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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24

| That's so!] So you need. not feel
proud of your clothes. Clothes do not
make anybody any BETTER" Some Of
the girls and Logs in that school were
very proud of their clothes, and when
they had on nice new things, thev
would keep looking at them, and feeling
proud of them. That poor boys name
was Oliver, and l know a little story
about him and some quite good clothes,
A woman that had . great deal Of
money, had a boy named Edward, and
one time when Edwards clothes grew |
too small for him, she sent them to !
divers mother, for Oliver. They Were
summer clothes. The first time Oliver
put on the trousers, he found a silver
/, pencil in n OF the pockets. Two
quite large boys were PLAYING there,
and he said to them: ''Why! here's
a pencil been LETT in! Edwards
pencil!" The boys said: mo,
your pencil! The trousers were given
to you, and everything in them is
yours" He told them Edwards
mother and Edward did not know the
pencil was there. They. said: "No
matter. They will think it is lost"
And one said that may be it was left in
on purpose for Oliver. Oliver said he
would go and ask. The boys told him
he was a co0tu to go. And n of them
said: ''Sell it to me. Ill give you
forty cents for it." Then Oliver
jumped right up off the ground and
spoke very quick: "Do you think I'll
cheat! Applause. I'm going to ask
about it," Applause. He went and
asked Edward if that pencil was meant
to be left in, and it was not meant to
be. Edwards grandfather gave it to
Edward, and he wanted to keep it a!
ways; but he thought it was lost. They
were summer clothes, and they were
put away with that pencil in a pocket
of them, and stayed q year put away.
Once L had some mlttens put away in
some winter clothes. Mittens are
clothes to wear on your hands, and hats
! are clothes to wear on your head. Once
my aunt told me a hat riddle. l will
say it:
1.-Two poor little brothers they had but one
And both wore the same one, can you guess
Each boy nave a head? Oh, yes! each hada
head!
And both heads had one hat on, as just has
Their grandfather's2 No! boys. hat made
for one,
Yet worn by two heads! Can you guess how
twas done?
Did one boy stay in! No, nothing like
that!
Both went out together, and both wore the
hat.
sSmall heads? No, indeed, sir! Their heads
were hot small;
You've not guessed my riddle, not guessed
it at all.
I'll tell you the answers: The hat was Of
straw,
AS old an old hat, sir, as you ever saw;
1t was torn round about, just under the
band,
And left in two parts; do you quite under
stund?
And when these small brothers walked forth
in the town,
Why one wore the rim, and the other ths
CROWN"
Mrs. Il. N. Diaz, IN Wide Awake
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24
4 Troublesome Parcel.

Messenger Hesse, of the Adams +:
press Company. recently brought over
his division of the route from Washing
ton al express package, which it would
have been superlluous to mark ''handle
with care" The package weighed
about one hundred and thirty pounds
avoirdupois, and it was consigned to a
preacher of this city, living in Green
street, with a &C. .. D." OF thirty-fve
dollars. The package had come all the
way from Dalton. Ga, and was nothing
more nor less than a young lady Of
eighteen tender years, whose parents
had sent her to New York by express in
order to preclude all possibility of los
ing her on the way, or to be able to
collect damagesif she should be mislaid.
Messenger hesse was in somewhat OF a
quandary how to pack his precious bur-
den when he received a receipt for her
at Washington. He thought the only
safe plan would be to put her in the
corner OF a Car and pile q lot of trunks
on Top of her, d. to get a crockery crate
and cage her in that, but he finally de.
cided to ship her through in a passenger
Cal, and get the brakeman to watch heE.
One of the necessities of this unique
freight package was an occasionalme
and the BRAKEMAN was anxious to bring
the young lady's provendesr on these ;oo.
casions. Messenger Hesse, however,
stcrnly babe him to stick to his stove
and his brake-wheel and not to try to
usurp other peoples duties. The e2.
pense of the fair express packages
meals vas put on a tag and added to the
c. O. D. After a great deal of mental
suffering, lest his charge should fall out
of a window OF be spirited away at i'll
termediate stations, Messenger Hesse
finally got her safely to Jersey City.
There She was loaded into an express
wagon and brought over the Cortland
street ferry to New York and taken to
the Office Of the Adams Express Com
pany, at No. SO Broadway, where an
other agent signed a paper acknowledg'
ing her safe receipt, and Messenger
Hesse breathed a sigh OF relief and went
forth and took a drink to drown his sol.
row at parting. The e press package
was again put into an Adams expires;
wagon and driven to it's consignee in
Greene street, who paid all charges and
received it with open arms. Messenset.
Hesse is anxious to have this branch o.
the express traffic developed.--N. u
Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24
HOME n FARM.

