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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-05-05

GAYLORD.
From the Herald.-Wild pigeons have
put in an appearance.-SOmes scarlet fe-
YER i'm the vicinity.-PrOsecuti AttOr-
ney McEwen recovered from an attack Of
the mumps.-The schools which were
closed on account Of the prevalence OF
scarlet fever, opened MOnday.-Hum-
phrey Bros, from Canada, are going to
build new saw mill, the machinery is
on the grOund.-The prospects are that
over 100 new buildings will be put up
this seasOn.-David Ward, of Detroit, was
in town, talking of erecting large saw
mill, to manufacture large lot of tim
Der he owns in that sectiOn.-The board
of supervisors rented the county poor
farm to private parties and sold the per-
sOnal property. They also passed reso-
luton cOndemning the railroad depot
Never in the history of OtsegO county
were times more prosperous or prOmis-
ing.-The Herald has closed its eighth
year: may it continue to prosper and do
good.
ST. IGNACE.
From the Republican.-City Engineer
Stillwell is trying to locate the City of
st. Ignace, "by meets and bounds
Monday of last week, infant child of MIR.
and Mrs. H. Z. Burt died, i'll two weeks.
remains taken to Detroit for burial. :
Stellwagin & Kynoch, hardware dealers,
have taken i'm brother of the senior
member as partner, and are going to en-
large their establishment. The name of
the firm continues the same.-The board
of supervisors instructed the committee
on ways and means to examine the rec
Ords and ascertain the financial status
of the county, and appointed an expert
to assist them.-The city board of educa-
tiOn organized mill of the Macki-
nav Lumber company is ready to start
up. They propose building six elegant
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
The P0lly-D Dancers.

When a wee bit of a child-almost a
baby-I remember that one day my
father called me to the low table, which
was just about on a level with my eyes,
and said:
'.Look at the Polly-dancers!"
He had brought in a green pine-twig
from the wood-pile, had cut off half u
dozen brush-like little tufts, had
trimmed their tips, and then, blowing
upon them gently, had set them dancing
about the table as if they were alive.
They foated this way and that, each
taking its own direction; and when one
moved too near the edge Of the table, a
light puff from his lips would send it
back again. They seemed to me like
tiny green-skirted sprites having a frolic
together, and 1 wholly forgot my rag
babies and my London dolls in my rap
ture over the Polly-dancers.
When 1 asked: 'Where did the Polly
dancers come from?" and was an
swered: ''From the woods" a whole
new, unexplored world rose before me.
There was a dark-blue outline against
the sunset, acros the river, and another
heavier line of purple green in the north,
toward the sea, which I had called ''the
woods" The name had been full OF
mystery to me before, but from that
moment it stood for a wonder-land-the
home of the Polly-dancers! How I
longed for the time when I should be
old enough to 60 to the woods! And
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
N. Theirs as a Duelist.

We suspect that it will be news to
most readers that even the solid and
sober Theirs once yielded to the tempta-
ton which lies in wait for every French
publicist and statesman, and fought a
duel. The story is little known, but its
narrator in the columns of La France
guarantees its truth. When he was
twenty years old, and studying at AK,
he was Hospitality received by a local
family of some competence, and fell in
love with the daughter of the house.
He made her an offer of marriage and
was accepted, and though his means
were not so large as the father thought
such a girl as his might fifty claim, the
young student was at last adopted as his
son-in-law. The marriage was delayed,
however, until M. Theirs could show
that he was capable of securing an in
dependent position by his own exertions.
The future historian of the Consulate
and Empire betook himself to Paris, in
order to attempt to solve the fearful
problem of success OF failure in public
life. The severity of the struggle cooled
his passion for the beautiful Southerner.
At first he wrote to her frequently, next
at intervals; finally, not at all. The
father of the maiden became indignant,
and wrote to the ambitious young man
reminding him of his betrothal. Theirs
made no reply. The young lady of
Provence had become of no impor-
lance to him, and he was quite content
that she should take another man for
her husband. The father, however, was
not satisfied with the silence of his
daughters betrothed, and journeyed to
Paris in order to see whether he was
still alive, and, if he was alive, to bring
him to a reckoning. One fine day, hav-
ing discovered the lodging of the young
Theirs, the hotheaded man of the South
presented himself to the faithless lover,
and babe him choose between two al
ternatiyes-his daughter OF a pair of
pistols. Theirs was no fighter, but he
thought it better to 'sspend five minutes
with a weapon which he did not UNDER
stand than to spend a life with a woman
whom he understood only too we'll" So
says the narrator, who does not conceal
the extreme selfshness of the ambitious
young man. The duel took place.
Theirs, who felt that he was at heart
the wronging party, shot purposely in
the air, and he hoped that the angry
father, after the Gallo manner, would
be content with q similar pretence. But
the father was not q Partisan. He was
determined to revenge his child and
himself. His bullet passed through the
hat of the future President. If M.
Theirs had not been SO fortunate as to
be one of the smallest men in France he
would have been killed, OF, as NJ. Prud-
homme would have said, if Theirs had
not been SO little he would e. have
been the great man that he afterward
Decentralization Echo.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
Queer Antics of Logs.

