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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
THE D SPIDERS.
20 Live Happily I'm the Sudan Cne Mus
Get Used to the insects.

70 Live Happily sn the Sudan Cne Must
Get Used TO the insects.
If one wants to live happily in the
Sudan, one must get used to spiders.
They crawl into your dressing bag or
come upon the table while you are wash
ing, taking great interest ia soap and
tooth powder aud al toilet requisites
Disturbed, they retire into your sponge
and remain theirs till they are drowned
out. One must also become accustomed
to sand or dust storms, for they are fire..
quent and terrible disturbers Of your
comfort. They upon you suddenly
when you are quite unaware of their
close proximity, just as express trains
al a busy junction surprise the passenger
uninitiated in the mysteries ct signal
ing. There is a distinct sound like the
coming of a train, then a rush by and
the after draft. Palms sway and bow
their rustling fronds to the earth, and
eddies of dust buffet you on all sides.
lifting you from your feet Tents are
turned inside ont, scattering their cen.
tents to the winds, or everything is in
crusted with an im~palpable powder,
which seals up ones eyes, plugs ones
nose and ears or chokes one with the
nauseating s~weepings Of a foul camping
ground. AS | am writing this a dust
hurricane which has been making lie
miserable for the last three days is still
blowing.
The fierce blast Of the wind makes
metal so hot that the heat from the nib
carrying the ink to paper d. les Up the
fluid before a line can well be penned
The sweat of the hand, too, mixed with
the layer of dust on the paper, so soils
the manuscript that one feels loath to
send it. The flies, seeking your tent for
shelter from the cruel blast without,
cling to your nose and eyelids with a
tenacity which is almost m~addening.
AT meals each dish is covered with gait
before it can be consumed, and one has
to nurse odd corners of the tent to shield
ones cup from the puffs Of dust beating
up from under the canvas before one can
| get a drink that is hot absolutely mud
Gy.-London Standard.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
Felt ACQuainted.

A Boston lady Of the most reserved
and exclusive type was waiting for her
change at the glove counter in one Of
the large stores when she was APP
preached by a very large, gaudily dressed
and loud looking woman, who held out
a pudgy hand in a bright green kid
glove and said:
why, how do you do, Mrs. Blank"
Mrs. Blank ignored the protfered
hand and, drawing herself up stitfiy,
said frigidly:
II do not think that ! know you.
madam"
"No, s'poso not" replied the won
an, in nowise embarrassed by the cold
ness of her reception. ''but I've knowed
you by sight for a long time. and now
I've got "a hired girl who worked a. YOU
house once a year IN two ago, and ere =
told me so much about you thar | rf-i
real we'll acquainted with yon pleas
ant day. amt it? Well. II sbo ain { 20.
lite to sail off without 80 mnch rs q
word! shows her raisiu, anyhow !"-
Harper's Bazaar.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
schopenhaucr ON women.

Sc~hopenhauer's mother, Joanna, was
a singular woman, with whom he was
pcrpetually ut war. She was lively, be
was grim. She was q s~entimentalist, he
detested sentiment. She was devoted to
society, to gossip, to the c~onvenances of
life He lived for ideas, and with an al
most savage moroseness poured scorn on
the round VI lat homes and aesthetic
tea parties Both were selfish and quar-
,relsoine We may judge, therefore, that
Schopenhauer took his notions of wom-
Ell partly from his mother. 1t goes with
ont saying that these notions were vio-
lent in the extreme, yet not without
some aspec~ CT truth.
The new woma would rave at this
satire on her p~retensions, and yet it
would do her good to read what Scho-
penhauer has to say with as much calm
ness as she can command. Woman Is
here dopie i as emphatically "a lesser
man"-iu1aed SO far below man as to
be fit only for the role Of the old fash
Toned German hausfrau.-Self Culture.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
REMARKABLE TOWNS.
Dine In England That Ia Ma. OF Railway
C~arriasNs.

