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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30
A Phenomenal Maine Girl.

The antagonist of modern advanced
education, if there be any, should have
heard a little lecture that a gentleman
gave on the street Wednesday morning.
the question had arisen as to the ten
dency of modern advanced education to
create a disgust for manual labor. Tho
gentleman told an anecdote. A young
lady, who is very we'll known in Lewis
ton and Auburn, and who has had a
liberal education in America, a course
of study in the German schools, and
who has since taught in SOME of the
leading schools of this State and others,
came home to her fathers farm this
summer. The hours hung rather
heavily. s'Father, your office needs
fshingling,'' says she one day. The next
day the shingles were on the spot, and
the young lady proposed to have some
fun and combine it in a legitimate way
with solid work. She built the stagings
geometrically, ran the lines after Euclid,
and shingled the office as neatly and ex-
peditiously as the village professor OF
shingling himself could have done. She
pulled down the staging and erected it
again over the ell to. the house, and, in
spite of parental injunction. singled
the ell and a sloping shed attached. She
practiced music for pleasure in the
meantime, however, and read German
for a pastime. Nothing" added the
gentleman, .swould be further from her
own inclination than notoriety."-
LezDiston (Me.l Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30
Postal Rates Ninety Years Ago.

Now that the two-cent postage law
has gone into effect, the following pro-
visions of the first law of Congress OF.
the subject will be read with interest:
February 20, 1892, was the date of the
first act fixing rates of postage on do
nestle letters, and established the fol-
lowing rates, to take effect June l,
1892:
Act February 20, 1892, Section 9, by
land: For every single sixty miles, eight
cents,
For every single letter over thirty
miles and not exceeding sixty miles,
eight cents.
For every single letter over sixty miles
and not exceeding 100 miles, 10 cents.
For every single letter over 100 miles
and not exceeding $50 miles, 121 cents.
For every single letter over $50 miles
and not exceeding 200 miles, Is cents.
For every single letter over 200 miles
and not exceeding $50 miles, IL cents.
For every single letter over $50 miles
and not exceeding $50 miles, 20 cents.
For every single letter over $50 miles
and not exceeding $50 miles, % cents.
For every single letter over 450miles,
Is cents.
For every double letter, double the
said rates.
For every triple letter, triple the said
rates.
: For every packet weighing n ounce
avoirdupois, to pay at the rate of four
single letters for each ounce, and in that
proportion for any greater weight
Eln1ara advertiser.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30
Couldn't Be Expected to.

Two ladies entered a Fort street-car
one day recently and took seats beside a
lady we'll known to one of them. She
gave her friend an introduction, and
directly this one remarked:
II thinkI saw you at the - Street
Church one Sunday, several weeks ago."
Eyes"
"You seemed to be as much disguised
with the sermon. as l was, for I saw that
you were terribly uneasy"
eyes," again.
Ibid you ever hear a worse preacher
in all your life?"
'.Well, perhaps"
81 never did, and ] haven't been there
since"
The conversation then ratified off on
some other subject, and by and by the
two ladies got off.
II wonder why she didn't agree with
me about that ~preacher?" queried the
one who had Blasted him."
''Why, how could you expect her to?
She's that vesy minister's wife!'-De'
tsost Free$Pres
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30
Married for Keeps.

The skipper Of a coal boat on the Bal
timore & Ohio Canal recently decided.
after mature deliberation and careful
consideration, to marry his cook, who
had been a tried and faithful servant tc
him for quite a number of his p%erilout
trips on the storm-lashed canal. So he
spoke to her about the matter one day,
and after securing her coy consent, he
ordered the boat tied up at a small
town, and being a practical skippe,
skipped up street after parson. The
nuptial knot was soon tied, the parsor
beaten down to a dollar and a half for
his fee, and then the canal boatmaE
said:
.'Well Melindy, we are married ful
keeps, now. We are hitched fur life.
and must pull together. I'm a little
short-handed to-day, and as that lead
mule has got saddle gals OF his back.
you jist take the tow path, and lead him
down to Harper's Ferry, an I'll steer,
an kinder ruminate on some plan tc
give you work on the boat without go.
ing ashore in the mud. I've got a pow.
erful sight more respect for you now,
that you're my wife."-Ieras Sy;tings.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30
Ethics Of q Crowd.

