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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-07
Wise Sayings.

God hath His working in those
things which man can not frustrate.-
James Shirley.
Zeal is the combination of will. in
tellect, affections, passions and force,
and their practical concentration upon
the accomplishment of some object.
If we could read the secret history
OF our enemies we should find, in each
mans life, sorrow and suffering enough
to disarm all hostility Wood.
Our best friend is in our Fathers
house on high. Our hearts and our
treasures are there. Why should we
not 'look up and lift our heads toward
the land where we shall 'see the King
in His beauty" and meet the dear ones
who are waiting u coming?
EVERYTHING in life has a right and
wrong side. You may take any 10Y,
and, by turning it around, find troubles
on the other side; or you can take the
greatest trouble, and, by turning it
around, find joys on the other side.;:
ihe gloomiest mountain never casts q
shadow on both sides at once.
I find one occupation which is ever
S' " "AlSI we Shall never weary
which is good for all seasons, beautiful
at an times, a source of unvarying de-,
light, which comes nearest to the Divine,
ana that is the act of doing good. This
IS the n pleasure which will surely in
crease as life goes on.-Baptist Weekly.,
Truth will ever be ~unpalatable to
who are determined not to re-
llnqulsh error, but can never give
of1cnse to the honest and w~ell-meaning;
tor the plain-dealing remonstrances Of a
Trend differ as widely from the ranoor
OF an enemy, as the friendly probe of a
physician from the dagger Of an assassin.
b. ". Montague.
Nothing is more certain than that
when Sunday is lost as a sacred day. it
VIII be lost as a rest day, and then
laoorlng men will find seven DAYS of
work required with the same WAGES now
given for six. 1t is easy to charge the
friends Of the sacred day with biSgotry
ana harshness, yet they are the truest
friends CT those who work hard for a
living; They honestly believe that
Ter duty both to God and to mar binds
eaem to stand fast against any invasion
OF the Lords day as a grievous error
ana wrong.--1nteUtgencer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-07
Religious.
CLIMB TO REST

Still must 1 climb, If l would rest:
The bird scars upward to his nests.
The Young leaf on the tree-top high
Cradles itself within the sky.
The streams, that seem to hasten down.
Return in clouds, the hills to crown;
The plant arises from her root,
TO rock aloft her flower and fruit.
I can not in the valley stay:
The great horizons stretch away!
The very cliffs that wall me round
Are ladders unto higher ground.
To work-to rest-for each q time.
toll. but / must also climb.
What soul was ever quite at ease
Shut in by earthly boundaries?
I am not glad till I have known
Life that can lift me from my own.
"A loftier level must be won,
A mightier strength to lean upon.
And Heaven draws near as / ascend:
The breeze invites, the stars befriend,
All things are reckoning to the Best;
/ climb ia thee, my God, for rest.
Lucy Larcom, in Cottage Hearth.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-07
THE EMBROIDERED FLOUNCE.

Resale Drew was a very pretty girl
with pink cheeks, blue eyes and golden
hair; and not having any faith in the
truth of the old saying that Beauty
unadorned is adorned the most" she
was fond of wearing bright ribbons,
pretty laces and fashionable hats. But
her father was a poor man and it was
not often that she could indulge her
taste in making a purchase; and she
went shopping that she did not
rebel against the poverty which made
the best and costliest of everything i'm
possible for her. 1t was this love for
finery which led her to commit q crime
which cost her very dearly.
The summer Resale was fifteen, her
father was induced to take charge of the
house of a Mr.. Spear, who, with his
wife and daughter, was summoned to
Europe very suddenly by the dangerous
illness of a son who was studying art in
the Royal Academy at Munich.
The house was a very handsome one,
with spacious grounds attached, and
Rosalie was delighted at the idea Of hav-
ing plenty of room at her disposal for
lawn-tennis and croquet, and made all
sorts of plans for the pleasure of herself
and young friends.
Mrs. Spear had had scarcely any
time to prepare for her sudden depart
ure, and SO she had hurriedly stored in
a large room in the basement of her
house all those things which she did not
wish to leave in Mrs. Drew's care.
Everything is in confusion in there"
she said to Mrs. Drew, as she locked
the door of the basement and put the
key in her pocket, ''but it can't be
helped. I have no time to put anything
away neatly"
Now Rosalie had a large share of
curiosity, and she often wished she could
take a look into this room, for she had
no doubt that Mrs. Spear had all sorts
of pretty things in there that would we'll
repay examination.
1t happened one day when her father
and mother were out that while roaming
in the garden she discovered a window
which looked into this room, and which
she found-on opening the shutters
was unfastened. She hesitated a mo-
ment, and then, thinking that surely q
look into the room could do no one any
harm. she raised the window.
As Mrs. Spear had said, everything
was in great confusion. There were
several boxes and half a dozen trunks,
all full to overfowing of garments of
every sort, and in one corner, on a large
table, wa a heap of brackets, busts and
other ornaments, covered only with Q
sheet.
Resale, catching sight of a black,
beaded dolman, which she had often
seen Louise Spear e to church, was
seized with a desire to examine it
infinitely, and though her conscience
tod her she was doing wrong, she finally
climbed through the window and en-
tered the room.
How true it was that one wrong step
leads to another! After examining the
dolman, Rosalie looked at other things,
and ended by taking everything out Of
she came across a piece of embroidered
white linen, a strip about three yards in
length. which seemed to her the hand
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-07

