davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19

N, z. Office, 1859 W. 23d St., bet. 9Th and It'll Ayes.
Philadelphia Office, 1905 Chestnut st.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19
GENERAL.

Since 1915 Arctic explorations
have cost the lives of $50 men.
A bulldog valued at 81, 900 by his
owner was shot at Gravesend, N. Y,
as he had drawn blood from a boys
finger.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05
Go-As-YOu-Please:

When you want to buy hardware you
have the great American prerogative of
going as or where you please, but if you
will inform yourself and consult your
best interests, it will please you to 60 to
Jensen, Bliss & Co., on the corner of
Eighteenth and Holiday. This house
keeps the largest and best stock of hard
ware and house furnishing goods to be
found in any store west of the Missouri
river. The prices asked are bound to
meet YOUR approval, as the firm has
extra advantages in that particular. Call
and see Jensen, Bliss & Co., corner of
Eighteenth and Holiday, if you are
needing anything in their line.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05

=
whether from Europe or Asia, as an
ofense against the spirit Of American
Institutions p
Again / win grant, if you will, that
this is all political dodge to catch work
votes, but none the less can /
see under it why this s.better element"
in England aud America are down on
Blaine. There are now thousands of
Hungarians and other contract paupers
in competition with American working
men in the mines of Pennsylvania and
the factories of other states whose condi-
ton is filthler and deadlier to civilized
American workingmen than the Chinese
or any other outcast Asiatics. The "bet-
ter element may be right in their as
sertion that the Blaine platform apan-
ders to the mob out of pure political
trickishness, but l believe that it is
nevertheless the "mobY that they hate
rather than Blaine personally. Y
/ have utterly no interest and no re-
spect for either of the old political par
ties, and still less would I waste words
over the merits or dement's of any of
their professional leaders, ] have simply
put the above views and suggestions that
the reader may possibly find a key to.
some of the strange demo monstrations now
by the ''better element" At
the bottom Of all these pretended polit-
ical preferences the main purpose under
meath all is that the land-grabber, the
corporation thief, and the industrial
STAKEHOLDER shall not be disturbed in
their career of spoliation by, law. That
is what all this political bunconbe
means when sifted to hard pan. The So
called "better element" care, nothing
about Blaine or any other man only as
his status and position bear upon their
ability to steal unmolested. .
In its turn a democratic convention
will soon assemble to throw sop at work
ingmen and land reformers. In order to
get ahead of the republicans l have no
doubt they will be willing to 60 to almost
any lengths in their platform. Let them
60 it Its all working for good. But
keep up your organizations. The signs
of the times all speak promise. All that
good men and true have to do is to stand
for truth, live for ideas, and push on
courageously and manfully the glorious
work of emancipation n.-HoNoRTUs in
Irish World.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05
The "Prairie Farmer" Booming,

. The Old Friends of The Prairie Ear-ner, and
many farmers all over the West, and East.
too, will be glad to learn of the good fortune
which for nearly half a century 43 years. has
been doing good service to and for the agri-
cultural interests Of our country The NUM-
Der Of May Sd announces that, henceforth,
me Prairie FdrnIer will be under the Editorial
direction and Business Management of Mr.
ORANGE JUDD, who, after more than a
quarter century of service at the head of the
American Agrtculturist, has left his former
field to other hands, and removed to near
Chicago, a thousand miles nearer to hundreds
OF thousands of his older enterprising readers
who have preceded him to the West. The
numoer before us give evidence of the vigor
WORK. All who want specimens of the papers
as It Is, and 1t to. be, and to enjoy its advan-
from May lst up to 1885, by sending a single
dollar toPrairie Farmer Publishing Company
l5O Monroe ST., Chicago, Ill.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05

