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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25
The Best Butter Colo

WI know nothing, and yet it is knbwing
something to know that you know nothing.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25

Two MONTHS ago my attention was called
to the case Of a woman afflicted with a can
Ger on her shoulder at least 8 inches in cir
cumference, angry, painful, and giving the
patient no rest day or night for 6 months.
her. Shs has taken s bottles, and the ulcer
is entirely healed up, only a very small
scab remaining, and her health is betterth
for5 wears past seems to be perfectly cured.
REV. JESSE H. CAMPBELL, Columbus. Ga.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25

ia single mahogany tree, after being
cut into v~eneers, brings $4,000
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25

win alleviate Coughs, Sore Throat. and
Bronchial Affections. Sold onlu In bo1es.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25

j. W. FosHEE, of Bluff Springs, Ala,
SAYS: "Sanadyitdn Ne,>uine cured mo of fits"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25

a HUSBAND and wife make a Joint reso.
luton when they decide on 9. rib Of beet
for. dinner.-BoSton Budget.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25
Ladies in Amerlca

WHAT sort of of stories may we find In
the agricultural pagers? Cereal stories. AS
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25
PITH AND POINT.

never imagined that
studies would cost me so much
|ncy.' Studcnt.-"Yes, and [ don't
ny much, either. "-h2ies ende Blat-
TT is about time some one was ap-
nted TO make an investigation on the
btct and see whether the girls nova
IS really have any foreheads, or
ether they have all "gone off," like
! Gun, with p ssbang!''-N. Y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25

long before they reach middle age frequent.
the complaints and weaknesses peculiar to
their sex. For all such Kidney.W Wort is a
great boon. It induces a healthy action of
the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, %cleanses
the system, and strengthens and gives new
life 60 al the important organs of the body.
LUIS na.ure's great assistant in establishing
gists. e
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25

THs besetting sin is loafing around bar
Waterloo Observer. Perhaps you
NEAR the besotting sin.-W Ctr Derrick.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25

IT seems proper to assert that Samaritan
Nervi,e cures dyspepsia. No cure no pay.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25
Don,t Give III Inn 81.

A WEST POINT Cadet wanted q cannon
placed on Q high hill so it could be said
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25

From Rev. B. F. Lieps'
ner. Red Bank, N. j.:
was 80 troubled with
catarrh 1t seriously af-
fccted my voice. One
hottie of Ely's Cream
Balm did the work. My
voice is fully restored
and my head feels bet.
ter thar for years.
We never handled a
catarrh remedy that
gave such satisfaction
as Eiy's Cream B&m.-
C. N. Crittenton, Full
ton street, N. Y.
Cream Balm
causes no pain. Gives
relief at once. Cleanses
the head. Causes
healthy secretfons.
Abatcs Inflammation.
A thorough treatment
Applied with the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25

1odtde of Potassium ts one of the strongest of the
minerals used in medicine. and has produced much
suffering in the world. Taken for a long time and in
large doses, It dries up the gastric Juices, impairs di.
gestion, the stomach refuses food, and the patient de-
cHnes in health and weight. Persons with Blood OF
Skin Diseases should be careful how they take these
mineral poisons, as In most instances the effect Of them
is to almost permanently impair the constitution.
Swift's Specific is entirely n vegetable preparation. and
It is easy to convince you of its merit.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
so-,sYoU.PLEAsE EDUCATION.

