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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-04
A HARD LOCALITY.

$50 YOU'RE going into politics, they
tell me. Mr. Minigin. L do hope you'll
do better than those horrid men up
at Albany. My husband says they re
going to spend an awful big sum to
deprave Fifth avenue, when everyone
knows its depraved enough already"
New York Dial.
NOT THIS YEAR.
''They say you srs fresh," sang the robin to
spring;
"They say you are verdant," sang he;
And spring made reply, with wink IN her
eye.
"Oh, 20, there's o green about me-"
-[Somervil9 Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-04

Trees, Plants, Shrubs AID Flower Roots
Greenhouse, Window, Bedding and Border
Plants, Cut Flowers, Loose or Arranged, to
order. Horticulture a Specialize
SELE II Vegetable and Flower Seeds for
Farm aud Ga.dsn. Tomato, CaulI1oWer and
Cabbage Plants, etc, for sale. ap2
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-04
MATTFR-yF-FACT.

Pm very matter of-fsct," she cried,
1c handsome bachelor at her eide
An a. gel without wings.
"Ch, certainly yes" the wretch rep lied,
'For 1t is acknowledged far and wide
That facts are stBbboTn Things"
IN. O. Times-Uemocrat
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-04

PURE WOMAN's LOVE.
Woman's greatest beauty Ia love;
'Tis tested ofttimes shaken;
II nouriHhed. like a rose 1t Blooms,
But Wlthers il forsaken.
Then best is he by whom 'tis null ssd-
By God 'twas made and given;
There il DO greater beauty than
Pare Woman's loVe-'tis heaven,
philadelphia Call
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-04
DAVID JAMES & Co
DAVID JAMES &C Co.

Have in stock q large assortment
OF Tin Plate. Sheet Iron Roofing. and
Galvanized Iron, and are prepared TO-
do all kinds OF Tin, Copper ana sh lee
Iron Work. Stove Furniture a 6pe
cialty.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-04
Lots FOR Sale.

See noe city lots on Third East street
cheap.
FSO 4 nice lot 5x1O, on First South street,
'oO Eleventh Ward
7SO A nice lot sx2O. on Eighth street
~ cheap, Eleventh Ward.
06O A toOt. Fine building spot on Second
NOO south street, half block from Main
street, lot 4ikl6o feet bargain.
060 Corner lot 4X5 rods, good location, IN
Wv Tenth Ward.
17S Fine city lot 7Hx1O rods on Third
80 East street, choice and cheap, Third
Ward.
40 Nice lot in the Twenty-frst Ward.
$50 A. nice 10, 5zlo, ia ths Twsats-frst
$40 A nice lot on Brigham street, fine To-
cation, a-
0SO A corner lot, in good location for
HoO residence, 1-2x10 rods very cheap
A LSO lopg list Of lots at very low prices,
IA in all parts of the city. -
Farms Fer Sale. 20 n
.7SO nice place-eight acres of ground
'oO and a house IN Sugar House Ward,
young orchard, cheap.
goo A bargain. Four acres of fine farming
ooO land in Sugar House Ward.
1900 a 4 f aSls S[0hard on the State Road
100 An acre for IS sores Of f7e cultivated
wv land on the Jordan, only "a mites
from Main street. vcg
LOW acres in lucerce, VIII exchange for
050O a nice farm Of thirty.fOur- acres
NoOO across Jordan, a fine p ace, two
good houses and barn. All under caltivs-
ton except small piece OF p ssture land.
A LSO a number Of good farms at easy
"A terms, and IN exchange for city prop
erky, y go
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-04


Married but six weeks and in
.eare!" exclaimed friend to weep.
ing bride.
"Yes; the first Carnal shadow has
fallen sthwart our pathway. 1t is
settled at last; either I must quit eat.
ing taf1y, or George must cut of his
mnstache. THE Breeze.
THE LISTERS WALL
Once was bright as a mi1summer's MON,
But now am faded and very much worn.
Ny owner, Q seedy, broken-up fop,
Bas hung me right up in his pet "uncle's"
rhe future, n which al my hopes had been
Has nothing in store save an old crazy quilt.
- New York Journal
TWAS LONG AGO.
Nero ia said to have worn tiara
worth 50, 100000 but history fails to
state that. although noted violinist,
be had his tiara stolen now and then
in order to get several thousand dol
lara worth of free adyersisiDg.- Nor
ristcn Herald.
DEPLORABLE FACT.
IT. ere csn't he sunshine every day
at tunes the tempest lowers;
We cannot always take our way
Through Eesdows strewed with flowers;
WHAT, STRIKE a WOMAN?
The fature Mrs. Oscar Wilde will
wear a head dress of suudo@ers at
the bridal ceremony. People, IN
throwing old shoes after this couple.
sHould endesVor TO combine force
with great accuracy of aim.-Phils-
delphis Call.
FORECAST,
When springtime gets her prip, 80
Upop his yearly trip
The ever-starVing tramp doth roam about.
To the farmer he VIII tell
OF his sufferings, But the sell
Won't go, and SO he's quickly fired ont.
boston Post.
TIE CASHIER'5 ARsCoNDBD.
I'vs laid ont all my capital
In loves deceptive bank;
But no return can I discern
so there fear it sank.
-1Terre Haute Blade
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
CAUSED BY A SWITCHMAN.

