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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17

vard ana hams are boiled. All the butter
mix is saved to be sent to the field, and
root beer is brewed. The chickens are
dressed and vegetables gathered.
Now the women sit down and wait.
Inc thrasher sends out a clear whistle
at noon and q O'Clock. If the whistle
sliould blow at IL the women know that
Il piece of work is finished and hey
watch the roads to see if their turn is TO
coIne next. The field is fairly a dazzle
with the golden shocks. Perhaps u
quickly passing cloud scatters a few
drops of rain and creates CONSERVATION.
AT last the thrasher, drawn by four
horses. pulls in the wagon gate and other
wagons follow loaded with singing, shout
ing men and boys, most of them neigh
bors, only Il few travelling with the ma
chine.
The last wagon will contain women
and girls, ~neighbors. who have come to
help get supper and wait on the men.
They come on to the house and have
brought with them dishes, knives and
forks and table linen TO help out the ordi-
nary family outfit. Such shouting and
laughing and joking and good news and
bad news. The women learn that John
Smiths ten-acre patch turned out thirty
bushels to the acre, and that the engi-
neer is just too sweet to live and there
are new songs, strange ballads of city
streets, sung by the machine men; and
say, did Jennie know that her fellow had
come with his team from five miles away
mus want to get on the good side Of
the old man.
Within half an hour boys are dis
patched to the field with kegs of water,
buttprmilk and roof beer and alonD in
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17
Not Tempted.

There is a quaint story told of a cou-
pie Of Scotch ministers who were tax
ing dinner together one summer day
in a little parsonage in the Highlands.
1t was the Sabbath day. the weather.
was beautiful, and the bubbling
streams We're full of trout and the
woods full of summer birds. One turn
ed to the other and said: mon. don
We often feel tempted on these beauti-
full Sundays to 20 out t~ishing?' Ma,
na," said the other, Il never feel tempt.
ed, | Just gang."-Household Words.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17

that must have expression rises in
Southern Missouri and Illinois and rolls
ncrthward from farm to farm, from May
to September, always beginning some
where and eliminating otherwhere, until
al last it dies away on the plains of Man
itoba.
While yet, to the traveller on the rail-
roads. "the billOwy bays of grain, ever
rolling in shadow and sunshine" are
green and scarcely ~distinguishable from
meadow land, the faruer hps caught the
FIRST underglcam of yellow that cr6eps up
the stalk from day to day, until the
heavy head has turned to gold. Every
day then is good or bad for the wheat.
He wants the weather to be cool and dry;
a thunder storm is a tragedy, a sky of
brass a disaster. He looks to the signs
in the morning, and waits impatiently
for the freight train to creep by with the
Government weather signal displayed.
He goes to town for the paper to read
the prediction, and he decorates his
horses ears with the heaviest boards he
can find to keep up his courage.
Al this time he is a pessimist. A spot
Of rust IN a yellow stalk will make him
respondent for a week. If his daughter
is counting on music lessons he will show
her a Hcssian fly found in the wheat,
and the sight of a chinch bug will develop
the whole family in gloom. With the first
touch of gold on the boards a f~everish
activity begins. The farmer gets his
reaper and binder ready and arranges
with the ~neighbors to trade off work.
There are trips to town for binding Irvine,
for stores of sugar and coffee, and the
butter is not sold but is stored away in
the milkhQuse. A sheep or q calf is pennel
up TO be fattened, and chickens are con-
fined in the poultry houses.
The first morning that smoke is seen
from q thrashing machine down 9l the
southern horizGn N a great day. All day
long 1 IS watched. Perhaps it is busy Mt
z Small farm and is moved to another in
the afternoon. Sometimes there is I'M
accountable delay when, if the smoke still
rises from the thrasher, the farmer will
venture to predict hat Sam Browns
twenty acres are turning out better than
he expected, and hopes rise. If the
smoke ceases there are dire predictions
that the machine has broken down, and
before il is fixed a storm will come AMI
Crench the shocks.
The farmer has finished the reapins
and the shocks stand i'll the open held
amid the stubble, like nuggets of gold
wing on golden sands. Already peoples
and Indian lilies missed by the reaper,
have burst into flower and feck the fields
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17

