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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
Gladstone's Younger Days.

Gladstone had come up from Elton
with quite an uncommon reputation for
ability, and all his contemporaries agree
in saying that he was regarded as a
young man of exceptional promise.
His management of the Elton Miscellany
had shown what power he possessed Of
attracting lads of talent into his fellow
ship and of maintaining his ascendancy
oyer them: and at Christ Church he be-
came in his first term the recognized
leader of a set whose doings were
watched with interest by dons and I'M
der graduates alike. His fuency in argu-
mentation, and the trouble he took to
convince people of things which often
did not seem worth a dispute, were
among the noticeable traits Of his char
acter; but this fondness for reasoning
had been purposely fostered in him by
his father. Mr.. John Gladstone liked
that his children should exercise their
judgmentby stating the why and where
fore of every opinion they offered, and
a college friend of Williams who went
IN a visit to Fasque, in Kincardineshire,
during the summer of 1929, furnishes
amusing particulars of the family GUS
toms in that house, sswhere the children
and their parents argue upon every
thing" 'sThey would debate as to
whether the trout should be boiled or
broiled, whether a window should be
opened, and whether it was likely to be
fine or wet next day. 1t was AL perfect
ly good-humored, but curious to q
stranger because of the evident care
which all the %disputants took to advance
no proposition, even as to the prospect
of rain, rashly. One day Thomas
Gladstone knocked down a wasp with
his handkerchief and was about to crush
it on the table, when the father. started
the question as to whether he had the
right to kill the insect; and this point
was discussed with as much seriousness
as if a human life had been at stake.
When at last it was adjudged that the
wasp deserved death because he was a
trespasser in the drawing-room, a COM
non enemy and a danger there, it was
found that the insect had crawled from
under the handkerchief, and wa flying
away with q staggering sort of buzz as
if to mock them all" On another &C.
casion William Gladstone and his sister
Mary disputed as to where a certain
picture ought to be hung. An old
Scotch servant came in with a ladder
and stood irresolute while the argument
progressed. but a Miss Mary would not
yield, William gallantly ceased from
speech, though ~unconvinced, of course.
The servant then hung up the picture
where the young lady ordered, but when
he had done this he crossed the room
and hammered a nail into the opposite
wall. He was asked why he did this:
s.Aweel, miss, that'n do to hang the pic
ture on when yell have come around to
Master Willie's opinion. Temple Bar.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
Conyalescing.

When Mr.. Boliver Bascom came in to
Kansas City from a trip down in the
Arkansas bottoms. he looked like Death
Just after the pale horse had got away
from him.
.'Where have you been?" inquired
an acquaintance.
sSick." replied Boliver, lugubriously.
..You do look badly, for a fact" said
the acquaintance. "You are %convalesc-
ing, amt you?"
SNot much" replied Boliver; '.I'm
done convalescing. It's too blamed ex-
pensive, this convalescing business, es-
pecially where I've ~been-down in Ar
kansas. I'm getting better slowly every
day, thank you; but don't let on to any
of our home doctors that l am slowly
oonvalescing. If you do, I'll kill you.
You see, l had the malarial fever; was
taken down sick in a small, yaller-dog
town that only had one physician to its
back, and l was sick. sicker'n a horse,
and for a plum week l didn't know
extls me danger. About the first thing
l remember. Invoke up and saw the doc
tor. He had his watch out and his hand
on my pulse; and / hadn't much more
than taken in the situation when he told
me to run u tmy tongue, and he looked
at it until my jaws ached, holding them
open SO long, and then he leaned back
closed his eyes, and murmured: Thank
heaven! He's better. He is now slows
ly convalescing. Bring up a bottle of
brandy! He poured out a pretty good
snifter, and told me to take about four
such drinks every day, while l was
convalescing; and so a bottle didn't
last more than two days, and each
one Of them cost $3.50. Well, I
lay there slowly convalcscing and get
ting drunk every day. for three weeks,
end the doctor making two regular
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
The Sweet and Acid Principles in Fruit,

