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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-01-02

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CHICAGO. Special Cattle R.ce,ne..
$500 head. Market stronger. Common q
chctes native steers, 33.io@4.6o: cs,tles
el:So437o; ssockers and feeden, 8. IS
Hegs--.keceipts, 5000 head. M.rle,
t3.4o03.6ak mixed sold : Mr. !. i, ~
.Shssp Receipts, 5000 head. NIX -
active and ioc higher. Ranged fr.,-
yf.So93.5o; yearlings, t3,oots !. 90: Sprns
lamhs3s. 4o0 40.
New FORK Money !.
F NKw Y0Rk, Special - None, !. -,
sesy: cioaed = +@s per CEN. -
u, - mercantile paper, 90 ~
SfsslinG exchange 6rm. Mn IS.
suAt bus,nsss !. ...s... 80. 81 s..
~ 94.soI Tor demand II u .S,a< j. !.
49, ~ ssalv day. :. NJ
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
The BnIvllIe Banner,

We are so anxious for the Legislature
to pass a few S. bills for the benefit Of
a suffering community
A correspondent wants TO know how
we stand ON the money question. Breth-
ren. we don't stand at all; every time
we see a silver dollar we're completely
fioored.
We are not in favor Of the Bush bill.
II man is compelled by law to buy a
quart of liquor, he'll take it home and
the old lady II get it certain.
There's one good thing about the
weekly newspaper business-it's a sure
cure for rheumatism. No man can have
stiff joints who has to run ten miles a
day to keep ahead of the heriff.-At-
lanta Constitution.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
IN PLAGUE TIMES.
How London Handled the All Devouring
Sickness In the Seventeenth Century.

How London Handled the All Devouring
Sickness In the Seventeenth Century.
During the plague of 1908 Francis
Herring, doctor in Physicke and Eel
low Of the Colledge of Physitians in
London y published certain Rules
and Directions for the prevention of the
spreading of that contagious and all de-
vouring Sickness. These he reprinted,
somewhat inlarged," in the next
plague season of 1926, "to the view and
yse, and 1 hope good of my Citizens
and Countrimen. Among his rules are !
"Concourse of people to Stage playes,
wakes or feasts and May pole dauncings
are to be prohibited by publique Author
ity, whereby, as God is dishonored, the
bodies of men and women-by surfet-
ting, drunkenness and other riots and
excesses-disposed to infection, and the
contagion dangerously scattered both in
Cite and Countrie.
LET not the carkasses of horses, dogs,
cats, etc., lye rotting and poisoning the
aire (as they have done) in Mc-o and
Finsburie fields, and elsewhere round
about the Cite.
1.-THE buryinR Of infected bodies In
churches, churchyards and, namely, in
Paules Churchyard, where the chiefe
Magistrates of the Cite and many other
Citizens meete weekly to hear Sermons,
must needs be not onely announcement,
but verie dangerous for spreading the
contagion, and poisoning the whole
Cite.
Some folk ate breakfast then, others
did not:
"For breakfast you may vse q good
draught of wormewood beere or ale,
and few morsels Of bread and butter,
with the leaues Of sage, or else a toste
with sweet salade oyle, two or three
drops Of rose vinegar and little sugar.
They that haue cold stomackes may
drinke a draught of wormewood wine
or malmsey, instead of ale or beere.
But take heed Gas you loue your life) Of
extreme hot waters, as aqua vitR. Rosa
soils or other compound waters Of like
nature, which Empericks prepare and
set out with vaine and boasting words
they were devised to kill,
not cure men. Notes and Queries.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
THOUGHT The KAISER STUPID.
A Coaehman Told Him He would Never
Set n River Aare.

