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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-11-09
$500 Rewardl

WE will pay the above reward for any case On
Liver Complaint. Dyspepsia, Sic Headache. III.
cure with Vests Vegetable Liver Pills, when
the directions are strictly complied with. They
are purely Vegetable, and never fail to give sat.
isfaction. Sugar Coated. Large boxes, IS cents.
Beware Of counterfeits and limitations. The gen.
uine manufactured only by THE JOHN G. wESf
COMPANY. CHICAGO. III.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-11-09

G. A. R.-silas A. Strickland Post, No. 1s7,
Dept. of So. OAK, meets regularly In the evening
second and fourth Saturdays of each month.
Bugle will sound the assembly at z O'Clock.
WV. MAYO, j. p. MEGREw,
Adjutant. Commander.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
"Let US Pray He Said.

A minister wished to ascertain
what influence the hard times had
upon his congregation, and said, at
the close of his sermon: 81 would
ask every one who is still able to pay
his debts to rise from his seat" The
whole congregation arose with the
exception of mi man. The parson
then asked that all who were unable
to meet their bills should rise; there
upon the aforementioned solitary
individual got up, a hungry-looking,
poorly-clad man whose features re-
vealed the terrible struggle of one
fighting hopelessly against the vicis-
STUDIES of this world. The minister
regarded him attentively, yet kindly.
chow is it, my friend" he said, that
you are the only n among all these
people who cannot pay his debts?"
Sir" said the man, hesitatingly, II
publish a newspaper, and these my
brothers who rose just now are all
my subscribers, and" But the
minister interrupted him hastily, "let
us pray" he said.-Catholic Citizen.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
ONLY TOO TRUE.

Year after year passes by and
every one brings out the same ole
story. Incoming trains are loaded
down with freight, composed largely
of what should be produced at home,
Cabbages, beans, onions, etc, form a
large part of their cargo. Crate af.
ter crate of vegetables is shipped to
Langford and vicinity every year,
This should be reversed, but just SO
long as the farmers prefer to raise
wheat exclusively, just 50 long will
this state of affairs continue. I'm
porting means a drain of cash out of
the country while exporting means
bringing cash into the country. We
can easily produce enough to supply
the home consumption and have a
surplus large enough to make a good
export trade.-Langford Bugle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
"A Dry Sunday In Scotland.

] heard the other day Of a novel meth,
Cd OF evading the Sunday closing act,
which has come into favor in Scotland.
The would be evader Of the law goes &c
an inn on Saturday night and books q
bedroom. He pays his half crown O,
whatever 1t may BIO and departs. Nc
law compels him to sleep In the bed he
has engaged. On the Sabbath morn he
returns to take his ease In the inn. he
does not come alone. but brings with
him other thirsty souls to spend the day
with him. and then IL is q case Of
Willie brewed a peck O. maui" In
some localities the hotels are crammed
TO o~verfowing On Sundays with bona
ade travellers" Of this new type and
their equally bona fide guests. So DIM
cult Is IL to'make people sober by act Of
parliament London Truth.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
Highest Of al in Leavening Power.-Latest US. Govt Report
@A!!!!!!! Rs as1eS
ABSOLUTELY PURE
You Should Get IL.

Should get what? Why, the Rev. Irl
II. Hicks splendid Almanac for 1895,
He has kindly sent to this Office a copy
of the same, and speak advisedly in say
ing that it is a rare publication-the very
latest and best OF all that has emanated
from the pen and brain and heart OF this
well-known friend OF the public. The his
tory of this mans work-now an open
book to all A~merica-and acasual glance
at his Almanac for 1895, c%onvinces us
that this vitality usefu! and instructive
book ought to find it's way into every
shop, store, office and home in the land,
The price OF the book-only % cents
could not to our knowledge be invested
for any one thing more prottably. 1t
contains "a pages, printed on fine book
paper, with elegant covers in colors. 1t
is for sale by all newsdealers. This fine
Almanac is given as a premium to every
yearly subscriber to the Rev. Irl X. Hicks
w~elI-knOwn and deservedlv popular
paper, Word and Works. This unique
journal is a peerless educator of the
masses, and is fast becoming a house
hold guardian and necessity in the homes
OF America. Those who want to keep
up with all the advanced thought OF the
age in science, religion and all social,
commercial, intellectual and domestic
subjects, should subscribe for Word and
Works. Subscription only $1.00 a year.
You can send for both direct to Word
and Works Publishing Co, st Louis, No.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
How to Use Beef Essence.

