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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
passes, n Jagged rent half-a-dozen feet

in diameter.
But now the tide has yeached it's flood.
The old watcher on shore seizes a dirty
white flag and waves it f%rantically to
the distant boatmen. The negro hands
wake stupidity from slumber and, rubbing
their eyes, take their places at the poles
Of the windlass. The sleepy horse. too,
is reused to animation by a lusty thump
on the vertebral column, and under
a stress of man and horsepower the
great wheel begins to revolve and the
long rope to tighten. The distant tri-
rene also has, been reused into life, the
anchor weighed, and eighteen pair of
biceps are pulling the craft upstream,
while the net pays out astern. Two or
three row-boats act as a sort of skirmish
line to the outer semicircle Of floats to
warn off intruding sloops and %schooners.
A half hour sutlices to pay out all the
coiled up meshes and connec the fur
ther end by a fresh rope with another
windlass a quarter of mile from where
the first wheel is turning. The net
with its land ropes now includes q vast
semicircle of water. Standing at the
center, n cannot see. so far is it. the
line of floats at the outer line. Phe
hauling at both ends is done slowly, for
the strain IS enormous; and when the
rope has brought in the net to shore
the widlass has to be dispensed with, as
the meshes would be torn on the
machinery. Now follows the most Gu.
rious spectacle of all. The negroes,
protected by rubbers reaching far up
on the thighs, dash into the water.
Each has a shoulder sash made from
a thick strip of netting ending at the
waist in a slip moose Of cord, which by
means of a peg is quickly passed over
the float rope Of the net and fastened.
Then, bending their shoulders shore
ward, they walk up the strand, drag
cling the net, and each in turn losing
his knot to take his place once more
at the river end Of the human line. 1t
is a long and monotonous pull, lasting
for an hour, that follows, but the pic
turesque figures of the negroes, their
occasional shouts or songs, the gathered
crowds on the bank, and the strange
the net brings in, make constant inter-
est and excitement. Sometimes it is a
pioneer fish that breaks the surface, or
a huge tree-bough from the muddy
Delaware bottom, or an eel, which, in
advance of its fellows, has been caught
in the coils and is brought in squirming
to its fate. When one sees, however,
the immense toll and power needed to
handle one of these colossal seines,
much of the poetry of fishing is married
by the expense. Not counting equip
ment or horses, some forty or fifty men
are needed in the various processes of
paying, coiling and dragging the seine.
An ordinary negro hand here earns
about twenty-five dollars a month and
board, by labor whose exposure, hard
ship and strain can not easily be under
rated.-Cor. N. Y. Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
Grandma's Story.

