A cracker bakery is being built at
Mitchell.
Final proof notices in the Huron
l.,nd district have to be published six
weeks.
A new grade 1 wheat will be estab
lished the coming season, to be known
.-is extra Xo. 1 hard. It must be clean
ii very i'ree from cockle.
The papers transferrin? the Tfunni
bal and St. .losi'ph railroad to the Chi
.ijro, Hurlington and Quiiiev Railroad
•iiiinany have leen signed in Nev
York.
ICliza Pinkstort. of whom the associ
,'d press has paid out thousands of
iivllars l'or reports in. which she was
•,'n pi'iniinent cliaracter, died on the
istinsl., in jail and was buried as a
pauper.
Although fifty Jewish persons were
taken from the debris of the-cyclone
that passed over Wesson, Miss., none
were seriously injured. The question
naturally arises: Were they better
1 han their neighbors to be thus favor-
Experiments with seed corn ir, Wis
consin and Minnesota appear to estab
lish the belief that the germinating
quality of the grain was destroyed by
tie severe cold weather of last winter,
'i here is, therefore, apprehension that
1 he corn crop this year will be short.
After the first, of July next the fol
lowing additional Dakota post-otlices
will be made money order ollices:
Wheatland, Grafton, Ellendale, Good
win. Plankinton, Lennox, Mount, Ver
non. Kimball, L,ake Preston, Webster,
t'haniberlain, Clark, Fort Tot-ten, »Sa
-in, Alexandria.
A singular alliance has been formed
in Belgium between alcohol and educa
lion. An alms-box l'or the secular
M-hools is a recognized feature of every
place where liquor is sold, and every
astomer drops into it his sou as .regu
larly as he fees his waiter. A school
building, costing 3400.000, has just been
built from the sous thus collected. The
r-.iiue plan is on trial in France.
In Kingsbury county the settlere are
bound to do away with lumbermen as
t.ir a# possible—being now engaged in
building their houses of grout. If
they will opeg. u{
ft
correspondence
with I,. G. Wilson of this county they
will leara of another plan of building
with sand a!nd Ijme that beats grouting
bad. We know of some of Mr. "WjJ
•on's work done four years ago that is.
still there."
The new postal notes which were
provided for at the last session of Con
iri-ess will be issued Kept. 1st, 1S83.
They will be for sums of less than 85
and payable only in the V. IS. by the
Postmaster at any money order odice,
within three months from the last day
.)!' the month of issue, if the note is
lost or destroyed no duplicate can be
issued. The-only real advantage gain
is that, fractional parts of a dollar
itiay be sent in this way.
In an interview ex-Delegate Petti
j-ri'W gives new form and his owrf vig
or of statement to the situation In re
gard to the division and admission of
1 akot.H. Doth the northern and south
ern sections, a-re ready, he says, for di
vision, and both are eager for admis
sion—a boon, however, not to be ex
pected of a Democratic congress be
fore the next presidential election. lie
relieves the proposed constitutional
convention would be of use to place
upon the party in power the responsi
bility of refusing statehood to nearly
.'•imUJUtl people who demand it.
And do you know it is a splendid
'hing that the woman you really love
will never grow old to you. Through
the wrinkles of time, through the
march of years, if you really love her,
you will always see the face you have
liivi-il and won. And a woman who
really loved a man does not see that he
utows old he Is not decrepit to her he
.iues not tremble he is not old he
seems to be the same gallant gentle
man who won her heart and hand. I
like to think that love is eternal, and
io love in (hat way, and then go down
the hill of life together, and as you go
d.iwn. bear perhaps the laughter of
ji'i .nidehiiuren. while the birds of joy
and love sing once more in the Jealless
i-.inches ut the 1 ree of age.—-hob In
gersoll.
The recent exposures of the scandal
ous treatment of lunatics confined in
ti.e Xvw York tftsoo asylums have at
tracted great attention in .the Empire
state. A bill has been introduced in
the Legislature providing that in fu
ture no person can. be eoiitintd in an
insane asylum except upon the certifi
cate of two physicians, and giving
power of inspection to boards of man
agers, who are to have every facility
fur private examinations of patients.