needed as the heat of the sun is stored
up in coal, is released in the furnace,
The use of capital in production is there
fore but q mode of labor, and for the
maintenance of capital its production
by labor must be commensurate with its
consumption in aid of labor" Now let
us see how this will work out: In l492
Columbus discovered this continent and
had he borrowed 81 at that time, at say
per cent, compound interest-now re-
member this So was the heat of the,
sun stored in the coal, to be released as
needed, but to make the similitude COM
plete, God must have stored up these 81
as he did the heat of the sun in the coal,
which I think in all fairness he did not,
or these So could not have been the
product of human labor, as we are taught
to believe they are--then how much
would these 81 have earned for the man
who loaned these 50 to Columbus, in 400
years land it only lacks eight. years of
that time) Remember the man. himself
did nothing in the same time. If you
look at my compound table in my last
you can figure it out for yourselves. The
So would have earned for the loaner over
$13, 900. Now bear in mind that these
50 are a dead something that cannot
move itself, had it been; left to itself.
Now, how did it earn this much for its
loaner2 This is how it was done: 1t
required the living labor of ten men at
81 day to reach this result: or in other
words, it required the saving of 81 a day
from the wages paid to ten men since
that time-or 400 years. Look att you
can figure it for yourselves. If it won't
instruct it might amuse you, to find out
how you are robbed in order to pay this
which you produce yourselves which is
made by we'll understood law among
money loaners, to earn more for the
loaner than FIVE men could earn at So
per day. .....
There would be some little excuse for
this robbery if God had stored away the
So to be released when loaned to Colum-
bus, but, as the cold, bare facts show,
even this excuse is denied 1t.
I know that it is hard matter to get
workingmen to read long communica-
tions, and more especially is this the case
on the finance, because they are taught
that the science is too profound for them,
and even after they master it they are
coolly told that they do not understand
the intricate working of the complex
machine And it is a pity tits true. that
q great many of them follow out this
teaching Yours in the cause of Labor,
D. NICK. WHITE.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05
ssTo-Day,, For Sale

Several copies of late issues of the ex-
cellent Socialistic magazine, 'To-day."
have been received at this Office. They
contain articles from the pens of some of
the ablest thinkers in Europe, and also
an epitome of the peoples movement in
that land. They can be obtained on ap-
plication at 25 cents a copy. The pro-
ceeds of all such sales are devoted to the
propaganda. Come early as there are
only q few copies left.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05
Humility.


Editor Labor Enquirer.
CHICAGO, July 1.-One of the most
discouraging things with which reform
ers have to contend in this movement is
the humility of many of the poor wage
serfs; and it is not humility of the
"Uriah Heep" sort, that crouches and
crawls in order to hide cunning pur-
pose, but genuine and downright fear.
tits manifested in the cringing attitude
of laborers toward those who are placed
over them, and subservience all who
are in authority. The poor victims of an
atrocious robber system are 80 blinded
to their own interests by ages of oppres-
sion that they cannot perceive that this
servile demeanor but tends to bind their
chains the faster, and sink them deeper
into the slough of despair, while the
powers that they seek to soften and con-
ciliate regard them as only fit to be
treated like brutes. 1t is one of the
traits of human nature to respect those
who respect themselves, and to despise
those who have no self-respect. Let a
wage-slaYe but once allow himself to be
cowed, and he must thenceforth submit
to every kind of indlgnity which the
caprice of his master may suggest and
impose upon him. l have seen an en-
ployer lead one of his men around by
the ear and knock his head against the
wall, while he would allow another of
his underlings to sass" him without
restraint.
If we permit our masters to bully us
they will take advantage of our softness,
and having once been given the inch
they will not be slow in applying the
foot. We have all read, and some of US
have seen the servility of the poorer
classes in Europe. How, when my lord
or lady came riding by the cap was
DOTTED and the head bowed in abject
submission. Thanks to the spirit of en-
lightenment which is now animating
the masses, this stupid custom is rapidly
going out of use. The peasant in Ire
land 40 longer considers it an honor to
be patted on the Drawn by his landlord
The aborer in England is beginning in
earnest TO question the divine right of
princes and aristocrats to rule over them.
The Canaille of the French republic,
the agricultural laborers and peasants of
Germany, the serfs of Russia, the disin-
herited of all nations are showing un-
mistakable signs of awakening from
their lethargy and habit of seryile obedi-
ence, and we may hope that the time is
surely coming when all the oppressed of
the earth will uniteiu the grand rallying
cry, LIBERTY, EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05

