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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07

After making a bet. whether you be
man or woman, go and drink glass of
beer. 1t is Il dead cinch:" how we are
not told, but if you breal,a glass while
drinking it is a costly thing, to say the
least, for your horse may run all right;
you have your ruined suit of clothes.
the glass to pay for, you lose you
drink, and your frame of mind is one
not altogether to be envied.
The most common incidents to which
the majority of people attach belief
are dreams, and if you dream of Il
horse, or narne of q horse, and play
him you may be sure you are on Easy
street.
Don't bet except on that one horse
for the day or your good spirit will take
wings.
Numbers, TOO, are another source of
profit-somctimes. Nineteen has about
the same luck that t,c,unlucky thirteen
brings, while seven is n favorite with
everyone. There is lack in odd num-
bers, too. The number nine, since it
is the product of three times three,
three being of itself good, represent
ing as it does the trinity, is a good mum
Der.
To see n jockey dismount before a
lhSS - III ID di oiSh IL .foN
pu: your money upon that horse you
will be all right.
some believe in tips given them by
persons whom they consider lucky, and
again others believe they are "ionuhed"
if they ride in the sane car or sit be-
side certain ones.
To sit in the same seat always at the
track rs another good thing to do.
IT a man sees a cross-eyed woInan he
may regard his less fortunate com
panions with a complacent smile, and a
woman may do likewise if she sees a
cross-eyed mani Il voc to the one who
sees a cross-eyed person of his or her
W sex.
A great many believe in a mascot. A
coin or a rabbits foot carried in the
pocket will bring JOY, or e button or
some lost trihe that is found about the
track, if not shown, will prove equally
lucky.
..Hr.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
----
FRUIT AND THE CHOLERA.
With Cleanliness and Tipeness Assured,
Fruit Is Not Dangerous.

MANY people are grossly mistaken
in their notions about fruit eating in
its relation to cholera" remarked my
friend, the doctor. rs he helped HIM
self to another peach. They have an
idea" he continued, that fruit taken
into the stomach renders the system
more susceptible TO cholera, and thus
invites an attack of the disease. Moth
ing could be wider of the mark. 1t is
not against fruit itself, but against its
condition that physicians object dur
ing hot weather and in cholera sea
sons. Fruit that is ripe, clean and
sound may be eaten safely at all
times, while that which is unripe, UNI
clean or deccycd is always dangerous,
no matter whether there is cholera in
the neighborhood or not. The custom
so generally observed of cutting off the
family supply of fruit merely because
cholera threatens an invasion of our
ports is foolish and reprehensible in the
extreme.
"Fruit is an important article of our
natural and best summer diet, and to
abolish it from the table during the
hot weather, substituting for it n lot
VI OtuCl lbOh PlbAtutAo VI III lcI,
coarser and less tempting character, is
both foolish and cruel. My advice is,
don't give up the fruit. Make sure
that it is ripe and clean and then you
may eat it freely without risk. The
Juices of our native fruits instead of
being facilitating to the stomach, are
among the best tonics for it. They
are cleansing, cooling and anti
scorbutic in their action. They may
never have cured q case of cholera,
but when taken after proper care in
the matter of cleanliness they never
led to an attack of that or any other
disease.
The one great evil to guard against
in fruit, as in everything else we eat,
is ~uncleanliness. Don't buy fruit from
street corner dealers whose stock lies
all day exposed to the foul air of the
curbs and cutters, where it is handled
aud picked over by every person who
stops to buy an orange or n peach.
Buy of your grocer, even if his prices
are a little higher, aud trust to his
integrity and business tact to give
you fruit that is ripe, cool. clean and
fresh.
above all things. beware of the
pedlers who with carts and trays haunt
the side streets and rear areas offer.
ing fruit which is MS a rule unsound oil
of second quality, and not unlikely tc
have passed through many hands,
some of them foul and unclean. 1t is
through such dealers that disease is
spread, and when it happens that way
the senseless cry goes up that every
body must stop eating fruit. 1t i:
much as if we should all be told to sto[
eating meat merely because Il neigh
Dor was served with n tainted steak OIL
Il bit of immature veal by his butch
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
His Nerve.

