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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08
The Causes Of Deterierated Eye.Sight.

The causes to which this deterioration
Of eye-sight has been attributed are al.
legged to be cross-lights from opposite
windows, light shining directly on the
face, insufficient light, small types, and
to the position of the desk, forcing the
scholer to bend over and bring the eyes
too close to the book or w~riting-paper,
etc.
But, were all these defects remedied,
the integrity of the eye would not be re.
stored nor it's deterioration prevented.
The chief causes of the evil would still
remain. These are the colors of the pa.
per and lux. White paper and black
ink are running the eye-sight of all
reading nations. The s'rays of the
sum-" says Lord Bacon, "are reflected
by a white body, and are absorbed by a
black one" No one dissents from this
opinion; but, despite these indications
Of nature and of philosophy, we print
our books and write our letters in direct
opposition to the suggestions of optica'
science.
When we read a book printed in the
existing mode, we do not see the letters
which, being black, are non-reilective.
II oiltlpCo 1CuSA CuO 1Cl1lltt, buU tucy
are not received by a spontaneous,
direct action of that organ. The white
surface Of the paper is reflected, but the
letters are detected only by a discrimin.
alive effort OF the optic nerves. This
effort annoys the nerves, and when long
continued, exhausts their susceptibility.
The human eye car not long sustain
the broad glare of a white surface with.
out injury. The author of "Spanish
Vistas," in HarYer's Magazine, says OF
Cartagena that ''blind people seem ia
be numerous there, q fact which may
be owing to the excessive dazzle Of the
sunlight and the absence of verdure."
MIR. Seward, in his tour around the
world, observed that ''in Egypt ophthal-
mia is UNIVERSAL a%ttributing it to the
same Excessive dazzle of the wide
areas OF white sand; and the British
soldiers, in the late campaign in that
country, exhibited symptoms of the
same disease. In the Smithsonian Re.
port for 1877 it is stated, in a paper on
''Color-B Blindness" that an. Chevreul
has produced 1920 distinguishable
tints of elementary colors, from which
the paper-manufacturers could select
colors more agreeable to the eye than
the dazzling white, 50 weakening and
decorating to the nerves of that delicate
Grgan."0Samuel lorde III Lee, in
Populur Science Monthly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08
Beware of the Burberry.

Ilet pass Us true all that has been
claimed for the barberry as a hedge
plant. But, as biologists have long
shown, this mischievous shrub has one
disadvantage which would ~counterbal-
ance its alleged merits though they were
increased a hundredfold. BY the time
its leaves are well formed there begin
to appear upon them swellings and
whitish blotches about the size Of Il pin
head, which soon develop into minute
cups full of a bright yellow powder.
This stage of the pest is known as the
cluster-cup or ncidium stage, and this
yellow powder consists OF an almost in
finite number of minute cells, the spores.
These spores, light as dust, are waited
by the wind to the wheat, oats and
sometimes other grasses, lodging upon
which they terminate and 500 produce
the elongated lines of re~ddish-orange
spores too familiar to farmers as the
"red rust'-puccinia gr0mimis.
Though but q few spores from the
barberry reach the wheat field, the ''red
rust developed from them spreads with
enormous rapidity by means of the dis
persion and growth OF the orange-col-
ored spores, multiplying SO rapidly that
the wheat plants always have their vi
tallty greatly impaired, and are fire.
quently destroyed before reaching ma
turity. In the late summer, the stubble
OF a field which has been attacked by
rust will be found to have many
elongated lines of black spores upon it.
These two-celled spores remain on the
stubble unframed by the winters snow
and ice, terminate early in spring,
sending out from each cell q branched
flament, each branch of which ends in
a minute enlargement Called a sporid-
ium); These sporidia. excessively
small and light, are easily broken off
and transported by the wind in any
direction. When they lodge upon the
proper plant, which in this case Is the
barbcrry, they produce again the stage
with which the cycle started, the cluster
cup.
The moral is obvious. The man who
ornaments his yard with barberry
bushes, or hedges his fields with them,
IS providing II of the two needful
plants for the propagation of crust"
and he need not be astonished if, during
suitable summer, his promising field
OF wheat or oats is almost ruined. But
ne is not only laying up rust for himself
against the day of harvest, but he forces
The same destruction upon his helpless
nelghbors for miles around. We can
not control the wind norcan we prevent
the Darberry spores from terminating
ON the wheat, but we can cease Cor not
GIN furnishing an appropriate host
1or the rust fungus. To be sure, wheat
rust Is propagated from year 10 year by
spores which may adhere to the grains,
1nt there is an easy preventive for such
ulSsemlnatlon by soaking the grain in a
solution OF blue vitriol. 1t is certainly
TO be hoped that no one will be 50 fool
!sh Tor himself and so inconsideratc of
ms n%eighbors as to plant barberry
heages.-C. Il. Barnes, Purdue Unteef.
sity.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08
Tho Record of the Fairs.