cit all happened on Mill Creek when
| was a girl" said Grandma, wiping
her spectacles.
Brother James was about six q
old then, and all the men folks were of
to the war, so mother and Ihad to tend
mill alone.
"Mother was strong and could carry
a bag OF grain almost as easy as a man;
and l didn't mind doin' the homework,
so we got along first-rate until one day
a little white pig got into the water and
foated down into the mill-wheel. And
then, mercy on US! such q time as we
had gettin' that pig out! +,
II do believe it took half a dav be-
fore we got that mill to runnin' again.
"You see, just above the wheel was
a gate which could be shut down and
stop the water from f1owin' under the
wheel when we wanted to stop the mill.
"Well, it wasn't more'n a day or two
after the pig got into the wheel when
mother rushed out of the mill and shut
down the gate with a bang.
"Betsy Ann Dyer had Just rode up
with a grist, and mother called to her
to come and manage the gate while she
waded into the water up to her waist in
the fiume above the gate"
".Betsey,' said she, when 1 nod my,
head you just raise the gate about q
foot, and I'll dive for the pig for it.
seemed she had shut down the gate and
caught the pig under it.
"Ihen mother drew q long breath.
nodded and plunged with both hands
for the pig.
"When she came up she looked aw-
full white, but she had got the pipp-!
bless you, no-nothin' more nor less,
than brother Jimmy!
"Betsey she screamed, and I cried,
'Jimmy's dead! Jimmy's deadr But
mother said: Il trust not and lust
hustled onto the bank as fast as ever
she could.
"Then she laid Jimmy across her
arm and jounced him up and down two
or three times to get the water out of
him.
"By the time we got him into the,
house and took his clothes off, and.
rubbed him pretty smart, he began to-
come to.
CATER a minute or two he opened his,
eyes wide open and said: Ma, why.
didn't you git me out?'" -
"Ihen we all laughed; we couldn't.
help it, he was so spunky about it.
AND that was the end of pigs in Mill
Greek until one time when the spring.
rains flooded it so that it broke througk
the dams and swept away whole VIII
1ages.'-N. Y. Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Expenditure for military affairs ir
Germany is constantly increasing.
The bank account of John Brown,
Queen Victoria's f%avorite servant, re.
Gently deceased, is said to reach nearly
$4,000, 900.
At a recent sale in Leipzig, George
Washington's autograph brought$2S. IS,
Peter the Greats 1927. Is, Mary, Queen
of Scots, $50. 75;and Marie Antoinette's
$115.25.
1t is announced that Warsaw is to
be made one of the most strongly for.
titled places in Europe by the construc-
ton Of fourteen new forts, on which
work is to be begun at once.
The last report on Kew Gardens,
near London, contains an account of
the COW tree of Venezuela. From the
trunk, when cut, eNudes a somewhat
glutinous liz lid, whose flavor is of
cream. With a slightly balsamic taste.
Seeds planted in India are thriving.
The Frunhturter Zcitung made ar
Engagements for special collections of
funds for the sufferers from the recent
floods in Germany. The recapitulation
published shows that 1869 marks
was received. OF this sum Germany
supplied $4,000 marks, America As. 900,
and England 10000.
Some of the best English Jockeys
are women; daughters of farmers or of
country squires who have lost their
fortunes. They have been accustomed
to ride to hounds from their childhood.
arc perfectly fearless, and their light
weight in the saddle makes them de-
sirable as Jockeys. Charles Kingslev's
poem of "Loraine Loree' has one of
these women jockeys for his heroine.
Lady STAFFORD, who was a shining
light in the higher ranks of English ar
istocracy one hundred years ago, wrote
of the death struggle of her favorite
dog, "poor charming Fubs," as fol-
lows: GAS it LEVIED soc it died, full of
low lcening its head on my bosom,
never offered to snap at anybody in its
horrid tortur but nussle its head to us
and looch earnestly upon me and Sue,
whoe cryed for tire days as if it had
been for a chile or husband"
A curious exhibition has lately
0een on view in the north of London.
1t consisted of nothing but an array of
cigar ends collected during seven years
peregrinations up and down the metro
politan thoroughfares. The enterpris-
ing collector reckons that in this time
he has travelled nearly 10000 miles on
foot, and he has picked up 600, 900
pieces Of cigar, averaging an inch and
a half each. He is said to have valued
his stock, thus literally composed of
odds and ends, at FL, 500.
One of the most important crops
of South Africa is that of the black
caterpillar. The negroes leave their
villages in large companies to 90 into
the wilderness to gather this mama.
1t is preserved for use by pressing out
the intestines, drying the remains be-
fore a fire and rolling in wilted leaves.
White ants and fat crickets are delica-
cies which the common people scarcely
ever eat, as it is regarded as the special
food of kings and p%otentates. Frogs,
lizards and snakes are not considered
at to eat by these people.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
Little Sunshine's Vail.

