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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
international Sunday. School Lessons.

SECOND QUARTER.
April 6-Paul's Third Mission
airy Journey..........A Acts. IS: 23-22s & 10: IL
April i3-Paul at Ephesus......A 10: a@
April 20-Pauls Preaching. ....1 Cor. i: 1881
April 81 Abstinence for the
Sake of Others. .............1 Cor. g: LA
May 4-Christian LOve.........l Cor. -: 1-13
May 1l-Victory over Death. II Cor. 10: 60-58
Nay 1S-The Uproar at Ephesus. Acts 10: 34l
& 70: 1-2
May e5-Liberal Giving ........2 Cor. 8: LIS
Juno 1-Christian Liberty. Gal. 4; l-l6
Jun 15-Thc Blesscdness of Be-
June 3-Ohedience TO Law. Rom. Is; Ito
June 9-Review; Or Missionary, Temperance,
or other Lesson selected by the school,.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
A New Desire and Purpose.

A man who is upright in heart off,.
finds it hard to maintain uprightnos.aa
in life. 1t is not strange that he, whas
asked to contribute to some reforaul
work, should accompany his Gift VIII,
a smile of incredulity. The sm ni,.
simply means: If you and l, who NY
bent OF being good, find it hard wo u
to express III intention in life, who.
can you expect of those whose lsa
lives are the expressions of their cor
rupt hearts?"
The answer to such incredulity-jt !,
the only reply that convinces-is r.
show him a reformed person, one Who's
desires and purposes have been changed
Such a presentation is made in the ia
lowing anecdote:
Twenty years ago a gentleman Wis.
tied the Massachusetts Reform School
and selected q boy to take into his
family. The one chosen was a wild
wiry fellow, who had been sent therr
from the Boston streets. He quietly
accompanied the gentleman until they
arrived in Boston. While on the wsy
to 3 depot, his old impulses to evil re-.
turned, and he suddenly darted from
the gentleman's side and ran up a side
street full of tenement houses, the
abodes of crime and dissipation. The
gentleman, being fleet of foot, soon col.
Jared the boy and forced him to walk to
the cars.
Unpromising as was the beginning
of the effort to make u good man Of =
bad boy, the gentleman determined to
persevcrc.
After q few weeks, his kindness won
the boys heart. Love for a good man
took the place of his evil desires. The
expulsive and impulsive power of .
new affection caused him to slough of
his wild Influences and gave him =
new purpose. Then he began to show
himself tractable, obligingg, steady and
gifted with unusual force of will.
The love of agood person is a trans
forming power. It creates o desire for
good; the desire inspires q right pur.
pose. One of the most noble things a
good person can do is to often allow a
weak person to share his sympathy
and society.
One day the boy did not surprise his
patron by telling him that he would
like to go to school. He had been ex-
pecting it, and had formed his plans.
Instead of sending him to an academy
and paying his expenses there, he
helped him to obtain worA by which
he paid his own bills.
He took a special course at q neigh
boring academy, and as soon as he had
completed it, announced that he in
tended to be q lawyer. His foster
father, staggered at this rapid stride,
tried to dissuade him from his purpose,
as he thought him untitled for that pro.
tession. But the boy, with characters
tic determination, persisted.
He entered q lawyers office, earned
a little money, and after a years study
went West.
He who q few yearsSfago was a wn0
boy, trying to break away from all good
influences, is to-day one Of the most sue.
,cessful lawyers in Minnesota, and better
than that, a man whose influence in
society is elevating, Christian and help
full to others.
Is it not thus that Christ transforms
lite by leading us to love Him who is
holy, and bringing a new purpose out Of
u new affectiOn?-Youth's Communion
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18

tra'add5ll u aschool. when thew J..
large sumssht their disposal hsd md
doubt where to put them in orda. no
make them q cont nuous power .
good. The art of spending NO 'os
wisely is not to be learned in a dav II ny
is . fortune TO be disposed of witbn not
an amount of care and thought co%
parable to that consumed in the m, IN
of it.-M ]. EIc'niney. s
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18

In the Jefferson Market Police
Court in New York it was decided re-
Gently that John Alsop, arrested for at
tempting suicide, should be discharged
because, although he was found With
his throat cut and a rope ABOUT his neck,
it had not been proved that he intended
to kill. hlmseG-N. Y. Suv
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18