While it is possible to increase the sac
charine principle, and also to modify the
hydrated malic acid constituent in fruits,
it is entirely beyond our powert to change
the fixed nature of vines or trees by any
methods of cultivation or fertilization.
There is nothing more wonderful in ma
ture than the persistency with which
vegetable structures adhere to their
original bent or design. We all know
that two trees growing side by side from
the same soil, breathing the same air,
and precisely alike in external and in
ternal substance, will produce fruit to-
tally dissimilar in chemical constituents
and physical appearance. If a young
sour apple tree is cut off low in its
trunk and scions of another kind is in
serted, it is changed only above the
point where they are placed. The chem
ical reactions below continue true to the
original instinct, and if fruit comes from
a sprout it is charged with the acid
juices of the parent tree. We have thus
the bewilqering fact brought before us,
that the sap circulating through one
portion of a tree eliminates in the pro-
duction of excess of acid in the fruit,
when in another there is found an excess
of sugar. 1t is not unusual to observes
newly setIscion bud, blossom and bear
fruit the first year. The fruit may weigh
ten times as much as the frail scion
which held it up and supplied the nutri-
ment necessary for its growth, but the
little twig, transplanted to an alien limb,
will set up a laboratory of its own, and
from the strangejuices brought to twill
manufacture fruit totally dissimilar to its
companion fruits growing in close prox-
unity. An. example of this nature was
afforded in the orchard of the speaker,
when from a scion having a surface for
cell action Of nine square inches, a sweet
apple was grown weighing seven ounces,
and affording from its juices ninety-three
grains of fruit sugar. Still more won
derful examples Of fruit chemistry are
shown in apples, which, in their own
structure, exhibit sectional differences
of composition, one-half or one-quarter
being saccharine, and the other portions
being extremely acid, and having the
sectional lines distinctly drawn.
DIR. Nichols next gave some results of
analysis of some apples, with a view to
ascertain their great value as food, from
which it appears that in a bushel of ripe
Hubbardston Nonsuches there is about
six pounds of soluble nutritive material;
in Tolman's Sweets, about five pounds,
and in Baldwin's about five pounds, and
this material will vary to a considerable
extent in value. These results agree
with practical experience in feeding ap-
Piles to animals. When fed in connec-
ton with meal they serve to give zest to
the appetite, and keep the animal in
health. If cooked, their value is much
increased.--Dr. Nichols.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21

there is nothing I can leave undone."
But if our sisters will excuse our SEEM
ing rudeness, we would like to tellthem
there is much a woman can leave out of
the daily toll and no member of the
family, save herself, be the wiser or less
happy for it. We have tried it, and
know whereof we speak. But it is our
experience that no sooner is one class
OF s%uper6uities cut off and we begin to
breathe freely, than something new
presents itself as desirable to be done.
and we take another load equal to the
flrst. But may we not hope to grow
wiser as we grow olderp Let us try
Burlington Hawkeye.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
Queen Victoria's Loneliness.

The Queen has survived not only her
husband, but almost all relatives of her
W time, all her earlier political friends,
and an entire group of closely attached
dependents, like Sir C. Phipps, Sir
Arthur Helps, and many another less
known to the general world, says the
London Spectator. There is no n
living who could address her by her
Christian name, or, indeed, on any
terms of equality; while all her children
but n are married, scattered, inn
mersed in business and households Of
their own. 1t is a lonely peak to sit on,
at the top of the world, and as age
draws on the Sovereign, who already
has reigned so long that men passing
middle age have consciously known no
other, must feel this more and more
painfully, with a sadness which the
movement of the world does not dimin-
ish. The Queen has had no misfor-
tunes such as have afflicted many of her
predecessors, no loss of subjects like
George I'LL, no loss of public honor like
George w., but she has to bear the
burden of an ever-increasing pressure OF
the interests, incidents, movements OF
mankind, of all of which she must to
herself seem the centre. Nothing event
ful can happen in the world which is
not in some way or other borne in press
lngly on the Queen. The special
features of the age, the new completely
Of life arising from rapid communication
began shortly before her accession
Huskisson was killed in 183O-and from
that moment to this affairs must
have seemed to press in e%ver-increas-
ing volume upon her. as
II the very atmosphere had grown more
weighty. Imagine what the telegraph,
alone has been to the Queen. 10 feel
Imperative duties increasing, and
strength d~ecaying, and life growing
more and more lonely, is a sad position
Tor any one; but what must it be to a
sovereign who receives every day evl.
dence that she is one Of the central
nggures of the world, who hears Monday
that all America is glad because the re,
port of an accident to her had proved
exaggerated, Tuesday that an Indian
Tribe had accepted her as goddess,
Wednesday that her daughter, one day
20 be Empress of Germany, has ceie'
orated her silver wedding with Princes
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
Booth and His Theater.

