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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-14

ashamed to show yer the best ma,
who come from Europe What we are d.
ing on what we call ''the day of rest y
Alas, such rest!
If law relaxes and social custom GU,
renders. we will soon lose every yesrna
of either rest or worship to the Wort.
ingman.
Workingmen, the future depena,
very much upon you, and the way Won
demand and employ your day Of rest
If you are faithful to your rights, and
''knowing dare maintain them;n if Won
make the best use of your day of rest
demagogucs will hesitate before takina
it from you altogether. Q
bath? If not, be careful how you let
60 of it. Be careful how you allow
others to remove the solemn sanctions
of law which make it really yours as
right. Be careful how you allow Others
to control or use the time which BELONGS
to You and to God, and how you reh
God of one-seventh when He has given
you the whole seven.
DIR. Fare, in an able report to the
British Parliament, said, as aphysician,
that a rest of one day in seven was re.
quired by man and beast, and a loss Of
bodily vigor was sure to follow seven
days of weekly work, endingin abreak.
ing down of the system, and shortening
of life. The Sabbath is Gods special
gift to w%orkingmen, and one of its chief
objects is to prolong his life and pre-.
serve in efficiency his working power,'
In the physical system it acts as a con-.
pensation, replenishing the spirits, the
elasticity and vigor impaired by six
days toll, and it supplies the vigor
which is to do the next six days work.
"A four-mill was once worked with.
out a Sabbath, under an infidel man.
ager. The same mill with the same
men ground much more during the
year under a Sabbath rest. A dis.
tinguished merchant of large business
once said: elf it were not for the
Sabbath, I should have been a maniac
long ago. Another merchant, who
used his Sabbaths to scheme and plan,
soon found himself in the asylum,
where many men are who have refused
Gods Sabbath. A man who works
seven days a week will kill either mind
or body.
Since, therefore, the Sabbath was de-
signed to be a beneticial. institution for
both mar and beast, it should be
honored by all, and so enjoyed as to
make it the greatest good to the great
est number, spiritually as well as
physically. The danger in our day and
at this very hour, is not of too great
strictness, but Of too great laxity and
fatal indifference.-Wm. Il. Ingersou,
IN Church Union.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-14
The Shad.

The shad season has already opened in
southern rivers, and we shall soon have
shad fresh from the Hudson, the best in
the market. The shad has been a
mystery for years. He comes into the
rivers in the spring in vast numbers, and
soon departs to the ocean. His food is
little known, and his sea life lisa mystery.
The bulletin of the United States Fish
Commission for 1881 contains a paper
which throws some light upon thenatural
history and habits of the shad. The
paper is founded upon examination Of
the shad of southern rivers, Immediately
after they leave the ocean,. The micro
scope was called into use and revealed a
remarkable state of affairs. The shad is
toothless, and it has been a mystery how
itlived. The naturalist of the Fish Com
mission found that there was attached to
the alimentary canala great number Of
coca, or blind sacs, like the vermiform
appendix in a These pockets vary
from an inch to three inches in length.
These pockets number about seventy-fve
in each fish. 1t was ascertained that all
these pockets were full of food when the
fish entered the rivers.
The theory is that these pockets are
employed as magazines from which the
ish.draws from time to time while in
fresh water. The food was a sea-weed
with parasitic animals attached. The
sea-weed and the parasites werefound to be
undigested and intact. 1t may be possible
to find the ocean home Of the shad by the
contents of its numerous food magazines.
The fish is very interesting and very de-
licious. 1t is to be hoped that more Of
its life history may be traced.-Rochester
Democrat,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-14
False Perceptions.

