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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
OF a praying MAJ WIN

through this experience 20 had pass.
Dav'o was not mistaken ~hang God
s sa experiences, he said: ..%Wnen, sfts
hath heard me-" Nor ara verify, ca
now wv when we live a life Of ear we mistake
Inc apostle Paul appeaMda est prayer
oence OF experience in the 20 the evI
" salvation when he said 4 ia M' of
II know whom l have 70 Timothy
am persuaded that Ha "a ooeh,,eved, AM
nat which l have committed mo 10 kee1
against that day." and also wb unto Hi
immediate prospect Of mart tue in til
sald. ~ have fought a good i sa, b
nave finished nv course. light.
the 11ith; henceforth there IL lave kep
1or me a crown of righteonsnasala ld VI
the Lord, the righteous ;udsss., Which
give me at that day." 70 ;bbase, Shall
arralggned before the Jewish CIV, whes
MEN and brethren, l have livo council
good conscience before God nutn n az
day; When standing at the 1r;Lt hij
OF the Roman Governor to "iounaV
his life, he makes this manly nna TOY
llc avowal of his personal exner;ol pub
"Ihis l confess unto thee. tho ,nce:
the way which they INV acc,,s ua afte4
heresy' SO worship 1 the God 81 call
fathers; believing all things whioh ny
written IN the law and in the nrorha arg
and having hope toward God paets
they themselves also allow, that tnle7
shall be a resurrection of the dead tlerd|
OF the Just and the unjust. And oOtAl
do l exercise myself to have alwa ereHu|
conscience void of offense tow.rdS 5
and toward men," 'od
The apostle John, in his three o,;.
ties, lays great emphasis upon tbis 'pas1
detrimental evidence, which he and e h!.]
fellow Christians enjoyed in their l1
allied religious life. THAT which F81
have seen and heard declare we VIZ
you, that We also may have fellowshiiuJ
with u.s. 1--WE know that VIZ hanlp
passed from death unto life, becauso oa W.
love the brethren" "Hercbv Wa lnS vi
that we are of the truth, and SHAH ' es
sure u hearts before Him. .H aI
that believeth on the Son of God b,.sl
the witness in himself" "These thinn,|
have l written unto you that believe 81
the name of the Son of God. that III
may know that we have eternal life. anal Nj
that ye may believe on the name f tba
Son or God" Most assuredly it is t ts
privilege of every true Christian II
have the certainty and the blcssedncss|
OF this experimental argument of tbe|
Gospel. Nor should any man be sa,iS.1
fed to live without it. 1t is Just thai
demonstration of the truth which sken.|
ticism a neither answer or oainssr
Let 4 man be once convinced, by nd
own personal experience, that there II
a living and saving power in the Go,.|
pei, and that he has himself felt thai
power, and he is at once proof against
all the intldelity iii the world. He bas
the argument, and the evidence anal
the witness, in his own heart, and n
will show itself in his whole life and
character Chicago Interior.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

says he is q widower, forty-fve wears
old, five feet eleven and a half inches
high, weighs n hundred and fifty
pounds, with black hair and whiskers
and a good character, and 'scauld a good
lookln' man." wants a Yankee woman
for . wife, and requires that she shall
be not less than thirty nor more than
forty-five years old. Ii such a one is on
superintendent Jackson's list he is
willing to pay a commission for secur-
ing her.
A resident of Kansas City (Mo.) who
says he is "a blond bachelor Of twenty
one years. g%ood-looking, of steady
habits and genteel breeding, moral but
not q church member" wants a dark
eyed beauty for q wife.
A Baltimore man saws that he
is a young blacksmith, has saved
up six hundred dollars. is 90
ing away. from ''Balto, which is
o.verstocked with labor, and wages COM
ing down for the last four years." is 60
ing to Southern California to settle. and
wishes to marry a virtuous and industri.
Gus American girl and take her along.
A Cambridge (Mass.) man has
the comprehensive cheek to ask for
a package of letters of the most intelli-
gent and refined ladies who have writ
ten to Mr.. J~ackson-as many have-on
the subject of finding husbands, and
literally offers to pay the postage on
them. Isaac has been calmly ignored
until now.
1t would really be surprising to see
now many fellows have jumped at a
chance of catching that Wilmington
girl but for the fact that she incidentally
mentioned in her letter that she and her
sister inherited a fine, well-stocked
farm. In addition to those already
mentioned as eager to open up cores
pondence with her, o dozen more MIGHT
be mentioned.
A rather melancholy fact that forces
itself upon the attention in running over
this mass Of correspondence is the great
number of women, most of them pro-
tessedly at least, American girls, who
seem to be forced to this method of
catching husbands. There are actually
hundreds more of letters from girls and
widows asking to be put in correspond
with men wanting wives than there
are wife-hunters offering themselves.
by far the greater number of these
women's letters come from the Eastern
States, notably from Boston and that
vicinity, but there are also some from
Pennsylvania and a few from even as
far West as Pontiac, Mich.-New York
Cor. Detroit Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
The MignOnette Cannihals.