1t seems that st. Louis has n
Mexican Consul, two Mexican ex-
changes, three Mexican papers and no
Mexican trade. There is a disparity
somewhere in this arrangement.-S:.
Louis Post Dispatch.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-07

Mrs. Langtry has bought the man
zion at 12O West Thirteenth street, New
York, and will make her permanent
residence there subject to occasional
trips to L0ndon.-H 7. Herald.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26
Put a Brand on Him.

Women "a necessary evil, he said, bringing
dcwD his t-t hard on the counter 10 emphasize the
hcartlcss remark 1t wa, in the village store at
W.>t Milton, Saratoga county, and the speaker was
the central figure OF group OF bucolic phOsO-
piers He homely. slovenly and sixty.
There's whcr- / differ from you altogether"
sad Mr. George +, Graham, OF the same place.
Women are mostly what men make 'em. When
husbands Drutes wives will fall into submission
or make home hot for the men; and they're unnat
urs in either character. Love them, and especially
be good To tn hen they're sick, and you'll have
no trouble There's my wife, now. Shes
suffered Il good deal with dyspepsia nervous pros
tr.t iou aud other ailments that took the bloom of
le' checks and the spring out of her steps. Well,
she saw al advertisement of PARKER's Tonic, and
thnught il would be just the thing for her case.
Gtutlcmen, ! sent five miles after bottle. She
took il. sent again after more. 30 several times.
Tr"ubIe! Why, if you could see how much good
il has done her you would say that women are the
greatest of Gods blessings and PARKER's TONIC Is
the text"
lhis preparation, which has been known as PAR
KEs GINGER Tonic, will hereafter be called simply
PARKEks ToSIC. This change has been rendered
necessary 10y substitutes imposed upon their Gus
toners by unprincipled dealers under the name Of
ginger: and ginger is really an unimportant fla
worn ingredient, we drop the misleading word.
There is change. however, In the preparation
itself and all bottles remaining in the hands Of deal
crs wrapped under the name of "PARKER's GIN
GER ToNIC," contain the genuine medicine II the
fac-simile signature of HIsCOx & Co. is at the bot
tom Of the outside wrapper. Feb. 26lm
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26
TRASHY BOOKS.

II suppose young ladies' are your prin-
cipal customers in the matter Of trashy
books - was asked of a city bookseller.
g Not bit Of it. The mammas are as
fond OF light reading as their romantic
daughters. | guess if you'd come in here
some day and see the books they buy,
you'd believe me- 1t would astonish you
if ] should tell you the names of some of
our regular customers. The idea that
cheap literature is read mostly by shop
girls, apprentice boys and the poorer
classes is all wrong. There are women of
culture and refinement who buy these
books women who have abundant wealth
and nothing to do but to recline upon
their richly upholstered sofas and read.
No, they are not shop girls and chamber
maids, but fashionable women who ride
up in their carriage and take away loads
OF common trashy novels with them. A
young lady comes here regularly every
week and buys lot of these books. She
is an American, and appears to be thor
oughly educated and refined, yet she
reads an almost endless amount of this
trash. We have about two hundred regu-
lar lady customers. You couldn't get
one of them to read book written by
George Eliot, or by any OF the standard
authors. Oh, no! But they read these
novels, and we sell-in week, you say
well, in week guess we sell from six
to eight hundred volumes"
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26

