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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-31
Baron Won Stocks voice broke in mon

Baron o Stocks voice broke in upon
my memories. "Mr. Haviland, and nv
very good friends" he was saying, ssas
you know, it was the earnest desire and
solemn promise of my friend the late
Count Alphonse D'Orsay, that there
should, at a proper time, exist between
me, Baron Hermann o Stock, and his
only child and daughter, Jean Blanche
D'Orsay, the tie and contract of mar
riage. And so great was this desire,
however unworthy the recipient of his
bounty, that he instilled into his daugh-
ter's generous heart the feeling that
should she break his solemnly pledged
word, she would not only soil his honor,
but that of the D'Orsays, whose rae
and lineage had never owned one mem.
Der who had not kept it fair and clean.
But to me he left discretionary powers,
though he bound her so firmly, and
should I, Hermann Won Stock, desire at
any time to cancel this mutual agree
ment, 1 was to be free to do so. I do
so desire no10. In the presence of you
all. | give back to Mdlle. D'Orsay her
freedom; not from any want of appre.
citation of her beauty, goodness and 10y.
atty, rather because of them, and I am
an old man, and my love for her is too
great to accept the sacrifice of her youth.
Jean, mein liebling, look up. See, l
have brought thee q present, and we
shall have a wedding after ALL"
When Jean raised her tear-dimmed
eyes, it vas Denis's face they rested on,
Denis's hand that clasped so tightly her
own.
"To you, my FRIEND" said the Baron
more sternly, turning to the young man,
~ say shield her faithfully; she who
guards so carefully a dead fathers hon.
or will not fail to cherish that of her
husband"
Denis bowed his bright head in silent
thanksgiving. And so they were mar
ried.
Often now on summer evenings, the
dim old studio is full of the joyous
laughter and prattling tongues of little
Denis and little Jean, pretty Blanche
and baby Hermann. And when the
shadows grow longer and the little spir-
it's less buoyant, they gather about my
knee and beg: "Once more, just once
more, tell u the story of mammals we'd
ding-day."-7Ae Argosy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-31
How They Play The Piano in New
Orleans.

81 was loafing around the streets last
night" said Jim Nelson, one of the
oldest locomotive engineers running
into New Orleans, sand as 1 had moth
ing to do 1 dropped into a concert and
heard a slick-looking Frenchman play
a piano in a way that made me feel all
over in spots. AS soon as he sat down
on the stool I knew by the way he
handled himself that he understood the
machine he was running. He tapped
the keys away up n end, just as if
they were gauges and he wanted to see
if he had water enough. Then he looked
up, as if he wanted to know how much
steam he vas carrying, and the next
moment he pulled open the throttle and
sailed out on the main line, as if he was
a half an hour late.
"You could hear her thunder over
c~ulverts and bridges, and getting faster
and faster, until the fellow rocked about
in his seat like a cradle. Somehow I
thought it was old s%thirty-six' pulling a
passenger train and getting out of tn i,
way of a special The fellow worked
the keys on the middle divisions like
lightning, and then he flew along the
north end of the line until the drivers
went around like q buzz saw and [ got
excited. About the time l was fixing to tell
him to cut her off a little, he kicked the
hampers under the machine wide open,
pulled the throttle away back to the
tender, and, Jerusalem, Jumpers! how he
did run. lcouldn't stand it any longer,
and yelled to him that she was pound
ing on the left side, and if he wasn't
careful he'd drop his ash-pan.
"But he didn't hear. No one heard
me. Everything was flying and whiz-
zing. Telegraph poles on the side of
the track looked like a row of corn
stalks, the trees appeared to be a mud
bank, and all the time the exhaust of the
old machine sounded like the hum of a
humble bee. I tried to yell out, but my
tongue wouldn't move. He went around
curves like a bullet, slipped an eccen-
centric, blew out his soft plug. went
down grades fifty feet to the mile, and
not a COMPOUNDED brake set. She went
by the meeting point at a mile and a
half a minute, and calling for more
steam. My hair stood up like a cats
tail, because l knew the game was up.
"Sure enough, dead ahead of us was
the headlight of the Special In a daze
[ heard the crash as they struck, and
saw cars shivered into atoms, people
mashed and mangled and bleeding, and
gasping for water. 1 heard another
crash as the French professor struck
the deep keys away down on the lower
end of the southern division, and then
I came to my senses. There he was at
a dead standstill, with the door of the
fire box of the machine open, wiping
the p%erspiration off his face, and bow
ing at the people before him. If 1 live
to be a thousand years old Ill never
forget the ride that Frenchman gave me
on a piano."-N. o. Tvmes-Denaocrut.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-31