The Office boy had enough nerve for
two office boys, but he hadn't capacity
enough for half 4 one. One day the
head of the firm called him into tia
office. "Fralfk," he said firmly, "wc'vc
concluded TO dispense with your
services as Office boy "Yes, sir" re-
spondcd the boy without turning a
hair. 81 might say" added the en-
ployer, chat | dismiss you because
you are totally Incapable of perform
ing the duties of an Office boy. fon
neglect the Office, let things go about
as they please, are careless of your APP
pearancc, and are generally what an
office boy should not be-" "Yes, sir"
However, if there is any other thing
you have in view I'll be glad to help
you all | can" "There is something l
think I'm fitted for" ventured the
youth. "What is itp" I'D like to be
junior member of the firm. | never
vas cut out for au Office boy, anyway.
Do | get it?" And he waited long
enough to get the bounce direct
Detroit Free Press.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07

outcome of it all. business men are
afraid Of their employees who ask n half
day off during the races,
Not alone is gambling confined 10
men, but to women--wives, mothers.
and Notwithstanding, stvlishly
dressed, become so infatuated with the
mania for betting they have been
known to pawn their jewels in order to
have money to win OF lose on their
favorites.
10 the believers in the occult, every
wind that blows, every move of bird or
beast has some significance bearing
upon their luck, good or i'll, and it is
amusing to go to the track for the pur-
pose of watching some of the signs
these people watch. append Il few.
Never watch the horses start.
Never watch the finish.
Never tear your tickets up, not only
for luck, but the judges don't always
think as you do, and sometimes when
you can't see whether your horse was
one, two, three, he is declared first.
Always get some lucky person to hold
your ticket, which he will put in his
hat or shoe.
If you win on the first race you will
quit loser.
10 tell the name of the horse that
carries your money is an unwisc move.
If Il fly precedes your entrance at the
gate it portends misfortune. but if you
see a horse cas- its shoe pick it up and
bet your money on IL horse of the same
color in the next race.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
KNOWLEDGE
comfort and Improvement and

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products TO
the'needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced IN tho
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting.
In the form most acceptable and pleas.
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly a!!
beneficial properties Of a perfect lax
alive; ehectually cleansing tie SYSTEM,
dispelling colds, headaches and levers
and permanently curing constipation;
1t has given satisfaction to millions ana
met with the approval of the medical.
profession, because it acts on the hid-
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly Tree from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in DOC and 81 bottles, but it IS man
fractured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you VIII not
accept n substitute if offered.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
SAVED FOR AN OBJECT.
The Cyclone Took the Colored Meetina
House, but Happily Left the Pastor.

The Cyclone Took the Colored Meetina
House, but Happily Left the Pastor.
"Good mawnin', sab, good mawnin'!n
he saluted as he came up the hotel
steps and removed his hat and bowed
very low. u war jest walkin' round
dis mawnin' to see who was on de
Lawd's side"
GLOW do you mean?" ! asked.
aWhy, sab, our mcetin' house got
blowed away by Il cyclone last month,
an I'ze collectin' up t. build anodder.
Yes, sab, cyclone dun took it right OIL
de face of de airth."
ais this the first tilne?n
"Yes. sab. Dat meetin' house dun
escaped all de odder cyclones bcfo'
dis"
did You zee the building go?"
81 did, sab. | was right dar at de
time, Dress de Lawd! Dat was de
moas' powerful sight yo' eber did see
in all yo' life. 1t was long in de arter.
noon, sab. went ober to de meetin'
house to git my hymn book. was in
dar when the cyclone riz up She cum
mighty sudden, sab. ] heard n sortel
howl.like a dawg fast in de fence. Den
dar was a-groaning, like somebody had
fell down stars, an busted hisself. Den
dar was Il whoop, like as if eberbody in
town had got drunk an was prancin'
around"
"And then she struck?"
"She did, sab. knowed what was
cumin', kase seed bout five cyclones
in my time. run around to de back
eand OF de buildin' an braced up agin
it wild all my might, but shoot"
at went, did it?"
"Jest didn't mind me nohow, sab.
De cyclone picked dat meetin' house
right up same as yo' would lift a
single, an de next mint was cl'ar
across de ribber am all smashed to
SQUASH"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
"A Dear Friend.