Don't ask me if little Sunshine wa.
pretty, because l don't know-nobodv
ever did know; and this was the reason,
why. she had a very wonderful vail, and
whenever anybody spoke to her, or even
looked at her, she would draw it over
her face, and you could not tell whether
her eyes were blue or brown, or whether
her skin was fair or dark; YOU onlv
knew this wonderful vail made YOU
think of sunshine and flowers, and all
the pleasant things in the world.
And, strange as it may seem, it al
ways put everybody into a good humor
just to look at it. No matter how
angry or quarrelsome her companions
might be, they would generally break
into a merry laugh as soon as it showed
itself. :,
AS for her own face, a frown had no
chance at all. This pretty vail would
chase it away before it had time to,
quicker up a single wrinkle.
Sometimes when anything happened
that she did not like, for a moment she
would look downcast, like any other
little girl that had been disappointed.
but soon the vail would fall, and she
would be her own sweet sunny SELF
again, saying in the brightest way:
"Well, it don'tmatter; something else
will do just as WE'LL"
She had adolf once, which had been
given her by her Aunt May, and she
loved it very much. 1t was a doll with
the prettiest baby hands and feet ever
seen. Now Sunshine was a right care
full little girl, and though she had played
.y;%l, - oyoa o;-@a T1.Ao-. -
most as good as new.
But one day her little cousin, in their
play, insisted upon exchanging dolls,
and very SOC broke off one of the dear
little feet. The tears would come at!
first, and it was a very sorrowful little
girl that carried her lame darling to-
mother for sympathy; but almost be-
fore the mother could say a word of
encouragement the sunny vail was in its,
place, and Sunshine, smiling through
her tears, said.
"Oh, well! mamma, it won't matter
much, will it? cause you know youc can,
stuff the stocking with cotton, and when,
the shoe is on it won'tshow a bit. Be-
sides, l ear play she's got a sick foot
like my little friend Lizzy Lore"
But when, before the day was over,
the beloved doll fell on the pavement
and broke the beautiful head all to-
pieces, it well-nigh broke little Sun
shine S heart, and she could but sob her
griefs out, for her ruined doll, in her
mothers lap.
But. again, the vail conquered; and.
ever looking for the bright side, she
said, quite cheerily:
"Well, anyhow, I a play with my
little old doll, and 1 won't be so afraid
of breaking that; and we can play poor
Bella had the Group and died; and
we can have a funeral-can't we, mann
map"
Can you, little boys and girls, guess
what little Sunshine's vail was, or shall
l tell you?
1t was the sweet smile that cameron
her-always looking for a bright side to-
everything, and keeping in a good hui
NOR, no matter what happened.-Annie
S. Wilson, IN S. S. Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

tain problem did not discourage him
and he said: 4 did not stop to think a.
getting discouraged. I only kept at Il.
1t took me three Saturdays TO do it, but
| got it, l told him | should have been
happy to help him, but he answered.
laughing, that he didn't need any helm
with that problem now,' and thanked
me. He says all the others have been
easy since. and we know why, don't we.
boys?"-Royal Road.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

Etiquette and usage in Ireland or
Dam that a person condemned to the,
gallows shall be hanged a month and q
DAY after conviction. Hence there is
no popular hangman's day there, as in
this country.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
Northern man hired a real live

"A Northern man hired a real lively
mustang at Fort Worth to ride down
the country a short distance. Twodays
after the mustang returned to town,
and wild man is reported prowling
around in the Buffalo bottoms.-zeras
SUlin0s,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
Our Young Folks
IN OLD PROEE1.

- rains"
Pouting, my darling. bccausain is failing,
And lowers droop, and tkindow panes,
And drops are b%lurring through the lane is
And a moaning VIM
calling! .sky was clear.
crying, and wishing he lattice twining!
And roses again temy foolish dear,
an ..,T Msil, rememogh when the sun is shin
V ing!"
is bright and fair and gay,
WEI Tue w6irds sing in the fair June
ANA Weller is gathering, highland day.
q sudden chalice of sweets together,
whharolue seas answer the sky above,
a "a bright stars follow the days declining,
WY, then, It's no merit to smile, my love-.
'"'Tis easy to laugh when the sun Is shin
ing!"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
But this is the time the heart to test.
When Winter is near, and storms are how

And the earth from under her frozen vest
Looks up at the sad sky, mute and scowling;
The brave little spirit should rise to meet
The seasons gloom and the days repining;
And this is the time to be glad; for, sweet, a@a4
"'Tis easy to laugh when the sun is shin
ing !"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-13
Complying With the Law

The Clerk Of Eureka County
appears thus far to be the only
official having the correct idea
as to the form Of advertisement
which should be published by
the County Commissioners. He
gives the items OF account,
names of claimants and amounts,
together with proper classiiica-
ton of the bills. Any other
method defeats the object Of the
new statutes, which is 10 en-
tighten the taxpayers as to the
purposes for which the public
money is expended and to whom
paid. Mr.. Cavanaugh's official
advertisement Of "biIls passed"
as it appears in the Eureka
Sentinel is SO artistically drawn
that it should serve as q model
for all other advertisements Of
the same racter.-ElteT,prise.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-13

HELENA, Ark, March Io.-Ths first
loss of human life by the food in THU
region occurred by the upsettiog of a
house y miles south of mere. on which
were six adults and four children. The
latter We're drowned and the former
rescued by a party of hunters, who
took them OF If the roof after they
had clung to it three days. The ST.
Francis swamp contains hundreds Of
horses. mules and cattle standing W to
their thIoat in water. their owners
being unable to rescue them. MANY
carcasses are floating about.
WASHINGTON, March ll.-Theolore
F. Singister, the newly-elected delegate
from Idaho. was appointed Secretary Of
that Territory some years ago and is
still under bonds for the performance Of
the duties OF that office. First Comp
troiler of the Treasury, Lawrence, holds
that until his accounts as Secretary are
settled he cannot draw his salary as
delegate, even though it has not been
alleged that there is anything wrong
with the accounts. Treasurer Gi!fillan
decides that there is nothing to prevent
his drawing his salary and will pay i,
as IL becomes due.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-13
THE yEASON-VALLEY JOB.