There is no room for extremists in q
crowd. The dude will be ground be-
tween the upper and neither milestone.
In fact, those about him are likely to
take a secret pleasure in adding to his
discontinue. The crowd has q keen
eye for sham, which fares particularly
ill when it takes the shape of personal
%pretension. There must be a feeling
that you 'are one of us'' to secure good
favor. People do not co~nggreggate in vast
numbers to admire others, but to have
a good time themselves. They are gen.
orally willing to do the fair thing, but
want no quitting On airs" Itrequires
room to do that with any degree of
comfort to the operator. He must be-
out of ear-shot of the remarks which.
convey to him the sense of the failure
he is making. 1t is a singular fact that
no amount of experience, inherited or
personal, is sufficient to dissuade many
people of the idea that they can create
false impressions as to their own inn
portance on the beholder. For every
word of admiration a Hashily dressed or
visibly consequential person ELECTS, he
gets a thousand contemptuous recogni-
lions as an ASA fact he remains peren-
nially impervious to. The strivings and
projects of the swell constantly mis-
carry, and he knows it not-except
when hei jostled in a crowd. He goes
through the world in a state of perpet-
ual ignorance as to his transparency.
The crowd is a great leveler, and the
member of it who does not do his own
leveling, has it done for him in a man.
ner which is not all pleasant. Large
and happy aggregations of people, like
civilization itself, are based upon the
spirit of mutual concession. The savage
who does not know how to yield in little
things wants all outdoors to live and
have his being in. And what is the
arrogant, bumptious person, however
civilized his exterior may be, who has
no consideration for others, but q relic
Of barbarism? The kindly feeling which
prompts the doing Of a small favor, at
some slight inconvenience to self, it is
which makes the happy crowd possible.
The fabrication of good will, sympathy
and small helpfulness is the grand secret
which makes the social machinery move
well. Each man must allow q little
margin to others, or there can be no
general elasticity to prevent things from
being broken upon each other He
must round off the sharp corners, or
there will be constant punctures and
raspings.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30

-Atthe Dial Verne Theatre, at Milan,
the other night, an American named
created a great sensation by
appearing with q luminous scarf pin,
was nothing more OF less than a
electric lamp, warranted to go for
five hours, by means of small generator
in the waistcoat pocket
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30

During the,war of 1912 two kegs of
gold coin were sent from Prescott to
Kensington, Ont, by stage. The stage
broke down and the gold was secreted
somewhere near Hog Back Hill. Some
people think the coin may be found
there still, and many holes have been
dug in search of the missing treasure.
-WOntycaI Witness.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30
Scientific Conversation.

"'Of course" remarked Fogg to the
young gentleman with the callow nous
tache; "of course you know as well as l
that air in a highly rarified state, or, to
speak more accurately, when it is very
much condensed, is fully as explosive
as nitro-glycerine or dynamite" eyes,
sir" gasped the young man, feebly.
And" continued Foggg, ''you know
also that whenever the air comes in con-
tact with the atmosphere one of two
things must happen" Certainly"
replied the young man again, this time
more confidently. "Either the air per-
meates the atmosphere orthe atmosphere
absorbs the all" continued Fogg. "Of
course" replied the young man, ''that's
clear enough to anybody who knows
anything about it, and the young man
glanced about him at the other chaps
with an air of superiority. "And."
said Fogg, Gin either case the molecules
will become aerated, as it were, and
therefore be rendered useless for respi-
ration and noxious to the Common
wealth." Precisely my view Of the
natter said the young man. sis it,"
exclaimed Foggg; sI'm glad to know it,
s!r; glad to know it. Do you know,
Sir, you are the first man I've met with
whom [ could talk with intelligently
on this subject? Fact, sir; glad to have
met you; glad to have met YOU" The
Young man loves to talk of the scientific
conversation he had with Fogg, whom
ne will honor and respect to his dying
day, OF until he finds out what a con-
founded old. humbug Foggg is.-Bosto"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30

-%Fifty-fve murderers have been
committed in Logan County, KY, since
1865, and not one of them has been
hanged. Only two of them were
sentenced to life Imprisonment, and n
of the two was pardoned.-LottsvtM
GDurter-J0urnGA.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30

