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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01
What Violin Should a Child Useg

Ought young children to begin upon
small-sized violinsp All makers say
eyes," naturally, for they supply the
new violins of all sizes. But l m
phatically say "No." The sooner the
child gets accustomed to the right vio-
lin intervals the better; the small violins
merely present him with q series of
wrong distances, which he has success
sively to unlearn. 1t is bad enough if
in after years he learns the violoncello
OR tenor. Few violinists survive that
ordeal, and most people who take to
the tenor or cello after playing the vio-
lin keep to it. Either they have not
been successful on the violin, or they,
hope to become so on its larger, though
less brilliant, relation, but they have q
perfectly true instinct that it is difficult
to excel m both, because of the inter-
walls. Yet in the face OF this you put a
series of violins of different sizes into
the pupils hand on the ground that, as
his hand enlarges with years, the en-
larged keyboard will suit his fingers
better, but that is not the way the brain
works-the brain learns intervals. 1t
does not bother itself about the size of
the fingers that have got to stretch
them. A child of even seven or eight
can stretch all the ordinary inter-
walls on a full-sized violin finger-board.
He may not be able to hold the violin to
his chin, but he can learn his scales and
pick outlines, sitting on a stool and hold-
ing his instrument like a violoncello. Be-
fore the age of eight 1 found no difficulty
in doing this. But the greater the Difficult
ty the better the practice. The tendons
cannot be too muah stretched short of
spraining and breaking. Mere aching
is to be made no account of; the muscles
can hardly be too much worked. A
child will Don gain surprising agility,
even on a large finger-board. Avoid
the hateful figured slip of paper that
used to be pasted on a violin finger
boards in my youth, with round dots for
the fingers. 1 remember tearing mine
off in a fit of uncomfortable irritation.
1 found it very difficult, with the use of
my eyes, to put my fingers on the dots,
and v then the note was not always,
in tune, for of course the dot might be-
covered in a dozen ways by the finger
tips, and a hairs breadth one way or
the other would vary the note. But the
principle is vicious. A violin-player's
eyes have no more business with his
fingers than a billiard-player's eyes have
\ with his cue. He looks at the ball, and
the musician, if he looks at anything,
should look at the notes, or at his
audience, or he can shut his eyes if he
likes. 1t is his ears, not his eyes, have
to do with his fingers.-Rev. W. H.
HGWeas, IN GemtlemGn's Magazine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01

rather suddenly to wipe something of
his face. There was a 'hairy oobit''
crawling up his cheek!
1t flashed upon him then what the
trouble was, and clearing the room at a
bound, he plunged into an old shed OUT.
side and tore off his coat and waist
coat. a.
They were all alive with creeping,
things. The contents of the pill-boxes'
We're out, and had been swarming over
him like the lice of Egypt. But there
was something humorous in the very
misery Of the situation. 1t was himself
that was the %lunatic, and not the big
mOOr-woman.
After thoroughly shaking and beating
his clothes, Edward went and very,
humbly excused his intrusion to the
.'lady of the house." and departed for
home. After that he always carried tia
boxes to put his bugs and things in, in
stead of chip pill-boxes.-YouM's Com
91nHaOn-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01
Bought the Whole Farm.

A Hoosier, who was jogging into In
dianapolis the other day looked so down
in the mouth that an acquaintance halt
ed him to ask if any of the family were
dead.
.No," was the rather regretful reply.
"Anybody sickp"
.sGuess not. The old woman was
licking the children when 1 came
away"
s'Then what's the matter?"
s.I've been busted by q railroad"
"How?"
..Why, YOU know them five acres OF
mine out there? Well, [ was c%alculat-
ing to ask the company $4,000 for the
right OF way across, and have enough
land left to pasture the COWS and raise
VI Eaters, but they played sneak on
me-"
"They did,"
Eyes; sent one of their agents to me
and bought up the whole patch for $25
an acre, and I've got to vacate. That's
just the way with them monopolies, and
nobody need tell me that a poor maj
has any chance in this country. = Val
Street NeWS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01
Sam is Dead.

