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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16
Write to Your Mother.

If the sons who have left home could
only feel some of the loneliness that so
Expresses their mothers-could know
only a part of their longing for news
from the absent ones, and the bitter dis
appointment OF watching for letters that
seldom come-they would be more
thoughtful of her whose constant care
for years was of them. 1t is usually
mere thoughtlessness; but often the
most singing wrongs are committed
through want of thought. The young
men have life before them, with fort.
unes to make and honorable names to-
win, and their glances and thoughts are
ahead. They do not realize that their
parents look backward far oftener than
beyond them and that tears often dim
the dear old mothers eyes because the
little boy who used to come so con-
fidinglyto her is now beyond her reach,
and apparently needs neither care nor
sympathy. He has not forgotten his
mother; no, indeed. But he is so busy
that writing is neglected, and if con-
science puts in q protest, it is silenced
by saying: 'Mother knows l would
write if anything were amiss." 1t ia
not so much that the mother expects
things to go amiss (though she often
thinks for hours of the lassitude or
headache the son has mentiored),
but she so longs for written char
acters telling her that she is a
"dear MOTHER yet, and that her boys
are still "atfectionate' and Glowing"
The young men do not realize that their
letters are treasures, or that the smallest
of their doings interest their parents;
and they can not understand the great
love that sympathizes with every defeat
and sings with Joy over every success.
The mothers do not grieve over mere
absence; but it is hard. indeed, for
even the stoutest-hearted to see their
boys drifting away until they conclude
they no longer love them. This may
not be, for SOFAS seldom cease to loye
and respect true mothers; but SO long \
as they arc careless and %neglectful, what
proof have the waiting. mothers that
their boys are not exceptional ones, and
have not allowed the busy world to-
steal all their affections?
Boys, young men, middle-aged men,
every one who has a mother, remember
that she lives in her children, and you
do her a bitter, grievous wrong when
weeks and months elapse between your
letters, which even then are not so
aflectionate as they should be. Make /
them frequent and loving, and tears of (
Joy will often dim the kind old eyes,
because, although you are a bearded
man and her head only reaches your
shoulder, you are not ashamed to make
"dear MOTHER a confidant of your joys
and sorrows.-Country Gentleman.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16
Maple Sugar.

Maple sugar-making was an import
ant matter on farms in the good old
times. The settler usually took possess
sion of his bit of wilderness IN the early.
spring, and rarelyfailed to have, among;
his few household affairs, a large iron
kettle to use in sugaring before other
farming could be begun. The kettle
was hung on a pole which rested on
crotched posts, OF living trees, if they
stood handy: and the fire was built I'M
derneath without further arrangements.
Tapping the trees was then called.
''boNing." The farmer went ut Il tree,
with an axe as if meant to chop it
down, and took out a chip as large as,
his head, and of such shape that the
sap run out ct the lowest corner of the,
cut. Through the bark, under this, he,
made a cut with a rude gouge called Il
tapping iron,' into which was driven
the end OF a wooden spout, of
course shaped like the iron it.;
self. The sap was caught in a
trough two feet long, made from a
small Eastwood tree with the axe, and
carried in buckets with a neck-yoke,
through the snow to the kettle. There
it was boiled down, in company with.
cinders, leaves, bits of bark, and mis-
cellaneous foreign substances without
end: And finally came skimming and
straining; and the product black as
night, gritty, and of unknown flavor,
was still maple sugar.
But maple sugar making is entirely
changed. Poetry and dirt have given
way to profit and an edible substance.
The old chopping of the tree is re-
placed by a small aueer hole, the
clumsy wooden spout by a little tube,
and the wooden trough, which lay
under the tree. from year to year,
until it rotted, ssby a tin bucket kept
scrupulou ly clean. The sap is
hauled by teams, in great tubs, to a
substantial building, then carefully
strained, and boiled down in a great
evaporation with constant attention to
cleanliness, and as rapidly as possible,
because cooking tends to destroy the
flavor which gives maple sugar its
charm-and rice.-Sprusgfeld (Mass.)
ReDubLicnn,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16
Our Young Folks.
MY SUNBEAMs.