The Catskill On. " Mall tells of a
builder of that village who has taken a
rather novel contract even in this fast
age-that of building a village in Co.
lumbia County, in that State, for the &C
comnfodation of the workmen employed
by the Hudson River Ore and Iron
Company. The houses are to be mod
eled after a sample cottage already
erected, and will be built on four par
allel streets. Each cottage will be six
teen by twenty-six feet, two stories high,
with a cellar; J. They viii III be built eighty.
building, and will be arranged so as to
accommodate a family on each floor,
thus furnishing rooms for 102 families.
The entrance to the second floors will
be by covered stairways, built outside
of the main buildings, but really under
the same roof.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-31

Judge Gildersleeve, of New York,
had his attention called to the case Of
Thomas Jackson, who had pleaded
guilty to a charge of stealing a watch
from an old man on a Broadway cross.
ing. On being Intercepted privately,
he said he was not there at all, and had
entered that plea because his attorney
told him to do so. The object of the
attorney was to have the county thrown
into the costs, so he would get his pay,
which he would not if the man had been
found innocent.-N. Y. Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-28
Remove the Old Canes of Raspberries.

Charles A. Green, one of the best
fruit-growers, says he used to think it
of little consequence when the old canes
Of black caps were removed. But re-
cent experience and experiment has
convinced him that they should be re-
moved as soon as the fruit is gathered.
The old canes may be cut easily with a
sharp hook attached to handle two
feet long, and after they are removed
and burned the field may be more freely
cultivated than if they were still in the
way.
But aside from this, the old canes APP
pear to draw on the vitality of the plant
and seriously affect its subsequent
capacity for bearing fruit. It is now
held by scientific men that dead
branch exhausss the vitality of the tree
as much as though alive. The dead
canes on raspberry bushes would appear
to affect them in like manner. Bushes
not cleared of old canes produce small,
defective, crumbling specimens. The
first year or two the bushes are not so
seriously affected Hereafter we will
trim ours as soon as the fruit is
gathered, sweep them out of the spaces
between rows with a one-horse rake,
similar to a steel-toothed hay-rake but
very short and no wheels, and save the
ashes. -Detroit Post and Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-28
The Elusive Clam.

The clam of tradition is commonly
reckoned a medtative shell-fsh, with
anything but briskness of movement
But there are two varieties on the sand
beaches lining the Cape May marshes
which well merit the title of game fish.
One of these is the razor clam, some
times used in chowder, but more often
for fish-bait. The razor clam gets his
name from>his shape, which very closely
matches the handle of the familiar in
plement of negro industry and warfare.
Thousands of people have seen the
broken shells of this sea creature along
shore, but not one person in hundred
knows its curious habits Take walk
along some sand spit at low tide. Just
beyond the waters edge, where the
stilled tide is three or four inches deep,
you may see hole, may be half an
inch in diameter. An inch or two be-
low the brink of this hole is the tail end
of the razor-fOr the creature goes
through life standing perpendicularly
on its head, or, if the Hibernicism may
be pardoned, with its front behind
though this use of the terms head and
tail is not strictly scientific. For foot
below the razor's lower end and far
down in the sand extends its burrow,
into which, when alarmed, it with
draws with amazing velocity. But the
most curious part of the razor is its head,
the size and much the shape of the human
thumb, which it can stretch several inches
outside of the shell, boring swiftly into
the sand, and by Unfolding so tenaciously
to the sides of its sandy lair that the
body will break in two ere the head
comes away. The tough, white flesh
of the fellow is capital bait for both
weakfish and sheephead, but his capt
ure is matter of much experience and
sagacity. With long knife you strike
slantwise in the sand across the razor's
hole. If fortunate you hold him fast
aginst the side of his habitation, and
tediously dig him out with finger or
trowel; but at least half the time he es-
capes, nor does your utmost strength
in the exciting struggle prevent this
submarine woodchuck from getting
safely to the dark depths of his burrow.
A second elusive clam is long fellow
with black nozzle, in contour and
color of shell very much like the COM
mon soft clam, but in size almost as
large as the human hand. These big
shell-fsh, like the razor, have a deep
burrow. but with an outlet on sands left
dry at low tide. Once / set out to get
a basketful, using spade industriously
for an hour But after digging half
dozen holes as large around as wash
tubs and half way down to China. more
or less, the sport became irksome. A
man who, after an experience like this,
impugns the pluck of the big Cape May
CLAIMS deserves to dig them for living.
Cor. N. +. Evening Post.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-28
How Oranges are Packed.