The people of Esmeralda coun-
ty are highly disguised over the
political job which deprived the
county of nearly half its taxable
property. The following letter
to the True Fss,n'es is one of a
dozen published in the last issue
and shows the state of feeling:
Mr.. Editor-The land slide
caused the other day by the leg
islature, takes out Of Esmeralda
county our Sena tor, County As
SCISSOR. Treasurer, Surveyor,
Superintendent Of Schools and
Public Administrator. He W
many of them will resign: Ger
tainly all who have a particle of
self-respect. OF course such as
come within our county limits
to actually reside will be vel
come, but the people will not be
satisfied with constructive resi-
dence in the county. If they are
to leave rs we will not stand 1T
to have them still rule Us.
The idea of mountaineering a
whole county and depreciating
its bonds to further the interests
Of an aspirant for undeserved
political honors will strike fair
minded people as carrying a
hungry political ambition too
far. Mr.. Adams is reckoning
on a good deal if he has reached
the conclusion that the State OF
Nevada belongs personally to
him, and that the people are
mere puppets to be Knocked
about at his bidding.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-13

The San Francisco RepOJ1
takes a novel method for alarm
ing the people Of that great city
al the danger they are in be-
cause Of the lack Of water and nc
lamps lit. 1t prints over Il ten
column account of an imaginary
fire, which is destroying whole
blocks in the heart Of the city,
with no hope to stay its raw
ages. The article is crowded
full of horrors and narrowing
incidents and is we'll written,
bat it cannot be considered as
intelligent journalism, ald after
a paper INDUCES in it a few
times the public will disbelieve
its recital of actual events.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-13
Senator Edmunis lAft

49,. Senat or E6munis l~ft Washing.
ton for South Carolina on Friday, where
he will join his family. He will proba
blv spend the Summer in California
with his family.
$500. It is feared that Lily, the aged
lawyer who was assaulted by. Stephen
W. Dorsey, will not live. He was
badly kicked in the abdomen, and i.
growing weaker.
4 bill passed the Arkan-as Senate,
Saturday. changing the name of Dors ey
county to De Soto county. IL Wa.
named for xSenator Dorsey during the
reconstruction era.
80. Representative Murch, OF Maine
has fled charges of corruption agains,
Supervising Architect Hill, of The
United States Treasury Department.
Secretary Folger has ordered an iuvesti
CATION.
-. In London on Saturday large
party gathered to witness the trial OF
au electrical tram Car. The car ran a
distance of four miles satisfactorily,
and fulfilled the require OF the
Board of Trade.
.., In Philadelphia Thcmas Maher,
Jr., Isaac L. Street, and Jaseph Myers,
convicted Of making fraudulent retur
as election officers, have been each SEN
fenced To three months imprisonment,
fined SlC0 and disfranchised for four
years.
-. The Central Trades and Labor
Union of Boston passed resolutions
denouncing the attacks of Senator's An
thony, Plumb and Hale upon the
Columbia Typographical Union at
Washington, aud thanking Senators
VOORHEES, aud C,nger for their ef,rts
in behalf Of labor.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-13

.Trenor ". Parke. who died in.
test .te. left an estate Of So, 50O,O00
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-13

A. Zeehandelaar, the man
who published the Legislative
pen pictures here two years ago,
has gone to Amsterdam, Ho.-
land, to represent Idaho, Mon
tana and Utah at the interna-
tiOnal exhibition.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-13

1t is stated that Hon. G. TX.
Merrill, the Governors Private
Secretary, will be appointed
land agent for Nevada at Wash
lngton, vice Captain Mullen.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-13
Latest political gossip:

Latest political gossip:
Senator Fair will resign.
Governor Adams viii! resign.
Lieutenant Governor Laugh
ton will become Governor.
He will appoint Adams L. s.
Senator.
Holy Smoke!
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-13
"By the living God | ntval

"By the living God I Yer
saw such a check" said Judge
Bedford in the star route trials.
but the Denver Times printed
it, "By the loving God / never
saw such cheek" There is a
distinction with a very noticeable
difference between the two
statements.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-13
-tTGrr Virgins.

