
ventilated shaft, it is claimed with,
out friction. A continuous stream OF
grain is supposed to move twelve
miles an hour. The power stations
are to be twenty-five miles apart, the
sections being that length and the
estimated cost of this transportation
is three cents per bushel. A working
model is to be erected in Chicago this
fall. The cost is estimated at $40, 1000
600 for a line from Buffalo to the
coast. Should the project prove a
success the continent will soon be
spanned with grain pipe lines.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
U
a Fratricide at Springfield Caused by
whisky.

"hhohs
On the morning of the 18th about
IL o'clock a quarrel between two
brothers named Leighton and Joshua
Allen, aged respectively about nine
teen and twenty-three, living two
miles west of Springfield, resulted in
the shooting of the latter, infiicting a
dangerous wound, after which Leigh
ton placed the revolver at his own
head and shot himself, dying at five
o'clock p. M, but not being conscious
after the shot. DR.. Keeling who was
called in, says that it is quite doubt
full if Joshua will survive, the shot
having taken effect in the lower part
Of his face, and in such a name as
to cause his throat to swell 10
a degree nearly preventing respira'
ton.
Whisky seems to have been the
indirect cause of the deplorable affair,
someone having advised Leighton to
use it for the whooping cough a short
time ago, since which time he seems
to have formed an appetite for it and
kept a bottle in a trunk. An attempt
by Joshua to gain possession Of the
key to the trunk resulted in the
double tragedy. 1t is not known
that Leighton was intoxicated at the
time, but it is more than probable
that he was somewhat under the
influence of liquor. A widowed
mother and several brothers and
sisters are left to mourn the 6"plor'
able affair.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
ONCE AGAIN.
The Long-lost Art of Hardening Copper
Discovered Again--Better Than Steel,

The Long-lost Art of Hardening Copper
Discovered Again--Better Than Steel.
Local scientists say one of the most
wonderful discoveries of recent years
is that made by a blacksmith of
Quebec, named Ferdinand Allard. 1t
is the long lost art Of hardening
copper. Axes and other edged tools
made of hardened copper have been
exhibited by him which rival the
best steel of the present day. A
piece of Allard's prepared copper was
tested at the governments rifle
ranges. A shot was fired from forty
yards distance and the bullet was
shiyered into a thousand fragments.
Another shot, the missile striking
more squarely, completely flattened.
This is claimed by experts to be
vastly superior to anything the best
steel could do under like circum-
stances and the matter will be
brought to the immediate notice of
the British lords of the admiralty.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
POLITICAL.

Whitelaw Ried is making some
speeches in the west.
Iowa democrats nominated a ticket
last week at Davenport.
Ex-Chairman Campbell gives it out
that there will be no branch republic
can headquarters at Chicago.
Joseph Pulitzer of the New York
World headed the democratic cam
paign fund with a donation Of sl0,0 900.
Mayor Grant, of New York, is said
to have been tempted to aid in the
campaign by promise of a diplomatic
appointment under Cleveland.
All the peoples party and alliance
managers in Washington deny the
story that they have a secret oath
bound order known as the "Band of
Gideon"
Gov. John p. Buchanan, of Tennes-
see announces himselfan independent
candidate for reelection. He was
first elected as a democrat. There
are now four candidates in the field
for the Office.
A dispatch from Bar Harbor says
authoritatiyely that Blaine will speak
in the coming campaign in the state
of Maine. He does not feel strong
enough to make a regular stamping
tour as in former years, but will
make five minute speeches at various
points in the state.
Rev. J. i. Tate, the republican
nominee for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF
Nebraska, is ineligible. He is an
Englishman and failed to take out
his naturalization papers until q
year ago. 1t was to have beer
expected that after their experience
with Governor Boyd, Nebraska poll
ticians would be careful to nominate
real citizens for gubernatorial offices
anyway.
At the republican state convention
at Milwaukee last week ex-United
States Senator Spooner, and John G.
Koch, of Milwaukee, were nominated
by reclamation for governor and
lieutenant governor respectively amid
the greatest enthusiasm. r. w
Jackson, of Shawona, was nominated
for secretary of state by a majority OF
Ill. ALLEY Peterson, of Crawford,
was nominated for treasurer by
reclamation.
The provisions of the constitution
that no representative or senator
shall, during the time for which he is
elected, be appointed to any civil
Office which shall have been created
or the emoluments whereof increased
during such time, has raised the
question as to the legality of the
appointment of Messrs. Allison, Jones
and McCreary as monetary commits
sioners. There is a question, how
ever, Of this appointment being
regarded as a civil Office.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25


