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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24
A Model Doctor,

The Archbishop of Canterbury dis
tributed the prizes to the students of the
Medical College at St. Thomas Hospi
tai the other day, and in the course of
his address gave a list Of the qualities
which 60 to make up the character of a
model doctor. 1t is to be feared that
the Archbishop's standard is somewhat
of a high one: "a good physician or
surgeon should possess courage and
presence of mind, deep sympathy, per-
feet candor, sinple manners, clear fac
ulties and pure moral feelings, and if
over all these was shed the light of God
they would leave in the man who pos
sessed them one who was qualified alike
to work and 70 teach" Quite SO: but
II a friend OF mine were seriously ill !
should not advise him to wait until a
paragon of this description could be
met with; he would in all probability
die in the interval.-London Truth.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24
Religious.
"CAST ANCHOR AND w,-~
THE DAY.n ~

fail, iny word can -.
prevail: ~ 'ne hightw,,
I'm alone in the darkness; On, ''
way o"' lead to A.
Where may cast anchor n vo,. u'
sure must find barber, or NAV ~
The tempest shall drive to a safe not be
The winds proving friendly to nilo open Sea-
Where l may cast anchor and dn WoiaIh e way
day? ""o wait for tho
Black clouds are above me; O o.,
sight ood what 4.
The l, l,sBs!ninss reveal in their flash of c,s,'
Rocks all around me. Oh, where =. ~.
h'e day mere III cast anchor and wait tic foEF s q:
I trust misb in Gods Word in His love, in r.,
He secs in the darkness as we'll as the ,i,,.
I'm anchored in safety, and wait 70. us lay;
Mrs. L. S. Apis, in Chicago Ad 1ae day.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24
A LIST -"GOOD.NIGHT."

Love-, l see thee lowly knecling,
Clasl,ed hands and dropping head.
While the m%oonbeams pale are stealing
Sadly my dying bed.
Dearest, hush thy bitter weeping;
Lay thy fearful check to mine,
While the stars, their death-watch keeping
Softly through the lattice shine.
Through the trees, low winds are signing
On thy clustering hair is lying.
Love, my only love. goodnight!
All! / hear thy broken sobbing.
Faint and low, thy voice hath grown;
And l feel thy fond heart ~throbbing,
Oh, how wildly, 'gainst my own!
Dear. my spirit still delaying,
ho IL yes to hover noysra near t thee no etysv;no
O'er thy pallid check and brow.
Yes, my soul, to share thy sorrow,
Pausesin its Heavenward flight,
And will comfort thee tomorrow.
Love, my dearest love, gOcd-byeI
Now, for one sweet moment only,
Fold me closely to thy breast.
When thy life seems dark and lonely,
Oh, remember am blest!
Though thy voice with grief be broken,
Smile once more,a and call me fair.
Darling. as my, last l~ove.tokcn.
Take this little lock of hair.
Feeling these thy last caresscs,
Tears must dim my failing sight.
Kiss once more my wandering tresses,
Then a long, a last goodnight!
Shades of death are round me closing;
Tears and shadows hide thy face;
Still ! fear not, thus reposing,
In thy faithful, fond embrace.
Though thou lingerest broken-hearted,
All thy thoughts to me shall soar;
We shall seem but to be parted;
III be nearthee
Brightly on my souls awaking,
See, yon CLEAN of Heavenly light!
Now, behold the morn is breaking.
Love, my faithful love, goodnight
-.Fdnny Forester, IN Chambers Journal
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24

That the various powers of a great
nation may have free exercise and in
nuence IN the world its people must
have, says Sir James Paget, distributed
among them, besides the possibilities
Tor the attainment of every form or
depth OF knowledge, liabilities to live
healthily wherever work must be or can
be done" Herein, he asserts, is the
essential bond between health and edu.
cation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24
They still bottle tears in Pers;, As

They still bottle tears in Persia. As
the mourners at a funeral sit around
weeping, wads of cotton are passed,
with which the cheeks are mopped. the
tears are then squeezed into a bottle
and used as a charm and to revive
dying persons. The practice was once
universal, as every old tomb has a tear
bottle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24
Sunday.Schoo Lessons.
FOURTH