Captain Dudley, of the Mignonette,
has freely discussed the terrible ad-
ventures which bcfel him at sea. After
describing the wreck and the mi
IN which the crew put off in q boat, he
says: The sea was raging about us,
and we managed to make q sea anchor
with the pinnacle and some boards.
The boat was leaking, but l cut off the
bottom OF my trousers and drawers and
stopped up the hole. About eleven
o'clock a shark came alongside. but we
beat him off with the oars. Our situa.
ton was a truly terrible one, and it
seems now a miracle how the dingy
kept afloat in such a sea. On the fourth
day we succeeded in catching a fair
sized turtle, which seemed to swim to
the boat and almost turn himself up for
US. We drank his blood out of the
chronometer box, and afterward cut
up the whole of the flesh into strips
and hung it round the boat. So over
joyed were we at this find that we ate
our second tin of turnip. Day after dav
passed, and on the eleventh day we had
finished the turtle, and had nothing left
except the two fins, but we ate every
portion, even the bones.
The fat of the turtle proved very
nutritious, and we got water a few times
when there were showers by catching
the rain in our oilskins, though some
times when we had q little drop a sea
broke into it and spoiled it so that we
had to throw it away. We went on
from the fifteenth to the twentieth day
without any food at all or drink, and
by that time we had begun to look each
other in the face very black. The boy,
who had drank some sea water at night,
said: we shall all die and remarked:
we shall have to draw lots, bows
This was ignored by all, and they said:
we had better die together to which
| replied, so let it be, but it is hard for
four to die, when perhaps one might
save the rest. A day or two before |
suggested that we should try and make
some kind Of sail, which we did with
our shirts rugged on an oar for a mast,
and a strand OF the painter for shrouds
and stays.
"Ihings now looked as bad as they
could. On either the nineteenth or
twentieth day the boy was lying in the
bottom OF the boat, where he had been
Ny"' S"SPtnS OlcdIl duu
nearly dead. At about three O'Clock in
the morning | said to the mate, what
is to be done? l believe that boy is dy-
ing. You have a wife and five children,
and | have 81 wife and three children
l said that human flesh had been eaten
before. Stephens replied: See what
daylight brings FORTH Brooks took
his watch at five o'clock and we made
motions to each other. Brooks said he
could not do it, and Stephens said he
could not do it. l told Brooks to 90
forward, which he did. l then took
hold of the shrouds and had a last look
round to see If anything was in sight,
but there was nothing. l offered up
a prayer most %fervently that God above
might forgive us for such an act. and
then l knelt down by the boy and said:
Now. Dick, my boy. your time has
come He nurmured. What, me. STRIP
l put the penknife in his throat, and he
was dead instantly From a London
Letter.
My p Soytcp IF E1p,ir. ~ "
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
Religious.
..IN PEACE"

"In perfect peace?
All. yes; the happy daytime through,
When airs are warm and skies are blue;
But when the chilling night-winds blight
The morning hopes we thought so bright,
Oh! tell me, tell me, can there be
Aueht but unrest for thee and meT'
The promise stands for day, for night
In perfect peace"
"In perfect peace?
Yes; when our rosary of love
Misses no 3eads, below. above;
But when it parts to lose the chio1,
The treasured gem OF our belief,
oh, tell me, tell me. can there be
Ausht but unrest for thee and me?'
The promise stand for joy, for grief
In perfect peace"
"ln perfect peace?
Yes; when we roam life's gladstone fields.
Among the flowers that Springtime yields;
But WHEN we near the vale of death,
Heavy with amaranthfne breath,
Oh! tell me, tell me, can there be
Aught but unrest for thee and me?"
The promise stands for life, for death
I'm perfect peace"
-Emma {. Do'rd, in N. 4. Independent
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
1HKRFs MUSIC IN A MOTHERS
FOICE.