OTTAWA, Dat, March ll.-About 4
o'clock this evening a crowd of excited
people collected in iron: Of Profe ssor
Wiggins's residence and began to
ciamor for his appearance. Az the
doors and windows remained firmly
closed, cries Of "Frau,i" AMI " Hum
bug" filled the air, and an attack upon
the house was only aver.ed by the OPP
perfume arrival Of the police, who
quel,ed the impending disturbance and
assured tie mob that Virgins was not
at home.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-13
FOREIGN NEWS.

New YoRE, March II. - Special
cables have the following points from
London: The business Of the House of
Commons is in a greater muidle than
ever. The general Impotence OF mem
bers as well az Of the public would lie
shown much more decidedly than it IL,
but tba. the government. is really on
the track OF all the chief conspirators
in Ireland. Gladstone, who did not
throw away his time while at Cannes,
is sanguine now that those connected
with the Phenix Park murders will be
brought to Justice.
The light of i IAN shows that the
game is up, bat IN spite "t all reports
TO the contrary no real cue has yet
been fouEd "a Number One" with the
exception Of . person VINO has taken
prominent part IN the pln;s Tor commit
ing ASSASSINATION in ireland. H., Is low
known to the police and will be brought
to justice. There is coed authority Tor
saying that some startling revelations
in this matter may be very soon ex.
pect. 4.
The knowledge Of all the reports Is
keeping the Irish party in the Honse of
Commons just now very quiet and sub
dued. Bigga- especially is completely
done for. In truth, the VIII lie Irish
party seems demon alz:d, and the fight
Of much more important persons than
Egan is daily expected.
LONDON, March Il.-,Iudge NAH is
condemned Tor the severity of his SEN
tence upon the editor, publisher and
proprietor Of the Free Thinker. The
trial was attended by large number Of
persons, and the passing Of the SEN
tence was the occasion Of such
scene q disorder as has not been Wit.
messed ia au Engh>h coGrt for many
years. The aulInus of the judges
severe remarks was almost universally
disappeared Of, and one result of It IS
apparent in the announcement by the
Society for the Suppression q Bias
phemous Literature that it intends to
lndict Huxley. Tindali, Herbert
Spencer, john Morley and the Rev.
DR.. Martinez fer blasphemy.
'.InfiUeEec.''
LONDON, March 1.-THE passage OF
a bill prohibiting trap pigeon-shootine
furnishes a singular example of the in
Il 1ence of the Primo of Wakes. Her
expressions OF hostility to the cruel
practice and her determination to be
present AZ no mare matches, undoubt-
eddy cccasioned the abandonment of all
serious opposition TO the measure in
the House of Commons. and this, it is
believed. insures it's passage by the |
Lords. The Queen has declared herself |
pleased with the measure. Lord Ran |
dolph Churchill characgeristicaily sup |
ports the clause against the shooting, !
be c ,use, he says, tradesnlen took part i'll |
that sprt.
Afger Virgins.
OTTAWA, Dat, March ll.-About 4 !
o'clock this evening crowd of excited /!
people collected in from: Of Profe ;sor
residence and began to !
ciamor for his appearance. Al the /!
doors and windows remained firmly !
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-18
Thanksgiving Proclamation
TATE oFsMINNEsoTA, !
EXECUTIVE DEPAHTNIEHT.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
In accordance with law and the most revered
custom, l do hereby set apart and appoint
THURSDAY, THE TWENrY-NINTH DAY OF
THE PRESENT MONTH, az day of solemn
and PUBLIC THANKSGIVING TO Almighty
God for his blessings and mercies to us as
state and nation.
And 1 recommend and exhort the people of the
state, that mindful of the good of peace, plenty,
health, employment, charitableness and freedom
from faction, they lift up their hearts on that
day to the Giver Of every good, in their usual
places of worship and In their sacred homes
with ,salms of praise and all appropriate
observances.
Given under my hand and the great
/~~, seal of the State, at the Capital, in
} STATE St. Paul, this ninth day of Novem-
} SEAL. Der, A. d. one thousand eight hum
IN~~O' dred and eighty three.
(Signed) l.. +. HUBBARD.
By the Governor.
(Signed) FRED VoN BAUMBAoH, Sec'y of State.