What thirsty people the
Americans are, to be sure! LYDIA
BLoOD's favorite observation very well
describes their chronic condition. They
all "want to know" The result Is an
uncounted number Of sporadic, irregu-
nr, indescribable educational means
which can only be characterized as go
as-you. please" methods. They are
mali ~ of late growth, and they multi
ply with astonishing rapidity. In plan
they are all very much alike. They
have an organizing, supervising head
that maps out a course Of study or read
ing, followed by students all over the
country, and keeps watch over their
progress through correspondence.
The Chautauqua course ofreading and
study was one of the earliest OF these,
and 1t has had marvellous success. Its
students are scattered from ocean to
ocean and are numbered by the thous-
and. The society to Encourage Studies
at Home has been at work for ten years
and hiss la corresponding students dill
gently followed their course Of study in
cities, towns, villages, farmhouses,
among ell classes Of society. Though
It's membership is confined to women
it has nearly 500 students. Tue Core
spondence University Is tbs latest Or
ganization Of this kind. 1t offers an Ella
bOrate course of instruction In all collie
giate studies, with the different branches
from agriculture to Hebrew, under the
superintendence of well-known special
lists and university professors. Verify,
in these latter days the mountain of
knowledge rms up and makes haste to
MAHoAIEr and knocks at the front
door.
And now there Is snnounceda "Sum-
mer School of Travel" for teachers, who
are to resolve themselves into kind Of
eerambulsting normal school, with
regular course Of studyto be followed by
others at home, who cannot 60 on the
journey. These are only few Of the
large number of such societies. There
are also innumerable reading clubs that
study special authors. Altogether, their
name is legion.
"Oia truth, the American people not
My want to know, tut they are deter
mined to find out.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
SEALsKIN sACQUES.

Mics Ellen Terry is extremely fond Of
tea.
Miss Emily Faithful has made many
friends in Chicago.
Young ladies do not like to go out sleigh
riding with the man who has only one arm.
Sealskin sacques are made smaller than
formerly, but the bills hurt just as much.
Mrs Langtry's father is said to be re.
markedly handsome man. Like father,
like daughter.
Theresa Sturla, OF ChicsSo notoriety,
hopes to become an operate star of the first
magnitude.
One of Sarah Bernhsrdt's Christmas
presents was Japanese doll ABOUT six feet
high and as thin as fsmished poet.
1t is reported that Miss Booth, of the
Salvation Army, will soon marry wealthy
American who is now in Paris.
A young lady in Somerville, Mass, pos
sesses mania for starting fires. She will
be cured after she has en- married few
years.
Three weeks after her marriage a Phila-
delphia girl nearly broke her hush and's
head by hitting him with piece Of tho
wedding cake.
Mrs. Dahlgren, who offended some Wash
iDgton society people IN her novel, "A
Washington Winter" is not passing the
season in the National capital, as usual.
Mrs. Coons, of Nebraska City, has sued
for divorce on the ground that old Coons
bought her stockings with holes in them
because he could get them at half price.
Brides toilets are very plain and simple
but the dresses of the bridesmaids are ex-
ceedingly elaborate. As the brides papa
doesn't want to pay for the robes Of the lat
ter he is correspondingly happy.
Ella Wheeler. the royal flush poetess OF
the wild West, has q cousin who Is Ser
,eant-at-Arms If the Assembly. Ella has q
sooi chance to get an introduction to that
charming but bashful bachelor, Governor
Cleveland.
Miss Seidmore, of st. Louis, ("Ruha-
mah"), makes more money with her pen
than most male Journal SITS. Every sum!
mer she is sent by the Globe Democrat all
over the country TO the fashionable resorts,
her salary being $50 per week. In the
winter she does society work, and in the
height Of the gay season she earns alto
gether 800 per week.
Miss Friska Haverield, of the sunny
South, has been at a Cincinnati boarding
school. She was but fourteen years old, but
wished to marry, which she could not do
in Ohio for four years to come. So, placing
q card bearing the figure "1S" in the sole
of one OF her balbriggans, she went to the
proper official, and by cheerfully and hon
estly asserting herself to be ''over eigh-
tsen," obtained a marriage license. Love
laugh a It licenses
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
that men might clearly ZEE and hear
the yelled and unvoiced glory and music
of LIES wayside benedictions.
Easy PLACES AND me PAY.