To make soup in the old way a certain
quantity OF fresh meat and soup bone OF
scraps are put on the fire with so much
water, simmered three to five hours,
favored and seasoned with salt and pep-
per, and any desired ingredients are
then added. If all lean meat is used
and no bones, the soup certainly COL.
tains nourishment, but if a soup bone
only is used more or less g~elatinous
matter or glue, containing no nourish-
ment, is cooked out of the bone. In u.s.
ing extract of beef a certain quantity is
dissolved in cold or boiling water, pep
per, salt and a few vegetables added
and boiled 10 to Is minutes, the result
being more gratifying in regard to fla
vor and strength than soup made at
home in the time honored manner.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06

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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06

How do you manage to do it fol
the money is a question which might
properly be put to many of our mag.
azine publishers. The world wonders
at it. Yet the answer is found in
the fact, In these days, many of the
monthlies furnish a veritable gold
mine in way of illustration, and
added to this an excellent intellectual
feast at a low subscription price,
while a few years since, none but the
higher price-not highest class
magazines attempted such things.
AS a result, the leading magazines
were then considered a luxury such
as none but the rich and well-to-do
could afford. The popular heart was
not touched.
The tendency now is to make the
magazine as much a necessity in the
homes of the common everyday
people as is the daily or weekly
home paper, without which life
would not be worth the living.
Among the magazines of the pres
ent time, the Christmas number of
Home and Country, Corporal James
Tanner, Editor, just at hand, is an
evidence OF what can be done by the
publisher intent on serving the cause
OF the common people. Reduced in
subscription price to $3.50 a year,
and sold at 15 cents a month, the
latest issue of this publication, from
artistic point of view, because of
is numerous full-page illustrations,
and as well from the variety of sub.
jects treated, we'll maintains it's rem.
as a leader in its line. Pub.
ishod by Jos. w. Kay, o3 East 10th
St., New York.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
Butler Correspondence.
j. J. COwAN.

Don't it beat all, what fine weather VIZ
are having? All on account OF the tariff
the unusual hot weather on election dav.
the Republican breath of seyeralsouthern
states waited up and mingled with the
heated atmosphere OF the North, caused
a circomlocution OF the equatorial cele.
brium by which the sun got paralyzed in
his northern limb and fine weather nat
urally followed.
Well we've lost one OF our best citizens.
Will Hart and family left on last nights
train for Michigan where they will make
their future home. VIII has been the
leader OF our band boys and the progress
they have made shows him to be a mas
ter OF his business. May prosperity at
tend them in their new home.
Mrs. Carrie Stevenson, nee Sanborn, af-
ter a prolonged visit with friends here,
leaves for her home in Iowa tomorrow.
Our school, under the instruction Of
Miss Gertie Marsh, is doing finely.
The Dramatic Club is rehearsing two
dramas which will be rendered in the
near future. They possess more than
usual talent and we will. try and secure
reduced rates on all railroads SD YOU
poor Websterites can come down and
enjoy the play. Owing to our present
railroad facilities, you can leave Webster
the first part OF one week and get home
sometime during the next.
d. +. Potter has been confined to the
house, grunting with a bad cold, rheuma-
tism and several other things mixed in,
nearly two weeks, but is now able to
get out n little.
II. +. Ash is doing fine work with his
hay press and shipping hay has become
quite an industry with us.
Butler, =. d., Dec. 9th, 1894.
"SpY."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
Farmers Institute.

