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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

ness transactions Cat we eeuid no more
"a paeR 10 tno old habits than We could
80 PACK 10 Tie stage coaches which
MY yeats ago conveyed par grand
fathers across tho country, In This
country the number Of persons receiy-
ing instruction in shorthand from July
]. 1889, to June 30, 1890, was 57,3I5,
and of this number 23,325 were males
and 26,U05 females. All these were
taught in schools and classes, and out
of this whole number, TBS We're in-
stricted by mail. In 229 schools and
classes in which shorthand was intro
duced during the scholastic year end
ing June 80, 1891, the number OF per-
sons taught orally was 4,1jO, which
with those instructed Ey mail made a
grand total Of hiss. OF those taught
orally 2,414 were males anu 1858 were
females. This is as near 4 correct
statement OF statistics as Mr.. Rockwell
has been able 10 arrive at, and it shows
the yast extent OF the use Of short
hand instruction in this country i'll All
the departments Of life. S~tenography
has come 10 stay, and typewritng mas
come TO stay with ii, and the two,
combined with the telegraph and the
telephone, have been greatly instru-
mental in accelerating the progress OF
ideas and facilitating the methods VI
business and the production OF htera-
ture.
Boston Herald.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
DUELLING IN AUSTRIA
Two Professors Nearly Fight over
the Spelling of "a Name.

Two Professors Nearly Fight Over
the Spelling of n Name.
Two Of the most prominent and
learned professors Of the University of
Budapest came very near engaging in
II duel over a very strange and sense
less u
DIR. Heinrich and DR.. Ballagi differed
in opinion as to the correct way in
which to spell the name Of the famous
prince Of the Huns, the former main
tanning that it should be spelled Attila,
while the latter insisted that it should
have but one '.t"-Atila. The contro-
yersy became very warm and person
alities were dragged in. Finally DIR.
Ballagi SEN q challenge to DIR. Hem
rich. and each appointed two friends TO
meet and decide how, when and where
the controversy should be settled in
accordance with the code of honor.
The four gentlemen met, and, after
investigating the facts, decided that Dr..
Heinrich had said nothing rejecting
upon the honor Of Or. Ballagi, and
that a personal encounter was uncalled
for.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
lrrigatsng Arid Land.

Brule county now has ten good
artesian wells within its borders. and
this number will be increased to nearly
fifteen before snow flies. Several drill
ing machines are constantly at work in
various portions OF the country. Not
withstanding the fact that there already
are o than 200 artesian wells In
South Dakota, many OF the counties are
just awakening to the imp ortance of
sinking wells. Notably is this the case
with the Black Hills counties, as well "a
with some OF the counties east OF the
Missouri river. The state commissioner
OF irrigation has just selected the
locations Tor five new wells IN Douglas
county, and it is likely that fully a dozen
will be sunk in that county before tbe
o is FINALLY discontinued. An election
TO vote on the subject will probably he
held at an early date.
In the black Hills the work OF sinling
wells is but Just commencing. Pory eors
or ever since the first well was ding east
OF the the Missouri river, it has been .
serious question whether or O fine mr..
tesian basin extended as far west "a tha
Black Hills. This questionh has now been
settled by the striking OF an nrtesian
wei at Belle Fourch, Butte county in
the extreme northern portion of the
Black Hills, and from now ON scores of
wells will besunk in that section. The
@ In the valleys and along the soot.
hills OF the Black Hills is very nrodnc.
I'VE and supports hundreds oi farmers
In the past, lack of rain has injured orons
10 certain extent, but the striking nf
nowlng wells will remedy this in the IN
ture' n the Hills, in addition TO rich
numerals, can also beclassed as a success.
iul farming country.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
HE PRESSED THE BUTTON.
The Ice Water Refused to Flow Into
the Garner Pitcher.

The average hotel clerk is Il very dull
individual in some particulars. Asso-
ciating with people from all over the
country, he seems TO ABSORB no informa-
ton whatever. nor even to be able to
recall a single good joke out of the
many he daily hears. If the hotel clerk
would improve his opportunities when
young and keep a record Of the bits OF
information and humor he hears he
could have in old age Il collection OF
history and humOr whose publication
might make him independent.
But some hotel clerks are different.
One of those who keeps his eye open
for everything funny and everything in
structive is Charles Elliott at the Ken
nedy. who. however, is more of a man
ager than n clerk.
"A man came here from North Geor-
gia," he said the other day, land hav-
ing registered was shown up 10 his
apartment. 1t was a hot day, not any
cooler than it has been for the past
month. and the bell boy said to him
when they reached the room, IF you
need any ice water just press this but
ton near the door The countryman
looked at the button with a perpleXed
air, but said nothing. However, he must
have kept thinking about it and deter
mined to try il, for the boy had hardly
got back to the office before the call
10 his room began to ring and Kept up
furiously. The boy went tearing back
up stairs to see what was the matter.
He opened the door and saw a sight
that nearly killed him. The country
man was standing with his thumb on
the button. holding the pitcher under it.
Say he said, with an innocent
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
IS OF