The superiority of Wells, Richardson &
Co.'s Improved Butter Color over all 9TH
ers made, is again demonstrated by it's rec.
ord at the Autulnnal Fairs. The test OF
practical use is what tells the story, and
the gr~eatvalue ofthe premiums givenby the
Agricultural Fairs, lies i'll the fact, that the
Judges in these cases are regular farmers,
who know what their needs are and what
will supply them. Wells, Richardson g.
Co.'S Improved Butter Color, which has
hibited, is put up in a vegetable oil so pre-
pared that it can not become rancid, a most
important property, the lack of which is
fatal to so many Of the Butter Colors Of
fered for sale. It does not color the butter
milk; it imparts a bright natural color,
which is unattained by many others; and
being the strongest is the cheapest Color
in the market.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

Give the fowls coal ashes or sand
60 dust in if the ground is frozen. II
lot, spade it up occasionally.-M. Y
Herald.
House plants need fresh air as often
as it can be given them during the win
ter. The windows may be opened on
pleasant days, but the air should not
he permitted to strike the plants
directly unless the day is very warm
Tile Household.
-Parsnips, satisfy and horse radish
are not injured by hard freezing. All
others must be stored for the winter,
and a sufficient supply of the hardy
kinds should. also be taken up. Ii the
cellar is not too war a supply for
present use may he kept in boxes or
barrels and covered with earth to pre-
vent shrivelling.-American Agricuitur-
iSt.
"A Michigan farmer who had long
been troubled by a cathode swamp on
his land, which he could not easily
drain. relieved the excess of moisture by
sinkinga shaft down to q gravel bed,
into which the surface water soaks
away. There are probably many
swamrs which this plan of drainage
would help.-M. Y. Examiner.
"A shoe-bag is a very handy article
for a bedroom. A tasteful one can be
made of some pretty chintz. Cut q
niece a half yard wide and two-thirds of
award long, bind it with scarlet braid,
and put on a smaller piece for the
rockets, stitching it in three divisions,
the smallest in the center for slippers.
The most convenient place for this ar,i-
Gle is to nail it on the inside of the
closet door.-Detroit Post.
The value of an apiary depends on
the strength of the colonies, and not the
number Of them. This is so we'll un-
dcrstood by practical apiarists that they
count only on those colonies which can
be made good and strong by honey har-
vest, and when not sufficiently so at
that time are doubled up two or three
IN one. From the surplus honey comes
the profit, and colonies that will not
produce a surplus are dead capital
Chicago Journal.
Pudding made Of cracked wheat is
very agreeable and nourishing: To one
quart OF sweet milk allow nearly half a
cupful of cracked wheat; put it in a
pudding dish and bake slowly for two
hours, stirring it several times, If you
choose to do so you can add raisins and
a little cinnamon for t1avoring, but most
people prefer it we'll sailed, and to eat
it with q little cream and sugar. This
is nice both warm and cold.-N. Y.
Post.
A colts feet are sound and well
formed before he is shod, and the ills of
the horses feet are occasioncd by shoe
ing and cured by running barefoot.
Most ailments, such as SPAWN, ring
bone, etc., can be traced to bad shoe
ing. A barefoot horse will travel freer,
keeping his footing better and show less
fatigue from a journey or a hard days
work than if shod. The kick of an un-
shod horse is not as dangerous as when
shod, and stumbling rarely occurs-cut-
ting, interfering, overreaching and forg-
ing never.-M. Y. Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08
Walnut Leaf Hair Restorer

Is entirely different from all others. It Is
% clear as water, and as it's name indicates
is a perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. 1t
will Immediately free the head from Ian
druf, restore gray hair to its natural color,
and produce a new growth where it has
fallen off. 1t does not in II manner at.
feet the health, which Sulphur, Sugar Of
have done. 1t will change light or faded
hair in a few days to a beautiful glossy
brown. Ask your druggist for it. Each bot.
tie is warranted. JOHN A. KING & Co.,
Wholesale Agents, Chicago, ILL, and G. N.
CRITTENToN, New York.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08
Solid Comfort.

