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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-22
Choice Extracts.

Follow after holiness; it will repay
your pursuit.
He who well and rightly considers
his own doinggs is not likely to judge
hardly concerning another. - Thomas a
ken1pis.
Simplicity, of all things, is the
hardest to be copied, and ease is only
to be acquired with the greatest labor:
Steele.
Unhappy is he who desires to die
so long as there remains to him any
sacrifice to make, n Joy to create.
troubles to prevent, tears to dry.
livery one should give, whether
rich or poor. The cent Of the strait
ened is as much needed for worship as
M dollar of the richer. The poor man
should no more omit giving because Of
his poverty than an %illiterate man
should omit praying because of gram
mar. No Christian has q right to ex-
cept this from his worship -ErcAange
.-ie great men, spend not all your
time in building castles in the air, or
houses on the sand; but set your hands
and purses to the building of the porch
es OF Bethesda! 1t is 4 shame for q
rich Christian to be like - Christmas
box, That receives all, and nothing can
De got out till it be broken in pieces, or
like unto a drowned mans Land, that
old whatsoever it CHISHOLM Hall.
II there is one sin Of the tongue
That is o hateful than another, sure.
y 1t is the sin of uncharitable charita.
pieness. Every statement has its i'm.
pllcatlons, as the lawyers saw; and
sometimes the most ettectual way Of
slanderlng your neighbor is to express
a charitable hope that he may not DO
as bad as some people have reason TO
think him. There is nothino which
hurts reputation like suspicion, and
there is nothing which more directly
suggests suspicion than the apparent
reluctance with which one person &c.
knowledges his hope that another per.
SUI wi. may De an honest man in spite OF
W w ne himself might say if he would.
Know hat this is not true of Mr..
Asterisk,' said II sharply. Il notss
not; oiandly responded Mr.. Blank. u
VIII Try not to believe it as long as !
can neip.' Some time later, Mr.. As
,erisk's reputation was abundant !
y cie"red' and that from the ver,
sanie source where it had been
nas called in question. '.No%
YOU see 1t has turned out all right
s ;ae inc one who had expressed his be-
.ie! IN MIR. Asterisk's innocence. 'Ns'
wn.tewashed. l hopc!" said Mr.. Blank
VINO was' OF course, too charitable "
speak uncharitably.-S. S. Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-22
Straight Flushes.

1t was not a thousand years ago, nor
a thousand miles from Rochester, that
party of gentlemen sat down to play n
quiet little game of ''five-cent-ante."
In fact, several games of tive-cent-ante
were played, for the party was a large
one. By-and-by all stopped playing
but Il party OF five at one table, and the
rest scattered round to see who should
rake in the ''jack pot" which had as
sumed considerable proportions.
Among the onlookers who were most
interested was one who concluded a
practical joke would not be out of or
der. So he made up three several
"cold decks and passed them secretly
and separately to three OF the players.
By-and-by one of the players receiving
the surreptitious hand, finding that he
had four aces, Opened the lack pot. :"
Then the two players not receiving
hands from the s'cold decks" dropped
out" and betting at tive-ccnt-ante
waxed warm and furious. Then, after
a time, by mistake. as aftcrward al
legged, the man with the four aces
''called." OF course, he thought he had
the silver, but the man with the five
queens reached to rake the ..pot,''
when-straight fiushes being in order.
the last man sang out: Hold on there,
I've something to do with that pot"
and showed up his hand. which con
tanned an ace-high straight flush.
''Ihat reminds me- said a gentle
man, ''of the little game of euchre
played at a social gathering here be-
tween two friends two or three ear
ago. Each man, by the kindness of his
friends outside, held right, left, ace,
king and queen The first PLAYER,
being sure OF his game, led the ace.
That, OF course. euchred him, and the
consequent laugh was long and loud
Rochester Post Express.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-22
THE INVENTORS WIFE.