Oh, what shall we do for the Lovely
This rainy, rainy day?
nhi how shall we make the baby laugh,
When eyerything's dull and gray!
The sun has gone or a picnic,
The moon has gone to BED.
The tiresome sky does nothing put cry,
IA IL its best friend were dead.
Come bither, come hither. my Sunbeams!
Come one, and two, and three;
And now in a trice we'll have the room
AS sunny as sunny can be.
Come, dimpling. dimpling dumping,
Come, Rosy. Posie, Rose.
Come. little boy Billy a-toddllng ROUND
On little fat tottering toes.
Now twinkle, now twinkle, my Sunbeams!
Now twinkle, and laugh. and dance,
And brush me the gloom stralght OUT Oh the
Nor leave it the ghost of a chance.
All! see the Lovely smile now!
All! see her jump and crow!.
AS round and round, with laugh and dance,
My three merry Sunbeams go.
And who cares now for the raindrops7
Who cares for the gloomy day!
When each little heart is doing its part
To make us all glad and gay.
You moon, you may stay in bed now;
You sun. you may wander and roam;
And cry away, cry, you tiresome sky!
We've plenty of sunshine at home!
Il. E. Richards. in Youths Companion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16
Some Queer Ants.

"What would you think, to see an
ant carrying a parasol?" asked Uncle
Fred.
"Oh, uncle!!" cried Johnny and Puss
at the same time.
"1ou know an ant could not carry q
parasol," added Puss.
Their uncle had just come home from
a long trip to the West Indies and South
America. He had a great many Won
derful stores to tell them about the
queer sights he had seen andthe strange
places where he had been. But they
thought he must be joking with them
now, for they could not believe that an
ant could do such a thing.
"Well," said Uncle Fred, "their
parasols were not made of silk stretched
over a wire frame. They were only
pieces OF leaves from trees, and the ants
held them in their mouths in such 5
way that they covered their body en-
tlre1y. You could not see the ants at
ALL SO the leaves looked as if they were
marching along of their own accord,
Inc first time l saw any was in the
West Indies. One day, when 1 was rid
ing with a friend out to his plantation,
q great swarm OF these ants crossed OUT
road. We watched them a long time
IL was a very queer sight, l assure you.
Ihey did not travel very fast. There
must V been thousands and thou
sands Of them, for we could not SEQ
either end of the column"
"Wbere were they going, I wonder
said johnny.
"Ihey were carrying the leaves 70
their nests. They do not eat the leaves,
u they are very fond of a fungus
which grows on them after they haSgs
oeen q little while in their underground
nests. The ants are very destructlSe'
and dos great deal of damage. Sonas
Tunes they will cut every leaf oil Oh
tree.
don't we have any here?' asSsS
russ, who was much interested, 'N
wished she could see some.
No. said Uncle Fred. "Wc nav
some. curious ants, but none like th no,
l have been telling you about ~oN
Little Lnes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16
Composing Manures.

! VIII 1t pay to compost is o
question which is often asked and fire.
quently discussed at farmers meetings.
but never settled by definite W or
conclusive arguml nts. Why? Because
for some purposes it will pay, and for
others it will not pay.
For growing field corn or potatoes. it
will not pay to compost all of the ma
nure, but, as a rule, it will pay to com
post enough of it to put q small GUAM
tity in each hill to start the young corn
or potatoes.
+ For garden crops it will pay to COM
post a larger proportion of it than for
field crops. The composing Of manure
simply advances it toward plant food,
or in other words, it rirens it. At
first thought, it would seem that, under
all circumstance it would lie lest to
thus prepare manure for plant food,
but on a careful Investigate II it will be
found that to offset the advantages,
there are two ways to lose; first, the
labor of composing; second, the loss
of the action OF the escaped gases on
the elements of the soil. Every
careful observer has noticed the
changed condition Of the soil to
which has been applied green
manure. In the process of decomposi-
tion the soil is filled with gases which
seem to have the power to tighten it up
and make it in better condition for
plant growth. 1t is believed by some,
that somehow these gases, in connection
with the soil, change the pure nitrogen
of the air into a condition to render it
available for plant food. Whether or
not this is so, is a question yet TO be
settled. But N thing is evident, VIII CHI
is when green manure is applied to the
soil and well mixed with it, when cit
gets into an active sta G of decomposi-
ton, the crops grow very rapidly.
When it is desired that plants should
re ] the immcd ate effects of manure, it
should be we'll rotted, but not mixed
with other materials, except .ust enough
to keep it from burning. 1t 8, az a rule,
q waste OF labor to compost
with an equal b; TX of lean or muck;
better compost it directly with the soil,
and thus u " labor.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16
A Fellow Who Lasted One Round.