-Ihe Black Watch, mentioned so
frequently in the dispatches from Sua'
hiln' as having borne the brunt of Cen
efal ura ANS last engagement, is the
.alne gwen to the F~orty-second Reg.
inent, Highlanders. Into this regiment
were enrolled, in 1887, the companies,
dressed in black or dark tartans. thai
naa watched the Highlands during tia
"@1 1or the restoration Of the S4uaIts
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18

The late Judge Otis Philips Lord, OF
Massachusetts, is said to have made but
one direct mistake on a question of law
while on the bench, and that was on a
statute which had just been amended.
On discovering his mistake, and that it
was due to the action just taken bv the
Legislature, he said: swell, the good
Lord only knows what the Massachusetts,
Legislature hasn't done in the last six
months. "--Bostom Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18

An Englishman offers a prize Q,
$4,000 to any n who will concoct some
drink to take the place of baor-
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18
Goldfish.

As Chronicle reporter passeu one of
those motley collections of birds, fish
and shells-a yeritable sea-curiosity
shop-he noticed several small boys
irving to abstract something from the
two tin cans at the door. As he drew
near the boys left, but the goldfish re-
manned.
tCan you,' said he, entering the
store, and addressing the proprietor,
'.spare the time to give me little IN
formation about goldfshP Where do
these come from?n
..From the Sandwich Islands and
from China, was the reply.
(Which are considered the tinestP
well, there's not much choice"
answered the proprietor; 1.-THE Chi
nese goldfish, y pointing to one tank,
4.besides having the largest fan-tails
are much bigger than those we are able
to get from the Sandwich Islands. You
zee how small they are. The natives
eat the full-grown fish"
"How do you get them up here|
s'In large tin cans, and we often lose
several hundred fish out of every thousI
sand, so we don't make great deal on
them utter all. A can tips over in the
night, and when the fact is discovered,
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18
4 Chapter on Corns.

Nearly everybody in this country has
corns, young,sold, high, low, rich, poor;
and there appears to be special crop
of them at this season of the year
This corn ailment is assuming a serious
aspect as the population is coming to be
full of cripples. How many men could
do days march, say of twenty-five
miles, in the shoes they wear and not
be completely used up at the end of the
journeys How is it that men and women
may exercise good Judgment in every
thing else and be altogether astray in
buying pair of shoesP What is to
blame for all these corns and the human
misery they entail? The responsibility
is equally divided between the shoe
maker and the wearer Corns are
caused by friction-not direct and i'm
mediate, but gradual; and here it is
that leather of a light texture causes
corns. When man buys pair of
boots or shoes Of light material, no
matter how disproportionate they are,
how tight, the pressure at the time is
not sufficient to cause any direct I'M
easiness, owing to the pliability of the
leather. The foot fits the shoe, and not
the shoe the foot After week or two
of wearing the foot has come in con-
tact with the several sinuosities of the
shoes-the corn has been growing
gradually and the cuticle becomes
thickened, and circulation is impeded
and hence the pain. Cutting the hard
and thickened cuticle restores the cir
culation, and gives relief for the time
only to be aggravated again by friction
with some surface. Heavy leather is
the best remedy for corns and for this
reason, having a greater power of re-
sistance. the Wearer is at once made
aware OF the pressure on any particular
part Of the foot, and he instinctively
throws them off, when finer texture
would delude him into wearing them
until the gentle pressure produces a
corn. Firm, pliable leather, with
sufficient toe room, and to know where
the shoe pinches, /" is the panacea for
corns. London Free Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

AMERICAN womer are said to be the
most clever, active and energetic to be
found; and well they need to be, consider
ing the enormous demands made upon
shem by modern schools, housekeeping and
society. Mrs. Lydia z. Pinkham, in pre-.
pairing her celebrated Vegetable Com
pound, had in mind all these countless de-
nands on woman's strength, and her well
known remedy proves every day it's per-
feet adaptation to woman's special needs.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18
Ladies are becoming favorites for
ashiers ard other positions of imam
lal trust Chicago Herald.

