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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
PIYH AND POINT,

A method OF making butter out of
bog pelt has been discovered; but then
there are very few things in this world
that butter can't be made of.-PAsIu-
HciphlG call.
An old lady says that some men
can never thread a needle. She might
have added that there are some men
who late at night, when they 90 home,
no hardly able to thread the streets
san Francisco Post.
-''Ihank Heaven, the fuss is all
over" said the groom, land have YOU
all to myself" ..Ycs,' returned the
happy bride, land now let us take one
last look at the wedding presents be-
fore pa sends them back to the Jewell
cr's. "--CAjcugo I1ibunc.
I'm u plumber" answered a bur
glar who was discovered in a chamber
In q house in Cincinnati at midnight,
and the owner turned over in bed With
the remark: ooh, l was in hopes it
was a burglar, and he might leave me
something.
"A W estern school-teacher, lament
ing the early marriages Of some of her
young lady pupils, spoke of one Girl in
particular, who WAS married last week
at the age OF fifteen, and SAID she did
wish she coIld have taken the rirl
through fractions before she got mar
rlcd.-B0St0N Jourpui.
-Doctor-"'Tell me exactly wbo,
your condition is. DO you have night
weats?' Patiently es, almost every
night Eoctor--"My dear sir! this
begins to look serious. About how
long do they last - Iaticnt-:Abont
as long as | have to tote The baby up
and down."-Bur ing on Free Press.
-"Madam,' said Il husband to his
young wife, in u little alteration,
which will spring up in the best recu-
lated families, ''when u man and his
WI G have 4uarreled, and each consid-
ers the other at fault, which of the two
ought to advance toward 4 recone.l la
tion?' "Ihc better natured and the
wiser OF the two," SAID the vie, nut
ting up her mouth for u kiss, which
was given with an JUNCTION. She was
The con4ueror.-N 7. Ielgcr.
-"Why are you whipping that boy?"
asked a passcr-by OF an lrishman. abe.
cause his brother hit me with Il sthone."
''Wel!, put this boy is o to blame"
'les; but yez see, the tw, chaps are
twins. THAT makes no dil1erence.n
IS. es, 1T does, sor, fur balm so much
aloik 1t would b. the one av thin as
apt to bit Inc as The other. ~"--Arkuusus
Trace CT.
-''You know what kind of a mar
Smith is! Well. lie has been very good
20 Briggs all winler.' '.Howp Loaned
him money $50, not exactly; but
when briggs was away from holr- he
took his pretty wife to the theatcr sew.
cral times" 81 id briggs appreciate
it "Apprcciate it? Vi course ho
did. The first time he met Smith altar
he got home he killed HMM, p
Graphic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

cried Mrs. Mac1ntyre. ioyfully presx--
happencd?" what has
NJ RUINED away. mamma.n :,
Allen. waking up just enough r. said
gle closer to her. "Pleasc to don snug,
me away again. / want to be send
tie boy forever and ever, and n,n Iur 'l-
else And it was hard 1ell;n aooody's
was the happicst-the mother which
little boy, who dropped asleep asnin INC
soon as he was suro be was 7 n as
mothers arms. Bertha Watson MS
loutA'S Compuuion. So"' IN
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
Yesterday. an old horse being dr.

Yesterday. an old horse being drH
en- along High street, before q wagon
loaded with dirt, fell down, and, IN
stead Of being at all concerned about II,
the negro driver got a rest for the slll'll
of his back and filled his pipe ior =
smoke. Several pedestr ans halted, anu
one finally called out: "Why don't you
help that horse up?" "Kose l'ze lliteo
at him befo, an | know I cant rlZ ono
side O him." ''Bur | should thlnH
you'd pity him." .'Uh, I does, boss
sartinly does. If I didn't l woulah y
sot heah an keep Kim company Wheh
kin arm dollar a day."--Det10'
Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

which revealed their consciousness q
strength; frightened lest a worse inqui.
sition into widespread corruption
should be provoked: frightened at what
Bacon himself had ~prophcsied, that il
the attack upon him should lie success.
ful, the next movement would not stop
short OF the throne. If he had stood
his trial, he himself. amid such an at.
mosphere. might have escaped, but it
would have precipitated the revolution
which was close at hand. Such was
the significance of Bacon's fofced exit
from Westminster Hall.-Ren TREAD
weA MAIDEN, IN Ha7per's Naqa%inc.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
Little Hero,

