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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Gustave Dore is the name Of a new
street in Paris.
The husband of Mdlle. Nordica has
made $1,000, 600 by Introducing tele-
phones into Paris.
"A German has computed that from
1902 until 1918 NapoleonI I, ''consumed'
$780, 900 men, or at the rate of half a
million a year.
Baron Nordenskjold is understood
to be contemplating as his next adven-
ture in exploration a voyage to the
south pole in 1885. This expedition
would cost at least 81, OO0, 900, as aship
of special type would have to be built
for its purpose.
"A Scotch dairyman was recently
convicted of selling milk which had
stood in the room in which Il child was
ill with scarlet fever. The milk alb
sorl ed the poison. and seventeen
persons We're infected with the disease,
four Of whom died.
The baroness R%othSchild has lust
purchased, for 100000 francs. a CHM
ney clock and candelabra which formed
part OF the furniture in the Palais Royal
before the Revolution. The Baron
ess intends to present the set to the
Princess Amelia of Orleans, in whose
family they formerly We're.
-Russia's determination to maintain
her hold upon Central Asia is illustrated
by the circumstance that her Foreign
Office has instituted a course of instruc-
ton in oriental language for military
officers Officers who pass it will have
IN co,,uo {1,.oo roo,.c, in %ho torritc,.1, -,
Central Asia.
The most successful Jockey during
the season recently'ended in England is
Fred Archer, whose winning mounts
number 232, this being three in excess
of his previous best record-229 in 1878.
He has thus accomplished the unprece-
denied feat of heading the list of Win
ming jockeys for ten successive years.
john Bright makes notes and head
ings of his speeches, and with great
care writes down and commits to men,
DRY all the important passages. Glad.
stone merely jots down facts and fig
ures, and for expression trusts entirely
to the moment. The late Lord Derby,
the "Rupert of debate" wrote down
every word and committed his speeches
w AlSllloi. Ill oIC VI LIS 1CUlClS liz
says that all his principal speeches cost
him two sleepless nights-one in think
ing what he would say and the other in
lamenting that he might have said it
better. Theirs was equally precise.
O'Connell and Gambetta spoke always
on the inspiration of the moment.
Everything commercial seems to be
abundant Just now. including dla-
monds. The post-oifice at kimberley,
South Africa, forwarded to Europe, in
1881, diamonds worth $50, ss1, o10, and
last year diamonds worth $40, 622, $40.
During the past eleven years it has for
warded diamonds worth 1881, 900, 900.
But from September, 1882, to May,
1888, owing to a break in the mine, the
registered value of the diamonds found
was only 91,s92, IT'S. Accordingly, the
diamond-dealers, like the farmers, hope
for a rise. Nearly all the diamonds
now found in West Griqualand are Off
cially registered, and the annual sup
ply is as well known as is hat of wheat
and corn.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01

O. nights-but she resolved to stand or
sit guard until he came. She heard
him come in at last. and she let up on
the greenbacks and ran to his room.
The old man rescued the money, COM
mended Sophy, and delivered some ro-
bust adiectives to the careless clerk.
The General was not only a charac-
ter. but he possessed some better quail
tications for the office than have ever
been identified in his predecessors.
If he had remained there would have
been realized an average advantage
One of his pe~culiarities was his candor
and his healthy and forcible way of
saying what he thought. Years ago
there was Il lady clerk among his count
ers who had been appointed by the favor
of Stanton, and who, not being quite
strong, was often restless and uncom-
Portable. Work and dependence were
in severe contrast with her former sta
ton, and she chafed under the restraints
of Government servitude. One summer
she had obtained her months vacation,
and at the end of it she wrote me from
her summer resort, asking me to plead
with the General foran additional thirty
days. [ went at once to see him. and,
being a scft-hearted fellow, 1 began
speaking of her worthiness as a lady
and her faithfulness and efficiency as a
clerk.
Directly the General broke out and
made the fairly blue with pro-
family. 1t is a wonder the old man was
never fined for swearing, because it is
not only a habit to be condemned, but
it is in violation of the law. Almost
every day one Judge Smell compels a
money compensation from people who
swear, and on one occasion he sent a
woman sup for thirty days-not being
able to pay down the cash price-for
swearing at her husband for not bring
ing in the 'kindling wood" which was
sever on the old woman under the cir
cumstances, and a deprivation to the
family circle. Ii the General had been
liable to the law the entire resources of
the Treasury Department would not
have kept him ont of Jail.
AS said, he began to objurgate, as
the Sunday papers put it. Said he: II
have no doubt she is a fine woman, good
pedigree, and all that; but you can't tell
me anything about her being a good
Clclh. L kuOW liOle dDOuG tAdt luull
you do, and l know she gives us a con-
demned sight of trouble" For polite
ness 1 substitute the dictionary detini-
ton.
Her chances for an additional thirty
days took the hue of the fathers anathe-
mas, and not knowing what else to say,
| remarked that she had seen trouble,
and was not very strong.
"She can have the additional leave"
he said, mildly.
''And you won't turn her out?"
"Turn her out!" he roared. "Who
in what's its name said anything about
turning her out? If l turned out all
the women who + troublesome ]
wouldn't have any left"
She remained there until after tbs
General retired. but about four years
ago she laid down her weary life.--
Utica (N. " Observer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01
Our Young Readers.
THE BOYS AND THE GIRLS.