MRS. HARRIET CUMMINGS, of Cincinnati, o.,
writes: "Early last winter my daughter
was attacked with severe cold, which set
tied on her lungs. She continued to get
worse, and finally raised blood from her
lungs. We called in family physician,
but he failed to do her good. A friend, who
had been cured by DR.. VIM. HALL's BALsAM
FOR THE LUNGS, advised me to give it a
trial. She began to improve, and by the
use of three bottles was entirely cured"
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

THE girl with bangs generally makes
aoise in the world-at least it annoys
good many to look upon her.-Yonkers
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

If you are sick with that terrible sick
ness, Nervousness, you will find Balm
in Gilead" in Hop Bitters.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

"Or if you are III the workshop, on the
farm, at the desk, anywhere, and feel
that your system needs cleansing, tom
ing. or stimulating, without intoxicat-
ing, if you are Dld,
blood thin and IMPURE, pulse
feeble, nerves unst eady, faculties
swaning, Hop Bitters is what you need to
sgiye YOU new lite, health and vigor."
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

II YOU are a minister, and
have overtaxed yourself with your
nastoraI duties, or Il mother, worn out
With care and work. or man of business or
labor, weakened by the strain OF yours your every very
YOUR midnight WORK, Hop Bitters will most
surely strengthen You.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

own fault if you reTnain i'll. If
YOU are wasting away with any form
of Kidney disease. stop tempting death this
moment, and turn for azure to Hop Buffers
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18
morda Of Warrir,c- I'D :.

"If Won are suffering tro u oor isa 40
slanguishng on n fied of cie!zn.as6 t.s.z- Acec-
if YOU are simply alling, or ii you ice.
weak 8slld dispirted,
without clearly know
ing why hop Bitters
will suS.ely cure you
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

If you are suffering from over eating on
drinking, any indiscretion or dissipation, OF
are young and growing too fast, as is often
the case,
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

If you are frequenter, or resident Of
"a miasmatic disfriet, barricade your sys~
tenn against thu; scourge of all countries
Malaria Epidemic, Bilious and Inter
--mittent FevGrs by the use of Hop Bittera
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

PUBLIC speakers and singers use Piso's
Cure for hoarseness and weak lungs.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

An underground stream flows be
meath the city of Birmingham, Ala II
is to- be used for asewer.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

If you are cost{ye or dyspeptic or suffer"
ING from any other of the numerous dis
eases of the stomach or bowels, it is youS=
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

CoIden's Liquid Beef Tonic
Should be taken by the weak, worn and
dyspeptic. Colden's, no other.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

SLEEP, ''nature's sweet restorer," is the
best grind>tone we know of to brighton
ones ideas.-Kentucky State Journal. --~
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

Skinny Men. .'Wells' Health Rcncwer'' restores
health s. vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence. 81.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

"Buchu-Paiba." Quick, complete cure. all
annoying Kidney and Urinary Diseases. o..
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

A SCREAMING farce-The performance of
an amateur opera singer.-BOston Post.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

FALSE hair does not antedate false
pride.-TretzeI'S Weeklg.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

SHOULD a mustard plaster BE- classed
among drawing materials?- OH CITY Der
rick.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

If you have rough. pimply, or sallow skin.
bad breath, Hop! Bitters will give you fair
skin, rich blood,I the sweetest breath and
health. $500 will be paid for a case they villa
not cure or help.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

THE timid boy will tricycle. before he
ventures to bicycle.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

THE question of the hour-What time o
day is it?-BOStOn Courier.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

Enough on Toothache." Ask for it. Instant
relief, quick cure. 15c. Druggists.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18
A Tn.dv's Wish.

a AIUy W4sAs
"Oh how do wish my skin was as clear
and soft as yourss7 said o lady to her friend.
"You can easily make it So, answered the
friend. "How?" inquired the first lady.
"By using Hop Bitters that makes pure,
rich blood and blooming health. 1t did it for
me. as you observe"
None genuine without bunch of green.
Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile, poi
sonous stuff witB Hop or Hops in their
Nance
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

A JUSTICES panta1oons can hardly be
called breaches Of the peace.-Boston Bull
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

POSSESSED only in imagination, guinea
becomes far.tning. YOnkers Gazette.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

Trough on Itch" cures humors. eruptions, ring
worm, letter. salt rheum, frosted feet, chilblatns
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18

Catarrhal Throat affections, hacking, Irritating
Coughs Colds cured by Trough on Coughs" 25c
St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-18
EDUCATTONAL.

LEARN TELEGRAPHY Good T. s AsSG5i n"i nEsF
chance ever offered Id j. ID. BROWN, Mgr. Scdaa, no
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-10
Life as a Gambling-stake.