One In England That IL Me- OF Railway
Carriages.
Scattered throughout the area Of
Great Britain are numerous towns and
villages Of a curious character. One
large village actually consists CT ola
railway carriages, even tbe little mis-.
sion chapel being built hi of four large
horse trucks. Another village, with a
population Of l., 100 and a ratable value
OF IS, coo, has neither church, chapel
MOI school, the oniy public edifce being
a pillar letter box.
Villages with . single inhabitant are
not unknown. AT Ssiddaw. Ia Cumber-
land, there is a solitary householder,
who cannot vote because there is no
overseer to prepare a voters list and no
church or other public building Oh
which to publish one, while the only
ratepayer In a certain rural Northum
berland parish has recently declined to
bear the expense of repairing a road be.
cause he considers it quite good enough
for himself.
In the isle Of Ely there is a little
parish which has been somewhat con
t~emptuously described as "a portion of
land, with three or four houses and per.
haps IL inhabitants. This place has
no roads at all and is consequently put
to no expense i'll keeping them in repair.
As a matter of fact, there are no ex-
penses of any kind and no rates.
One of the most remarkable villages
in this country is Kempton, near Bed
ford, which is seven miles long and ex-
lremely struggling. To walk from one
end of the village TO the other occupies
two hours.
Sometimes whole villages will prac-
tically disappear. A little Shropshire
village has gradually sunk, until now
it is almost out of sight. 1t is built on
a disused coal pit, and the sinking goes
Oh steadily every year. Now and then
a lettering house is propped up to keep
it standing, but in spite of all precau
tions buildings are constantly falling to
the ground, and in course of time doubt
less nothing will be left but a few
bricks to mark the spot where a village
once stood.
There are plenty of deserted villages
throughout the country. A diversion of
trade into other channels is sometimes
sufficient to produce this effect. Not
many years ago the proprietors of an
iron works at a townlet near Sheffield,
being unable to obtain certain conces-
sions from a railway company, removed
their works. Shortly afterward half the
place was to let, and the windows Of
many of the houses were boarded up
London Tit Bits.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
Measures Of Distance.

A traveller in Florida says that on be-
ing asked how far a certain place was a
native replied: "Waal, I reckon hits
bout two whoops. P'r'ps hit may DO
some furder," he continued refectively,
..but ! low hit amt more'n two whoops
an a boiler" In Arkansas they will tell
you it is two looks and a go by, mean
ing you are to pass two houses and find
your destination just beyond the next.
In other parts Of the west, it Is said,
the natives Measure distances III
.'claws'' If plug and will tell you your
destination is about two chaws'' away.
The Scottish way is to say. Its = far
cry" meaning il is about as far as one
can shout, while in many cases distance
IL measured In time. the German
''stunde" doubtless having its origin
thus.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
Versatile

II ran across a station agent up in
the bills the other day who came as
near being jack of all trades as any
man l ever struck, said Henry Darby.
refer TO a little dried UP looking fell
low, with more energy than Carter had
oats and more irons III the fire than any
blacksmith of long experience conld
possibly keep his eye on To start with,
my little friend is express, freight and
ticket agent, has q 10 cent store, sends
q telegraph message when he has to, al.
though his is not a train order Office; is
postmaster, treasurer for the local Sun
day school union and two lodges and
acts es distributor for a Bile society.
Then he is examiner for an insurance
company. issues policies for fire, acct
dent and tornado insurance, is switch
tender at his place. buys frcit for one
eastern house III summer and produce
for another in fall and winter. He has
long been q Justice ot the peace, was
twice school trustee and councilman, is
q deacon in his church and a leader of
the hamlet choir. He was chairman of
the city Republican committee, has the
agency for platform scales and riding
cultivators, sells thrashers and light
vehicles and finds time to fish a little
every spring. louisville Post.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
Perfection In Quality Moderation in Price.
CALUME e. 8i pss!sa.,
NONE SO GOOD.
A DEAD ~CAaNATlON.
leonard conternpIates the Contents OF a
Desk Drawer.

