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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-17
MISTAKES ON THE WIRE.

Ludicrous Errors Made hy Telegraph OPP.
orators In Transmitting Dispatches.
The funny mistakes of ~telegraphers
are as numerous as those charged up to
p~roofreaders. A gentleman who has been
On extensive traveller, and consequently
not supposed TO overlook any details,
saw his wife off ON q train for the slope
the other day. 1t was supposed that ev-
erything had been arranged. The good
by and its accompaniment had been
passed, and the gentleman returned to
his home. That night his wife suddenly
remembered that she had left q valuable
adjunct to her happiness and wrote o
message to her husband which he re-
ceived the following morning at his Of
flee. 1t read:
Forgot. Think conductor has tele.
grAphed for it"
He read it again, and il read as at
first. Forgot what" he murmured.
And he read it again and kept reading
it until the words ran together and his
temples throbbed. He sent o message to
his house asking the servants IL Mrs.
-- had left anything. They made no
discoveries, of purse Then he sent u
message to the operator at the office
from which his wife's message was sent
asking him to repeat it. He waited for
an answer. He lost his luncheon and his
dinner waiting, He remained at his Of
fee until late at night, and as he was
about to leave in despair he received an
answer to his. 1t read: Forgot trunk.
Conductor has t~eiegraphed for it,"
Sure enough, the word trunk had
been made to read think" But wasn't
it strange that a man who had travelled
all over the world should conse to his
OWL home to forget to check his wife's
trunk? He laughed to himself after 1t
was all v But it had cost him lots
Of worry.
Equally funny is this one:
A lady in this city had received a let
ter from her old home in Connecticut
which caused her q good deal Of trouble.
Her answer to it was by wire. When
it was delivered in the Connecticut
home, it read:
Flows the weather."
what an exasperat1ng query at such o
timei The letter referred to the lady's
mothers health. The dispatch should
have read, "How's mother?"
A little different is this one: A gen.
tleman of this city sent his wife o mes
sage from Washington March 4, 1898,
prepaid, and it has not been delivered
up to the present writing. The CORE
spondence between the Chicago Office
and the Washington and New York
offices about the transaction has accu-
INFLATED until the batch looks like the
papers in a long continued lawsuit
Chicago Herald.
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The Railway Age gives the following
interesting statistics of railway capital,
stocks bonds, dividends and interest:
The capital stock OF our railways on
June 30, 1898, was S4,8G8, 1885, lS, OF
which $2,s79,334,572, or6l.24 per cent OF
the total, paid mo- dividends during
the year. Only 5I32 per cent paid as
much as per ZEN dividend, only ga
per cent paid from 6 TO Z per cent, only
ll.62 paid from 5 to 6 per cent and the
remainder had less than . per cent if il
had anything at all. The bonded debt
amounted to 1925 6s9,821, of which
s697,l4l,2es, or 1873 PEI. cent. paid no
interest.
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THE PICNIC SEASON.
ABOUT THE ANNUAL OUTING or THE
VILLAGE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

n IL One o. h Most Importans events oi
h Entire Twelvemonth-A Long Pre-.
dicted. Never Expected Accident Thas
Came Mt Last.
Il was after the grass had been cut
and cured into hay and stored In the
mows and the bays and before the
grain harvest was well under way that
the Sunday school picnic used to be
held by the good people who lived IN and
about the village called 'aThe Hook. -
Two and a half decades ago the picnic
was one of the three or four really i'm.
portant events of the year there. The
three Sunday schools-Methodisb Bap-
fist and Presbyterian in order of size
all Joined in. Time had been when each
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-17
MARKED ALIKE.
q Weird stsry of Two Mem Whose singuln
Wounds Were the Same.

