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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
QUEER THlNas SOMETIMES HAPPEN.
A short, Fss Man Who Was Ready to Ask
"Where Am 1 At?' When II Was Over. :

A tall, slim man with a silk hat
and a red nose and a short, fat man
walked into an up town barroom the
other day. The tall, slim man in
tended TO buy a drink.
He did buy it, and when it was
consumed ordered another. That
was disposed of, and the two men
leaned against the bar and began to
talk. The tall man had the check
for the drinks in his right hand,
Say" said the fat man. you've
got a great splotch of black on your
cheek"
"Wheregn asked the tall man anx-
iously.
"Under your right eye"
The tall man unbuttoned his over
0 a and searched through his peck
cts.
Il declare" he said. II haven't
got a handkerchief with me Let
me have one, will your"
The fat man unbuttoned his over
coat and looked through his pockets.
Finally he pulled out a white silk af-
fair. Ha handed it to the tall man
and held out his hand as if waiting
its return. The tall man took the
handkerchief and wiped his cheek
vigorously. Then he put it In his
pocket and placed the check for the
drinks III his friends open hand.
He looked around the room and
said suddenly. Excuse me; here's a
man / want to see for a moment"
He walked rapidly out of the room.
The fat man looked at the check
in a dazed manner for a moment
and then walked over to the cash
ier's desk and paid it. Meantime the
tall man walked slowly down the
street.
The fat man rushed out and fol
lowed him.
"Here!' he pulled as he overlook
him, you've got my handkerchief. "
What" said the tall man.
You've got my silk handkerchief,
/ say
The tall man looked through his
pockets.
why, to be sure, he said, 80 l
have" Then he paused and thought
a moment. But" he continued.
didn't ! give you something when I
borrowed this handkerchief
"You gave me a check for GO. cents
that / had TO pay" answered the fat
man.
"Ah, yes. / remember now. So l
did. Where's the check
why, I paid it and gave it to the
cashier
The tall man looked annoyed.
Haven't got the check, eh?" he
asked coidly. Then, sir, you don't
get your handkerchief. ] took it as
security when / gave you the check.
Good afternoon
And it was 20 minutes before the
fat man could think where he was
Buffalo Express.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
sounds Too Fine For Human Ears.

F 1oNN%S aoo Aht vi u A-aES. +.
The statement is often made that
there are probably sounds In nature
too acute to be distinguished by the
human ear, but which may be per-
fectly clear to the auditory sense of
other members of the animal king
dom.
Attention has been called at a
meeting of the British chronological
society to a very interesting case in
point. According to DIR. Sharp, ants
have the most perfect sound pro
ducing organs that have yet been
discovered in insects.
These Z situated upon certain
segments of the abdomen of some
species OF ants examined by him, the
sounds being produced by rubbing.
But Dr.. Sharp has not heard these
ant voices, nor has anybody else, al
though lie is convinced of their ex-
istence. The sounds are too delicate
for II gross ears.
An attempt was made TO hear
them with the aid of the microphone,
but the only sound detected was that
produced By the ants in crawling
Youths Companion.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
Webster and North Webster ball
teams cross bats in Webster to-mor-
row-Friday. Don't miss it
Guaranteed Cure.

We authorize our advertised druggist 20 sell
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consumption
Coughs and Colds. upon this condition. If
you are afflicted with a Cough. Cold or any
Lung. Throat or Chest trouble. and will use
this remedy as directed, giving it a fair trial.
and experience no benefit, you may return
the bottle and have your money refunded.
We could not make this offer did we not know
that DR.. Kings New Discovery could be relied
on, 1t never ~disappoin,s. Trial bottles free
at f. A. Ross & Co., Drug Store. Large size
soc, and Sl.00.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
midsummer Novelties in Ladies
Hats.

