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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
TOLSTOl ON SOCIETY.
He Thinks 1t Abnormal, but Says a Go,
Word for America.

He Thinks 1t Abnormal. hut Says a Good
Word for America.
Tolstoi. the great Russian socialist,
was recently interviewed in regard to
his opirS,n of men and things, and.
according to his wont, he expressed
self without reserve. Among other
things he said: Il consider the cultured
society OF to-day, as you call it.as m
thing abnormal. Common sense has
lost its footing there. and, Us for love,
1T Is conspicuous by its absence. 1t is
yery sad. Inbred sin leads to grewsome
consequences, especially because it Is
never possible to define the form in
which it is likely TO manifest itself or
the victims predestined for it. If a
dying horse in the street lashes out in
spa,ms any passer-by may fall under
his hoof."
He was then asked which nation
American, French, English or German
he considai the mo- t vicious and
abnormal. AT any rate not the Ameri.
cans" he replied. ITO their credit
must be put an immense national self.
love. which cannot exist in al abno"-
NAL people. ] II day wrote an article
on America and the Americans. in
which did not particularly overload
the latter with hattery. Nevertheless
sent the MSS. over the ocean, think.
ing it would be accepted by any paper
as eagerly as my other productions.
Not a bit Of it. The t anslator took it
to fourteen different editors without
getting it sccep:ed, and finally it had
to be sent to England"
If not Ameri a, Count. them"
Why. France. Can anybody con.
slider France as normal where such
things as Panama occur. where me1
occupying high positions in society are
ready to commit any crime for gold: Is
that a normal state? a thousand times,
NO."
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

WASHINGTON special: United
States Consul German, at Zurich, has
transmitted to the Department OF
State q report of certain experiments
made in Switzerland to demonstrate
that the bee has other uses than a
honey %proiucer. To ascertain whether
the bees injure fruit and vegetable
flowers by extracting their honey. the
experimenters covered part Of the
branches of cherry and pear trees and
fruit bushes with fine netting to ex-
clude the bees. Nearly all the flowers
dropped OF the protected branches
and there was no fruit on them, while
the uncovered branches bore luxriant-
". The deduction is that the bees
visits are necessary to fertiiize the
blossoms by transferring pollen.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
osed formation o. ! nation., farmers,

bosed formation Of q national farmers'
exchange. to try cooperation on Q vast
scale. The proposition discussed con;
templates cooperation between 5.OOO,-i
600 and 1000. 900 farmers for the pur-'.
chase and sale OF commodities used by
| agricultural interests. A part OF the
scheme has in view the fixing OF the
price Of cereals In this country instead
of at Liverpool. 1t is asserted that
this can be brought about by the Co
operation of all the farmers organiza-
tions in the United States. During
the day u representative OF the Chill
ian Government appeared before the
committee and spoke of the desirable
ity OF trade reciprocity between farm.
ers Of this country and Chilli, In order
to obtain n~itrates directly from that
country. Representatives OF several
railroads also held a conference with
the committee. ut which their cooper
alton with the farmers organizations
for better rates for agricultural freight
and for summer encampments OF the
Alliance was discussed.
BALTIMORE special: Col. n. NJ. Rit-
tenhouse has an interesting reminder
Of the panic of 1897 in the shape OF
! some of the scrip OF that year, which
was issued on account of the scarcity
Of money in the country. One speci-
linen is u 20-cent note. issued by re-
quest Of the borough of Gettysburg.
bearing | per cent. per annum and
payable by the aldermen. William Me-
Clellan, George Swope and David
Ziegler. Another is a scent note,
issued by the borough of Reading, in
terest | per cent. per annum: another,
q 2o-cent note, payable by the mayor
and aldermen OF Philadelphia, interest
| per cent. per annum: still another.
a Norristown and Valley Railroad GER
t~ificate for ST., paying i per cent. and
part of an authorized loan.
WASHINGTON special: A company
has been organized here recently, CON-
posed Of Russian and American cap
i~talists, with a capital OF $500. 600, for
the purpose of cultivating the sun
flower. 1t is claimed the seeds of the
sunflower produce an oil equal to the
olive oil and that the cake from the
seeds is equal to cotton seed cake and
can be produced much cheaper. The
| company will enter the field to COM
| pete with the cotton seed oil manufac-
ture. A committee will leave shortly
for a 0 II Of the southern states to Sc
lect . large body OF land suitable for
raising the s%unlower. The seeds are
used in Russia as food by large num-
bers OF the poorer people. The COM
pany expects to locate somewhere in
the Mississippi Valley.
NEW YORK special: Workmen have
heen engaged tearing down the walls
Oh the burned Brooklyn Tabernacle.
which were in danger Of falling. The
loss on the tabernacle is 1900, 600: in
%surance. Sl3O.OW: on Hotel Regent,
800, 00D: insurance, 100000: on the
adjacent residences, So, coo; on the
Summertield Methodist Church, $4,000.
COLUMBUS special: The Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis
freight house was burned here. The
loss. including cars and merchandise,
is estimated at 10000. A body taken
out of the ruins after the fire subsidized
was charred beyond recognition. Two
men are missing.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
II EYES POWER.
An Oculist Thinks That 1t Has Deterio-
rated OF Late Years.

