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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-07
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Once of CpmEnissa6neF Of school and Pubic
Npsfral s heEebY Given, that on The ISsh
cay o. Mhxxns xU1bs all the Mn6old and u~mleaeed
SCHOOL Aands I'm th6 CuanEy uR Lake will be offered
TOR laaser eosflae higk&ef biddAF. AZ hublio anefs0h,
90 the mont door o. The cent house, Ia said
county. said leasing will be- held between che
the hours 0fsem o'clock ii. ms and ave O'clock \
m, Of each day until all the tracts of echpol
lands have been offered for leaee.
Pierre South DakosA, Jamnary i. l6a6.
YMOg. II. RUTH.
Commissions Of school and Public Lands.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-07
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KEN psUstle. pTancess
Anne Co., va, writes:
wv hen / commenced
taking your Discovery
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COughaADdIa t times spit
up much blood. was
not able 10 do the least
work, but most of tho
time was i'm bed. was
ell run DOWN. very
weak, my head was diz-
N.Y., and ( was extremely
The fIrse
bottle / took did not
seem to do me muck
good. but | had faith I'M
Il and continued using 10
until l had taken fifteen
bottles, and now I do
not look nor feel like
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-01-31

the early years Of the nineteenth cen
fury, the religious elegances of the
present would have seemed just as in.
appropriate. The preachers and the
singing were to their taste. To them
he eloquence Of a Talmage and the mu.
sic Of Handel would have been only
words and noise. They could under
stand their preacher, and could sing
their "hlmes," and were satisfied with
both. To them separate hymn books
would have been super1uity, for
many of them could not read, and one
hymn book, held by the preacher who
"lined" the hymn, that is, gave out two
lines of the hymn at a time for the peo-
pie to sing, was enough for the whole
congregation.
The old preachers have mostly passed
away, but the results Of their works
are seen In the thousands Of churches
that everywhere dot the country dis.
tr!cts, many Of them on the identical
spots where the log cabins once stood
that were sanctlfed by the presence
and labors Of the early circuit riders.
And the system still continues, and
some readers may be surprised to learn
that many thousands of country PEG.
pie in the North, West and South have
now no other religious services than
those conducted by the circuit riders.
The times have changed for these, too,
and now they wear broadcloth and ride
in buggies instead Of on horseback, to
their appointments. Their churches
are of boards, or even Of brick, and
have choirs and cabinet organs, and
the women wear feathers in their hats,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-01-31

their heads the notion that the hogs
were trespassers and ought to be evict-
ed, the trouble was more serious from
the difficulty Of reaching the battle
field, a difficulty that was finally sur
mounted by sending in boy with a
cowhide to eject both dogs and pigs.
Such trlnes as crying babies were never
noticed in a congregation of this kind;
crying was popularity supposed to be
good for the lungs of the infant, and
the mother let 1t cry with such efforts
to soothe it as occurred to her on the
spur Of the moment or were suggested
by Interested friends.
To the people Of the present time
with their 100000 churches and $4,000
preachers, with organ and choir and
Sunday-school appointments Of the
most elegant description, such services
seem farclcal and lacking in proper
reverence. But 1t should not be forgot
ten that all these things are merely
comparative, and that to the people Of
the latter part Of the eighteenth and
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-01-31
In sheen,s Clothing.

