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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
Not a Failure.

"Her life began so brilliantly said
my friend, "it is a pity that it has
turned out such a failure"
We were speaking of one who in her
girlhood gave exceptional promise of
scholarship and literary culture. Her
powers were uncommon, and were
equaled by her ambition. Stimulated
by admiring parents and teachers, and
filled with a genuine love of knowledge.
she studied so necessarily that her health
broke down, and there came a period
OF enforced repose.
Rallying, the same course of severe
ei1ort produced the same result, and the
studies had to be laid aside. The lamn
burned brightly, but the vase was fraoile
and SO the flame was obscured. It
could never become a beacon send;nn
its rays far and wide, through mirl ana
gloom; But it could and did burn
steadily on with a mild, pure radiance.
shedding its cheerful luster oyer the
home circle, "' VIC
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
Manufactured Beauty.

1t is a question whether beauty, like
goodness, must not necessarily be genu-
Inc in order to be admirable. We de-
spise the hypocrite; we laugh at the arti-
ficially lovely. Yet there is a large class
which is so DESTROYS of admiration that,
in its pursuit, any deceit is considered
justifable. The climax of this theoryis
reached whenthe old lady of eighty-five,
the aged patroness of many charlatans,
is held up to admiration because at a
little distance she would pass for thirty.
Proudly her ''makers up point out how
this effect is produced; her hair is false,
her skin is enameled-besides being
frightened" to prevent w~rinkles-heT
eyelashes are stained and her figure is
''made." She is false all over. Now,
is this admirable? Would not a little
honest old age and ugliness be prefera-
bleP Be this as it may, it is not very
important. When a lady has reached
the mature age of e1ghty-fve her ap.
pearance troubles no one very much,
except her grandchildren. But when it
comes to the lady whom you love, or
might love if you were quite certain
that she was genuine, the case is differ
ent. 1t is bad to know that your dear
Angela must sleep in corsets, or she
never, never could attain to the fashion
able waist; it is sad to think of the inev-
table results on her poor little feet of
those Louis Quinze heels, which make
her pretty boots look so %bewitching.
But such sins as these. such triflings
with the human frame divine, are things
too common to complain of. When An
aela's hair slowly but surely changes its
color, that. too, must be borne in ST.
lence, even if the new shade is nothing
so becoming as its predecessor. But
when you begin to fancy Angela's nose
is growing Grecian-when at last YOU
are positive a change has taken place
then tits not nice to guess that Angela,
in the sweet hours of sleep, wears a nose
machine. The picture is not pretty or
pleasant; how much worse must it
appear to the sufferer? Figure to your
self what it must feel like to take your
beauty-sleep with a pair of pincers on
your nose. That pretty old-fashioned
expression has now taken on a new and
dreadful meaning. Any one who desires
to possess the s'Mrs. Langtry nose'' has
but to sleep in torment for a week or
two and the great result is obtained. If
the figure of the would-be beauty is not
as lovely as she wishes, ''the anatomical
corset maker will supply her with
q nocturnal squeezing apparatus which
will ''ine her down" by degrees. If
her stature is too low for beauty she
may remedy this by wearing what is
mildly called an appliances" in the
days OF the Inquisition it would probably
have been classed as an instrument Of
torture. This appliance squeezes and
stretches all the lower parts of the
body, and its use is said not to interfere
with the comfort of ones beauty-sleep.-
Pstts6urg Dispatch.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
Hot Water for Insects,