Accidents on the water are ,,u.
frequent in the summer. So man" Iays
and girls go in boats and battle noys
days, without knowledge how to u nNa-
that n reads nearly every daw "'m.
deaths by drowning. VI
Down at the foot OF East One H,.
and I~wenty-first street, New York, isa
boat house, with a float from which "a
boats are launched. For some cur;o a"o
reason the most unsafe places ara ~
ways the most fascinating for littlo
boys, and one a always depend nnn"
finding a number about this danperroUnaa
spot, where 4 misstep will plunge thom
into the water over their heals. How
they will play with little chips of wood
for boats, launching them in the r;vor
and pretending that they are goinr to
make long voyages to China or Hunters
Point.
1t was in this delightful sport that
Willie O'Brien and Fritz Mischief wcra
engaged the other day, when the acsi.
dent of which l am about to tell oc.
Cured. Willie is only six years old. a
little brown.eyed. curly-haircd fellow
still in dresses, while Fritz is a year or
two older, and promo ed to knickcr.
bockcrs. In order to navigate his chin,
better, Fritz had stepped into a boat
that was lying alongside, while Willie
still remained on the float.
Several gentlemen were sitting on The
piazza OF the %boat-house, when thew
heard q scream, and saw Fritz topple
overheard, and disappear under the
water. Two Of them rushed down thu
steep and slippery gangway, ready to
Jump in and pull the little fellow out;
but before they could get there they
saw Willie lean over the edge of the
float, and, catching the sinking boy by
his oulstretched hand, draw him safely
in.
How he got the strength to do it no
one could imagine, though Willie him.
self did not seem to think he had done
any remarkable thing. His oMa &C.
count of the exploit, as he told it 10 tho
gentleman who visited him to &c: the
material for this article, is very simple
and brief.
1--WE was a-playin'" Willie SAYS.
ian he was a-standin' on the side er
boat, an he asked me to give him u lit
tie shove; an l showed the beat y little,
an he fell in. He hollered. tWillie..'
an then | run TO the float an pulled
him up"
"IIow did you pull him in. Willie"
the gentleman asked.
IL took q hold of his two hands"
"Wasn't he bigger than you?"
eyes; ;es' bout as big as this Teller"
pointing to a boy with whom he was
playing ho~rse--"only a little bigger"
"Didu't you get wet?"
Eyes, a little wet
"Weren't you afraid Of drowning:9"
Willie opened his brown eyes rs if no
didn't know what fear was,
No. sir; not a bit"
"low old are you, Willie"
"Six years old"
"And do you 90 to SCHOOL,"
$40, sir; but Pm going next winter,
Get up, Tom"
Willie was playing horse at the time
the gentleman talked with him. He
was quite unconscious that he had done
so brave a deed, and seemed to think it
rather q bore that he must stop PLAYING
and answer a lot OF questions. -E2io!
Nc Cormich. az Hayper's Young People.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
Old-Fasllioned Integrity.

Now and then q man is discovered
who ~disregards that law Of trade which
bids one buy in the cheapest, and sell
in the dearest market. Instead Ct
doing that he obeys another law.
seldom quoted in the market-placc-
"M hatsoever we would that men should
do unto you, ever do We also unto
them"
Many years ago there lived in Wind
ham, n. H.. a farmer named Samuel
ola k. He was not only au honest,
but a rc7u honest man. When selling
produce OF stock, no matter what might
be the market price, he would not re-
ceive y penny more for the article than
he, ni.der similar circumstances, would
be wiling to pay for it. A neighbor
once called on him to buy Il COW, and
asked the price.
"Wait Il moment, and / will tell
yon," said honest Samuel Clark.
Walking away a few yards, he was
overheard saying TO himself:
''How much would samuel Clark be
willing to pa.l for that COW? Mould
he pay SO much naming SUM. No,
he wouldn't. But Samuel would pay
'Hi' ''ih h"iiiHS @ioIilCl iuliOu1ll ,
and l will Ia THAT for my cow
returning to the buyer, he named
the price, and in a few minutes the
cow was driven ou% of lam els ward.
A b;tcher stopped, oae day, before
the house OF an old clergyman. and
pointing to q calf asked. 'Do YOU wish
to sell That calf, s.r"
"les how much will you give for
it," asked the old m mister.
Veal was high, the CT + was fat, and
the butcher offered a good round SUM.
"Do you think, Mr.. =, you could
make yourself whole, if You pad me so
mu h tor my call?' asked the ola dis
ciple, who thought more OF the golden
rule than OF god.
The butcher bought the calf, at the
price he had offered. Afterward, in
telling the anecdote, he added. -, IA.
it, boys, a man must be mighty mean
who'd chest that old parson!'-i0utu's
Conn., anion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
Our Young Folks.
YOUTH AND AGE.