wounds Were the same.
II am not . believer in ghosts, rein
carnations or the supernatural in any
shape, but I had o singular experience
some years ago which I have never been
able to account for satisfactorily, y said
]. p. Lacroix of Montreal.
"a was second mate of d merchant ship
In 1882. Among the crew was a tough
customer named Lander, always in
trouble. He had q frightful scar. en-
tending from brow to chin, the result
Of q dock fight. he had a bullet wound
which had taken away the lobe OF his
right ear, besides d peculiar protuber-
ance like a wen ON his forehead. ]
would take my oath there was not an
other man alive marked Just like him.
AT the end OF that voyage Lander killed
his wife and cut his own throat. He
severed the w~indpipe. but he recovered.
The wound In his throat healed, but
left . hole, which he had 10 v with
his hand when he spoke. He breathed
through D silver tube. He was tried and
convicted, and happening to DO I'm port
] was present at the hanging and saw
the body buried.
"In 1890 / was on the gold coast of
Africa. Ashore a day I came across q
man bossing a gang Of negro laborers.
His form seemed strangely familiar, and
] started with surprise when / saw him
place his hand over his throat when
giving ON orders. Going closer, / saw
the scar, the wen, the lobeless ear, the
hole in the throat, the silver tube and
every feature and characteristic ct d
man ! saw hanged and buried. / got
into conversation with him. He said
his name IVES DAIMLER. He was unable
to tell how he came by theswourd i'll
his throat, err and face. He said he
mRt Iayc he'd d long illness. He re-
metnbs4cd being In a hospital, he said,
but it YVES like a dream. and he had no
recollection of his life before that.
HE said he remembered, while still
Ill, taking u long vcynge-he didn't
know where froni--until he had landed
where / met him. He told me my face
looked like one he had seer in q dream,
but he knew he had never seen me be-
fore. How do | account for it? / don't
try to. / am only telling the facts. I
don't know whether DAIMLER was Lander
come to life again il q r~eincarnation Of
him. Maybe Lander's neck was not
broken and some scientific clap lad
been experimenting on him with q bat
terry. All I know Is that no two men
could possibly be marked In exactly the
same way. IT il was Lander, he was
greatly benefited by the change, as ON
inquiry / found that he bore q splendid
reputation q d quiet, law abiding, peace
able citizen. Chicago Times.
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i no good reason Why one should hap

" no good reason why one should hap-
pen now.
The sum rose bright but not TOO
warm, In b blue and cloudless sky on
picnic day. AT = O'Clock the three
church bells began TO ring out In lively
q the agreed upon assembly call.
Shortly afterward the picnickers began
to drive up In all sorts on rigs. There
9 empty wagons, into which were
packed baskets and boxes and barrels Of
good things 10 eat-such good things as
are produced and eaten only In COM
munitiss like that of which The Hook
wa then the central point. There were
elliptic spring democrat wagons and top
buggies and open buggies Sld market
wagons provided with seats for human
loads that were that day to take the
place of loads of small fruits designed
for the city markets. There were farm
wagons - lumber wagons the people
termed them that had been fitted ont
with picnic racks that would carry 40
or so persons each for the conveyance
Of those who had no other way to go or
preferred riding in loads" to going in
their own family vehicles. These
loads were drawn by four horse teams,
managed by the best young men drivers
in the neighborhood, and right proudly
did these chaps handle the ribbons.
One Of the loads was made mp Of young
wornen clad all in white, with patriotic
red and blue sashes.
Promptly at $50 the start was made
from each church, and q little out of
the village the procession took orderly
form, the Methodists leading, because il
was their year. White whiskered Uni
versalist Captain Ferguson, who had
served CALAMITY in the war and had
been mounted marshal every year since
the union plan had been in force, had
charge ~ usual He had two assistants
on horseback for each school, and there
were fifers and drummers scattered at
intervals among the wagons. The lead
ing load OF each school supported q
pole from which floated the national
flag, and each displayed it's own banners
besides. When everything was i'm order,
at $3.50, the procession moved Then 1t
was seen that the line was almost two
miles long, and that the attendance was
larger than it had ever been before.
Gayly. with fifes screeching. drums
beating and colors flying, the picnickers
drove over the hard summer roads to
the falls. Here and there the holiday
parade was Joined by buggies, wherein
sat lovesick farmer SWANS and blushing
rural bellies. Before noon the grounds
were reached, the horses were tethered
and preparations were made to feed the
multitude. It was the older men and
women who engaged in these homely
duties. of course. Some OF the younger
ones climbed down the /, 800 steps that
led to the bottom of the gorge, where the
little stream whose drop of nearly 900
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-17