Booth has never recovered from the
grief of his failure as the head of the
noble playhouse identified with him,
because the failure was that of an ideal
aim, and wrought the defeat of a most
generous aspiration. For a long while
he could not bear to think ofthe theater:
he tried at one time to have the title
changed, so painful was the association:
but the court ruled adversely to his Pc
tition. 1t was only after long urging
that he consented to appear there under
Henry f. Abbey's management, in the
spring of 1880, and when he did appear
he said the granite structure was
peopled to his fancy with countless
ghosts. An effort was made to secure
him for the final performances at
Booths Theater; but it was %unavailing.
1t was thought that his engagement
would be a most fitting close of the
beautiful house and that it would draw
immensely. It would have been what
might be considered an illustrious event
in the history Of the American drama.
1t would have provedso so, doubtless. The
playgoers of this community would have
rejoiced at such an opportunity to honor
the man and actor who had done 50
much to advance and elevate his art.
though they would have purchased theil
pleasure by any pain to him. Affective
as his associations have been. and are,
with the noted structure. its recon
struction and devotion to mercantile
employment can hardly be less affective
to his sensitive nature. l. have heard,
indeed. that he has written from abroad
that he would rather not be at home
while the architectural transformation
scene was occurring; and yet he believes
he will feel vastly better when Booths
Theater has been obliterated, hoping
that his mind will be no longer tor.
mented with the haunting retrospect.
But this is unlikely to be. He never
can forget the mimic life of that splen.
did pile, nor will persons interested in
the drama forget it either. Genera.
tons now unborn will doubtless poin'
out the site where Edwin Booth, the
first tragedian of the nineteenth cen
tury. won his greatest and enduring re-
noWn.-M. Y. Cor. Boston Adve'faser.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
Labor and Food.

The human body never ceases to work
Even in the most profound slumber
some Of the functions of life are going
on, as, for instance, breathing, the Cir
culation of the blood, %disgestion, when
there is food in the stomach; and it fol-
lows that some part of the nervous system
is therefore awake and attending to bust
ness all the day and night long. In the
act of living, some of the substance of
the body is being constantly consumed.
The amount of work done by the heart
in one day in propelling the blood is
now estimated as equal to the work of a
steam engine in raising 1926 tons one foot
high, or one ton 1875 feet high. We
lose in weight by working. Weigh a
man after several hours hard labor,
and he will be found two or three, and
in extreme cases, several pounds lighter.
If we do not wish to become bankrupt,
we must replace by food the amount we
have lost by labor. Hunger and thirst
are the instincts which prompt us to do
this. They are like automatic alarm
clocks, which stop the engine at various
points to take on fuel and water. In a
healthy mar as much is taken in as is
required to maintain the weight of the
body against loss. Nature keeps the ac-
count. On one side is so much food
spent in work: on the other, so much
received into the stomach for digestion.
They should balance like the accounts
of an honest book-keeper. In an un-
healthy person the instinct Of hunger
becomes disordered and does not sound
the alarm, and SO the person goes on
working without eating until he becomes
pauperized; or the instinct works too
frequently. A calculation of the bust
ness done in the body reveals the fact
that for a hard working person about
eight and a-half pounds of food and drink
are used up daily; some bodies use
more and some less, but this is the
average. The profit which the body
gets on this transaction has been cal
culated, and may interest our readers.
The energy stored up in the eight and a
half pounds of food ought to raise 3,400
tons one foot high. Most of this energy,
however, is expended in keeping the
body warm and its functions active.
About one-tenth can be spent in II
bodily movements " in work. The
profit, then, on the process is about ten
per cent. This is enough to raise $40
tons one foot high each day. A profit
which is quite enough for earning a
good living if rightly expended, and it
is proably more than most make; but
all ought to strive to reach this point it
possible.-Scientifc american.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21

daily trips at three dollars . trip, md
one day when I had a lucid intervalI
spoke to him about my condition, and
asked him it l was not pretty near we'll
enough to dig out and 60 home.
"Well,' said the doctor, latter awhile.
You are slowly convalescing, and if you
keep up the brandy-increase, say, to
six drinks-Tll have you out in
three or four weeks
'Then the doctor collected his three
dollar fee and went away, while 1 re-
lapsed into a mild species of jim-jams,
and tore up fifteen yards of the carpee
and broke all the glass out of a book
case, trying to let in some fresh air and
ventilate the sick-room, When the
doctor came the next morning, l asked
him if I was any better. He examined
my pulse, tried my temperature, and
said l still had some fever, but on the
whole, I was convalescing all right,
" is there any danger of its striking
imp I inquired.
What do you meanp' said tho
doctor.
Why, the fact is" I said, If this
convalescing becomes chronic, Tm
busted!'
" sWhat!' exclaimed the doctor.
why, you see, I'm dead broke
tMebbe I'd better diagnose your
case again. said the doctor.
.Mebbe you had, said 1.
ssThen he went to work and feltmy
pulse, took my temperature, looked at
my tongue, and finally said:
".Please turn your pockets inside out
81 did so, and then the doctor took
his hat and cane off the centre-table and
said:
4 don't see but you are all right
enough. You have had a narrow escape
from a relapse, young man, but I guess
you had better be making arrangements
to leave this locality. 1 don't think the
climate agrees with you. When you
get back to your friends, you can remit
the three dollars you owe me-
s'Then he lit out and 1 didn't see hina
again before I left. I rolled up the
mattress and took out seventy-five
dollars 1 had left, and started for home
the next day; but don't you let on to tho
folks in this neighborhood that I'm con-
valescing to slow music, because, if you
do, some medical sharp will want me to
pay for it."-Ieras SiiJimgs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
Too Much to Do.