Charles X. Jones sat moodily in the
gilded salon Of his Van Ness avenue
best girl, awaiting her coming, and
wondering at her more than usual
hardness.
"Sapristi!" he exclaimed, which is
the only correct oath knownto our ''best
young men, since the advent of the
Italian opera craze, IL have smoked
nine cigarettes already. She usually
occupies only six for morning toilet"
At this moment Claire Succotash
rustled into the room, resplendent in q
swans down opera cloak and white hat.
care you going to a matinee mas
querade?" grimly inquired the surprised
young man.
81 only wanted to show you my new
opera outfit I hope you nave got good
seats for III Trovatore.' Those we had
the otherevening were horrid although
l didn't mind it SO much, because then
my new hat hadn't come home"
"Claire," moaned the young man,
gazing round with the Departing ex-
preston of hunted animal, ''are you
are you aware that my salary Is only
500 per month";"
"Nhat do you mean, Mr.. Jones"'
and the capricious beauty drew herself
up haughtily.
dearest" continued Charles K,
while his voice trembled with sup
pr ssed agony, and the great Leads of
desperation gathered upon his pale
brow, do you know what a balance
sheet isl"
'.It's one of those tiresome things
papa brings home from the distillcry
sometimes" pouted Claire.
"Let me show you mine for March,"
and with unsteady fingers he produced
the following manifest:
SALARY advanced loss five NOR
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16
"A peculiar kind Of bui]dino stone ia

A peculiar kind of building stone is
found in some localit es in oregon, nav-
ing the property Of being unin, ured by
the action of cold, heat, or moisture.
1t is called granite sandstone, is very
rich in silica. of Il close, fine grain.
highly crystallized. unlaminated. and
of a fine brown color. On being
brought to a white heat and suddenly
plunged in cold water. it comes out as
solid and firm as at Chicago Her.
aid,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16
1T must have been a beautiful sio'

1T must have been a beautiful sight
when, at the conclusion of the afternoon
performance at Cincinnati for the relief
of the flood sufferers, after Nils
sons singing of "Give me a Penny;
Nilsson, scalchi, Valeria, Scmbrich,
Fursch-Mad' and Lablache went
through the aisles and took up a coilec-
ton Of Sj,iOO to add to the fund.-.
San francisco Gull.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16

"And what do all those stupid figures
mean?" yawned Claire.
cit means, my poor darling-it means
that-Heaven help met means that
we can't go to hear Patti again until
next month. But there's o rafting
good show now at the Tivoli-and-"
"The Iivoli, indeed!" scronfully Kissed
the insulted beauty. 'Henceforth,
Charles X. Jones, we meet as Changers.
I shall 60 with Billy Crockery."
1t was too much. With the low, in
%articulate moan of a breaking heart,
Charles K. Jones fell a bankrupt corpse
at her feet.
"He put up pretty well forone round"
.muttered Claire, as she turned on an
alarm for the Coroner, 'but he didn't
have the wind to last."-San Francisce
Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16

An offer to straighten the lean' u
tower OF Pisa was recently made D! asd
american engineer, and was 1eea, H. 8
as q good joke, butit turns out 10 " 40
nona-lde proposal. He Offered " y
the job for $4,000.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16

Alderman makes q good living il
New York City keeping a flower hos.
pital, where he takes in sick plants t.
cure.-N. I. Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16

He who in composing his manures
adds more to it than enough TO keep il
from burning, and the gases from es.
Gaping, does not occupy his time to the
best advaEtage.-MusS. RougAmoaa
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-08-15
Massachusetts Independent Republi.
cans for Cleveland and Reform.

