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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
Variety Of Food.

Man must adapt himself to his bust
ness and circumstances. Nature pro-
vides him with many things on which
his sheep will feed. Some of these are
adapted to immediate use, others to
preservation for use when nature has
shut down, so to speak. If this proves
any one thing more than another, it
proves that both animals and men need
with the change of season a change Of
diet. In the case of man the changes
are almost innumerable, and he can
select his dietary from a thousand diff
ferent things. But in the case of his
domesticated animals it is very different.
They are not in a position to do any
such thing. If he turns them into his
pasture Che it large or small for the
number enclosed in it), the pasture is
all they have.
If his pasture is adapted to the pro-
duction of wool it will not produce NUT
ton; if for the latter, it will not produce
the former. Hence the necessity of pro-
viding q variety of food, for sheep have
to make not only wool and mutton, but
the bone and muscle necessary to their
growth and development.
One reason why native sheep are small
and poorly developed is accounted for
n this way: They can only secure that
kind of food which will sustain life, and
all they can get is assimilatcd for that
purpose, and to that only. There are
other contingent reasons of course, but
the staff of life is the foundation of nat
ural development in the natural state.
What then is the sheepmaster called
upon to do-having of course deter
mined upon his line of herding-but to
provide his stock with such food. as are
adapted to the end he has in view.
AS was said in an address recently de-
livered by Henry Lane before the Ver-
mont Board of Agriculture: Different
kinds of food will produce different re-
suits. One kind will grow bone, mus
Gle, frame; another kind will fatten
without much growth of body" The
w~ool-ggrower wants wool and body too.
and to secure for his focks frequent
| change of diet.
To accomplish his object the breeder
has to know what purpose he has in
breeding, and then the food adapted to
that purpose. To do this requires more
than to know that a sheep is a sheep,
and that grass is grass; can be learned
by experience by a long and slow pro
cess; by study, care, observation and
experience much quicker and better;
and when all these are combined and
employed many a man will find himself
at times nonplussed to know why his
sheep do not develop as he expected
and desired.
One element of success is found in va
riety of food, in the quantities called
for; another is in situation and coup.
ling; and yet another care and shelter.
-Colmam's Rural World.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
The King and the Poor.

The Hofburg, the chief palace Of tho
Austrian Sovereigns, has been the scene
Of an ecclesiastical cermony or act Of
devotion which is . curious relic OF
medieval customs. In accordance with
the usage observed from time immemo-
rial on Maundy-T Thursday, the cermony
of ''washing the feet of the poor" was
this morning performed as usual by
their Majesties at the imperial residence
In the middle ages the custom prevailed
at many other Catholic courts, but in
the present day to find a parallel would
be impossible, except at the Vatican
and the palace of the King of Spain.
The proceedings opened ct nine o'clock,
when twelve old men, of whom the
Oldest is in his ninety-third year and the
youngest eighty-seven, and twelve old
women, the Oldest n%inety-six and the
youngest ninety, dressed as usual, in
the old German costume, presented to
them by the Emperor and Empress,
entered the court chapel, in order to
receive the sacrament, and were then
brought into the hall of ceremonies at
the Hofburg. On each side of the
hall was o table with twelve covers,
the one table for the old men and the
other for the old women. They are
all citizens of Vienna, and many among
them showed by their behavior that they
have taken part in the ceremony moro
than once. With the appearance of the
clergymen at II a. m. the ceremony
began. The Emperor, who was followed
by all the archduchesses and court
ladies, served the old women at their
respective tables. The corps diploma
tiique was, as usual, in attendance, but
this year, for reasons generally known,
the British, French and Turkish ambas-
sailors did not appear. All the minis
tiers were present, as well as court
dignitaries and privy counselors, the
chamberlains, the grand masters, and
the highest representatives of the army!
The tables being removed, the Emperor
and Empress knelt down in front of
each of the old people, took off a shoe
and stocking from each, washed the
foot with towels moistened from q
golden ever held by a chamberlain.
After the feet of the old people had
been wiped the archdukes and arch
duchessess replaced the shoe and
stocking, and their Majesties concluded
the ceremony by hanging round the
neck of each of the old people a purse
with thirty silver forms. The old folks
were then sent home in cabs, each with
a well-illed box of provisions and wine.
London Standard.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
81 think Il ia" .r foo, moro than /.