Plain or elaborate. a toilette can hardly be-
come a success without an accompanying hat
which viii harmonic and add TO il the indis-
pensable finishing touch. But the selection of
the latter is a problem of considerable study,
for one must bear in mind the circumstance
for which a costume is intended and accord
ingly choose the most appropriate head. gear.
One must also consult the possibilities Of ones
purse, and most important Of all, one is COM
PEELED to remain meanwhile within the proper
boundaries OF the latest styles, When We
come to the latter, however, what a bewilder-
ing embarrassment of riches confront us! For
the choice may extend from the pain tailor
toque TO the complicated garden hat made Of
some sheer material, in other words. ii may
include the whole range of milliners' crea-
tions: delicate tinted straws; poems of lace
and flowers or of material similar to tina of the
costume; tennis and yachting caps; Casino
bonnets and the infinite variety of bridal hats.
One of the Characteristic features of the Nc
DowELL FASHION JoURSAIs is that they gener-
ally represent a hat OF the latest fashion with
each costume, for the double purpose of Civ.
ing millinery novelties and OF illustrating the
intimate relation between a toilette and the
head.gesr. TIL popular OF these Fashion
Magazines are: fla Mode de Paris" Paris
Album of Fashion, ""The French Dressmaker"
and LA Mode" The former two cost SS.5
each, a year. or IS cents a copy. The French
Dressmaker" is $500 per annum, or 80 cents a
copy. ia Mode"costs only sl.5O a year, or Is
cents a copy, and is intended to become the
home fashion journal par excellence. II you
are unable to procure any of these magazines
of your newsdealer. do not accept any sub.
stitute, but apply directly to Messrs, A Nc
POWELL Il Co., 4 West l4th Street New Dork.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
! nnderstand. in Freedom,s lan

}Sw understand, in Freedoms land,
Dnoplies sway and rule theday,
IN Walter Shalom helps to hail them
i q tool In the agents school.
he popUlist power, our by hour.
tgrowing great in h~umanity's gate:
will upset all pride on s~nonoply's side,
I'd bring rich men 10 their senses again.
Z buys our wheat at u price incomplete,
I'D gives not enough to pay for our stuff;
e want a third more to keep US DER,
I'D l recommend a STRIKE TO this end.
reat merchants, bewarel there is war In th<
\ air!
ime If you like, and join in the STRIKE;
c people want bread and they must be fed
te hard working man deserves a full pan.
lis man, ] declare, is honest and fair,
Pr his condition. rank, and position;
q Ii is wrong for him to stand long
81 the slnful hand On monopoly's stand,
pese words intend no harm to u friend,
Srman the German is brennan
lie author gives birth 10 a poem OF mirth,
d he gets his pay in an honorable way.
A PoPuLIsr.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27

summer complaint, accompanied with a
wonderful diarrhoea. Soon after my
wife's sister, who lives with us, was taken
in the same way. We used almost
everything without success. Then /
said, let us try Chambeilain's Collie,
Cholera and Dlarrhoea Remedy, which
we did, and thatcnred us right away.
| think much of it, as it did for me what
it was recommended to do. John Hert-
zler, Bethel, Berks Co, Pa. % and 80
cent bottles for sale by +. Ross & Co.,
druggists.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
To Preserve the Color of Flowers.

A way to preserve the colors of
flowers when pressing them is to
immerse the stem of the fresh plant
In a solution OF 81 grains of alum, 4
of inter and lS6 of water for a day
or two, until the liquid is absorbed,
then press the plant in the usual
way, sift some dry sand over the
flower and submit TO a gentle heat
for about 20 hours.-Cor. Science.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
A Leader.

since its first introduction, Electric Bitters
has gained rapidly in popular favor, until now
I Is clearly in the lead among pure medicinal
tonics and MISUNDERSTANDING nothing
which permits its use as a beverage or intoxi-
cant 1t is recognized as the best and purest
medicine for ell ailments of stomach, Liver
or Kidneys-It will cure Sick Headache. Indi-
gestion, Constipation, and drive Malaria from
the system. Satisfaction guaranteed with
each bottle or the money will be srefunded.
Price soc per bottle, Sold by F. A. Ross q
Co
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
q. f. TERP ENA, ~nortsagee.
Agent for mortgage.