leonard contempiates the Contents OF a
Desis Drawer.
The desk drawer, opened, exhaled an
odor Of faded flowers.
"Let us plunge into the atmosphere
of sweet memories, said Leonard.
Wife absent, Leonard, addressing
Bayard. his most intimate friend, indi-
Gated withered blossoms. Faded and
grown musty in the lapse of years. they
reposed at the bottom Of the desk
drawer.
"This lily" said Leonard, signing,
twas the flower given me by Blanche,
my first love, when l took from her
lips a timid kiss. She was as white as
its impeccable petals, fragrant as it's
pure ~corolla, graceful as its dropping
stem, and who knows what night have
happened had she not died in the bloom
of YOUTH"
"And the rose?" asked Bayard.
"Ah, that was later,'' said Leonard,
with a burst of laughter. "Rosette gave
me that when she first brushed my lips
with her own. The petals were once
rosy as her warm being, and the flowers
beauty was radiant and amorous as her
young womanhood. If she had not Leen
tickle. she might now be my wife,"
"And the orchid?" queried Bayard.
"Hippolyta presented me with that"
said Leonard, thoughtfully, when she
saw me trembling in alteration at her
feet. Time was when it had the mystic
charm of her own perverse personality,
and If a Russian nobleman had not
eloped with her | should still be her de-
voted slave"
Bayard discovered a bunch of faded
violets.
"And these?" he Intercepted.
"They were the flowers murmured
Leonard sadly. (which Etienette sent
nut when i had treated her brutally, be-
lieving that she had deceived me. She
was demure and tender as the blooms,
and, after the storm of my passions, she
came like a peaceful sprite to pour
beauty and love into my LIE. Had she
forgiven me, it might have BEEN
AT this point Leonard interrupted
himself, seizing angrily q dead carna-
ton.
why is this flower here?' he cried.
"It has no place among the precious
memories. Away with it at once!'
In a moment the unresisting carna-
ticn was reduced to dust under his pitt
less foot.
why do you destroy it," questioned
Bayard.
Because il Is the carnation Emilia
gave me when she said she would be
my wife," said Leonard, cyrically,
land l married her. "-Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24

Among the best stories recorded by q
well known angler is one about q Scot
sish laird Who was n day relating to
bis friends at the dinner table the story
OF a fine fish he had caught. Donald"
said he TO rne servant behind his chair
- old man, bet q new servant-'how-
heavy was the fish ! took yesterday
Donald neither spoke ncr moved The,
laird repeated the question. "WeeI."
replied Dcnald, lit was twal' pund at
bre fast, it had gotten to achtecn at
dinner time and it wan max aud twenty
when ye sat down to supper wi the
captain" Then, after q pause, he add
cd, i've been tellin lees a. my life to
please the shooters. but I'll be dashed IL
In going to tell lees moo in my old age
to please the fushers."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
Perfumed Cloth I, Now Sold.

Druggists in New York keep a per-
fumed cloth that is sold by the yard. 1t
is imported aud is by some process
known to periumers saturated with u
sachet powder or essence that is very
strong and lasting. Ii comes ms high rs
s. and $40 u yard, tut il very wiGs.
and on~s.foursh Of q yard is a generous
supply. Small pieces. three inches
square or less. are sewed in hats. dress
waists and skirts and are laid in glove
and handkerchief boxes and chiffonier
drawers. When IL Is considered thNt n
hne sachet sells for ~, these perfumcd
lengths arc really economical.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
RIP VAN WlNkLE.
Jefferson Discovers Something ~Incongru'
Gus About His Celebrated Play.

Joe jefferson calls attention to an in
terestiug fact regarding Rip Van Win.
kle. He says:
There il one incongruity in Rip Van
Wrinkle which is seldom criticised.
Possibly Eone OF you ever noticed it.
Indeed, ] will confess that until recent
ly the fact never occurred TO me with
any force. We'll, you could never guess,
SO ! Will tell u. 1t is this: Rip Van
WInAle is the only person in the play
VIC spe&As English with a slightly
bloken Dutch accent. All of the other
characters arc obliged to content them
selves with ordinary English.
1T helrGteHs tae olect for Rip to
speak as LIS Gees Ii broken accents, but
ii ali che orItr characters were 70 Mt
tempt u dialect there would he such a
variety Of accent iLat the effect would
be homogeneous aud ridiculous. All the
feeling and sentiment OF the play would
be lest III this ~polyglot attempt at ola
leot.
Several years ago a man engaged to
play Mex y edder came ON at rehearsal
and commenced TO talk in the broadcast
low Dutch accent. l stopped him at
once. but i'll his own defense he ex-
claimed:
"'Eut Nick Vedder would talk that
way, wouldn't lie, if Rip Van Wrinkle
did,
"'Yes, | replied. he would, but you
mustn't And 10 doubt the man
thought mo very unreasonable. But this
only illustrates the point Tat many
things apparently illogical must be done
ON the stage to secure effect by inspir-
ing the imagination. Absolute realism
would be fatal. Under certain condi-
tions it is the necessity of dramatic art
to make the impossible seem real. -
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
Informal Receipt.