One Of the queerest animals In eX.
lstence Is now on its way to New York.
1t is u woolly horse, covered from head
to hoof with curly wool like that Of q
sheep. This strange equine overcoat
Is of many shades-w white, brown and
gray. The wool is knotted UP In tight
little curls all over the horses body, so
that If seen at distance, you would be
quite apt to fancy 1t was an uncommon
ly large sheer. It's head is rather small
or than that of most horses. Altogether
Jennie chat is the horses nance Is u
fit subject for menagerie, and very
likely may yet see the inside Of one in
New York. Jennie was raised In Sshen-
ectady, where her owner made great
pct of her for some years. All the chill
dren In the neighborhood rode her as
often as they were allowed, and none
OF them ever met with a mishap, for
the horse Is as gentle as kitten. A
New York horse fancier saw Jennie
the other day and purchased her for n
big sum Of money, intending to exhibit
her in that and other cities !
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TOR Invited guests, and the balance Of
the load made up Of children packed in
straw, were common. but more fire.
queent were the riders on horseback.
They came in twos and threes, men and
women, with children in front and be-
hind, and on arriving at the grove in
which the church was situated they
tied the horses, not always far enough
apart to prevent an equine dispute,
scattered ear-corn on the ground In
front Of them to be about equally d.
vided between the steeds and the stroll.
ling pigs that always infested the
neighborhood on such occasions, and
men and women separated into groups.
Down at the always convenient spring
the former gathered, the elders to
smoke their pipes and talk crops, their
juniors to discuss politics, In and
about the church the old women talked
butter and eggs, or discussed the attire
Of the one worldly" girl sure to be
found In every nelghborhood, while
their daughters sat silent for 1t was a
favorite maxim In those days that
young girls and children should be
seen and not heard.
A stir in the little crowd about the
door told of the arrival Of the elder
and his brother circuit riders, for the
elder was just as much circuit rider
as the rest, except that his circuit was
bigger, and few Of the nearest filed
into the church, whittier the preachers
had preceded them. The brethren
said their prayers, took their seats,
conferred among themselves in loud
whispers as to the order Of service,
and then some one struck up famil-
lar hymn. All Joined Justify, and the
sound thereof, waited out of the open
windows and down the hill to the
spring, notified the brethren there that
"meetln' had begun" and induced an
instant suspension of crop talk and
stampede in the direction Of the meet
ing house. BY the time the hymn was
ended the house was filed and the reg
ular service of the day began.
There was preaching in abundance,
for preaching was the main feature of
the exercises The preaching would
hardly be acceptable in 100000
church nowadays, for it often happened
that grammar and rhetoric were con-
spicuous by their absence, but there
was always enthusiasm in any guam
tity, and also plenty Of Scripture. The
old preachers of those days did not
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-01-31
"KIcK ME TILL / HoLLER."
Horace Greeley's Request of Proof.
Reader, Who Was, of Course, Right.