Morgue-Keepcr Hooking for any
ones"
Visitor-"Oi'm lookin' fur me dear
friend, Moike Moolighan, who's mys-
%tcriously disappeared. 1t nd break
me heart TO foind him dead. Oh loved
that mon loike n brother"
elias he any marks by which you
could identify llim?"
"Yis, he do have Il big seal on his
forehead where Oi hit i'm wild brick"
"A, Y. JTeckIu.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
OPEN THROUGH NOVEMBER.
Director General Davis Says the Fair Will
Nat Shut With a Snap,

Not onut WIN a onap.
CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-"'The fair will be
officially closed on the date named.
That has been settled" said Director
General Davis. after that my idea is
to begin the work of disintegration in
n systematic manner, starting at the
outer boundaries and leaving the inner
court, or court of honor, to the last.
While this work is going on the direc-
tors can continue to advertise the fair
and charge an admission fec just as
they did during the latter part
of the period of construction. If
this idea should be acted on,
there viii certainly be another month
of the fair after it is formally closed on
October 30. The ~dismantling process
will require that much time before the
inner court is reached. Tracks will
have to be laid and much work done
even before the exhibits can be re-
moved, and this alone will require a
week or two. Much will remain to be
seen while this work is going on, and
many will want to see it. My idea is
to give everyone a chance to enter at u
nominal fee during November.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
ANENT SEA SERPENTs.
A SUBJECT OF UNIVERSAL AND CUR
Rent INTEREST.
Amdavlts of Impresslonab!o and Excited
Observation-Disclosures Eely Beasts "A
Whale Conquered by a p

Sea serpent stories are apropos at
this time of the year. Theyare dished
up to the public every year, either
plain or well-seasoncd with exaggera-
tions, beginning about the middle OF
August. Even skcptical Germany, with
its nltra-eonservatiye Journalism, has
drawn in line during the last five years
Or more. And this Notwithstanding
the nltimatum of the great naturalist
Brehln, who calls all these stories
fabulous bosh" and says that these
the ocean,. but swan in the heads Of
drunken sailor parties.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
Getting Even with a Girl.

The young peasants of the govern
ment of Kiev, Russia, have II way OF
their " TO avenge themselves for
disappointed love. If one of them
woes 4 girl and she refuses to accept
him as her suitor without explaining
thr reason why she rejected hin, the
fellow assemblies all the young men of
the village around her house. They
bar the doors and windows from with
out, so that no one can leave the house
Or enter it, and make 4 tiendish noise
the whole night through. This is
sometimes repeated for II whole week
in succession, and the girl and her
folks arc deprived of their liberty and
their nights rest.
The theory of Jones, the English
SCIENTISTS that the earth is q huge bal
loon aud that it will finally collapse as
the result Of drilling for natural gas.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
1ha Wnr'd,a Eaik.

Take it all in all the world Is fair. That
is, its judgments are pretty generally
Just. No doubt it has formed many in
correct conclusions from the time the
caravels of Columbus appeared OIL the
shores of San Salvador to the present
year of celebration, but there are IN,
stances of its fairness which can be citeu
unqucstioned, 1t has, after comparative
tests. given its award TO Hostel
ter's Stomach Bit,crs for efficacy
in cases of malarial rheu-
matte and kidney disorder, dys-
pepsia, liver complaint. constipation. ner-
vousncss and debility. Among positive
facts without any doubt this fardict de-
serves a prominent p'ace. The experience
of a generation justi!ies, and the concur
rent testimony OF hosts of eminent physi-
clans, bear out it's truth, Give the Bitters
II fair trinl and verify it.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
ONE OF THE LOST TRIBES.
4 Strange Tribe In INDIA and Their
Equally Strange Beliefs.