A correspondent at Washington thus
shows In what an astonishing shiftless
and extravagant manner some public
affairs are conducted: Our navy really
seems to be getting demoralized, largely
due to The scarcity of ships and The
superfuity of officers, over two hundred
OF whom are stationed In Washington
doing nothing. They seem to be wholly
devoted to securing easy places and In
Creased pay for themselves. Take the
little by-play. Commodore RHIND was
to be retired, being sixty-two years old.
He wanted 10 be admiral first. There
was no way to do 1t. Finally, tele-
gram was sent to Admiral CROSBY,
commanding the Asiatic station, asking
him to go on the retired list, in order
that RHIND might be promoted. AL
though he had yet three years to serve
before being of age to be retired, he
kindly consented by cable. Only three
days were left. RHIND was ordered be-
fore the examining board. OF course
he passed.. Tuesday he was rear-admi-
raj, Wednesday he went on the retired
list, and Commodore PArrIsoN Is pro-
NOTED. This little affair cost the gov
eminent several thousand dollars. Then
Admiral CRosBY's place NUT be filed.
A rear-admiral, by regulation, should
nf
wanted to go. The commodores were
called upon. 1t Is q great honor for a
commodore to commsnd fleet. The
first thirteen made excuses. All but
one are doing pleasant shore duty. AT
art Commodore JOHN LEE DAVIS was
reached, and kindly consented to go,
when he is ordered. He will take the
next steamer for China. It is hard to
get naval officers to sea. They make
excuses to stay on land. Court-martials,
boards of examiners and special duty
serve that purpose. Why, saw last
week that board with three commo-
dores and more captains in it had been
UIeTtu W mect W iooh LAlO Iho i0Poiio
IN a steam-tug Of two hundred tons.
They will take all winter. Over In the
navy departments board Of four officers
mas been nearly year devising new
uniform for naval officers. 1t Is 80
ridiculous that 1t will be thrown aside;
but they have had a pleasant detail.
The department is run by a few high
bureau commodores aud favorites who
have social influence, and live here as
re- ular as permanent residents. For
instance, thirty-five of forty-seven cap
tains are on shore duty; so are sixty-one
Of eighty-seven commanders, and so on
down the list.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
CAUSES OF EARrHQU AKEs.

A fry unatmed scientist Of Pitts
burgh has been expressing some views
on the subject of earthquakes, said
views being the progeny Of q lurid
imagination rashly enamored OF the
crater of volcano. This is the way
he describes one of his theories: Any.
thing which exhausts heat from the ic-
terror of the earth or disturbs its electro
cal tension, may, in conjunction with
certain atmospheric condition, bring
about certain equilibrium"
The theory may be original with the
Pittsburgh man, but We have q strong
suspicion that he purloined 1t from Pro-
hss T DANIEL PRATT. But,in addition
to this, the Pittsburgh man said OF the
earthquakes that "he attached consid-
cradle importance to the theory of their
electro-chemica origin, which was first
advanced in San Francisco"
AS the theory was advanced by
CHESTER HULL, an irrepressible jour-
nalistlc joker, for the purpose Of having
some fun with the Academy Of Sciences
and setting the solemn old fossils by the
ears, It's importance cannot be exssger-
ated. However, We prefer to pin our
faith to the theory that earthquakes are
caused by the pumping out of petro-
leum. This leaves the axis Of the earth
dry, and hot-box Is the result, and OF
course when the earth sticks there is q
jar, and something has got to break. 1t
Is very simple.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
PROPER CULrURE.

we often near PERSONS OF COuIeSS0u
sste and Intelligence denounce the
writings of the best standard authors,
md We wonder how a seemingly good
taste and judgment should be 80 per-
verted or led astrsy. Surely the culture
has been defective, and is yet imperfec'
and it often requires years to refine and
perfect it.
In childhood we greatly admire per-
baps even to ecstasy, a certain song or
story, which in after years may prove
very distasteful. To the uncultivsted
ear Of child, the perfection of music is
found in the rude nursery ballad, while
the finest Strains of MOZART and BEE
rHUvEN faii t. impart any pleasure. The
story of Little Red Riding Hood, or
Jack the Giant Killer, is heard with
avidity, while the ininitable novels of
Sir WALTER SCOTT are set aside as irk-
some or insipid.
1t is well to read the best books and
quote often FROM them, and when we
visit our friends or encounter them on
street or highway, let us discuss the
blemishes or beauties found in these
books and be silent uncu the dement's
and imperfections Of our neighbors.
We may not st first enjoy or perfectly
interpret standard author, but must
remember that 1t is by minds Of true
culture he has been judged and ap-
proved, and endeavor by patient, per-
sistent effort to attain that excellency
in superior TASTE and judgment that has
enabled those fine critics to accord this
superiority to certain authors.
In the whole realm Of art 1t Is obvious
that the senses through the mind re-
eeiye their trained aud refining influ.
ences, else the Madonna Of RAPHAEL
would possess no higher value to the
eye and evoke no richer praise than the
hideous, fashy dsubs Of the village toy
books.
The times, the spirit Of the age, and
the circumstances that environ US, and
the irrepressible yesrning Of CHILDHOOD
demand that il we would gild our homes
with q sacred halo and invest the
hearthstone with an undying charm
and fascination, we must give these
young spirits this culture for which
their souls are longing, and which Is so
essential to true happiness.
There Is strange beauty and hsrmo.
ny in the unexplored region Of nature
and books concealed frotn vulgar eyes,
and 1t L. not difficult to comprehend the
significance Of the Masters prayer Of
old, that fmpedimen,s from human
sight and bearing might be removed. so
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
DRESS CoAIs AeAININ srYLS.