Important Feature i'm the Business
The Bureau OF Education ut Wash
ington has done a good piece of work
in the monograph which has Just been
sent out from the Government Print
ing Office on Shorthand Instruction
and Practice" by Mr.. Jules Ensign
Rockwell. In 1884 he published a cir
cular OF information on the teaching,
practice and literature OF shorthand.
Twenty thousand copies were distribut-
ed, and another edition of equal size
has since been exhausted. The present
work furnishes not only an account
of shorthand in foreign countries and
i'm the United States, but very nearly
the full statistics OF instruction from
1889 up to the summer of 1891 IL this
country, with an account Of the ex-
tent to which s~tenographers have been
employed in courts. in legal decisions
uiu III oNhtt DublC StlNiNtS. lntit
are thousands of shorthand societies
in Germany, in France, in England and
in this country, whose work is TO dis
seminate n knowledge of the art, and
the introduction Of shorthand into the
public schools is TO be one Of tie next
steps in secondary education. The
typewriter is neX TO the shorthand
system rs a labor-saving instrument,
and the shorthand systems and the
principal typewriting machines have
already wrought a revolution not only
in the courts, but in business offices,
in the writing done for newspapers,
and In every department of life where
writing is Indispensable. Until speed
can be reached on the typewriter equal
TO that which en- be obtained by eN-
pert stenographers, stenography will
take the lead as a system by which the
spoken word car be taken down ex-
actly as il Is uttered and made 10 serve
the purposes for which II is designed.
Ii is such an aid in all sorts OF busi-
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
Conditions of q Celebrated Indian
Murderer:

Deputy United States Marshall Frank
Fry is home from the Sioux reservation,
where he went to arrest White Face
Horse, who was a participant in the
murder OF the cowboys last February,
and to bring the prisoner to Huron,
where it was expected he would be
bound over by the United States COM
missioner. Mr.. Fry found the Indian in
such condition that it was unsafe and
inhuman to bring him to this part OF
the state. The Indian was shot in the
stomach and the knee when the fight
occurred in February. The bullet in his
body has never been removed, and his
other wounds have not yet been attend
ed to, except by the medicine man. Mr..
Fry says that the Indian is in a terrible
condition, and that, in his opinion, he
will not cover sufficiently to be tried.
The wounds are scuffing off and his
general condition is such as to suggest
slow blood poisoning. White Face
Horse refuses to talk about the crime,
and stands his intense suffering without
a murmer. He was taken to Standing
Rock agency and there put under the
care OF the agency physician. After
being wounded White Face Horse rode
Tor 0 miles on horseback before he
reached a place where his wounds could
be dressed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

Every Chinese temple is provided
with one or more sacred drums. the
sound Of which Is supposed to soothe
and keep quiet the great dragon that
upholds the earth. Whenever there is
a moment In which all these drums
are silent the dragon begins TO move
pneasily and there Is an earthquake.
The first tremor is, therefore, instantly
followed by a universal drumming such
as is never heard in China on any other
occasion, and the panuemonium con-
tinues until the dragon becomes quiet.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
Rudyard Kipllng's new HON,

Itudyard hIpIInB ) new HOME uC BTU
tleborough, VT, has just been COM
pleted. 1t stands on a hillside and
commands a wide view of the Connecti-
cut valley and the New Hampshire
hills. This little item Of news must
be regarded as a very painful test of
Rudyard's recent i'll natured comments
ON New Englanders generally and YER
monters particularly. The man who
would voluntarily select for his neigh
bors those whom he regards rs proper
subjects for ridicule must be either a
fool or a knave or a great deal Of both.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

Every day adds largely to the list Of
suspended banks which have reopened
their doors for business and of the
closed manufacturing establishments
which have resumed operations. At the
rate at which the work of recovery Is
going on 1t will not be thirty days be-
fore the finances and business of the
country will be restored to their normal
condition. 1t is not unlikely that the
confident prediction of prominent Wall
street bankers that in sixty days-that
MAS a week ago-money will be a drug,
viii be anticipated by the progress of
events.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
OBJECT TO PAYING TACPs