The facr that no such law alieady ex
ists goes along way toward substanti
aring the allegation that it was easier
1
gt-it a sane person into an asylum iri
\ew York than in any ether state of
the Union, and it certainly is time that
some reasonable amount of red-tape
should 1-e rtecessary before a man can
oe torn from his home and friends and
immured for life in a den o.t lunatics.
"If there Is anything under ll'eav
en," said Col. McGlinoy at the late dai
rymen's convention at Mankato, "that
will raise a mortgage off your farm
quicker than a cow, 1 don't know what
it is. It has proved to be the best
mortgage lifter that was ever intro
duced into Illinois, Iowa or Wiscon
sin. and it will do as much for Minne
sota as it has done for those states and
we welcome Minnesota, the youngest
dairymaid of (he quartette, into our
midst." Col. McGlinev speaks whereof
he knows on the subject of dairying.
To the modest, unostentatious, incon
sequential cow must we look for the
guide that shall conduct the victims of
misplaced confidence in wheat from
their wilderness of del it to independ
ence and prosperity.
The Scientific American, the leading
paper of its class in the country, un
der the heading "Schooled but Not Ed
ucated," discusses a topic which bears
a most important relation to the meth
ods of instruction in vogue in this day
and land. The argument is that our
colleges and schools neither furnish
the information required for the grave
responsibilities which men have to
meet in practical business, nor materi-^
ally enlarge the capacity and facility
for securing this information by Hub
sequent experience. It says: "The in
tellectual habits acquired in school and
college may possibly enable him ulti
mately to grapple with greater power
and skill with the later problems of
real life—greater, that is, than he
would have shown had he been left en
tirely unschooled yet in the adminis
tration of affairs he is likely to be dis
tanced for the best part of his life by
the unschooled practical man who
knows from early and real experience
precisely what to do iij aijv emergency.
The young man fresh from school is
apt to know with thoroughness much
that the busy world has no use for. lie
has general notions of many arts and
sciences, but his positive knowledge of
the realities upon which such arts and
sciences are based is usually next to
nothing still less does he know of the
practical methods of men who apply
them to human uses, His educational
years have been spent mainly in a
world apart from and largely out of re
lation with the modern working world
he is to enter upon when his schooling
ends. His education, admirable as it
may appear from a theoretical point of
view, serves rather to unfit than to lit
him for practical life and his real edu
cation has to begin afresh in the rude
and costly school of experience,"
It is not the worst feature of mod
ern schooling that it is really inade
quate for the practical purposes of life,
but a more insidious feature is that
the recipient of it is generally im
pressed with the idea that when he
graduates he has been fitted with all
the knowledge necessary. If the boy
or young man could understand, when
he leaves school or college that he is
now merely ready to learn and that his
practical education is but beginning
instead of having been completed, he
would be much the better for this com
prehension but the fact is that the
methods and the surroundings of an
ordinary so-called higher education are
such as to debauch the mind of the
youth, and make it well-nigh impossi
ble l'or him to understand thut books
and stated lessons do not contain all
that it is nepessavy to know—Ex.
Cattle, East and West.
A statement was sent out from Wash
ington the other day in regard to the
live-stock interests which deserves
spe
cial attention. .Some of its statistics
are presumably correct, or, to be more
exact, may be supposed to rest on offi
cial information on file in the Interior
Department but the general idea per
vading it is all wrong. This statement
purports to be a summary of a paper
prepared at the llureau of Agriculture
and approved by the commissioner,
Dr. Loripg, a scientific farmer from
Massachusetts. The report may do
the Commissioner injustice. It would
be unfair to judge him and his work
upon what is perhaps a wide departure
from his views. Hut on the other
hand, public interest demands that the
false impression given in regard to
Western cattle be promptly corrected.