Horace Grceley's Request of Proof
Reader, Who Was, of Course, Right.
Greeley, as Is well known, was Il
crank on election figures and knew ex-
actly how every county and town In
the State was in the habit Of going. a.
slight change in favor Of his own party
would I'LL him with satisfaction. One
day, says the New York Express, he
came into the office overJoyed that the
Republicans had carried Westchester
County In a local election. AS usual,
he wrote an editorial, and put COM
pnrative table In the middle Of the arti-
Gle, compiled from the Tribune alma
FAC, When the paper came out next
day the figures were misplaced, the Re-
publican vote appearing in the Demo-
cratic column and vice versa, so that
the comments did not at all fit the case
stated. Mr.. Greeley came down In n
towering rage, and in whlrlwind Of
profanity demanded Of his subordinate
in charge whether there was q proof
reader on the paper and whether any
body in the office had grain Of sense.
"Why, yes, Mr.. Greeley; you know
old man So-and-So is the proof reader,
and has been for years. But what Is
the matter?"
matter! Blankety, blank, blank!
Matter! Why, some blankety, blank,
blank has gone to work and changed
TIE figures in that Westchester article
so as to make the blankest nonsense
out of It,"
81 don't think anybody would have
ventured to change your figures, Mr..
Greeley. Don't you think you had bet
ter look at the copy before pitching into
the proof reader2 You know he Is very
careful"
"I'll do nothing of the kind" said the
old man, as he shuflled upstairs. I'm
kick him out of the composlng-roo l
won't be made fool Of in this way"
Upstairs there was scene very like
that below, with the variation that
Greeley told the proof reader that he
ought to be kicked from one end Of tho
composlng-room to the other With
the proverbial placidlty Of proof read
ers and their provoking readiness foE
such emergencies, the man assailed
quietly went to the hook and taking
therefrom Greeley's own copy held II
under his eyes with the single remarkt
"lead that, sir"
Greeley did read It, There was ST.
lence for moment, and then his face
assumed look of mingled contempt
and disgust. Then he turned around
with his back to the proof reader, lift
ed his coat-tals, and said, loud enough
to be heard all over the room:
"Here, Sam, kick me, and kick me till
/ holler"
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gFess of the WayfareF. When dark
heas overlook the preacher on his jour
ney, and he could no longer discern the
''biazes" on the tres, he trusted to the
instinct Of his horse, and when this fail
ed, as 1t sometimes, though rarely, did,
he was compelled to pass the night In
the woods. II he had flint and steel he
made a FIRE; II not, he sat down at the
root OF tree and held his horse until
morning. In rainy weather he was
often compelled to swim the swollen
streams that lay in his route, or make
long detours in search of place where
the stream could be forded. Yet all
these hardshlps, and more, including
sleeping in lofts where the snow drift
ed in, In rooms where four beds were
placed and the family all slept in the
only room the cabin afforded, and the
annoyance of having absolutely no pri-
vacy but that Of the forest during his
journey from one appointment to an
other, were cheerfully endured, and for
no compensation save the conscious
ness Of duty we'll done, and the pittance
that the people were able to give In re-
turn for the services rendered them.
Money In those times were scarce, and
many an old preacher has been heard
to tell how in the early days of his min
istry he received but S25 or $50 from
his people for years hard work. But
this sum did not really represent all
they did for him, for his entertainment
was free wherever he went, and pair
Of stockings here, q pair Of shoes there,
q wool hat or fur cap from one, a coat
from another and pair of jeans trous-
ers from a third, eked out his scanty
support very materially. Nor was this
all, for on his "home round"-that is,
when on that part Of his circuit that
brought him toward home-he might be
seen with a ham or fitch Of bacon on
one side Of his saddle, pair of chick
ems or O wild turkey on the other and,
it may be q haunch of venlson or bag
of corn In front, all the contributions
of those who gave willingly of what
they had to give at ALL These, with an
occasional wedding fee, sum varying
from 25c to 81, paid by youth in his
first suit of ill-ftting store clothes,
constituted his principal reliance for
livelihood. His wife did her own work,
and her nelghbors brought in supplies
from time to time to help out the
preacher, so, on the whole, he lived
about as we'll as they, and, what was
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-01-31
COMING INTO GENERAL USE