the afternoon a clothes basketful OF nam
sandwiches and pals of lemonade are
sent out. Six teams are in the field haul
ing the wheat to the thrasher and two
men are feeding the Unsuitable NAV. All
the golden afternoon the golden straw
climbs and falls over in the smoky air;
the chaff flies in a binding cloud, the
grain is caught in two-bushel canvas bags
and loaded onto a wagon. Now and then
a cheer goes up, and the women, catch
ing the excitement flock out to the porch
and wavet their handkerchiefs and aprons.
"Twenty-two bushels to the acre.
shouts the boy as he trundles his wheel
barrow into the yard for a fresh supply
of liquids. The feet of the women seemed
winged by the good news, for they are
not disnnsed. like the farmer to grOWl
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17
QUEER SHAMPOO.
Joe, tho Whiskbroom Boy, Got His Ina
structions Rather Mixed. Z

Joe, tho Whiskbroom Boy, Got His La
~structions Rather Mixed.
In one Of the hotel barber shops 8
small Italian boy named Joe of1ciate$
with the whisk broom. The other day,
says the Buffalo Express, the hotel
h~ousekeeper sent down to the proprie3
tor of the shop and asked him to fix her
up a bottle Of shampoo. He fixed it and
told Joe to take 1t up to the house,
keeper. :
You tell her." said the barber, TO
take half a teacup of the shampoo and
put 1t In two teacups of water and ap-
ply"
Joe took the shampoo and went up
to the h~ousekeeper with 1t. In a short
time he came back, and the barber
asked: "Give it to her all right"
YES" said Joe. .
with the directions?'
YES" said Joe again.
Half an hour later the barber noticed
the housekeeper out in the hall, looking
c~uriously out into the shop. He walked
out to where she was.
Hello" she said. (Which is it? Are
you drunk, or crazyY'
What do you mean? % asked the bar.
Der, with much dignity.
You must be one or the other. iutlg,
ing from the message you sent up With
thai shampoo"
What message did l send!"
Joe told me you said to tell me to
make a cup of tea and put il in thf
bottle and lie about it,"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17

with crimson, the smallest cloud casts "a
sinister shadow and brings the whole
family out in apprehension. Daily the
thrasher creeps nearer, now east, now
west, but always farther north.
AT length the men of the family rae
away in the big wagon to help "A neigh
Dor, returning at night with the news thai
the machine may be here any day now.
The women are thrown into a 1utter OF
excitement and the next day while the
men are zone the over is filled with
leaves. ,hen with pies and cakes. The
ZAP kettle is hung on the crane IN the
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17

twenty famished men and half as many
women and children. The soap kettle
just holds the carcass Of q sheep, the
wash boiler is filled with chickens and a
big sirloin is in the oven. There is a
bushel of potatoes to peel, beans and
corn to prepare, cold slaw to make, toma-
toes to peel. A harvest supper table is a
thing to remember when seen by one
bred in a city where portions are cal
culatcd SO exactly.
In ten minutes the bread plates are
empty and are filed again with hot bis
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17
NJ
ETHE AMERICAN HARVEST HOWE
Gathering the Wheat Crop in the United States. =
Observation-Disclosures w NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

r y country life all the poetry of the
wear is concentrated in the drama Of
HE harvest-the hopes and fears, the
az. and sorrows, the suspense and the
y.vard for toll or the certainty of self
d,nial for a year, makes the time preced-
inc the gathering of the great cereal crop
ono Of anxiety, and the condition of the
wheat the subject of absorbing interest
in 4 million families.
Scarcely anything else is spoken of for
weeks. This wave Of poetry, of emotion
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17

The wagons drive a-ield, load up from
the shocks and return to the machine.
The rick of golden straw increases to a
yellow hillock. and the children climb up
to the base. How hot it is! The men
drink gallons of liquids and keep wet
sponges in their hats.
The women would be anxious for the
men if they had time. The long after
noon is too short to prepare supper for
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17