- =.
Mr.. Madern, a middle-aged bach
elor, of Reading, Pa, was a sensitive
plant, and ill-adapted to withstand the
chilling blasts of this world Mr.. Mad
ern was pious, and out of his twenty
I'VE thousand dollars had given two
thousand dollars toward the erection OF
a chapel. He also labored with his hands
until the skin was worn off them by
carrying brick to the masons. The
money contributed was not enough to
complete the building, and the other
night MI. Madern, grown disheartened'
Went out to his barn and hanged him
Sell; He left a note giving five hundred
uqllars more to the chapel and SAYING
! will enter a better world than this.
nave much trouble here. "-IndMs1cf'
Wis journal.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-04-19
They are not strangers, Mamma

Not long ago / stood by the death
bed of little girl. From her brit
she had been afraid of death. Ey
cry fibre in her body and soul re-
colled from the thought af 1T.
'sDon't let me s,is.,s z a,iis.szss,aa size said. "don't
let me die. Hold me fast. 0, !
can't CO." Jennie" | said, "you
have two little brothers in the other
world, and there are thousands OF
tender hearted people over there
who will love you and AXE care of
you.' But she cried out again de-
spairingly, Don't let me go; they
are strangers over there" She was
little country girl, strong limbed,
fleet of foot, tanned in the face; she
was raised on the frontier; the fields
were her home. In vain we tried to
reconcile her to the death that was
inevitable. "Hold me FAST" she
cried; don't let me CO." But even
while she was pleading her little
hands relaxed their clinging hold
and lifted themselves eagerly aloft;
lifted themselves with such straining
effort that they lifted the wasted
little body from its reclining posi-
tion among the pillows. Her face
was turned upward; but it was her
eyes that told the story. They were
filled with the light of divine recog-
milton. They saw something plainly
that we could not see; and they
grew brighter and brighter, and her
little hand quivered to go where
strange portals had opened to her as
tonished vision. But even in that
supreme momenl she did not forget
to leave word of comfort for those
who would gladly have died in her
place. "Mamma," she was saying,
"Mamma, they are not strangers.
I'm not afraid And every instant
the light burned more gloriously in
her blue eyes till at last it seemed
as il her soul leaped forth upon its
radiant waves, and in that moment
her trembling form relapsed among
its pillows and she was gone.-Mrs.
Helen Williams in Chicago Woman's
World.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-04-19
q IL 1tVINI'
Elmira, N. Y, Sept II, 1881

Ii disease has entered the system
the only way to drive it cut is to
purify and enrich the blood. To
tins end, as is acknowledged by ali
medical men, nothing is better adap-
ted than iron. The fault hitherto
has been that iron could not be so
prepared as to be absolutely harm
less to the teeth. This difficulty has
been overcome by the Brown Chem
ical Company, of Baltimore, Md,
who offer their Browns Iron Bitters
as a faultless iron preparation pos
tive remedy for dyspepsia, indlges-
tion, kidney troubles, etc.
Mr.. Sprague was defeated for the
governorship Of Rhode Island.
An excursion from TT. Smith and
Morrillton, and all points interven.
ing, to Altus on the llth OF May has
been decided upon by the Altus
people, says the Albion.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-04-19
From ""The Times"