There died yesterday at the home of
Mrs. George T. Pitkin, No. 1928 Wabash
avenue, one of Chicago's Oldest residents
"a venerable Brazilian parrot. Sam
for such was the name by which he was
known to many friends in this city-had
years, and his career was a varied and
eventful one. At the time Of the great
Chicago fire Mrs. Pitkin was living on
Indiana street, on the North Side, and
when the flames swept up to her home
she seized the cage containing her an
Gent and ]loquacious pet. ''Take the
family Bible" said her husband. who
had overlooked the parrot in his efforts
to save his infant son, but Mrs. Pitkin,
according to the v%eracious reports, ct
those days, dropped the book of books,
and triumphantly carried her parrot to
aplace of safety. The bird that had
gone through the Chicago fire found
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01
Ordered Out.

Thomas Edward, the shoemaker nat
uralist of Scotland, used Cat one time)
to carry pocketsful of pill-boxes to put
the curious little live things in that he
picked up in his rambles, when not
''sticking to his last" The boxes were
the old-fashioned oval Kind, made of
bent ''chip" and glued at the joints.
One day, while out among the moor
lands, near the Ballock hills, between
Keith and Huntly, he was caught in a
furious thunderstorm, with a deluge of
rain. He reached q house, or hut, and
ran in without ceremony, soaked to the
skin. He found only two little girls in
side, who were somewhat alarmed at
first at his sudden appearance and di-
lapidated looks, but soon recovered
enough to inform him that ssmither was
cot breakin' sticks;' and a minute later,
while he stood by the fire slowly explor-
ing his many pockets to see how badly
his specimens were damaged, they actu-
ally began to litter and giggle at him.
Turning round, he saw one of them
pointing to his back and trying to sup
press her mirth. He could not imagine
the reason. Another and. yet another
stified laugh. On his looking round
again, they rushed out of the room, and
then he heard them exploding with
laughter.
The cause of their merriment was
this: The rainstorm had soaked Ed
wards clothes-and every pocket and
wallet was full of pill-boxes and water.
The glue of the boxes had melted; the
ants, worms, slugs, spiders, caterpillars
and such like had all escaped, and We're
mixed up in a confused mass.
They shortly began to creep out OF
the innumerable pockets which held
them. The little girls had seen the
mixture of half-drowned spiders,
beetles, ants and caterpillars crawling
up the strange mans back, and they
laugh by themselves.
Before the poor naturalist had dis
covered what the matter was, a terrible
looking woman, r~ed-headed, bare-footed
and six feet high, stalked into the hut,
| with an axe in one hand and a pole in
the other.
She approached Edward, and he
thought she was half-crazy and that she
might very likely kill him, for evidently
he stood no chance with her to fight
or to run away from, either, so long as
she was between him and the door.
Close to the trembling intruder came
the Amazon; and then she lifted up her
voice.
'.Man! Fat the sorra brocht we in
here, an you'll siccan a mess? Gang
DOT O. my hoose, | tell ye, this vary
mint! Gang oot!"
Edward tried to stammer an apology,
and get in a petition to stay till the rain
stopped, but the woman interrupted
him in a voice like an Indian war
whoop.
..Not a mint! Yell pit my hoose a.
float. Besides yer vermin, yen pits a
In a hobble. Gang oot!"
Edward began to protest that he had
nothing to do with vermin, but-just
then be had occasion to put up his hand
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01
himself famous by this incident, and
during the remainder of his life was tho
recipient of we'll e.,nod L.,,,o,.