There will be a Farmers Institute held
at the opera house in the village OF Web.
ster, Day county, s. D., on Tuesday and
Wednesday, the 18th and ~ days OF De.
cember, 1894, during the day and eve,
ming Of each day. The said Institute
will be conducted by Professors from the
State Agricultural College at Brookiugs,
S. ID.
Professor Phillips will talk upon "Why
Farmers should be Educated" "Divcrsi-
fled Farming" and Glow to Farm q
Quarter Section; Professor Shepherd
on Water and Plant Growth" "The
Chemistry of Common Things" "WelI
and Well Waters OF South Dakota and
'"The Artesian Waters of South Dakota;
and Professor Wheaton on "Dairying 10
General including Practical Milk Trials
with the Separator and Babcock Milk
Test" and practical Modern Plan of OPP
Grating Creameries" and Declaring Div
idends by the test"
We will also consider what should be
Il Judgment and practice for 1895, ac-
cording to modern light and our past ex-
perience.
A number of Day county's brightest
practical farmers will take part in the
exercises of this Institute. The exercises
during the daytime will consist of short
talks on Milk and Butter and practical
tests. The evening will be devoted to
lectures on various subjects pertaining
to farming.
All farmers who can, are requested to
be present, and thosa who raised corn
the past season bring samples OF it with
You. All come prepared to ask ques-
tons.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
How to ELL Up Floor Cracks.

One pound of flour, 3quarts of water
and a ~teaspoonful of alum, cooked we'll
together into a paste. After removing
from the stove stir into it a lot of pa
per, torn in small pieces, and let it soak,
stirring as much as possible The paper
should be stirred until it is all in a pulp
and the mass is so thick that it is diff
cult to stir longer. Apply it to the cracks
after freshly cleaning the floor and force
it in, smoothing it off even with the
surface. Leave it to dry thoroughly, when
1t can be painted as though it were
wood.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
DAlNTIES THAT WE RELISH.
A Case of "Where Ignorance Is Bliss IT'S
Folly to Be WISE,

A Case of "Where Ignorance Is Bliss I'll,
Folly to Be WISE"
A dispatch from Sioux City brings
the information that a local firm in that
place boasts of making mince meat OF
LOO horses daily and of shipping large
quantities labeled "dried beef" for con
sumption in eastern cities. The dispatch
does not say that any prosecution has
been instituted. Evidently manufao-
turers are at liberty to sell jellied boots
for apple jam, colored apple pealings
Ter grape jelly, apricot parings for peach
preserves. Immature behring's now be-
come sardines when preserved in olive
oil extracted from cotton seed; unripe
plums in the eastern states become
French or Spanish olives, accordin~ to
size and color; Manitoba whitefish roe
beoomes Russian ~caviere; a Montreal
compound figures as De Kuyper's gin
smell, taste, green box and all; another
compound Of sugar, water, acids and
favoring becomes sparkling champagne
cider.
Omniscience alone can tell what mas
tlness we eat, drink and have around
Us, and we may be thankful that it is
not all deleterious matter. In kind con.
slderation for consumers squeamishness
false labels are attached to fraudulent
wares. Furtive attempts are made oc-
~casionally to enforce obedience to the
trademark and adulteration acts, but
these evidences OF embryo zeal are not
looked upon favorably by manufactur-
ers, and before the sovereign manufac-
turers' frown who is to call a spade a
spade!-Manitoba Free Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06

The Bsistolite accuses us Of wilfully
misquoting it. Nothing is further
from our intentions. All there was
wrong in the quotation was an "e'
for an "r" which was overlooked in
the proof.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
HE WONT PAY!