Storage Batteries for Illuminating
Popular in Country Residences.
The storage battery Ia the dark
horse" of electrical engineering. Grad.
ually but surely 1t is emerging from tho
hamperings Of imperfect mechanical
and electrical construction, and the be-
setment Of legal wrangllngs, and is now
growing 30 rapidly in public favor that
1t gives greater promise of future possl'
bllitles than almost any other article OF
the industrial world. Until recently,
says the St Louis GlObe-Democrat, its
use has been mainly confined to trac'
ton and light power station work, but
of late It has been utilized under condi'
tons that give the general public o
clearer idea Of its practical value. Elec
trio craft propelled by storage batteries
will soon be as common as steam and
naphtha launches are now, and the
owners Of country houses that are miles
away from every other source Of cleo
trical supply are finding that the stor'
age battery Is very important factor
in promoting the comfort of their lso.
lated homes. An installation has been
made at n summer residence near Lake
Forest, ILL.,, which is an excellent ex.
ample of n type that will doubtless
come largely into vogue in the next few
years, The power house, measuring Il
by q feet, is erected about 800 feet
from the residence. 1t has three rooms,
one for dynamo and battery cells, a
workshop and an attic. The wires arc
carried to the house on cedar poles,
which also carry telephone line,
through wooded grove, which almost
entirely conceals them. Two hundred
and fifty-siX lights are fed, 237 In the
residence and the rest in the dynamo
room, barn and outlying sheds. In the
battery room there are sixty chloride
accumulators, or storage batteries, Inc
closed in glass jars and ranged on
shelves inches broad. The whole bat,
terry rack occupies space of but IL by
9 feet In charging the batteries gas
engine Is used, which has many ad'
vantages over the steam engine for this
purpose. The usual practice is to run
the dynamo during the daytime to
charge the storage plant, and to run
the house lights direct from the bat
terry. But when needed the dynamo
Gun be brought into service, and will
furnish current for the entire capacity
in lamps. The whole plant works noise
lessly and gives perfect service. 1t is
intended to light the grounds all around
the house next year, so that garden
parties can be given and lawn games
carried on at night.
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know much about the graces Of Oratory,
but they did know all about the Bible,
for 1t was the one book that they con-
stantly read, and that they were thor
! oughly conversant with from cover to
cover. A proposition was started, and
Bible texts in confirmation Of 1t were
cited; If it could be proved from the
Bible, well and good; if not, no matter
what 1t was, or who stated 1t, 1t was
rank infdelity, and the prOposer was
an infdel. The nice distinctions Of the
higher criticism were unknown quaint
ties; the preachers Of those days knew
nothing of the Javist, and the ElOhist
Where the apostle affirmed "Wives, sub
NIT to your husbands" they said that
it meant that the women should mind,
and not cherish any ideas about being
equal to the man and voting. They hat
ed gold chains and rings and silk
dresses and boiled shirts and cards
and fddles and whisky, and all these
things were, in their sight, almost
equally abomlnable. A man with spot
less linen was to them dandy; q wom-
an with gold chains and jewelry was
on the right road to perditiOn. Some
of them preached against these things
and denounced unsparingly all who
favored them. Cards and fiddles were
their pet aversion, and when, sas some
times happened, mischlevous person
went to a 'protracted meeting" or
camp meeting with fiddle or jug Of
whisky or pack of cards, the preachers
were sometimes known to knock down
and drag out the offender with as much
energy as would be shown by any
shoulder-hitting son Of Belial in the
country.
Their meetings did not lack for vi
vacity from other causes. In those
days 40 man stirred abroad without
his gun and his dog, and concourse
Of people wasothe occasion also for a
concourse Of dogs. Generally ours of
low degree, they had neither patience
nor pedigree, and dog fights at meeting
were matters of by no means infrc-
quent occurrence. When they took
place outside. the ours were generally
left to settle their dispute among them
selves, unless 1t became too noisy, but
when this occurred some man seated
near the door and armed with q good
sized whip, quietly slipped out to act
as umpire, and moment later a series
of yelps, followed by silence, gave in
dication that the war was over More
of an incident were they when they
took place within the limits Of the con-
gregation, for every other exercise was
at once suspended until the belligerents
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regular houses were built for service,
however, the neighborhood was under
stood to have advanced considerably
on the road to refinement Quarterly
meeting" at one Of these wayside log
sanctuaries was a great occasion. The
presiding elder was always there, with
as many of the brethren as could be
mustered. Long before the appointed
hour for the service the roads were full
Of primitive vehicles on the way to the
meeting house. Anticipated wagons,
n man and his wife on the front seat,
two or three wooden chairs just behind
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-01-31