himself famous by this incident. md
during the remainder of his life was tho
recipient OF well earned honors.
ABOUT three weeks ago there was a
lire III Mrs. fltkins' residence on Wabash
aven'@. and the department was called
out To- quench the flames. Mrs. Pitkin.
with the remarkable solicitude she had
SHOWN on a former occasion, carried out
sam, and when the latter beheld his old
1rlends-the firemen-he irreverently
CALCULATED: 30 Lord! look at 'em."
But although Sam stood his first ex-
perlence as we'll as the celebrated Kinp
OF Troy, the second was too much of 2
shock, and he began to fail. It was
noticed that he dozed on his perch. that
his head shook like that of an old man.
and that he dropped often into deep
slumber at unseemly hours. Frequent
ly i n the midst of his snooze he would
tumble from his perch, and then he
would pick himself up, exclaiming
weariedly, ooh, Lordpd Yesterday
Mrs. Pitkin noticed that he was feebler
than ever, and she took him from his
cage, saying at the same time, ..Poor
Sam, are you going to diepn ooh.
dear, yes" said Sam deiectedly. These
were his last words, and shortly after
ward he died.
Sam was formerly the property Of
Mr.. Samuel Myers, who obtained him
from Mr.. Glassner, and the worthy old
bird may be said to have witnessed the
birth and progress of the cities, with
whose destinies his own life was so
strangely interviewer. Many strange
stories are told of him, but, in view Of
his death, it is hardly proper to recall
his old-time levity. One Of his failings
was a peremptory manne of saving
"good-by'' to visitors before the time Of
saying .:good-by'' arrived. Again, he
never failed to arouse his beloved mis-
tress whenever her husband had oc-
casion to use the night latch-key. For
this reason, Sam and Mr.. Pitkin were
never on the best of terms. On one &C.
casion Mrs. Pitkin's mother was mend
ing socks, and whenever she dropped
one into the basket at her side Sam
would snake it out and pensively chew
the toe off. Finally the old lady began
to sing, but this was more than the gar
rulous bird could stand. .sOh, cork
up!' he exclaimed with every appear
ance of disgust, and it is said that the
old lady never sang in his presence
again.
But Sam is dead, audit is to be hoped
that he has reached the bird-world
where alarms of fire are unknown. At
any rate he will not be forgotten, for
they are going to have him stuffed
Chicago Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01
Getting Wealth..

The thirst for gold prompts men to
extraordinary exertions. And in it's
pursuit they will endure terrible priva-'
tions. We are led to these remarks by
late advices from Cape Town in re-
ference to the diamond fields of South
Africa. These diamond fields are about
six hundred miles from Cape Town,
and their revenue has been very con-
siderable.
The capital of the sixty-fve mining
companies is e. 600, 00O, and one Of
these, the Kimberg, has yielded f3.O00,-
circumference and $50 feet deep but
lately the soft debris has tumbled in to
such an extend that it is thought it will
take eighteen months to clear it out.
This, together with terrible droughts,
failure Of crops and famine, has led to
a sad state of affairs. Several leading
men have blown their brains out, a
large number have returned to England,
while those who remain are in q pam
icky, starving and respondent condition.
Thousands o these men have put in their
fortunes only to lose money, time and
health, after enduring incredible priva-
lions.
The lesson which the failure of these
mines teaches is, that in the mad race
for wealth but few win prizes. The
major part, after years of excessive toll
and hardship, in which young men grow
prematurely old, wake up to a sense Of
a terrible loss and grievous disappoint-
ment. 1t is a bitter thought-this con-
seriousness of wasted, ruined life. But
the history OF mining fields the world
over is rich in examples. A little OBJ
servation of Wall Street, or of the Stock
Board in Chicago, will emphasize this
fact.
They who haste to be rich serve a
hard master. And yet the bulk Of our
young men, unmindful of the past and
the lessons of experience, will plunge in
to learn the facts by bitter experience.
The experience Of others, like the offers
of salvation, is often rejected because
offered on such easy terms. If any
reader Of these words will spend a little
time in learning from others what are
the pitfalls of life, and what the true
road to success, he may soon outrun
those who scorn all advice. And after
all it is not what you get, but the spirit
which actuates you and the use you
make of the means God intrusts to YOU.
Many q man lives a noble life and does
more good with $4,000 than others
with a million. Not what we get, but
the spirit and the use, marks out the
truly successful man.-Goldem Rule.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01