YOUTH ANU -IGG.
A funny thing l heard to-day
lmighl as well relate.
Our Lii is six. and little May
Still lacks a month OF eight.
And, through the open Flay-room door,
Ihca.i the eide" say:
- ii r,,n down stairs and get my doll
Go quick, now-right away!
And Lille said-tand I agreed
That May was hardly fair:
.You might say please or go y%ouroclf-
1 didn't leave it there
"But, Lille" urged the elder one.
"Your little legs, you know.
Are youurcrcr than mine are, child,
Aud 80 you ought to CO.
M. II. Il. Louc.t, In 81. Nicholas
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

An eighty-live-year-old lady az,
tended q Newport dinner party .n'
other day in a dress of electric piuo,
crimson stockings, blue SHOES, crimson
fan and ribbons, with a bow OF conl'
bined crimson in a point lace cap,
which was fastened with diam"nu PA"'
in he: snow-white hair.-N \. 6%"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

A California farmer has had TO nay
/ fine of ten dollars tor knoc ,Inr hjs
hire mar down with a bunch OF
grapes wei. ,hing ten pounds
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04
A Pretty Predicament.

There comes time in the life of q
man whose besetting sin is charity
when he begins to wonder if it isn't
better to be cold blooded and frigid to
all whom he chances to meet. have
young friend who is just now think
ing over this proposition. His sympa-
thetic nature was played upon by the
ragged otf,couring of the curbstone
who polished his boots daily. Although
this very charitable young man had no
superabundance of wealth, he had two
pairs of trousers. One pair was of the
spic-and-span, latest cut, and costly
pattern. They had hung three days,
however, in his room, waiting for an
event on which he had set his heart.
The pair he was wearing had given
way in several places to the caresses of
time. The other day, while softened
by the bootblack's poverty, he gave
him an order on his landlady for one
pair Of trousers; his expectation at the
time was to be at his room and shift
the old for the new before the wretch
of the curbstone could deliver the or
der. Later in the day he went to his
room and divested himself of the an
cient raiment He saw his boy down
on the sidewalk. and thinking to re-
lieye him Of a journey up stairs, he
pitched the trousers out of the window,
with the remark, There they are. ~
He then went to his wardrobe for the
new attire, but nothing was there. He
searched the room without avail. He
hurried to the window to call back his
boy, but he had vanished. He locked
his door and succeeded in rousing his
landlady, who had keyhole interview
with him from the hall. She informed
him that she had received his note
some time before and had delivered to
the boy the articles mentioned The
young man then realized that the
urchiu on the sidewalk to whom he
had thrown his old trousers was not
the one to whom he had given the or
der" .Nedder."
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04
Too Much Concentration.

Two colored pugilists had q dispute
in Verbeketown the other day, the
issue of which was to be determined
in a contest with the fists, Marquis OF
Queensberry rules. The party adjourn
ed to vacant lot adjoining, and the
preparation having been completed,
the young men squared off in fine
STYLE. Come fer me" said one as he
put up his guards, and the sparring
began cautiously. In q little while the
other planted singing left-hander
on the right eye of his antagonist,
sending him to the ground with thud.
Come fer me again" said the plucky
slurcer with renewed yehemence,
though evidently oozing confidence,
and the same left hand went out like
trip-hammer, and caught him on the
same spot. Jumping to his feet, the
invitation for renewal of hostilities
in the Same language had scarcely been
riyen when the third blow on the old
pplace sent him again to the ground.
This time he arose, but in q doubling
and uncertain way, and adjusting his
ample mauls in front OF the injured
eye said "Say Bill; ] don't think you
can knock me out in dat way, but fer
do lub of de Lord scatter your licks. !"
Harrisburg Patriok
r~-~r-rvwA-
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04
Watching and Waiting.