Madrid, Sept. "a movement in d.
position to the payment of taxes has hA,
organized in the districts about Eoux
manufacturing town in the Pro ,inca f,
T~arragora, and is hring pushed vii
vigor and determination. Tax collerto,
are strongly objected TO, and a number \
them have been attacked and beaten 4
attempting TO pursue their wark. 4
many places piacards have been posr5
warning the people not TO pay tate
and threatening with death any ono WI
diSObeys the notice.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
STRICT

Vienna, Sept. I'm view of the gravy
of the cholera situation in Gallicia, anu
the still more menacing aspect OF anal'
in Hungary, the sanitary board has u.
dered a strict supervision OF persOu'
from the infected districts and the erer
ton of special inspection Offices az lux
railroad terminus. A strict supervisor
of the travel by water also has oeen
put into force.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
HARRY IVES KILLED.

st. Paul, Sept. 2.-Railroad men in 81
Paul were startled 10 learn that H d
Ives, who "A killed in the bridge aciI
dent on the Boston K Albany road was
the same who had formerly been conf
nected with the Great Northern. Hs
long term of service with the latter road
had made him well and popularity known
here, and many were the expressions Of
regret and sorrow TO be heard among
the railroad offices when the news d
his untimely end was circulated.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
ON SHOE

Duluth, Aug. Duluth neo,,.
walking this morning. All the s,r@ |
employees have gone out on
against n reduction of 20 nor saI
wages. A meeting was held Nv W. I'm
last night and il was decided 70 y
a compromise of 10 per cent H. a0f
company refused to make any conoe1.
whatever. Up TO noon not 4 ~ \
moved and prospects are not fora.l
for any cars being moved TO-DAY 4
sympathy of the people is with tLo !
believing that they should be- poid ~ y
wages. ~
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

A woman has mraveled the secret Of
the Aztec calendar and she'll give it
away. The discovery is expected to
throw much light on the history and
customs Of the ancient inhabitants Of
America, and a~rchaeologists pronounce
1t a most important contribution to the
lore Of that branch Of investigation.
woman's curiosity, properly trained and
directed, can work wonders.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
CHINA II

London, Sept. The St,naA.
respondent in Shanghai saws !
Chinese government is greatlv alas
over the additional demands aaeea5
France upon the government - "ae
The Siamese ENJOYS have had :. ~
interviews during the last few aar eqai
Ii Hung Chang. the Chimes ys VI
and 1t is reported that as a resu,, IVY
information furnished by them ). y
roy has cabled instructions to tbo ~ \
minister at Paris to strongly renras
the French government thar rs
much dissatisfied with the conrse E aa
is pursuing in its dealings with sal
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
EOREST EIRES-

Grantsburg, Wis, Sept. a heavy
forest fire is raging north of this place
burning everything in its path. Citizens
have been out night and day fighting !
but as get have been unable to get i
under control. A large per cent OF the
hay is burned. 1t Is also destroying the
cranberry marshes, in some places burn
ing the moss to IA depth of three and touf
feet.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
IL HlRSES

Liverpool, Sept. On the Namidj
which sailed from here to-day for Nj
York, there is believed to be the mod
valuable shipment of stock ever made a
the United States in one vessel. Ii eoul
prises forty-seyen thoroughbrcds, amOBI
which are nine yearlings and eleven navl
ly weaned foals which are being in.
ported to America by Foxhall Keene and
j. A. Gray of New York. A furtha
consignment will, it is expected, be mad,
two weeks hence.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
IT Is CHOLERA.

London, Sept. 2.-The epidemic in tsel
Lincolnshire seaport has been declared or
feially TO be Asiatic cholera. The @sl
victim of the disease w0s a woman VINO
died last Tuesday. Several other cases
have ended fatally. The authorizes y-
lieve that the cholera was brought 10 tDs
city by immigrants from the lniecteuI
ports Antwerp and Rotterdam. les'er,,
day a seaman died from cholera ABOARD
a Grimsby stcamer in the harpoE "a
Stromness, Scotland.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
LIBERTY BELL.