FOURTH QUARTER,
Oct. 5-Solomon succeeding Da.
Oct. is-David,s Charge to Sol. Kings l%sa
Oct. 0@ 5a@selomon;s Choice IL fR5 iDs, g; q \
Oct. 26-The Temple Built. i Kinnggss ISL
Nov. 2-The Temple Dedicated.l Kinssss 3: I4
Nov. 9-The Wisdom of. Solo ''"$s
Nov. l6-Solomon's .sin.,.......l Kings I1: ! I
Nov. S-True Wisdom..........Proy.s :: lli
Dec. drunkenness ........Pr q. ~!
Dec: 14-Vanity of Worldly Ssa
Dec r1 aeMThe cireo,, Eccles, ss;l.ls
Dec. 2S-Review; or Missionary. an Ill
ance, or other Lesson selected p BY II.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24

"A Texas paper says the people Of
its vicinity have gone swimming -
much of late that the fish are tame and
will lick salt out of the hands Of the
bathera.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24

During Secretary Folger's incum.
bency the national debt has been ro.
dnced about $500, 900, 900. - Micac,
Herald. "s'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24

Lucy Roberts, of Sugar Grove, Pa,
took smut for fun and sneezed herself to
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24

There are three chandeliers in the
White House thaa cost five thousand
dollars apiece.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
The Worlds Congratulations.

In the number of springs and noted
geysers, the Yellowstone National park
and New Zealand far exceed Iceland,
in which The Great Geyser" and
Strokhr are the only two prominent
spouters. AS to the number of springs
in New Zealand, there are no definite
data, but they appear to be numerous.
In the Yellowstone park, over two
thousand springs have been enumer-
ated and mapped, and among them are
seventy-one geysers, of which twenty
are known to spout to height of not
less than fifty feet. OF course, in each
OF the three countries there are hot
springs outside of the areas as here
Indicated; and, if these are taken
into account, the American localities
will exceed the others, especially if the
California and Nevada springs are
counted However, leaving the latter out
of account, we find, that in the adjacent
country both north and south of the
park there are springs on the same
north and south line with the geyser-
basins of Firehole river; and, if they
are considered as part of the same
system, the length of the line of ther-
NAL activity is about 200 miles.
As to the heights to which the gey-
sers throw the columns of water, there
is probably but little difference between
the three REGIONS. although the Yellow
stone park perhaps. great num-
Der which &. regularly to q height
of one hunar.d feet or more. The
records or the New Zealand geysers
are, however, somewhat deficient as to
the data on this point. Popular Science
Monthly for august.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
A People Who Can Not Make Fire

The Papuans of the Maclay coast of
New Guinea are represented by the
Russian explorer, DR.. Miklucho Ma
clay, as being in most primitive
stage. They are wholly unacquainted
with metals, and make their weapons
of stone, bones and wood. They do not
know how to start a fire, though fire is
in use among them. When the traveller
asked them how they build fire, they
could not understand his question, but
they regarded it as very amusing, and
added that when PERSONS fire went
out be got some of a neigh Dor, and, if
all the fires in a village went out, they
would get it from the next village.
Some of the natives represented that
their fathers and grandfathers had told
them that they rememb ered time, or
had heard from their ancestors that there
was time. when fire was not known, and
everything was eaten. raw. The natives
of the southern end of New Guinea,
having no iron, shave themselves now
with piece of broken glass. Former
ly they shaved with flint, which they
could sharpen quite well. and used
with considerable dexterity. Popular
Science Monthly for Augatst..
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
Squirrels Eating Fruit.