To cultivate the soil with success,
requires both thought and study.
"A plaster of soft lye-soap and corn
meal if applied in time will cure a felon:
Renew the plaster every morning and
evening until al! soreness has disap-
peared. -Ruval New Yorker.
The farmers of Indiana are making
rapid progress in draining and reclaim
ing their wet lands. The annual report
of the Statistical Bureau shows that there
are in the State ~9,S24,297 rods of tile
Chicago Journal.
"A dark colored soil, neither too
sandy nor too clsyey' overlaying a sub
ground for vegetables. A clay subsoii
always natures its crop later than a
sandy o. gravely one. Land that is at
all stiff or clayey can never be got in
good condition if plowed or narrowed
while wet.-Erchange.
"A sore neck is often caused by an
ill-ftting collar or by the weight of an ill
made wagon-tongue. The sore must be
healed as the first part Of the remedy,
and the collar should be provided with
cushions on the sides near the top
to relieve the pressure. The parts
should be dressed with solution of sui
plate of copper and protected by a soft
pad.-N. Y. Times.
The Indiana Farmer says n of its
subscribers kept a record Of the time
employed in cultivating fourteen acres
of corn last season in the old-fashioned
way, and finds he gave about two days
to the acre. The yield was 800 bushels;
over ffty-seven bushels 10 the acre. He
estimates the value of his crop at $500,
and the labor expended on it at 1920,
and deducting expenses he claims q
profit of ,$14 per acre..
TO aid farmers to arrive at accuracy
in estimating the amount of land in diff
, ferent fields under cultivation, the fol-
lowing table is given: Five yards wide
by 968 long contains 1 acre; 10 yards
yards wide by 2l5 long contains l acre;
40 yards wide by 121 long contains /
acre; 70 yards wide by SO 1-2 long con-
tains l acre; 80 yards wide by 81 -
long contains l acre; 60 feet wide by
726 long contains l acre; ITO feet wide
by 397 long contains l acre; 1870 feet
wide by 1868 long contains 1 acre; 220
feet wide by 181 IL long contains l
acre; 44o feet wide by SO long contains
1 acre.-Mscago Journal.
DIR. Danford Thomas, in his capacity
as Coroner, has directed public atten-
ton to the mortality which follows the
neglect of measles. 1t is a common
opinion that a child must have the
measles, and that when it gets the
disease it requires no treatment and but
little care. This is a mistake. In the
records of vital statistics it may be seen
that it often proves more fatal than any
other zymotic disease, more even than
scarlatina. With medical and parental
care the disease generally does we'll, but
without this it is liable to serious COM
.plications and apt to leave d~isagreeable
consequences London Lancet.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24
A Very Reckless Woman.