It has been many years since we first
employed hot water for killing destruc-
tive insects, but never with the accuracy
of the experiments described in a late
number OF the Gardeners Magazine of
London. A large number of expert
ments were made with different plants
to determine what degree of heat they
would bear without injury. Among
the plants which would bear 14o degrees
without being harmed, but which were
hurt at $50 degrees, were %centaures, Sc
dums, fuchsias, calceolarias, petunias.
ferns, and several others. 1t wa Curl
Gus that all the plants tested would bear
nearly the same degree Of heat, with
scarcely any variation. Pelargoniums
were unhurt up to $50 degrees, but the
slightest rise above killed the young
wood and leaves. 1t is probable that
the same result would take place with
hardy plants, and the green shoots and
leaves of trees. The question next
occurs, what insects will yield to this
temperature o. to n some degrees
lower? This information is not fur
nished by the Gardeners Magazine, ex-
cept that aphides quickly perish in wa
ter heated at 12O degrees. The prac-
tice has been adopted by nurserymen
for clearing their young pear, cherry
and other trees in the nursery rows of
the aphides which have infested them,
by bending the branches which they
covered so as to immense them in soap
suds, which has proved effectual; but
doubtless a better way would be to use
hot water, the temperature of which
could be kept at the right point by the
use of a thermometer, and by occasional
additions from a vessel kept heated to
boiling.
A useful series of experiments, easily
performed would be to ascertain what
insects would yield to this hot bath,
which might be tried on rose bugs,
slugs, currant worms Or any others
which feed on or occupy the green and
flexible shoots of plants and trees. A
most important advantage of this mode
is that it leaves no defacing OF hurtful
poison on the plants.
In the experiments which we have
performed for many years in destroying
the cabbage worm with hot water, the
precise temperature could not be deter
mined by using the thermometer, as the
plants could not be immersed, but must
be treated by a showering from a water
ing pot. This required some care and
Judgment, and was not therefore so well
adapted to general use. The water was
to be kept quite hot in the vessel, as ii
was necessarily considerably cooled in
the fine Jets through the air from the
rose, and when too hot the application
must be for a briefer moment than when
the temperature is lower. 1t is worth
while to ascertain how low a point will
be fatal to them, and then to fill the
watering pot with water a few degrees
higher, and apply it promptly and free.
1y, keeping a thermometer on hand as
a guide. A certain and successful ap.
plication of this remedy, easily per:
formed, would be Of great value to the
cabbage-raising and cabbage-eating
community = Country Gentleman.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
A Connecticut Mans Way.

That was a sorry-looking procession
which marched into Plainville from the
direction of Forestville on Wednesday.
The procession consisted OF two men,
white man, Charles Green, of For
estville. and the other a black man
streaked with red, who had the appear
ance Of having been recently run
through a corn-sheller. The explana
ton OF this thing was that Mrs. Green,
while walking from Plainville to Forest
vile, along the RAILROAD. was overtaken
by a strange negro, who grossly insulted
her, and at last attempted to seize her.
She escaped and ran until she reached
the shop where her husband was at work.
Green did not wait to summon a consta-
BILE and justice but proceeded at once in
search of the villain, and soon overlook
him on the railroad track, and at nee
proceeded to execute the law upon him
in due AND ancient form. No knight OF
olden times ever performed the work Of
protecting injuredinnocence better than
he; in fret, the darkey, whose nam is
J. Milford, was pummeled until the light
OF day became a shadow to him. Mr..
Green then marched him to P~lainville,
as aforesaid, and delivered him up to
Constable Beldon, who lodged him in
the White Pine jug. He was removed
from thence and taken to Forestville,
where he was tried and sentenced ia
thirty days in the county Jail, the darkey
owning up and laying his oftense to
bad liquor.-Bristol Conn.,, Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
Wise Sayings.