It is stated that the loss of live stock
amounts to about 806,000,000 annually
in this country, and it is assumed that
this loss is due to disease, and mainly
to pleunpueumonia, and it is further
assumed that this terrible malady is
common to the whole country. Here
in lies the great mistake and mischief
of the business. The great bulk of
the cattle of the United States graze
west of the Alleghany Mountains^ and
it may well be doubted if a really au
thentic case of pleuro-pneumonia in
the West can lie shown. It is as for
eign to our Western herds as leprosy is
io the homes of our people. The live
stock men of the West- are constantly
apprehensive' that the infection may
be brought to the prairies and the
plains by young stock from the East.
A great many calves fed on Eastern
whey and porridge during the summer
literally "go West and grow up with
the country," and during the latter
part of September and the entire month
of October the trade in this kind of
calves at the Union Stock Yards is
quite large-. Thus far no harm has
come ox it, and the business is sure to
assume vast proportions. There is re
ally great waste In "deaconing." and it
is according to the fitness of present
things that a layr' proportion of "West
ern ca]Vi-s should be shipped to regions
too remote for dairies, there to become
beeves.
If it
were not for this
pasture.
fact
the pleuro-pneumonia question would
possess no self-interest
for
the West.
Pleuro-pneumonia is bred by con
finement. Cattle want, the fresh air o!
the
In many parts ol' Europe
and some parts of (he United State
they are kept in stables the year around
while at the West the cattle are shut
up in close barns, if at all, which i^
rare, only when the extreme inclemen
cy of the \\e:ilher demands it. Otu
Western system of stock-raising is at
least absolute safety against indigen
ous pleuro-pneumonia. .Its prevalence
at the East has been greatly exaggera
ted, It is almost wholly confined to
the seaboard the Middle States. In
the near yicinity of Washington pa
tients might be found for Dr. Loring's
experimental veterinary hospital, but
the Commissioner must not fall into
the error of mistaking "the rustic mur
mur of his berg" for the lowing of our
Western herds.
In the statement in question it is as
serted that "the annual losses accruing
from diseases among cattle of all kinds
ire above 10 per cent, without referring
to the accidents of storms such as have
recently produced disastrous results in
the cattle regions of the southwest."
Ilad the statement been that the losses
of this year for the entire country, ow
ing to the severe storms of the entire
ranch region, southwest and northwest
both, were fully 10 per cent, the asser
tion would have been very near the
truth. The cattle drift with the wind,
and often perish with thirst. The
streams are frozen, and, perhaps, not
found at ajl, and death is inevitable.
In ordinary seasons, however, the loss
es on the plains do not average over 2
per cent a year.
The aggregate number of cattle in
the country at the present time is not
far from thirty-four millions, and the
actual loss from pleuro-pneumonia any
year was almost below estimate. The
importance of stamping it out is to
guard against the future, and, above
all, to remove foreign prejudice against
American live stock, a prejudice which
works very great, loss to the general
cattle interest of the country, but more
especially of the West—a remarkable
instance of vicarious punish
inert with
out the redeeming feature of any ac
tual atonement. {Inter-Ocean.
11. 1'Al.MlCli,
PRACTICAL STONE MASON,
Wessiiuston Springs, 1). T.
Orders lor any work in Jit* lino ot stoiK! ma
sonry will receive prompt attention. ].
o. wl-
dress Klnier or orders inav be loft Willi Mr. 1'.
K. Harrett at the post office.
LEW HOJSS,
Ikau IN
Dry Goods,
Groceries
CI.OTHIMG,
Flour and Peed, and
General Merchandise.
Wpssingtop Springs, Dakota.
NOTICE
To Citizens of Wessington Springs ami
vicinity.
PETER J. TOUHD BfiOTHE
Miners and
Well •ggers
I.all- train ill.- Silver Mi!ir«
of
An/on.i. wili si .on
have their complet. .mini lot Moknaia
well to
(-ity
iv-iiiiiv. depth
on
or
near ill- !!:. K\-
1 ili oil Ji.i
Illl.i.S
nil!