There is such a crowd Of you, boys and girls,
You are %thronging in every place;
IF we did not conquer you now and then
You would fill up I'LL the space.
Yon take the world as if it were your own
You merrily laugh and sing,
A il there were not a fanlng tlmc,
And life could be always spring.
We send you out of the way sometimes.
In the midst of your mirth and noise,
For old heads ache, and old hearts fail,
And can not share your joys.
But the world belongs to YOU, after all,
And others aside must stand,
That YOU may be able to do and dare,
And be masters in the lana.
Won are so busy at school and play
: That Won have no thought to spare
For the problems that puzzle the grown-up
folks,
But YOU are the people,. my happy ones;
And all that we do to-day
Will be more to You than it is to us,
For YOU will the longest stay.
We are quick to give to you praise and blame;
What will you give us, wileii
You weigh. as Judges, our words and decds
In the time when you are the mon!
What will you think of the laws we make
When you read the records through?
And the manners and customs OF church n
home,
And the cities we build for you?
Bows, be gencrous; girls. be fair!
We are trying to do our best.
We are beginning some good brave WORK
Ills for you to do the rest.
Through misty moorland and fog-illed street,
We are seeking for greater light: =,
But for you there is breaking above inc Worlo
A day that is passing bright.
Toilers are we, who are well content
To work for the Nations need,
We have been delving the gold to find
We have been sowing seed.
Good times to live in we leave to you,
And rights that were hard TO win;
Be worthy of the better times,
And gather our harvests in.
-Adriannc birmingham. M London Christian
TO,jI
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01
The Interior Of Japan

The interior of Japan is still under
the letters of Oriental heathenism. All
manner of putrefying vegetables and
animals lined the sides of the streets
Sidewalks are rare), and the smell
which was waited therefrom was most
abominable. 1t required all the cour-
age we could muster to keep us from
utter detection. 1t is the abominable
smells which proceed from Japanese
food that prejudice persons with civil
lied appetites against eating even the
few things which might otherwise be
relished. Most travellers into the in
terror provide themselves with timed
meats, bread, condensed milk, butter
and such articles. We omitted even this
%precaution in the first flush of s~elf-con-
fdence, as well as in view of the extern
sive addition which such provisioning
would make to our luggage.
Oh, the poor children that are grow
ing up in the interior Of Japan, the
poor, blind eyes that look up out of sal
low faces and mutely plead for the full
dawning of the day! These sightless
orbs and the various diseases which so
often in the past have swept over this
island with terrible mortality are the re-
suit of the Indifference which the ma
tives manifest toward the commonest
sanitary precautions. Were the coun-
try opened up I think foreign abhor-
nce of these evils would bring about a
reform. Even now l can hear the
p~laintive whistles Of the blind without,
as they move about on their nightly pill
grimages among the sick. Japanese
men and women who lose their eye
sight take to the profession of healer,
and 60 about at night laying hands on
the rheumatic. It is at night that the
victims of rheumatism suffer most, and
so the blind choose that time for solicit
ing the employment of their services.
The whistle serves at once to warn pc
destrians and vehicles of their approach
and to notify the sufferers that help is
nigh.
l have heard that many foreigners
travelling in the interior have become
intoxicated and created an unfavorable
impression. l al understand now why
it is so. The water supply Of the coun-
try is Very limited, and that which is
obtainable is a prolific source of disease.
God made the water pure, but the ma
tives have poisoned it. Many of the
European citizens of Yokohama send
out into the neighboring kens and buy
their supplies. This poisoned water
brings about various d seases, but it's
principal mischief is wrought t o the hui
man eye. Two Years ago the Govern
ment promulgated a closing order, in
view of prevailing pe%stilcnces, and all
the wells were padlocked.-Cor. Rh;la-
0clrhiu Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01

