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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
Selecting Glassware,

To select glass with discretion it Is
necessary to understand somewhat OF
It's manufacture, and to recall the
properties Of the chemicals Of which it
Is composed. These materials are
chiefly soda, potash, lime, alumina and
oxide of lead. The quality of the glass
TO be manufactured depends upon the
amount of the basic material uniteu
with the silica or sand. The best glass
Is made with lead, which gives to il
luster, fusibility and high refractory
powers. 1t is often called flint glass,
to distinguish it from lime glass, whi.h
is much cheaper and of a decidedly
greenish tint. Flint glass is that which
is most generally used for cutting and
polishing. 1t may be picked out by the
clear, bell-like tone which ii sends
forth when struck. This test may be
made without any danger Of breaking
the glass, If it be held firmly in one
hand while the upper parts or edge, is
sharply struck with a pencil or other
instrument, the only care requisite be-
ing to see that the glass does not touch
any object when it is struck, since. if
there be room for it to vibrate, glass
will never break.-Harper's Bazaar.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
A Word About GIycerine.

Since so many people use pure glyc-
crime for the skin, a word of caution
seems necessary. If you apply a little
glycerine to the tip of your tongue you
will find that, although it has a pleas
ant, sweet taste, the first sensation
that is felt is one of pain and burning.
This is caused by the fact that glycer-
ine has a strong affinity for water, and
that it absorbs all the moisture from
the surface which it touches, thus dry
ing up and ~parching the nerves. Ig-
norant of this fact, nurses and moth
ers have applied pure glycerine to the
chafed skin of infants, producing, Oft
en-, great pain. The glycerine ought to
have been at first mixed with an equal
bulk of water. This being done, 1t
may be applied to the most tender sur
faces without producing injury, and, as
IL does not dry up, it virtually main
tains the part in a constantly moist
condition, excluding Inc air and pro-
noting the healing process.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
A Noted knight TempIar
Owes His Health to POTuna

Colonel T. P. Moody, a prominent
Knight Templar, is well known in
every city in the United States west OF
Buffalo, N. Y, as a jewelers. Auc-
tioneer. In the city OF Chicago as q
prominent lodge man, being a mem
Der of the X. It's and also Of the
Masons. The cut shows Colonel
Moody In the costume OF the Oriental
Consistory Masons, 32d degree.
In a recent letter from 5000 Michi-
gan avenue, Chicago, Ill, Mr.. Moody
says the following:
"For over twenty-five years I
suffered from catarrh, and for
over ten years / suffered from
catarrh of the stomach terribly.
"Thavef taken sill kinds ofmedi-
cines and have been treated by
all kinds of doctors, as thousands
of my acquaintance are aware
In different parts of the United
States, where Ihave Travelled, but
the relief was only temporary,
until a little over a year ago I
started to take Peruna, and at the
present time I am better than 4
have been for twenty years.
1.-THE has left mySfom-
ach entirely and ! am free from
Indigestion and dyspepsia and will
say to all who are troubled with
Catarrh or stomach trouble of any
kind, don't put it off and suffer,
but begin to take Peruna right
away, and keep it up until you
are cured, as you surely will be If
you persevere." r
my wife, as many in the southwest
can say, was troubled with a bad cough
and bronchial trouble. ana doctors all
over the country gave her up TO die,
as they could do nothing more for her.
She began taking Peruna with the re-
suit that she is better now than she
has been in years, and hey cough has
almost left her entirely. The soreness
has left her lungs and she is as well
rs she even was in her life. with
thanks, as she says, to Peruna. Yours
very truly, I. p. Moody.
a Catarrh in its various forms Is rap
idly becoming a general curse. An
undoubted remedy has been discov-
cred by DR.. Hartman. This remedy has
been thoroughly tested during the past
forty years. Prominent men have
come to know Of its virtues. and are
making public ~utterances on the sub
ject. To save the country we must
save the people. To saw the people
we must protect them from disease.
The disease that is at once the most
prevalent and stubborn Of cure is ca
tarrh.
II one were to make a list Of the
different names that have been ap-
piled to catarrh in different locations
and organs, the result would be as
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
BOTH SIMPLE AND DIFFICULT.
The Chinese Language Has No Gram
NAUTICAL Rules, but Is Made Up of
Many Dialects.