The other day a raft of fine poplar
logs broke loose and went over the dam
at the lock. Instead of passing down
the river they were held by the boiling
eddies just below the dam, and presented
a very singular spectacle as they would
be tossed about by the water. Some thirty
or forty could be seen alternately div
ing and bounding up like a school of
porpoises or some great sea animals.
The logs were sixteen feet long, with an
average diameter OF thirty inches, yet
at times one would leap into. the air
entirely out of the water, and after be-
ing tloated off from the dam a piece
would be sucked back by the undertow,
and again tossed up by the sheet of
water coming over the dam. When we
saw them they had been in their posi-
ton only four Or five hours, and yet
their ends were already rounded from
the friction against each other, and they
seemed destined to be rendered worth
less in q short time.-Fr0nkfort (KW
YOeanan.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
The Sleep That Men, Women and Chill,
dren Should Have.

II do not think a person should be
walked at morning, and for this reason
when a man falls asleep he is in the
shop for repairs, as the railroad men
say. His frame and all its intricate
machinery is being overhauled and.
made ready for the next days work.
The wear of the previous day is being.
repaired. Nature is doing that herself.
She knows what the tired frame needs
just as she knows how to make the
heart throb and send the blood coursing
through the veins. Then she takes that
tired frame, lays it down on a bed, sur
rounds it with the refreshing air of night
covers it with the soft darkness and lets.
the man rest. Tired natures sweet re-
storer, balmy Sleep visits him, and as
the hours wear by his energies are re-
newed, his strength comes back, and
finally, when morning breaks and the:
sunlight breaks through the lattice, he.
opens his eyes and is himself again. Or
if he is early to bed he awakes with the
cocks growing. Now who shall go to
that mans side an hour before he opens
his eyes and say to nature, stand aside
and let him up. He has had enough OF
restp Well, nature will say: You can
take him if you will, but I will charge,
him with an hours loss of sleep and IlI
collect it out of his bones and nerves
and his hairs and eyesight. You can't
cheat me, I'll find property to levy on"
were to lose sleep habitually for a num-
Der OF years?"
"You are a reporter?" .
eyes"
"You work how many hours a day?'"
Fifteen. / go to work at twelve
in the day time and quit at three Ak
night" !
GLOW old are you now?"
"Say twenty-three."
''Well, when you are thirty in years.
you will be fifty-five in aches and all
ments-older than l am. Go ask your
morning paper printers how they feeR
Are their steps elastic-are their eyes
bright-are they tagged oat-are they
dragging out their livesp Put them be-
side the men who do day work, and
how do they compared"
"You say a man ought to sleep all ho
wants too"
Eyes, and so should a child. A baby
should sleep with its mother, a child
should be sent to bed early and be al
lowed to wake of it's own accord in the.
morning. AS for school girls, many a.
girl who has a dozen studies would be
better occupied chasing butterflies or
training flowers or galloping a pony or
dancing. 1 would prefer to have a.
daughter healthy, sweet-tempered,-
sensible and beautiful, without Latin,
algebra and grammar, than to have n
ever so advanced in her humanities.
with her health ruined, or perhaps lying
under a marble urn in the cemetery;
and as for man I would rather be able
to earn two dollars a day in the vigor
and glory of perfect health than to draw
rents from property for which l have
exchanged the blessings of a sound con-
stitution. "-ImtervieW wiM a Doctor, in
atlanta Constitution.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
A Tough Snake Story.