A peculiar gambling case once came
before the Bow street police court.
Two men, one tall and stout and the
other short, were charged under the
following remarkable circumstances
A Bow street officer named Croker
was passing along the Hampstead
road when he observed the two pris-
oners at the top of wall. A moment
later he saw to his horror the tall man
hanging by his neck from lamp
post attached to the wall, being that
instant tied up and turned off by the
short man. Croker rushed up to the
spot, when the tall man fell to the
ground, the handkerchief with which
he had been suspended having fortu-
nately given way.
Croker produced his staff, said he
was an officer, and demanded an ex-
planation of the proceeding the only
reply he received to his inquiry be-
ing a violent blow on the nose from
the tall man, which nearly knocked
him backward. The short man ran
away but the officer, procuring as
sistance. managed to capture both.
They explained to the bench that
they worked on canals. They had
been tossing for money, and after
ward for the clothes. The tall man,
who has hanged, won the others
jacket, trousers, and shoes. They
then agreed to toss up which should
hang the other, and the short man
won. They got upon the wall. and
the tall man paid his debt of honor
by allowing the short man to hang
him. They both agreed to this; and
the tall man said if he had won the
toss he would assuredly have hanged
his friend.-Lonolon Telegraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-10
AnecdOte of Thad Stevens.

DR.. j. l.. M. Curry is here, an in
terested observer of events and an
impatient listener to some of the inn
practicable southern orators. He says
he would give $500 to make speech
in the Senate on the Blair bill, but
thinks that senator Brown will speak
with such words of wisdom as the
country will heed. DIR. Curry is a
Georgian-a Lincoln county man
and hopes to visit his birthplace this
summer. l was surprised to find
him so young looking. He was, !
well remember, a famous orator in
Congress when l was a boy at college.
l have seldom met a more brilliant
and solid person. He told me an an
ecdote of the late, but not in the
South. lamented Thaddens Stevens.
A Virginian named Edmonston was
one day walking down Pennsylvania
avenue with Mr.. Curry, then a con-
gresham. Mr.. EdmOnston was much
excited about remark that he had
traced to Mr.. Stevens, and had threat
ened to insult him on sight. Mr..
Curry tried to appease him, but did
not altogether succeed. Soon after
ward Edmonston described Thad
Stevens just ahead on the avenue,
and, his wrath returning, said:
"There goes the dashed old rebel
now. l am going to confront him."
Before his companion could arrest
him Edmonston had confronted the
enemy. Hating the Pennsylvania
statesman, the fiery Virginian eiacu-
lated: "Mr. Stevens, sir, I heard that
you had insulted my state" Thegrim
old man, with a malicious twinklein
his eye, responded: "Oh, no ; l think
not Mr.. Edmonston. But what did
| say Extensively ?" Edmonston re-
joined: "You said, sir. that John
Brown could haye captured Virginia
with thirty-five men," Hardly sup
pressing laugh. his wicked old eyes
glimmering still more maliciously,
Thad Stevens, in sharp tone, said {:
"You have got it wrong, Mr.. Edmon-
ston, frightfully wrong! l did not say
that John Brown could have captur-
ed Virginia with thirty-fve men; 1
put it at seventy-five men, sir-seven.
ty-five men!" Edmonston was struck
dumb with amazement, and fell back
as old Thad hobbled on up Pennsyl-
vania avenue, chuckling and grin
ming.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-10
An African Empire.

New York Globe, [Colored Organ.)
Tropical Africa contains what the
world wants. 1t is a country of ex-
haustless resources. This will lead
to human intercourse with foreign
lands, the introduction of improved
agricultural and manufacturing i'm
plements, steam engines, railroads,
printing presses, machines, "and the
thusand processes and appliances by
which the comfort, progress and use.
fulness of mankind are secured"
Growth and development will come
from within, not from without. The
spirit of modern progress will be AT
ricanized. People of the same blood.
dwelling together on the same aims,
aspirations and interests, will unite
and move on in the same lines. A
great mind will be the product of the
changes and growths that are even
now taking place in tropical Africa.
Influences will go out of Siberia and
Sierra Leone that will give shape to
such political possibility as an At
rican Empire. Perhaps the great
African general and statesman may
come out of one or the other Of these
two countries. Many a man has
been laughed at as "a dreamer,"
whose dreams have come to pass in
living realities. Truly has it been
said, 1.-THE eyolutions of fact are
sometimes stranger than the romance
of fiction" The Bible contains the
prophecy, "Ethiopia shall suddenly
stretch forth her hand unto God"
We believe that this prophecy shall
be fulfilled. Influences will work as
leaven in lump until an African
Empire shall suddenly arise among
the Ethiopians, and men will cry,
IA nation is born in day."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-10
Anecdotes of Agassiz.