Humph! Job hednothin' to try him:
Ef he'd been married to 'Bijah Brown, folks
wouldn't have dared come mig MIN.
Jest come and change places with nc a SPELL
for I'm an inventors wife.
And sech inventions! I'm sure, when l
take up my cofee-pot,
That 'Bijah hain't ben "improvin'" it, and it
mayn't go OF like q shot.
Why, didn't he make me a cradle once that
And didn't it pitch the baby out, and wasn't
his head bruised shockin'?
And there was his patent Peelcr," too-a
wonderful thing, III say;
apple was peeled away.
and reapers, and all sech trash,
Why 'Bijah's invented heaps of 'em, but they
don't bring in no cash.
Law! that don't worry him-nOt at all; he's
the aggravatin'est man -.
He'll set IN his little workshop there, and
whistle and think and plan,
Inventin' a Jew's-harp to go by steam, or a
new-fangled powder-horn.
While the children's goin' barefoot to school,
and the weeds is chokin' our corn.
When 'Biiah and me KEEP company he warn't
like this, you know;
Our folks all thought he was dreadful smart
but that was years ago.
He was handsome as any pictur then, and he
had such a glib, bright way
never thought that a time would come when
I'd rue my weddin' day;
But when I've been forced to chop the wood,
and tend to the farm beside,
And look at 'Bijah a-settin there, I've jest
dropped down and cried.
We lost the hull of our turnip crop while he
was inventin' a gun;
But l counted it one of my marcies when it
bust before twas done.
Sc he turned it into a burglar alarm It
ought to give thieves a fright.
'Twould scare an honest man out of his wits,
cf he set it of at night,
Sometimes I wonder eff 'Bijah's crazy, he does
sech curious things.
Hev ! told you about his bedstead'yit? Twas
full of wheels and springs:
1t he'd a key to wind it up, and a clock face at
the head;
All you did was to turn them hands, and at
any hour you said,
And then shet up, Jest like a box, so you
couldn't sleep any more.
Wa'al, 'Biiah he fixed it all complete, and he
sot it half-past five,
But he hadn't more'n got into it when-dcar
me! sakes alive!
Them wheels began to arhiz and whirr! l
heerd a fearful snap.
And there was that bedstead, with 'Bijah in
side, shet up jest like a trap!
l screamed. OF course, but 'twan't no use.
Then l worked that hull long night
A-tryin' to open the pcsky thing. AT last 1
1couidn't hear his voice inside, and 1 thought
he might be dyin':
So i took a crowbar and smashed it in. There
was 'Bijah, peacefully lynn,
Invcntin' a way to git out agin. That was all
But 1 don't b''lieve he'd have found it out if
I'd left him in all day.
Now, senee l,ye told you my story, do you
Or think it strange l often wish 1 warn't an
inventors wife?
-Horper's Bazar.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-22
Energy.

Energy is defined by one standard
authority to be ''the power of opera
ting, whether excited or not,n and wa
think the exercise of this power makes
the great distinction in the different
classes of mankind. aye knew vonr
duty, but ye did it not" makes tho
slothful man, who accomplishes nothino
1or himself, and is All injury, humanelS
speaking and seeing. to his friends.
"ihe hand of the diligent shall bea,
rule; but the slothful shall be under
tribute" We say Of an in,provident.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-22
The Common Cow.

In his book, Feeding Animals"
Prof. E. w. Stewart says: THAT YOU
can take an ordinary COW, of good con-
dition and form and greatly improve
both the quality and quantity of milk,
we have demonstrated in several in
stances. Let us take some examples.
First, a heifer with her third calf at
four years old, that had in her first and
second years given a very moderate
quantity of milk; and, on a test during
the fourth week of her second lactation
made five pounds of butter from ono
hundred and fifty pounds of milk, and
during the fourth week of her third
season, made five and one-eight pounds
of butter from one hundred and sixty
pounds of milk. At the close of this
second test we began the experiment Of
developing her. She was a COW ofrather
spare habit. It was the latter part OF
January, and her ordinary food had
been timothy and clover hay, with one
peck of carrots daily"
The work of improvement began .by
increasing the food ration by the add.
ton of a pint of oil meal and three
quarters Of bran per day, which was
gradually increased during the first
month to six quarters of bran; the second
month to one quart of oil meal, six
quarts of bran, and two quarts of corn
meal, which was continued until grass
came, when the ration was reduced to
one pint of oil meal and four quarts OF
bran per day. This formed tho daily
ration through the summer.
Such experiments have considerable
value, not only because they showsome-
thing of what can be done with the
common COW, but because they serve tt
encourage the average farmer to give
his common or ''~native" COW some d
the good a r and abundant food h
would be very likely to bestow upos
highly bred and high priced stock.
Upon the whole, the scrub or NATIVE
cow deserves far more credit than she
has received, for the treatment which
has been accorded to her has certainly
not been such as would encourage am
animal in well-doing.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-22
Religious.
he KNOWS.

How comforting the thought
That hlls my soul to-day.
Tho with earth's burdens am trougnG
And struggle by the way,
God knows It all! His face
In light upon me shines.
And looking up l clearly trace
The goodness He designs.
He knows each tear l shed.
Eech wave that DER me flows,
And where my pierced feet have bled-
Yes, all my grief He knows.
He knows each fond desire.
Each wish to upward rise
Above the worlds defling mire,
The sin that round me lies
He knoweth what is best,
Be 1t to live or die;
And in His knowledge I can rest
And on His love rely.
Then in this path Of life,
Where oft the tempest blows,
On battle-ields with dangers rife
May ] still say: HE knows"
-Geo,gs ". Crotts, IN Chicago Inter Ocean.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-22
Sunday.School Lessons.