The other day we recorded the fact
that Mr.. NJ. F. Wallace came from Cal
ifornia to Hillsboro, o.. to marry Miss
Marry Barrett, to whom he said, after
the wedding guests had assembled, that
he feared he would not be able to sup
port her as she had been used to living,
and she retorted that she could take
care Of herself, and if he didn't want to
marry her he could 60. and ne went
The guests congratulated her for he1
heroism, eat up the wedding feast, and
went home. The next day MIR. Wallace
came around, Mary torgave him, and
they were married Wednesday, Detroit
Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01

1t IS q very rare occurrence that the
nomber OF years of 81 persons life will
exeed the number of pounds he weighs,
but such q case is in ox;stsrc,
ia Lawrence County, South Caro-
ma MIS-: Sallie Culbertson, who lives
IA me northern part of that county, is
elShty-l've years old, and weighs onlv
seventy pounds Chicago Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01

"A Newport (Ky.) horse ran a mile
with a wagon containing nine children,
but not one OF them was spilled out
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01

"A new religious sect, recentlv
iorn'ea IN England, worships Mother
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01

Time has went on q few more.
Billy has been married three years.
He is meditating. Hear him:
II W was beat so bad in my life
in a trade. But Jim Shucks nor no
other man'll ever cheat me that way
again. Carl RretzeA's WcekIq.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-10
Asparagus.

This is one of the earliest vegetables,
and in the early spring is just what the
human system needs, being diuretic,
slightly laxative, and producing healthy
action. Many people do not raise it, or
would not eat it if they did. But they
can not claim that they are too old
fashioned TO take up with any such new
articles of diet. 1t is among the oldest
of vegetable diets. Cato, who wrote two
centuries before the Christian era, and
Callumellus one century afterward,
speak of it as a valuable esculent for the
table. And history records the fact
that Augustus Caesar was particularly
his subjects TO cultivate it more extern
sively. 1t is one of the earliest raised
and most certain crops. To SOW the
seed requires considerable time before a
crop can be cut, as it should not be cut
until the third year. Those who are in
a hurry should buy plants two years old,
prepare the ground by deep spading or
blowing, pulverze fine and fertilize
freely with well rotted manure. 1t
used to be the practice to dig down and
lay a stone or brick foundation. to keep
the top roots from running down into
unproductive soil. But this has been
abandoned. Pulverize freely fifteen or
eighteen inches deep, mixing richly
with manure. When making perma-
nent bed use one or two year old roots,
and plant four inches deep fifteen inches
apart each way. Then keep clean of
weeds. Salt has been recommended as
good fertilizer for asparagus. but this
is partially II mistaken idea. And yet
it is very useful to sow salt freely on the
bed, as it etlectually keeps down the
weeds, and, as asparagus is maratime
plant, the salt does not injure it. In
the fall clean off the old stalks and
cover three or four inches deep with
barnyard manure. Next spring rake off
the coarse part of the manure and fork
the balance in.
Asparagus should not be cut until the
third year. Cutting dwarfs the roots.
The third year, when it becomes strong
and thrifty, cut it often and regular,
through April, May and June. Then
leave it to send up and ripen shoots,
thus adding strength to the roots. A
bed prepared in this way and well taken
care of, will last ten or fifteen years.
But it must not be so located that the
water will stand on it during winter or
rainy seasons.
There are some things, where there is
a family of children, which ought to be
always raised and eaten by every one
of the family. Ii they do not like them,
they should be required, by gentle but
| firm government, to eat, as medicine.
| Asparagus and tomatoes should be
eaten regularly in their season. to save
| doctor bills, insure better health and
frequently save lives from being sacri-
feed to bilious and malarial diseases
And there is no excuse for any family
not having asparagus. 1t is safe and
certain crop--IoWa State Register.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-10
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