A few years ago it was believed al
most indispensable to wrap oranges in
tissue or other paper when packing the
fruit for long shipment. The argument
in favor of this practice was that the
wrapper absorbed the moisture caused
from the sweating of the oranges and
also prevented decayed specimen
from affecting the fruit surrounding it.
This old plan of wrapping oranges in
thin paper is now being superseded in
many localities by the newer one OF
packing them in kiln-dried sawdust
made from wood as free as possible
from rosin, or in cork-dust, SO that they
do not come in contact with one another.
1t has been proven that dry sand is an
excellant packing material for oranges
and lemons, and when the fruit is for
home use, dry sand is preferable to the
sawdust. Of course, sand is not to be
thought of when the fruit is to be
shipped on account of its weight
Progressive orange growers now un-
derstand the necessity of sweating the
fruit previous to packing it. Great loss
is sustained when oranges are shipped
before the moisture created during the
sweating process is expelled.
A system adopted by many is as fol-
lows: First, clip the fruit-do not pull
it-and let the place of severance be as
close to the fruit as possible. This clip
ping is done by hand, a 80 Ly little in
strument called the clipper, which not
only cuts the fruit from the limb but
holds itsafely in little basket attached,
50 that it does not become bruised by
falling to the ground.
When the fruit is gathered the next
step is to heap it up in a dry place where
there is good ventilation and let it re-
main three OF four or more days, ac-
cording as the soil is low and wet or
there is much moisture in the atmos-
phere, and then spread it out for sew.
eral hours or until the moisture evap-
crates.
Having harvested and dried the fruit
the next step is to assert it as to size
and color, placing in the same crate
only such oranges as are uniform in
these two respects. The sizing of
oranges is rendered easy and rapid by
the employment of sizing-troughs, in
which at intervals are cut holes of
usually three sizes. AS the oranges
roll down this trough they fall through
the holes, according to their size, into
boxes placed underneath to catch them.
Occasionally oranges are packed in
boxes in which layer of cells made of
strips of pasteboard are formed. The
fruit is placed one in each cell, AMI over
each layer is covered sheet of paste
board. and other layers added until the
box is filed
When paper is used for wrapping
oranges the best sort is that treated
with parafine or oil, such as is used by
confectioners.-N. T. World.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-28
Fattening Swine.

1t is generally conceded that there
should be no stand-still period in the
correct system of feeding, but that
growth ought to begin with young pigs
and be steadily and continuously in
creased until the animal is ready for
the butchers block. While every body
nearly accepts the ''no stand-still'' sys-
tenn as correct in theory, most farmers
in reality keep their pigs during the
summer months on very poor and
meager rations, waiting until cold
weather to begin feeding with view to
fattening.
Growers who practice the plan of
making the most of the summer season
by regular feeding testify to the decided
advantage of this system. In very cold
weather, unless the hogs can be well
housed and kept at a temperature OF
about sixty degrees. what the animal
eats goes to keep up the heat, and the
food fails to produce the same amount
of fat it would in warm weather. There
remains no question but that it pays to
provide warm, comfortable houses for
swine during the winter season in rig
rous climates.
The excessive fat gained by excessive
breeding Of fat-producing foodi is object
ed to by many consumers, who prefer
larger proportion OF lean with the fat.
The Lire Stocs Journal says on this
subject that the hog is naturally grass
nd root-eating animal, but in its do
mestication, being fed almost wholly in
this country upon concentrated food,
has come the habit of depositlng this
excess Of fat. If young pigs are kept
upon food that will grow the muscles
and bones and develop a rangy frame
they will, in the opinion of the authori-
ty referred to, possess so much muscle
when half-grown that moderate length
of time in fattening, even on corn, will
not pile on an excessive amount of fat.
Pigs fattened in Canada partly upon
barley, but largely upon peas a highly
nitrogenous food, yielding a large pro-
portion of muscle produce more lean
meat than do swine fattened almost
wholly upon corn-an excessively
starohy and fatteniug food.-M Z.
World
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-28
Fall Flowing,