We call our readers attention to the value.
sSeiuine~s and direct profit of supplying them
selves this year with the american AgrieulsurSsf
iAe cheapest well as the most valuable journal
IA the country. Every number contains one
Hundred columns of original reading matter, BY
tae lending writers of the country, upon all top
Eifs coanected with the Farm, Garden, and House
lhola, and neuly one hundred engravings made
f'peeilsy for the american AgricHhwr,st The pa
lper nrw in its Add year, is unquestionaby more
5vaiI'able Than ever before. Each number brings
ttresh eSilence that time or money is consid-
pred where the interest Of the paper is al stake
;t's Hcuse Plans and Improvements. profusely il
EustsAted, are worth more than any costly archi
3ectarnI work. Its persistent and fearless ex
eposun OF humbngs aud swindllug schemes, is OF
great yahe to the whole country, particularly
Che farming community. In short II is hand
eome thing, good and valuable for everybody.
Diving to special arrangement with the Pub.
ashers are enabled to offer the FIoRrprAx
And ME -americnn Agricuuurist for one wear. and
sbe Esgravings Foes or Friends ," aud La the
Mesdew for % 40 cents extra for packing and
A,OstsG,)
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26

'tuiing tie laie R0besOn Congress- Washing
ton was crowded with lobbyists The moral
effect Of n Democratic House is already plainly
10 1t seen at the Capitol The lobby has De
parSed from it in despair of carving any a: .h+
proposed jobs
The Whiskey Ring mustered in force at the
opening of The session. but il is now disheartened
and demoralized, from the conviction that there
is n" hope tor the TWO years extension OF ths
bohslcd term
Mr. Huntington appeared before The Commit
tee at Public Lands 10 claim the grant for the
Texas Pacitic which he had Condemned while
opposing The late Mr.. Scott, and 10 protes,
against The forfeiture of another grant in which
he is interested The committee answered Mr.
Huntington by bills forfeitins these land grants,
and these hills passed without opposition.
Tics" two cases of the whiskey jobs and the
land grant job satisfied the lobby that their oc-
cnpation was gone under Democratic House.
Ii the hackers of such powerful interests, with
the combinations they could make, and the large
sums OF money they could command, were un-
able I" make any impression, what hope OF sue
cess could less influential j,bbers entertain!
The present experience is only repetition of
that which followed the advent of Democratic
Heuae in the Forty-fourth Congress While
Garfield WAS Chairman of the Committee on Ap-
preparations. the lobby substantially directed
Legislation in favor of jobs. The chiefs occupied
the room Of the committee as their headquarters
until they were driven out by Mr.. Randall
During six years OF Democratic ascendency in
the House, the lobby eked ont miserable exist
ence and hardly put in an appearance at the
Capitol. When the Republicans succeeded in
getting Z majority in the last Congress, there
was resurrection ot the lobby, as if the grave
had given up its dead. Secor Robeson was At
The tIort, and his presence was the signal for =
relnrn If the plunderers Now it is sill changed
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26

what does your sister say about
me ?" asked a young man of the small
brother of the maiden he thought he
loved.
"Oh, lots !" sententiously exclaimed
the precocious boy.
"Well, TELL" said the youth, in coax
ing voice
"She says you've got lots of money!
"Well, what else -
81 don't like to tell
"Oh, come; tell me and will give you
some candy"
"Well, she says that if .he ever mar
ried you she'd loan you to farmer Corn
stalk for scarecrow.
els that all ?" he sarcastically in
quired.
ooh, no She said if it wasn't for
your ears the top part Of your head
would be an island, and that if your nose
was little longer you could stir your
coffee with it, and if"
But the young man had closed the
front door after him and scooted down
the street on dog trot.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26
TIRED MOTHERS.
BY MAY RILEY SMITH.