The way to forget ourmiseries is to
remember our mercies.
Trust that man in nothing who
has not a conscience in everything
Sterne.
Il wonder many times that ever a
child ofGod should have q sad heart,
considering what the Lord is preparing
for him.-RuMerJord.
There is, perhaps, no better test Of
a mans real strength of character than
the way in which he bears himself under
just reproof. Every man makes mis-
takes; every man commits faults; but
not every man has the honesty and
meekness to acknowledge his errors and
to welcome the criticism which points
them out to him. 1t is rarely difficult
TOR us to lind an excuse for our course,
fits an excuse we are looking for. IL
Is, n fact, always easier to spring to an
angry defense yourselves than to calm
~ acknowledge the justice of another's.
righteous condemnation of some wrong
action of ours; but to refuse to adopt
this latter course, when WE know thai
we are in the wrong, is to reveal to our
WI better consciousness, and often TO
the consciousness of others, an essential
defect in our character. He is strong.
who dares confess that he is weak; ne
IS already totterng to a fall who needs
to bolster up the weakness Of his per-
sonality by all sorts of transpareRl
shams. 1t is not in vain that Scripture
says: "Reprove one that hath under
standing and he will understand knows
edge for n of the best evidences o.
the possession of that discreet sell.
Judgment which stands at the basis OF
moral strength, and one of the bes0
means of gaining it when it is lacking,
is just this willingness to accept mer1tea
reproof, and to profit by it when &C.
ceDted.-S. S. Times
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
RELIGIOUS.
TO A YOUNG LADY ON HER
TWENTEF7RST BIRTHDAY

"
What shall / wish thee, maiden, to-day,
As we gather to greet thee bright and gay,
n tender congratulations.
Shall l wish for thee presents. costly ana rare,
A flower, a pearl for thy braided hair;
Some purchased gew-gaw dazzling and fair,
Or still richer presentations?
Shall I wish thee days of unbroken health2
Or wish thee a fortune Of untold wealth.
And friends and admirers many?
Shall l wish thee houses and lands and Hooks,
Riches in dividends, bonds and stocks;
Wardrobes of costumes, robes and frocks;
Wines in ~Burgundies, sherries and hooks,
And a husband rarer than any?
Nay, wishes like these are but empty things,
For what are jewels, and trinkets, and rings?
Or what is pleasure or mirth?
Or what ars lands, or houses org9ia s
Or what is aught that is bought or sold,
Whatever its cost or worth?
For jewels are trash, and gold but dross;
All pleasure pain, all gain but loss,
To a soul that must live forever.
IS that. soul and God be not reconc1led;
IT life be not pure and Undecided,
If the heart be not lowly, meek and mild,
Like the heart of a spotless Heavenly child,
That sin has sullied never
Then I'll wish for thee pardon, and rest, and
A life of faith htlt that will eyer increase,
A soul that COD keeps calm with His smile,
A heart that no evil shall ever defle,
A mind thatno doubt shall ever beguile,
Till the shadows and shades OF earth's "little
while
Are lost in Heavens bright Light;
Yes, then shall thy life be happy and blest,
Then shall thy heart be ever at rest
Wherever thy footsteps roam:
Then shall thy riches be richer than gold,
And the worth OF thy treasures remain un'
told
Till Gods pure Light thy Life unfold,
And God Himself thine eyes behold
In thy far-off Heavenly Home.
christian Commonwealth.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
Contented to abide inlo,