There's music IN q mothers voice,
More sweet than breezes sighiag;
There's kindness in q mothers glancA
Too pure for ever dying.
There's love within a mothers breast,
So deep, It's stin ~o'ertiowing,
And care for those she calls her OWL,
That's ever, ever growing.
There's anguish in a mothers tear,
When farewell fondly taking,
That SO the heart of pity moves,
1t scarcely keepsfrom breaking.
And when q mother kneels to Heaven,
And for her child is praying,
@. who shall half the fervor tell,
That burns in all she's saying.
A mother. how her tender arts
Can soothe the breast of sadness!
And through the gloom of life once more
Bid shine the sun of g%ladness.
A mother! when. like evenings star,
Her course hath ceas'd before us,
From brighter worlds regards us still,
And watches fondly DER us.
Health aud Home.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
2. Sexton, of Elmira, N.

Mr.. P. Sexton, of Elmira, N. Y,
will soon have a new eyelid. Mr.. Sex
ton, as will be remembered, was the en-
gineer of the train that ran through a
sea of burning oil neal Bradford, Pa,
last January. He was severely burned.
Parts of his nose and ears are gone.
while both lower eye-lids arc burned
away, leaving no protection to the eyes.
A prominent physician of Elmira vol
unteered to repair the engineers mutt.
lated face, and recently performed a
plastic operation for the restoration OF
n of the lids, literally making a new
eyelid. When this heals, the same oper.
alton will be made on the opposite
side.-Bu1alo Express.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

The Kansas wheat crop is worth
thirty dollars to every man, woman and
lid IN H. state.- Chicago Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

The sting of a wasp is said to 10
fatal to Chinamen~-CUcAgo HegdM
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-10-02
A Wonderful Clock.

A correspondent of the RichfOrd
Gazette says il clock owned by ID. b.
Mitchell in Fairfield has been cutting
up some queer pranks of late. 1t is
one of the "Old-timers,n and the works
are of wood. Twenty-Five years ago
the clock was bought and owned by
From the Perley family it passed into
owned fifteen years. The peculiar
features of the clock are these 1t has
not run steadily for five or six years,
but one week before the death of Scott
Latham (step-father to L. NJ. Mitchell
IA few months since it struck eight
times. Then it struck for Mrs Polly
Uatham) Mitchell twenty-four times
day before she died. Next it struck
sixteen times for E. NJ. Mitchell next
fourteen times for Silas Mitchell.
There are three more in the family
The clock has been put in running or
der by the present owner and keeps
good time the strangest part of it is
that when it strikes for person it
will not run any more until that per-
son is dead no matter how much effort
is made to make it run. The clock
was bought from the Mitchell estate
by Daniel Warren, a merchant, and he
sold it to ID. b. Mitchell, who says he
wouldn't take 800 for it. And al
though its hands may point to the far
beyond, Mr.. Mitchell doesn't seem
'skeery' at all about its peculiar strik-
ing arrangements. The correspOn-
dent says there are persons who are
ready to swear to the truthfulness of
the story.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-10-02
Recognition Of the Temperance
Issue.

d. Gilbert Dexter, editor of the Cam
bridge, Mass, Tribune, who has been
II staunch republican, is an indepen-
dent republican in this campaign. AS
such, he has resigned the position he
held rs IA member of the republican
city and ward committees of that city,
and has been chosen chairman of the
prohibitory city committee, and issues
ringing address "TO the voters of
Cambridge" on the issues of the cam
paign, from which the following ex-
tracts are made:
Altogether it seems difficult to imag-
inc Il campaign i'll which the temper
ance men would be more free than
they are this year to demand the over
throw of the liquor control i'll politics.
So the prOhibitiOnists are content that
others shall elect either Blaine or
Cleveland, so be it that st. John and
Daniel shall receive such II vote as
shall force the old-party politicians to
recognize the liquor question.
To the support of the prohibition
ticket we invite the clergy. In this
year when so many good citizens feel
it their duty to cOndOne one species of
dishOnor in order to condemn another,
let the preachers of the Gospel con
done neither. and thus be able to con
denim both.
We also invite the support of the
large taxpayers. Let the saloons of
Cambridge he closed for twenty years
| 4 L
the breweries and distilleries else
where, and the public expense for po-
lice, courts, prisons, and poor, will be
reduced two thirds.
We especially invite the support OF
the laboring man. 1t is on his earn
ings, to the loss of his wife and chill
dren, that the salOon-keeper gets Il
living without labor. 1t is near the
poor mans home that the saloon-keep-
er receives his license to maintain a
public nuisance.
| Let no man fear to lose his vote.
While it takes a majority (usually) to
elect the president, a small minority
may win contest for principle. In
1852 the great democratic party and
the great whig party both endorsed
the fugitive slave law, and cast 3,000,.
600 votes. The free soil party de.
clared against the fugitive slave law
and cast 10000 votes. The few pre-
vailed against the many. No one car
point to a single lasting good which
resulted or could result from the
1900, 900 votes; while the whole his.
tory of the country from 1852 unit
now rests on that body of men who
said: ''Let others say what men shal
hold the Offices we will say what prin
ciples shall prevail"
A million votes for st. John anC
Daniel this year, within six years will
send the liquor ring out from Wash
ingtOn bowling. Thirty Thousand
votes for Seelye and Faxon this year
within six years will close every brew
cry and distillery in the Common
wealth.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-10-02
General Neglect Of Good Man
nerS.