Mr.. VIM. S. Keech, of Towsontown, writ
ing from Nantucket, Mass, to the PeoplJs
Voice, says that the Independent Republican
movement has assumed large proportions in
Massachusetts, where many independent
voters, while proclaiming themselves Repub-
iicans, "are yet so much disguised with Mr..
Blaine and his devious ways and unscrupu-
lous course, that they say openly they
cannot support him any more than they can
lie or steal, aud that he is totally unfit to be
President of the United States. These are
the words of Republicans who say they in
tend to support Governor Cleveland, not be-
cause he is Democrat, but because he is an
honest man and worthy of fheir support. If
it is mud that is being thrown at the Plumed
Knight of Maine, it is no Democratic mud,
but Republican mud, and comes from men
who by their intercourse with Mr. Blaine in
the party 25 years, are well qualified to know
about him and his ways, and to form correct
judgment of him and of his fitness or unfit
ness for tie Presidential chair"
Mr.. Keech is an accurate observer and
truthful, reliable gentleman. His statements
arc therefore entitled to the utmost credence.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-08-15
Cleveland ON Money in EIectious.

In accepting the nomination for Governor
of New York, Mr.. Cleveland expressed the
following excellent views in regard to one of
the prevailing evils in political methods:
"The expenditure of money to influence the
action of the people at the polls or to secure
legislation is calculated to excite the prayest
concern. When this pernicous agency is
successfully employed, a representative form
of government becomes n sham, and laws
passed under its baleful influences cease to
10 protect, but are made the means by which
the rights of the people are sacrificed and the
public treasury despoiled. 1t is useless and
foolish to shut our eyes to the fact that this
evil exists among us; and the party which
leads in an honest effort to return to better
and purer methods will receive the confidence
of our citizens and secure their support II
is wilful blindness not to see that the peo.
pie care but little for party obligations when
they are invoked to countenance aud sustain
fraudulent and corrupt practices. And ii is
well for our country and for the publication
OF politics that the people, at times fully
reused to danger, remind their leaders that
party methods should be something more
than q means used to answer the purposes of
those who profit by political occupation"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-08-15

PERsoNAL.-Mr. and Mrs. Block, Mrs. Edwin
Spear, Mrs. w. Frank Leber, Miss MollIe Mar
tin, Mrs. oler and daughter, Miss Mae Loan, Miss
Efie Day and Mrs. Belle Gifin, of Baltimore,
are staying at the Hanway Cottage, near Pleas
antville. .......
Misses Mary Amos, Martha Amos, VIM. L.
Amos, and MrC. j. Moore, of Falston; DIR.
c. A. Hollngsworth, of Bel Air; Miss Willis,
of Philadelphia; Miss Florrie Hoopes, DIR.
Hopes and Miss Hopes, of Baltimore and Mr..
Robert Kemp, of Easton, visited Luray Caverns
together, last Wednesday.
MIR. j. 7. B. Parlett, President of the board
Of Baltimore comfy commissioners, was In Bel
Air, on Monday. comforting with the Hartford
county commissioners In regard to filling up
the approaches TO the new bridge over the Little
Gunpowder, at Franklinvile, which was built
Jointly by the two counties.
MIR. Charles A. Young, formerly of Bel Air,
who has been engaged for some time past with
the firm Of Wear, Boogher u Co., of st. Louis,
has been appointed TO a more lucrative and re-
sponsible position In the large dry goods house
Of Dodd, Brown IL Co., of the same city. Mr..
Young is chiefly employed in buying goods In
New York for the firm.
MIR. Samuel Street,, Jr.. and Mrs. r. Thom-
as Cairnes, of Jarrettsvile, are both reported 10
he very i'll.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-08-15