II think it u.s." II feel more than."
where it can be use, he will not-in-
deed, it may be said that he cannot,
without special effort-write another
letter in which the pronoun is uniformly
omitted, using such phrases, for instance,
as "Am here" ssHage much trouble"
''Want to see you," evil try to Make"
''Will write to this" and "Am always
thinking" Least of all would a gentle
nan accustomed to use scholarly lam
guage in ever his most ordinary bust
ness notes, fall into such q boorish ex-
preston in writing to a lady, as "Want
to see you awful bad" and he would be
unlikely to make the grammatical blum
der Of saying 81 will never forget"
when he meant simply II shall never
forget" !.
1t is this literary habit or style of
composition which men of dissimilar
training find it impossible to adopt from
each other. The mere construction of
letters and words is a sort of handicraft
which n man may by practice learn
to do very nearly like another, but the
formation of sentences and the arrange
ments of ideas come from qualities of
the head which it is hard for any man
to assume when they do not belong to
him. There is a difference between the
manual labor of writing a letter on q
piece of paper with a pen and the mem
tai labor Of composing it, no matter
how simple it may be. 1t is this higher
quality which rests in the composition
itself that sometimes contradicts the
theory Of authorship which is suggested
by similarity of handwriting.-Detroi
Post and Tri6une.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
Proofs Of Authorship.

The most obvious and common meth
cd of proving the authorship of manu-
script is by the handwriting. Incidental
evidence of more or less weight fire.
quently comes in the way of some pecu-
liarity of the paper or ink that is used,
but, after all, the main dependence or
dinarily rests upon the similarity in the
formation of letters and the numerous
details that go to make up q style of
handwriting. The most common in
stances that arise are those of forged
notes, Endorsements, checks or other
commercial writings used by the forger
to obtain money on the strength Of q
better mans credit, and cases are not
rare in which the work is so ~cleverly
done as not only to deceive bank tellers
and cashiers, whose daily occupation
makes them experts in handwriting, but
even the person whose signature has
been forged. More than this, sometimes
it happens that a nan cannot tell his
own writing from that of another per-
son, even when there is no attempt at
imitation, as happened the other day in
the probate court of this county when,
in the matter of proving the will of Al
varina E. Jones, Mr.. L. M. Gates, of
Kalamazoo County, whose name ap-
peared on the document as a witness,
testified that the signature seemed to be
his own, and he could not deny it,
though it was followed by the words
'Edmonston, Otsego County, New
York." which he could never have
written, because he had not only never
lived there, but had never heard of such
a place in his life. At the request of
Judge Durfee the witness wrote the
same line-'.L. M. Gates, Edmonston.
Otsego Co., N. Y.,"-as it stood on
the will, and the handwriting
appeared to be identical. The puzzle
was partially explained by another wit
ness who stated that there were two men
named L. M. Gates, one of whom, re-
siding in New York, had witnessed the
will Of the wife, and the other residing
in Michigan, had witnessed the will of
Mr.. Jones, the husband. The singular
fact remained, however, that there were
two persons, strangers to each other,
who wrote so nearly alike that one of
them at least could not tell his own pen
manship from that of his namesake.
But while handwriting can be imi-
tated in such a way as to deceive the
sharpest judges, there are certain intel
lectual traits and indicia Of education
which lie beyond the forger's reach.
Everybody knows how a lack of early
training will stick like a burr in a mans
speech as long as he lives, and how
slight expressions, peculiarities of pro-
nunciation or singular uses of words
will, in spite of ones self, reveal to an
acute observer just where and how the
speaker was brught up. Habits of
composition in familiar correspondence
are Just as ineradicable as habits Of
speech. If, for instance, a man leaves
off the pronoun ''I' at the beginning of
his sentences in one letter, he will do it
in a thousand that he will write in the
course of a year, and if, on the other
hand, he inserts the pronoun
throughout one letter he will
be pretty sur to use it con-
stantly. If on n occasion he writes, Il
desire to acknowledge" Il hope that"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
To Flood Sahara.