Many Dialects.
ParadoXical though it may sound, we
are strictly within the limits of accu-
racy when we say that Chinese is, at
he same time, the simplest and most
difficult language in the world; most
simple from the absence of those gram
matical rules and infiectional forms
which vex the student Of European
languages: most difficult because of
the combination Of different languages
and all known as Chinese.
The book Chinese is never spoken.
while the colloquial in written form
would merit the supreme contempt of
the average Chinese student and SUI
percillious scholar.
The written character is universally
the same throughout the empire; but
each province, city, town and village
seems TO have reserved the right to in
vent its own pronunciation Of those
written words which are common to
the whole nation, and which constitute
an eternal and inseparable bond which
will link the eighteen provinces to-
gether as long rs China remains a ma
ton.
1he posSlplilty OIL TWO
meeting each other, and. while each
speaks Chinese, being unable to in
dulge in mutual conversation in that
language, will at once serve forcibly to
illustrate the pronounced differences
of the Monaghan tongue.
1t would be more correct to say that
China possesses a number of Ian
guages, distinct and separate, and
each subdivided into numeros dialects,
a linguistic condition which at once
suggests the absence Of railroads or
other means Of bringing the various
provincials into conversational con-
tact with each other.-Frederick Poole,
in New Lippincott.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
Mother Has Been
Watching OVsr .Sium-
bsrfnS Daughter For
Seyenfesn Years.
DEATH IN
LIFE

injects daily for nourishment a prep
aration recommended by a physician
at the commencement Of the long
sleep. Whether or not it helps 10
maintain life cannot be determined.
Among Marguerite Bouyenval's many
scientific visitors is the famous Char
1t of Paris. He has made many ex-
periments without throwing much
light OF the mystery of her condition
whether it be catalepsy, lethargy or
true sleep. One important fact he has
discovered-that all her digestive or
gans are destroyed. The inference he
draws from this is that were she to
wake she would speedily perish from
starvation. She lies resting one cheek
on her pillow-always the same cheek.
Her face is long and yellow. The bone
cavities of the eyes are shaded in
blue. and the whites of the eyes
CLEAN beneath the dropping lids.
There is something rat-like and ghast-
ly about the waXen mouth. The
breathing is so gentle that it makes
no sound, nor any visible movement.
A faint p~ulsation of the heart may
be detected with the hand. The limbs
are flexible and will remain wherever
placed. Poor old Mere BouyenVal
changes the bed linen and the white
peasants cap on her daughters head,
and she moves with infinite care lest
the sleeper wake to die.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
NEARLY A BREAK DOWN.
Mrs. Olberg, q Prominent Minnesota
Lady, Tells a Remarkable Story.

04ASs 1893
Lady, Tells n Remarkable Story.
Albert Lea, Mimi, Nov. 19.-(Spe-
ciaD-There are few men and women
in this state or indeed in the whole
northwest, who have not heard, or do
not know personally Mrs. Henriette G.
Olberg of this city.
Mrs. Olberg was Judge of Linen and
Linen Fabrics at the Worlds Fair, at
Chicago, and superintendent Of Flax
Exhibit at the International EXPOSE
ton at Omaha, Nebraska, in 1898. Mrs.
Olberg is Secretary Of the National
Flax, Hemp and Ramie Association.
and Assistant Editor of the "Distaf."
Her official duties are naturally very
onerous, and involve a great deal OF
travelling and liviag away from home.
She says:
During the Worlds Fair in Chi
& my official duties so taxed my
strength, that / thought | would have
to give them up Through the con-
tinual change Of food and irregular
meal hours, and a poor quality Of wa
ter, / lost my appetite, end became
wakeful and in the extreme.
My Kidneys refused to perform their
usual duties. One Of my assistants
advised me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills.
and sent for a box. / am pleased to
say that l derived immediate and per-
manent benefit. | used three boxes,
and feel ten years younger.
II have great confidence in the eff
fcacy OF Dodd's Kidney Pills. and am
always glad to speak a good word in
their favor.
"Dodd's Kidney Pills are weak wom-
ems best friend"
All Dealers. so cents a box.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22