81 want to know if there is any law
in this country for poor folksP" began a
woman, as she stopped a policeman on
Michigan avenue yesterday.
"Ihere ought to be, l suppose" he
replied in a doubling way. "What is
your case?"
"Well, the other night I was going
home, and in frontof avacant lot owned
by a rich man, l fell down and almost
killed nyself. want to make him pay
damages, but all my neighbors say that
| can't do it. Isn't there a stringent
law about ice on the sidewalks?"
"Yes'm. In case you are a poor man
you must clean 1t off. In case you are
rich you can wait for a thaw."
"But would you begin suit?"
"l'l leave that to you. In the first
place the defendant will claim that you
were drunk when you fell"
"My stars! but l never touch drop!''
he hires a man by the year to keep the
walk clear"
eyes, but it wasn't clear"
"Of course not, but he'll prove that
the man died suddenly, and he didn't
know it. Have you a weak anklep"
"Mercy, moi"
"Well, he'll prove that you have, or
you wouldn't have fallen. And then,
does he own the lot?"
"Why, [ suppose So"
"Your supposing so may be all wrong.
Begin a suit and you may find that his
wife has a deed. Sue the wife, and
you'll find she has gone to Florida tc
spend the winter, leaving the care of the
lot to a man who was called to Chicago
to see his brother die just at the time
he should have been sailing that side
walk"
'sThen l have no remedy?"
"It is doubtful one. No one ever
saw you fall. The jury would only
have your word for it, and the plain
tiff might even prove that you were
chronic liar"
"Dear, dear mel" she gasped, as sh
picked up her basket, "what a LUCK,
thing for me that I met you! l shall
look upon this as one of the most mi
raculous escapes of my whole life. Star
and carriers! but how could | have eve
been so foolish as to think of q law
sult!"-DetroH Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24
An AAecdote of Gambetta's Mother.

AS the "Bazar Genois" was in the
market-place its business lay in a great
degree with rustics. Leon got sick of
dealing with haggling rustics, and
prayed to be removed from behind the
counter to the desk. As he was a quick
accountant, and wrote in a neat, legible
and flowing hand, this was granted. He
did his best to give his mind to the bus
mess, but failed, and his health sank
under the tedium of uncongeaial pur-
suits. No device to which the watchful
and tender mother resorted could get
the better of his splenetic state. He had
q fixed ambition which, as it appeared
to him a chimerical one, made him
restless, discontinued and miserable; it
was to study law and become a teacher
to Legal Faculty in a provincial city.
One day his mother called him to her.
She said she had been unhappy in wit
Messing his growing depression, and she
handed him a bag of money which she
had saved unknown to anybody
enough to defray the cost of his journey
to Paris and enable him to study law
there for some time. "A trunk full of
clothing had been prepared, and was at
the Office of the ~stage-coach, where a
place was booked for him to the near
est railway. Madame Gambetta in
structed him to slip quietly away, in
order to avoid a painful scene with his
father, who was determined that his
son should succeed him in the business.
This communication was so unex-
pected and delightful that for the rest OF
the day Leon was in a state of bewilder.
ment. He rose betimes next morning,
and stole off as instructed. Before
Madame Gaimhetta had instructed her
son to follow his vocation, she had
taken steps to keep him out of misery
when the hoard placed in his hands
should be exhausted. In 1856, the year
IN which Gambetta left Cahors, M.
Emile Menier went there on a business
tour. He had just opened the chocolate
factory at Noisiel, and traded in medi-
Gated biscuits and sweet-stuffs. Calling
at the ''Bazar Genois," he was received
by madame Gambetta. In answer to
his proposal to sell his goods on COM
mission she, with tears in her eyes, met
it with another. 1t was in the nature OF
the one enunciated by the unjust stew.
ard. 81 have a son of great PROMISE
she said, "whom I want to send to
Paris against his fathers will, to
study law. He is a good lad and nc
fool. But my husband, who wants
him to continue his business here, will,
l know, try to starve him into submits
sion. What l am about to propose is
that if l buy your chocolate at the rate
you offer it, and buy it outright instead
of taking it to sell on commission, you
will say nothing if 1 enter it at a highe,
price, and you will pay the difference to
my son?" M. Menier, from whose lips
I had this anecdote, agreed, and fol-
some years carried out the arrangement.
The Century.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24
The Archbishopric Of Canterbury.

