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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28

His sermons, some forty, occupy most OF
the little volume in which these 'Prim-
itie' were collected. He was especially
concerned about Sabbath dissertation.
IT confess" observes this sage of ten,
"when 1 look upon the present and past
state of our public morals, and when l
contrast our present luxury, dissipation
and depravity with past fr"gality and
virtue, l feel not merely q sensation OF
regret, but also of terror, for the result
of the change" "The late Revolution
in France" he adds, "has afforded us a
remarkable lesson how necessary religion
is to a State, and that from q deficiency
on that head arise the chief evils which
can befall society,"" He then bids us
remember that the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS who
may destroy our Israel is near at hand"
though it might be difficult to show how
Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Israel. As to
the uncertainty of life, he remarks that
edward VI. died in his minority, and
disappointed his subjects, to whom he
had promised a happy reign" OF this
infants thirty-nine sermons just as many
az the Articles), it may be said that they
are in no way inferior to other examples
of this class of literature. But sermons
are among the least Scarce and "rare"
of human essays, and many parents
would rather have their boy patiently
acquiring the art of wicket-keeping at
school than moralizing on the uncertain
ty of life at home. Some n "having
presented to the young author a copy of
verses on the trite and familiar subject
Of the Ploughboy," he replied with an
ode on "the Potboy."
''Bliss is not always join'd to wealth,
Nor dwells beneath the gildod roof,
For poverty is bliss with health,
OF that my potboy stands a proof"
The volume ends with this determine
ton:
.stil shall I seek Apollo's shelt'ring ray
To cheer my spirits and inspire my lay"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28
PerniciOus Literature.

Bishop O'Farrell, of Trenton, in a
Lenten address, makes these remarks:
In this country reading is universal,
we might say, our children have a
great thirst for it. There is little need
to stimulate it; but it has to be wisely
directed. Reading gives the turn to
the minds of children; hence, Chris
tian education will gain or lose its eff
feet, according to the reading of the
child.
Here, dear brethren, we would have
many things to say to parents upon the
necessity Of watching over carefully,
and directing prudently, the tastes Of
their children in the selection of their
reading books. How many parents
who never take the trouble to see what
their children are reading; who never
advise them, never sympathize with
them, never try to gain their con-
fidence, SO that the children might be
inclined to consult them and rely upon
them! The vilest trash, the most OBJ
scene stories, the most irreligious tracts
may fall into the hands of these young
people, who become interested, excited
and intlamed with what they read.
Their minds become unbalanced,
their intellects darkened, their
hearts corrupted, their morals de-
praved-and the father calmly
goes on his way and never pays
attention. His child is devouring pois-
on; he minds. We see every day
the evil effects of such reading, crimes
most serious and most vile committed
under its influence; children abandon
ing their homes for wild adventures,
boys learning dishonesty, girls losing
their purity. This evil is spreading TO
an enormous extent, and is all the more
dangerous because it does not always
work openly. The evil of incompetence
is very great no doubt, and Temperance
societies do well to wage war upon it,
But the effects of drunkenness are ap.
parent; all can see the ruin and the
desolation it causes. Not so with bad
reading. 1t works stealthily upon the
mind; it poisons slowly all the faculties;
it dries up the generous impulses of the
heart; it inflames all the corrupt pas
sions Of our n%ature; it enkindles a fire
which consumes and withers up all
Gods 9races.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28
Precocious Boys.