Every one likes to take solid comfort and
It may be enjoyed by every one who keeps
Kidney-Wort in the house and takes a few
doses at the first symptoms of an attack of
Malaria, Rheumatism, Biliousness, Jaun-
dice or any affection Of the Liver, Kidneys
or Bowels. 1t is a purely vegetable COM
pound Of roots, leaves and berries known
to have special value in kidney troubles.
Added to these are remedies acting direct.
ly On the Liver and Bowels. 1t removes
the cause of disease and fortifies the sys-
TEN against new attacks.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

KEY. DIR. Joshua Morsell, while
conducting the service sin Grace Church,
S.ty Island, Westchester County, N.
H. the other Sunday, motioned for a
window to be opened and sank down in
me pulpit as if in a faint. He was
,o"nd however, to have died from
oeart dlsease.-N Y. Times,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08
Ont n, Arizona

Hon. A. W. Sheldon, Associate Justice,
Supreme Bench of Arizona Territory,
writes as follows: cit affords me great
pleasure to say, from my personal obser.
walton, and you know the scope of such has
been very extended, that st. Jacobs Oil is
the great and wonderful conqueror of pain,
the sovereign cure for all bodily aches and
pains, and I cheerfully bear this testi-
mony.O
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

GA GoD-sEND is Ely's Cream Balm,"
N. H., on May %, 1882. 81 had Catarrh
for three years! had tried nearly all reme-
dies but to no purpose. Two or three times
a week my nose would bleed quite freely
and l thought the sores in it would never
heal. Your Balm has cured me-" This
preparation is not a liquid or a snuff, and
is easily applied. Price 80 cents.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

jack Click, an old Texan, has Just
revisited Paris, Tex. after an absence
of twenty-three years. He belongs now
VI Bandcrs County, and says he never
saw u railroad car in all his long lifu
of seyenty-six years.-Ie1as Siftin0s.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

HAVE been entirely cured of a terrible
Swift's Specific IS. S. 81 after trying ev-
ervthing known to tho medical people
without relief. JNo. S. TAGGART,
Salamanca N. v.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

The rabbit is now the fashionable pet.
Its long ears are very appropriate to go
with those of the people who keep such
things about the house.-Lo1ocW Citizen.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

To II ladies: Marriage is ever a mister.
y; but anything is better than perpetual
miss-ery.-Chic00o Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRocHEs for Coughs
and Colds: ''There is nothing to be COM
pared with ~them."-I1er. O. D. Watkins,
Walton, Ind. Sold only in boxes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

Sw1FT's SPECIFIC IS. s. s. has cured me
entirely of bad Blood Poison. l went one
hundred miles to get 1t, and it made me as
sound as a new dollar.
j. w. WEYLEs, Meadville, Pa.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

A describing a wedding said
" it was all over in n very few minutes"
Gracious! Sounds like a hanging.-Prog-
TeSS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

A MAN who had seven buckshot taken
from his head remarked that quite o load
was taken off his mind.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar
Stop the most violent explosions of coughing.
Pixies Toothuchc drops cure in one minute. )
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

A woMAN's heart, like the moon, is al.
ways changing, but there is always a man
in it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

WHY is love like a potato? Because it
shoots from the ewes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

No SMOKING allowed in this room, said a
waiting passenger to the stove.-PhilddeI-
phia Cali.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

The father of twins may not wish to
have any moro children, but he's got two.
boston Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

FREcKLEs are not so bad. 1t is said that
n girl does not object to seeing them on
another girls face.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

beautiful colors of the Diamond Dyes, for
Silk, Wool, Cotton, &C., 1Oc. each. A
child can use with perfect success. Get at
once at your druggists. Wells, Richard.
son & Co., Burlington, vt.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

FROM Magnolia, Ark, Mr.. r.. J. Gunnels,
writes: samaritan NcrUins cured my sons
ftS.'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

AN eminent physician first prescribed
Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

STANLEY has discovered a river in Gem
trail Africa called Kissmelonga 1t can not
be very far from Lake Nyum-nyum.-De-
troit Post.
GARDENERS, Farmers and Dealers send
stamp for Ruhlmann's Great Wheel-Hoe
Circulars. Ruhlmann, Lockport, N. Y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN has used Duranr's
Rheumatic Remedy for rheumatism with
splendid results. 1t is taken internally
and cures at once the worst case. Ask your
druggist for it OF send for free pamphlet to
K. &. HelDhenstine. Washington. DC
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08

The Presidents cabinet is a valuable
piece of furniture. So is the weather bu.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08
HOME n FARM.

Give the fowls coal ashes or sand
TO dust in if the ground is frozen. II
,ot, spade it up occasionally.-M. Y
HpyukH,
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North Hamilton.