-Oxalic acid will almost always re-
move stains left by mud which cannot
be removed with soap and water
Albany Journal.
-Sponges which ara to be used in
the bathroom may be softened by boil
ing for few minutes in three waters.
After each time of boiling rinse it in
cold water. and put on the stove again
in a pan of cold water.
When you have spilled anything on
the stove, or milk has boiled over, and
a suifocating smoke escapes, filling the
room and your breathing tubes,
sprinkle the spot with a quantity of
salt. and it will cease almost immedi-
ately. THE Household.
In cleaning up about the farm do
not forget the manure pile; that is, save
all the refuse you can that will help
swell the manure pile. Sift out the
trash, but do not burn what will rot.
There is too much waste of this kind on
every farm Rural Ncto Yorker.
"A subscriber says his hens will not
touch boiled potatoes. Neither will
anybody's, to any great extent, unless
the potatoes are well mashed and mixed
ture should be sailed little, and some
pepper added does no harm.-Prdirie
Farmer.
Farms should be so laid out as to
dispense as far as possible with fences.
They are expensive to build, and costly
to keep in repair. They take up room,
and shelter weeds and briers. The
fewer there are of them, the better from
| every point of view. But whatever
fences there are it pays to keep in good
repair. England Farmer.
"A New York butter dealer saws in
reference to butterine: Counterfeit
butter may look nice and smell sweet
when first opened, but after it is ex.
posed to the air for a while slightly
unpleasant smell can always be detect
| ed If little of it is rubbed between
| the fingers it will turn white, while the
genuine butter will not change color"
N. Y. Herald.
Honey Cookies: These cakes are
very delicious if rightly made. but they
require considerable care. The foui
must be spread in pan and set in {
warm place to dry, before mixing. TC
one quart of honey, add half pound o
butter, half pound of white sugar
four pounds of -four, one tea-spoonful o
ginger and two tea-spoonfuls of salera
tus. Leave out flour enough to rol
them out with.--Erchange.
AT a recent meeting of the Elmir;
On. " Farmers Club the subject o
loading wagons was discussed. and tn,
conclusion reached that the heavier par
of the load should be place over tn,
rear axel, thus making the load draw
easier, and in a measure counteractn.
the tendency of the tongue to Jerk ant
pound the horses. A heavy load on
wagon coupled long is drawn NOR
easily than 1t could be on a wagol
coupled short.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-10
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Eight thousand Cinnamon are en-
ployed in California as house-servants.
We have S91 Consulates, and the
fees they gather more than pay their
expenses. Last year the surplus was
overs 40, Washington Star
The five States of Delaware. Colo
RADIO, Florida, Nevada and Oregon COM
bined have not so great population by
+ about 100000 souls as the City of New
York. NJ y. san.
The population of Mexico, includ
ing natives, Indians, Spaniards and
those of mixed blood. numbers about
10000, 900. The area of the country is
nearly S00,0 square miles.
South Carolina has ,56S -four, grist
and rice mills, employing 1879 whites
and blacks, employing a capital of
81, 100, 100, and turning out annually
So, 2S8, 600 worth OF flour, feed, etc.
The Government viii gain about
$6,500,00O by the destruction of frac-
tional currency issued during the sus-
pension of specie payments. 1t comes
in very slowly now for redemption, not
$1,000 n month, and there are over
$1,000, 600 still out, most of which will
stay out.-M y. HerdLd.
The following is the official record
of the fastest five passages across the
Atlantic: Alaska, New York to Queens
town, 6 days and Is hours; Alaska.
Queenstown to New York, days and
81 hours; Oregon, New York to Queens
town, 6 days and % hours Oregon,
Queenstown to New York, days and
hours; Oregon, Queenstown to New
q Ioy I n nd N
N. Y. Tribune.
"A. H. Swan, of Cheyenne, w. T.,
controls more stock than any other in
dividual on the continent. His present
possessions are valued at between 81,
O00,0J0 and 23,000,000, while the
amount of stock of which he has the
exclusive control and management is
over 200, 900 head, and valued at over
S6,0OO.0O0 He was the organizer, and
is President and General Manager of no
less than five different stock organiza-
tons in Wyoming. He is a native OF
Green County, Pa, which place he left
for the West in 1858. when twenty-five
years of age, with $1,000 in his pocket.
Chicago Herald.
The Rurat World says: "Of green
wood one-third to one-half or more oi
its weight is water, partly depending
upon the time of cutting. All kinds OF
wood cut in January in the Northern
and Western States contain from tifteer
to twenty-five per cent. less water thar
they do in spring, Experiments have
shown that 100 pounds of ash wood GU
in January contained 20 pounds o
water, while the same amount cut il
April contained 80 pounds of water; 10C
pounds OF sycamore cut in January con
tanned 33 pounds of water, and 40 cut il
April. White pine cut in January con
tained 50 pounds; cut in April. g
pounds of water"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-10