There is a curious fact in the boyish
character which seems, at first sight, to
make good the opinion that private edu.
cation, at home, is the true method. Be-
fore they 60 out into school life, many
little fellows of nine or so are extremely
original, imaginative, and almost poet
ical. They are fond of books, fond of
nature, and, if you can win their conf
dence, will tell you all sorts of pretty
thoughts and fancies which lie about
them in their infancy. I have known a
little boy who liked to lie on the grass
and to people the alleys and glades of
that miniature forest with fairies and
dwarfs, whom he seemed actually to sec
in a kind of vision. But he went to
school, he instantly won the hundred
yards race for boys under twelve, and he
came back a young barbarian, interested
in "the theory of touch'' Cat football),
curious in the art of bowling, and no more
capable than you or l of seeing fairies in
q green meadow. He was caught UP in
the air Of the boys world, and his i'm
agination was in allegiance for a season.
This is a common enough thing, and
rather a melancholy spectacle to behold.
oAo ID eAlPteu W DelleVe tlat school,
causes the loss of a good deal of genius.
and that the small boys who leave home
poets and come back barbarians, have
been wasted. But, on the other hand, if
they had been kept at home and en-
couraged, the chances are that thew
would have blossomed into infant phe-
nomena and nothing better. The awful
infancy of Mr.. John Stuart Mill is a
standing warning. Mr.. Mill would proba-
bly, have been a much happier and wiser
man if he had not been a precocious lin
guist, economist and philosopher, but had
passed through a healthy stage of indif-
ference to learning and speculation at n
public school. Look again, at the
childhood of Bishop Thirlwall. His
'Primiti@' were published (by Samuel Tip
per, London, 1909, when young Connop
was but eleven years of age. His indis-
Greet father "launched this slender bark"
as he says, and it sailed through three
editions between 1903 and 18O9.' Young
Thirlwall was taught Latin at three
years of age, "and at four read Greek
with an ease and fuency which aston
ished all who heard him." At seven he
composed an essay "On the Uncertainty
Of Human Life" but ''his taste for poet
~ wa not discovered till a later period"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28
Good Music for the Children.

They like it, and it is good for them
When they come to the Sabbath-scboM
they need to be met with singing that
will exhilerate as well as sober them
Whatever depresses or acts as a discord
on their feelings or tastes will hinder
their profit in the exercises and give
them wrong impressions of the place
and services. Children, all acute AZ
they are, are more sensitive to such in.
fluences than even the most delicatelv
organized Of older people.
1t is not enough to have music: It
should be adapted to the worship. Tie
singing is to help them praise Co.
That is q solemn exercise; a solemn,
not a gloomy one. The singing, there.
fore, should be such as to leadthe mind
to think of His goodness, greatness,
majesty, power, forgiveness, loving.
kindness, and to inspire the soul with a
disposition to honor and love and serve
Him. Much depends on the tune and
the way it is rendered in reaching these
ends. The random singing of an I'm.
suitable air will turn the Thoughts
away from the worship rather than
toward it.
1t should also be singing, that the
children can take part in it. 1t is nat.
ural for q child to sing. If it do not sing
in the Sa~bbath-school it is because there
is something wrong there. 1t wants to
sing, and It will sing if there is such
music as will engage its sympathy.
There is difficult music just as there are
hard lessons in reading, arithmetic, or
even in the Bible. The children need
the easier sort. 1t should not be fin.
pant, frivolous, tritling, suggesting the
nursery rather than the sanctuary, but
neither should it be profound, involved
and complicated. Children singing out
Of their hearts do not wish to be troubled
with ~"rests," repeats and "fugue"
accompaniment, but with a clear track
for direct and earnest expression of
their feelings.
1t is by teaching the children to sing
in the Sabbath-schools that we have
good singing in the congregations. The
music in the basement will fix the music
of the second story. Let the children
be rightly taught and they will drive
away the quartette and solos, and all
the other abuses that fasten themselves
on the churches. A disposition to praise
the Lord is always a happy one, and q
disposition to praise Him worthily is no
less happy. The children should be
made to feel this, and grow up with
hearts full of enjoyment as "together
they sing" the songs of Zion.-Unted
PRESBYTERIAN.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28
Too Honest.

Uncle d. P. Oliver, now a ~osperou
storekeeper in a prosperous Iowa village,
once practiced law in Ohio. Being met
by an old acquaintance, he was asked for
all the particulars of his giving up the
profession.
Didn't it agree with your healthY
20, yes" answered Uncle David.
Didn't it pay%
"First-rate."
"Meet with sufficient favor from the
courts?"
"All I could ask"
quit itw
"Well, I'll tell you'll was too honest"
A loud laugh from the by-standers
aroused Uncle David into earnestness,
and he repeated the strange statement,
and nailed it to his shop counter with his
huge fist. But his cross. questioner went
on:
"When did you find this out?"
. GIN my very last case"
"What was that?'
"One in which [ was retained to prose.
cute q ~ncigkbor for killing a dog"
"And he VAS acquitted? So you los,
the case, and gave up your profession
discouraged"
"No; he was convicted"
"Then he was guilty%
mo; he was innocent"
but didn't the evidence prove his
guiltW
Certainly it did"
"Then why do you say he was limo.
centY
"Because l had killed the dog myself
a few nights before for trespassing on my
poultry; and l came to the conclusion
that any business that would aid a man
to convict a neighbor of his own crimes
wasn't the business for me; so I gave il
up."-Ha,per's Magazine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28

He Won.