"A letter from Nashville, Tenn, in the
louisville C0uraer-JournM says: A land
p mo1iiic in primitive genius is always
trolllc OF snakes. Snakes of less ma
miaal recognition sometimes follow the
. LIalch OF civilized society. The late
Ib lug 10 c. Guilds very entertaining
III, history of "Old Times in Tennessee is
m MY Mst picture of the earliest settle
ya sn' OF the country south of Kentucky
sro produced; it is a work which will
S Vas as The years go by. Judge Guild
Sta pofn near what is now the present
yilIo u = Erln-on the Memphis & Louis
na n hallroad-in Stewart County, Ten
ljvade about the year 1900. There he
fourished till 1912, when his
tas sier moved over into Sumner. Near
's3s OF age. the youthful pioneer
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
Big lulnps Of Gold.

The following is q list of big nuggets
that have been found in this section:
On the 18th Of August, 1860, a large
piece of gold was taken from the Monu-
mental quartz mine, Sierre Buttes,
which weighed 1896 ounces troy, the
value Of which was estimated at from
$21,O 900 to $780, GOO. The nugget was
sold to &. B. Woodward, of San Fran
cisco for 1921, 1862. A fine specimen
was taken from the Rainbow quartz
mine, Chipp's Flat, in 1881. 1t was
taken from a depth of 200 feet. The
specimen was on exhibition in San Fran
cisco. Later it was shipped to London
and worked there. It yielded 1000.
In 1855 a nugget was found at French
Ravine that weighed 532 ounces, and
was worth $4,000. 1t contained con-
siderable quartz, which is not calculated
in it's weight. In 1851, at French Ra-
vine, a nugget was found which weighed
426 ounces, and vas valued at $4,000.
A nugget is reported to have been found
at Minnesota valued at $1,000. In 1850
a piece of gold quartz was found in
French Ravine which contained 263
ounces of gold, worth $4,S93: At
Smiths Flat, in 1866, a piece of gold
was taken from a claim which was
worth S2,716, and weighed LAG ounces.
At Smiths Flat, in 1864, a nugget was
found weighing 14O ounces, and worth
So, Cos. At Little Grizzly diggggings, in
1869, a nugget worth $4,000 was found.
A nugget weighing "a ounces and val
ued at ST., no was found at the Hope
claim, four miles below the Mountain
House. At French Ravine in 1869. q
nugget was found worth Sl,757 and
weighing SO ounces. At Smiths Flat,
in 1861, a nugget was found which
weighed 80 ounces and was valued al
From 1854 to 1862 twelve gold mug
gets, ranging from 80 to 140 ounces,
We're taken from the Live Yankee claim
at Forest City. From 1856 to 1862 q
number of gold nuggets, varying ron
So to 100 ounces, were found in the Ore
gon Claim at Forest City. A specimen
worth SIS, 900 was taken from the Orl-
entail (Gold Gate) quartz mine Inc
total value of the Golden Gate mine Is
estimated at 5000, 600. The mine has
been worked to a depth of only 500 te"t
-Sieyya County (Ca!.) Tribune
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