Name OF morigageor, Henry X. Babcoek.
Name OF mortgage, Kramer ~ Co.
Date of mortgage, May 18th. 1865.
Date OF filing i'll bay county south Oak ota
May 18th, 1898, al 1920 a. IN.
sum secured by Said mortgage, S77.S5
sum claimed TO be due on sHid mortgage, ST.,
IS and interest from date thereon.
M~origaged pr perry. one 10 iuch, steel beam
stubble pillow.
Default has been made in the conditions in
said mortgage contained. Said default con.
Sists IN desertion OF the properly
said mortgage Will be forecIosed by q sale OF
the above described properly at public auc.
ton, on saturday, August stu. 1873 AT o'clock
p. IN, at the front door OF the court house, web
ster, Day county, South Dakota, TO pay said
deot together with costs and attorneys fees as
allowed by law.
Dated July 18th, 1925.
KRAMER & Co,
G,E. TEgPENA, Mortgage,
Agent for Mortgagee.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27

alter Shelom lives in Salem,
ar away on the western lay,
here people tarry, love and marry,
nd obtain abundant gain.
ne land of Erin is wherein
q spent his days in childhood ways,
ne home of Emmett, and of Davitt,
srnell the true, and Dillon too.
III time passed by. and he must try,
b HE awayto America,
nd bid farewell to hill and dell,
rom the lovely strand of Erin's land,
i sixty-oDe the war begun
Dr freedoms cause and and righteous laws,
be rebels run and the people won,
nd he helped to save the Union brave.
.hen he shall rise beyond the skies,
nd his bones decay, n waste away,
hove the gloom of the terrible tomb,
pnd memory's tate shall decorate.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
PaIpnble nit.

Father-Why can't you be as good
a boy as little Arthur Arthursons
Small Sop-I don't know, but Two
heard folks say that Arthur Arthur
SON comes of very good old stock
Good News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27

Sand from Watling's island is on sale Mt
fair. The boxes in which the sand is
Y are unique affairs. On the outside of
cover Is a reduced photograph of The
raid monument and the Waddell expe-
bon In the act Of discovering IL. On the
kide Of the cover is a picture of the land
\ OF Columbus. A glass lid covers the
ID in the box. On the bottom of The
i there is a Photographic copy of the
|tificate by a Watling's island magis-
|te as to the g~enuineness of the article
he box.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
Chattel Mortgage Sales.

Name o~rmortgageor, Henry K. Babcock,
Name of inortgagee, Kramer ~ Co.
Da.e OF mortgage, May 4th, 1898.
Date OF filing i'll Day count South DCkota,
May 9th, 1893, at 1880 p. lii.
sum secured by said mortgage. S71.S5
sum claimed TO De due on said mortgage, ST1.
IS and interest thereon.
Mortgaged property, one roam colored COW,
three years old; one double seated, end spring
buggy, one drag.
Default has been made in the conditions in
SAID mortgage continued. said default con
sists in desertioI ui The property,
said mortgage will be foeeclosed by 4 sale
ofth above described property at public auc
ton, on saturday, August 9th, 1898. at 2 O'Clock
y. m. ut the front door of the court house, Web
ster Day county South Dakota TO pay said deb
er with costs and attorneys ices as allowed by
law.
Dated July 25th. 1898.
KRAMER & ca,
u. h. IERP ENA, hoItsagee.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
SumpaO1lS.

STATE oFSoUTH DAKOTA %
COUNTY OF DAY.
In Circuit Court. fifth judicial Circuit:
William r. Clark VS.. Rebecca Ja ne Clark.
The state of South Dakota sends greeting to
the above named defendant:
You are hereby summoned and required to
answer the complaint IL this action, which
will be flied in the office OF the clerk of the
circuit court within and for said Day county,
at Webster, South Dakota, and TO serve a copy
of your answer on the subscriber at his othce
in the village of Webster, South Dakota, within
thirty days after the service of this summons,
exclusive of the day ofservice, and il you tail
TO answer the compliant within that time. the
plaintiff will apply 10 the court for the relief
demanded in the complaint, besides costs.
Dated at Webster, 5. D., the 9th day Of July,
A, ID. 1923.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27

for a cut, bruise, burn or scald, there
pothing equal to Chamberlain's Pain
I'm, 1t heals the parts more quickly
in any other application and unless
4 injury is very severe no scar is left
sale by +. Ross & Co.. druggists.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27

Rice paper is not made from either
or rice straw, but from a pithy
ntcalled tung tsua, found in China,
Fea and Japan.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
TO HORSE OWNERS.