A policeman patroling Hastings street
Sunday afternoon was accosted by a
colcred man named Larkins, who stated
that his wife had been missing for three
or four days, and that he was very much
worried over her absence.
"Larkins? Larkins? Why, l arrested
your wife five days ago for disorderly
conduct, replied the officer.
cam dat possible! AM she went to the
stashun"
dyes"
can befo' de court?"
Eyes; it was a bad case and she got
thirty days"
"Iou doan say So! Wall, now, but
dat jist tickles me half to death! Jist
six days ago l bet de ole half a
dollar dat she'd be in de Work House
inside a week, an she got dar in five
daysc-yah! yah! yah! I was jist shakin'
fur fear I'd lost de money, but it's all
right an Ize half a dollar ahead!"-
Detroit Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28
Choice Selections.

There is one art of which every
man should be master-the art of refec-
ton.
True humility, the basis of the
Christian system, is the low, but deep
and firm, foundation of all real virtue.
Gods tomorrow
When a sudden sorrow
Comes like cloud and night,
Wait for Gods Tomorrow,
All will then be bright.
Only wait and trust him
Just a little while,
After evening tear-drops
Shall come the morning smile.
F. r. HaUerga.
-"What have you done?" This is the
question that is more and more being
pressed upon every man who announces
himself Christian. People have grown
to feel that men prove what they are by
what they do, and hence make theu
performances the tests of their charae
tiers. - United PRESBYTERIAN.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28

If you want your home to ris0 .
beauty and symmetry, build it on ~ p
Bible. 'e
1 beg you to have family worsb;,
always. at least once day, Read .{p'
Bible together, and together seek az
presence and benediction of the M .as
ter. That is a cold and cherries ahoSs'
in which there is no room for Chris
Let the tine never be that your It'll,
ones as they come, and your friends ~
they visit you, shall be surprised at - :
call to family prayers. Courage, de,s,
young people, if this appalls you at thu
outset! 1t will soon become your dess
est and most hallowed privilege.
Begin right! Go on right! YoD,
home will be a type of Heaven.-Marr.
garet E.. Sangster, IN Christian Union
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28
FARE WELL-GooD.BYEy

Mine eyes SO dim, I scarce can see thy face,
, Yet, while the life still stirs in this poor sheli,
Stoop down, and on my quiverlng cold lips
One last sweet kiss. FaHTewell, sweetheart,
FAREWELL!
All, do not say farewell! For bitter pain
OF endless severance is in that sound;
Az, pain enough to daze the calmest BRAIN,
And crush the loftiest spirit 10 the ground.
All no, say not farewell! 1t cannot be.
How should l, 'reft of thee, fare else but Ill!
Whisper some word that better may agree .,
With my lone life, and comfort chance 1nstli.
Saw. God be with thee; darling, say goodbye;
That the dear God may hear thy last appeal,
An the strong Fathers presence draw1nG
Like Balm into my bruised heart shall steal.
Yes! say goodbye. Twill sound as thou hadst
gone
Alittle way across a narrow stream:
Whom vet again, or e'er I've felt Alone,
Iehaii embrace, and think the past a dream.
o sweet goodbye! taught by the gracious
Friend,
move,
This blessing spoke: I'm with you to the
And SO we say goodbye to thoss we love.
London Society.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28
Religious.
MY MOTHERS HYMN.

Like patient saint of olden-time,
With lovely face almost divine,
So good, so beautiful and fair,
Her very attitude u prayer,
Iheard her sing SO low and sweet:
Ellis loving kindness-oh, how greats"
Turning, beheld the sanity face,
So full of trust and patient grace.
"He justly claims a song for me,
His loving kindness-oh, how free;"
Sweetly thus did the song,
His loving kindness" all day long.
Trusting, praising, day by day,
She sang the sweetest roundelay-.
"He near my soul hath always Stood.
His loving k~indness-oh, how good"
"He safely leads my soul along,
His loving kindness, oh, how strOng;"
So strong to lead her on the way
To that eternal better day,
Where safe ut last in that blest home,
All care and WEAKNESS are gone,
She sings with rapture and surprise
His loving kindness in the skies"
~. Y. Observer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28
Sunday.Schoo Lessons.