Marguerite Bouyenval has been asleep
seventeen years. II she ever wakes
1t will be but to die Immediately, the
scientists of France believe. Her
mother, an aged peasant woman, walks
on tiptoe and speaks in whispers lest
the sleeper wake. 'The Sleeper of
Thenelles," she is called. Thenei
Is an old-world little place in the bot
tom Of a picturesque valley thirty
miles from Saint Quentin. II is a
One-story building Of cement, trimmed
With red brick. 1t consists of two
rooms, both darkened with heavy
shutters. In one lies the sick wom-
an" as the peasants call her; in the
other are herded her father, mother,
two brothers and two sisters. If nat
te did not put Marguerite Bouyenval
10 sleep the law would have put her
70 death. She killed her own child,
after being deserted by her soldier
lover. The crime was discovered.
Gendarmes broke into the cottage and
advanced upon the shrinking girl. She
iel at her feet. and never since have
ner eyes been open. Unwilling to try
70 execute a sleeping girl the law
turned her over to the doctors, and
inc doctors, after vainly striving to
wake her, restored her to her mother.
Inc sleeper Of Thenelles takes no food,
because her jaws are set. Her mother
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
For
Old People
Cannibals
Devour
their Aged
Relatives.

mothers, moved by pure maternal af-
lectlon' eat their children who have
died natural deaths. When a father
has become old and unable In follow
the tribe in it's wanderings he on
treats his son to kill him. The SON
obeys and the body is roasted and
eaten by the whole family to the ae-
compartment of loud bowls and
shrleks of grief. Herberg says Of the
wild tribes of Cauca, in Colombia that
the husband eats his wife, the son his
rather and the brother his brother or
sister. The view that C~annfbalism il
prompted by a real liking for human
flesh has been generally abandoned
Cannlbalism is most rampant in tropi-
cal regions, where there Is an abund-
ance OF animal food. Revenge and
religious and other psychological mo-
lives have much to do with South Am
erican cannibaIism. The deadly ha-
tired which exists between different
tribes often impels them to deyour
their captives as a token of vengeance,
This custom is said to have been in
troduced among the Tupi, who at n
time were not cannibals, by the ex-
ample of a woman who threw herself
on the murderer of her son and bit a
piece out Of his shoulder. The Paren-
tintins attack living captives with
their teeth in the same horrible fash
ion. Similar cases of cannibalism.
prompted by revenge, occur among
most of the South American tribes.
The Kashibos of the upper Amazon
are the worst of all. They invariably
eat their captives, and for this rea-
son they are especially detested by
the neighboring tribes. - Chicago
Chronicle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
sliced Mutton in Chatting Dish.

Have ready six good-sized but thin
slices of mutton six olives, u fine, or
two tablespoons of capers minced, six
teaspoons Of grape or plum jelly, or
the same amount OF tomato catsup or
sauce, one level tablespoon Of butter
creamed with one rounded teaspoon of
corn starch. and one-half cup OF gravy,
mutton broth or hot water. Put the
water, jelly and olives into the brazer.
when boiling, add the butter. Stir till
ii is thick and smooth, then add the
meat, salt to taste, and o for a few
minutes. Serve very hot, directly from
the brazer, and pass it with thin slices
of brown bread or graham wafers.-s
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
JAPS AS%<
SERVANTS

IN the navy, Japanese servants are
priced above all others. but on land
tney seem to have their drawbacks.
'eannette Glider, writing in the Critic,
says "A lady, talking to me about
servants the other day, said that she
nAed the Japanese better than any
oners Tor many reasons, but that even
.uey had their drawbacks, one being
enat they did not like to stay in the
0ouhtry after the first of October, and
y many OF them were college under
sraouates. 1 have a Columbia junior
- my dining room,' said she, and a
harvard divinity student in my kitch-
Gu at the present time; but that is not
:" A short time ago I had a cham
Oeman-and-waiter who was highly
oommended to me by a fellow Japan
zoe VINO had lived with me before. He
- d nice-looking little fellow, but
no' a very good servant, for his mind
seemed to be on other things rather
euan his work. And then he would
aoh me such profound questions. /
,o'iy could not answer them: and
: Always had a book in his hand,
esen when he was making the beds.
naiiy had to tell him that, much
40 liked him in many ways, | should
'e ooilged to let him go. "All right"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22