There is much difference in opinion
as to the best time of the year in which
to plow different soils. Many farmers
are willing to admit that fall blowing
is desirable upon heavy soils, but con-
tend that spring blowing is best upon
light soils. All are willing to grant
that the tenacious character Of clay
soil is reduced, and its texture opened
and renderedsless compact by the oper-
alton of frost, The Jumps fall apart
and are disintegrated by the mechanical
effect Of expansion, caused by the freez-
ing of the water held between the par
ticles. The field, which was left by the
plow in a mass of Jumps, is mellowed
and brought into condition, through
this influence, that any amount OF plow
ing and narrowing would have failed to
bring about.
The same force which has caused the
clods to fall apart, also performed no
less important chemical work by rem
dering the soil more soluble, and MAX
ing available the supply of plant food,
which would otherwise have remained
locked up.
Now, is it possible that this change
can only take place in clay soil? Diff
ferent soils are formed by the varying
proportions of the constituents, which
go to make up soil. If, then, a clay
soil is benefited by fall blowing, is not
also clay loan? And if a clay loan
is benefited, a sandy loan must be ben
Gifted in proportion to the amount of
those properties therein contained,
which form the chief constituents of the
clay soil.
| do not claim that it is advisable to
trust to fall blowing alone, for it often
happens that q winter is open and wet,
and the ground becomes considerably
packed, SO that the cultivator is hardly
capable of loosening it up. In such
cases it should be replowed in the
spring, and thoroughly narrowed unit
in good condition for seed.
There is still another advantage in
fall blowing, and that is, that it en-.
ables the farmer to get his seeding done
earlier in the spring than he could have
done had the blowing been left oven
winter. Work is more evenly divided
lor both teams and men, when blowing
is done in the fall, while the weather is
cool and no other work pressing.
Three years ago it was 50 wet in the
fall that the. farmers of this sectien cot
very little fall blowing done. The sue
ceeding spring there was a great de
mand for horses and men, the supply
falling far short of the demand. Man
fields were plowed in the worst posi-
bic condition, while those who waited
for good weather were many days late
with their seeding. The yield per acre,
that season, was a third less than the
average. This experience was not
without good, as it converted many,
before Indifferent, into staunch beliey-
ers in fall blowing Well plowed fields
in October indicate good farm manage
ment. Cor. Western PIoaUnaaa.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-28
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Corn meal produces more milk
than sorghum meal does.-M T. Her
aid.
An English gardener says that hoe.
ing is far better than wedding. Child.
dren, thank your stars and tell it to
your fathen
Tomatoes are good for the liver.
Bad cases of biliousness have been cured
by them. The tomato is delicious when
fried. Exchange.
When soil is strong enough to
produce any other crop sorrel is KEEP;
in the background. When land Is 50
run out that nothing else win grow,
sorrel viii soon cover the ground. Il
delights in a poor, light and dry soil.
Prairie Farmer.
The New York Times SAYS the
roofs Of barns should be steep, and if
of wood the surface either painted or
the shingles dipped in lime water, to
make them more durable Straw and
dirt collect under fiat-rcofed shingles
and cause rapid decay.
"A little curry powder in chopped
pickles gives a delicious flavor to it.
A tablespoonful of the powder to four
quarts of pickle is about the right
quantity to use, unless you like to use
the curry in place Of pepper; then at
least twice this quantity should be put
I'M 7. Post.
About one hundred parts of water
to one of Paris green may safely be
used to prevent insect depredations on
fruit, provided the last application be
made a month before the fruit is eaten,
as the poison, being very soluble, is
easily washed off by rains. This is
promulgated by the professors of the
Michigan Agricultural College.-Detroit
Post
Parsnips, carrots, Swedish turnips
and especially mangel wurzel will all
fatten pigs. These roots ought not to
be given in a raw state, but always
cooked, and mixed with beans, peas,
Indian corn, oats or barley, all of which
must be ground into meal When pigs
are fed on such cooked food as we have
stated the pork acquires peculiarly
rich flavor and is much esteemed, es-
pecially for family use.-Ne10 England
Farmer.
For preserving eggs provide box
full OF nice, sweet bran, commence in
September to take the eggs every day
warm from the nest and with a piece
of soft flannel, smeared slightly with
fresh butter, rub them carefully over,
and place them small end downward,
in layers into the box, covering them
with bran until the box is full, put on
the lid securely and turn it over occa-
sionally. A nicer way than either salt
or me.-EIchGng
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-28