Editor Of Times In reading the
last number Of your paper, | noticed
you asked all who had been benefited
by the letter published IN your val
liable paper about a year ago, tc
write you the facts for publication
The letter from Dir. Bates created O
great deal of excitement In this vi
cinity, as he is we'll and fayorably
known by everybody here. His rep
uta.ion as a man and as a physi.
clan gave every body the utmost con.
| fidence in all his statements, and
this OF course soon made the name
s.Kcndall's SPAWN Cure" not only
familiar but very popular In reply
to your request, will say: about
nine years ago | slipped on the ice
and sprained my right limb at the
knee joint. ] was very lame and
suffered excruciating pain much OF
the time since, and some of the time
thought | should be cripple for life
DIR. Bates letter printed in your pa
per gave me so much confidence in
the virtues of Kendalrs SPAWN Cure
that / tried for my knee and less
than one bottle completely cured me
so that | have had no return of pain
or lameness, for which, OF course, i
cannot feel too thankful. Since my
recovery l have visited friends in
the west and found that the follow
ing parties have used it with the
grandest results in that part of the
country: The Rev. John Rice, He
mattite, Mo-, used it on his own
person for an injury of thirty y-five
years standing and performed one OF
the most wonderful cures / ever
heard of. j. L. Mcclure, of Strong
City, Kansas, cured a badly lacerated
and poisoned hand, from hog
bite and also removed an
enlargement near the hip
Joint which had become large and
troublesome. He also used it for
pleurisy and found thai bathing his
chest with itrelieved him at once. To
my surprise | found that this won
derful remedy was better known in
the west than it was in the east, and
l found that they were using it there
for animals as we'll as on human
flesh with the very best of results,
and find so many cases whenever
/ go confirm the favorable opinion /
had already formed of it that | am
glad of an opportunity of telling the
readers of your valuable paper what
l hare learned in Iegard to 1T. Hop
ing to hear from others on this very
important subject, especially impor-
taut to those who have suffered for
years like myself, | remain,
Yours &c,
j. A. RoYcE.
EImira N Y Sent. II 1881
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-04-19
Thoughts Suggested on the View
From Lookout Magazine
M0untains



The vast expanse far ana pigh.
Creates sense of love ip3piring awe
To him whose ever ready ere,
Each our different tastekfpresaw,
And to our varied faneiea4lrew,
A scene 70 please the gaxtof each,
And show his penetrating VIEW.
How all our different ta4fes to reach
The valleys, and mountain lays,
Before our eyes in yertfAut rcbes arrayed
And lakes, and rivers in shmmering sun
light rays
Are edged With stately trees of varied
hue, and grade,
In thinking Ger his wondrpus love,
Our thoughts are drawn from earth K
him above,
Whose ever willing ear iuelines,
To hearoar prayers, and Enov our minds
Our earnest heart should - his will te
And By our ' actions give sight
That others, seeing our - works, bes-
tow
Their homage to omnipot< cc Alright.
Fer let our light ~ ~
And worship at his ho1t7 tne,
Tnntwe secure IN Hcdveda home
At Gods right hand upon his throne.
In musing on this happy thought,
We fain should now our covenant make,
To guard our lives, live as we are taught
In that blessed book of books, we take,
and woe,
To that safe harbor far away on high,
That we may ere long, meet beyond the
sky.
Where, there's no strife, 'twixt friend
and foe.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-04-19

An act to be entitled San act to
cure defective acknowledgements.
BE it enacted by the general as
sembly Of the State of Arkansas:
Section |. All conveyances and
other instruments of whiting au-
thorized by the law TO be recorded, or
which have heretofore been recorded
in any county in this state, the proof
of execution Shereof is insufficient
because Of the officer certifying such
execution omitted any words in his
certificate, or because such officer
failed or omitted to attach his seal
of office to such certificate any seal
not bearing the words or devices re
quired by law, or otherwise infor-
NAL, shall be as valid and binding as
though the certificate OF acknowledg
ment or proof OF execution was in
due form and bore proper seal.
Sec. 2. This act shall be in force
from and after its passage.
Approved Marcn Ia, 1858.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-04-19

At Dover, on the4tA Monday ill March and
Isl Monday in January, July and October.
PROBATE COURT:
Al power, on the lst Monday In May and 3D.
MONDAY in January. July and October.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-04-19
Church and Society Directory
pREsBYTERTAY oHURoH

H.B. Mllner, pastor. Preaching each 2d an.
an sabbath at II a. IN, aud 7:30p. m. Prayer.
meeting every Thursday at 30. p. IN, Sab.
bath school az q. m. every Sabbath.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-04-19

The champion billiard player Of
the world has been having fine
time in Chicago during the past
week.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-04-19
iss3--Direc ctory.--i883
Court 9TH judicial District

TINE OF HOLDING COURT:
Pope Couuty-First Monday in April and
NoYembce
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-04-19
.RApTIST CHERrH.

p Weaver. pastor. Preaching every cd
and sth sabbath at II am. and7 80 pm. Pray
cr meeting every Tuesday night. sabbath
school a. IN. every Sabbath.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-04-26
Innocent atLast.