These are the echoes of a family
circle in Springfield, Mass, according
to the Republican Of that city: MARY
you little brat" came harshly from the
window of a clean-looking house yes
terday, ''come here and stop that racket
or I'll pound you black and blue all
over''-then the same voice in a shriU
saprano, II will sing Of NV Redeemer,"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01

Minnesota, according to %apamphlet
just issued by the State Board of Inn
migration, has still a vast tract of UNI
explored territory within her borders.
A number of counties are as yet q veri-
table terra incognita, neither surveyed
nor explored.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01

Keepers of carrier-pigeons in Ger
many have learned from the Chinese an
ingenious method of protecting their
messengers from birds of prey. They
fasten to their tail feather a compact
arrange of small reeds, eight or ten in
number, weighing only a fraction Of an
ounce, which in the pigeons swift flight
emits a whistling sound shrill enough to
scare pursuerS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01

The plaintiff in a St. Louis suit for
the recovery of money paid for a seal
skin sacque AYERS, in her formal COM
plant, that the garment chung upon
her person in a most ungainiy manner,
destroying her peace OF mind while
wearing it.''-St. Louis Globe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-01

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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-09-27
4 naonufaot,re,. IN Vienna emn,ov.

Il manufacturer in Vienna employs
the following process for silvering iron
He first covers the iron with mercury,
and silvexs bp the galvanio process. BY
heating to 800 degrees O., the mercury
evaporates and the silver layer is fixed.
Iron-ware Is first treated with diluted
hodrochlol 10 aoid, and then dipped into
solution OF nitrate OF mercury, being
Mt the same time in communication with
the zinc pole of an electric battery, q
piece OF gas carbon or platinum being
used as all anode for the other pole. The
metal Is soon covered with layer Of
quicksilver, is then taken out and well
washed and siIvered in q silver solution.
10 save silver the ware can be first cov-
cred with layer of tin; one part Of
cream of tartar is dissolved In eight
parts of boiling water, and one or more
tin anodes ore joined with the carbon
pole of Bunsen element. The zinc
pole communicates with q well.cleaned
piece Of copper, and the battery is made
to act till enough tin has deposited on
the copper, when this is taken out and
the iron-ware put in its place. Ware
thus covered with tin, chemically pure
and silvered, is much cheaper than 9TH
or silvered metals.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-09-27

Electric lamps for locomotives arwear
to have given considerable satisfaction,
the experiments made on ono of the
French railways having some time
since proved its peculiar advantages for
such purpose. According to this sys-
tenn, the lamp is placed in front of the
engine, so as to light the permanent
way to an extent equal to all needs and
exigencies. The advantages mentioned
IN its favor ale, among others, that it
burns steadily even when the train goes
at express speed; that the light does not
interfere with the visibility or dlstlnc-
tive colors of the signals; and that nei-
ther the engine driAers, nor employees
OF the train carrying the light, nor those
of 9th er app, oaching trains are dazzled
by. it, and thus the oadiuary dangers
arising from this source are almost on
tirely avoided. It is stated that the
drivers are by this means able to see the
line distinctly for distance of 800
yards ahead,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-09-27
Vital QueStiOns!I
grow ivory:

Ask tho most eminent physician
Ofany school, what is the best thing In
the world for quieting and allaying all irri-
tation Of tho nerves and curing all forms of
nervous complaints, giving natural, child
like refreshing sleep always?
And they will tell you unhesitatingly
"Somc form Of Hops -
CHAPTER T.
Ask any or all of the most eminent ply
sicians:
"What is tho best and only remedy that
can be relied on to cure all diseases of tho
kidneys and urinary organs; such az
Bright's disease, diabetes, retention or ina
bility to retain urine, and all tho diseases
and ailments peculiar to Women"-
"And they will tell you explicitly end
emphatically "Buchu.''
Ask the same physicians
"What is the most reiable and surest
cure for all liver diseases or dyspepsia; con-
Btlpatlon, indigestion, b lousness, malarlal fever
ague, &c.," aud they Will tell you
MandraSel or DLndelion
Hence, when these remedies are combined with
others equally valuable
And compounded into Hop Bters, such q
CONCLUDED next wcckl
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-09-27
Sowing Machine Industry.