when one summer day, a year OF two
after, my brother asked and obtained
leave to take me with him a%-berrying,
was not l a happy girl?
The walk was through a long street,
past a great many houses, and then
through an open, unshaded road. But
at last we were there. When the cool,
lofty greenness closed us in, and fresh
earth-smells came up from the moss
and ferns beneath our feet, 1 seemed to
know it all as if Ihad been there before.
These were really 'the woods" of my
dream.
My brother seated me on a great rock
covered with lichens, and told me not
to move from the spot until he came for
me. Then he went out of sight with his
basket, whistling. I felt like crying for
Loneliness when l saw him disappear,
but the stiffness around me inspired a
feeling of W that made me afraid to
utter a sound. And presently 1 began
to feel at home in the wonderful place.
There were soft whisperings all about
me, that seemed like kind voices of un-
e friendly people, rustlings as of Cos
samer garments.
Nothing would have tempted me from
my perch, for l had read of elves and
gnomes and fairies, and 1 firmly be-
lieved in them. They always lived in
the woods; and though I would gladly
have stepped inside a fairy-ring, Just
once, l would not for worlds have done
80 without first feeling my hand fast in
my brothers., else I was sure I should
never see home again. But he did not
believe in fairies, and [ soon forgot that
l did as I listened to the song of the
Polly-dancers.
For there they were, thousands and
tens of thousands of them, up in those
great trees, dancing with their feet out
to the sky, and making such music
together, low, sweet and solemn! Ihave
never forgotten how it sounded to me
that first time I heard it. 1t seemed to
tell me that the world was a larger and
lovelier place than l had dreamed, and
that it would always have awaiting me
something grander than I could guess.
Of course, l had no words for my feel
ings then; l did not even know that I
was having feelings at all. A child
never does, until long afterward. But
the feelings come back, and we remem-
Der the moments when we began to be
acquainted with the world and with our
selves.
My brother and 1 walked home, two
merry, tired, matter-of-fact children.
He had left me only a half-hour or 50
alone; and he did not confide in me
until we were almost home that his
basket, which seemed brimful of buckle
berries, was really crammed with fresh
leaves, and that there was only a thin
layer of berries on the top! 1 remem-
Der thinking what a remarkable boy he
was to have conceived such a clever arti-
flee. But he had not liked either to take
me- into the bushes or to leave me long
alone; and he did not wish to appear
unsuccessful in his search for berries, il
he should chance to pass other boys.
He little dreamed how much more than
berries l had found in the woods that
day.-Lucy Larcona, IN st. Nicholas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
Our Common Insects.

The squash bug (corieus tr1stus, De-
Geer) sub order Hemiptero family
coresde. These insects, in undergoing
their transformation, are very much.
alike from egg to perfect image: Those
not skilled in entomology would have
no trouble in Identifying them in any
of their forms. The images live
through the winter hidden in rubbish
or wood-piles, often in buildings. Az
soon as.the squash and pumpkin vines
are well up, the bugs that have stayed
by us over the winter are ready to begin
eating, and soon lay their cluster of
eggs on the underside of the leaves
The larva, when first Matched, are of .
greenish color, turning to gray. Az
pear. They are easily caught by plac-
ing chips and boards near the hills
under which the bugs crawl at night,
also by hand picking both eggs and
images. The peculiar odor they emit,
when disturbed, and also the general
prevalence of the bug, make it conspio-
uous among the common insects.
We have another garden pest in the,
shape of the striped cucumber beetle
Diabrotica vittata, Fabr) sub order
Coleoptera, family Chrysomeate. To.
the farmer and gardener it is often q
wonder where all the insects which in
jure vegetation come from. They seem
to swarm at the proper Cor Improperly
moment, when everything seems to-
grow so nicely. The fact is, that we
fail to recognize them in their former
existence, and so marvel at their sudden
appearance, little dreaming that near,
perhaps beneath our feet, lie Larvae that
in a short time make the countless.
hordes of destructive insects. 1t is-
thus we meet with the cucumber beetle,
with its stripes of yellow and black.
swarming IN the melon and cucumber
vines, and often in a single day running
many fine hills. The 1arve are even
worse than the mature beetle, inasmuch;
a they attack the roots of the plant,
often eating the tender sprout as Is
energies from the husk; thus it never
sees the light, and consequently tho
scotsman is blamed for sending us
seeds which will not grow. Even
after the plant gets a good growth, we
notice that it begins to wither and soon
dies; it is because the larvae OF the
cumber beetle have girdled and perfo-
rated the roots so completely that it can
not live. The larvn is a soft, cylindri-
cal worm, about half an inch in length,
of a dull white color, the head and last.
segment being black.
The most effectual remedy is to put
boxes over the hills, covered with g.
pane of glass, muslin or mosquito net.
ting. This keeps the beetles from lay
ing their eggs very near the hill, SO that
the vines get a good, healthy growth,
and are then able to withstand the raw
ages of these insects.-W. B. H., in,
Farm and FSTeside.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

The secret of the Kcely motor is
out at last. In a burst OF confidence
Mr.. Keely gave the whole thing away
in the following terse language:
molecular disintegration is the prima-
ry generator of vibratory phenomena.
Propulsory forces emanatingg from an.
alytical action upon compound fluid and
approximation evolve ethereal matter
distinctive from exydized, hydrogenated
and nitrogenated components." How
supremely simple it is, now that we
know it! Strange that somebody should
not have made this discovery years and
years ago!-Boston Transcript
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

