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The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-07-23
rug cLEAa VISION.

ssoS1id Aue never .s---..r-s----
What charms our sternest season worA
Was never yet the sky % bluef
Was never earth 30 white beforef
TIL now never saw the glow
OF sunset ON yon hills Of snow
And never learned the bough's designs .
OF beauty In It's leafless lines
Did ever such q morning break
AS that my eastern windows sect
! Did ever such . moonlight take
Weird photographs Of shrub and troet
Rang ever bells 20 wild and deet
The music of the winter street,
Was ever ret q sound by half
60 merry - yon schoolboy's Taught
ysAr ssem these winter days. and soon
Shall blow the warm west winds oS
spring
10 ses the unbound rills IN tune
And shitheT urge the bluebtrd's wing.
The vale shall laugh In flowers. the woods
Grow misty green with leahng budA
And violets and wind flowers sway
AgAinst the throbbing heart Of May.
Break forth, my lips. In praise and own
The wiser love severely kind.
eince, richsS for its Christening grown.
I 80. whereas once was blind.
Tia world. o Father. hath not wronesd
With los the life by thee prolonged.
But stili, with every added year.
Moro beautifHl thy works appeart
-whittdes.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-07-23
PLAYS THAT PLEASE.
0ood and Bad Points of Long Runs From
the Ace0rt Seandp0int.

oeod and Had Points of Long Runs From
the Aceors' seandpoint.
Long runs, like most things, have
their good as well as their bad points.
Good, because constant repetition so
identifies one with the character imper-
sonated that it becomes second nature to
feel and act it Iteration may in the
end make one mechanical, but at least
it insures a certain technique, which.
when inspiration fails, rescues the work
from crudity. Joseph jefferson once
told me that in ''The Rivals" he had
always gained an effect by pulling off
the fingers of his gloves separately and
deliberately to accentuate certain words,
but that under inspiration he would
throw technique to the winds and have
the glove off with one jerk Who that
has ever seen his Bob can forget those
brilliant green gloves and the fun he
got out Of them!
On the other hand, the evil effects Of
long runs are indisputable. Prominent
among them is general mental weari-
ness which often causes one to forget
the most familiar lines and to turn
blankly to the prompter's box or to
some friendly actor for the words. This
happened to me several times, notably
in 1.-THE Winters Tale" in London,
where, after playing it 100 nights, l had
to be prompted in several of Hermione's
great speeches. Edwin Booth, during
the long run of Hamlet" at his own
theater, frequently called for the lines
An actor who was in his company told
me that Booth turned to him one night,
and with a look of CONSERVATION asked
what he was to say next His mind for
the moment had become blank. The
actor gave him the word Booth began
the speech, faltered again, was prompt
ed second time, but finding it impos-
sible to continue called out in loud
voice, Ring down the curtain. :"
Many other examples might be cited
to show how weary the brain grows aft
er acting the same part six or seven
times weekly for 100 or 200 consecutive
nights, with only the rest Of Sunday tc
distract the mind-Mary Anderson's 3
Memoirs.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-07-23
Hickman Means Business.

c. D. WMpple. st. Cloud.
Stick to your first statement Mr..
WhIpple and if you haye not got a colt
that can go fast enough to keep warm
l will match one of Hazard Grants
colts against Geo. Graves, and as you
say can set the sum, we will call it FIVE
hundred aside, which will put up for
six days for you to cover and as nay colt
is IN training will match you on any
track west Of St. Cloud. any number Of
heats, any distance, at any time, on Is
days notice, the other race to take place
10 weeks after the close of the match.
Now give me chance and I will give
you a horse race. JOHN HICKMAN.
Sauk Centre July %.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-07-23
Summer underwear
and straw hats at re-
duced prices. At
DahIem'S.
Advertised Letters

The following is list OF advertised
letters which remain uncalled for in this
Office, for the week ending July 22nd
1896. To obtain any of these letters
the applicant must call for advertised
letters," and paw one cent for each ad.
vertised letter delivered:
Claud Chitterham,, John Dawson.
Maude 6. Freeman, Christ Jonson, G
A. Rostvold. Mrs. Y. c. Westland.
w. o. p. HILsDALE,
Postmaster.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-07-23

There II no such thing as luck, I"
said Colonel North once Everybody
In this world has chancesHyes. every
body, from the working collier who
strikes q seam Of coal which was never
thought Of by the mining engineer TO
the oolliery proprietor who gets infor-
nation regarding that seam and re-
solves 10 work It What people call
luck simply means that a man sees his
chance, holds on to it and at the right
moment works it for himself Luck?
Nonsensei Luck is simply the faculty
Of seizing passing opportunities"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-07-23
6trayed.