Squirrels, a frolicsome race, have
not generally been classed among the
predatory vermin, like rats and ether
destructive creatures; but it seems
they can, and do, make themselves
quite as great nuisance, when they
are in the mood. We hear of fruit
growers in Connecticut whose straw
berry beds are raided by red squirrels.
These active and daring little fellows
rob the vines of great quantities of ber-
rles, and do not even wait, in some
cases. for the fruit to get ripe. Their
strawberry appetite, an unsupported
possession, is so marked as to render
them in one or two instances that have
been reported TO the Times a really
ruinous pest. These cases have just
occurred within twenty miles of this
city. Others, doubtless, could be re-
ported. Another temptation to these
nimble rodents, oddly enough, is the
ripening crop of cherries. Without
waiting for the fruit to ripen on the
trees, the red squirrels have in some
instances stripped it off for the sake of
eating out the kernel in the pit, or
''stone"-gnawing into that as readily
as they gnaw into the hard shell of a
butternut. In'some places their raids
upon the cherries have proved more
destructive than the 30th of May frost.
That FROST it now appears, is likely to
leave the squirrels short of their usual
fall store of nuts. 1t killed off the chest
nuts, the walnuts, and the butternuts,
to q serious extent throughout Con-
necticut; and of course it was not less
destructive N the region Immediately
north OF this state. The hazelnut bushes
seem to have Jared q little better; the
squirrels, no doubt, will make the most
of the hazelnuts-but these alone can
not furnish their winters supply, and
the prospect seems to be hard one for
our frolicson1e arbeoral friend of the
bushy tail. Hartford Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
Bronson Howard on PIay-Writing.

Bronson Howard, being asked how
plays are written, replied: 1.-The Lotos
Club, of New York, yearned for many
month in vain for the peculiarly Ameri-
can dish called 'buckwheat cakes
The very skillful French cook of the
club failed utterly after repeated efforts
to secure the desired result. At last
one OF the members wrote to sister,
in another city, and asked her to send
. recipe. Her reply was laid before
the Board of Directors. 1t consisted
of a very minute description of the
necessary process, and concluded as
follows: "If your cook will comply
with these instructions very carefully
and accurately i'll every respect he will
make good buckwheat cakes provided
he has special genius for making
them. On hearing this document read,
one of the directors remarked that the
best thing they could do was to throw
away the recipe and get a native
American woman that had the gent
us. His suggestion was adopted; and
a goddess. sprung from the soil,
has presided since then during the
hours of breakfast over the griddle of
the Lotos Club. Any recipe for writ
ing successful play, must end, of
course, with a proviso like the above;
except that we should change the word
genius TO aptitude. ~
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
A Magnetic Girl.

On Cincinnati Southern train going
toward Cincinnati was a nice looking
girl from down South somewhere. She
sat in one end of the ear. The train
stopped at station and young man
got in. He took seat at the other end
of the car. The young lady had lovely
eyes and pretty bangs. The young
mans eyes were expressive and his
mustache dropping. About the time
her lovely eyes caught sight of his mus
tache his expressive eyes espied her
bangs. They looked and looked. She
finally dropped her eye-lids and then
looked up quick enough to catch him
elevating his eyebrows. In turn he saw
her mouth broaden into little smile
The young man could not take his eyes
from the Young lady. He seemed SPELL
bound. Soon he arose from his seat
and walked towards the young lady.
Her eyelids drop again and apparently
the spell is broken, as he walks by and
gets drink of water. But no-as he
returns she is trying to lower the win
dow blind to keep the impertinent sun
off her golden bangs. Unable to resist
the secret influence that has possessed
him, he stops and lowers the blind for
her. Then he sits down. They talk,
and smile and laugh.
''Wonderful, wonderful! Eurekar
exclaimed gray, but large and fine
looking gentleman who had been
watching the young lady. "What do
you see that is so wonderful?" inquired
the man sitting behind him. ''Why.
didn't you see that? Greatest thing 1
ever saw in my life. My fortunes
made. Did you notice how that girl
magnetized that drummer? Magnet
lied him completely. Got dead away
with him. Wen, sir, Pm Bob Miles, of
Cincinnati, and that's my magnetic
girl from Georgia. No doubt now about
her wondrous power. Millions in it,"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
1youltomoe pilot.
THURSDAY, AUGUST q, 1884.
A Story of Thurman.