Scattered over the breezy downs OF
the Nilgherries, in little villages OF
wicker houses that look at a little dis
lance like nothing in the world so
much as a colony Of beehives. lives a
community of 600 or 700 people, who,
according to the Bombay Times. are
variously believed to be the descend
ants Of one of the lost tribes of Israel,
the aborigines of southern India and q
community of Manichasens. They be-
lieve in a strange trinity and a hell, a
dismal stream full of lccches, and this
they must cross by means of a single
thread. The soul burdened with sin
is too heavy for this slender support
aud tho sinner falls into the streams
but tho thread sustainsc easily the souls
OF the good. The funeral of a Toda,
for that is the name OF the singular
tribe, is as odd in it's way as its relig-
ious belief. His body is wrapped in a
new cloth and his toes tied together
with red thread; grain, sugar, tobacco
and money are wrapped in his funeral
toga to provide him for his journey
across the Styx and the dark plain be-
You'd. Two buffaloes are slain beside
the corpse and the dead mans hands
are placed upon their horns; apiece Of
his skull, his hair and his tingernails
are removed to be used later on at the
great celebration of the death of all
those who, during the twelve months,
have "taken tho leap owe the great
Erecipice into the bottomless abyss"
When these tokens are removed, clari-
lied butter is smearcd on the fragrant
wood of the funeral pyre and the body
Is burned to ashes and the ashes scat
sered to the four winds.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07

Velhagen & Hastings Monntsheft,
in its Impotence to ~forestall it's COM
pe%titors, devotes nearly twenty pages
to a compendium from the facile pen
of Correspondent Captain George
Wislicenus, Of the steamer Hamburg.
al must assert" says the captain,
"thnt an end was put to my continued
incorrigible sophistry regarding these
accounts, when my w eyes beheld,in
the Gulf of Guiana, the same enormous
cely beast which was observed in the
same waters by the officers and crew of
the steamship Angola %homeward bound
from Africa."
This is the latest trustworthy ac-
count. which was dated Sept. II, 1892,
in the Weekly Becord Of Lagos. West
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
A .1olo Through the Earth.

If it were possible to bore a hole en-
tircly through the earth and then to
start a ball of iron weighing 100
pounds to falling through the same, at
what point would il stop To begin
with, weight. in the sense in which it
Is referred to in the question, is simply
the measure Of the attractive force Of
gravitation. or, in other words, tho
measure of force with which n body is
attracted by the earth. This attractive
force decreases both ways from the
carth's surface. Thus we find that a
mass of iron or other material will
lose two pounds of weight between
tidewater and the top of y mountain
four miles high; the same mass will
weigh two pounds less four miles be-
meath the surface than it did at sea
level. Therefore if a ball of any given
weight should start on the tour out.
lined in the query its weight would
decrease to q certain extent with every
yard of its light. Cor fali), until finally.
upon reaching The center of tho earth,
it would have no weight, .he phenom.
cnon of attraction Mt that point act
ing equally in every direction. This
being the case the ball. no odds what
it weighed on the surface. would bs
held in suspension ga thing neither
having o %imparting weight") as
though fixed by innnmerable magnetic
oints SIS. louis RegMblic.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
SQUASH.
aAnd weren't YOU hurt?n

@And weren't you hurt?"
mo. sab. Nebber got a scratch"
"How do you account for that?"
"Providence, sah-just Providence,
sab. was saved dat l might collect
up money fur anodder meetin' house"
That's rather curious. If you had
been killed, somebody else could have
collected, couldn't they?"
aDey could, sab, but I'ze de only pus-
son around yere who ebcr dun collect
ed a dollar fur de Law1 and turned in
ober sebenty five cents of it. M. Quad
in Chicago Times.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
German
80
Syrup

Militant McKeekan, I1Iugslsl a.
Bloomingdale, Mich. 'Ihaye hAs
the Asthma badly ever since came.
out Of the army and thought have
been in the dug business for fifteen.
years, and have tried nearly every
thing on the market, nothing mas
e;ven ME the slightest relief until a
Few months ago, when l used Bo-
schee's German Syrup. ! am now
Glad to acknowledge the great good
# has done Inc. Lam greatly Ieliev-
ed during tie day and at night g 8
sleen Without the least trouble" o
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
Book ON tho subject.