Eastern society, which was quick to
adopt the morning coat fer gentlemen
at receptions because President ARTHUR
appeared at his New Years reception
In . Prince Albert, will be grieved to
discover that the Chief Magistrate has
provided himse with new dress gar
mehs, which he intends to wear hereaf-
ter on state occasions The change
made by Mr.. ARTHUR on New Years
Day was not one Of taste or fashion, but
one Of necessity. When the President
undertook 10 encase his robust form In
his dress coat he found, to his dismsy,
that it was too small for him, and his
only recourse was to don his merning
garment. Appearing thus, the startling
information was speedily telegraphed to
New York and Boston, and in twenty
four hours that cantsnkerous potentate
called Fashion had decreed that dress
GOATS we o, Of date. The recent ar
rival Of several OF these garments in
Washington, all of them certainly large
enough for the President, has caused 9
sort of panic in tailoring circles in New
York, and men who week ago were
long on swa,low-tsils are now desperate
" short, while Of cut Always and Prince
AIberts the supply Is farm excess Of the
demand.
This unsetting Of values and general
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
PKrRoLEUa MINING IN CANADA.

We learn from one of our Canadian
exchanges that oil has been struck at
Edmonton, in the Northwest Territory,
and that 3 petroleum claim has been
sold there for So, 900. The report fur
ther states that this is no new discovery,
since Sir ALEX. MACKENZIE wrote
about in 1894, and Sir JOHN RICHARD
SON In 1870 and 1919, and nearly every
traveller since has mentioned it. This
gives rise to 8 new explanation Of the
term petroleum itself As is generally
known, the temperature of the North
west Territory is such that whstever
oil is found is in q solid state; eouse-
auently the term "rock OIL" or petro-
leum, was particularly applicable to
that first discovered in the region about
HudsOn's bay. -
We do not think our western Penn
sylvsnis producers need be much exer-
sised over this new strike. The man
who sold his claim for $4,000 got the
best OF his bargain. Oil that has to be
mined with pieksxe and shovel will
necessarily be more costly thar tina
which comes up spontaneously by the
barrelfull. The Canadian kind may be
handler in some ways. 1t would not
need special tank cars built for its trans
portation, but could be carried in
chunks as coal Is now in Pennsylvania.
That would prove ineonyenient, how
ever, In case there should be need Of
crrying iC across the Canadian border,
or of shipping it to foreign countries
where il would be liable to melt. On
the whole, We think our Canadian
peighbors would make more money in
going into ice mining than petroleum
mining. Oil that comes in bricks will
never become really popular in the
United States or Europe. The only
way we can imagine in which 1t would
be useful as an article Of export would
be as chewing gum for the Esquimaux,
and it would take them a good while
to acquire taste for it in preference to
their favorite olubber and train oil.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
A MOVING TALE.