Harvesting has begun.
Plenty of rain just now
Many from this vicinity spent the Fourth
at Sister Lakes.
Charlie Calvin is home from Joliet, ILL.,, to
spend the fourth, and Ida is happy.
Miss Lula Harris carried home the prize,
Ia lovely card scrap book given by her
teacher for not whispering; she being the
only one able to resist the temptation.
No wonder Cora Harris was sick last
Wednesday, driving home from Decatur as
fast "a she did the night before. She had
clock with her, and it only struck oil etecen
hours on the road. She says that can't be
beaten by any of their fast horses.
The school in this district closed last
Thursday, Miss Ella Harris, teacher. She
gained the good will and respect of her pu-
pills at the beginning of the term, and held it
throughout. That she has been no idle
worker may be seen 10y the rapid progress of
all under her instruction. Would it not be
we'll to secure her services for another term!
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MORTGAGE SALE

n a
wi made in the conditions of a certain indenture
of mortgage, executed by James l.. Wilcox and
Helen NJ. Wilcox, his wife, of Antwerp, Van Buren,
county. Michigan, TO c. Allen Chadsey, bearing date
the sth day OF September A. ID. 1871 and recorded
ia the Office of Register of Deeds for the county of
Van Buren, in the state of Michigan, on the Sth day
OF September, A. ID. 1871 in liber 10 of mortgages,
pages 127-S-9, by which the power of sale con-
tanned therein has become operative, which mort
gage there Is claimed 20 be due at the date OF this
notice for the principal sum secured by said mort
gage, and the interest, taxes and insurance cove
nanted to be paid in all, the sum OF nine hundred
thirty-siX dollars and seventy-Ono cents, together
with attorney fee OF fifty dollars, provided for in
said mortgage, in case any proceedings should be
taken TO fOreclose the same, and proceedings hay
ing been instituted 70 recover said sums any part
thereof.
Notice j. therefore hereby given, that Oh Wednes-
day August the 9th, A. u. 1884, at ten O'Clock IN
the forenoon az the front door of the court house
in the village OF Paw Paw, IN the said county OF
Van Buren,, said mortgage will be foreclosed by
virtue o. Che power OF sale therein contained, by
sale OK public auction 20 the highest bidder OF the
mortgaged premises described ia said mortgage or
much thereof may be sufficient to satisfy the
amount due said mortgage, viz: The northwest
quarter OF the northeast quarter of section thirty
one, il town three south, OF range thirteen west.
Dated May goth, 1854.
9. ALLEN CHADSEY, Mortgage.
MELVILLE MCGEE, Atty for Mortgage, Jackson,
Michigan. 23tl3o35
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Legal Notices.
SALE

CHERIEE'S ssALE.-By virtue OF a certain
- writ OF testatum Fieri Facias, issued out OF aud
under the seal of the Circuit Court In and for the
county OF Van Buren, and state of Michigan bearing
date the 2lst day of June, A. ID. 1884, and to me di-
rected aud delivered, IA certain suit pending in
said Circuit Court, In chancery, wherein Mary Clark
Is complainant, and Francis f. Clark Is defendant,
did, the 2lst day OF June, A. ID. 1894, levy upon
aud seize all the right title and interest of said
Francis y. CLARK. In and 20 the following described
piece or parcel OF land, to-wit:
The south forty (i0) acres OF the east nifty 900
acres OF the southwest quarter al section twelve
l2l town three 3D. south OF range fifteen l5l west,
al OF said land being IN the county of Van Buren,
end state OF Michigan; all of which said land or so
much thereof may be sufficient TO satisfy said ex-
ecution and all legal costs, shall expose for sale
and sell at public auction vendue, 10 the highest
bidder a. the law directs, at the front door of the
Court House, in the village OF Paw Paw, IN said
county of Van Buren,, said Court House being the
place OF holding the Circuit Court for said county
on Saturday, the ninth day of August, A. ID. 1854,
az the hour OF O'Clock in the afternoon OF said
day.
Dated this 2ist day of June, A. ID. 1884.
AARON VAN AUKEN, Sheriff.
27t7o33 by HENRY W. McCABE,
erase & BROCK, Under Sherin.
Solrs for Comppt.
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DR0BATE ORDEu.-state of Michigan,

u County of Van Buren,-ss.
At session of the probate court, for the county
of Van Buren,, holden at the Probate office, in the
village OF Paw Paw, on Monday, the 23d day of
June, in the year thousand eight hundred
aud eighty-four Present, Hon. Orrin n. Hilton,
Judge of Probate.
Ia the matter of the estate of Jonathan II. Wood
man, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition duly verified, of
Ellen NJ. Woodman, widow of said deceased, pray
ing for reasons therein stated that administration
OF said estate may be granted TO her. said petitioner
Thereupon 1t is ordered, that Monday, the 21st day
OF July, 1884, az ten O'Clock in the forenoon, be
assigned for the hearing of said petition, and all
persons Interested in said estate required 10 APP
pear at session of said court then TO be holden at
the Probate Office, in the village of Paw Paw, and
show cause, II any there be, why the prayer of the
petitioner should not be granted.
And 1t is further ordered, that said petitioner give
notice 10 the persons interested in said estate of the
tendency of said petition, and the hearing thereof
by causing a copy of this order to be published in
the TRUE NoRTHERNER, newspaper printed and
circulating In said county of Van Buren,, for three
successive weeks at least previous to said day of
hearing.
21t4o30 ORRIN n. HILTON,