A collector out west has been ply
ing his usual avocation and, among
other bills, there was one against Q
farmer for $25. which was due this
fall. The unhappy debtor had been
the recipient of many letters urging
an early payment and d~eprecating
the idea of going to the expense OF
hiring livery to have a conference,
The collector finally received the
following letter which is reproduced
in all its glory.
Leola, McPhearson Co. S. ID.
Nov. 26 1894.
Dear Sur
Mr.. S. C. = Esq.
Sur i Shall take the Pleasure OF
maxim my Self KNOWN to you. Ny
name is Curtis Sandborn, and i do
formly Sign my name c Sandborn
so after maxim my Self Known j will
Commence b~issness With you.
So, My name is g. J. Sandborn, a
Son to Jesse Sandborn and do want
you to Very Plainly under Stand
that am a Runin this Ranch out
heare at Pheasant time bein and you
are maxim your Self a little to fast if
you only Knew it for Father bought
a old me CormiCk moving machine
on your Co. and our Wheat Crop
failed us this year and father told
your agent that he Could not Pay
any thing this fall and if you only
Keep your Shurt on ontill the note
Comes Dew next fall we Shall Pay
the note and not before then Father.
you Can Send the note to any Bank
you want to but it will not do you
any good at all for i don't Care if you
Send the note to the President of
the united States it Shall not be
Paid any Sooner and you Can hire
all of livery Rigs you want to it
wont make any diferanCe with me,
but i do want you to thearly under
Stand it will be al your own Ex-
Spence. you said you diden ExStend
any notes this year So it don't make
any DifferanCe with me weather you
Extend this note or not but i do
know you wont take the money be-
fore you Can get it. so now i do
want you to onder Stand to Keep
your Donin letters at home and Keep
your Shurt on and quit Chewin tho
Rag and whinin about it ontill the
note is Dew next fall and then we
will Pay it off and not a minute
Sooner and if you are so a Trade you
wont get your money Come and take
the old Mower and Shut up about it.
the yolk of Oxens and mewels and
inkrees of same is dead. it is a
waste of Paper and ExpenCe of
Stamps to Send them Duns for it
will not do you eny good so at your
will i will Remain
yours Very Respectfully
G. j. Sandborn.
pS Please keep thease DUNN let
ters and don't make such a green
horn out of your Self as to Send 2
up heare ever week for it will do you
GOOD
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
To Fence Against Thistles.

Eden township, due south OF
Wheatland, in Codington county,
is thinking of fencing in the town
ship on the town lines with a Eve
wire fence and each section with a
four wire fence to protect their lands
from the Russian thistle plague. 1t
is said the cost will be about $3.50. a
section and the advantage will be
beyond compute. If they commence
early enough, we see no good reason
why the plan may not work, at
least nothing will be lost in giving
it a trial.-REPoRTER AND FARMER.
Quite a number of farmers and
others in this locality are in favor of
fencing township lines only. The
writer has given the subject some
serious consideration and has inves-
tigated the problem In the southern
part of the state. 1t is a serious and
m~enacing problem and should receive
prompt and heroic treatment.
The writer is inclined to believe
that governmental aid should be in
voked. Our idea would be for the
governors of South and North Da-
kota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas and any others of the North
western states which are or are liable
to be infected with the pest, to APP
point delegates to an interstate con.
vention or congress of the ablest cit
liens within their borders to give this
momentous question the consideration
which its gravity warrants, and me-
morialize the United States Congress
to give the needed relief. LIZ the
united action of the representatives
In congress from the states named
could be secured, and the true state
of affairs impressed upon the nation
at large, we believe government aid
for the eradication of the pest could
be secured.
There is not a prairie state in the
great Mississippi valley which will
not in the course of a very few years
be ''salted" with the pest. 1t has
been the policy of many
newspapers published in infected dis
tricts to ignore the subject for fear
OF injuring their standing with immi-
grafton bureaus in the east, and the
value of their real estate. The
writer depreciates this policy. We
believe it best to face the music, and
by popular agitation, sufficient to
awaken national interest and assist
ance, stamp out the evil before it
spreads further.
1t is a notorious fact that millions
Of dollars are appropriated annually
rom the national treasury for the
Improvement of alleged interstate
ways, harbors and useless coast
lefences, why should not the govern
nent expend a few millions in the in
crest of the agricultural North west
md stamp out the Russian thistle
Let the newspapers take up this
important matter and force it upon
he public attention. |,
Let the legislatures of North $
Western states by joint resolution I;
authorize the governors to act, either /
IS above suggested or in some other 4
easibie manner, in bringing this
problem before congress for speedy q
'ction. 1t is not a township, county, j
or Interstate problem. 1t is a i
rational menace and should be 80 I
lealt with.--Iienry independent. S
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
Are You Troubled With

