Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-30
Referring in his last sundays sermon

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Referring in his last Sundays sermon
10 the recent Wall street collapse the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said: GLOW
many men in Wall street are mere hod-
carriers OF mammon, no wiser than the
asses who bring their gold v c the
mountains from the mines? In making
haste to be rich men too often violate
common honesty. They think they can
Jump the law, that they are smarter
than their fellows. Men who are on
tent to get rich slowly are stigmatized.
as fools. They pile up riches, but lo.
they build upon q sandy foundation.
They think they are weaving cordage,
but they are only spinning spiders
webs, and the first storm that bursts
sweeps them away. They don't mean
to be dishonest Or TO cheat their neigh
bors. They merely borrow the widows
patrimony, the orphans savings; didn't
mean to be scoundrels, but the merest
accident topples them over and their
honor is gone in an instant.
The ground upon which Judge Po-
land, of Vermont, and a number Of the
house Judiciary committee opposed
woman's suffrage was stated in his re-
port. He said, "the Office and duty
which nature deyolved upon woman
during all the active and vigorous por-
ton of her life would render it impos-
sible and still more indicate, for her
to appear and act in %caucusses, conyen-
lions or elections, or to act as a member
OF the legislature, or as a juror or Judge.
[ cannot bring myself to believe that
any large portion of the intelligent
women of this country desire any such
thing granted, or that they would per-
form any such duties if chance offered
them" This expresses the whole mat
ter in a very few words. As long as
men clear-headed enough to put the sit
uation sc tersely are on the Judiciary
committee, we fear the gentle Susan
and her able companions will beseech
in yain.-Omaha Bee.
Fargo Argns:-The monotony OF cy-
clones, tornadoes and earthquakes in
the states is relieved of late by forest
fires. The dispatches Of the past day
or two report these as extremely disas-
trous and widespread, extending from
Virginia to New York through Penn
%sylvania and New Jersey. Vast
amounts Of timber and houses, barns,
mills, and, in some instances, stock, are
victims in the remorseless flames.
There are instances that are not re-
corded in Dakota. In some of the new
er sections fires occasionally run over
the prairies, alarming hedeer, gophers
and birds, and in afew instances where
easy protection was neglected, burning
h%ay-piles and shacls. But there has
been nothing of a serious character
and very slight precaution ayerts any
trouble of this score.
A brief item in the Mandan Pionee,
states that q movement in on foot tt
ship large quantities OF coal to Yank
ton, Chamberlain, Pierre and other riy
er points, by ean Of water transpor
tation. It is to be hoped the statement
is a correct one. Northern Dakota pos
sesses an inexhaustable supply Of Goa.
near enough to the Missouri to admit
of the use of that highway in its distri.
button to consumers. 1t could be de.
l1yered in Yankton much cheaper than
by the present rail route and cheap fue!
is an important item in q manufactur.
ing community.
The prohibition home protection par
ty Of Missouri met in convention at st
Louis Monday, and elected thirty-twc
delegates to the national convention at
Pittsburg. They postponed the nomi-
nation of a state ticket until August
18th, to which date the convention ad,
.journed to meet at Sedalia. The reso-
lutions indorse the platform OF the par
ty passed in Chicago in 1882; favor
equal suffrage and equal wages fol-
women with men, and denounce Liquor
license laws as co~-partnersllip with
criminals and compromise with crime
Bishop Warren Of the Methodist
church was struck in Mexico by the ode
and sometimes fantastic a%ppellat1ons
Of the small stores. A grocery in 6
room 7x12 feet displayed the name oil
"The Philosophy" On. the grog shops
may be seen the following frank anC
significant titles. "The Charmes of the
Seductoress," "The Birth of Venus
''The Kiss Of Love,""The Toast of Bac.
chus," "The Life Eternal" "The Vesu.
vius," "The Shipwreck,' "The Deliriun
Tremens," and "The Little Helm
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