A wan little woman, with tired,
painful expression, sat in suburban
railroad depot late Saturday evening.
In hen arms she held pale, pinched.
faced baby that was seized, at brief in
tervals, with parOXysms of coughing.
With each return of the distressing
cough the baby seemed to grow weak
er and the mother more disturbed
Piles of bundles of various shapes and
sizes were ranged on each side of her.
Some of them fell at her feet. To these
she gave little heed. She cast anxious
glances at the open door as if momen-
tarily expecting some one Every foot
fall on the outside frightened her per-
ceptibly. The lines on her brow deep
ened and her agonized face grew paler
after each look that brought only dis
appointment Bending tenderly over
her little suffering babe, stupor seemed
to overcome her, Aroused by the ba-
by's cries of pain, she started up and
looked appealingly around, exclaiming
anxiously: "Oh, God! will he never
Gomez
She sat late into the night. Train
after train went, and still she budged
not. The last one had gone for the
night. sympathetic bystanders inquir-
ed why she fingered.
George told me to wait for him"
she replied, absently.
The baby had remained quiet for
some time, and now no longer respond
ed to its mothers caresses. A gutter
begrimed man staggered into the room.
Stalking over to the group, he shook
the little woman roughly and babe her
get ready to 60 home, Without looking
up, she said: Il knew it would break
my heart if George took to drink again;
but baby's all right"
An insane mother, a dead baby, and
drunken husband presented sickening
tableau in the depot at midnight. t. Chi
c0QO NClOS.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04
Cheap Homes in Arkansas and Texas

Along the line of the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern Railway, Texas and
Pacific Railway and International and
Great Northern Railroad are thousands OF
acres of the choicest farming and grazing
lands in the world, ranging in price from
$500 to 5000 and S4.O0 per acre, in a
healthy country, with climate unsurpassed
for salubrity and comfort. Send your ad-
dress to the undersigned for copy of sta
tistics of crops raised in Arkansas and Texas,
in 1882, and make up your mind to 60 and
see for yourself when you learn that the crop
for 1883 is 80 per cent larger than that of
1882. To those purchasing land owned by
the Company, and paying one-fourth one
half, or all cash, a proportionate rebate is
allowed formoney paid for tickets or freight
over the Companies lines.
II. G. TOWNSEND, Genl Pass. Agt.
st. Louis, Mo.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04
Our Clothes Our Enemies.

Professor Hamilton, in late adj
dress on hygiene, denounces broad
cloth as an enemy to exercise, and
therefore to health, He says: Ameri-
can gentlemen have adopted a national
costume, thin, tight-ftting black suit
of broadcloth. To foreigners we al
ways seem to be in mourning; we travel
in black. The priest, the lawyer, the
doctor, the literary man, the mechanic
and even the day laborer, choose al
ways the same black broadcloth-a
style that ought never to have been
adopted out of the drawing room or
the pulpit, because it is a feeble and
expensive fabric and because it is at
the north no protection against the
cold, nor is it any more suitable at the
south. 1t is too thin TO be warm in
winter, and too black to be cool in
summer; but especially do we object to
it because the wearer is always soiling
it by exposure. Young men will not
play ball, pitch quoits, wrestle or tum.
BILE, or any other similar thing, lest
their broadcloth should be offended.
1hey Will not 90 out into the storm,
because the broadcloth will lose its lus-
ire if rain falls upon it; they will not
run because they have no faith in tho
strength of their broadcloth; they dare
not mount horse or leap fence, be-
cause broadcloth, as everybody knows,
is so faithless. So these young men,
and these older men, these merchants,
mechanics, and all, learn to walk, talk
and think carefully and soberly; they
seldom venture even to laugh to the
full extent of their sides, because of
their brOadcloth. y
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04
A Great Discovery.

Mr.. VIM. Thomas, of Newton, Ia, says
my wife has been seriously affected with
cough for twenty-five years, and this
spring more severely than ever before. She
had used many remedies without relief, and
being urged TO try DR.. Kings New Dis
coyery, did so, with most gratifying results
The first bottle relieved her very much, and
the second bottle has absolutely cured her.
She has not had so good healthy for thirty
years
Trial bottles free at Barclays Bros drug
store. Large size 800. G
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04
Tho Tradition of the Wooden Nut
meg.