From my barn on Asl,-st., a chestnut
mare, FIVE years old, has big wort on
gambrel joint OF left hind leg. She
weighs shout 1000 pounds: A liberal
reward will be paid sor her return to me.
REA. J. EMIL SrRNAcH,
Sauk Centre, July 22, 1896,
The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-07-23

The Young Peoples sSociety of Chris
tian Eudeavor will hold their. annual
meeting in Washington. d. c.. July z to
13. TF Es
The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-07-23

The bower bird Is 30 called because
several Of this species unite In construct
ing bower or playground, apparently
for no other purpose than amusement
The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-07-23
tpcal Happenings;
FoR SALE-Two seat platform wagon
with pole or thills, SOS. 90. A. ]. SMITH.

FoR SALE-Two seat platform wagon
with pole or thills, $25.00. A. J.SAlrH.
Miss Daisy Horton is spending her
vacation at St. Cloud with her aunt,
Mrs. N. X. Hunt.
Levy vessey is spending his vacation
visiting friends IN Bloomington. MINI.
Mrs. w. j. Layman of Washington
state. stoppsd off 20 visit her sister-in-
Law, Mrs. s. M. Bruce last week. She
was on her way home from Minneapolis.
See the new Champion before buying
q new binder, For sale by
H I. A. DOUGLAS.
Henry Keller says that it is his pur-.
pose to build mp large Wholesale trade
in agricultural implements in this city.
as he 10 convinced that it can be a. veil
conducted here as in St. Paul, or any
where else. Heis prepared and equipped
to handle a vast amount OF goods, and
will take immediate steps to push the
business by putting men upon the road
to solicit trade. Certainly. Sank Centre
has facilities tor shipping goods. both OF
the great systems of roads meeting here.
Raised the Assessment.
The county commissioners are in
session as Board OF Equalization, and
they went through the various towns
with lever. raising the assessed valu-
alton of every township from FIVE to
seventy-fve per cent. The following is
a list OF the changes giving the per cents
ofincrease over the assessment as re-
turned by the several local assessors:
Albany 20, Ashley 80. Avon 80, Brock
way 20, Collegeviile 80, Crow Lake 20,
Crow River Is, Eden Lake 25, Fair
Haven 20, Farming 80. GETTY 1915.
Grove 25. Krain 25. Holding 25, Lake
George 80, Lake Henry 331s, lie Sauk
25, LuxemDu,g IS, Lynden 10. Maine
Prairie 25, Melrose 25. Millwood 40,
Munson 80, North Fork 20, Oak 80,
Paynesville O5, Raymond 80, Rockville
60, St. Augusta 20, St. Cloud, no change.
St. Joseph so, ST. Martin 80. St. Wendell
1915, Sauk Centre 25. Spring Hill 331s,
Wakefield 40, Zion 33a.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-07-23

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Price of Cream Balm, 50 cents at Druggists or
by mail.
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The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-07-23

McINTYRE-Iu Belle Prairie on Mon.
day. July 18th. to Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Mcintyre, son.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-07-23
instructions in Music.

Mrs. A.. c. Lawrence Is prepared to
give instructions in voice culture and in
struuental music.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05
A Passing Craze.