Every Lady

Interested in Art Needlework Fancy Work.
and every branch. of amateur Art Floricul,
ture, Fashion, Cookery or Music should send
10 !. cents lor the current number &rd,cbridye6 e
C9othteT's Quarterly, 40 pages, pages new
music and over ! IO00 engravfngs each humber.
STRAWBRIDGE& & CLoTHIER.
Eighth and Market Sts., Philada,
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05
SUBSCRIBE At ONCE

nnI7F Send six GEMS tor postage
M 9: :;;:::; Is: is: !: $
ifH.away than anything eSem
the world. All, of either sex, succeed nom
first hour. The broad road to fortune opens
before the workers, absolutely sure. At once
address, TRUE & Co., Augusta, Maine
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05

If it should be found, after careful
trial thereof, that any form or system OF
government or society fails to. maintain
the rights of man, then tits not only. the
right but the most sacred duty of the
whole people to alter or abolish the said
system by any and all possible means,
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05
Y I [ [

Society can deny to those who do not
consent to this system of society any
share of the benefits produced by the
cooperation Of those who do consent.
1t is but just that those who will not CO.
operate should receive none OF the BEN
efts of cooperation.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05

Debt, profit, interest, rent and the COM
petitive system of industry are hereby
formally declared proved instruments Of
degradation and tyaranny. and cancers
upon the social body. So also are the
present methods of Furnishing crime
rather than preventing it; the present
monetary system the present method OF
suffrage; the present method of educa-
ton; and the present systems of juris-
prudence, church and military.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05

Every individual is entitled to an
equal proportionate share of all the accu-
mulated wealth created by past genera
tions, and that wealth should be held by
society as the natural heritage in. COM
mon of all mankind.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05

Every individual is entitled to an equal
proportional share of all the natural ad-
7antages of earth. The whole people
should hold the land, light, air and water,
together with other of natures re-
sources, as the natural heritage IN COM
mon of all mankind, and of his propor-
ton thereof no man should ever be de-
prived.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05

The right of life, which belongs equally
to all men, carries with it the right to
the means of living. Chief among these
subsidiary rights is the right of each in
dividual to receive the full product OF
his own labor, without tithe, tax or dim
mutton, upon any pretext.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05

/ Whatever rights belong to one man
belong to all men equally, whatever diff
ference there may be in their physical,
mental, or moral force. Equality OF
rights is established by nature Society,
so far from invadingit, ought justly to
constitute security against the abuse Of
force which would render 1T illusory. =,
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-05

Liberty is the power which belongs to
a man of exercising'all his faculties at
pleasure. 1t has justice for its. rule the
rights of others for its boundaries, nature
for its origin, and the law for it's safe
guard.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-08
A Fierce Clash OF Cavalry.

AS soon as Col. Dearing moved out 80
as to threaten the Federal flank, Col.
Washburne charged aim with his cavalry
aud / never witnessed q handsomer
charge than at this time led. Dearing
met him with the same undaunted, deter.
mined pluck, and the most savage hand.
to-hand fight ever witnessed was the
result. Dearing and Washburne were
both killed within three feet of each
other. Whether they slew each other
cannot say, but meuy think they did.
Col. Boston and Major Thompson were
also killed in this cavalry fight aud every
man In Washburne's command was killed,
wounded or captured; none tried to
escape. was unable. from wound
received through my left arm at Five
Forks few days before, from using my
sabre, but during the fight I rode among
my men and encouraged them by nv
presence, which was all could do, and
while looked on saw Major Jim
Breathard, of the horse artillery, attack
two Federal captains, Breathard with
pistol and the Federals with sabres.
They closed before Breathard had an op-
portunity to shoot, or If he shot he missed
his mark, and when saw him the Fed
erals were cutting and striking at him
with their sabres and Breathard was ex-
ceedlngly busy warding them off with his
pistol. Their horses were run against
Breathard's and he was finally Knocked
of his horse, and in falling his foot was
caught between his horse aud one OF the
Federal captains and pulled off one of
his boots. Breathard then shot and killed
one of the officers and Courier Scruggs
dashed out from my side and killed tho
other, and in moment Breathard was in
the saddle again, with only ono boot, and
again joined in the fight.-Maj- Gen.
Rosser in the Phila. Weekly Times. 7.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-08