Contented to abide inlowlv min.
the gifted girl, finding that sbe m oansb
spend days and nights over Greel,a ld
Latin, determined to become tbat an
thing, a perfect housekeen.r" "' fs7
learned patiently and thoroueh,r ~
various secrets of houseworE. %
occult processes by which neat, ba .ao1
full and w%ell-ordered homes ara eeaut
going as if by magic. Aeq
mons temple, and the great blocl1so lo
hewn stone and massive beams Of cas.
which were prepared and BROUGHT, ~
all ready for use, so that the ~.
edifice was reared in digniied ouiestnal1
without noise OF confusion, I tho,as
how like to this is the work which y
take place in the household, # tb;us
are to be carried forward in order v
body builds a beautiful home ter Mo
without pains and care, and we mnS, y
our polishing and hewing out of s;cs.
if we would be successful architects
The young girl 1 am speaking Of !
will call her Lillie) learned to brew
bake, to sweep, to dust, to sew, to m,u
age servants and to entertain guests sr
cry one of these occupations BEING; II J
manner uncongenial to her, since 81
was by nature Shy, retiring, and a Bit
a recluse. The variety and exerc;s!
necessary to homely Housekeeping AL
not tax her strength as did intensse da)
voticn to books. yet she continued fra;l
and was sometimes laid aside ~
months. :
l suppose nobody learns how to SYM.
pathize with the sick in any other wav
than by learning pain suffering. On,
Lille became o tender visitor n
Swallowed homes. She would coms
with her soft step, her gentle words
her sweet face and her unerrine tad
into a sick room, and when she left /
the patient felt encouraged. So, then
was one work she did for the Master
not less precious that it was a verv IN
obtrusive one.
She taught class after class in III
Sabbath-school; and as the years wen
by. and the girls and boys who had bee
under her instruction grew up, they "
membered her counsels and priced he
continued friendship. They sought he
for advice, told her their perplexitie
and were influenced by herin their m;
turity, is they had been guided in the
childhood.
Lilies brothers and sisters marie
and went here and there to their ne
homes. Neither love nor marriage we
appointed for her, and she staid on wi
her parents through their declinir
years, always their comfort, and grad
ally their main dependence. She I
tanned, as it seems to me some sing
women do, in a marvellous way, i
simplicity of her child-heart through
her years; and now that her hair
sprinkled with silver, and her foot-f;
is less firm than of old, she is still ever
thing that a daughter can be to the ag
ones who lean on her.
Lille has never written q poem, n
painted a picture, nor made adiscove
in science, nor dazzled adrawing-roo,
She has spent her life humbly, in a sha
place, but she has made the shade
sweet with the perfume of Christ 10,
and the world has been the better
her. Such a life is anything but a ia
ure.-Margoret e. Sangster, IN Cong
gUtS0n0lst.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
W CITIES.

Imark. two cities, side by side,
And daily both are growing;
From morn till night a restless tide
Through all their streets is flowing.
Ii both they break the prairie's sod,
With spade, and pick, and shovel;
Houses to build for mans abode
The mansion and the howell.
The sunshine on their marble streams -
Alike in both these cities;
And Nights fair lamp, with softer beams
Their sleeping silence pities.
Twin cities they, and side by side,
With equal thrift they %bourgeOn;
One built with toll, and cost, n pride,
And one none need to urge On.
For one, the city is of Life
Astir with noise and hustle:
And one, unwont to noise and Strife
Owns Death its mute apostle.
In one the tide of traffic rolls
In lows and Gibbs of passion,
fhe hoarse bell in the other tolls
The knell of ftful fashion.
Spread, living men, your city wide,
Build cottage, hall and mansion;
The other city, by its side,
For every house with roof and floor,
That makes Life's city BROADER
OF narrow homes there must be more,
Where Death is speeches. warder.
And, in the end, my faith discerns
Their modes of being vary;
Mans palace to the dust returns,
Life-to the cemetery.
The city of the silent host
Shall wake from dust's detection,
And captive Death his empty boast
Hush on the Resurrection!
c. Richards, IN Youths Companion
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04

A wealthy Philadelphia, Mr.,
Henry Leybert, left sixty thousand
dollars to the Medical University Of
Pennsylvania, on the condition thet 4
would institute an impartial invaeUga-
don Of spiytualism ffesA
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04

A Brooklyn Heights girl, disguised
as a maid-servant, washed the sidewalk
of her fathers residence with the hose
for the sake of getting a chance to turn
the water on a dude who insisted upon
making love to er.-Brooklyu Eaole.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
international Sunday.School Lessons.
THIRD QUARTER.

THIRD QUARTER.
July 22-Israel defeated ut All. 49,. Josh. T:10-26
July 2a-The Reading of the Law. Josh. s:3O-35
Aug. 5-The Cities of Refuge. Josh. 20: 1853
Aug. 12-The Last Days of Joshua. Josh. "a :14-29
Aug. 19-Israel Forsaking Cod. ..Judg. 2: GIG
Aug. 26-Gideon's Army. ..Judg. Z: l. s
Sept. 2-The Death of Samson .. .Judg. IS :21-31
Sept. Ruth and Naoni.........R Ruth l:l4-22
Sept. ia Praying Mother. 5000. Sam. l:2l-28
Sept. 2S-Ihe Child amuel........lS Sam. 3: l-l9
Sept. 30-RevieW.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04

In Erance women live an average
OF thirteen years longer than men.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04

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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-06-16
HIS PA is AGAIN DECEIVED.