Huronite, IA: Day county-the home
county of Gov. Sheldoa-passed a ring
ing endorsement Of the governors ad
mlnlstratlon, and pledged the hearty sup
port Of the county to his denomination
and reelection. BY unanimous enthnstas.
BIC vote, before any delegate was chosen.
The delegates to the state convention
were chosen on that platform, and
friends who have lived many years ia
.Hs county, assure this writer that
Governor Sheldon will carry the county,
~ The election, BY q larger majority than
has ever been given for any republican
since the state was admitted. The Day
Apd Marshall county Delegations may
~si' % put down as Sheldon dsleea.
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feet into the abyss formed the ghostlike
and beautiful cataract gathered itself
together again for its farther seaward
journey. Some sat ON benches under the
trees and watched the rushing water
and talked-of the weather perhaps.
In due time dinner was served. II
was followed by speaking from the
preachers and teachers and singing by
the children. Then the young folks
strolied and looked at each other and
talked again, the men discussed the
crops and told war stories, the women
gossiped innocently, the children romped
and swung. By 5 o'clock the home GO
ing began. All the loads had got safely
away, the covered carriages and buggies
were thinning ont, and then came the
long looked for but really never expect
ed accident.
The horse that had been driven by
handsome Tom Reynolds before the
buggy ia which pretty Susie Allen had
shared with him the seat on the way to
the picnic was very FESTIVE when Tom
put him in the shafts for the return
Journey. However, the beast was finally
harnessed all right, and Tom stepped
into the buggy to drive to the block
where Susie stood blushing and smiling
and waiting. Not 90 feet behind the
buggy yawned the gorge with its 200
feet of sheer abyss. An fmpish young
ster who had saved one iirccracker from
the Fourth Of July and had been wait
ing for a good time to fire ii put d
match to the little fuse. Then he threw
IL kissing and splitting, In front Of the
prancing horse. The animal reared and
bGcked franticallys the wheels struck the
light railing at the edge OF the gorge
and broke through. An instant the
buggy toppled on tho brink, and then
MI went crashing to the bottom-that
Is, all but Tom. He thought at first
that he could control the horse, but at
the last moment he gave il mp and
jumped IN time to save himself. The
wreck Of the horse and buggy was inde-
scribable.
az was many years after tlag before
The Hook again picnicked 81 the falls,
II indeed itever has. The shock suffsfxd
By the inhabitants Of the entire region
Intense, and Of all the sufferers the
lad who threw the irecracker probably
suffered most, for he was soundly
spanked on the spot, although really
quite enough punished BY bis momen-
tary lear that he had killed Tom Rey-
nolds.
Tom and Susie were married before
the next picnic day.
7. .. KAnsHAIa-
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school had picnicked by itself. but the
liberalizing tendencies of the age had
caused a lowering Of the denominational
bars, SO far as recreation was concerned,
some years before. The result had been
so good the first time the union plan
was tried that the next year each Of the
three preachers, two or three weeks be-
fore the outing, stated from his pulpit
after the sermon that all who desired
to enjoy the picnic were cordially invited
to do SO whether they attended any of
the churches or Sunday schools or not.
This took in the remnants OF the Uni
versalist church, which had once been a
considerable factor. but had gradually
declined as the working creeds OF the
three mor fervid evangelical churches
had grown more liberal. The preachers
added to their invitations, and quite
properly, that, since all who attended
would expect to eat, ii was desired that
each family or couple accepting the in
vitation should bring a cake, or a
chicken, OF some other edible.
In order to avoid any possible fric-
tion as to location it was agreed when
the union plan was adopted that the
schools should decide in rotation where
the day outing should be. OF the three
available grounds the Baptists were
wont to choose Deacon Aliens grove,
both because the deacon was q Baptist,
and because the grove was not more
than two miles from The Hook, and from
its easy sloping reaches free from under
brush the village itself could be seen
nesting white in the green Of the val
ley. The Presbyterians were fonder Of
Crystal lake, o little pond some 10 miles
away, where there were better picnic
co~nveniences in the way Of permanent
seats and tables than at the deacon's
grove, while the Methodists always gave
their voice for Buttermilk falls, also q
good 10 miles distant, where Deans
creek dropped sheer 1870 feet into q
gorge that had been worn by the waters
in the limestone that underlies all that
region. There were those among the
older members of all the churches and
Sunday schools that always mildly OPP
posed either the lake or the falls. They
admitted that the cataract was undenia-
bly, picturesque. and that the tables and
seats at the lake were far superior TO
those at the deacon's grove. But, they
said, oon or later, some one was pref
ty certain to pay a dreadful price for
these attractions. The placid lake, they
declared, was as treacherous as 1t was
beautiful, and the fate of whoever
should some day fall from the brink OF
the 200 feet deep gorge into which the
falls plunged would be too horrible to
think about. I'm spite of all, the younger
folks continued to vote for the falls or
the lake, and one of these places was
chosen two ont of every three years, till
finally the gloomy forebodings of the
Baptists and the older Methodists and
Presbyterians were in q measure real
lied.
il was Methodist year, and the falls
was the almost unanimous choice of the
large picnic meeting held the first Sum
day in July between the preaching Of
the morning and the Sunday school os
the afternoon. On the Wednesday even
ISL 4FM&Z4
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-17