Miss Susan b. Anthony seems to
forget where she gets her -four from
that makes her pie crust and dough.
nuts. While at Omaha she is
reported as saying: Sup in South
Dakota they squat on a piece of land
that costs them nothing, put mortg-
age on il and buy a top buggy The
statistics of last year show that these
''sxuattersn in the Dakotas, whodon't
W the land and have ''top buggies,"
raised 94,247, 1928 bushels of wheat.
Sister Anthony might readily see
from such facts that these "squatters'
that she e at did some blowing
and thrashing. 1t would not take
much OF an argument to make her
ashamed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
Harvesting Niagara.

Col. Leonard Henkle, of Rochester,
who recently laid before the officials
CT the Grand Trunk railway, his
scheme for utilizing Niagara's water
power, now states that he is almost
ready to make a start on the under
taking. He proposes to construct a gi.
gantic power house across the brink
of Niagara Falls for the purpose OF
generating electrical power to be used
for lighting, running trains and oper.
ating all kinds of machinery. This
power he claims to be able to trans.
NIT long distances. Plans for the
power house are now in preparation.
1t will be 1000 feet high, will contain
1000 windows and will have 13, 6TO,00t
feet of floor capacity. The materials
used win b. iron, steel, granite, mar,
bic, glass and copper, and the cost
will be s35, O00, 900.
Col. Henkle expects his enterprise
to yield 6 per cent on a capital of $685..
000,0 600. -Four years will be required
to build the power house, on which he
expects to make a start In November,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
Iumpy jaw In Cattle.

The disease OF cattle Dy VeteTlndr-
ians actinomycosts, but by stock
raisers as slumpy jaw" has caused
much alarm throughout the west for
several years says the Chicago Jour
nal. Though it has never been
shown that it is contagious, the
spread of the disease among large
herds of cattle on ranges has caused
people to believe that it is commun'
icated from one animal to another.
Secretary Rusk states that the bureau
of animal industry has been conduct.
ing experiments in treating this dis,
ease, and had come to the conclusion
that it WIS durable by the use Of a
simple remedy. 1t is the intention to
collect in the west at least hundred
Of animals affected by this disease
and to treat them to ascertain how
many of them al be cured. In the
course of his remarks on the subject
the secretary said: 81 am confident
the experiments now under way with
a treatment will prove successful,
This treatment consists in the
internal administration of iodide OF
| potassium in full doses-that is, in
doses ranging from M to three
drains, according to the size of the
afflicted animal. 1t is given daily
until improvement is well marked,
and then may be withheld for a day
or two at time. The medicine is
dissolved in about a pint OF water,
and is given before feeding the ami,
NAL its morning or evening meal
The number of cases of this disease
has been constantly increasing fol
several years. Although animals
affected with this disease are con
demned at the stock yards they con
tinue TO be sent there. They are dis,
posed of at a price that does not pay
for bringing them a long distance,
and this has caused many to believe
that some of them are slaughtered
dressed and sold for food. While il
has not been proved that this meat is
absolutely unwhOlesome, it is certain
that no n would knowingly eat it.
If this new and simple treatment
proves to be effective it will result in
preventing a great loss to stock rails,
ers. The price of beef is TO- so low
that a few animals made unstable by
disease will offset the profit on those
that remain healthy till they are al
an age and condition to be sent tC
market.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
DRIVER ANTS IN AFRICA.
Gluttonous Little Pests Which Are the
Terror OF Everybody.