The Gar of Russia celebrated his
birthday by buying all the reserved
eats in the principal theatres of st.
Petersburg for the matinee and distrib-
uting them among the children of tho
schools and seminaries.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

Potatoes do better in a cool SOFT tll;Ens
in that is quite warm. 1t is, accord.
ingly, better to plant them on land tha1
i~nclines toward the north, so that they
will not be exposed to the full force q
the suns a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

-Blackherries should be set out very
early. Six feet apart each way is \
good distance. Set a stake six feet high
to each. See that plants that arefo
bear this year are well tied to their.
stakes.-N. Y. Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-31
Notice.
LAND OFFICE WAUSAU, WIS. ;
prI1 9th 1899 (

-4.A-' y . III !" AON,IaCg WIS.
April 25th 1888.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has fled notice of his intention
TO make final proof in support of his claim and
that said proof Will be made before the CLERK
of the Circuit Court al Grand Rapids. Wis, on
homestead No 2610 for the Nv Section "a,
Township % n. Range 6 E.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cultivation
Of, said land, viz: John Finn, Christian Finn,
August Roll, Fred Buss, all Of Grand Rapids
Wis.
s. II. ALBAN. Register.
April26w5
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-31

We take the following news from
the ST. Point Journal relative to what
the energetic firm of Coleman, Jack
son & Co. are doing in our sister city:
Coleman, Jackson & Co. have
bought the building on the corner this
side the Curran House, of Curran
Bros, and are having the same over
hauled and liked up in good shape.
1t will be occupied as -four and feed
and general grocery and supply store
and will be run by Charley johnson,
who by the way, has had years of
experience in the business and knows
about what the trade demands. He
will carry heavy stock and will be
prepared to supply the trade in large
or small quantities with anything in
the above lines. The building will be
ready for occupancy in short time. -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-31
A 100000 Deal.

The Webster Manufacturing Com
pany recently purchased an immense
tract of hard wood land, containing
$4,000 acres, about so miles from St,
Paul, for which they paid in the
neighborhood of 100000. The
ST. Paul company are going to run a
branch of their road through it and
E. E. Winch started In this week with
a crew of men to make the survey and
locate the line The Webster Co. will
at once build two large mills, a hub
and spoke factory, and barrel factory
on the tract. 1t is expected that the
timber will more than pay for the
land, and the land itself, when cleared
Will be of immense valne, it being of
good quality and well located. No
doubt they will make mint of money
out of this mammoth deal. Mr..
Winch, who spent several months in
looking over the tract, says it contains
the finest hardwood timber he ever
set eyes on.--St. Point Journal
The above Webster Manufacturing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-31
Centralia Locals.
J. f. Moore has new fence around

J. T. Moore has a new fence around
his homestead.
f. MacKinnon & Go. have placed a
new hardwood floor in their Office, and
Chas. Quinn has otherwise improved
its cenveniences.
Mr.. Norman Gerard was called to
Milbank, MINI, last Friday on bus
mess and returned home on Monday
last. He found business booming out
in that section.
Mr.. and Mrs f. MacKinnon re-
turned heme last week from short
visit among relatives in Neenah and
Menasha Mr.. MacKinnon started
cut again on business trip through
Iowa. He returns to-day.
The firm Of Nels Johnson & Co.
are enjoying large trade. They keep
first-class goods and sell heaps of them.
Coleman, jackson & Co. do more
shipping than any other firm in Wood
county. They are often troubled to
get cars enough to keep their orders
filed.
Jones & Nash are doing an immense
business in the hardware line. They
will soon commence selling farming
implements, mowers and reapers in
large quantities.
The Bensley saw mill is nearly
ready for operation. Messrs. Bens-
Icy and Chandos are hurrying the
work to completion 50 that they may
commence their summers saving. This
mill when completed will be among
the best on the river.
The Commercial Hotel is enjoying a
large share of the travelling public.
Mr.. st. Amour makes a tip top land
lord and sets frst-class tables. This
hotel is fast gaining an enviable repu-
tation.
Mack & Spencer's pulp nail is run
ming to its full capacity and doing
good work. The owners are pleased
with the present outlook.