FIRST ouARTER-1ssA.
Jan. 27-Living as in Gods
Sight...... .....James 1: 7-l7
Feb. 3-Paul's Second Mission.
airy Journey........Acts Is: 3541 4
l6: 10
Feb. 1O-The Conversion Of
Lydia.................Acts 18: 11-24
Feb. 1.-THE Conversion of the
Tailor. Acts 16: $40
Feb. M-~Thessalonians and Be-
reans .....Acts IL: 1-lA
Mch. Paul at Athens.......A Acts II: 22-A
Mch. ePauf at.Corinth. 800. =. Acts IS: lit
Nch. l6-The Coming of the
$3.50 Thess. 4: 10
l8, Il S: Is
Mch. 2~3-Christian Diligence. q Thess. g.: 1-18
Nch. 3-Review: or Missionary, Temperance,
or other lesson selected by the
school
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-22

Occasional deaths from trichiniasis
are warnings against eating uncooked
swine's flesh. In every case of tr!ch-
iniasis it has been traced to eating raw
or simply smoked ham or sausage.
There is no safety except III thorough,
cooking. ChacQgo J0urnui,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-22

Roger Kirby, Of Huntington, L. Z,
went to sleep with his arm over his head
and woke up with it so far out Of joint
shat it took three doctors to yank itfnto
shape sgair.-Brook.yw Foq1e.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-17
Rnechar,s Bad Head.

For two months in the year Beecher can't
preach. In August and September he takes
his vacation and endures the onset of HAY
Fever And it is, so ne says, something ter
rible and tremendous. A man with Hay
Fever isn accountable for his actions. He
is merely wild beast-frantic with snuff
ing, sneezing and headache. His eyes are
RED so is his nose. Every nerve In his
skull thrills with distress and his head is
a fountain of tears He lives only to hN
from seaside to mountain top in search OF
relief And yet, whether we call this form
of Cataarh Hay Fever Rose Fever, Hay
Cold or Rose Cold, Ely's Cream Balm will
cure il. This remedy is simple, pleasant
and easy of application. Placed in the nos,
trils it peuetrates and soothes the affected
parts at once, restores the impaired senses
and creates healthy secretious in cases Of
the longest standing. You cannot run
away from Hay Fever. but you can drive 1t
from you BY using Ely's Cream Balm.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-17
LIVE STOCK.
wheeling.

Wheeling.
The market is fairly supplied this week
Messrs Hudson & Bayhs furnished the fol-
lowing quotations:
Cattle, So 00@4 so for all kinds.
Hogs, fair supply; 5@5ic per ID.
Sheep, 23@33c per ID.
Calves, 81 OO@l0 90.
Lambs, 4@5c per ID.
CHICAGO September l6.-Drovers' Journal
reports: Live Hogs-Receipts ii 900. head /;
shipments 5000, market weak at So lOC
lower; rough packing Sj.2j@5.6O; pack
ing and Shipping s.. 759625; light $3.50
COS; skips and grassers S4.00@5.25.
Cattle-Receipts $500 head; shipments
SEQ head; market steady; export grades
s6.6O@7.00; good to choice shipping 90
66.60; common TO medium S4.00@5.90.
Sbeep-Receipts 1000; shipments none;
market brisk but weak; inferior to fair $3.50
G3.25; medium to good S4O09f25;
Texas 81 5O@3.7j; lambs per head $1,000
800.
East Liberty.
EAST LIBERTY Pa, September l6.-Cat-
tle-Market active and 25c higher than yes.
terday on good; common unchanged; re
ceiptS, Sol; shipments, 1906. Hogs
Market active; receipts, l,lUO; shipments.
$500; Pbiladelphias, Sc 5O@6 90; Balti
mores and Workers, Sc OO@6 30; grassers
s. 2505 so. Sheep-Msrket firm on good
and slow on common; prices unchanged;
receipts, 5000; shipments. $500.
Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, September l6.-Live Hogs
Firm; common and light 81 2j@6 0 !;
packing and butchers, s. 1905 20. r.
ceipts 845 head shipments 54j head.
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mbeeIins Register
OUR FAIR POLITICIANS.