Ihurman's stories are undoubtedly
like George Washington but years
ago he had habit that also resembled
another of Washington and even
went so far rs to suggest the far famed
''army in Flanders" The writer re-
calls an incident which happened while
the great Ohio senator was living in
Chillicothe, in the days when that Sc
we're school teacher and pious church
member, William ID. Wesson, was may
or of 1.-THE ancient metropolis, as Chill
licothe, the first capital of Ohio, is
sometimes called.
Mr.. Wesson was a severe disciplina-
rian. and after having governed the
'first society" bad boys of the city,
including two wild brothers OF Mrs.
President Hayes, for term OF wears,
he was elected mayor Elated with
his elevation, Mr.. Wesson looked upon
all the inhabitants as pupils, to be
watched and punished. Under his in
fluence the city council passed an or
dlnance against swearing and all pos
sible forms OF profanity, and many a
luckless lawyer or doctor was mulcted
| in fines for careless oaths at the rate of
q dollar word. One day Mr. Wesson
had a friendly conversation with Mr..
Thurman for an hour. Soon after which
he sent Thurman Judgment of fines
(SlO for fifteen oaths and cost of pros
ecution. Thurman yielded himself to
arrest, and went with Marshal Bratton
10 Mayor Wesson's office "May it
please your honor" said Thurman, 81
am q lawyer. and wish to appear in my
| own defense The court is willing
to hear you," said the mayor in most
earnest gravity. 81 move You to Sc.
aside this judgment, because a man
cannot be tried for crime unless he is
present in person or by counsel You
are right" said Wesson, 'the iudg-
ment is set aside, but the crime viii
cost you more, because we will now
have the trial" '.All right" said
Thurman; 81 am ready TO proceed with
the case. | know the Indictment. But
where are the witnesses?'i 1--WE need
no witnesses. Mr.. Thurman; for you
know YOU swore those fifteen oaths, and
that heard you. So it is idle to talk
about witnesses" "Well may it please
your honor, | move to quash the in
dictment. Because, first, man can
not be made to criminate himself, and.
second, a judge of n court cannot APP
pear before himself as Witness
You are right, Mr.. Thurman; the in
dictment is quashed and the case dis
missed. He was never troubled after
this for his freedom of speech. -Bdlti-
more american.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
The Insisnificance Of Humanity.

Aspectator who, seeing bubble float
ing on great river, had his attention
SO absorbed by the bubble that he
ignored the river-nay, even ridicrled
anyone who thought that the river out
of which the bubble arose and into
which it would presently elapse de-
served recognition. would fifty typify
a disciple of M. Comte, who, centering
all his higher sentiments on humanity,
holds it absurd to let either thought
or feeling be occupied with that great
stream OF creative power, unlimited in
space or in time, of which humanity lisa
transitory product. Even if, instead
of being the dull, leaden-hued things
it is, the bubble humanity had reached
that stage of irideseence of which,
happily, high sample Of man or
woman sometimes shows US begin
ming, it would still owe whatever there
was in it OF beauty to that infinite and
eternal energy out of which humanity
has quite recently emerged, and into
which it must, in course of time, SUBJ
side. As with thousands of lower
types of creatures which have severally
illustrated the truth that the life and
death of the individual prefgure in
brief space the life and death of the race,
SO with this highest type of creature,
man: beginning and end to humanity
are no less certain than the beginning
and end to the human being. And to
suppose that this relatively evanesoent
form of existence ought to occupy our
minds so exclusively as to leave no
space for consciousness of that ulti-
mate existence of which it is but one
form out of multitudes-an ultimate
existence which was manifested in
infinitely varied ways before humanity
arose, and will be manifested in in
finitely varied other ways when human
ity has ceased to be, seems very
strange-to me, indeed, amazing. =
Herbert Spencer, IN Popular Science
MO,lfhIn
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
Gov. Tod's Song.

Judge r. 2. Paulding told story
about Gov. Tod at the reunion of the
pioneers of Cleveland, o., Tuesday.
AT one time" he said, 81 visited NV
old friend Judge Tod, and during nv
stay remarked to the Judge that his
daughter, who was singing in the adj
joining room, had beautiful voice.
Yes said he my children all sing
and he called for his son David, who
entered the room. A remembering
lad | never saw, q great awkward lout,
dressed in jeans and homespun, with a
rough, stolid countenance. What is
your will, father?' he asked. David
said the Judge, i want you to sing
one Of your nice songs for this gentle
man. Without expression, without
moving muscle of his face, he started:
old Grimes is dead,
That good old man.
and carried the air through. was
impressed aud much amused. All
said my friend, "there is more in my
boy than appears on the surface if it
could only be developed. My farm is
mortgaged, and l can't afford to give
him an education Send him to me-
replied, i will put him to school.
So he did; young David became law
yer; in ten years he had paid off the
mortgage Oh the old farm, and later,
as Governor of Ohio. he saved the Ma
ton from diShonorh
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21