A Southern paper tells some queer
tales about tho furniture-moving ex-
ploits OF fragile girl Of 10, and expects
people to believe them. This young
lady commands tables and chairs to
move, and the Obedient furniture sets
up war-dance that is dangerous to the
astonished spectators. The editor of
the verscious Southern paper thus de-
scribes one of the antics cut out by the
girl: A very large family bed stood
with the head back in the corner Of the
large room. On the foot of the bed the
young lady placed her hands tightly,
and after 8 few minutes the heavy OBJ
ject began 10 move, and, gradually be-
coming more restless, was soon moving
about the room at speed so rapid that
the young lady had to assume q double
quick" to retain position as guide.
Whether the restless shades of the
recently deceased are mOnkeying with
the furniture in that house the. editor
does not pretend to say, but he vouches
for the phenomena with all the solemn
ity Of 3 hardened liar accidentally tell
ing the truth aud getting caught. But
this sort OF thing should not be encour-
aged. 1t is bad for the girls. What
young man would care to marry deli
cate creature possessing the unique &C
complishment Of being able to set the
furniture Waiting around the house in
the middle Of the night? He would be
afraid to Offer any objections to a scheme
for quartering his wife's mother on the
household for the winter lest his wife
should sic" the stove at him or per-
susde the hat rack to chase him out OF
the house. 1t would be hazardous to
demonstrate with such q woman about
letting the baby eat crackers in bed.
She might influence the bureau to
knock the remonstrant down and dance
on his stomach, just to show him that
cracker crumbs in bed are not the worst
evils that can befsll q married man.
On the whole, this wild, weird, ghostly
funny business with the furniture is q
poor sort of recommendsticn for q young
girl, and if any girls around here are
secretly In league with the spooks that
inhablt tab'e-legs, they had better keep
dark about it.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
WHEELING SUNDAY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS pAe4Es

determined &; to make her his wife de
gained her mothers permission and sent
the girl to Oberlin College, in Ohio, 70 %
educated at his expense, that she misht
bs fitted to become his wife. She passed
nearly ave years at Oberiin' diiA-
ssutly pursuing her studies, and cofrs-
spending With Mr.. Mscksy, but never So
ing him until the day before she was 70 D
graduated. Her vacations had always
been spent in Philadelphia, with her unols
VIM. Preston, with whom her mother ana
Younger sister resided. In the spring OF
1874, when she was to be graduated, ~
Mackey came on from Charleston and TOOK
Miss sumpter's mother on with III"
In Oberlin to witness the commence
ment exercises and to bring Miss Vicksy
home. When Mr.. Mackey met her there,
after the five years. separation, she mao
srrwn, II possible, more beauetui tnas
aver. She has highly accomplished
and received her diploma with honofs'
After which Mr.. Msckey, the young lacy
and her mother came to this city ana
alto ,ped at the Continental Hotel.
That ev,ning Bishop Simpson Wa
sent for, and the young couple were mar
ried in parlor c. Ths only witness to the
ceremony were the brides mother, her
Young sister Rosalie and William Preston.
her unele. Mrs Nackey has three children
Who like herself are blondes.
The following gossip about q great man
which ind in the personal column" OF
Il New York Tribune will, think, be OF
interest to many: my Won Moltke Is
silent In seven languages" says Kaiser
wilhelm; and he does not eIaggerate the
rare linguistic accomplishments of the
Field Marshal, who. in a gathering Of rep.
resentatives of all the great nations OF
Europe, can address every man in his own
tongue Just as readily as he caB converse
in his own household at Kreisau. DESPITE
his taciturnity, which has become proverb-
ial throughout the Empire, Won Moltke
can on ccssioRs show himself to be copi-
GUS and delightful conversationalist, but
such occasions are few, and he usually
keeps both words and emotions carefully
locked up within himself. The very day
before his departure for the seat OF
war in 1870, diplomat met him on
the Wilbelmstrasse Of Berlin and al
dressed him apologeticslly, fearing to iu-
trude upon his busy thoughts and prepar-
atoms, but "0h," said the General, 81
have nothing to do" And another who
called upon him at Versailles during the
siege on the day when great sertie was
expected, found him quietly reading an
English novel Yet the uLconcerned ISL
lent Commander" has in his office a de-
tailed map of every country and city Of i'm
portant town in Europe, with plans OF in
WESTON and occupation carefully marked
own, and minute statements OF the &c.
coInmotation The invaders would fl I'd in
tie way of board and lodging Taus
ready for peace or war, at the age Of shty-
five he plays his rubber at whist every
evening and devotes his DAYS to botany
and agriculture. at his quiet Kreisau home
and remains silent in seven languages"