To the Editor of the Caledonian
The New York Tribune of the 18th
of September contains the following
comment on an old, frequent recur-
ring case of i'll manners which, though
utterly shocking to persons of right
tastes and principles, is never correct
ed by anybody. The old excuse, 81
didn't know it was loaded" is ad-
mitted, without trial at law, as evil
dence of innocence, and wIlful homi-
cides may thus be permitted to escape.
The Tribune says: "The old, old stO
ry once more. The boy didn't know
the gun was loaded. But it was it
went off and it killed the boys play
mate. Sudbury, Mass, is the scene of
the latest tragedy which brings un-
speakable anguish to two families. 1t
seems impossible to bring this chapter
of horrors to an end. 1t is extraordi-
nary that experience does not convince
everybody that reads the newspaper
and what boy, even, does not these
days ?-that safety lies only in assum-
ing that all strange fire arms are load
ed. And it is even more extraordina-
ry that grown-up people have not
more sense than to leave guns lying
around within the reach of children
These deaths of late years are gen
orally oceasioned by the trifiing use O
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-10-02
Wanted His Life Insured.

An old darkey struggled painfully in
to an insurance Office and said =
cam dis de place, sab, wha dey
'sures lifes ~
"Yes," he was told.
"Well, l want ter git my life 'sured
dis berry day fo' 20 years"
"But you are too old, uncle"
'"Deed Use old; Use sebenty -seben."
"And in very feeble health"
''Boss, I'se purity far gone. De ole
'ooman sez can't las much longer"
"Well, we can't insure man i'll
your condition."
"Sah ?"
81 say we can't insure man like
you. We only take risks on men in
good health and who apparently have
Il long life before them"
Gam dat a fac ~
"Certainly."
"DOan' say nuthin' mo-. Use an ole
man, but hain't ter fool, boss. Ef
war young, wild good health, dye s'pose
I'd ask yer ter sure my life9 Wen we
gifts ready to drap off is de time ter git
sured. Ennybody can sure er mans
life wen he's young. doan' b'lieve
in dis yer 'surance ennyhOw. Wen de
guide Lord vans er man he's gOin' ter
reach fer him. Guide mawnin', boss.
| b'lieves yer wud steal chickens, deed
l do Detroit Free Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-10-02
The InGdeI'S Grave.

A young German countess, who lived
about hundred years ago, was not
ed unbeliever, and especially opposed
to the doctrine of the resurrection.
She died when ahout thirty years of
age, and before her death gave orders
that her grave should be covered with
IL solid slab of granite; that around it
should be placed a square block of
stone, and that the corners should be
fastened to each other with heavy iron
clamps. Upon the covering this in
scription was placed: "This burial
place, purchased to all eternity, must
never be opened" All human power
could do to prevent any change in that
grave was done, but a little seed
sprOuted, and a tiny shoot fonnd its
way between the side stone and the
upper slab, and there slowly but stead
lily forced its way until the iron
clamps were torn asunder and the
granite lid was raised, and is now rest
ing upon the trunk of the tree, which
is large and fiOurishing. The people
of Hanover regard it with almost a
kind of superstition, and speak in the
lowest tones of the wicked countess /;
and it is natural they should, for as !
stood beside that grave in the old
churchyard it certainly impressed me
more deeply than could express.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-10-02
Jerry McAuley.