The passing Of the silver craze is be-
ing noted all over the county, not ex-
cepting South Dakota. where if the most
authentic reports are to be credited il is
especially marked. In Sioux Falls, the
most populous city in the state which
has been declared TO be the great storm
center of the free silver movement, the
craze has practically subsidized. A free
silver club haying a few weeks ago a
membership Of 800, is now very nearly
extinct, more than one third its mem
bers having withdrawn from the organ
ization and joined the Mckinley clubs,
whose aggregate Membership ie..p;aI.,
approaching the 1000 mark. The pops.
who few weeks ago, claimed the city
by majority Of 500, now concede that
Mckinley will carry it by 200, and there
publicans claim majority of350. In the
second waid which is the home of Petit
grew and Palmer, just half of the voters
have joined the Mckinley club, and the
republicans have good reason to expect
that they will carry the ward by the
t-sFr-s .ss~-sss< t.-s>-a>-> .-,>..-..
encouraging. At Hartford hich a short
time ago was claimed to be solid for the
pops, a majority of twenty are now
wearing the Mckinley button. In VAL
ley Springs 50 have joined the Mckinley
club out of a possible 10.
At Dell Rapids where the total vote
two years ago was les, there are now 200
enrolled in the Mckinley club. and in
Red Rock township, out of 65 votes, only
5 are for Bryan. While it is a fact that
indications pointed strongly to large
majority for Bryan in the county short
time ago. it is now confidently believed
that Mckinley will carry it by the u.s.
ual old time majority.
The change OF sentiment so notable in
Minnehaha county is apparent in all
counties. and that republican success
will be the pleasing result there is no
onger valid reason upon which to
base a shadow of doubt.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05
A Reservation Mystery.

A late Chamberlain, s. D., special to
the Minneapolis Tribune says: Last
April two Mexicans, who claimed to
have come direct from Arizona, located
In an obscure spot near the head of Sage
creek in the bad lands west Of here. As
they did not engage in farming or stock
raising, the principal industries Of that
region. much curiosity was aroused as
to their occupation and mode of obtain
ing livelihood. IT afterwards deyel-
oped that they were engaged in manu-
featuring, by a process known only to
themselves, a curious sort of beverage
out Of the common cactus. They found,
it is claimed, a ready market for their
product among the Indians on the Pine
Ridge reservation, and, OF course. kept
the matter as quiet as possible. But a
few cowboys in that vicinity soon dis
covered their location, and have since
been accustomed to make frequent
visits to the place. Word now reaches
here that few days ago, when one Of
the cowboys made his accustomed visit,
be- discovered that the cabin of the
Mexicans had been burned and the
men had disappeared. AS they were
known to have had quite a sum of
money about them. it is believed by
stocknen in that region that they have
been murdered, and their cabin and
contents burned to destroy evidences of
tho crime. An investigation will prob
ably be made"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05
Fusion Ticket.

The pops and democrats of Lawrence
county held their conventions at Spear
fish on Saturday last, where fusion
ticket was nominated. The democrats
were allowed to name the candidates
for the following Offices: States attor-
ney, register of deeds, treasurer. auditor.
coroner and surveyor.
The following ticket was nominated: :
State senator, j. b. Fairbank, of Dead
wood; for representatives. Robert II.
Lilly. A. II. Oleson and Henry Court /;
sheriff, Matt Plunkett, Of Terraville; /;
treasurer, John Wilson. Of Deadwood |;
register of deeds. Thos. II. Russell, of
Deadwood; county judge, w A. Rine-
hart, of Lead; states attorney, John r.
Wilson, Of Deadwood; clerk Of the
courts, Louis Garfield, of Galena; au-
ditor, ]. B. Welch, of Lead superin-
tendent Of schools, Kate NJ. Kemper, of
Spearfish; assessor, Brad Wood. Of
Central; surveyor, Frank s. Peck. Of
Deadwood coroner, James Whitehead:
for county commissioner, r. B. stuart,
Of Lead.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05
Vermont Speaks.