| think the eye power OF the present
generation Of civilized men must have
deteriorated a good deal, said an ocu-
list. | am called upon to examine many
young persons nowadays whose eyes
show no symptoms of disease or stra-
bismus, but are simply unable to do
the ordinary amount OF work required
of school boys, school girls, college
students or moderate readers without
showing symptoms OF uverwork. This
weakness seems to he constitutional,
and glasses are required which lessen
the muscular strain on the eyes only.
In spite OF the invention of the type
writer. which has relieved the eyes Of
much work. the state of things is al
most equally as prevalent In business
circles a among students.
That this is deterioration from the
men OF old, is evidenced, | think by
the vast amount OF work some of them
are known to have done without any
trCu DE from their eyes. Take Dickens
voluminOus works, tor Instance. He
wrote them all with his W hand,
volume after volume, and composing Is
a far greater strain IN the eyes than
mere copying or reading. since compos-
ing or studying involve mental effort
as well as physical. Dickens wrote a
great. deal of the time with blue ink
upon blue paper, and his and
intcrlincations We're done in 80 tine q
hand that it used to be the despair of
the printers. Scott wrote all his nu-
merous works and poems without the
aid Of an amanueEsis: Johnson did the
vast amount of work involved in his
dictionary in the same way, and Thack-
cray. who VIZ tie his long-drawn-out
stories III an almost microscopic hand.
used to say laughingly but truthfully
that if he failed to make a living as a
novelist he could earn money by exhib.
iting his ability to wife the Lords
Prayer on his thumb nail.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
judgment For MN Indian,

PARIS, Tex, special: Emma Will
Jams. al Indian woman with two orr
phan children, obtained a judgment
in tho District Court for 81, 500 against
the st. Louis and San Francisco Rail-
way. In March, 1893, Tom Williams,
her husband, came to this city and be-
came intoxicated. While in that con
dition he boarded a train. having a
ticket for Goodland. l. r., twenty
eight miles north Of here. He became
boisierous and raised numerous rows
and assaulted two or three persons.
The trainmen demonstrated with him,
and told him If he did not desist they
would have to put him off. He per-
sisted in being disorderly, and when
the train arrived at Arthur, sixteen
miles north Of here, he was elected.
He started on, but about 200 yards
from the station he fell in a bridge,
and was run over by another train and
cut to pieces.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
IN THE EAST.