Pittsburg, Sept. 2.-The new Coium,
bian Liberty bell, which arrived su'
last evening, en- route TO the world ian,
left at 8 o'clock this morning On n
Panhandle road for Columbus. II VIZ
arrive there ut 2:25 this afternoon, anu .,
indianapolis at IL tonight. 1t airacv1
a curious throng, but there were no eei'
monies of any kind.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

The mace of the city Of London,
which is very ancient and has been
carefully guarded since 1854, was car
ried in the wedding procession of tho
Duke Of York. The foot knob became
detached and was lost. No efforts were
spared to find it. 1t has at length been
recovered and the mace is ono again
complete.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS

Little Rock, Ark. Sept. "A { u
hardt, sheriff of Prairie county. il MI
in his accounts to the amount Of 50 81
Reinhardt should have made his 81
settlement in July, but when thar al
arrived the cash was not forthcori.1
4 distress warrant will be issued to.,n1
row by State Auditor Mills for !,
amount. The defalcation has been h.
secret, and only became known tn.S.'
This is the fourth de~falcation of sbe,.a
this year.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

Labor bureaus which were expected
90 solve the problem of the unemployed
I'm London have proved a disheartening
failure. At one office some 500 appii-
cants in search Of work OF any kind
registered, and only three employers
applied for help; so that after three
months work the bureau foul employ.
ment for only two men.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

The romantic and supposedly beauti-
full Mary Queen Of Scots was cross
eyed and had other physical blemishes
that are not accounted attributes 10
beauty.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

The first savings bank in the United
States was the Philadelphia Savings
Fund society, organized in 1916 and
still doing business. The second was es-
tablished at Boston in the same year,
the third in New York in 1919.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
sad Havoc.

Western Man-We had a terrible
conflagration in Dugout City last week.
Only IL houses left standing.
Eastern NANNY goodness. How
many were there before the fire.
Western NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. York
Weekly.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
EMREZZLEAIENT

New York, Sept. 2.-ln the tolnps ~
lice court this morning 4. a. IhoHipsur
who is connected with the Perry o~.s
Company of Albany, being manager :
their store at 105 Beekman street y
city, was charged with embezzlenea, !; !
the extent of $4,000. He was heiu -
$1,000 bail for trial.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

The existence OF the Colossus OF
Rhodes is considered by some historians
extremely doubtful. There is no evil
dence that the ancients were able to
cast pieces OF metal Of such size as
must have entered into its composition.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
BODY

Chicago. Sept. 2.-The body OF an ~ =.
known man, which was found on the .hs
shore twelve miles north of Chicago - !,
other day, has been identified as tM .s,
Edgar A. Sayres, at one time a weai.n,
salt dealer of Manistee, Mich. IN ma =.
Q of his death is not certain anu y
police are investigating the case.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

The ancient Philippians sailed the bod
les OF their dead and hung them up in
a smokehouse TO be dried and cured.
They were thus kept for a year. when,
perfectly preserved, they were turned
Over to the relatives for burial.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
~Precocity.

Impatient Father-Here, you young
rascal, what are you doing? Wow!
Let go of my hair! Are you trying TO
pull the top Of my head on?
Angel ~Child-Yep. Want TO see the
wheels 90 rOund-Detroit Tribune.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

Many Chinese temples are provided
with a bell at the entrance, and when
the worshiper enters he gives the rope
a pull and rings the bell in order tnar
the deity may be notified of his coming
and be on hand TO attend to his bust.
ness.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
SuOT HIS WIFE

East Liverpool, Ohio, Sept. Nv Is y,
playing with n revolver that he oiu rarl
know was loaded yesterday. q s'a TSar
shot and fatally wounded his wlfc' ~
had been married lat six weeks.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

That Ohio man who has had his
tongue amputated will find in The fut-
ure quite a number of favorable op-
portunites to wink the other eye.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

Despite the good nature Of Mayor
Carter III. Harrison. n great deal is
being done i'm Chicago to discourage
gambling. For instance, the average
sucker Is fieeced so thoroughly and ex-
peditiously that he is left in a condition
impossible for gambling purposes.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

Butter oil is made by pressing the
oil from American cottonseed. 1t Is
pure, nutritious vegetable oil, which is
used in small quantities 10 soften the
texture Of oleomargarine.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
one ON Hubby.

Husband (anxiously)-You should not
carry Your po~cketbook In your hands.
Wife (reassuringly)-oh, 1t isn't at all
heavy.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07
lone

%Ironton, Ohio, Sept. III. ;. huI ps
was nominated for congress by the -a@a
publicans of this district Oh the l'''0'
ballot.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-07

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San Diego Land Omoa

And Bureau of information; San Diego and
Los Angeles excursion office IL. A. and s. d
Steamship Coz, Capt. Alphonso B. Smith, gem
eral manager. Office 121 S. Broadway. Branch
Office, Strong & Arms of San Diego.