These remarkable items pourinto our office
daily. Mr.. H.S. FULLER, with the New Home
: Machine Company, of Orange, Mass, writes,
May %, 1883: 81 have used Hunts Remedy
III my family for over ten years. My wife
was troubled with catarrh of tho bladder,
suffered intense pain in the kidneys and
loins, and urination was accomplished with
the greatest of agony. My friends thought
that she could otrecover. We tried doctors
and medicines, and although better at times
she would grow worse again. She was sobliged
to use the urinal as many as tiftc,n times in
night, and was growing worse daily. At
this time my attention was called IT, Hunts
Remedy, and concluded to try it; and after
using one bottle she was n good deal better,
the inilamma ion was reduced ,and the water
moro natural. She began to gain in appetite
and felt no pain in the back and kidneys.
She could attend to her household work
without pain, and this had been great
burden to do, even the lightcst kind Of work.
After using six bottles she was completely
cured. Since then have had occasion to
Use Hunts Remedy for kidney and liver COM
plants. and found it to hn just as rnproaonted,
and [ considerita a most wonderful medicine.
l would not be without Hunts Remedy in
my family; and have recommended it to
my friends here in Orange with equally good
rGSultS.'
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-09-27

''I $685." she observed as she looked
up from her paper. "that another wo.
man who was perfectly sane all the
time has just been released from lun.
ATTIC asylum after detention of three
years."
Eyes" briefly replied the husband.
"She was incarcerated by her hus-
band"
eyes,"
"Who wanted her out of the way that
he might marry another woman"
eyes,"
"In case you desired to dispose of
me you would probably have me shut
up In lunatic asylum"
mo, ma'am; should poison you.
That's the cheaper and better way.
AS man of business, and as an advo-
cato OF financial economy, + have
thought this matter over, time and
again, and should certainly prefer to
spend fifteen cents for arsenic to paying
out $40 to $16 per week for goodness
knows how long"
She looked at him long time with
a whole iceberg in each eye, and then
turned to her paper with the remark:
"Just like your stingy ways; you
never want me to have anything like
other folks
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-09-27
HUMOROUS.

WHY does the young lady hug her
stinshades so affeotionately? Does she
think 1t q baby2
Oh, no; the young lady would not
hold baby so tightly. It would kill
the little dear,
Then tell me why she hugs her para
sol2
She is in the employ of q surgeon.
In the employ of a surgeon9 What
do you mean?
DO you see the crutch of her sunshade
protruding from her left shoulder?
Oh, yes; I see that quite plainly.
There, did you see her gouge out that
gentleman's eye2'
1t was neatly done,
Very; that Is probably the twentieth
eye she has obliterated during her walk,
The surgeon will pay her for her kind
ness.
Does she oorfne her operations to
optics?
No; sometimes sue destroys O nose,
and occasionally slashes cheek. Sue
is very versatile. She is more terrible
than all army with banners.
But do not the gentlemen hate her ?
Oh, no, they love and admire her;
but they detest and despise her parasol.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-09-27

Charles Lever, of Manchester, has in.
vented and patented an electric lamp in
which the carbons are held apart hy q
spring when no current is passing. The
current, when first started, excites an
clectro-magnet which releases clip, and
allows the upper carbon to fall upon the
lower; the weakening of the magnets
consequent on shunting the current
through the carbons allows the springs
to bind the dip, and draw back the up.
per carbon to the proper distance. When
the carbops burn away so as to increase
the resistance greatly, this process is
repeated.