THE most terrible of insects are the
driver ants of West Africa" said an
entomologist to a Washington Stdr
writer. "They are so called because
they drive before them while on march
all other living creatures, no animal
being able to withstand them. No
beast, however formidable dares te
cross their track, and they will destroy
in a single night all the pigs and fowls
on a farm. TIE huge iguana lizards
fall victims to them, as do snake ana
all other reptiles. 1t is said that they
begin their attack on the snake by bit
ing its eyes and so binding the prey,
which instead of running away, wrltnes
helplessly in one spot. Natives OF Al
RIGA assert that when the great pathon
has crushed its captive in its folds IL
does not devour it at once, but makes
a circuit of at least a mile ia diameter
in order to see whether IN army OF
driver ants is on the march IN the
neighborhood. If so it glides OF AMI
abardons its prey, which will soon %
eaten by the ants.
IF an army of these ants approaches
a village the entire population is COM
PEELED to fly. Sometimes the peop!e
may be obliged to take to the water ~
order to save themselves. The insects
travel in the night and on cloudy days.
because they are quickly killed by the
direct rays of the sun. Should the sun
come out while they are making
journey they construct n continuous
arch over their path out of earth aggie-
tinated by a fluid excreted from their
mouths. In cloudy weather an area
for the protection of the marchin5
workers is constructed of the bodies
of the larger soldier ants, whose wioe-
ly extended jaws, long legs n pro-
jecting antenna, INTERVIEWING, forms
sort of net work. In case of an alarm
the arch is instantly broken and Jus
insects which composed it join the oth-
er soldiers on the TANKS OF the hhc'
who seem to be acting as scouts, run.
ming about furiously in pursuit OF tne
enemy. The alarm over, the arch -
renewed and the column proceeds as
before.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS.

The salmon pack from the Column
bia River is AS, 900 cases.
The mackerel catch of the New
England fleet is %, 900 barrels to date,
as against 1000 last year and 1900 in
1890.
DIR. c. X. Bartlett, for twenty-siX
years physician at the Minnesota
insane asylum at st. Peter, resigned
last week.
The department of Mississippi and
Louisiana G. A. r. has organized and
the colored posts have been admitted
to full membership.
The Minneapolis Journal estimates
the wheat crop this year in three
states: North Dakota, %, 800, 900
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
JOHN sHERMAN's FIRST CAMPAIGN.

JOHN sHERMAN's FIRST CAMPAIGN.
Every village l came to where | could
find two or three men standing to-
gether | would get out and jump upon
a chair or a store-box and make q
speech to them, and | did this at every
crossroads in my district. Wen, when
the vote was counted, | was defeated,
as | expected to be, but before the next
campaign came on the Kansas Nebraska
troubles had entirely changed the senti-
ment of the district and there was Q
fair chance for Wing to be elected. |
was away ahead of ali the other com
petitors because the people remembered
me from my speeches and | got tho
nomination which resulted in the cleo
ton and which sen me to Congress.
1t may be the same with yoa-you
can't tell what will happen, Public
sentiment changes rapidly in the United
States, and a lew issue may spring up
any day which may rcvolutiouize the
thought.of other people.'"-Indianapolis
News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25

Take care of your health, but do
not take care Of it too much, just
enough. What we lost most of all
when we left barbarism was fresh
air. 1t is a medicine the like of
which is not found in this universe.
If mankind could live out in tents
for a generation or two, sleeping
under the skies, consumption and
lung troubles would disappear.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
IN THE KITCHEN.
some Timely Receipts for the careiui
HousewIfe's Use.