At the state election in Vermont On
tuesday, overwhelming republican
gains are shown. Grout. republican
candidate for governor. was elected by
majority which breaks all past records
according to the latest reports. His
majority in the state, it is believed, will
reach 10000, which shows a republican
gam over the vote of 1892 of more than
@o0O0. The indications show that out
OF ZlA members of the lower house Of
Tue state legislature there will be only
IL democrats, and the senate will be
composed entirely Of republicans.
The result Of the election in Vermont
may be accepted as a reliable straw,
showing quite conclusiveiy the way the
political wind is blowing down east.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05

The expressions made by the promi-
nent delegates in attendance at the In
dianapolis democratic convention, that
Mckinley can carry their respective
states, in connection with their apparent
satisfaction with the situation, is prob
ably the greatest anomoiy ever present
ed in American politics, and yet it may
not be said to be in the least surprising
under existing circumstances, that such
feeling exists. 1t it with them fight
for the defeat of Bryan and free silver
without shadow Of hope ofth election
of the man they nominate, and ia the
event of their carrying one or more
states. it is fairly safe to conclude that
their presidential electors in such states
will cast the vote for Mckinley. 1t is
absurd to suppose that in the event of
Mckinley requiring the vote of such
states to insure his election, that the
electors would not avail themselves OF
the opportunity offered to attain the
paramount object for which the conven-
tion was called. 1t is not by any means
improbable that such course has been
already agreed upon, and that it will be
faithfully carried out there are good and
valid reasons to believe.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05
Labor Day Proclamation.

EXECUTIVE CHAMBRR, PIERRE, South
Dakota, August q In conformity with
the provisions Of an act Of congress, ap-
proved June 28, A. ID. 1894. designating
the first Monday OF September 'cele-
brated and known as labor's holiday,
as legal, public holiday.
/, Charles I'll. Sheldon, governor of the
State of South Dakota, do hereby ap'
point Monday, the seventh day of Sep
tember next, legal holiday throughout
this state, and ask at the hands Of our
people its faithful observance.
mo people in the union feel deeper,
heartier sympathy with ali the hopes
and aspirations Of labor, than the peo-
pie Of our state. None recognize more
fully than we the just claims of the men
who labor with their hands. All
thoughtful men are willing 70 aid by all
the means in their power IN trying TO
secure TO honest, intelligent labor the
full reward 10 which il is entitled. The
comforts and luxuries which we enjoy
are the products of human hands di-
rected by human skill. Let US all OBJ
serve this day by uniting heartily with
those who are supposed to be especially
interested, in doing all which lies in our
power to build up and ennoble the
character Of American working men.
In testimony whereof, / have here
unto set my hand and caused the great
seal Of the state to be affixed at Pierre,
the capital, this fourth day of August,
A. d. 1896.
TSeal.l CHARLES II. SHELDON.
BY the Governor -
THOMAS THoRsoS, Secretary of State.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05


1t was not until the other day that
Bryan admitted the fact that the mar
ket price of any given product was
governed by the law of supply and
demand. In his previous speeches he
has invariably attributed falling prices
to the decentralization of silver, as
against the more reasonable theory that
ts>s- ~o' ~ss- ~'s r'socrcssvi,- rren- ts
largely exceeded 4 notable undcr-con-
sumption of commodities, resulting from
restricted opportunity to earn the mon
ey to buy with. In recent speech at
Mandalin. n. Y, he said; "You know
that if the worlds crop next year Of q
certain article is very much greater than
the crop of this year, that article will
fall in price. If the crop is much smaller
than this year, that article will rise in
price. You know that the law Of sup
ply and demand reaches and controls
all sorts Of property"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05

Old Man Smith. Of the Keystone
Miner, thus facetiously comments in his
last weeks issue upon the checkered
experience Of the CHRONICLE upon the
sea Of Southern Hills journalism during
the sixteen years embraced in its history:
"The CUSTER CHRONICLE has passed its
sixteenth birthday, and entered upon
its seventeenth volume. The CHRONICLE
has shared in and recorded all the ups
and downs-mostly downs-of the
Southern Hills history, has passed
through famine and been tried by fire,
and is still in the watch tower ready to
herald the good time coming, which is
sure to come next year." Only those
who have tried to steer a craft through
the rocks which often break into foam
the shallow waters of Southern Hills
newspaper patronage, can have any rdea
Of the patience, perseverance and
profanity crowded into that sixteen
years. Here's to Sam and Joe, "may
you live long und brosber."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05
A CALL.
For Free silver Senatorial Convention
az Hot Springs, Sept. 2lst.