To-day starts the heeira II Yank.ar I.
candldatea tor state Office on fhe reoubli.
Gao ticket, as Indicated by exchanges and
private ietteFs received by is. Aab want
e p y fanktan Saturday thouch the
convention does not omen nntil 80
"wednesday afternoon Of next wssk.
me oulk Of the delegates will not start
u ssn next Monday Or Tuesday. The
mum ~ and eagerness Of those aspiring
or no. Naation, and the number pre-
engaging accommodating III Yankton
bids Fair 70 make this the largest ana
BIZ the most enthusiastic conventions
eser hsId IN the state. ToQether with
The fact that nevef We there more III.
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Ing following there was d meeting Of
the three superintendents and the picnic
committees of the schools at the presby.
terrain session house. IL was then voted
10 have martial music, to display rlose
bunting than usual, and in other ways
20 devote more money and attention to
the picnic than had even been done be-
fore. There were no serious objections
to this plan, nor wa there much of the
usual talk against the falls Is q picnic
cite. The farmers were making money.
for crops and prices had been good for
several years, most men Ind their places
paid fof, Some d them had money ID
bank, and why shouldn't they devote 4
little Of it to having d good time one
day In the year, There never had been
m accident at the falls. Therewas reaJs
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EnEiish Trade IN Siberia.

"A CORRESPONDENTS of the London Times
writes: Captain Virgins. 50 well
known In Siberian circles, Ii bent upon
opening tho Yenisei district Of, Siberia
To English trade. The end Of this month
he Intends to proceed To that region with
q cargo Of English goods. which he win
dispoSe Of to the best advantage posi-.
Bile. with the view 81 establishing aregu.
Lar business y
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Dry Goods Department.