LEMON sYRUP-A SUMNER DRINK
Boil for half an hour two pounds Oh
white sugar in a quart OF water.
Remove from the fire and stir well
into one ounce of citric acid in pow
der and a teaspoonful essence OF
lemon. When cool stir well again
and bottle, it will keep well ana
makes a pleasant drink.
SALAD DRESSING WHICH WILL KEEP.
Yolk of four eggs, four teaspoon
fuls of salt, four mustard-spoonsful OF
yellow mustard, a small cup each OF
milk and vinegar, a pinch of Cayenne
pepper. a little sugar, one tablespoon
full of butter mixed with a teaspoon
full of flour, mix all together and stir
over the fire until it boils.
NEWMARKET PUDDING.
One pint grated bread, one quart
milk, one cup sugar., one tablespoon
full butter, four eggs iyolksl. Soak
the bread one hour. When baked
add a layer of jelly over the top, then
cover with a meringue made Of the
whites of the eggs and halfa cup of
sugar. Brown slightly.
CAULIFLOwER SALAD.
Take a medium sized head of cauli-
flower, pare off the root and detach it
into equal sized flowerets; place
these in a salad bowl, seasoning with
a pinch of salt and half a pinch of
| pepper; sprinkle oycr a pinch of
chopped parsley, add three table
spoOnfuls of vinegar, two OF good oil
and mix all well together.
sTEwED LAMB WITH PEAS.
Cut the neck and breast OF spring
lamb in small pieces; place them in
a stew pan and add water enough to
cover. Stir slowly, removing the
scum as it rises. When nearly done
add a quart of shelled green peas,
with more water if necessary. When
the peas are done, season to taste
with pepper and salt and a little flour
and butter together. Let the grayey
boil up and it is ready to serve.
FAXED POTATOES WITH DUMPLINGs.
Pare and wash the potatoes; make
some good paste into balls about the
same size as the potatoes, and place
them alternately with the potatoes in
a pie dish, previously buttered; add
a little onion, finely chopped, and
sufficient water to about half fill the
dish; season with pepper and salt,
which should be mixed with the
water; cover with a fiat dish and
bake them.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
sHERMAN,S FIRST CANVASS.
He Stumped His District at Every Cross.
Roads bat Was Not Elected.

He Stumped His District at Every Cross
Roads bat Was Not Elected.
heard a curious story of John Sher-
mans first election to Congress to-day.
It was told me by the hon. Peter
Grosscup, who is now one of the bright
est young lawyers in Chicago, but who
a few years ago was the Republican
nominee for Congress in Sherman's
Ohio district. Grosscup at this time
lived in Ashland, o., a town of 5000
people. just fifteen miles from Mansfield
where Sherman lives, and he was once
the Republican nominee for Attorney
General of the State. Said he:
"When | was nominated for Con-
gress, | WIGS IN doubt about accepting
the nomination, and | went up to see
Senator Sherman, and | told him there
was no chance of me being elected. He
advised me strongly to run, and said:
You are a young man, n you can't
tell what Will happen. / was nominate
ed just as you have been, and ! had no
more chance OF being elected than you
have. | hadn't much money, but | had
an old white horse and a rattle-trap Of
a buggy, and | t. X old Whitney and
drove around all over my district.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25

Chicago sometimes brags that it
has had the biggest fire in history;
but it seems that Moscow, in 1914,
had a bigger one, in which 80, 800
buildings were destroyed, valued at
$3.50, 000, 900. The loss in the Chicago
fire of October, 1871, was 1925, GOO, coo:
the buildings destroyed, l7,45O. The
buildings destroyed by the great fire
of London, 1906, were 1850, valued
at $50, COG, 600. The great fire of Bos.
ton, 1872, destroyed $4,000, 600,
burned over sixty-fiye acres and con-
sumed or ruined 1,776 buildings. In
1870 Constantinople had a conflagra-
tion of s24, 00O, 600 and 500 buildings.
In 1851, San Franciscolos $500 build
ings, valued at 81 900, 900. In 1862
Hamburg had a fire which consumed
1,747 of the finest buildings in the
city. 1t is hardly to be expected that
any fire hereafter will burn more
than those at Moscow and Chicago.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25