I. pleasant and economical sa,.. Gus
= eating old and inflrm relatives
common among many native
\. Of South America. The Mayora-
- stick even at eating their
.arents and children. Indeed,
~ upon this disposal of the
- a sort of pious duty. The
o~sculatl speaks OF finding a
90 member of this tribe very
md weeping bitterly. When
,bs reason of his grief, the In
reDlied that in a little while he
W. he food for worms. whereas if
IA not been baptized his nearest
..,vos would have eaten him.
r.arlv he preferred this method OF
sai.her. The Yamnas Of the upper
'Es,on suck the marrow from the
80 Of their dead and thereby. &C
ding to their belief. transfer the
.s.ls Of the departed to their own
,.sIss The Kashibos on the Pachitea
.rsr apparently combine a religious
~ with their eating of the old. When
!, old man is told that his last day
/ At hand he exhibits signs of great
,,tsiaction, saying that he will soon
: his old friends once more. Then
are made for a big feast
"a the old man is knocked on the
,,ad with a club and devoured body
md bones. for even the bones are
rushed to powder. stewed into a
rotS and swallowed. No waste is al
owed in the Kashibos' kitchen. These
savages never eat the flesh Of
as they consider 1t poisonous,
nd also attribute to 1t the property
/ making it's eater effeminate and
Among the Botokudos
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22

tonishing. We have often published
a partial list of these names. and the
surprise caused by the first publication
Of it to all people, both professional
and non-professional, was amusing.
And yet we have never enumerated ALI
of the diseases which are classed as
catarrh. 1t must be confessed. how
ever, 20 see even this partial list drawn
up in battle array is rather appalling.
IL the reader desires to see this list,
together with a short exposition OF
each one, send for our free catarrh
book. Address The Peruna Medicine
Co.. Columbus. Ohio.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
THE MAKING OF HISTORY.
An Art in which Our Versatile Cous-
ms. the French People, Are Unri-

-" OuE NtENtNtls Jus
ms. the French People, Are Unri-
vailed.
France is the incarnation of the
Muse of History, inasmuch as she is
never idle. Her mode of making history
is distinct from that of any other ma
ton, and especially from ours. Eng
lam makes history in a matter-of-fact,
utterly unhistTionic and utterly nom
spectacular way; just as her best his
torlans record it in a sober, solid and
and often the reverse of brilliant man.
ner. Our incidents are not magnified
into episodes. and our episodes are not
inflated to the size of conclusive events.
There is no concerted, orchestral ac-
compartment to our rejoicings; on the
contrary, there is much cacophony I'M
der the name of cheering. We are lions
who roar like bulls Of Bashan; we are
the most materially civilized people on
the face of the globe who cannot COM
pine to decorate or illuminate a single
thcroughfare in a thoroughly artistic
manner.
On the other hand, there is no yelling
of Treason" at the slightest reserve.
We are, In fact, a staid, unimaginative
people, who take our pleasures not
"moult tristement," as Froissard had
1t, but sedately. until our animal spir-
It's get the better of us, and find vent
in the aforesaid Bull-of-Bashan roars.
But u c~heerfulness is, for all that,
never exhausted, and the largest stock
of it is reserved for duty" in the case
of misfortune. Our c~heerfulness Is the
bootjack of u resignation.--Illus-
trated London News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
PATENTS.
List OF Pat nts Issued Last Week I,
Northwestern Inventors.

List OF Pat nts Issued Last Week to
Northwestern inventors.
Otto Carlson and q. Garden, st
Paul, Mimi, folding umbrella; William
Curtis, Duluth, Mimi, machine foi
placing hoops upon barrels: John A
Ekelund, Minneapolis, Mimi, folding
umbrella; Conrad Glaum, Audubon
Mimi, straw stacker; Otto Hausman
Minneapolis, Mimi, attachment for bi-
cycles; Knud K. Lerol. Jr., Newburg
Mimi, regulator for windmills; Hilds
A. Nottingham, Fort Benton, Mont.
hasp lock; Henry G. Roth, Minneapo
lis, Mimi, adjustable compartment dis
play counter or cabinet.
Lothrop & Johnson, patent attorneys, 81
& 912 Pioneer Press Bldg. st. Paul. MINI.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
Obituary.

Editor-Callowman, the cigarette
fiend, is dead.
Publisher can't help it.
Editor-But he always paid up his
subscription.
Publisher-Then I guess we'd better
give him a puff.-Chicago News.
According to statistics, lightning
strikes more women than men each
year-probably because they are more
attractive.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
Lincoln as a rrre- Builder.