FRANKFORT, KY, April 13.-Gov.
Blackburn to-day granted q pardon t0
j. B. Gilmore and Joseph deace, two
convicts in the penitentiary, who were
sentenced for murder alleged TO have
been committed in Pulaski county.
They have been confined in prison
since May, 1881. Ir seems thas the
bones of a human being were found
on the farm of man who had misteri-
ously disappeared from the county, and
his friends believed that he had been
murdered Gilmore, Meace, and man
named Unley were arrested, charged
with the murder. The two first named
were charged with being accessories,
and Unley was charged with being the
principal in the murder. The were
granted separate trials, and Gilmore
and Meace were found guilty. Last
January Uuley was tried and acquit-
ted. Ii has been ascertained that the
man whom they were charged with
numbering is now living IN Critten-
den county, AMI testified in the trial of
Unley, and has since written TO the
men in prison.. The principal witness
rs against Gilmore and Meace have
81 ated that it was a put-up job on them
Gilmore is a nephew OF the late SenR-
tor GILMORE, OF Some rset.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-04-26
Slang.

1t is unthoughted, not to say un-
kind, in the American to upbraid
children for using slang. Parents
and grand parents use slang nova
days. This is a slangy age. The
old and young are alike accom-
plished in its use. Its slang from
the cradle to the grave. The
dude" is "stuck on his shape" and
his girl is too, you bet''and if she
has previous she will call him
''fellow"and tell him, mot this att,
some other AFTER The father tells
his son to "pull down his vest" and
the '!old man" is told to "wipe of
his chin" The mother tells hel
gay daughter she is ''too utter
rapid, and the dainty maiden re
pies, why don't you ''pull it, It'i
slang in the kitchen, slang in the
parlor and slang in the Legislative
hall, and slang sometimes appears
in the public journals of the day
OF course we don't intimate tina
the staunch old daily mentioned
above ever INDUCES in the luxury
but it seems unreasable to expect
children not to use the languagC
of their elders. They would be
sweet companions in soeiety wher
they grow ap If they didn't
catch on" and progress. "Cheese
y 4
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-04-26
LINI NJ ENT.

This preparation is now being used by,
and has the highest endorsement OF, the
leading stock dealers Of the South, many
Of whom have given voluntarily, strong
certificates of its wonderful merit in tne
treatment of stock to which it IS specially
adapted. No farmer OF owner Of horses
and mules can well afford to be without
it, as the timely application of this Lini-
ment will save many valuable animals,
and restore them to usefulness. In con-
junction with II should be used the
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-04-26

- Speaking of the TRANSMISSION Of the
blood of beasts into human beings;
it would seem, from the character
of many of the latter, that this was
by no means senew process, and il
seems that those who praeticed il
were not very particular in tue
choice of animals Sometimes they
took dogs and bears and few
hyenas must have been robbed OF
their life.fowing blood Some have
possibly been supplied from the
snake in the grass
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-04-26

Cleanliness and purify make Parker's
I lair Balsarn the favorite, for resturzn2.
tse y0vpbfJi ssSevy ustgyRy ssahrs
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-04-26

The great state os New York IS
kicking against dime novels. A
bill in the legislature forbids their
sale TO minors without the consent
of parents. The Banner says: =
The yellow back literature must
go. No longer shall the sickly ur-
chin insert the leaves of the dime
novel between the pages of his his
tory and read the narrowing story
of ''The Wild Boy of the West .
while he pretends a study of the land
ing of the Puritan fathers at Plv-
mouth. No more will the good lit
lie girl borrow the "Wizard of the
Thousand Wands' and pray her
mother to keep her from school
"5hat day, because she is sick ,,
The dime novel must and should
80. oTs rs..5s :
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-04-26
LINIMENT.
HAN NJ ERS'

If your Horses or Mules are troubled
with Splints, Calls, SpFsin, Bruises, Flesh
Wounds, Lameness, Swellings, Stiffness
Bighead, Windgalls, Fistula. Poll Evll,
Ring Bone, Sprain, Mango. Cracked Heels
CaIlous, Sitfast, Collie, Ring Worm, ana
external injuries, use Hammers