SECOND QUARTER.
April 16-Saul's Conversion. Acts 8: 1-18
April 22-Saul Preaching Christ. Acts 9:19-3l
April 29-Peter Working Miracles. Acts 9:32A3
May 6-Peter Preaching to the
Gentiles. 1000. ........ Acts 10 :3044
Act 11:19-ao
May M-Herod and Peter ........Acts IL: Iii
May 27-Paul and Barnabas in
Cyprus. Acts l3: liz
June Sat Antioch. 49,. Acts l3:1318 and 1889
June 10-At Iconium and Lystra Acts IA: lis
June 17-End of the First Mission
airy Journey Acts A:l9-23
Iuna 2EReYieM.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28

A half-starved cat in New York, on
being placed before a generous meal, ate
a little, went away from the bowl, sat
down, washed herself, waited for diges-
ton to set in and do its perfect work,
then ate a little more, retired, did the
same thing over again, and SO occupied a
couple of hours.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28

Judge Campbell at the late term of
mis- court at Winona, Miss, put the lowest
tine for carrying concealed weapons at
$50 and costs.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-01
Autographs vi Prominent Men.

The list of subscribers to Blaine's
new work, which Mr.. Woodwork, the
agent for Alturas county, carries with
him, is headed by Chester A. Arthur
President of the United States, and
includes the names of Stephen j.
Field, r. B. Hayes, VIM. NJ. Evarts,
Hamilton Fish, w. H. Vanderbilt, Cy-
rus w. Field, j. j. Astor, w. H. Rob-
ertson, and others of national reputa-
ton. The photographic peculiariiies
of these men, as indicated by their au-
tographs, are quite interesting, and ii
the publishers would add few pages
Of autographs to the work it would
greatly increase its commercial value
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-01
A Welcome Visitor.

The Rev. G. w. Grlnms, Presiding
Elder of the NJ. E. Church, of this Ter
ritory, is again on Wood River, where
his talents and piety are warmly APP
preciatcd He will speak in the NJ
E. Church in Bellevue tomorrow,
December 2, morning and evening
He will be in Bullion next Friday,
and on Sunday evening, December 8,
at the invitation of the Rev. f. Pratt,
he will preach in HALEY. The works
Of the reverend gentleman. Gin season
and out OF season." over mountains
and across rivers, during the heat OF
summer and the cold of winter, have
given full proof of the excellence Of
his ministry, and his faithfulness to
the teachings and example of his Mas
ter. When he is in Haley let every.
body be present at his services to hear
him.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-01
Not Banking or Percentage Game.

Lew Engler, who is running a sa-
loon in Tuscarora, Nevada, has started
fight against the License Act of that
State. The how and wherefore of this
is told by the Ti'ncs-Review as fol-
lows ga. Rowland was arrested
upon complaint Of Deputy Sheriff
Tom Atwell upon charge Of dealing
a percentage banking game without a
license. The game WAS dealt in Lew
Engler's saloon, and was what is
known as stud-horse poker. Mr. Eng
Ter, the owner, we believe contends
that, as dealt at his place, it is not Il
banking Or percentage game, and he
proposes making test case OF it,"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-01
A MORMON OUTRAGE.
Archie Btlltngsley Brutally Beaten Be.
cause Of His Anti. Mormon Proclivi.


cause Of His Anti. Mormon Proclivi.
ties.
Trouble is brewing between the
Mormon and Gentle settlers along
the Little Wood River, near the
crossing Of the Blackfoot road, and it
may not be long ere the authorities
will be compelled to interfere.
Archie Billingsley, who formerly
lived few miles from what is now
Shosh zone, is at present a resident of
the place first above. mentioned, and
is, as ever, an outspoken anti Mormon
Gentle. The Mormons, therefore
hate him, and never miss an oppor-
tunity of showing their hatred.
Last Tuesday evening a school
meeting was held at Little Wood
River, where a school house is being
erected on land which Mr.. Billingslev
gave to the district. When Mr.. Bill
ingsley arrived at the meeting, Brig
ham Smith, a tall, muscular Mormon,
accused him of being i'limical to him
(Smith) and the Mormons, and as.
saulted him. Mr.. Billingsley is a
small, wiry man, and quite capable OF
taking care of himself with his ''dukes.'
So he pitched in, and was about get
ting the best of his adversary, when
the other Mormons joined in the fray
and the lone Gentle was badly pun.
meled.
Mr.. Billingsley went before Justice
Cameron, at the BlackFoot Crossing
and swore out warrant, charging
Brigham Smith with the assault relat
ed above, also with the robbery Of
$40 from his pantaloons pocket.
Justice Cameron came to town to-
day to seek counsel in regard to the
case, and he proposes to enforce the
law as far as his power will go.
The other Gentle settlers of the To-
cality are greatly incensed at the out
rage, and an outbrake is by no mean.
impossible.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-01
"TWEN1Y YEARS IN CONGRESS.''
1t will Contain 81 Steel Engrayings,
Instead Of 80, anu be Ready Soon.