for us. Not 3 foot Of lumber could be
had With which to build. But fortunate
ly Gran, had leE piles of hewn logs
which were intended for bridges, and
these my husband collected and soon
erected "log cabin" which was very
comfortable.
The farmers Of Madison Parish were
generally wealthy men, having good
homes filled with elegant furniture.
Whenever this furniture was left by tho
fleeing owners it was seized by the Fed
erals. The Mississippi River furnished
easy transportation TO the Northwest.
In my musings often picture to myself
Sweet Western girl" entertaining her
beau with music on piano which she
toastingly says "Papa captured in the
war" While her mother dashes around
in damask lined carriage that was once
Rebels property, and the little children
OF the bravo Union soldier nestle togeth.
er on confiscated mahogany bedstcad.
Some may say, "Oh those were only
camp-followers and bummers who pill.
laged your private residences" Not.
wlthstanding, the pulpit, the press, pub.
lie sentiment urged and applauded every
lndignty that was heaped upon us.
Those Union officers who devastated our
fields and burned our cities have been
rewarded with honors and princely
emoluments of Office, while others who
were gentlemen are forgotten.
A lsdy, while visiting Minnesota with
her husband some few years since, met
:nan, holding an important office, who
soss;ed Of the part ne took in burning
Delhi and the private residences ou Wal.
nut bayoG. His recital of how he made
the Rebels scamper" seemed TO afford
him intense pleasure. After listening
quietly for time with suppressed iudig.
nation to his adventures, she informed
him that her home was in Madison Par.
lsh, and then giving him her opinion of
Yankee raiders in style that only an
"unreconstructed" Rebel woman is capa-
BILE Of doing, left his presence. This
lady was the little girl whose steady
hand made light when the midnight
raiders came to my house.
We have years ago forgiven all who
wronged us, but do not ask lis to forget.
For
The terrible past
Must cvor DC ours while lifo shall last:
CuTs VIII. its :SCE1G; ics-ours with its pain
Ours with Its best blood shed like rain
Its sacrifices, all made in vain.
Forget7 Nevern
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-08

-"Is your sister in, Johnny 2" "She
is. She's in the parlor waitin' for you.
Say, what'll yer give me If toll you
wha. she 81, said si!l, las. night when yon went
right. Thank yer. Well, guess she's
a.goin' to be awful kind to:yon, and feed
you -ell when you git married, cause she
said ron had mighty high notions about
yourself and yorr folks, but she would
make you eat humble pie for 1t when
she's your wife"
= = The officer who opens the Court is
called the "crier." On one occasion the
said officer had lost his wife, who had led
him an uncomfortable life, and he was OF
course absent from his poet. When the
Court came In, the Judge, as usual, said,
E"Mr. Cr'er, open the Court" A young,
facetious lawyer addressed the Court ns
follows: 'May it please your Honor,
Mr.. 3. cannot cry to-day; he has los,
his wife,"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-08
VOLUME XIX.---NO. 43..

misapplied, or in any manner appropri. !.
ated or used other than for the purpose
herein required, the funds, or any part
thereof, received under the provisions Of
this Act, or shall fail to comply with the
conditions herein prescribed, or to report
as herein provided, through its proper
officers, the disposition thereof, and the
other matters herein prescribed to be 80
reported, such State or Territory shoiI
forfeit its right to any subsequent appor.
tionment by virtue hereof until the full
amount 40 misapplied, lost or m;sappro.
| priated shall have been replaced by such
State or Territory and applied as herein
required, and until such report shalI have
been made: Provided, That if the pubI;a
schools in any State admit pupils not
within the ages herein specified it shall
not be deemed O failure to comply with
the conditions herein. fit shall appear
TO the secretary of tho interior that the
funds received Under this Act for the
preceding year by the State or Territory
have been faithfully applied to the pur-
poses contemplated by this Act, and thas
the conditions thereof have been observed,
then the secretary of the interior shalt
distribute the next years appropriation
as hereinbefore provided. The secretarv
Of the interior shall have power to hear
and examine any complaints of misap-
preparation or unjust discrimination In
the use of the funds herein provided, and
she'll report to Congress the results
thereof.
SEC. lL. That on or before the first day
Of september of each year the secretary
OF the interior shall report to the Presi.
dent Of the United States whether any
State or Territory has forfeited its RIGHT
to receive its apportionment under this
Act, and how forfeited, and whether he
has Withheld such allotment on account
of such forfeiture and each State and
Territory from which such apportion.
ment shall be withheld shall have the
right to appeal from such decision of the
secretary of the interior to Congress.
SEC. 13. That the secretary of the
interior shall be charged with the practi.
cal administration Of this Act in the
Territories through the commissioner Of
education, who shall report annually to
Congress its practical operation, aud
briefly the condition of common and
industrial education rs effected thereby
throughout the country, which report
shall be transmitted to Congress by the
secretary of the interior, accompanying
the report of his department. And the
power to alter, amend or repel this Act
is hereby reserved.
SEQ. IA. That no State or Territory
that does not Gistribute tho moneyy
raised for common.school purposes
equally for the education of ell the chill
dren, without distinction of race or color,
shall be entitled to any of the benefits of
this Act.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-08