The suceulent chewing gum promises to
become an active issue on the female side
OF the campaign.-Trentol Times.
Owing to thepoli6cal tyrants who run the
election, Susan Anthony and Cady Stanton
Will not vote for Belys Lockwood. IL Chicago
Times.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood is an expert
eneed tricycle. rider, but whether she can
make the trip to the White House on her
machine or not is q question.-Hartford
Post
1t is idle to say that the women of Amer
ica are not advancing when Washington
woman has been nominated for President,
and an Indiana woman has eloped twice in
one week.
Mrs Belva A. Lockwood is believed by a
contemporary to be Mr.. Wattsrsons ident
cal star eyed goddess Of reform Her re
cent burlesque letter of acceptance NAV
have the effect to reform the political cant
OF the day.
1t is announced that Mrs. Belya Lock
wood intends to have her cabinet made Ia
Pompadour, cut bias, with seven rows o
anticipating down the front, and iobot o
Spanish lace, with ruchings Of Scotch mul
and pink bows around the neck.-Spring
field Union,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-17

,ober 2.l025ic. closed at 25le925sc;;
Noyembs r 25sG25ic, year ESQ sc, closed
Al 25c: May pst(92S3c, closed at zSsS
28kc. Rye-Easier 1T 53lc. Barley-Dull
at Csc. Flax Seed-Firm at 81 81, Pork
Quiet and firm; cash sl6 20; Octooe5
SIT 90; years ll rs. Lard-Fair demand
and higher; September S. 20@7 %; octo-
Der 81 I5(S7 rs, closed at 81 20; Noyem-
Der 81 O2l(G7 Ia, closed at 81 OFT. BULK
Meats-Fair demand shoulders 80 I5j short
rib 50 SO: short clear $40 05. Butter-
Op;et and unchanged. Eggs-Quiet and
unchanged. Whisky-Steady atSl IL.
Phiisdelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, september l6-Fiour-
Dull, Wheat-Irregular and closed steady;
No. 2red September s2@S4c; October S3f
6s4c; November S5l@S6c; December oi5
GSsJc. CONCEPTIONS opened firm and
closed lower; car lots easy; mixed 6lS65c;
sail mixed September G0@64e; October
5sG59c; November 564@56fc; December
46SS 38c. Oats-In tair demand; market
firm; No. 2 mixed SO; rejected white
34Ic: No. 2 white Soc. white 36ci No
white 3sc. Provisious-Steady. Lard
Ouiet; refined S. 5O@s Is; steam s. %;
butchers s. 25@7 so. Butte-Firm;
creamery extras 26@27ci New York an
Bradford county, Pennsylvania, extras
236 24c; Western dairy extra, 20@92c
Eggs-In good demandi extras 2O@22c
Chees-Firmer; Ohio fiat, choice oi(9sc
Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, September l6.-Cotton-
Firm and unchanged, FlQur-pull an;
unchanged. Wheat-Hearr: No. 2 rex
lice Corn-Dull; No. sale. Oats-In
active; No. 2 mixed 27ic Rye-Steady
No. . sole. Barley-Steady and IN
changed. Pork-DulIa at sl6 50 Lard
Firm at at 81 37l Bulk Meats and Ba
con-Unchanged. Whisky-Firm at 81 IL
Butter-Steady and unchanged. Eggs
Firmer at l26l"4c. Cheese-Pirm anc
unchanged.
Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, September Is. - Flour
Steady and quiet. Wheat-Western higher
and closing quiet; No. winter western
red s2s6S23c; September S22c asked
October S3s@s32c; November S54@S5ici
December 87@S72c Corn-Western en-
tirely nominal. Oats - Firm; western
white 34G35c; mixed 3l@33c. Rye
Firm at 5S@6Oc Hsy-Quiet and steady
Provisions-Easy and quiet. Whisky
Quiet and steady at 81 1901 l9. Other
articles unchanged.
Toledo.
TOLEDO, O., September l6.-Wheat-
Quiet and steady No. 2 red, cash and
September, 763c bid; October, 772c; No
vember, 79Ic; December Sl3c bid; No. 2
soft,Slc asked; No. ; 744@754c. Corn
Dull; No. cash and September, 53c;
October sic asked Osts-Steady; No.
2 261c. Rye-No. Sc. Clover Seed
Firm; prime medium cash 81 20 bid; Sep
temberS4 10 bid, 81 Is asked; November
81 65 bid, 81 20 asked.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-17
FRESH FROM HE FIELD.