IT makes every humanitarian sad to ses
invalids seek such relief as is given them
by the use of bitters, kidney medicines,
and other nos.rum.. The first few doses
may make them feel b,tter on account Of
its Supplying ingredients, combined with
some strong cathartic and diuretic that are
used in its composition, but they eventual
" grow worse. The only cure for weak
ness, nervousness, debility, aches, pains,
rheumatism, sores, urinary and digestive
troubles, is to make the blood rich, red and
pure, by using Dr. Guysott's Yellow Dock
and Sarsaparilla, a remedy widely in
dorsed by physicians who have examined
into its composition and effect.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-10
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A man of great deal of character
can not hide it. He will betray i. even
when he sneezes.
Madness can be prevented in dogs
by incubation. Chopping off the ami
mails head is another excellent remedy.
~. Y. Graphic.
-"Do you believe in fate, Bridget"
asked the upstairs girl of the cook.
"Shure an if Oh didn't, dyer s'pose
Old be after buyin' shoes?"
Don't forget, my snobbsh friend,
that you have got to die JUS the same
as the rest of us, and you can not bury
yourself, either. - Chicago Journal.
-" 1t is wise man who knows his
own business" says the Waterloo o.
Scrrer. Yes, and it is wiser man
who devOtes his whole time to attend
ing to it.--N T. Graphic.
Nature, in all her creations, is
governed by the laws of compensation.
What is lacking in one quarter is
amply provided for in another. The
man with the softest brain generally
has the hardest cheek.
When young lady encourages a
fellow for two or three years, and then
suddenly turns around and tells him
she can never be more than sister to
him, he can for the first time see
freckles on her nose Chicago Tribune.
A Philadelphia has completed a
book OF Welsh hymns, with music.
The hymn commencing 80 dewch i'r
dyfroedd, dyma'r dydd o Dewch VI
Argiwydd sydd yd galw," is full OF
beautiful imagery and hard words, and
nearly exhausted font of IDS" in its
composition. - OrriStCWn Herald.
- Yes, indeed" said Amy to the
High School girl, while discussing a
little occurrence, "there is niggcr in
the wood-pile, sure" Mildred looked
shocked for moment at the expression,
and, then, quietly replied; II think
myself, there is an Ethiopian concealed
among the fuel. gu CITY Derrick.
The world is the great tempter, but
at the same time it is the great monitor.
1t stimulates our pride by its pomp and
show, its lleetng honOrs and prizes; il
goads men to the race, and inspires
them with covetousness and rapacity
but. on the other hand, it is the grear
lnemento and evidence of its own vanity
and of the emptiness of everything il
offers to us. 1t is the great saddener
the great warner, the great prophet
~ \. Ledger.
"A merchant in Berlin, having faller
in love with an opera singer, purchased
two dresses and sent them to her tc
make her choice, saying he would cal
TO know her decision. Shortly, how
ever, before the hour he had intended
TO set out on his errand, the merchant
received from his beloved billet doal
to the following effect "Of the dresse:
you have sent like one quite as we'll Il.
the other. l will, in fact, keep both, Sc
that you have no need to call"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-10

SPARTANBURG, S. c., March -, 1884.
Your most valuable medicine (SwlFT's
SPECIFIC) has done me so much good that
feel like saying this for the benefit of
those who suffer like did. Twas poisoned
by POISON OAK, and saw not we'll day for
six years, until / used SwIFT's SPECIFIC.
In the six years used almost every kind
of medicine, but none had the desired effect.
After using six bottles of SwIFT's SPECIFIC
i am restored to perfect health-,oih not q
sign Of that d,cfM poison left!
Yours Truly, DAVID NESBITT.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. The SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.