The conduct of the somnambulist
living with her uncle near Montreal
excites much attention. One evening
recently, when she was found walking
III her sleep, a gentleman, procuring
pen and paper, requested her to write
a letter She 0beyed mechanically,
and, sitting down, wrote note to an
absent friend, correct in every respect,
although her eyes at the same time
were closed. A singular fact was that
The writing throughout was excellent.
the words being written precisely along
the lines. At times she converses
while in this state quite freely and
correctly. Recently, though exhibiting
the same symptoms, she has kept her
eyes open, which. however. only give
vacant stare. On one occasion, while
starting out for A drive, she became I'M
conscious, and the next moment re-
vived, only to be found in her old state.
She was asked to drive, and, at the
bidding of friend. took the reins. On
returning home she became herself
again, and, when acquainted with her
strange actions, felt greatly surprised.
The young lady is about Is years of age.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
One Wife who Takes no Vacations

He had been very kind and solicit
Gus ior several days, and at breakfast
yesterday morning he suddenly re-
marked:
My dear, you don't know how bad
it makes me feel to see you look so
thin and careworn.n
Yes, she softly replied.
You must have lost at least five
pounds in the last month
81 presume So"
"And that haggard expression shows
oyerwork and need of rest
Yes"
Dear me! but should never for
give myself ii you should go into q
decline"
See here, Henry" she replied, as
she laid down her fork and looked him
square in the eye, you want to drop
that. II you think you can pack me
off to the country for month and leave
You to galop around here you have got
hold OF the wrong end of the string"
He sighed heavily, but made no re-
ply, and yet, as he stood on the corner
waiting for the car, and Smith asked
him how his wife was, he answered:
Picking right up, thank you. She's
gaining 4 pound week right along,
and was never III better spirits. DE
tToLt Free Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21

In an editorial on Etiquette of the
Car" the Philadelphia Times. among
other things, says: The man who
sits with his legs across. his elevated
foot serving as a kind of trip for every
body going in or out Of the car, the
man who sits with his knees spread out
twice the width of the single seat he
pays for is also getting his abuse. The
dude who sits sideways, legs across
and all, looking out of the car Win
dow, taking at least three seats when
he only pays for one. is TO be straight
ened out. And the women who allow
their skirts to take twice as much
room as the women themselves an} re-
fuse to contract them are to be ade
to ''sit up close" and begin to beh-.e.
The trouble is not merely one of man.
ners or the absence of them, but of
morals. The average citizen of both
sexes has been thinking so long of his
or her rights that it is most difficult to
think of the rights of other people.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
VERY REMARKABLE RECOVERY

Mr.. Geo. V. Willing, of Manchester,
Mich, writes: My wife has been al
most helpless for five years, so helpless
that she could not turn over In bed alone.
She used two Bottles Of Electric Bitters.
and IS SO much improved. that she is
able now to DO her own work.
Electric Bitters will do all that is
claimed for them. Hundreds of testi-
monials attest theirgreat curative powers.
Only fifty cents bottle at Robinson &
Hinrieh's. 2
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
HAY FEVER

I have been a Hay Fever sufferer for
three years; have often heard Ely's
Cream balm spoken of in the highest
forms; did not take much stock in it
because of the many quack medicines.
A friend persuaded me to try the Balm,
and 1 did so with wonderful success.
This Recommendation you can use for the
benefit of Hay Fever suffers.-T. S.
Geer, Syracuse, n. Y. Price so cents.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21

A countryman went into q saloon for
lunch the other day, and while he
was swallowing the feed he heard the
telephone bell ring, and the bartender
went to the telephone and began to
converse with somebody in loud voice
IN the German language. The coun-
tryman onened his mouth wide and
then turned to city gentlman at the
same table and said; That's the first
Dutch telephone l ever heard" The
city gentleman said be had one in his
house that a Chinaman, could talk
through and the countryman was par
alyzed. Sun.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-21
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE

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