NEW York special: The weekly
bank statement shows the following:
Reserve, decrease, -, $4,000; loans.
increase. S2,323,O 900: specie, increase,
&369. Coz: legal tender. decrease, 81
AL, O00f deposits, increase, $43l 900.
The banks now hold $50, 635, 900 in ex-
cess OF the legal requirements.
NEW YORK special: r. G.. Dun Il
Cos. trade review will say; Specula-
ton in grain has again broken all
records with the lowest price ever
made for wheat, although western re-
ceipts are a little smaller than II year
ago. while exports are smaller by more
than a quarter. The prevailing belief
Is that the yield will far exceed Gov
eminent Indications, which are again
pointing to a short crop. Corn has
changed in price but little. and pork
products are fairly steady, with oil and
coffee unchanged. but cotton il weaker
in tone. The past week failures nam
bered 2O6 In the United States, against
25I last year and II In Canada, against
q last year.
WARRINGTON special: The Exec
utive Committee OF the National Farm.
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union met
In this city. Chairman MarionC C. But
Ter Of North Carolins presided. There
wA > long discussion owe the pro-
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

The most comical feature of current
politics will be found in the explana-
tions Of defeat given b. the Demo-
cratic organs. 1t is surprising that
ohey do not themselves perceive how
ridiculous this rainbow-hued nonsense
must appear to q impartial public.
The landslide in Indiana is attributed
by the same papers to delay in the pas
sage OF the tariff bill and opposition to
the income tax, and the very papers
which are making this double barreled
explanation are unstinted in their
abuse OF certain Senators for opposing
the bill becauss the income tax is one
Of its most important provisions. The
people who do the voting in Indiana
and elsewhere are not so illogical as
these papers imagine. Some OF them
are partisans, OF course, and stick to
their party in spite OF the tariff bill,
with the income tax annexed: but those
who turned the scale against the DEM
ocrats had no love for the mongrel
tariff bill, with or without the income
tax.
II these journal, would give their
wits fair play, and put . curb on their
prejudice, they could ca lily explaf1|
the overwhelming popular prot
again,t the tariff without q re orta
thi, absurd incongruity. The tariy
bill, without the Income tex. II sui.
6cient 70 defeat the party, while both
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

together are enough to kin two aver
age American political organizations.
Which Of these bills Is alluded to when
it / aid the people are Disguised with
the delay and are expressing themselye'
at the polls: The Democ attic organs
are ingenious, but they would find it
very dificult to solve this puzzle, and
II /, certain that the people are not
bothering their brains about it. The
Will on bill wa en- ugh for them. Thi,
one dose ha, been susicient to curd
them Of Democratic fever for a genera
ton. The germs OF the di ease m y
Turk for awhile in the South and
Southwe, It, but it looks now a thoagh
disinfection had been thorough in all
other part of the country.-Baltimore
American.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

TIE first recorded patent in this
country was taken out July 81, 1899, by
Samuel Hopkins for an improved meth.
cd of making potash, and the second
was issued Aug. 6 of the same year to
j. $. Sampson for a candle mold. There
have been cores OF patents along the
anne line OF industry since these two,
but as pioneers these are very inter-
csting. Most OF the early patents re-
lated to household industry and fur
nish evidence that 8 at that eatly
day Yankee ingenuity was busy.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
Don't Blame the Cook

If baking powder is not uniform in strength,
so that the same quantity will always do the same
work, no one can know how to use it, and uni
formly good, light food cannot be produced with it.
All baking powders except Royal, because
improperly compounded and made from inferior
materials, lose their strength quickly when the can
is opened for use. AT subsequent bakings there
will be noticed a falling off in strength. The food
is heavy, and the flour, eggs and butter wasted. ,
1t is always the case that the consumer suffers
II pocket, if not in health, by accepting any SUBJ
stitute for the Royal Baking Powder. The Royal
is the embodiment of all the excellence that it is
possible to attain in an absolutely pure powder.
1t is always strictly reliable. 1t is not only more
economical because Of its greater strength, but
will retain its full leavening power, which no
other powder will. until used, and make more
wholesome food.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
Brayjl Retaljates.

WAsHINGToN special: The Brazil
ian Minister received a ~eablegram
from Rio giving notice OF "a severance
OF diplomatic relations between Bra
zil and Portugal. This action is the
result OF the action OF the Portuguese
naval commander at Rio in airording
an asylum to the Brazilian rebels
when Admiral De Cana. the rebel
commander, abandoned the rebel feet
last March and refusing to surrender
them ut the demand OF Brazil.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

Inns or AINskn.