l remember him when thirty years
and more ago he was rendered a gov
ernment vessel to make coral and
sponge investigations off the Florida
coast, said gentleman in Hartford
the other day, speaking of Agassiz.
For six weeks / was associated with
him. When the government was
about to tender the vessel to him the
Secretary of the Navy told Commo-
dore Rogers-John Rogers, but re-
Gently dead-not on any account to
point out to the naturalist anything
strange in the ocean. "If you do"
he added, che will jump overheard
after it; you can't stop him." The
commodore took great care to obey
the Injunction. When the vessel
reached the Florida coast Agassiz
was placed in the Glitter and rowed
toward the shore. The water was as
clear as crystal; 4; you could see every
pebble on the bottom. This was
about the first of Agassiz's acquaint-
ance with corals, and as he observed
the delicate growths he exclaimed in
rapt admiration, "Oh, what beauti-
full specimens ~ When the boat was
in about fourteen feet of water he saw
a lot of coral and Immediately sprang
overheard, clothes and all. Of course
he went down, having miscalculated
the depth, but he soon came up puff
fing and grasped the gun'ls. He
wouldn't re-enter the boat. but re-
tained his hold until his feet touched
bottom-then he Immediately made
for more specimens. 1 remember he
was stung in the palm of the hand
by some unknown specimen of insect
that had been liberated from large
mass. He had finished his superb.
cial examination and was about tC
throw it into the alcohol, when il
turned upon him. He fell instantly
to the floor. When he recovered he
said, 81 wouldn't take 81 900 for thai
experience" He was likewise high
ly elated when stung by a coral in
sect.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-10
An Ohio Mans Invention.

Charlie Kugle, an ingenious fellow
in Barnesville, o.. has constructed a
sheet-iron hen that promises to lay
him golden egg. 1t is finished up
to life, full size, cackles, clucks, and
looks with one eye at time so nat
urally that it will deceive the oldest
hen-hawk in the county. 1t is 80 ar
ranged that when the hawk, mink
or pole-cat pounces on to it the back
springs open and the wings fly up
and force the assailant on to a rave
nous buZZ-SaW that makes LOO rev.
olutionS per minute. After moving
half a minute the saw stops, the hen
closes up, and begins to cackle as
though it had just laid an egg. One
winding up will answer for three
massacres, provided the rather deli
cate machinery does not get clogged
up with too much blood, bones and
feathers. He set a freshly painted
one out in the sun to dry last Wedn-
esday which attracted the attention
of a fine old cat belonging to a doctor
who had been pOking good deal of
fun at the fool thing. The hen is
there, but the cat is hence. Chicago
Inter- Ocettl,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-10
UnleaVened Bread.

In Cincinnati is the only mates
steam bakery in that part of the cOun-
try, and the latest and most improved
machinery is used. The main feature
is the rapidity with which the dough
is handled, and with this improved
machinery it is scarcely touched by
the hands of the workmen. The pro-
cess is very simple. Exact proper
tions of -four and water are weighed
out and Immediately put into the
kneading machine, which consists of
heavy iron trough and a huge,
fiuted iron cylinder, weighing 700
pounds. The cylinder moves forward
and backward over the dough, thor
oughly kneading it in less than five
minutes. The dough is then trans
ferred to the first rolling machine,
which rolls it out into smooth sheet
about half an inch thick. 1t is then
passed through second machine and
w PiOPOi tAhNhhSoc Aot IhS
"cutter." This last machine cuts the
dough into uniform sheets 6xS inches,
and stamps the holes into it. From
the cutter it is passed directly into
the ovens, where it is baked and
finished in one minute and quarter.
The time required to make the
mates, from the time the -four is
taken from the barrel until it is taken
from the oven is less than fifteen
minutes, so that the dough has not
the time to become sour. The ma
chinery and the ovens are used fol
this purpose only, and consequently
are idle for nine months in the year
The firm will make 100000 pounds
of mates this year. They ship it tC
Nebraska, Colorado, and all over the
South,