The Kingo of Kent, Ethelbert by name,
established the See of Canterbury 1886
years ago, and Augustine, whom Greg.
DRY the Great sent over to England as
a missionary to convert the Anglo
.Saxons, a its first incumbent, but not
until during the time of his third sue.
cessor, Theodorus, was the holder OF
the Office invested with metropolitan
authority and powers. Many great and
noble men have filled the office, and
some very mean and narrow ones have
been clothed with its authority. The
royal succession itself has not been more
full OF interest or more vitality asso.
ciated with the prosperity and prog.
ress, or otherwise, of the centuries than
the influence and polity and deeds OF
the primates of England. The names OF
Lanfranc, Anselm, Thomas Beckett,
John Morton are great names; so is
Simon Islip, who is represented a giant
in size also, if tradition is correct, for
this prelate is said to have been six feet
three in height. Cranmer stands sixty
eighth on the list, and down to his time
nearly allthe primates were bred monks,
except an occasional lawyer. The re.
formation came in with Cranmer, and
his sixty-seven predecessors were under
the Pope. Twenty-four have ruled
since, and they have governed under the
throne.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is both
diocesan and metropolitan. In his
metropolitan character and capacity he
is guardian of every vacant see within
his province-presents to all benefces
which fall vacant while such see re.
mains without a bishop, and by special
commissionary exercises a bishops or.
binary jurisdiction therein. He has
likewise appellate jurisdiction over al
bishops of his province. As diocesan he
exercises, through the Consistory Court
of Canterbury, the ordinary jurisdiction
of a bishop over that diocese.
Anent degrees he has, as primate,
university powers invested in him. He
car confer the degrees of doctor o.
divinity and laws, as also of B. A. and
M. A. These are known as Lambeth
degrees, and are valued according tc
the views entertained of the prinate
and the position occupied by the esti
mator. In social position he overranks
all other subjects not of the blood royal.
He crown the Kings and Queens Of
England, and is the spiritual adviser Of
the royal family. He is ~ex-otticio presi
dent of the convocation OF the prelates
and clergy of his province; and by roya
writ summons it to meet whenever Par
lament assemblies, and dissolves it wher
Parliament prorogues. He is entitled
to no less than eight chaplains, and is
ex-officio an ecclesiastical commissioner
having also the right to nominate one O.
these commissioners. He has two pal
aces and $4,000 a year. Thus will be
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24

seen the importance of the Office and
the obvious influence which Its incum-
bent must WELD. His induction to Office
is not designated a conservation, but an
enthronement which attaches almost
regal dignity to it.
DR.. Benson, Bishop of Truro, in Corn
wall, has been appointed to succeed the
late DR.. TAFT. 1t has been announced
in the papers that DR.. Harold Brown,
of Winchester, and DR.. Church, canon
of St. Paul, were offered the position,
and both declined it; but such state
ments require authorization, and have
no certain basis. The Bishop of Win
chester may have declined it, for he is
sold and well stricken in years." but it
is not at all probable that DIR. Church
would have done so, for his name was
at once mentioned when Private TAFT
died, and was kept before the public as
the most likely and eligible appointment
that could be made; and hence if the
choice of the Premier had been made
in harmony Herewith, it would have
been eagerly accepted. DIR. Benson is a
moderate High-churchman, that is, he
is not in sympathy with the Ritualists,
nor will he grant them the same conces.
sions that his Broad-church predecessor
yielded to them. He signalized his ad.
vent to the diocese of Truro by pro
claiming the Wesleyan ministry illegiti-
mate, and has just signalized his de-
parture from Cornwall by referring in
courteous and gracious terms Of recog'
milton to the valuable labors of the Yves
leyans in his late diocese.
He is a man of strong and earnest
convictions; able at organization, able
and firm as an administrator, 'untiring
as q worker, and he imbues those with
whom he has to do with much of his
own spirit. He has liberal views as tc
church work, for he licensed many lay
helpers in Cornwall to preach in uncon
secrated buildings, and to do other and
various kinds Of religious work. HI
will be a great improvement upon his
predecessor, and in many respects quite
a contrast to him. The Nonconformists
need not expect much from Anglican
dignitaries of any school. Dean Stanley,
with all his catholicity and iberality,
held intercourse with them in a one
sided and patronizing manner. Wher
he invited minister's to preach in the
Abbey he gave them the layman's desk
which Max Muller occupied, and not the
pulpit. DR.. John Stoughton vas sc
treated. Now, 1 would much prefer the
attitude of High-churchmen to such rec
ognition as that. DR.. Benson will be
loyal to his position; but as it is proba
BILE he has a true and comprehensive
~discernment of the situation, its respon'
sibilities and its needs, it is reasonable
to conclude that he will subordinate hi
churchly sympathies and preferences tt
the spiritual and religious claims of the
primacy, and that he will see that il
will be the highest wisdom, as we'll a:
a principal duty, to recognize the fac
that there are other churches in England
than his own, and that combined they
constitute a larger and stronger factol
IN the religious life and political inf1u-
ence of the nation.-London Cor. Vest
ern Christian ADVOCATE.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24
An amusing incident occurred r