Count de Lesseps has explored the
route for himself, and he declares that
the construction of a canal to flood the
great African desert with the waters of
the Mediterranean is feasible. There
has been doubt as to whether the surface
of Sahara is higher or lower than the
surface of the sea, but his triumphant
dispatch from Tunis indicates that he
has obtained information that to per-
form his feat it will not be necessary to
make water uphill. 1t is proposedto
cut a channel through the narrow neck
of land which separates the salt marshes
south of Tunis from the Gulf of Gabes,
and thus pour an ocean into the vast
basin of sand whose farther rim is the
border of the Soudan-a land of the
riches of India and the population of
the United States. France has been
eager to bring the heart of Africa to the
light of civilization and the wealth Of
the same to the pockets of Frenchnlen,
and Col. Flatters expended three years
of toll and 800, 900 of treasure in the
attempt to fulfill his ambitious predic-
ton: II will cross Africa with a rail-
way" Since his slaughter by Arabs
the scheme to penetrate the heart Of the
''dark continent with a railway has
dropped from public attention, and
Count de Lesseps, The great uniter Of
the earth's waters, has laid his stupen-
dous project before his admiring coun-
trymen, with sublime confidence in his
ability to secure S15, 900, 900 for the
work by merely asking. The count is
now nearly 80 years OF age, and in his
long and romantic career he has accom-
plished prodigious achievements, but
if he restores to the burning sands Of
Sahara the waves which in a remote age
rolled over them, the creation of an
ocean and the civilization of u continent
will be the climax of his career and the
chief marvel Of his fame.-N. Y. Maaf
and Express. :.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
Questions and Answers About q Re.
nOrtAr.

"Who is that angry looking MANI"
"That, my Son, is a Reporter"
"Do Reporters always look Mad?"
"Not always"
"What Ais that one?"
"He has been to q Church Supper"
"Wasn't he Invited?"
ooh, yes. Five of the prettiest Girls
in the parish Urged him to CO."
81 should Think he would have liked
That"
"He did. And each of these girls
Wantedhim to give my Table Especial
Mention"
"Did he get any SUPERB" i.
''Of course he Did. He bought A
five-cent Sandwich for a Quarter and
ate it after the rest got through"
"Where is he Going now?"
.He is going to the Office to write
that the parish Church Supper last Night
was a most agreeable success. The
Faces of the fair Maidens in at
tendance on the Tables were Only
by the Charming liberality with
which they Dispensed the finest of
Viands."
care Reporters ever Sarcastic?"
"No, my Son, never;'-W Waterbury
american.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
.Reniamin Mowrer. of M%ontour. p

Benjamin Mowrer, of Montour, Pa,
helped to build the first locomotive ever
built in America and manufactured the
first miners pick for mining anthracite
coal, and who saw Washington and La
fayette, and is the survivor of many a
bloody Indian fight, is still hale and
hearty and works at his forge daily.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
The pbi]adelnhia (Pa.A Pyoo1ess re-

The Philadelphia (Pa.) Progress re-
lates this story: ''Say, mister, wouldn't
you like to buy this yere dorg?" asked
a rough-looking darkey of a gentleman
who CHANGED to be walking through a
far-down Philadelphia street which is
generally regarded as suspicious"
"Well / don't know" and the gentle
man stopped and looked at the dog-a
fair-looking setter. II do want a dog
to take with me when I go shooting, but
1 don't think yours will do. Iwant one
good on the scent" ''See yere, mis-
ter" and the darkey drew him aside
confidentially, ''if ye know of a dog in
town as Id suit ye, tell me WHARF ye
seed i'm, and l dunno but l couldn't git
i'm fur ye."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12