How the Lincoln stories grow! A
correspondent writing to the consti-
tution from near Louisville. Ky.,says:
,Mr Lincoln stopped over night at my
uncle,s house long before he became
president. 1t was cold weather, ana
the family did not rise as carry as
usual. when my uncle came down ne
found Mr.. Lincoln giving the negro
servant lessons in making a nre,
mads the fire in the next room ne
said. Go and warm By i til ! nA
this one,,"--AtlaEta Constitution
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
Sometimes These
Domestics are
Princes In
Disguise.

he said, and to my surprise, he went
that very day, while was out, without
waiting for his money. AS money is
usually the thing that they work for
| wondered and waited. Hearing moth
ing from him, | wrote to the Japanese
through whom l had engaged MIN,
making a particular point OF the I'M
paid wages. The man wrote back not
to worry about that; that my former
chamberman-and-waiter was not IN
need of money; that he was a prince
who had come to America to travel
and observe; that he was going TO
write a book on our manners ana
customs. and thought that the best
way to learn them vas to live In an
American household! Since then L
have been particular to ask my Japan
csc servants whether they are princes
in disguise or only divinity STU
DENTS"
The writer was once on a govern
ment ship where the were
.Japanese. and noticed that the WARD
room boys were much In awe OF the
berth-deck cook. 1t developed that the
berth-deck cook was a samural, n
of the old Sword bearing class, the
knights of Japan, while the wardroom
boys belonged to the merchant class
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
A Variable.

Teacher-How many pounds to the
long ton?
Precocious Pupil-Two thousand two
hunderd and forty.
Teacher-And how many to the short
ton?
Precocious Pupil-Depends on the
coal dealer.-Puck.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
Beat for the noweIa

NO matter what ails you, headache
TO a cancer, you will never get we'll un-
IN your bowels are put right. CAS-
help nature. cure you with
out grippe or pain, produce easy. natur-
al movements, cost you just 10 cents
TO start getting your health back.
CASCARETS Candy Cathartic. the
genuine put up in metal boxes. every
tablet has c. c. c. stamped on it. Be-
ware of limitations.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
Ginger and It's Uses.

"A Ats Sbtes
a hundred thousand farm houses
essence of Jamaica ginger is re-
saraed as one of the most valuable of
niiy medicines. 1t is still used with
susar In the cold water furnished to
ay,ng hands for drinking. 1t makes
wholesome beverage for any one in
Nv weather. Persons of weak diges-
n VIII find a few drops of the es-
I've useful II taken in water before
aAiast without sugar. Ginger tea.
oa. from the root, is of service, like
sr,.n Tea or sage tea, to produce per-
sva.ion In colds. or to stimulate the
49,, AFTER exposure. 1t is more pal
ess~e thar the decoctions OF sage and
pip In toothaches a bit Of root
a. ssr chewed slowly will remove the
~ n make one comfortable till n
ust can be consulted. early all the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
STATE OF ONO, CIR OF TOLEDO, 90

LUCAS COUNTY,
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he Is the
senior partner of the firm OF +. j. Cheney &Co.,
doing business in the City of Toledo, Comfy
and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum OF IN HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK j. CHENEY
Sworn TO before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day OF December, A. ID. 1885
cu A. w. GLEASON,
tSEA"J Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
OF the system. Send for testimonials, free.
+. j. CHENEY g. CO., Toledo, O
Sold by Druggists, 55c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
Shes n Winner.

He-O' promise to marry me. l know
m not worthy of you, but it will make
me so happy.
She-You drink, you smoke and Won
bet. "
he--lve signed the pledge, honor
bright. Now accept me.
ohe-Wen, o smoke and you bet.
he-HaVen't you smoked for a year.
Now, will you marry me?
she-You bet!-Harlem Life.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
The Oldest BnpL,o,o

IN the possession of the Bank of
england. 1t is dated December 10,
1889 and is for 555 pounds, but on ac-
count OF its age same is made very VAL
u"pie' one of the oldest and most val
uaole stomach medicines is Hostetter's
stomach Bittcrs. For fifty years it has
cured dyspepsia, indigestion. nervous
ness or Insomnia. 1t will cure when
faithfully taken.