''See here, you coon, you get cut of
here, said the grocery man To tie bad
boy, as he came in the store with his face
black and shining, 81 don't want any col
ored boys around her. White boys break
me up bad enough
so, philopene, said the bad boy, as
he put his hands Oh his knees and laughed
so the candy jars ratified on the shelves.
boy that comes in here and talks your
arm off. land the boy opened the cheese
box and cut off a piece of cheese SO nat
ural that the grocery man had no diff
Guilty in recognizing him.
WHAT in the name of the seven sleep.
ing sisters have you got on your hands
and face ?' said the grocery man, as he
took the boy by the ear and turned HIM
around. you would pass in a coiorcC
prayer meeting. What are you got up ii
| such an outlandish RIG for?
"Well, I'll tell you, if you viii keel
watch at the door If you see bald
headed colorcd man coming along tbs
street with club, you whistle, and vii
fall down the cellar. The bald-headeC
colored man will be pa. You see, w
moved yesterday. Pa told me to get
vacation from the livery stable, and W,
would have fun moving. But | don
want any more fun. know when hav
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-06-16
Ihurlow Weeds First Shilling.

My father was a hard working man,
with kind heart, and an earnest desire
to- do the best he could for his children
He was withal a strictly honest man.
the sweat of his brow, in its most literal
sense. lie was bred farmer, but in
1893 removed from Cairo to Catskill, and
became ca man. But everything went
wrong with him. Constant and hard
labor failed to better his condition. Ii
at times he succeeded i'll getting little
fail to pay him, or his horse would Get
lame, or fall sick, or back off the docks
into the river. The consequence was
that we were always poor, sometimes
very poor. This, however, was the mis-
fortune rather than the fault of my par
ents; for they We're always struggling to
promote the welfare Of their children.
They were ve:y anxious that | should
enjoy the advantages Of education.-l
camno5 ascertain how much schooling |
got at Catskill, probably less than Il ycar
certainly not a year and ii half, and this
when | was not more than five or six
years old.
| felt the necessity, at an early age,
of trying to do something for my own
support.
My first employment. when about
eight years old, was i'll blowing "A black,
smith bellows for Mr.. Reeves, VIII,
gave me six cents per day, which contri
buted so much towards the support o.
the family. | stood upon box to enable
me to reach the handle Of the bellows
Ny next service was in the capacity o
| boy Of all work. at a tavern in the village
of jefferson, two miles from CatSkill
KEEP by Il Captain Baker, who had, | re
member, made Il great mistake in OK
changing the command of ship for
tavern.-Aiter the sheriff took possession
of Captain Bakers wrecked hotel | 90
a situation as cabin boy on board TIN
sloop Ranger, Capt Grant. This graft
fled Il desire had to see the city of New
York. | was then C1S06) in my nintl
year. | remember, as if it were but yes
tcrday, after carrying the small hal
trunk of Il passenger. from Coenties Sill
to Broad street, finding myself i'll posses
sion of the first shilling that could cal
my own remember, too, how joyful
purchased with that shilling three tw
penny cakes and three oranges for m
brother and sister, how carefully
watched them on the passage back, ant
how much happiness they conferred.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-06-16

Two men were sitting together in a
smoking car on the Danbury railway the
other morning, when one of them obser-
we'd to the other
{" | lost as likely a colt as you ever saw
last winter
After pause the addressed party in
CURED
odd it die -
ode - repeated the loser, somewhat
resentfully GLOW could Fave lost it if it
hadn't died?"
81 didn't know but it slipped through
a crack in the floor said the other man
in an injured tone.
Both lapsed into silence after that.
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Priest: "Pat, | understand you are
going to be married again" Disconso-
late Widower: "Yis, your riv'rence."
Priest: But your wife, Pat, has only
been dead two weeks" d. W.: "Yis,
your riv'ronce; but shurc amt she as
dead now rs she liver will be ."