NEW YORK special: The Danish
steamship Island brought a curious
company Of sixteen passengers to thi,
city. They comprise six families of
Laps. all ia native dress. The young
est member OF the party is an infant.
which is carried by the mother en-
cased in a deerskin cradle which
closely resembles al Egyptian mummy
case. Ten black Esqulmau dogs
started with the party, but one died
on the 10th inst. These Laps are en-
route to Fort Clarence. Alaska, to be
employed at the reindeer stations.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
<anoleOu's Wit.

II has lcen charged against Napo.
leon. as it has been charged against
Wellington, that he lacked humor, but
he certainly did not lack wit when he
said to a beautiful young N who
married a hidcous old man, who had
given her magnificent jewels: The
present makes her forget the future"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
Americas Big Oyster CrOp.

The luscious bivav @ Is evidently
Ma "yland's oyster. OF the $50 O, OC
bushels OF oysters produced in the
world each year nearly I,GO0,' 90 bush.
els are natives of the United State,
and more than II ,COo,0 GO bushels come
from Maryland waters. The value OF
Mary,and's annual product is nearly
st.TO,t00, that of the United States
alb, ut SIG. sec, tCO, and that Of the res,
of the world u little more than $1,000.
OOO.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
An Indian lobbyist.

MUskoGEE special; Gen. Pleasant
Porter. who is said to have more in.
fluence in Washington than any
other Indian in the I'VE tribes, will
leave for Washington as a Creek
delegate to contend against the recon-
mendation Of the Dawes Commission
and the Teller report. Gen. Porter is.
in a sense, a very progressive man, but
states that the progress proposed by
the Dawes Commission Is making prog
ress too fast, and he will likely be the
strongest lobbyist in Washington
against it,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
Political HAcagrlnhs,

THERE were no industrial armies in
Republican times. Quincy Wing.
If there were no Wilson's there
would b. no Coxeys New York Re-
corder.
THE Republic ans will repeal tie
Wilson bill in Il good deal less time
than the Democrats a,e taking t. pass
it.
If the arm es now en- route to tho
capital get hard pushed for food they
can tackle a few of those Democratic
roosters Of the vinta 20 of 90. Nobody
else wants then. -Chicago Inter Ocean.
WHEN the Democrats wanted vote,
the co1nmonwealers were sturdy work.
ingmen." When the common wealers
want something from a Democratic
congress they are "hoboes. "-kansa,
City Journal.
THE Democrats are making a great
show of economy by cutting down the
appropriations: but the fact remain,
that the sum Of $780, Goa. coo has been
borrowed to pay current expense..-
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
"WAIT till next November" shouts
the Indianapolis Sentinel. The country
will have to. but it would like to get
at the Democratic party right now.
The Sentinel may have noticed this in
Indians. Kansas City Journal.
THE Republican party gave protec-
tion to home sugar producers at q cost
to tho people Of six or eight million
dollars. while the Democrats have ar
ranged to protect them no better at q
cost to the people OF fifty or sixty mill
/ ions.
REPORTS from one hundred manu-
! facturers and employers In the State
OF New York show that IN 1892 they
employed an aggregate Of o2o hands,
1884 only 1860. In two years there
! Was . decrease OF 42A per cent. In the
number Of hands employed.-Indiaa-
apolis Journal.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

IN 1850 ssBr0Hrss Bronchial Tr0ch<s'' were
introduced, and their success as u cure for
5Colds. Coughs. Asthma. and Bronchitis has
heen unparalleled.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
H. 0toAto6e Modtcal Discovery
q the Age.
MEDICAL DISCOVERY.
0oallD KENNEDY, or aoxBURY, MASS.