The writer of the German article,
coinciding with the most prominent
biologists of the present day, warmly
recommends the treatise of the learned
Hollander, DIR. a. c. Oudeman, a book
of 500 pages, with eighty-two illustra-
tions, lately published in Leyden.
Oudeman's deductions leave no doubt
OF the existence of this sea monster,
even if no museum has thus far been
enriched by a skeleton or by Il part of
its anatomy.
In his scrupulous research he has
faithfully reprinted and commented on
333 articles which have appeared in as
many prominent journals and period
icals, and of which 1877 contain the at
tested testimony of cyc-witnesses.
This scientific inquiry is both import
ant and reliable because Of its COM
positness and the judicial fairness OF
its conclusions.
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II. wa, the other WAY.

Mr.. Biggleswade-"My dear, how on
earth did you ever choose such an awk-
ward. slatternly, ignorant creature as
that new servant girl?"
Mrs. Biggleswade-"My Lowell didn't
choose her. She chose me. PUCK.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
Presidential Nomination.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-The presi-
dent sen to the senate the fol-
nomination.:
J. G.. Hogen. postmaster at Elkader. In.
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CUTE, SHe HlUHey VIII Do IctuiIeu'
Miss MAGGIE JACKSON. of Barbrcck, st. Ian
dry Parish, Id, says: II was lying sick for
some time with female complaints, and all the
medicine my friends gave me did me no good
Death was approaching; all my friends had
given me up to die. l heard of your wonder.
full medicine. and I bought two bottles of it
We'll. / am still entoying rood health. and ex.
pect to praise your medicine every where l CO.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
An alligator eight feet two inches II

An alligator eight feet two inches in
length and weighing eco pounds was
caught in the Mississippi off the levee
ut st. Louis u few days ago. Alliga-
tors are quite plentiful in southwestern
rivers, but they rarely attain a length
of more than four feet. So far as
known, this one is by far the largest
ever taken from the Mississippi.
Some of its teeth are over two inches
long and very like the teeth Of q shark
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
YOUNG r

YOUNG GIRLS
entering womanhood ought to
have just the special help that
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton can give.
They need to be started right.
The Prescription" aids and
promotes the proper functions,
corrects the delicate weaknesses
and arrangements that might be-
come chronic, establishes regu.
larity and health, lessons pain.
They want u nourishing, sup
porting, strengthening tonic,
such as an experienced physi-
clan has especially prepared for
the female system, in the Pre-
scription."
In every female complaint y
and weakness, and in all nervous
conditions, if it doesn't benefit OF
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07

man asks all w~hosencounter the mon.
ster to flash a kodak On him if possible;
not to waste shot, but to use the har-
poon, as his carcass could 10 be kept
ailoat otherwise; to measure every part
of the body, as no ship could afford to
tow it home; to take u sketch, especial.
~ of the head and tail. In conclusion
he adds II long string of directions for
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
MEN, WOMEN AND THINGS.

Millionaire Frey, of Minneapolis, has
married his housekeeper.
There will be between $500 and 1850
students ut Yale this year, of which num-
Der COO are in the freshman class.
Napoleon Higgins Carlisle, who has
been appointed postmaster at Covington,
Ky. is u brother Of the Hon, John G.
Carlisle.
Captain Whelen, who died in England
last month from injuries received in ALL
ng from his balloon, had made 3l5 as
cents i'll perfect safety.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
oLp.srYLE SEA SERPENT.

That many cases these maritime
phenomena may ~perphaps be nothing
more than optical delusions is admit,
ted. Especially in cases where the
supposed serpent measures 200 feet and
the mean circumference twenty feet or
more, it might be nothing more than n
school of porpoises, whose Characters
tic mode of swimming in a long body
gives the appearance on the water sur
face of a succession of snakelike undu-
l%ations. The London Times of Febru-
airy, 1858, for instance, speaks Of a
large mass of seawced, which being
mistaken for one of these creatures was
cautiously approached and actually
harpooned. Two basking sharks
(selache maxima), which are in the
habit of propelling their GO to so feet
bodies in single file, conld easily as
sumo the shape and length of a re-
spectacle sea serpent. But certain
peculiarities of by far the most Of the
observations in which the majority of
the reports agree demand a verdict in
favor of the existence of an animal of
the ba~SllOSnuruS variety.