"All goes into macaroni. So does the
Swiss wheat, and you needn't talk to me
about Columbia River and California
products now standing in bags in the
field. 1t all goes to London around the
Horn and sells at 3 to 5 cents higher
there because it is SO dry the voyage
doesn't hurt it. It's Canada and India
and Russia that's going to hurt us, if any
thing is"
eyes, and Argentina" retorts the buy
er. Reports from there"
ooh, get out, that's on the other side
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17

Board Of Trade with but one or two buy
ers. The farmer has his advices, toe.
He talks learnedly of the crops in France,
Austria Hungary and the Columbia Riv-
err, and their effects on the market.
The report of the Hessian fly, smut,
rust, or chinch bug makes him go up 5
cents in price to the irritation of the local
buyers, who remind him of the surplus
in Italy.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17
How to Stop u SneeZe.

A medical paper says a sneeze is in
simultaneously diSpelled by pressing the
finger upward against the division of
the nose AT the joint where the uvuer
lip inside joins the gum. Another ulan
is TO expire all the air possible from
dicatiOnS of a SneeZe.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17

as that performer familiar with
your music!" she asked az the concert.
"He must be-" replied the composer,
who was writhing: "he takes SUch libe..
ties with t."-WashingtOp Star.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-17
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-12
STATE sRNArol. WOODS.
OF stsubsnvtllS, Dies at Pueblo, Col
After Tedious IIluOSS,


OF Stsubsnviilo, Dies ut Pueblo, COL,
After Tedious niuoSS.
Tho noWs OF the death OF State Sena.
tor John A. Bingham Woods, Of the
JeiIersOn.C olumbiaua district, now a
portion Of the joint district with Harri.
sou and Belmont, will DO received with
sorrow throughout the district, as he
was a man universally liked for his
good qualitie'. His death was not un.
expected. 1t opens the way Tor some
Jefferson county man for state senator
OF the convention TO be held next week,
Senator Woods, who lived at steubeu.
vile, died Saturday Rt Pueblo, Col,
where no had gone for his health aftor
spending aome time in Southern Cali
iornia. He was thirty.oiEht years OF
ago and died OF consumption. He was
born at Smithfeld. near steuhenyille,
and married Lena, daughter OF Banker
W. II. Vermilinn. Of SmithGeld. lie
was member Of the Steubenville bar
and was elected two yearS ago as state
senator from that district ,a
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-12
lots OF MOKK no no.

Preparation for the Coming state Fair
Already Keeps Large Force RuAy.
Few people outside Of tho manaRsFi
Of the West Virginia Slate Fair AssoCia'
ton have any idea OF the immense
amount Of work to DO done aud tho
very heavy expense incurred in pre-
ppratory work, before tho fair IL ready
to opou. For several weeks past secre'
laTy Hook has had 4 good alzed torCO at
work, and as tho first week In septom'
bor. when the fair is to be- given, draws
nearer, tho force grows larger aud
larger, till when the gates are opened q
small army OF employees are in the asso'
cations HsrVica.
Fret the printed matter 10 to be de-
signed, written aud published. The
premium list must be revised, aud that
Involves no little work and skill. The
sending out OF books, posters and other
matters to exhibitors or for advertising
purposes alone costs enough for postage
to appal new hand at the business,
Then advertising agents must be sent
out and kent on tho road, although the
association uI0s the newspapers much
more literally than any other fair In
thls part OF the county,
The Wheeling fair has high rsputa.
ton Tor tho rars quality OF its stock and
other exhibits, aud It llaa cost a good
deal OF money and hard work TO win
this reputation and keep 1t, Every year
expert judges oil horses. stock, ETC., are
sent to all the earlier fairs and TO all
sections Of the surrounding country
where fine stock and tho like 10 O spe.
Cialty, to arouse the interest OF those
who might Sspd good displays. This
week the corps Of boomers OF the dis.
plays will begin IN gathar IN the cream
ofAll the rich farming sections, anu all
have orders TO spare no ehort
TO make tho coming exhibition the
greatest in tho history OF the
association or the state, With the spe.
cial equestrian display, better than
circus, tho opening days bicycle races,
Nths unsurpassed speed events every
day on the now course, the finest half.
mile track in America, and every other
department improved Ia keeping with
tho enlarged aud improved grounds.
tho fair ought to, and doubtless will, at.
tract thcgrsatest crowds ever gathered
in one week in the experience Of the
upper Ohio valley.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-12
nAPrIsr onuItoR TROUBLE.