platform again, stretched her head up
and deliberately wiped tho figures out
with her mouth, at which the audience
applauded as if they would bring the
roof down. That was something clearly
not IN the programme, but bit of in
dependent reasoning. Yet, having
done SO much, she knew that something
was not right About that
sponge-what had become of itp 1t
was her business to lay it on tie table
when she was through using it. She
hesitated, looked this way and that.
started to 60, came back, dreadfully
puzzled and uncertain, suddenly spied
it, set her teeth in it, put it on the
table, and went to her place, with a
clear conscience, no doubt, and the
people cheered more wildly than before.
This was to me one of the most inter-
esting things witnessed; and connect
ing it with some facts Mr.. Bartholomew
communicated, it was doubly so.
lie said that it was his practice not to
Interfere or help; the horse knew lust
what she was to do. and he preferred to
wait and let her think it out for herself.
The other horses all knew, too, if there
was any failure or mistake, and the
offender was closely watched by them,
and In some way reproved by them if
they could get the opportunity. and at
times this little by-p1ay became very
amusing.
Alter this was most exquisite dancing
by Bucephalus and by Caesar, whose
steppings were in perfect rhythm to the
music. Then the latter turned in a
circle to the right or the left and
walked around defining the figure eight,
just as any one in the audience chose to
request; and Abdallah came in with a
string of bells around her, and paced,
cantered, galloped, trotted, marched
or walked as the word was given. The
horses were generally expected to come
to the footlights and bow to the audi
ence at the close of any feat; OCCASION
ally one would forget to do this, and
then some of his comrades would
shoulder or buffet him, or Mr.. Bartbolo-
new would give reminder: THAT is
not ali, is itp" and back would come
the delinquent and bow and bow twenty
times as fast as he could, as if there
could not be enough of it. At the close
of one scene all the horses came up to
the front in line, and leaning over the
rope which was stretched there to keep
them from coming down on the people
heads, would bow, and bow again, and
it was wonderfully pretty sight to see.
-An'0'adG b. Harris, IN Vide AUGke.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-28
Youths Department.
POLITENESG.

Hearts, Ike doors, win ope with ease
To very, Uerg little keys;
But don't forget that two are these:
thank you. sir, and IF you please"
Be polite, boys; don't forget it,
In your WanderingS day by day
When you work and when Won st11dv
In your home and at your play.
Be not rough; leave that to Bruin.
All untutOred in his den;
II, when you have gained mans stature.
You would be true gentlemen.
Not the perfumed, gay exquisite,
Doting on his raiment fine;
he whom powder and p0matum
Renders Ito his mind divine;
would have you copy after
Nature on different plan;
Heed her teachings, and you some time
May be euery inch man.
Be polite, boys, to each other
Do not quickly take offense;
Curb your temper-you'u be thankful
For this habit seasons hence.
Be respectful to the aged,
And this one thing bear in minds
Never taunt the wretched outcast
Be he helpless, lame or blind.
Be polite, boys, to your parents,
Never let them fail to hear
From their sons the best of language
In the home they should hold dear;
To your brothers and your sisters
Speak in accents kind aud true
Be polite. twill serve you better
Than princely gift can do.
~. z. Ledger.