"A prairie farmer reports that o late
wiud-storm lifted about everything Gon,
his lands except the mortgage.
-"I aim to tell the truth" "Yes,n
interrupted an acquaintance, "and you
are probably the worst shot in America"
= A candidate with healthy boom
to-day may wake un to-morrow ED find
it gone. Everything that runs by wind
power is liable to such collapse.
- Laziness grows on people it begins
in cobwebs and ends In iron chains. The
more business man has to do the moro
ne is able to accomplish, for he learns to
economize his time.
- He who would admonish others
should above all things, be careful of
their reputation and sense of shame.
They who have cast off blushing are
beyond amendment.
= Light-minded young thing in a
bathing suit: Surely, Aunt Margaret,
you're not going to wear your spectacles
into the water |" Aunt III. aIndeed am.
Nothing shall induce me to take off anoth-
or thing"
- A girl on exhibition at Chicago has
ten fingers on each hand. If abe ever
gets married aud allows them to toy with
the hair of her husband In the usual
marital way his head is liable to grow
bald in single matinee. -.
= What is q dandy? A thing in
pantaloons, with body and two arms !;
head without brains, and cigar stuck
in hole in his face tight boots; a
scented, white hankerchief; standing
collar two brooches !; and showy ring
on his little finger.
-"Let every person see IL he can draw
q monkey, and then sign his name to tho
slip of paper" said q practical Joker at
an evening company. The joker collec.,
ted the slips, and the next day leading
citizen, and candidate for the Office Of
mayor, was he7sified 70 see his sketch
| stuck up in the postoffice with his own
autograph affidavit under It. a
We cannot too strongly recommend
onions for food. They are we'll known
70 possess very high degree Of nutrition,
besides having an Important effect upon
the secretions of the human system.
When persons are affected with the pain.
full cat-boils that are so common iE the
Spring and Summer, silver skinned
onions, freely eaten raw, for u week or so,
will completely eradicate them. This Is 6
simple remedy for what is often a very
painful aflliction, but Il is very effective,
ana we have .ofton thought that q few
quarts of fresh onions would have been
to Job much greater comfort. than his
three friends. 6 Il ~ ,ss
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-08
- If evils come not, then our fears are
vain; and If they do, fear but augments

vain; /; and 1t they do, fear but augments
the pain. !.
A Washington correspondent Of
the Ne,cs and Courier says: Vice.Pr
ident Edmunds 10 very much pleased
with the course of events, and already
his friends are claiming that he will be
nominated at Chicago on ths fint ballot.
Nav York having declared Tor him so
strongly 10 considered the best indication
OF popular sentiment in bis favor, and
especially since the Empire State Is to
be tho battle-ground of the campaign.
"a Representative from Pennsylvania,
who, has hitherto been outspoken for
Blaine, said to-day that the. recent car.
tnon in Pack, In which Blaine was tatooed
with ."sMulligan letter.. and other char
ges, had done the greatest, harm since
the campaign began. With Edmunds
aud Lincoln for tho ticket the Republi.
cans could wage an aggressive fight
whereas with Blaine they would have to
be On the defensive, and already the
latter's chances are waning.