The EbonsEsr Church Resolved, and the
MRccdoniNus will Leave
A special telegram to the ISrELLt.
GENcSn from Stoubenville, received yes
terday, says:
Tho Mt. Zion ColOrsd Baptist ASUo.
cJation adjourned tonight, after three
days' session, to meet next year in
MoundsvillO. The association was ad.
dressed by Rev. Mr.. Sloan, Of Granville,
o., a mission worker IN Mexico, Rev
Mr.. Smith, OF Loraln. passed all exam.
inations and was ordained to-day.
Tho grievance committee reported
yesterday. recommending receiving Ed.
cnezer church, which was adopted. The
delegates of Macedonia church made
good thOir threat, asking for aud rOcOiv.
ing letter Of dismissal, but what asso.
citation they will join is uncertain.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-12

Tho regular campmeeting at tho ever
popular Moundsville camp grounds be
gins on nOxt Saturday, August 0, aud
will continue ton days. Extensive
preparations have boon made for tho
campmeotinG this year, and It will be
altogether very notable event. Bishop
MallaInu. ReYs. Canoe and Spencer,
the vol known ovnngoists, and large
number OF ministers Of tho West Wiz.
ginia Conference will DO PRESENT and
mako addresses during tho meeting.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-12

CnoLrRA Mounts ls n dangerous com
plant, aud often ID fatal Ia its results
70 avoid this you should use Dc WITT
Collie and Cholera Cure, as soon Rs tho
frat symptoms appear Logan Drug
Co., Wheeling, ". Va. D. 4, Peabody,
lIonwood, and BowlO & Co., Bridge.
nnfI O. II
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-12
LABOR DAY ABSORBS
Most Of tho Interest at the Trades
Assembly Meeting,
A PLAN TO HAVE WOMEN IN LINE

Referred to Committeeman Appeal
to Organized Labor to Turn Out in
tho Procession aud Make it u
Worthy ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ing Reports from tho General COM
mittoo In Charge-New Delegates
Obligated, etc,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-12
ll1GG TnDDrtalt Questions for You!
GOING TO BUYl
WANT TO SAVE MONEY
WANT GOOD GOODS FOR LITTLE MONEY !
FOLLOW THIS UP:

uadne every but could not
a, the price high that Silk Gronadu Dress
that sold for SIS 90 to sS 90 pattern We put on sale at
uly 81 O pattorh Don't possible does t But ts
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-12

Messrs. Pierce aud Howard have tho
contract for tho only authorized pro-
gramme.
Tho general COMMITTEES will meet
again next Sunday at Up. N.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-12

August 10 81 tho baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company will sell excursion
tickets, Wheeling to Mt. Lake Park and
return, at rate OF a 80, good returning
until August 20, inclusive.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-12

A marriage license was issued on Sat.
urdAy to John Q. Shaw, native Of Nc.
Keesport, Pa, aged twenty.one. aud Sa.
die L. Way, a native Of McHeosport,
mood tWonty.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-12

We will open and place on sale on Monday
morning, August IL, our first invoice Of New
Imported Dress Goods and invite an early in-
spectiOn of the choice and stylish Novelties
we shall display in our Dress Goods Depart.
ment There will DO great variety, but no
two Dress Patterns just the same, nor will
any selection be duplicated. We take pleas
uro in stating that prices are considerably
lower than last season and cannot fail to please.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-12
D. GundIing & Co.

It's not the pressing of Suit that makes it good.
Itheps the looks however One of the easiest things
in clothing making is turning out nice looking gar
ments. No dealer handles poor looking, out of style
clothes Couldn't sell them if he did The quality Of
Materials what makes the diference-and the LOOKS
woyr LAST in the low grade blends of wOOl-but good
wool isn't in itself enough If the yarn has had only
one drawing the spinning instead of three the thread
is not compact and well formed. No textile industry
in the world is SO intricate and complicated as the
WOODEN 1t has been said that he who advocates truth
must not be afraid of repetition So we again say that
D. Gundling & Co. sell the best Clothes made in
America.
The morning times., 1895-09-15
HIGHLY IMAGINATIVE.
Description of n japanese Battle and
Preceding Events by a Writer.