Has discovered in one Of our common
pasture weeds q remedy that cures every
kind Of Hum0r, from the worst Scrofula
down to common Pimpie.
He has tried It In over eleven hundred
Gases, and never failed except In two cases
tboth thunder humorl. He has now in his
possession over two hundred certificates
of It's value, all within twenty miles OF
Boston. Send Tostal card for book.
Il benefit IS always experienced from
DE first bottle, and a perfect cure Is war.
rsnted when the right quantity Is taken.
When the lungs are affected It causes
shooting pains, like needles passing
through them; the same with the Liver or
Bowels. This IS caused by the ducts being
stopped, and always disappears In a week
after taking it. Read the label.
It the stomach IS foul or bilious II will
c1uss squeamish feelings at first.
No change Of diet ever necessary. Eat
ne best you can get, and enough of it.
oose, one tablespoonful In water at bed.
one. Sold by all Druggists.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

~ THOMPeON 4 CO., Druggisis, Cou-
A~ersp0rt. Pa say HAil.s Catarrh Cure 10
The best and only tMfe cure Tor catarrh they
ever s0ld. DruKgtSts sell II, sGc
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

Coxeyism is the legitimate fruit OF
the seed sown by the Democratic ora
tors in the campaign of 1892. These
orat ors appealed to the pre- udices of
employees against their employers and
led laboring men all over the country
to believe that manufacture IS were
coming fol tunes out of the sweat and
toll OF lab N. Ire facts were that hun
dreds of manufacturers wera barely
making expens es, and many OF them
were only realizing a low ate OF inter-
est on their investments. They started
the C u ade against Cal ital by dema-
gogic appeals. They raised the ghos.
that will not down at their bidding.
They are responsible for the present
unrest. the present dangerous tendency
toward anarchy: and the time is com
ing. and is now here. when they will
wish they had not sown to tie wind.
The harve t Of whirlwind must now he
reaped,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

The subject Of the above portrait is the
Rev. Charles Prosser, q much beloved and
most devout minister Of the gospel of Car
mel, Northumberland Co, Pa. Mr.. Prosser's
usefulness, was, for q long time, greatly i'm
paired by o distressing, obstinate disease.
How his malady was finally conquered we
will let him tell in bis W language. He
says was a great sufferer from dyspep-
STA, and had suffered SO long that / was
a wreck life was rendered undesirable and
it seemed death was near but I came in
contact with DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and his Pleasant Pellets took
twelve bottles of Discovery and several
bottles of the 'Pellets,' and followed the
hygenic advice Of DR.. Pierce, and I am
happy to say it was indeed q cure, for life is
worth living now"
For dyspepsia, or indigestion, oliver COM
plant" or torpid liver, biliousness, constipa-
ton, chronic diarrhea and all arrangements
OF the liver. stomach and bowels, Doctor
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery effects
perfect cures when all other medicines fail.
1t has q specific tonic effect upon the lining
membranes Of the stomach and bowels. As
an invigorating, restorative tonic it gives
strength to the whole system and builds up
solid flesh to the healthy standard, when re-
duced by " wasting diseases"
Mr.. J. F.. Hudson, a prominent lawyer Of
Whitchervillo, Sebastian Co., Ark, writes !:
Having suffered severely, for a long time,
from a torpid liver, indigestion, constipa.
ton, nervousness and general debility, and
finding no relief in my efforts to regain my
health, ! was induced to try DR.. Piercets
Golde Medical . Discovery and Pleasant
Pellets Under his treatment, / improved
very much n in a few months was able to
attend to my professional duties"
Yours truly,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

KNIVES and forks were not in gen.
eral use until the seventeenth century.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

The melody of music Is divine. but it is no
more enchanting than u young girl = face made
Supremacy beautiful by the use OF Glenn's sui
pllur Soap.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

sTsME alrst lstter envelope dates back
~ May, 1874. It Is now In the British
Mnkeum. London.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17

INDIANS believe that mira9es are
caussl ~ ev.l spirits.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-17
f.T NA

To purify, enrich and ~vitalizo tho blood,
and thereby invigorate the liver and diges-
tive organs, brace up the nerves. and put
the system In order generally ; also to build