JOS. NJ. Woodwork, sole agent for
James G. Blaine's new book in Al
turas county, has received letter
from the publishers, in which they
state that the first volume Of the work
will be ready for delivery at an early
date. They also inform him that the
work will contain 81 steel plate en-
gravings-instead Of 50, as originally
announced.
AS Mr.. Woodwork cannot travel
to isolated towns, parties residing else
where than in Bullion, Bellevue,
Ketchum or HALEY, who may desire
the book, will have to address him at
HALEY.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-01
Purify the Blood Now!

1t is not claimed that BROWNS
SARSAPARILLA and Dandeiion,
with lodide of Potassium, will cure
every disease, but it has been proven
in thousand cases that no other REM
edy can compare with it in curing
Scrofula, Tumors, Kidney Diseases
Ulcers, rheumatism, Cancers, Dys
pepsia, Fever Sores, SyphiIitic
Diseases, Boils, Constipation, Erysip-
elias, Sick Headache, Salt Rheum.
Why is Browns Sarsaparilla best for
curing these diseases? Because it
purities the blood, corrects the inaction
of the Liver and Kidneys, and cures
constipation and dyspepsia by giving
tone to the stomach so that all food is
readily digested. Use only the best
medicines. DR.. Brock, Bellevue, A.
Rupert, HALEY, and l. !. Lewis &
Son, ketchum, sell Browns Sarsa-
parilla.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-01
From q Mormon Stronghold,

We are in receipt of a new paper
called the Earnest Worker, edited by
Prof. J. NJ. Coyncr, of Salt Lake City.
1t contains the religious news of this
section in a very neat and attractive
form, and is an uncompromising foe to
polygamy. 1t ought to be placed in
every Christian family on the river.
The price per year is 80 cents. The
Rev. +. Pratt will receive subscriptions
from this section.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-01
THE TIMBER.
How the MOrmons are Cutting and
Slashing 1t In Defiance OF Law:

-A~" '"c MO' MOuS arc Cutt10g ana
Slashtng 1t In Defiance Of Law.
John Burgess, a former contractor
on the Oregon Short Line, who set
tied on Little Wood River, near the
crossing Of the Blackfoot road, last
June, was in town to-day looking up
authorities ON the land laws of the
United States.
A number of Mormons who are set
tied few miles below him have heen
cutting and carrying away much of
the best timber in that section. In
their greed they respected nothing,
even cutting down young timber that
would make good timber couple of
years hence. They cut this young
timber to make roads, camp fires, etc,
when dead or falling branches are
plenty. They also fall the tops of
trees, which they cut to the length OF
several feet, and thus prepare the way
for possible conflagratiou at any
time, which will destroy every tree or
stick Of timber in that section of the
country, and thus render the land too
poor to induce anyone to settle on.
The timber that they cut and slash
they haul 10 or Is miles to ranches,
where they sell it. Some of them,
finding no purchasers for their wood,
pile it upon their places, and hold it
for future disposal. If a stop is not
put to this, Mr.. Burgess says, there
will not be stick of available timber
there next fall. The United States
officials should look into this matte,
at once.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-01
Divine SCI vices.

There will be divine service in Hal
ley Theater tomorrow morning at
II o'clock and to- morrow evening at
7o'clock. A half hours service of song
will be held in connection with the
evening service. The Rev. E. Pratt
will offciate.
On Sunday evening, Dec. 9, the
Rev. Elder Grannis, Of the M. E.
Church of this Territory, will assist in
the services.
The public are cordially invited tc
attend.