is nothing more than an image Of
carved wood. An Indian cemetery
presents n strange appearance. On the
grave may be seen n rudely carved
whale, on another dog, another has a
serpent, or a lion or some other animal
familiar to the Indian. The picture
given herewith was taken in an Alas
kan cemetery and represents the i'm
age of a wolf Though the animal re-
sembles an alligator more than any
thing else) placed by dutlful Indian
girl over the grave Of her mother.
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lstered to the spiritual wants Of the
settlers In the bacbwoods He was a
natural product of the times in which
he lived and Of the country in which
bis lot was cast. He was In the most
emphatic sense of the word one Of the
people himself, for, in all probability,
he had been born and reared In the inn
mediate nelghborhood of his Circuit"
nine-tenths Of his auditors knew him
from his boyhood, and his father and
the rest Of his family, and were pre-
pared to give his pedigree back to the
time when the family made Its appear
hlce In this country. Earlier than this
few knew even their own family his.
tory, and nobody cared, for it was O
Well-establlshed social principle In the
early days Of the colonies that nobody
had father until he came to America,
and when he was here he was as good
as anybody, If not little better. The
travelling preacher, or circuit rider, as
be- was generally called, was man
thoroughly and consclentiously devoted
to his calling. He always believed him
self to be called" to the work of the
ministry, and, having this conviction,
gave up everything else for its sake.
His worldly belongings, barring the
wife and children, that always lived
somewhere within the bounds of his
circuit, were generally limited to what
he could carry in his saddle bags, and
these usually contained q change Of
linen, n Bible, hymn book, in those
days called chime book" and some,
times lunch OF chicken and corn
bread, put up by kindly sister at the
last preaching place. He had horse,
generally n good horse, for no other
kind could stand the hardships Of the
Journeys be had to make, and for his
living he trusted to Providence and the
people of the various appointments"
along his route. And, as rule, he was
as we'll cared for as the means of the
people permitted, for every family
counted 1t an honor to have the preach,
er stay with them, and as he was usu.
ally the bearer of news from one neigh
borhood to another, he was always O
welcome guest.
His circuit was planned, partly by
himself, partly by his ecclesiastical
superiors, who laid out the general
ground and expected him to add to
the number of appointments or preach
Ing places as the membership increased
and the work broadened. Two preach
ers, senior and junior, were usually
assigned to each circuit, and the ap-
polntments for the two were arranged
in such way that the people of each
station had preaching every other week,
at least, or sometimes every week. The
labors Of these self-sacrifclng men
were by no means, however, confined to
Sunday. They preached every day,
sometimes twice a day, reaching one
station at or 10 in the morning, hold
Ing service, dining with some brother
who lived near by, in the afternoon.
riding on to another station, where an
evening service was to be held, and re-
peating this round week after week,
month after month, during the year
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until conference" came, when the ap-
polntments were changed and the
preachers went to new fields. Twenty
or thirty sermons every four weeks
were the usual work, together with 200
or 300 miles of the hardest kind of trav-
ell. OF roads there were few, the trav-
eler being compelled to rely on bride
paths through the forest, and often on
mere tracks aided by "blazes" on the
trees, or pieces Of bark chopped out,
leaving a white place underneath,
which could be seen at a considerable
distance and materially aided the pre-
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GUARDING THEIR GRAVES.

Queer Monuments Erected by the In"
dinns of Alaska.
The Indians Of tho Northwest, like
the natives of all other countries, have
many customs which seem queer to the
average man of civilization. One of
them Is that of placing totems over the
graves Of deceased relatives. This
custom of marking graves is not Of It.
self so unique, for we do the same
thing ourselves, but the objects used
for monuments are peculiar. A totem
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-01-31
Leftbanded Praise.

An exchange reports another Of those
amlable criticisms that one hears some,
times between friends.
Jones has come into Browns studio,
and is looking about the walls. Sud-
denly he pauses before sketch.
81 say, Harry" he says, where did
you get that?"
"Why, got 1t out of my head"
"Well, it's lucky for your head that
you got it out"
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could be parted. The brethren united
their forces, however, and by kicking
one and half-sHangllng the other, gen
orally accomplished the desired end in
a few moments. When the church had
a floor raised a few feet from the
ground, the space beneath was not In
frequently used by vagrant swine as q
place Of temporary abode, and when, as
sometimes happened, the dogs took into
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bourne, Pa, for two weeks past. The
light, as described by persons who aver
having seen and pursued it,has the APP
pearance Of a powerful flame, 1t ap-
parently rises from a quarry, any timc
between 9p. m, and 3 n. IN. After evel'
oplng until 1t is large enough to travG
alone, the ignas fatuus moves Off.
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and tho men polish their bootA and
the girls have earrings and finger rings
and beaux, but the principles are the
same, and the system is 0lmost iden.
teal with that known to our grand
fathers.
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Full OF Glory.

30, MAMMA" cried 5-year-old Doro-
thy, "Tm just as full Of glory as I can
bew
"What do you mean" inquired her
mother with natural surprise.
"Why-ee," said Dorothy, there was
IL sunbeam right on my spoon, and l
swallowed 1t with my oatmeal, NAM
ma"