little elbow leans upon vour knee
-FOUR tired knee that has much to bear
A ehild's dear eyes are looking lovingly
from underneath thatch of tangled hair
Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch
Of warm, moist fingers folding yours so tight
] GU do not prize this blessing overmuch-
You almost are too tired to pray to night
But II is blessedness year ago
did not see il as do to day
we are so dull and thankless, and two slow
10 catch the sunshine till it slips away
And now II seems surprising strange to me,
That while wore the badge of motherhood,
l did not kiss more oft and tenderly
The little child that brought me only good
ana II, some night when you sit down to rest
You miss this elbow from your tired knee,
inns restless curling head from of your breast
ms lisplng tongue that chatters constantly
II from your own the dimpled hands had slipped,
And ne'er would nestle in your palm again
III the white feet into their grave had tripped,
could not blame you for your heartache then
L wonder so that mothers ever fret
Al little children clinging to their gown;
or that the footprints, when the days are wet,
are ever black enough to make them frown.
II could find little muddy boot,
Or caps, or jackets, on my chamber floor.
Ii could Kiss rosy, restless foot,
And hear it patter in my house once more:
If could mend broken cart to-day,
Tomorrow make kite to reach the sky
There is no woman in Gods world could say
She was more blissfully content than l.
But ah the dainty pillow next my own
Is never rumpled by a shining hea'
NV shining birding from its nest has flown,
The little boy used to kiss is dead
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26

-Precocious boy (munching the fruit
of the date tree): Mamma, if l eat
dates enough will grow up to be an
almanac ~
"A writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer
gives the following estimates as the prop
or proportion Of weight to height in wo-
men: "Five feet in height should weigh
100 pounds; FIVE feet one inch, lo6
pounds; five feet two inches, lls pounds; !;
five feet three inches, lla pounds; FIVE
feet four inches, 1870 pounds; five feet
feet FIVE inches, 1873 pounds; five feet six
inches, IA pounds; five feet seven inches,
$50 pounds; five feet eight inches, 1855
pounds; FIVE feet nine inches, 1913 pounds; !;
1--WE feet ten inches, 1877 pounds; FIVE feet
eleven inches, l7e pounds; six feet, lso
pounds"
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26
N. a. SaM HON'S LIVER NEDs4
CINE
WIN at IL said Oft.

II is indispensable IN this mslarious clinia,e.
We cant 10 without it. II saved us from mgch
sickness. REV. ]. C. Weaver of Texas.
Twenty years of suffering from indigestion
and diseased liver was relieved by package of
it."-Rev. NJ. II. Cullum, Grapevine, Texas.
Ii has done more To relieve and cure ma of
sick headache than all the other remedies cver
used. u. NJ. Lcod, OF North Carolina
at proved blessing to my family. cbser
fully testify TO its merits Its popularity here IL
unbouaded."-Rev. S. G. Shaw, Batesvi,le. AK.
These are but samples from among the msly
thousands of unsolicited testimonials received
during the past few years. Ask you druggist ror
the original NJ. A. SIMMONS LIVER MRDIcraE,
made at 81. Louis, Mo. Take no other B
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26
FOR SALE.
Florida Real Estate.

NrO.l--l3 ACRES. FIRST CLASS VEGETABLE
y and fruit farm. Ten acres LeConte Pear Trees,
21 to 300 Orange Trees, mostly budded, some fruit
tn past year, growing Nursery business. Will be
divided into 65< acre lots. Ten minutes from the
post office and railroad station, Tallahassee, Fla.
No 2.-Five or ten lots, near Orlando, Or
ange County, Florida. Enquire of
w. ii. HASKELL,
.D1-f Tnllahassec Fla
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26
BALL & LONG,
REAL ESTATE DEALERS AND AGENTS,
TAIJAu ASSEE ETORInA
FLORIDA.

eE Large and small tracts of improved and unim-
pi,,ved lands ia Leon and Wakua countes,-sHitable
pr staple farm crops, fruits, truck farming dsryng,
general stock raising, especially sheep, FOR SALE
a. low prices and on easy terms.
sH Some specially desirable locations on Lakes Jack
son Lafayette and Bradford in Leon county and on the
hi.h hammock shores OF the Wakulla and ST. Marks riv
er- in Wakulla county within few miles Of the Gull,
with abundance OF fish, oysters and game.
sE- Both State and Government lands selected and
entered for parties upon application.
80 Maps, pats and descriptions furnished
Ne complete Abstract Of Titles to every acre OF
a,d Leon county carefully compiled from County Re-
- eds and Probate Office.
Information of Middle Florida, Its lands. climate, soil
ductions and cheerfuy furnished and
sondencc solicited. March IA, lSS2-ly
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26
An ILLUSION AND A TRG,rH