The Broadway tabernacle in New
York was crowded Sunday afternoon
with an assemblage of the sort that
Jesus used to bring about him in the
cities of Judea,-of thieves, gamblers,
fallen women, and very common peO-
pie; there were also scribes and phari-
sees there, and hundreds of true disci-
pies, the complexion of the audi
ence was such as troubled the Jews
when they spoke of Jesus as ''the
friend of publicans and sinners" And
indeed if an illustration were sought of
Christ's christianity one would not
have TO look further than the life of tht
river pirate, Jerry McAuley, whose
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-10-02
St. Johnsbury Church Directory

AdUent-Paddock Village. Sabbath Services at
1890 a. M, las and $50 y. III. Sabbath School
II III. Prayer Meetings at 1880 p. m. Sunday, Tues
day and Friday evenings.
BdptiSt-Railruad Street Corner Map.e Rev
L. I. SaDdlord, Pastor. Preaching 1850 4. NJ. S.
School IL NJ. Prayer meeting 63O. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening at 7sO
Free BaptSt-Main Street. Corner Prospect.
sabbath services 1880 AN, and $50 p. NJ. Sabbath
school at l2 N. Prayer meeting Wednesday even
lng at 1880. Rev. D. Ii. Adams, pastor.
Church Of the Messiah-( Universalist) Eastern
avenue, corner Cherry street. Sabbath services
1t las, $50 p. NJ. Sabbath School at l2:3O p NJ
Wednesday evening meeting at 1880. Rev. G. W.
Jenkins pastor.
Methodist-Central street. Rev f. w. Culver,
Pastor Residence next to the Church. Sab
bath services at 1890 A. NJ, and $50 p Sabbath
school at l2 Wednesday evening meeting at
7:30.
North Congregationdl-Main street, corner OF
Church. Rev. Henry w. Jones, Pastor. Sabbath
services at 1890 A. M, and 6:3O P. NJ. Sabbath
school at las p. M Wednesday evening meeting
at 7:3O.
South Congregational-Nia street Rev. Ed
ward I. Fairbanks. Pastor. sabbath services at
1880 A. NJ, and $50 =. NJ. Sabbath School at IL
Wednesday evening meeting at 1880.
PrsSbyteriGn Church-Eastern Avenue. Rev W
Il. Laird, pastor. sabbath services at 1880 a.
and $50 p. nj. Sabbath school at II III. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening 1880.
81. AHdreUS-t Epscopal) Main street, Rev
f. ;. Fisher, Rector. Services Sundays a
1880 a. m, and p. m. Wednesdays at 1870 p. M
SUNDAY School at IL m.
Roman CdthOIic-Cherry Street. Rev. j. A
BoissOnnault Parish Priest Mass : and 10 a. m
Nespers and Benediction at p. III. On the
second sunday of the month, service at $50 a. III.
and p. III. At Lyndonville same day al 1880 a. NJ
Y. u. c. A.-Meetings at the hall of the Y. NJ. c
A., Main street, Sunday mornings at $50, Satur
day evenings at 7.3O. Young Mems meeting Sun
day at so p. m. Noon meeting every day a
| rooms Main street
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-10-02
Things Worth knowing.

|. That fish may he scaled much
easier by dipping into boiling water
about a minute.
.. That fish may rs well be scaled,
if desired, before packing down III
salt, though in that case do not scald
them.
3. Salt fish are quickest and best
freshened by soaking in sour milk.
4. That milk which is turned or
changed may he sweetened and rem
dered fit for use by stirring in a little
soda.
>. That salt will curdle new milk /;
hence i'll preparing milk porridge,
gravies, etc, the salt should not be
added until the dish is prepared.
Is. That fresh meat, after beginning
to sour, will sweeten if placed out of
doors in the cool over night.
7. That clear boiling water will re-
move tea stains and many fruit stains.
Pour the water through the stain, and
thus prevent its spreading over the
fabric. .-.
8. That ripe tomatoes will remove
ink and other stains from whit cloth
and from the hands.
8. That tablespoonful of turpen-
tine boiled with your white clothes will
aid the whitening process.
10. That boiled starch is much i'm
proved liy the addition of little sperm
or a little salt, or both, or little gum
arabic dissolved.
IL. That beeswaX and salt will
make your rusty flatirons as clean and
smooth as glass. Tie lump of wax in
a rag and keep it for that purpose.
When the irons are hot, rub them first
with wax rag, then scour with pa
per or cloth sprinkled with salt
~. That blue ointment and kero-
sene mixed in equal proportions and
applied to bedsteads is an unfailing
bed d-bug remedy, and that a coat of
whitewash is ditto for the walls of Il
log house.
I3. That kerosene will soften boots
or shoes that have been hardened by
water and render them as pliable as
new.
IA. That kerosene will make your
teakettle as bright as new. Saturate u
woolen rag and rub with it. 1t will
also remove stains from vanished fur
niture.
Is. That cool rainwater and soda
will remove machine grease from
washable fabrics.
Every one of the above receipts is
unfailing. Cut out this slip and place
it i'll a book for reference.-[ Philadel-
nhia Racord