meg.
A correspondent Of the Detroit Free
Press at Mobile, Ala, writes, giving An
anecdote about wooden nutmegs which
strengthens the conviction that the
manufacture of them was, In truth.
one of the infant industries Of Connecti-
cut. He says
see you discredit the wooden nut
meg tradition. In 1923 / heard the
following from q gentleman who had
Just graduated at Bowdoin college, so
that 1t dates somewhere in the four
years just then expired. Among tho
medical students was an oldish practi.
TONER from New Brunswick, who had
come to rub up his ideas and to get a
genuine degree of NJ. d. He happened
to be in crowd, where some story was
told OF some sharp trick, at which ono
OF the company remarked: That
beats the wooden nutmegs! The New
Brunswicker blushed, and in some con.
fusion exclaimed How did you hear
of the wooden nutmegs?" He had
given himself away, and they made
him tell the story. He kept small
stock of drugs, to which he added an
assortment OF spices, etc., as is the
wont in country drug stores. During
the war of lS12-l5, some OF these cot
quite scarce, and with the return of
peace the smuggling peddlers made
rush over the line and did profitable
business. Our doctor took the first op-
portunity of the kind to replenish his
own stock, buying, among other things,
several pounds Of nutmegs, as he knew
there were none in the country, and he
could dispose of them to other country
storekcepers. But before he had dis
posed Of any his wife took occasion to
sample them, and found them made of
wood, He hushed the thing up, hop
ing, as he had bought the peddler's
whole stock, that it would never be
heard OF, and had 50 far supposed that
it was the only case of the kind. So
far rs the college catalogue shows, my
informant is still living (Silas Baker, Of
Stauuish Me.), aged Il years.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04
Local Weather Report,

In the section Of country comprised in
this weather district the sky was generally
clear or fair yesterday, with barometer
ranging below 30 and thermometer be-
tween % at Shreveport and 60 at Lacrosse.
At st. Louis the thermometer marked rs
at Iankton 16, and Bismarck 81.
Our own thermometer stood as follows
at the different hours of the day given in
the diagram below:
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04

When the body IS racked with pain and
the mind distressed with long suffering
from either of those twin diseases, neural
gia and rheumatism, the word "happiness
becomes meaningless token. But with
health restored to the tired limbs and weary
frame, life takes on new and higher colors
Mr.. A. B. Davenport, of 367 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, N. Y, after suffering for two
years from continuous attack of rheums-
tism tried Athlophoros, and now he writes
III have been enabled to move about with
almost youthful activity and ia feel while
approaching my three scores years and ten,
that have new hold on life"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04
Never Give Tn,

If you are suffering with low and de-
pressed spirits, loss Of appetite, general de-
Jility, disOrdered blood, weak constitution,
headache, or any disease Of bilious ma
ture, by all means procure bottle Of Elec
trio Bitters. You will be surprised to see
the rapid improvement that will follow
you will be inspired with new life; strength
and activity will return; pain and misery
will cease, and henceiorlh you will rejoice
in the praise Of Electric Bitters. Sold at
fifty cents a bottle by Barclay Bros 6
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04
NASHVILLE, LII, August Goth, 1888.

NASHVILLE, ILL, August Goth, 1888.
After the birth of my first child m
recovery was very slow, and it seemed
me that l should never get well again
The doctors who treated me did not seem
to understand my case, or if they did, were
unable to restore me to my former health
l grew weaker and poorer for months and
thought l should die. Finally l was in
duced to try Merrell's Female Tonic, and
to my JOY and surprise found myself get
ting stronger almost from the first dose, and
after using one bottle was as strong and
as well ever before. Respectfully,
Mrs. MATTE A. MCPHIEL.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-04
The New Train for St. Louis.
Via the Iron Mountain Route.

1t may not he generally known that by
the new arrangement of the St. Louis Iron
Mountain and Southern T. r., which went
into effect on Sunday, June 22i, the Cairo
public going to st. Louis are afforded
great convenience. Leaving Cairo at 40
p. M, at Charleston you can take Pull
man Palace Sleeping Car at 0 ;2j p. m; get
a good nights rest and arrive at St. Louis
6 20 next morning IN time tor good
breakfast, and max connections in Union
Depot for all trains bound North, South,
East or West. Or on the day train leaving
Cairo at 0 80 a. m, arriving at ST. Louis
1870 p. m. same day
The line is equipped with new elegant
Pullman Palace Sleepers and day coaches
of the latest improvement, furnished with
all modern appliances for the convenience
and comfort Of passengers, making the ser
vice complete in every respect. Rates the
same as via any other route.
Call on L. b. Church, Iron Mountain
Ticket Agent, for any information regard
Jag above