A Coaohman Told Him He would Never
Set n River Afire.
An amusing little story about the pres
ent emperor of Germany, William II,
and Vienna coachman was narrated at
a banquet lately given at Vienna by
some diplomatists. the narrator being
himself a we'll known and prominent
member of the corps diplomatic.
In the year 1887 the present Emperor
William ii of Germany, then Prince
William of Prussia, came to Vienna,
visiting his particular friend and chum,
the late Crown Prince Rudolf of Aus
tria. Joined by the Prince of Wales,
who was at that time also a frequent
visitor to the Vienna court, the three
princes took fancy to mingle with the
commons of the Vienna population.
Dressed in ordinary clothes, they visited
places which are not in the least regard
ed as suitable for princely guests.
One day they entered hotel, but in
stead of going into the dining room they
walked into the "schwemme, a place
which answers in some degree to the
barroom of an American hotel; in this
room coachmen and the servants of the
hotel guests take their meals,
The three princes took seats at an
empty table, and listened, highly
amused, to a fierce debate about politics
between several stout members of that
class of fashionable Vienna coachmen
who are known all over Europe as
"fesche Wiener fiaker. The distinc-
tion of those charioteers is a kind of
good natured boldness and droll famil-
iarity toward their customers as we'll as
to perfect strangers.
After listening awhile Prince William
put in a word, and soon was drawn into
the excited discussion. Suddenly stout,
red faced coachman walked up to the
table where the three princes were seat
ed. and, tapping Prince William gently
ON the shoulder, said, Nov, If you
should ever have anything to say in
politics, you wouldn't set river on fire,
I'm surer'
As every public coaohman in Vienna
wears a number, this coachman was
upon special request of Prince William
easily identified. The prince sent him
a handsome scarfpin with his initials as
thanks for the amusement be had fur
nished, and thus the man learned in
amazement whose political abilities
they were that he had so belittled. -
Vienna Letter in New York Press.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
A Remarkable Tree.

There is a wayward white oak tree
near Laporte, Ind, that may we'll puz-
zle naturalists with the vagaries Of its
growth. The tree is 8 feet in circumfer-
ence at the base, and there are no
branches Of any size below 10 feet from
the ground. There the great bole d.
vides into number Of limbs. Two,
leaving the trunk about 90 inches apart,
grow west, their lines diverging for some
6 feet, and then each rending toward
the other. Twelve feet from the body of
the tree they unite again, making a per-
feet oval, and out of this grow two
smaller branches AS If not satisfied
with that expressed disregard for the
laws Of nature, this old tree has per-
formed another feat. Six feet from its
base grows another white oak, less than
half its size, and no sooner does the
smaller tree arrive at the charmed cir
Giles Of those branching limbs than one
of them grows right into it, and is alb
sorbed. The second tree is very much
larger 20 feet from the ground than at
It's base,
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10

Clover seed is cheap in a number Of
localities. Unfavorable weather for the
past three or four seasons has killed
many clover meadows and pastures
New England farmers must grow this
crop largely to keep up the fertility of
their SOIL consequently il there should
be a reasonable amount Of moisture next
March and April large acreage will
be seeded to this foliage crop and the
demand for the seed be very great. This
suggests the possibility Of an advance
in price therefor. The New England
Homestead suggests the wisdom Of Sc
curing clover seed now. If drought
should continue, making much seeding
impracticable next year, the seed will
keep all right if properly stored.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
THE MlNuET DANCER.


So, my enchnptress in the howered brocade'
You call an elder fashion to your aid,
Step forth from Gainsborough's canvas and
advance,
A powdered Galatea, to the dance.
About you clings faded, old world air,
AS though the link boys crowded round your
chair,
As though the Macaronis thronped the Mall
And the French horns were sounding at Vaux'
hall.
They tread the stately measure to its close'
The silver buckles and the sillSen hose,
Ladies and exqusites, that bend and sway,
Brilliant as poppies on an August day.
You dance the minuet, and we admire,
We dullards in our black and white attire,
Whose russet idyl seems a mere burlesque,
Set In a frame so far less picturesque
Yet take heart; for Love, the coatless rogue,
Can scarcely heed what raiment be in vogue,
Since in good sooth his negligence Is known
As something scandalous anent his own.
And so he Whispers Eyes were bright and
brown
Long ere the powder tax dismayed the town,
And faithful shepherds still shall babble on,
Although the rapiers and the frills be gone
Alfred Cochrane in Spectator.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
INCREDIBLE IGNORANCE.
A Grown Girl In New York Who Did Not
KNOW the CitY's Nnme.