The simplest forms of insanity are
those which consist merely Of false per-
ceptions, and they are not of such a
character as to lessen the responsibility
of the individual. There are two forms
Of false perceptions-illusions and hallu-
cinations. Uncomplicated illusions are
rare; still there is no doubt that there
are illusions not the results of disease in
the organs of sense or of circumstances
~unfavorable to exact perception, but
which are due to a morbid condition Of
the perceptional ganglia, and the unreal
nature of which is clearly recognized by
the individual.
illusions of sight often relate merely to
the size of objects. Thus, a young. lady
who had overtasked herself at school saw
everything Of enormous size at which she
looked. The head of a person seemed to
be several feet in diameter, and little
children looked like giants. So far as
her own person was concerned there were
no illusions. Her own hands appeared
Of the natural size, but those Of other
people seemed to be of enormous proper
lions. Sauvages refers to a case in which
a young woman, suffering from epilepsy,
had the illusion of seeing objects greatly
magnifed. A fly seemed to her to be as
large as a chicken. In the case which
came under my observation, the unreal
character of the perception was fully
recognized, and hence the intellect was
not involved.
Morbid illusions of hearing, unaccom-
panied by other evidences Of mental de-
rangement, are not very common. One
case only has come under my observa-
ton. 1t was that of a gentleman to
whom the ticking Of a clock was resolved
into articulate words. Generally the ex-
pressions were in the form of commands.
For instance, if at dinner, they would
be: "Eat your soup!!" "Drink no winep'
and so on. One day he made the discov.
cry that, if he closed the right ear firmly.
the illusion disappeared; but if the left
ear were closed, the words were still dis
tinctly heard. 1t was hence clear that
the center for hearing on the right side
was the one affected, and that that or
the left side was normal. For a long
time this gentleman resisted accepting
any Of these illusions as facts, but after q
time he began to be influenced by them
to the extent Of regarding them as guides
Eventually he put clocks in every room
in his house, and protested to be gov
erned altogether by the directions they
gave him.-Dr. WSl1iGm A. Hammond, Il
Popular Science Monthly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-14
Freak Of the Flsod.

One of the s~trangest freaks of the food
is reported from Whitewater River, afew
miles above Lawrenceburg, where farmer
Hunt lost forty acres of land, and his
neighbor, Fred Newhouse, had q barren
and rocky mill site converted into ten
acres of as rich land as the fertile valley
affords. The land along the Whitewater
is as rich as any in the West, and has
only to be tickled with a hoe to make it
laugh with a harvest. An acre of ground
here is an independence, for a gardener,
and ten acres are a little less than a boz
nanza. During the flood the White water
bottoms were over flowed for miles along
the stream, and the extraordinary height
of the water created currents that had
never been known before. Since the SUBJ
sidence of the flood it has been found
that forty acres Of Farmer Hunts richest
soil had been carried away, leaving that
portion of his farm practically worthless
until restored by a system of tillage and
fertilizing. Fred Newhouse, who recent
ly removed to the Whitewater valley
from Aurora, owned a mill site just
below Hunts farm. Newhouse's
property consisted of ten acres Of rocky
and barren land, unfit for farming pur-
poses. A portion of this was a large mill
pond. This mill pond is now filled to
the level of the breast of the dam with
the richest soil in the valley, and Mr.
Newhouse's remaining acres of unpro-
ductive rocks are nowhere to be seen, but
are covered to the depth Of several feet
with the same rich deposit. Instead Of
being a loser by the food he is ahead
the value of ten acres of Whitewater
valley land, which, when there is any Of
it in the market. commands from 5000 to
$500 an acre. Mr.. Newhouse is a fine
practical miller, and the whole neighbor-
hood just now isput to greatinconvenience
by the temporary shutting down of the
mill. eff it were not for the annoyance
and delay of changing my mill from
water-power to steam-power-for I
I'm left without a DAM" said Mr.. New
house, 81 would laugh at my loss."-
! Cincinnati Enquirer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-14