MEDICAL ANNALS OF BALTIMoRE.-We are
indebted to the author, DR.. John R. Quinan,
for copy of his recently published work,
entitled, medical Annals of Baltimore" from
1908 to 1880. Its contents consist offs chronicle
gical record of events connected with the pro-
gress of medicine in the State between the years
named, biography Of Baltimore physicians and
other interesting information.
The chronological record, which is complete
and valuable, states that Dr. John Archer, of
Hartford county, graduated at the Medical Col
lege, Philadelphia June co. 176S, and received
the first diploma evergranted by medical col
lege in America. Hartford county had not then
been set apart from Baltimore county.
From it we also learn that from Sept. 1877,
1913, Havre de Grace declared quarantine
against Philadelphia, on account of yellow fever;
1799-yelow fever in Cecil and Hartford coun-
ties ; 1SO2-Dr. Daniel Moores, of Hartford coun-
ty, died, aged SO; 1S57-Dr. R. II. Archer, of
Hartford county, died, aged 80; 1S72-Dr. Thos
E. Bond, Jr., died, aged 5S.
The work also contains an appreciative
notice ofDr. Robert II. Archer, who was one
OF the founders of the Baltimore General Dis
pensary, and "aman offine presence, clear in
tellect, warm friend, and of great professional
Skill" also of DIR. Thos. E. Bond, Sr, DIR
Thos E. Bond, Jr., DR.. Wakeman Bryarly,
DIR. Richard Wilmot Hall, DIR. Daniel Moores,
deceased, and of DR.. j. Edwin Michael, DR.. j. H.
Scarf and DR.. A. T. Shertzer, all of whom are or
were natives of Hartford county or have rela-
tives here.
The work displays pains.taking and laborious
research, which ought TO and doubtless will be
appreciated by the physicians of Maryland and
also by the relatives of the deceased physicians
to whom reference is made in its pages. 1t may
be obtained for 81 by addressing Dr. E. F. Cor
dell, 122 w. Fayette street, Baltimore. DR.. Out
nan is now engaged in preparing second edi-
tion of the work, including biographical notices
of eminent men throughout the State, living
and dead, from 1884 to 1885
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-08-15
Tor The dEgis and Mtelligencer.
A Trim TO Luray.


A party of matrons and bellies of Hayre de
Grace, including Mrs. John T. MooIe, Mrs L.
W. Murphy, Miss Annie Moore, Miss Julia Nc
Cullough, Miss Sallie Russell, Miss Corneia
Kelly and Miss Clara Cochran, had the pleasure
OF doing" the Luray Cayerns last Wednesday
Before sunrise that morning the gay little party
OF tourists in petticoats, with haskell larders
well supplied, boarded the train for Baltimore
and on arrival there had pleasant jaunt across
town to Camden station, where the Luray
especial" of four b. u o. coaches was rapidly
filling up with folks on frolc bent" The
Havre company got together, and the staid old
folks, dandy dudes and 'very particular, awfully
shy maldens, in the other parts of the car, real
lied before the train had reached the "Reay"
on its journey, that their happy looking group
OF neighbors with the big lunch boxes were
gong 10 make 'hings merry on the way. Shouts
OF laughter echoed through the car, and drown
ed the harsh racket of the rattle of the train.
"iiavre dy's" greatest laugher was along, and
others smiled and caught the infectious fun
The first of the many lunches taken on the trip
was hastily enjoyed as the swift Especial" sped
along the mountain side and girted the banks
of the blue Shenandoah. Soon as the train
reached Luray, the tourists in petticoats entered
coaches, were whirled through the quaint but
dusty town; and few minutes later were hurry
ing along the dim-lgLted narrow tunnel into
the caves Description of the Beauties the won
ders, and the novelties of trip through these
caverns cannot be given in this brief recital,
which is only intended to record the adventures
OF "Havre dy's" tourists. They made no new dis
coveries, but they went to admire, not explore
though the good-natured sketch-artist in the
party penciled the queer recesses in her minds
eye, and reproductions of Luray's wonders, ON
canvas, may be expected. The maidens of the
party did not seem to miss the pleasure and &C.
commodation of escorts in breeches" except
probably on the homeward journey, when as the
train sped by Harpers Ferry in the moonlight
and pairs of lovers sitting near them, touched
by the romance of the scene, "cooed and wooedn
and made them wish their lovers were along
HaVre de Grace was reached at one o'clock in the
morning, and with empty lunch boxes, weary
limbs, and dropping eye-lds, the tourists quietly
sought their beds. happy in the realization that
they had "done" Luray
pr TII