An amusing incident occurred re-
Gently in the County Court. Brandt,
the lawyer, was examining . German
witness who could not speak English,
and was very deaf besides. His ques-
tons were put through an interpreter,
and, much to the amusement of the
court and spectators, the lawyer seemed
to think that because the witness was
deaf that the questions had to be bel
lowed to the interpreter, and he roared
himself hoarse, and he couldn't see for
the life of him what every one was
laughing at.-- Chicago Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24
Our Young Folks.
THE SPHINX.

She doesn't live in Egypt
Not in these later years;
She sits in a cane-seat rocker,
And this is what She hears:
"Mamma, where's my pencil?"
"Mamma, where's my hat?'.
"Mamma, what does this mean?"
Mamma, what is that"
Who was General TMylor?'
"Where'S this horrid town.
"Have | got to do it?"
Say, is rest a nouny"
Scan ! Il a cOrnet?
Don't l W Sh Thad!
INA, il l got rich some day,
Wouldn't you be glad?'
",Th's bro says the dew-drops
Climb the morning sky;
Oh. what makes them do SO? 7
Tell the reason why"
Hear the gentle answers,
Making matters plain:
Should she speak in riddles,
They will ask again.
"Something ails this slipper
Doesn't it look qucer.'
"Must | do it over?
Fix it, mother dear"
1--WE must write an essay
On a piece of chalk;
Mother, what would you say?'
MA, why don't you talkY"
Children. come to auntie!
Lei ann alone!
q sometimes think the patient sphinx
Will really turn to stOne.)
-An1iu s. Red, in ST. Nicholas
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24

Although Connecticut may be the
home of many of the impositions plac:'
ticed upon the American public, it J,
also the seat of much Temperance anu
religious teaching. Recent statistics
show that the State contains only 1,la,
saloon-keepers, while the number o.
clergymen is nearly as great-1,O55.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24

-Fifty-three employees, conducto!11
and drivers, of the Peoples Street Rall
way Company of Philadelphia h Ia
been discharged for stealing fares. lp
boldest OF them, it is said, were dishoa
estly keeping from two dollars to IN
dollars a Observation-Disclosures Record.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24
Joshua Hudson. who resided

Rev. Joshua Hudson, who resided
near Gainsboro', Frederick County, Va,
went to the hog-pen for the purpose Of
feeding his hogs. Staying longer than
usual, search was made for him, and to
the great horror Of the family he WI;
found in the pen dead, with the side O
his face and throat terribly lacerate'
by the hogs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-24

There is no bravery in carrying,
pistol, no chivalry in shooting a M
no gailantry involved in a street brasi
Our young men ought to underst"'
these thingS-Atlunla Constitution
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