Uneducated people sometimes have a
happy knack in coming to the point.
Here. Tor example, is u story from the
Boston Herald:
Dan and Nose, neither Of them noted
for erudition. were partners in an enter
prise which it is needless to specify.
One morning a customer called to settle
a small bill and after handing over the
money asked for a receipt.
Nose retired to the privacy of an
in room and after 8 long delay re-
{, 18th q slip of paper, on which
W. ltten these words:
",,e've gok our pay. Me and Dan"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
FIRE HORSES.
The Quickest Ones In the World Are said
TO BE In hanaas City.

The Quickest Ones In the World Arc said
TO he In Kansas City.
f. S. Dellentauph writes Of 1.-The
Quick Horse in st. Nicholas, his
article telling Of tho training Of horses
for the fire dl.4, lnent. Mr.. Dellen-
baugh says:
The quickest horses in the world were
at Il time N Kansas City ct the head
quarters of its fire department, directly
under the Office Of the chief, Mr.. George
@ Hale. To Mr. IIale's genius more
than to ally other factor the quick herse
owed his first Development, for M.
Hale is the inventor Of the earliest
swinging harness which made the
quick horse possible. When Mr. Henry
NJ. Stanley and his wife were in this
country, tLey witnessed an exhibition
drill Of tho Kansas Gliy Gre department.
The drill SO impressed the visitors that
an account of il was published in a Lon
don Journal, and this English article
brought lii invitation to Mr.. Hale TO
visit England as the representative of
the American Gre service at the interna-
tional fro tournament. Mr.. Halo and
a picked corps went 70 England, taxi
ing with them the remarkably quick
horses Joe aud Dan, and they became
world famous. As the quickest harness
ing time OF the London fire brigade is l
minute I7ia seconds and tho Kansas
City horses were harnessed in Ia Sec
onds and were out of the engine house
in less than s seconds, there could be no
competition. In Kansas City four fine
bays were harnessed to the hook and
ladder truck almost as quickly as even
Joe and Dan could jump into their bar
nesses. 1t was a pretty sight to see these
four well kept horses spring to their
places at the stroke of the gong and in
two or three seconds stand ready TO run
with the apparatus. Joe was killed by
an accident, but Dan, with a new mate,
is still i'll service, and as quick as ever.
The record for quickest time from the
engine house to the throwing of water
On the fire is held by a Kansas City
company. In this instance the horses
were barncssed, a run of 2, 1874 feet "a
little less than half a mile) was made,
and water thrown from the hose in the
wonderfully brief time of l minute BIZ
seconds.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
Modern

Diggs-I just finished reading an &C
Of how they burned Eereties at
the stake in ancient times. Such bar
barism would not be tolerated in this
enlightened age.
Biggs-No, indcedi The modern
hereto is let of with a roast in the re-
ligiods journals. Chicago News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
TIE sun DIAL.

ION which was written, Il mark only the
bright hours. ~
! mark the bright hours, ard only the bright:
! owen not IN darkness, but ever in light;
| garner the sun sheavvs ard dream not Of
night
Fast, fast fades the brightness, tho bloom 0,
the years,
And life seeks the lsl io tho darkness it
fears.
It's too swift for s.1r dnbinp. TOO s,roat for
your tears
mark the bright hours. The shadow is cast
30 soon ON iife's morning-the MONDAY is past.
Treasure light for tie night-treasure light TO
the lasti
Atlanta Constitution.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24

A plant grows in Assam which has
the peculiar property, when chewed, of
temporarily neutgalizing the sense of
taste as regards sweet and bitter things.
The Hindoos claim hat the plant is an
antidote to snake bite.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
h Ian w,.~.

lis there any portion Of the fowl you
prefer, MAJOR" asked the hostess bland
ly.
"The left wing, il You please"
"The left wing?''
Eyes" retorted the major. gazing
dubiously at the platter. IL believe it is
always good military tactics to bring
the left wing of . veteran corps into &C.
Hon.'-London Fun.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24