more than one or two minutes, II happeos
that the conditions in May next are such
as to favor a totality of no less than six
minutes. The opportunity willb e eager
ly seized to put rival views to the test.
But even while astronomers are inn
patiently waiting for this happy chance,
the startling announcement is made that
a method has been discovered by which
the corona may be studied independently,
of eclipses-from day to day instead OF
for a minute or two OF rare occasions.
The author of this important discovery
is DIR. William Huggins, the eminent
observer, who has been so successful in
his application of the spectroscope to tho
problems of celestial physics.
During the total eclipse Of May last,
which was observed by an English ex-
petition in Egypt, Prot. schuster sue
ceeded in obtaining a photograph of the
corona's spectrum. The spectrum, it will
be remembered, is the colored band OBJ
tanned by passing the rays OF light
through a glass prism. An examination
of this photographs showed that the differ
ent colors into which the light Of the
corona was resolved by the spectroscope
were not equally strong-the violet end
of the spectrum being considerably
stronger than the rest. Now, violet light
has a more powerful chemical action
than either red or yellow. 1t is, indeed,
chiefly to the violet rays in sunlight that
the process of photography is due. 1t
occurred, therefore, to DIR. Higgins that
this abnormal strength of what we may
call the Photographic rays" in the case
of the corona this point of difference
between the light Of the sun and the
light of the corona-might be utilized to
render the latter visible.
We have already said that the corona,
except during an eclipse, is quite invisi-
BILE to the eye because its feeble light is
overpowered by the glare of the sun.
Yellow rays are the ones which have the
greatest luminous effect, and the yellow
rays emanating from the III are Of the
same relative degree Of intensity as those
emanating from the corona. Hence it
follows that, so far as direct vision is
concerned, it is impossible for the n to
be disting sished from the other. Throw
the image upon a Photographic plate,
and we have no better result. The light
of the two is so nearly identical that the
difference is not apparent. But keep
back all but the violet rays. and then we
find the corona come out in our picture
for, as we have seen, the violet rays are
relatively stronger in the light of the
corona, and these rays are the mos
effective in photography. That is DR.
Huggins's discovery. He sits the ligh'
of the sun and a portion of the sky neal
it of the less Photographic rays, receives
the image on a sensitized plate, and 81
gets a picture of the solar corona.
Great Improvements in the process vii
doubtless be made ere long; and will
them our knowledge of the wonderful
luminary will increase, not by Occasional
fits and starts, as heretofore, but steadil..
and progressively Chambers Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-14
. fsHE SONG OF THE DUDE.

% 49,.
the dude the beautiful dude!
The essence concentred of trOusered prude!
We see him and love him, and who shall dare
To chide us for loving q thing 30 fair?
We love his face, with its smile 30 bland;
We love the cane in his well-gloved hand;
We love his sombre and lofty air.
His font ensemble of well-dressed care.
We love the go-to-the.party dude,
Who stands by the walls asthough hrnly glued;
Who goes to the opera with well-banged hair,
with a high silk hat and languid air.
He walks on the avenue every day,
In a clerical collar inc aimless way.
He rarely smiles, and his dwelling talk
Is slow, like his tongue and his languid walk.
TITS sad that this animal, genus dude,
With his blase air and his attitude,
Is sometimes a youth with ambition high
Which he skillfully hides from the vulgar eye;
That he fixes his hopes on a goal afar
Where fame and fortune and glory are,
And his air refined and his gentle smile
Are methods of hiding an inward guile.
Alack! alas for the gentle dude
With his blase air and his attitude,
They hide no deeper thing, 1 trow,
Than the vacuum back of his well-banged prOW,
For his air serene and his well-cut coat
Are the sails that nov his social boat,
And the wind blows low or wind blows high,
A dude he lives, and q dude he'll die!
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-14
Religious.
HE WENT BEFORE.

Their faces to Jerusalem,
They stepped with laggard feet,
Half timOrous, defiant half,
At what they went to meet.
But as they rested. or they talked
Their sad ~forebodings DER,
Still leading on the little band
Their Master went before.
He saw in vision maddened throngs.
He saw the crowded hall
Where scribe and priest should mock and
f1out,
The cruel scourge should fall.
He saw the cross; its shadows lay
The tOilsOme pathway DER,
But pressing on with ardent soul,
The Master went before.
To-day Thy pledged disciples, Lord,
Meet sorrow, pain and shame,
Their watchword in the trial time
Thine own all-conquering name.
Though flesh be weak and spirit faint,
And heart be spent and sore,
They can not fail in any strife
White Thou shalt go before.
In presence of Thy bitter foes,
Amidst the dark defeat.
They yet shall snatch a victory
And taste a triumph sweet.
Nor death itself shall crush them, Lord.
Its flnal conflict DER,
The ransomed hosts shall shout and sing
"Our Savior went befOre!"
-lkdr0drct e. Sdngster, in american Messenger,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-14
Fruits.