Boot and Shoe Dept-Here Is where we knock them all out. No
store in South Dakota has a nicer or better selected stock "a Shoes
than you will find at McGilivray's. W. have to many BARGAINS il
TINS department to quote prices. Come and examine and get prices.
Grocery Dept-We are very proud of this department
10 the farmers of Lake county and to- ali that are interested will
say that extravaganza also lies in selling your produce to the man that
offers you . little more than market prices, for what he puts "a one
end he more than takes off from the other.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-17

Senator Villas thinks there is good
reason to believe that the trust protec-
tive tariff law just passed by the demo-
Gratis will not stand twenty years.
That's true. Twenty months will come
pretty near bringing around a repub lean
administration.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-17

There is a suggestive sp~ontaneity in
the way all the chairmen Of democratic
conventions of late apologize for the
democratic party, its recent record and
representatives in the house, senate and
executive chair.
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Republican State Convention,

The republicans of south Dakota win meet IL
delegate convention 10 the city OF Tankton
south Dakota, In convention hall, on Wednes
day, the a2nd day Of August, 1884, at $50 o'clock
p. m. fer the purpose OF placing in nomination
candidates for the following named ofices:
Two representatives In congress.
Governor.
Sieutenaut governor.
secretary of state.
State auditor.
state treasurer.
Attorney general.
superintendent OF public Instruction.
Commissioned school and pubic lands,
Commissioner OF labor anc statistics.
One railroad commissioner for all of South
Dakota lying west of the Missouri river.
One railroad commissioner for all of South
Dakota lying east Of the Missouri river and
south Of the second stand ard parallel,
one railroad commissioner for all of south
Dakota lying east OF the Missouri river aud north
of the second standard parallel.
Ard the transactionofsEch other business as
MAY legally come before such convention.
The committee that m alternate
o each delegate be elected and that no proxies
be allowed, and that the delegates or their alter
mates present at the Convention be empowered
to cast the full vote oil their county.
The committee further recommends that the
counties of Lyman, Sterling Ssland, Jackson
Ziebach, Pyatt, Pratt, Presho. Gregory and
Harding each be allowed a representation of
one delegate on presentation OF proper creden-
tials.
The basis of representation for each county
wii be one delegate for each fifty votes. or major
fraction thereof, cast for Hon. Charles IL. shell
don for governor in 1891.
The counties win be entitled to delegates as
follows:
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Dated at Chamberlain, South Dakota, this. the
18th day Of May, A. ID. 1894.
BY order OF the state central committee.
J. N. GREENE, Chairman.
j. ii. SCRlyEN, Secretary
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The titles Of most boots before the
present century were written Ell printed
On . paper lahsf and. pasted On ths back
0x the volume-
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DAILY LEADER
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THE DAnr LEADER makes q special feature Of
furnishing information concegning the advautsgee
and resources Of the city Of Madison and OF ths
state at Large emitting u to the patronage or ad
J.F. sTAHL. Proprietor.
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GRSERAL
&kMERAL MRRrmANDHwR
Mckinley says Protection -. .- =.
-McG iIIiyray-
SAYS Low PRICES MUST VIM

E faals may lie II paying too much for 4 thing Or III paying
= = go mIe on. II : T my gooos Tor less than we ask you you will not get
much nue. because we sell the best there i. The same rule applies to ali
and Gents Furnishing Goods. - eA0s' Aas au oapa
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A Sad Picture.

The next time you are in a melancholy
mood, as you are almost certain to be il
you become bilious or dyspeptic, picture
to yourself the condition of poor man
who, without resources and with FAM
lily on his hands, finds himself on sick
bed. Gloom obscures his narrow hori-
zon in every direction. Unable to do
any work, without means or friends capa-
BILE of assisting him. with the possible
prospect of continued Ill health; with
rent, perhaps, unpaid and yble, the
outlook for him is gloomy indeed. How
shortsighted. then, is the man of humble
means who perceiving that his health
and strength are failing takes no precau-
ton to avert the oncoming evil. Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters is a reliable, pro-
fessionally recommended restorative OF
health and vigor, and a sure means oi
preventing the many disabling COM
plants which exposure, overwork. neg
Iect and insufficient food produce. Mala-
ria, rheumatism, kidney and liver COM
plant, dyspepsia and nervous disease
always yield to it.