A victory a, base ball is a side issue
The Judge.
A Ay-trap-The professional base ballist's
hands.-BOston Post.
From the base ball grammer: Positive
catcher; comparative, zip superlstive, nos
pital. st. Paul Herald
A man without any bone, is now beng
exhibited through New jersey. He is pr)b,
ably retired base ball umpire.-Chica 70
Sun.
After Cain knocked down and killed his
brother Abel with base bali bat the game
died out and wasn't resurrected until about
fifteen years sgo.-Kentusky State Journal
The base ball umpire at present seems to
be usurping the proud place in newspaper
literature formerly occupied by the mule
and the Observation-Disclosures Travel
Ter
Nowadays when Boston man desires to
say something terribly bad of another man,
be simply remarks that the latter is mean
enough 10 he a member of the Chicago base
ball nine.-Lowell Citizen.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-17
MEDICAL



Take al the Kidney and Liver
Hedicsa<s,
Take al the Blood purifiers,
Take all the Rheumatic remedier
Take all the Dyspepsia andin& ,,ss.;,,
"A 'A'' s@' and bilious
Take all the Braia . !, ys s CO.,
Take all the Gre # bs.,,s ss &C.
In Short, take ~ a. -. ies'1res
aA 80 0..,I.;.a &C best
the Woria, ana Jou' viii find that Hop
1oi'seIs ave the best curative qualities
and powers of all -concentratsd
-lh tDsm, and that they will cure when
any OF all OF these, singly or-combinsd
Kali; thorough trial will give posi-.
dive proof of this.
Hardened Liver.
Five years ago broke down with kid.
ney and liver Complaint and rheumatism.
Since inen ] have been unable to BE-
about at all Ny liver became hard like
wood; my limbs were pulled up and filed
With water.
AL the best physicians agreed that moth
ing could cure me. resolved to try Hop
Bitters; ] have used seven bottles; the
hardness has all gone from my liver, the
swelling from my limbs, and it has scorked
miracle in my case otherwise | would
have been in my grave. J. W, MoREY,
Buffalo, Oct. !, 1881,
Poverty aud Suffering.
II was dragged down with debt, poverty
and suffering for years, caused by q sick
family and large bills for doctoriag.
vas completely discouraged, until one
year ago, by the advice Of my pastor, com
mcnced using Hop Bitters, and in one
month We were all well, and none Of US have
seen a sick day since, and want to say to
all poor men, you can keep your families
we'll year with Hop Bitters for less than
one doctors visit Will cost. know it -
A WoRKINGMAN.
RS- None genuine without q bunch Of green Hops
on the white label Shun all the vile, poisonous
stuff with Hop" or Hops" in their name.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-17
AN ARCTIC MAIDEN.
Goodness That Caused n Youth to


Goodness That Caused n Youth to
Shiyer.
Jones, Jr-"I see you have stopped going
with Miss Haughty Thought it would be a
match; but | suppose she is miserable
little Hirt like all the rest
Smith, .Tr-"She is very kind-hearted."
"She isg'
"YCu remember what an insuferably hot
evening it was the last time called on
her,
Yes, | wanted you to go with ME that
evening TO the park.
We'll, told her had missed ride in
the park for her sake, and she did all she
could to make me forget the heat.
"Ah"
"Yes. she was as cool as a cucumber the
whole evening, and when | proposed she
actually made me shiver. Few girls are so
thoughtful in warm weather.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-17
Ynnnr Men. Kend This.

The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich
offer to send their celebrated Electro VoitalS
Belt and other Electric Appliances on trlal
for thirty days, to men young or old) al
iicred with nervous debility, loss OF vitality
and manhood, and all kindred troubles
Also for rheumatism. neuralgia, paralysis
and many other diseases. Complete restor
alton to health, vigcr and manhood guaran
teed. No risk is incurred as thirty days
trial Is allowed. Write them at once for
illustrated pamphlet tree.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-17
BEFORE The CAMERA.
AScheme to Reduce the Size Of Some Girls
Fear


Feet
Brown-"Ha, hal | have hit it at las,
Fortune smiles once more. Hooray for
Brown, are you crazy? You &C:
as If yoq had just escaped from lunstic
asylum"
Crazy yes; crazy from JOY Congratu-
late me, my dear fellow; congratulate me"
But what ong'
Ny great invention. 1t will revolutiouize
photography and make it as profitable in
the West as anywhere else. One year from
now will reside in palace. marble 'front.'
sides and back, gold and silver
But you have not explained
do you see theseY
Il see pair of very dainty little shoes,
small enough for Cinderella.
Exactly. Well. my invention consists
in a trapdoor for the floor of a photograph
gallery right in front Of the chair
What has that 70 10 wish the Shoesg'
Cant you see? When Western bellies
want their photographs taken they slip these
pretty little shoes under the edge Of the dress
so that they look like their own"
"But what do they DO with their feet?'
Poke EN- through the trap door There
millions in IT, "-Philadelphia Call.