The fact that fruits, as a whole, are
very palatable to children, naturally, is
good evidence that they are favorable
to health, particularly useful to girls,
from the fact that those deprived Of the
active exercise OF the boys, more or less,
are the victims of constipation of the
bowels. Ii fruits are eaten as a part Of
the meal, and not in addition to the
necessary food for the day, they will
tend to regulate the bowels, and there
fore prove highly promotive of health.
That the fruits OF ones own country
and latitude 7 the most favorable,
can admit of no reasonable doubt, the
more destructible being manifestly in
tended for a temporary or medical use,
as the acid berries OF the spring and
early summer, intended as a livermedi-
cine, to aid in the publication of the
blood. If the acid stimulates the liver
in this important work, it is plain that
the addition of sugar will not be
well. In addition to the qualities Of
most Of our fruits, they manifestly con
tain more vital nourishment than the
chemist has yet discovered, and should
be eaten freely by girls having torpid
digestion and impure blood. The apple
stands first among New England fruits
containing as it does unusual nourish.
ment, keeping for most Of the year and
materially aiding in the digestion oil
u food. 1t may well form a part oil
each meal for our girls, being far better
than the rich buildings, pies, cakes,
etc., the richest Of which should never
be eaten by ordinary girls, especially
by the frail, those having an active
brain, a highly nervous temperament
and weakpowers ofdigestion. OF course,
the peach, pear, cherry and the uslal
small fruits and berries II all good
in their season, cooling. and purifying
to be encouraged reasonably.
Foreign fruits, to some extent, are
open to some objections, such @|
oranges, pine-apples, bananas, etc,
principally from the fact that they mus.
be picked before they are ripe and can
not really ripen on the passage. Inc!
reach us sour Oh insipid, having bu'
little of their natural virtues andtastes'
As unripe fruits, they must be con,
demned, however good they may be u
their native places.-Goldem Rule.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-14
last heard of "Billy Malt" W


The last heard of "Billy Malt was
from Dubuque, Ia. This strange little
old nan makes a practice of visiting all
the breweries in the United States. He
claims to have seen them all, from Maine
to Texas and from the Atlantic to the
Pacific Ocean. He is dependent entirely
upon the charity of the brewers, but fares
well, as he has become regarded by them
as q bearer of good luck. He is the son
Of a discarded wealthy Bavarian brewer,
is a man of fine education, fluent in
conversation, and perfectly content with
the strange life he leads. He claims to
be able to tell the location of every
brewery and the name of every brewer
in the United States and i'm Canada
CHI ago Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-14

old Nanny Weighalls, of Bedale,
N. c., has the Bible record to show that
she is one hundred and two years old.
She got very angry at her grandson re-
Gently, and threatened to walk to his
brothers house, twenty miles away, be.
cause he wouldn't get her a new cloak in
the place of the one she got when she was
marriedt the second time 6fty-four years ago
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-14

Italian murderers are very rareiI
hanged, but their fate is, if convlctea,
far from pleasant. P%assanante, WV !.
tried to kill King Humbert in 1872 :
fastened to the wall of a nearly da IL
cell by a ive-foot chain riveted to ~
ankle. He has become imbecile.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-04
A Telescopes Train.