A Grown Girl In New York Who Did Not
Know the City's Name.
"Where do you live?" asked Coroner
Hoeber in New York the other day of
Bertha Koenig, the adult granddaugh-
ter of Abraham Koenig, who fell from
the second story Of rs Chrystie street on
Dec. 4, and died next day.
81 don't know" said the girl when
the question was translated for her.
Don't you know the name of this
cityY"
"No."
"What country is this?"
81 know that. The Stats. "
"What book is this?" asked the coro-
ner, holding out the Bible.
81 don't know.
"Ever hear of the Bible?"
emo
"Ever hear of Jesus Christi"
"No. ="
"Step down. You are not wanted as
witness. "
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10

A large broom corn crop has been Sc
cured in the three states where COM
mercially grown. The compilation Of
reports sent TO The American Agricultur-
ist points to a total acreage of 200, 100
acres, or more than double the area cul-
tivated in 1889, as returned by the CEN
sus, yielding a crop Of 81, 600 tons, COM
pared with l9,300 tons in the census
year. There has been a decided shifting
Of the center of broom corn culture and
material increase in production. A
few years ago Illinois was the leader,
but now Kansas has taken the first
place, the crop in the western part of
the state being found more reliable than
any other similar crop in the dry dis
trict. Kansas is credited with 141 900
acres, Illinois, 80 500; Nebraska, 2O,-
600; other states, 5000.
The average rate Of yield per acre
in Kansas was $50 pounds; Illinois,
825; Nebraska, 375; average for entire
country, $40. Broom corn growing,
years ago quite an important industry
in portions of New England and the
Mohawk valley, has moved rapidly to-
ward the west.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
De LONGS statement.

WAsHINGToE, Jan. Sat the state de-
partment it is said that no information has
been received concerning the reported crit
ical condition of affairs at Havana. As
the navy department has no ships in Gu
ban waters no information comes from
that source. The intelligence from Cuba
is of such an alarming character that some
surprise is expressed, even by officials, that
no word comes to the government as to
the situation.
Minister de LONE of Spain has his pa
tience sorely tried at the reports, which he
regards as extravagant, and at the con-
slant inquiries coming to him. The men
ton of the report that General Campos
has resigned or that Havana has fallen is
Indignantly resented by him. He does not
care to make denials, for he says, these
reports are such preposterous insurgent
falsiflcations that he will not notice them
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
INDEPENDENCE NEAR.
THE HEROIC STRUGGLE OF THE PA
TRloTs FOR FREEDOM.

Insurgents Rapidly Approaching Havana
Terror and CONSERVATION In the Capt.
taI-De LONE Denies the Reports Of the
RevOIutIonists' victories.
HAvANA, Jan. S.-The insurgent band
commanded by zayes was reported at diff
lerent times at Caimito, Guayabal, Hoyo
Colorado and Punta Bravo, showing that
he followed pretty closely the line between
the provinces of Pinar del Rio and Havana
up TO the extreme northeastern portion of
Pinar del Rio. This brought him into the
region into which large numbers of troops
were sent TO guard the western approach
TO Havana. It does not appear that the
insurgents were in any great force, and no
engagements are reported.
The fields of the Valdespino estate have
been burned, and the villages of Puerto la
Guira and Marrero have also been put to
the torch after being plundered, according
TO the report received here.
The influx of refugees from the whole of
the territory surrounding Havana contin-
ues, and apparently it is not possible to
obtain sufficient means Of transportation
20 accommodate the fleeing families and
their household goods The country seems
to be entirely abandoned to the insurgent
army, and no movement apparently avails
to check them.
The eastern portion of the island seems
not to have been entirely stripped of an eff
fective force of insurgents. A report from
Santa Clara says that the troops encoun-
tered the insurgent band led by Pancho
GARLIC and in the battle which ensued
sustained loss of 80.
Word has just been received that the
sounds of cannon and musketry have been
heard in the neighborhoOd of Guanajay,
an important town of 1000 inhabitants in
Plnar del Rio, 45 miles southwark Of Ha-
vana. 1t is supposed that an engagement
is taking place there between the forces of
General Suarez Valdes and the insurgents,
but the numbers engaged or the course
which the fortune of the fight is taking is
not known.
The insurgents are burning and destroy
ing up TO within eight miles of Havana.
The district around the village of Gala
bazar also suffered CalabaZer is only two
miles from Vento, where the apparatus is
located upon which Havana depends for
its water supply. In the Calabazar and
Hoyo Colorado districts the cane has been
burned in the fields of Maulin, Garro and
BaracOa
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10

James Jackson, an educated Indian,
who is to personally carry the mails
from juneau TO Fort Cudahy, Alaska,
ON the Yukon river, has arrived at Port
Townshend, Wash. He came down to SO
cure 20 or 30 strong dogs to pull the
sleds across the mountains to the Ca
madam postoffice ON Forty Mile creek.
This service is merely a private enter
prise, being maintained by miners, who
pay so cents for each letter. The Ca
madam government guarantees $3.50 for
each of two round trips. This is reckon
cd as being a most hazardous journey.
Several miners in the past years have
lost their lives in trying to make it.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
AN INTERESTING CAVERN.
Immense subterranean Cave Found Near
snn ninnn-