Constipation or sick headache. II SO who not
try, Beggs' Little Giant Pills. II only takes one
phi Z day, forty pills in a bottle. One bottle
viii cure you, and oaly costs &c. Sold and war.
ranted by 1. Brigham d Co.. druggists.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-06
yours Very Respect fully
~ Co.lL-

pS Please keep thease DUNN let
tiers and don't make such a green
horn out of your Self as to Send 2
up heare ever week for it will do you
no good.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-01
Recent Discoveries.

Although many new and important
discoveries have recently been made in
various sciences, there is probably
none of greater Importance to the peo-
pie than the one recently made by
DIR. SHooP, which is attracting the at
tention OF physicians and all classes OF
people throughout the world.
We refer to the discovery as to the
cause of chronic diseases of the stomach
liver. kidneys and internal organs.
The doctor has traced the cause to
certain nerves that have control OF
these organs. and by prescribing DR..
SHOoP'S RESTORATIVE, preparation
he prepares to act upon these special
nerves, the cause is removed and with
it the disease,
His New Book, explaining this dis
covery, sent free to any address togeth-
er with sample for get. stamp to pay
postage. DR.. SHooP, Racine, WIS.
Sold by SToSE & HAssELL,
Lancaster, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-01

bed of lxelp, floating out In the open
sea, on the icy-cold waters of the Pa
cific, and literally rocked in the cradle
of the deep;" how he was brought up
on the heaviSg pillows, and, when bed
time came, found a soft resting-place
on his mothers breast, while she
fioated upon her back and clasped him
with her paws as he slept; how the
only land he ever knew was the
rugged, rock-bound shores of Alaska
or Washington. Now and then, when
the ocean was very rough, and before
the hunters were SO bad, he used to
crawl out upon rock and lie there,
while the roar of the breakers doomed
him in torrents. But then, it is proba-
BILE that not one woman out of every
five hundred takes the trouble to learn
the life history of the creature whose
furry coat she wears.
The sea otter is the largest of the
marten family, and is very unlike the
animal after which the family is
named. 1t has thick, clumsy body,
which, with the round, blunt head, is
from three and half to four feet in
length. Unlike those of all Other
offers, the tail is short and stumpy,
being about one-fifth the length of the
head and body. AS if to increase its
value, and hasten it's destruction, the
skin is much larger than the body,
like mistit coat, and lies loosely upon
it in many folds. For this reason the
stretched pelt is always much wider
and longer than the animal that
wore 1t.
The coat of the full-grown sea otter
is very dense, very fine, and its color is
shimmering, lustrous black. Ever
since the earliest discovery of the sea
otter by the Russians, its fur has been
eagerly sought by them, and the cash
prices of skins have always been SO
high that there is not, in the whole
United States, museum rich enough
to afford good series of specimens.
Mr.. Charles H. Townsend, the natural
list of the United States fish commits
sion, writes me that in 1891 the price of
the best skins had reached $500 each,
and their value has been since increas-
ing. On the northwest coast of the
state of Washington. where sea offers
are still found along thirty-mile strip
of coast from Gray's harbor, halfway
to Cape Flattery), they are shot by
hunters from tall ''derricks'' from thir-
ty to forty feet high, erected in the
surf halfway between high tide and
low tide, and the hunter who kills four
offers in year considers his work sue
cessful.
Owing to the persistent hunting that
has been going on ever since Alaska
came into our possession, the sea otter
is rapidly following the buffalo to the
| state of determination.
The favorite food of the sea otter is
not fish, as one might suppose from the
habits of the common otter, but CLAIMS,
crabs, mussels and sea-urchins. It's
molar teeth are of necessity very
strong, Tor the grinding up of this
rough fare, and the muscles of the
jaws are proportionately powerful
w. T. Hornaday, in ST. Nicholas.