Some fifty years ago Mr.. Joseph
Everest went to Wyoming from Hume
and bought a farm three miles north Of
Warsaw. One morning he related .
dream that he had the night before, and
which he had dreamed for three nights
in succession, in which he had seen a
vast treasure on his farm in the earth
below. He was so moved by the vision
that, having selected a spot, removed
the earth to the rock, and with impro-
vised tools he began drilling with a
spring pole. After going down some
eighty or ninety feet and finding moth
ing he gave up the job, but still per-
sisted in his belief of a hidden treasure
below up to the time Of his death many
years after. His nephew, MI. H. P.
Everest, of the Vacuum Oil Company of
Rochester, some years since, remember
inc his uncle's dream, which was a
household word in the family, sunk q
we'll for oil in that locality, but found
salt instead, thereby fully realizing the
dream Of his uncle Joseph OF a hidden
treasure.-N. Y. Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12

The Lexington (Ky.) Gazette quotes
Colonel William Gum, of that city, as
saving that when seventeen years OF age
he had a severe attack of typhoid fever,
which lasted seven weeks, and that
when he recovered he found that he had
actually grown three and a half inches
in heieht in that time, and the same
paper moreover says that Colonel Gum
is a truthful man.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12

Lucy Hooper says that a great
many Americans who want to "see
Naples and die" do see Naples and die,
the italian malarial fever carrying thew
off with astonishing promptness. i
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12

Look often at your horses feet and
leos. Disease or wounds in those parts,
if at all neglected, soon become dam
gerOus.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12
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Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-03-16
Dots,


No police hearings this morning.
Tomorrow will be st. Patrick's day
Quite change in the weather from
yesterday.
EpWorth Sunday School will give AN
excursion to Andalusia on Thursday,
June 18th.
The steamer Wilmington WAS expect
ed to arrive in this port last evening,
but did not
The steamer FELTON, went out on a
trial trip yesterday, and worked ad,
mirably.
The aparatuses Of the different
fire companies are getting rusty for the
need OF a run.
a shooting mat ch at glass balls was
INDUCED in at the Quickstep b. Il.
Club ground yesterday afternoon.
A public sale of b,r-room fixtures
and other eilirt, will take place at lob
+, Water street tomorrow morning.
Janr, &. Pickles has withdrawn
from he firm OF j. +. Hayes ~ Co., Car
spring manufacturers. He will be sue
credrd by 'usey A. Walton.
Surveyors are employed in locating
line fer tn" proposed new road from
State Road Station On the Delaware
road to Il point near kigemoOr station
on the T. W, Il t. line.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-03-16
ATERRIFIF EXPLOSION.
The House OF Commons shook 10
its Foundation.

LONDON, March IA terrific gas
explosion occurred in the local govern,
mrut board offices in Westminster II,
nine O'Clock tonight, destroying much
property. The report wa, heard III IA"
hous" Of Commons, ami caused alarm.
The conclusion was SO great that il
shook III" side galleries and the re,
portcrs' galleries. Ii being the dinner
npur, few members Of the House wrr,
present IN the hall. The Duke OF
fdinburg was in the Peers gallery, and
seemed alnrmed. The Speaker forth,
with rang his bell and asked the caus'
Of the a lrIn. No enc was injured. The
widest rumors are at1oat. The report
rrsclnhled the discharge Of an eighty.
ton gun.
LATEK.-It is now believed that the
explosion was caused by dynamite, and
that deliberate attempt WAS made to
blow up the government offices. The
explosion being the subject Of consider
alton in the House Of Commons, Sir vii
liam Harcourt, Home Secretary, said
he did not think it would be right It
say anything about the matter until IL
official inquiry had been made He had
heard that an attempt had Lecn made
to blow up the Tines office, but that
no injury had been done.
| The rX ploSiun was heard at Il distance
Of TWO or three miles
Yesterday evening a canister contain
ing explosive material was found be-
hind the Times office, with, it il
rumorrd, "A lighted fuse attached. The
police are ma. NJ IN investigation.
The officials think the explosion was
caused by gunpowdcr or dynamite Thu
officers Of the -, company declare that
they can find no evidence that it wa
caused by gas.
The force Of the explosion shot arg'
portions of the masonry across ia
street.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-03-16
A Minister'S A fIlicliOR.