IM- i. sii,-i-iu:-
!y.
l'i,|-«on*'ii-.-ii-iiii
a good
I'inap
will aKu Hint
a vari'-i i-.i ^"li-ri
from.
Aa
reSl)0!uU-lH-(' I
l!(-i-l-i!!!!'.'
1' ii liusmc-s
is
coidially .invited am! strtciiy private. jj,.-, Vesi
.tciee
is also tin- !.t-aiii|ii'ir:i-v
lor
jirairi.'
lirrakiiiu :r-' ji-j-.i'. h-.iii, n^.
PETER J. WSELAND.
Elmer I'ost l)!ti1-0 Kcsideia-r
WESSINGTON
S I N C: S
Tile IM'W
town of tVcssintitoii SprjiiKs lately
|!a|.ted by 111-1(1! SCOTT, is situated ill tl
renter of .. ...
traot of hi
rie|y of si
in j)akntii
1'iaj.iro |Ui .vrni'ij
center of the new county of JERAULD.
tract of huul tmsur|iased in fertlTTly oT soil, vn
ie|y of seenei-y-iiiii jiure ivate|-liy any
i.i il,lb.,t.. oiiiiiraeina lie' Well-known
county
WBMINGTON HIULS
celebrated f'*r their heimMfiil smmory, springs
of pure ami medicinal watem, and an atmos
phere of singular purity, ninRinu it without
doulit soon to lie one of tlx' most popular re
sorts for t-l"»se sut»kl»B rest and health. The
town site embraces wifllln its limits the well
known
WESSINGTON SPRINGS
Justly praised by the Vuriians and early settlers
ol southern J)«kota for their wonderful healing
properties. These Springs are varied, and while
some are iiieiUfinal-. containing
-Sffiuliur. Iron, Magnesia, ad Lime.
others ate simply pure, limpid water. The pro
prietors of the town site are now engaged in
erecting a hotel to supply a demand jong exist
ing lor accommodations to parties wishing to
make a protracted stay at the springs. Arrange
ments have also been made for the erection o'l'
GRIST mu,
Dry goods and general store, drug store, church,
school house, blacksmith shop, cane mill, bank,
and othi-business interests will soon be repre
sented. i'lie proprietors offer liberal induce
ments to all who first locate. The attractions
and advantages are so many that it is impossible
to name all, but the fact that springs of
PURS WATER,
are situuted forty feet above the town site with
ample flow to furnish all the water reouircd for
protection from tire and for domestic use, is one
ot such apparent- advantage that it should lie
mentioned. Jhe new county is already pretty
wiill populated by us tiuou class of people ascaii
lie loiind anywhere intelligent-, enterprising.
Jiiul uulustrjmis-anrt as a couswiucni'c the busi
ness iMiterprist* locating lim? will Km! alralv a
"CihsuhI for what tJiey may wish to manufacture
wsi'll. The new town lies dim-tly on tin- line
"l extension of
Two Railroads,
and will without, doubt soon havo railroad com
petition. At present the nearest comprtitiw
points are twenty miles distant on the North
western, and t\vnty-tivo miles distant on ihe
hicajro. Milwaukee »N: St. Paul.
I'or further intormation, call on or address
BURR & SCOTT,
Wttssinjrtou Springs, or Mitchell, Dak.
B. ORR,
iSilccessor tod. .Jameson.)
LIVERY STABLE
—WITH
Good Horses and Buggies.
Is prepared to lu'commodute those wishing
inything In his )fne upon (lie
Most Favorable Terms.
Plankinton, i-J Dakota.
LOWE & LOWE,
Dealers in
-:CROCERIES-:
Boots and Shoes,
Hats and Caps,
Furnishing Goods,
-AND—
Genral Merchandise
l-l Plankinton, Dakota.
W. F. AYKltK.
AYERS & BARNES,
Dealers in
SHELF & HEAVY
HARDWARE,
Cutlery. 6ms, Revolvers, AMUOH,
Fishing Tackle, Etc.