For putting a horse in a fine healthy con-
dition try DIR. Cady's Condition Powders.
They ton up the system, aid digestion, cure
loss of appetite, relieve constipation, correct
kidney disorders and destroy worms, giving
new life to an old or over worked horse. 25
cents per package. For sale by druggists.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
II, w. PARIINAS.
Plaintiffs Attnrner- Wehster. s. d.

PlaintiH's Attorney, Webster, 5. d.
To the defendant, Rebecca Jane Clark, take
notice that the complaint In this action was
filed in the office of the clerk Of the circuit
court at Webster, in the county of Day, state
of South Dakota. on the 10th day of July, AID,
1898.
r. W. PARLIMAN,
Attorney for Plaintiff Webster. So Dali
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
anticaIItem

When is a sailor not a sailor"
When he is a shore. Texas Sift-
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27

"One of my customers came in to-day
and asked me for the best cough
medicine | had" says Lew Young, a
prominent druggist of Newman Grove,
Neb. .'Of course showed him Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy, and he did not
ask to see any other. / have never yet
sold Il medicine that would loosen and
relieve a severe cold so quickly as that
remedy does. l have sold four dozen of
it within the last sixty days and do not
know of a single case where it failed to
give the most perfect satisfaction" 80
cent bottles for sale by +. Ross & Co.,
ruggists.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27
THE GAME.


From Maine 10 Texas, and from Florida to
to oregon, baseball is the game. Is there a
village in this broad land that does not pin
its faith 10 a ball club of some kind? There
may be a few, but few indeed they are. If there
be a dozen able-bodled young men in that viii
liage. TIL cities contain clubs by the legion.
On a Saturday afternoon one cannot enter any
of the railroad stations or ferries without
brushing up against an army of bats and masks
or seeing baseball enthusiasm exhibited in
some OF its many forms. The street cars, too
are carrying baseball clubs to suburban dia-
monds OF more or less pretensions, These
wielders of the willow viii average from
twelve to thirty years of age,-the children
and the men. They are going to play clubs,
possibly from an adjoining street. possibly from
miles away. Wherever there is a contest there
is rivalry, excitement, antagonism. These
qualities are more fully seen when neighbor-
ing and rival tow ns oppose each other on the
diamond. Then il is that partisanship is
given full play and the most intense excite
ment prevails.-NoEToN b YOUNG, in August
L.PpISCoTT's.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-27

Advertising rates made known on applica.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-09
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The August Magazines.

THE RevieO0 Of Revie,oS has, for one
of its features of vital interest, brief
communications from twelve prominent
professors of political economy and
finance upon the present monetary
situation. The letters were written in
response to the editors request for the
opinion of these gentlemen upon the
best course for congress to pursue in
the extra session regarding silver. 1t
happens that every one of these gen.
tlemen distinctly declares for the i'm
mediate repeal of the Sherman silver
purchase act. Beyond this their points
of view are quite various, and their
discussion is extremely interesting. No
recent contribution to the discussion of
monetary problems is 90 pithy and COM
pact as this group of letters from we'll
known economic thinkers.
Mr.. W. ID. HowELL's latest one
scene play is called " Bride Roses.'
and appears in Harper's Magazine for
August. Unlike Mr.. Howel's pre-
vious plays, there is an element of
tragedy in Bride Roses" The ac-
ton takes place in florists shop, and
four characters are represented. 1t is
not usual for writers to illustrate their
articles, nor, as a rule, are ilu TRAITORS
willing to put their pens in evidence
with their brushes. Two exceptions
appear in the August Harper'S. Fred
eric Remington wrote as well as illus
trated the account of a canoe trip
which is printed under the title "Black
Water and Shallow" and William
Hamilton Gibson is the author as well
as the embelisher of A Queer Little
Family on the Bittersweet," veranda
study in natural history.
THE varied and attractive table of
contents of the North american Re-
vielC for August is headed by two able
articles on 1.-THE Financial Situation"
The first is by the comptroller of the
currency, the Hon. James II. Eckels,
who deals with 1.-The Present Crisis"
and the second by Governor Pennoyer
of Oregon, whose article is entitled
CATER the -Four Hundred Years -
What?" The recent naval disaster in
England furnishes occasion for a
thoughtful and timely paper by the as
sistant secretary of the navy, the Hon.
William McAdoo, on "The Lesson of
the Victoria Disaster" Ernest Hart,
the distinguished medical Mterdteur,
points out "How Cholera Can Be
Stamped Out" in an instructive and
valuable article. Among other things
he declares that "with pure water, pure
air, pure soil and pure habits, cholera
need not be feared by any nation or by
any individual" "The American Hotel
of To. day" is dis cussed from two differ
ent points of view by Gen. Rush. G.
Hawkins and WilliamJ Tanning, coun-
sci to the Hotel Association of New
York city. Justin Mccarthy, M. p,
the distinguished leader of the Nation
alists in Parliament, contributes a
striking and vigorous article entitled
1.-The Useless House of Lords"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-09
Cool Drinking Water.