Chalmers once said: "The great es-
sentials of happiness are, something to
do, something to love and something to
hope for" but the mistake of our times
is that the majority have so much to do
that the other two essentials are lost
sight of. In all grades of society and
among those of all ages, from the So
called lady of leisure, who must accept
three invitations to dinner in one day.
to the tiny toddler of six who is
struggling with the mysteries of the art
of reading six hours out of a day, that
is all needed to develop the little body
and mind that it may be able to master
these tasks in due time without detri-
ment, all are driven nighto desperation
with demands on them. And between
these extremes we might mention the
business man who assumes responsible
ties one after another, until eighteen
hours out of the t%wenty-four are bur-
dened with care to the utter exclusion
of rest or social enjoyment. And it is
only when he goes from the counting
room to bed too much exhausted to be-
stow another thought on anything, that
he loses his burden in sleep. Then
there is the house mother, with perhaps
only two or three children to care for.
and help in the kitchen, Tut she will
multiply rufles and tucks in their
clothes, and allow them to depend on
her for a thousand things that they
might do themselves, until the care Of
those children alone is enough to wear
her thin; to say nothing of the sense
lessly elaborated bills Of fare that all
would be much better without, but
she deems necessary to the respecta-
bility Of the family, and the society re-
lations she insists on maintaining with
Mrs. Tom, Dick and Harry, althoughin
her secret heart she realizes that she
would be much better and happier
without the acquaintance Of q least two
thirds of these-and so we might go on.
with details of lives that are burdened
with non-essentials to the exclusion of
all that is best and worthiest in life.
For, as we have said, their name is le-
gion everywhere, but we know, by bitter
experience. that protest against this
kind Of folly is like railing at the wind,
for we will every n be ready with the
excuse Il can't help it. l would be
clad enough to get a little rest. but
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
Pursued by the Furies.

Sheriff Cunningham of San Joaquin
County, arrived here this afternoon
from Tulare County with John Lintine,
who stands indicted in this county for
the murder of Marguerite Troi, nine
miles east of Gait, on the night of
February %, 1882. She was his sister
in-law, so it was understood. He had
been to Gait and returned drunk, had 9
fight with her husband, Samuel, about
the child of Lintine, went away, got .
musket and returned to kill Troi. The
woman opened the door when Lintine
knocked. He Immediately shot and
killed her and then fled. These are the
circumstances briefly narrated. He
was seer once by the officers of Gait
the next day. They pursued him and
he fired two shots at them and escaped
He then wandered south. Sheriff Cum
ningham notified the Tulare officers
some time ago that the murderer was
probably in that county, and made n
trip there to see a man who had been
arrested on suspicion. Lintine has been
herding sheep in the mountains for
several months, but his crime seems to
have weighed upon his mind.
One day recently he went to a house,
and in conversation with the people in
formed them that he had murdered .
woman near Stockton fifteen
months ago, and that the Sheriff was
after him. While engaged in this on
versation a loud chap Of thunder was
heard, and the excited man shouted,
..There is the Sherif's buggy now"
He also declared that a number of poles
near by was an army of Sheriffs. Trem-
bling with terror he then ran until
overtaken and arrested. He now seems
perfectly sane.-Sacramento (Cal.) Bee
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21

Asst. Louis dressmaker is in trouble
for putting twenty-six yards of silk into
address, which doesn't measure butts
teen yards. She says the odd yards
must have evauorated.-St. Louis Globe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21

Individual teapots are much used in
China. The innovation is a sensible one,
as each member of a family can exercise
his own taste as regards the strength Of
the beverage, and even "a late conner is
sure to get a hot cup Of tea.-Detroit
Poet
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21

An Atlanta drug clerk says he could
kill some one every day in the year by
following doctors prescriptions as
written. ....
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21

-"Don't say ENTRY Charles" said
Mrs. Culture to her son; "shall' is much
more elegant" Next day the young
man astonished his friends by speaking
Of Aid. Shaughnessy's ''hau inte .,fffos-"
Boston Irdnscrapt.