Immense snbterranean Cave Found Near
San Diego.
A big cave has been discovered ON
the ocean side Of Point Iona, near San
Diego, Cal So far as explored it does
not seem quite as large as the Mann
moth cave of Kentucky, but it is as in.
teresting.
The discovery was made by Horace
Metcalf and Vernon G. Matthews, who
live ON Point Iona. They started out
ON sort Of exploring expedition, and
at point about mile and half north
of the lighthouse saw a big hole just
above the surface of low tide which
seemed to be the entrance to a cave.
They tried to get down, but the cliffs at
that point were too steep, and they gave
it up.
Going farther north, they found an
easier place Of descent, where they let
themselves down with Il rope Near the
place of descent they ran across a small
er hole, which they entered, finding
that it connected with the larger and
led into the bowels Of the earth.
Metcalf and Matthews made their
way in with some fear, finally reaching
point 250 feet from the entrance,
where the passageway videned out in
to an immense chamber big enough to
hold the largest building in San Diego.
They did not fully explore the cave hut
thought it ended at the big chamber.
They describe the interior as grand.
The entrance is only open at low tide,
but it is probable that other passages
will be found admitting explorers at
any time. The tide fills part of the pass
ageway to tho grand chamber
Richard Henry Dana, in Two Years
Before the Mast, " mentions cave un
der or near Point Iona, and it is be-
lieved that this is the one referred to. -
San Francisco Examiner.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
Peach reilows in Connecticut.

Josiah NJ. Hubbard, Middletown,
Conn, peach commissioner, states as
result Of the work this year that over
5OO, GOO trees have been condemned and
destroyed. Some appealed, but in the
case of only one tree was the decision
against the commissioner. He thinks
the commission now has the disease
well in hand. Peach growers are coop
Grating heartily and have hetter idea
Of caring for the trees and the preven-
tion of disease.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
CIGARETTES AND INSANITY.
A Hospitar superintendent Says They Are
Vow CLOSELY Related.


DR.. Benjamin Blackford, the able su-
perintendent of the Western State hospi-
tai at Staunton, Va, in his annual re-
port TO the board of directors of that in
stitution, says:
"To a great extent the increase Of in
sanity may be attributed to the perni-
Cious cigarette smoking habit, now so
long prevalent among and undermining
the moral, physical and mental health
of the youth of our country during
their early years and development, when
the brain is tender and plastic and easi-
ly affected by the noxious inhalations is
suing through and around the nerve CEN
ters, Their nervous organization is apt
to become more shattered by the 'ciga-
rette habit than if they were addicted to
alcoholic stimulants during that period,
and will surely be the first to give way,
and, Of couuse, the first to suffer, espe-
cially during the period Of puberty,
with its strain on the nervous system.
The youth at college who burns the
midnight oil is to be commended for his
industry, but too often he burns out his
brain at the same time with the accom-
panying cigarette. The process of waste
and injury to the nervous system may
be greater than the repair, and mental
bankruptcy is the result. st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
PLATE GLASS VS.. TURKEY.
Though a Quarter of an Inch Thick, 1t
Gave Way.

Gave Way.
The other morning a gentleman from
the country went to Bolton, Tex, hav-
ing some turkeys in his wagon. Shortly
after he drove upon the courthouse
square one Of his turkeys got loose,
hoped out of the wagon, and started
across the square toward the opera
house. The man and his dog started aft
er it full tilt. The race was a pretty one.
By the time the turkey got to the opera
house it was doing its best, half run
ming and half flying. -
The front Of the lower story Of the
opera house is filed with fine, large,
French plate glass windows, and when
the turkey arrived at these it did not
notice the obstruction nor stop for it,
but went through it as if it were not
there. It broke large hole in the win
dow, but that did not impede the prog,
ress of the turkey. 1t lost few feath-
ers, but when captured did not seem to
be otherwise injured. The glass in the
window was fully quarter of am inch
in thickness. Galveston News.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10

A fierce but somewhat funny war is
waging in Pontiac, Mich, where the
Salvation Army has its headquarters in
the same building with a saloon, the
former up stairs and the latter on the
ground floor. Every man who wants a
drink has to run the gantlet Of a line
of pickets ser out by the Salvationists,
and the incidents Of the skirmishes and
hand to hand conflicts are highly inter-
esting to onlookers.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
A sIghtlesa Housshold.