Call Before Purchasing.
CorJIai" iind First St., l-l I'lankin m, 1).
C. J. ANDERSON.
Dealer
in
A W A E
Stoves, and Tinware.
Our slock is full anil complete in evi-r-v i.-irtici
lar, ami our prices defy
Wagons,
Plows,
AND A FULL LIE OF MACRBEEYs
C.J.ANDERSON.
I'liiitU' iitt-n,
STRIKING
HEAD LINES
Are used to call attention to the
fart
Your Watciies and Clucks.
that
isan ailvertl-i m'"t ofth« Chlengp.Miw'
kee & St. Panl Railway,
Us Eight trunk lines ti-:iv« rse the
lions of Northern Illinois. Wiscousi.
Minnesota. Dakota and Iowa.
l.ocatH directly on iis
|jm»
are the citi..s
Chicn-O, jMi|-.\auli'-.'. l.aCl'-'s-e. Wir.oua.
l'aul, Minneapolis, Madison. I'rairie t!-i
M.-iS-ui City. Sioux Ci .j. *!joo\ uikVj(m,,,.
Mitchell, Plnukiulow. 'Albert i.i-.t.
il. i-n. I 111 ii.11u-. Kt.ck 1-i.unl. cciiar lipids ,,
Council nilifis, as \v 1| it,s iiiiM-n. rali|
principal business renters und Mvorite resin-:
and passengers piii)j West. North, S..11II,
l-ast are able lone Hie Cliicago,
kee & St. Paul ttailn^tv I ho test aiiv
tap'.
Ticket- oMcus e\ cry where are snjipii,.,)
Railway.
v...
Maps and Time Tables \\h',ill detail the in- i,
of the line, anil a^enis stand ready to furiii^h
formation and sejl tickets at cheapest rat,'-s.)M
thechlcago, Milwaukee
A
St. Pai"
S. S. MKlilillJ,, /V.. v. ir. CAIIPKNTKI
(len. Manager. ien. Pass, and Tkt.
al"
J. T. CI.ARK, (i (CO. II. II!-"Al-"KO]
(Sen. Supt. Asst. (!en. Pass. Am
Plankinton
Implement House!!
JAMES & NELSON,
Dealers in
Threshers,-:-Har
vesters.
Mowers, Slirrin and Breaking Plow?,
Harrows. Hay Rakes,
Wagons,
& BUGGIES,
Call and Examine Goods,
I'lankinton, l-l Dnkntn.
GO TO THE RED FRONT
CITY
J.
iUUNKS
JEWELER.
A: Plankinton, toj
(Jo to ihi- ivod 1- ron*
For .lewelry and Si!y'".-.vai«
10
to lie H.el JYoj.f
i-:»r ii-al iii)in!, nil'-r*,. I-.'ti*
Co to the Roil Frojit
To have Yi.ar \V.-i:cl,o-i. Ci-.cnS. and .IcWt
ry repaired. le-re it vdl be ,!••!,.- a. !'.r-! cl r'
in ii in a a a a
Call (or the ROCK.FQRU WATCH,
l.
competi­
tion. V.'e aKo have
full line el
!IA.VS().\. l'niprietM.
B. H. SULLIVAN.
Clerk of the District Court,
Aiuora t'oiin'y, l! .k'.)!a.
Boa! Sstalo. Lcnii. Locaiii ilp!
'I'll ii'.ioi. .-.v,
1.-I
::i
Cultivators»
i„rat!.4 I'r.-ei-inli.
-'•""••-ter.'l. II iia'-.-r Ciaii.i., ja Au-
-ti":itv. i«-,il(ls mat
lieii-ev iv. valaa
I'i ll-i'.a-'-iti.wlatid
r: is :j:.
Cia-ui.-: c.• 11-•'rl\
l"l' -Ml lui-aln-r.- br
lore the I'. I jirompl-
to. -Is -l!el Pill I.W.H
-l.ec|.,:iy. I ...
Corrosponocnoe Scioitc«J-
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