Rev, William II. powck, formerly
Of this city, but now a member of the
Philadelphia NJ. l.. Conference, and
stationed n Thornhalc, Chester County,
Pa, los, his little daughter Jennie,
aged y months, yesterday by convul-
ing Conference at Lancaster when his
child was taken sick but being sent for
got home before she died. The funcra.
will take plac" from The home Of Mr..
Prwirk's parents, sl4 Madison street,
to-m"rrr" (Saturday) afternoon, at $40
o'c!ock. Mr.. and Mrs. Powick hay"
the sincere sympathies Of a large circle
of synpathizinS friends in Whining
Ton
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-03-16
THE: TIDAL WAVE
IS COMING,
so Is The
FINE CLOTHING COMING
10 TIE
MISFIT PARL0RS.

We have Just received a
few very fine 5 Button Goats
and Vests, made of the finest
French rib-trico, lined all
through with silk, cost S45
will be sold for S22, there are
very few OF them. Also, some
fine Edwin Harris Cashmere
SUITS, worth $50, that will be
sold for $40; and fancy Cas-
simere and Chevlot suits
worth from SIS to S25, vii.
be sold from $40 to $l5; also
about 200 pairs Of pants of vari
Gus grades, comprising all sorts
and kinds that will be sold 81
per cent. less than their value.
We have a few Of those very fine
Ovcrcoats left that we will sell for
less than cost before packing
them away. Those wishing bar
gains had better call at once. Iol
will find the makers name OF
some of those fine goods.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-03-16
The Hearings Last Evening,

\ woman named Jenny Watson was
before the Mayor last evening, charged
with disordrrly conduct by Joatp h
Miller. Several neigbhors gave ih"ir
tr,timony in the cast, and all seemed Il
agree thai Mrs. Watson Wa4a common
rro!G. The Mayor imposed fine Of It
crIts and costs.
WilImm il. Reynolds was heard on
'hn charge Of violating the liquor law,
l.. ling liquor +" minors. several
boys M".r 'yaniued, e'"i ,. H'"'.'. .".'
III at iIrt j" was NOT over - years Ol
.r,aud had bought aud paid for i.ln"f
il, the drEndaut's saloon The l4tor
orderri Reynolds to furnish 5000 b.i
tor his appearance ut Court.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-03-16
DUKES DENOUNCED.
IndiGnatiOu against Dake e. and the
Jury that Cleared Him.

UNIONTOwN, PA, March l5.-The ex-
citement to-day over the acquittal of
Dukes is as intense ~ ever, but il is not
manifested by such demonstrations AZ
were made last night. The jurors, when
they made their appearance on the
streets this morning, were publicly
Kissed and hooted at from every corner.
The populace yelled, as each juror APP
parcd: Tar and feather him" hit
him with a brick :" ride him Ona rail,
and other terms expressive OF indigna-
ton and contempt. The jurors left
town as soon rs they could. Dukes has
gone to the home u his mother in Ger
man township.
A meeting Of the citizens was held on
Thursday night in the school hall Il
give expression to the public sentiment
touching the arguittal Of Dukes. The
hall would not accommodate all who
desired O attend. Every proninen,
citizen in the town was present. Cap
tain John Biercer presided.
Speeches con,cmning the action OF
he jury in the strongest terms, and de-
nounring the jurors rs on ID par with
{, he assassin, were made by Nathaniel
Ewing, Rev. \. +. Kerr, of the M-rhn-
dist Church -. IL. Livingstone and MIR.
Biercer
Resolutions of the strongest condemn
ing character were passed.
Telegraphic dispatches were read from
various parts Of the State expressing
sympathy with the object of the meet
ing and denonncing Dukes and the
| iury 4 mnuy the A. u,rr the. follow ING