A writer in the CongreyutionaiiM re-
lates an anecdote of mental delusion
that leaves in the mind strong impress
sion Of truth. lie says:
Among the passengers of crowded
steamboat there was man who, in con.
sequence Of excuses with convivial com
panions, was seized with that terrible
curse Of intemperance, delirium tremens
In the midst of his frightful visions, and
their expressions in cries for help, he sud
denly turned to bis attendants, and begged
piteously for Bible.
Immediately the inquiry was started for
a copy, and without success, till passen-
ger recollected that the neglected vol
ume was packed away in his trunk. 1t
was carried to the state-room of the fran
tic sufferer and eagerly seized by him.
Then, laying it on the bed above his
breast, with wild laugh. he exclaimed,
"There, devils you are beaten now !;
you can't get over that book"
A strange calm came over him as he
lay with his wild eye fixed ntently on
the Word of God. The scene was one
not to be forgotten that frenzied nebri
ate, gazing with smile OF triumph upon
that Bible, because in his imaginary con-
flct with tiends it lay between them and
him, an impossible barrier. To every
thoughtful mind there was impressive tes-
timony to the abiding power Of early re-
ligious instruction, and also the declara
tion Of great and vital principle
Had he kept the oracles Of God be-
tween bis tempted soul and the ancient
enemy Of mankind he would have escaped
the sin which his dsordered fancy 40 fear
fully portrayed.
The only security was expressed by
king who had only parchment fragment
of or Bible: "Thy word have I hid in
my heart that might not sin against
Thaa
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26

The spy Belle Boyd" whs, at the taara
break OF the rebellion, was Is years of age is sfte
maironly wife nf Colonel John Hammond. 1i
Texas, who dwells on a ranch near San Autofsio.
He was one OF Stonewall Jacksons scouts; s,
Virginia. She was, rs may be remembered
banished TO Europe She has four children ] T.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26

A COMFORTABLE TWO-STORY BUILDING,
"A furnished unfurnlshed, with hve rooms
In healthy locality, with garden, kitchen and fine
cist~rn. Apply
AT THIs OFFICE
November 3, lS83-tf
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-02-26

The last notes Of the overture had
ceased and the flutes and cornet began
sweet soft pastoral After the first few
notes the long expected cantatrice ap-
peared. Dressed in the white garb of an
Olympic shepherdess, with staff in hand,
she was picture of loveliness.
She began in q soft low tone, full of pain
and woe, song of lonely heart and a
deceived lover
Alfred, as he saw the cantatrice, shrank
back, and with look Of terror gazed on
his friend wbo-with one hand tightly
pressed against his heart and pale coun-
tenance-stared at the lovely form, of the
cantatrice. 1t was Miss b.
A nervous shiver also passed over the
frame of the cantatriee as she saw Alfred
and recognized him, and with this recog-
milton her own suffering returned. She
sang-her voice filled with tears-the
shepherdess song to close, and withdrew
amidst storm of applause.
AT the close of the act a servant
brought Alfred a note ;nvi.ipg him to
call on Mics B. on the morrow al her no
tel.
The next day found Alfred with Miss
Is. who cordially welcomed him as a
trend. At his manifested surprise at
hndlng her in her old profession she,
happy to have some one sympathize with
her, told him her tale of sorrow.
Baron ). was scamp who only took
her from her native town to abandon her
and leave her unprotected in strange
city.
But her art-and :his was her saliva
tlon-atforded her protection and after
:; trial before the director of the opera she
was enabled to make an engagement, and
after yesterdays brillian, success she re-
ceived most flattering offer from the di-
rector and would now fulfill an engage
gagement of some nonths.
Alfred, filled with JOY for Emil, again
offered the ardent love of his friend. She
listened, and the next day Emil knelt be-
fore his ideal pouring forth in eloquent
words his great love- The cantatrice,
touched by this strong and pure love
gave him her hand, and with tears prom
ised to give him this time the medicine
which he needed and which would effect a
real cure.
The opera director was compelled to
free the cantatrice from ber engagement,
being fully repaid for his loss, and on the
next day the little company set out for
home.
Alfred had never before believed that a
friend could become such superfluous
object as he was on that homeward Jour
nev.