Kokomo, Ind, is the home of pecul-
iarly afflicted family. The husband and
wife are both blind, the latter being
also helpless cripple, the accident that
produced blindness likewise depriving
her Of the use of her arms. Their hired
girl is also blind. Thus the entire house.
hold is sightless. The husband sells
candy on the streets. Their home is as
neat and clean as the tidiest housekeeper
with good eyes could keep it-Chioago
Inter Ocean,
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10

Engineers have completed the survey
of the volcano Popocatapetl, in Mexico,
for the purpose of determining the best
location for an aerial cable railway to
the summit. 1t has been determined to
start the line from the ranch of Tlama-
cas-, ON the northwest, and tourists will
be able to make the ascent to the SUM-
NIT, nearly $4,000 feet above the sea,
with entire ease and also descend into
the crater, where the work of extracting
sulphur is going ON.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
Noah's Buainsss-

= While teaching a class of girls in a
school recently. the master asked the
following question;
Whist was Noah supposed TO be do
g ing when the animals were going into
the arki''
! egsHe received several answers. At last
a little girl pat mp her hand
well, " be said, 'what do you sayF'
Taking the tickets. sir. "-Bu6Alo
times.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
ODD FACTS ABOUT MADAGASCAR.
The Policemen Sleep on Their Beats-The
Curfew Is of Ancient Use.

The Policemen Sleep on Their Beats-The
Curfew Is of Ancient Use.
Probably the sleepiest policemen in
the world are those of Madagascar. At
Antananarivo, the capital, there is lit
tie evidence of the force by day, for its
members are all peacefully wrapped in
slumber. At night, too, the guardian of
property is seldom to be seen, and that
he is actually guarding ia only to be
told by the half hourly cry that, is sent
mp to police post No alongside the
royal palace.
"Watchman, what of the night9"
"We are wide awake, keeping a sharp
lookout, and all's we'll. "
Antananarivo has no lamps and no
streets. 1t is simply great collection
Of houses tumbled together. There is a
big force of night police, known as the
watch. The men gather themselves
together into groups, and choosing snug
corners, wrapping themselves in straw
mats. they drop into long and profound
slumber One member of each group re-
mains awake to respond to the half
hourly call from the palace. As he calls
back, the others, half awake, mechan-
ieally shout back the response. 1t makes
little difference, however, that the police
continually sleep, for robbery is rare.
Curfew. though popularity supposed
to be purely an early English and Nor
man French custom, has been estab-
lished in Madagascar for centuries. In
every town and village between 0 and
10 the watchmen go around Ehouting ont
in the Malagasy dialect. Lights out ~
and they see that all is in darkness in
every house. After these hours no one
is allowed to travel around without a
special pass.
There is no criminal code Of any ac-
count, and when a man is caught in the
act Of stealing the populace is apt to
ignore the police and surround him and
stone him to death. The Madagascans
have no "swear words" in their Ian
guage, and when their feeli~gs are over
wrought against a man the only thing
they can do is to execute summary
vengeance ON him.-New York World.
oil and Water.
'I'm very unfortunate" said the
young artist.
"You are deficient in one important
quality" replied his candid friend.
"What is that?"
"Tact. When Mr.. Greesem came to
see you about portrait, you never stop
ped TO think that he made his fortune
out of a lucky streak in kerosene.
"Never.
"And you told him he ought to have
his picture done in oil, and he didn t
leave the order.
'That's so.
"And VIXEN Mr.. Skimker, who has
prospered as a dairyman, called at your
studio, you rashed f'om Scylla TO Cha
Tybdis and advised him to be done up
in water colors. You're a good painter.
my boy, but what you need is discre-
tion. Washington Star.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10

Tourist lin ireland III should like a
room with an iron bedstead.
Hotel Proprietor-Sorr, Oh haven't
an iron bedstead in the place they re
all soft wool. But you'll find the mat
tress noice and hard, sorr.-Piek Me
On.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10
Called to PREACH In Hartford.

ROCHESTER, Jan. S.-Rev. Harold Pat.
tison of this city has accepted a call to be-
come pastor of the First Baptist church ai
Hartford.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-10

In the early days of this century many
efforts were made to fasten hard points
TO pens of softer material. Bits Of metal
were often fastened as points to pens Of
glass, tortoise shell OF horn.