Ralph Waldo Emerson once told q
good story OF a friend who always car-
ried in his pocket "A horse chestnut ~ q
protection against Rheumatism, tpst the
same IS other people wear shields and
ether specifies. Emerson thus teSfifles
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24

to the results in his friends case: "He
has never had the rheumatism since he
began TO carry it, and indeed it appears
to have had a retrospective operation
for he never had it before"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24

Out of the enormous number of WON
en- in Constantinople-the population is
nearly 1000, 000--not more than 5000
can read or write.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24

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The times., 1898-07-30
PULLED A LAWYERS NOSE.
Fined for the Insult, and Must Nov,
Defend a Damage Suit.

Nyack, n Y, July 29-Frederick Beet
son. proprietor of a boarding house at
Grand View, was fined $50 by Police Jus
tice Hoffman for pulling the nose of John
MacFarlare, a lawyer, in the courtroom
here yesterday. The affair has caused
sensation, and the trouble is not ended
for MacFarlane began suit against Beet
son for 81 900 damages.
The trouble grew out of a law suit in
which Beetson's son Frank was the de-
fendant On July 6 two children of
Charles Nobe, of Grand View. while
standing near the roadside at their home
were wounded by a small bullet which
passed through the arm OF one into the
arm of the other Frank Beetson was
arrested a few days ago charged with
careless shooting. resulting in the injury
to the two children He was acquitted
yesterday. Several young women board
ers in Beetsons house testified that he
was in the house at the time the shoot
ing took place.
After the close of the case Frederick
Beetson stepped up to aIaeFarlane, who
had acted for the prosecution, caught
him bv the coat and pulled his nose.
MacFariane is small man, while Beet
son is larger and more powerful.
The times., 1898-07-30
BLUEJACKETs' TALES OF WOE
They Say They Were IIftreated on
the Storeship Panama.

New York, July 2--Lawyer Eugene V.
Brewster has begun an action against
the United States Government 20 recover
damages for men who say they were
illtreated while on the storeseip Panama
The complainants are John J. Pinker-
ton. of No 19S Eighth Street; William
c. Murphy. of No. 3G7 Fifth Ayenre:
Thomas C. Pollock. of No. 81 Second
Street. and John C. Murphy. or No Ss7
Fifth Avenue. They have just arrived
in Brooklyn. They say they were i'll
fed, their wages were unpaid, and that
transportation was not provided for
their return home. although eheir reIa-
tives had sent money for their tickets
Pinkerton's face and hands were
swollen. Murphy also had biotches on
his hands The disease was pronounced
scurvy by Brooklyn physici..n. The
men are weak ard sick.
The Panama was a Spanish prize cap
tured by the lighthouse tender Man
grove, of the Havana blockading fleet
and was sent North and converted INTO
Quartermaster's Ship No. L She was
bound for Santiago
The times., 1898-07-30
LUXURIES FOR THE WOUNDED.
Fallen Heroes Are Remembered by
Fair Women,

New York, July 2e-At the Marine Hos
pitaI. Staten Island yesterday Mause-
bullets were extracted fz7q, several OF
the soldie-- -'nn on wedneSAG.:- submit
led 20 sn =. .a7 examination. The men
are ss.air.g bullets home as souvenirs.
All the men suffering from wounds made
by the Mauser are recovering rapidly.
Luxuries for the men continue TO ar
rive Mrs Snowden, OF Grimes Hotel,
Staten Island. who has been particular
ly kind 70 the wounded. yesterday sent
many bouquets of flowers with this mes
sage:
II have son in the Rough Riders.
The flowers I send viii family express
my pity and admiration for and eternal
obligations to the defenders of our coun-
try the home of the unhappy and op-
pressed OF all nations"
Men, physically able to leave the hos
pital on furioughs. are prevented by lack
of clothes, many of them having only
pajamas.
Several cratesl Of lemons and oranges
arrived for the wounded men on Cover
uor's Island They were sent by Mrs.
T. Scheppe, of New York city. whose
son is one Of the Seventy-first In the
evening an elderly man divided a good
Iy roll OF money among the boys. Asked
his name, he said: "Just an American" "
At Bellevue the surgeons report favor
ably of the men. and several bands of
young women cheer the patients with
songs. and somebody is sending ice cream
to the wards every day.