Il VI u II rec oliver oenntOrlAl convention
az Hot Springs, Sept. 2lst
To the free silver voters of the 41st
Senatorial District composed of the
counties Of Fall River and Custer, by
virtue of the Temporary Senatorial
committee.
Notice is hereby given, that the Sem
atorial Convention in said District shall
be held at the Court House in Hot
/ Springs. :. D., on the 2lst day of Sep
! tember, 1896, at , o'clock p. M, for the
purpose Of placing in nomination can,
didate to represent said district in the
for the transaction OF shcii pathera otfer bar ann
ness as may properly come before said
convention.
The committee recommends that the
basis of representation be as follows !:
Twenty-ons delegates for each of the
counties composing the ilst Senatorial
district, being one delegate, as near as
may be from each precinct and ward
within the two counties, said delegates
to be elected by the county conventions
of Fall River county on the 18th of Sept.
s,ea OF s;as.ser eonnt~, aa sseys- 18th. is9a-
Secretary. Chairman.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05

humors at political headquarters in
New York and Washington, says the
Minneapolis Tribune, is to the effect
that the silver mine owners, who are
mostly boiting republicans, are declin.
ing 10 respond to the frantic appeals of
the Bryan campaign committee for
iunds. They are immensely disappoint-
ec IN the effect of Bryan's Eastern tour,
and have about reached the conclusion
that their money can be more effectively
used in making combinations in the
congressional districts and a bold push
ior two-thirds free silver majority in
the house. With such majority in the
house they believe that a two thirds
majority could also be commanded in
the senate. Some ofthem even profess to
believe that Major Mckinley is at heart
not unfriendly to free silver coinage.
and that he would not hesitate to sign
free coinage measure If it were passed
by decisive majority. Bryan they
have no confidence in at all. He hxes
shown himself so shify and eyasive, so
self.contradictory, so weak in the pre-
sentation of the great issue on which
the mine owners haye staked their
whole political and business future, that
they already despair of his election.
They recognize the fact. also, that Nc
Kinley is daily growing upon the peo-
pie. The admirable speeches which he
makes almost daily to visitors are
models Of compact, clear and forcibIe
statements, aud they demonstrate his
level-headedness in striking manner.
There is no danger of Mckinley max
ing any "bad breaks" while Bryan is
always saying something to weaken his
position and demoralize his supporters.
II seems impossible that a man so given
to CAB and shallow rhetoric as Bryan
will not say something to ruin his cause
before the campaign is over. The only
way to avoid the danger is for the com
mittee to muzzle him, and that would
be confession of weakness. Bryan
himself is apprehensiye that the silver
party will abandon him and leave him
nothing but the support of divided
democracy and the rent and torn pop
ulistic organization-a combination de-
void of money, brains and leadership.
A special from New York says: "Close
friends Of Senator John 2. Jones have
within the last "A hours confessed that
in their opinion the jig wos up with
Bryan, and in this they gave expression
to the views Of the strong men in the
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05
Ballard's Snow LinIment.

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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05

Ben Harrison, in his recent speech in
New York, said many things that were
sound, significant and pointed. among
which the following meaty remark is
especially worthy Of cote: my friends.
as republican I am proud Of many
things, but can sum up as the highest
satisfaction I have had In the party and
its carrier that the prospect Of fepubli-
can success never did disturb business" I"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-09-05
Indianapolis convention.

The national convention of the sound
money democrats convened at Indiana
iis"on~wodnestay. The convention
was called to order at 1927 p. m. by
Senator Palmer, who created no little
applause by the statement that he had
the honor to preside for time over the
only national democratic convention for
1896.
A call Of the roll Of states showed the
presence of S55 delegates representing
Al states. Governor Flower, Of New
York, was chosen as temporary chair
man who addressed the convention
after which recess was taken until I
o'clock.
The convention reconvened at 4
O'Clock, appointed the various commit
tees and adjourned until 10 o'clock
Thursday morning, since which time.
up to the hour Of going TO press, no fur
ther advices haye been received.