NEW YORK, sept. "a passenger train
left Far Rockswss last night, AMI another
left Long Beach at precisely the same time
- 80 O'Clock. Long Beach l. further east,
but the road from Far Roekaway il more
roundabout, apd the result was that when
both trains got on the main line the Long
Beach train was not many minutes behind
the other. some passengers on the Far
Rockaway train, it is said, refused TO pay
their fare, and the conductor halted lust
around the curve at Springfield station,
about three miles south an least OF Jsnai-
ca, 10 put them of. There was consider
able delay, and the conductor Of the Rock
away train, George 5. johnson, says that
a brakeman was sent back TO flag the Long
Beach train. At all eveats before the Far
Rockaway train was under way, the Long
Beach train was heard laundering around
the curve, and In second 1t dashed int
the forward train and wrecl Vi the last two
cars. The Rockavay train IS due at
Springfield three minutes before the Long
Beach train, and the conductor OF the first
train knew when he stopped that the second
train must be close on to him.
The rear car OF the hrst
train, baggage. car and smoker,
were crushed, and the latter partly tele.
scored the car IN front, John Hart, aged
81, OF 92i Third avenue, Was Ia this front
ear. near the rear door He was instantly
Killed, and two unknown men near him
were also killed. Stories differ as to the
number Of persons injured. The train
dispatcher says that only two were hurt.
while the passengers say that fully eleven
were more or less injured. A wrecklng
train was sent out from Long Island City At
s.l6 with DR.. Geuler, the company sur.
geon. There were seven cars on the first
train and six cars on the second. All Of
the passengers were thoroughly shaken up.
The dispatcher also says that SPRING
field IL a regular stop for the first train.
and that no accident had yet occurred
there before because OF the shortne.sr of
che time between the trains. There IL a
sharp curve At Springfield with al obstruc.
ted view. aud the engineer OF the second
train could not have seen more than sew
enty.iye feet ahead OF him. The brakeman
did not have time to get back far
enough, but the second train slowed up a
little. rbe remainder Of the Rockaway
train brought the passengers Of both II ains
10 Long IshnaCty at Si3D. The passen.
gers who were oaly wounded and able 10
yak vent 10 their hoaea-
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-04

NEW YORK, Sept. 3,-The amalgamation
OF the Bankers and Merchants, the South
ern and the American Rapid Telegraph
companies, II the present plan is carried
out, will be completed this week. The
same persons who controlled the Bankers
and Merchants and the Southern have ar
ranged to purchase majority OF the stock
OF the Rapid. Nothing remains to be done
but to transfer the stock to the persons who
have bsrgained for it. A gentleman who
took part In the transaction said that ma
iority OF the stock in both the Bankers and
Merchants and the southern,
which now operates as one
system, was lodged on the name
OF A. W. Dmock, the president Of the
former company. The intention was to
put the majority Of the stock Of the Rapid
about to he purchased In Mr.. DimOck's
bands, and In that way the consolidation OF
the three companies would be practical. al
though not actual. The reason the three
companies were not merged in one under
a single name was that the laws Of some
states through which the lines passed did
not allow the consolidation or leasing Of
competing lines. When all the companies
were put under the same control signs
would be displayed In the Offices Of each,
saying that messages would be taken 10 be
transmitted by any one OF them.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-04
The River Leaving Kansas Ciiy.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. "A committee,
composed OF r. B BuIIenc, president Of
the Kansas City Board of Trade; Dr. Ar.
thur, Of Wyandotte, Kas., and j. b.
Evans, OF Kansas City, are in st. Louis,
consulting with Major suter, Chief United
States Engineer for Missouri river improve.
ment, with regard 10 an extra and imme-
diate expenditure Of 500, 900 at the Kansas
City and Wyandotte bend Of the river The
flood OF 1880 cuta cham. drought the head
OF tie 5Sr winch lies midway between the
two cities, and that Of last spring wdened
II so much that there is imminent danger Of
the channel leaving both cities altogether
and cutting down beside the bluff two miles
north. Some work has already been done
at the point, but is incomplete, and il Is
feared that sliIht freshet would wash out
all the matrassiug placed there, and com.
plete the detection OF the Big Muddy from
It's present course.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-04

GLENDIvB, NJ. T., Sept. 3.-The Presi-
dental party arrived here yesterday and
had a brief chat with the chief justice OF
Montana, who had just arrived to establish
the first session Of the Supreme Court here.
The train then moved on over the bad lands,
which continue eighty-hye miles along the
railroad, to Suly >pring,. At Little Mis-.
souri, the party had short conversation with
Baron Won Hoffman, OF Paris. and his son,
the Marquis de Morey. At 8 O'Clock last
night the train passed Bismarck The
President says he will be In Washington
THURSDAY night.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 3.-President
Arthur arrived here at this afternoon.
He was entertained at the state House,
from the balcony OF which he viewed the
procession, then he was given a banquet at
Lake Minnetonka.