One of the things which the country
farm house is not likely to have is iced
water, or even sufficiently cool water.
Cool mountain springs read rhythmi-
cally but they often taste very warm.
An exchange gives us rather new
notion, the old one of keeping water
cool in Handicapped vessels. 1t
serves however as good suggestion at
this time, when almost everybody has
gone or is going somewhere for the
summer. If the somewhere" is not a
hotel with all the modern improvements,
ice water included, get common
earthernware pitcher, the commoner
the better, as it will be the most porous,
wrap it all about, leaving no inch of it
bare, with wet flannel. Keep the fan
mel wet and the water will shortly be as
cool as is good for drinking purposes,
almost ice cold.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-09
Scotch Winter Games.

The chief Scottish diversion in winter is
neither golf nor wild fowl shooting, but the
old national game of curling. This has not
conquered the world like golf, though it is
played wherever Scotchmen and Jack Frost
toregather In principle it seems to be-
merely a winter form of bowls. A rink is
an eXpanse of ice rather longer than a pitch
at cricket. At either end there is tee or
cock, n spot on which snuff used to be placed
by the old players. Now little red lead is
scattered on it. Here stands thing like a
wooden bottle, which is the point of aim.
Circles are designed in the ice around the
tee to facilitate the process of scoring, the
object of the game being to lay the curling
stone as near the tee as possible and tc
knock away the stones of the opposite side.
Each party on each rink has its Skin"
or captain, who directs the maneuvers of his
men, The first player launches his stone,
laundering over the ice; the rest follow.
and as stones increase round the tee the
task is to steer well between them and Sc
cure nearer place, or TO send stone which
will drive hostile stone to a distance
Meanwhile, the players, with brooms il
their hands sweep the ice in front of n lag
ging stone and indulge in wild shouts OF
encouragement. BY this manner of play
the game deserves it's name of roaring %
and to the surprise and admiration of the
spectator the men keep themselves warm
and amused Indeed curling and the en-
joyment which it manifestly gives are
rather mysterious to the noncurling OBJ
server, VINO sees little more fun in it than a
Russian sees in cricket or a Frenchman in
Rugby football. But perhaps this mystery
Is not peculiar to curling
Its admirers yield to nobody in enthusi-
asm, and when they dine on the traditional
beef and greens and fight their battles over
again to an accompaniment of toddy they
need not envy kings-a class indeed far
from enviable. Curling really does bring
all sorts and conditions of men together in
perfect equality, except as far as skill is
concerned. where the shepherd may be i'm
mensely the superior of the laird. Every
body plays, ministers and all. Indeed
curling was never under the ban of the
kirk, which was otherwise not partial to
amusements.
That most diverting historian of the COW
enant, Woodrow, speaks of "a singular,
savory Christian" a minister in days when
ministers were apt to be stalked like deer
on the hills, hanged put in the most severe
torment of the Pilniewinks" and generally
dragooned and worried This old preacher
avowed that, if he knew he had to die in
the afternoon, he could conceive no more
edifying and appropriate way of passing
the morning than in curling. He had his
moral accounts made up and would have
''soopit up" with the best of them on the
day appointed for his decease.- London