Now is a very good time Tor South
Dakota people to write to their
eastern friends and urge them to take
advantage of the harvest excursion
rates. A little visiting and sight-see-
ing is advantageous to the pro-
nounced stay-at-home. whether such
because Of inclination or necessity.
A change of scene is really beneficial
to every one and especially so after
the combining summers work. There
is no better way to spend some of the
years accumulation than by visiting
friends and getting a change of scene
and air, 81 by all means urge your
friends TO visit the state this fall
and take a little time yourself and
show them the beauties OF the
country.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
Coming County Fairs.

A number of South Dakota counties
will hold fairs this fall, among them
the following: Clay county at Vermil-
lion, September % to IS; Turner at
Parker, September q to %; Union at
Elk Point, September % to October
/; Bon Homme at Scotland, Septem-
Der 6 to 8; Deuel. at Gary, September
Fl to 90; Campbell at Mound City,
September % to October l.. The Corn
Belt association will hold its EXPOSE
tion at Mitchell, beginning Septem-
Der q and continuing one week. The
grain palace at Plankinton will be
open on September % and close
October 5. The state fair at Sioux
Falls begins September IL and closes
on the 10th. All these fairs and
expositions will be of the NEST
interesting character. The greatest
display will doubtless be at the state
fair, where a portion of several
exhibits now being prepared for the
worlds fair will be shown.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
Would Make Them Grin.

Dundas Mimi Advocate: If all
the country newspapers would howl
for better roads for a couple of
months, they might stir up some
enthusiasm in that line, and perhaps
in our day we might see good roads i'm
country districts. And how the
farmer would grin If he could haul a
load, weighing in the neighborhood
of two tons, from his farm to the
nearest marketing place; and how
the merchants would shine to see the
farmer in town three times as often
as he used to come, over ourdumpity-
dump dirt roads and then swim
through mud puddles. Let us howl.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
an Epitaph.

Hero lies a poor woman who always was treu:
For she lived in a house Whefe he'P ""9 -"
hired; . an
Her very last words were, my irlehus' = a"
going uasbfpO
To a place where theTe IL houi"e
or sewingl ,shos
FOR where they don't eat there's no Washing
The courts with sweet anthems are constantly
But having no voice, / shall get clear OF sing
Sbe folded her hands with her latest endeayor,
And whispered, 20, nothing, sweet notihhs'
,,payarfr
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25

America bids fair TO supply the
markets Of the world. A regular
auction day is to be established in
LONDON for California fruit, which
will be shipped by special train to
New York, then transferred to the
refrigerators Of the fast steamers and
so reach Europe in good condition.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25

A subordinate oficerpat Frankfort,
Germany, swelled up by brief
authority, has made himself notorious
by ordering that an American flag
flying over the headquarters of an
American singing society be hauled
down. His superior countermanded
the order and apologized for the
incident, but such affairs are becom-
ing too common, and one of these
days some one will have TO be taught
a lesson regarding the flag of the
United States. The stars and stripes
is not so old a banner as some which
float in Europe, and it hasn't SO mnch
embroidery and trimming, perhaps.
But, if such a thing became neces-
sary, there are several million men
who will assist in raising it in any
part of the world where il is not
respected, and who will see that it
remains after it is placed in position.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25

The latest London fad is the vege-
tartan dinner, where people eat all
sorts of limitations of fish, flesh and
fowl, with nothing genuine about
them. The Britons have suddenly
taken to the notion that they eat too
much meat and propose to ry some
thing different. When it is remem-
bered that the mem of Nebuchad.
nezzar was the best quality OF
meadow grass for eve years, it will
be conceded that with some little
variety a vegetarian ear not only
live like a king, but a good deal
better. Should the present habit OF
vegetarianism become settled oyeI
there it will have a tendancy to make
a better market for high-grade baled
hay for the use of the stall-fed
nobility of the mother country.