Description of Japanese Battle and
Preceding Events by a Writer.
When man is writing from Japan for
the newspapers he should bear 10 mind ths&
his letters will all come back here sooner or
later and be republished IN the local jour-
mails. 1 suppose that Japanese Legations
and consulates in foreign countries are in
structed to lcok out for such things, and that
the government receives press clippings
from agencies on subjects in which it is in
terested- But, however that may be, nearly
all that appears in American and European
papers concerning Japan somehow or
another ultimately reaches both the press
and tue people, who are exceedingly sensi-
tive and respond with vigor and some
times with virus to all criticisms and uu-
friendly comments.
There has been great deal of reckless
writing done lately, particularly by war
correspondents, but Count Won Hesse War
tegg, the husband of Minnie HaGk, seems to
have outdone everybody, himself Included,
If the following from Tokyo letter to the
Chicago Record is reliable. In letter to
Zurich paper. which is repubIished here,
he describes an interview he had with the
Emperor year ago last April, at which
his imperial majesty Kindly Informed the
count that there was. going to be war
between China and Japan and that Korea
would be the battle-ground, SO that If he
wanted to avoid danger and travel COM
fortably he had better visit the hermit
kingdom at once.
Won Wartegg FASTENED on his journey i'm
mediately, but fingered SO long among
the Koreans that the Japanese army made
its invasion before he could get away. This
was annoying in Some respects, but it gave
him the privilege OF seeing what he calls
one of the greatest battles in history-.'the
armies in actual combat" and he lgives
graphic description of the encounter.
This account of Count Won Hesse-Wart-
eggs adventure is even more interesting
in japan than it could be in Zurich. for
the reasons, first, that his Interview with
the Emperor was limited to the usual for
NAL audience, at which he entered the
throne room with a number of other for.
eigners, made a bow, nd then passed out
with the rest Of the procession; and, second,
because tue first battle of the war did not
occur until two months after the count
returned from visit to Korea. and he did
not get within zoe miles of the place.
Somebody has been looking up his record
by the hotel registers, and finds that he
passed through Yokohama ON his way hcnse
from Korea In the early part Of June. and
the first battle Of the war occurred at
Yashan July 20.
Whereupon local paper remarks mildly
that mistakes ofthis kind should be avoided
by persons who undertake to pass Judg-
ment Hpoa the moral culture OF a nation"
The morning times., 1895-09-15
A SNAKE IN HIS STOMACH.
Strange Case of n Boy in Minnesota,
Who Has Puzzled Several Doctors.
(From PhjIadeI phia Titresl

Who Has Puzzled Several Doctors
(From Philadelphia Times.l
Doctors OF the surrounding cities are
greatly puzzled over the strange case of
willis Hethering ton, young boy en-
ployed at the Grand Central House, in st.
Cloud, MINI. For several years past the
little fellow has been suffering intsnse
pain from some foreign substance in his
stomach, and to-day, after having been
given a large quantity OF medicine by the
doctors, who had been called in by anxious
friends. he threw up what appeared to be q
slender, green-striped garter snake, few
inches short of fifty feet in length
and trifle larger around than good sized
straw.
While Willis was sick a few days ago be
Mortified those around him by stating that
he could feel something crawling around in
his stomach, biting him and trying to get
up into his throat. Just then he was taken
violently ill and his parents saw what they
took to be snakes head protrude from the
little fellows open mouth Doctors were
called, and while they were watching the
patient they saw the reptiles head which
was thrust out of the boys mouth fora mo-
ment. Hetherington was at once given
medicine. The boy tainted; his mouth was
held open by one OF the doctors, and the
snake, for a genuine snake the intruder
proved to be, escaped slowly into a dish on
the floor and there lay curling and coiling
q most disgusting mass.