A Railroad Employees Love of Drink
Causes One Death and Many Injuries.
BELLEvlLLE, ILL.,, April About eight
o'clock last evening a serious railroad acct
dent occurred here, in which one person
was killed instantly and twelve were dan.
gerously wounded. AS a passenger
train on the GAINESVILLE s. Nash,
vile Railroad backed out of the
depot it ran through an open switch:
and tho last coach was thrown down a
twenty-toot embankment. 1t was found
that the switcnman had abandoned the
switch for a few minutes to go into a
%nelghboring saloon for d drink. John Com
stock had his head crushed, killing him in.
stantly. The following is a list of the in.
jured: R. Gibbons, p. M. Anderson, j. A.
hlohrer, wife and six children; three Of the
children will probably die; John Barton,
wife and five children, Miss Rosa Barton,
Annie Hoffman, G. B.. Morris and wife,
James A. Larkin, Mrs. Miller. d. Nair,
J. H. Cross. All the injured were taken te
the Thomas House and the other hotels
and are under the care OF the Belleville
physicians. Bissell, the conductor of the
train, says that all the fault rests with the
switchman, who ran away fearing that hi
would be lynched.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
"Sturgeon Don't Bite"

There were four or five Of us on the
long wharf running out into the Gulf at
Mississippi City, and we had been fish
ing away for half an hour without any
luck when a big fat mar named Blake,
from Ohio, suddenly called out:
"Say, boys, let's have a swim"
1t was too hot. and we were too law,
but Blake declared that he'd have a
swim by himself. He off with his
clothes, backed down into the water.
and for q quarter of an hour hung to a.
Spite and splashed the water, not being
able to swim a stroke. BY and bv he
climbed out, but scarcely had his feet
touched the planks when one OF the men
sung out:
"By the great horn spoon! but see
Ten feet away from the emil of the
wharf were two sharks at least seven
feet long, and the water was so clear
that every wink Of their eyes could be
seen.
eyes, a couple of s~turgeon!" OBJ
served Blake as he waddled forward.
81 saw 'em hanging around when !
went down, put sturgeon don't bite!'
When he came to fully realize what
an escape he had he sat down on the
head of a Spite and blu5bered like a bow
who had stubbed his tGe.-Detron E,ree
Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
Tillage is Manure.

This saving is true to a certain e1.
tent hut we must not be misled bv +
| We all know that if the soil is well prc.
pared by deep blowing and thorough
narrowing, and the seed well and care.
fully planted, followed by thorough
cultivation, we very often obtain a good
| crop where we are certain that had we
been rem;ss in any OF these essentials
we would certainly have had an I'm.
profitable one; thus tillage is manure,
| that is, it helps us raise a crop where
these directions are fully carried out.
To say that our crops would be as
rood in the same soil and with the sam
cultivation as though a good appliea-
ton OF manure were given, am sure.
from my own experience, would be 90
ing too far. and claiming too much.
l am convinced every year more firmly
of the fact that it will pay to spend
more time and labor in t.! g preparation
of our rcps, for in so doing we help
them along somewhat the same as
would an application of nanure. But
] am also equally well assured that in
order to obtain the very best of results,
not only must there Re thorough tillags
of the soil before and after planting,
but also the soil must be kept as rich as
possible. [ have never, as a farmer,
been able by either of these two meth.
DDS to get my land too rich, eve in the
garden where Itake special painsto have
| tmade as rich as I can, by using ashes.
poultry manure, lime, rotton chips or
wood, as well as a liberal supply Of
| BARNARD manure. I can not recall
one s.ngla ms ance OF a crop being in
the least damaged by the soil being too
rich. While 1 know that very much is
gained by thorough tillage, yet can not
Give up 10 acknowledge but that the
most essential requirement of a large
crop is a ii h soil. Have this to com
mence with, and then take proper care
to prepare, plant and cultivate,
and we are reasonably sure of a profit
able crop.
There is no question that tillagc
without cropping is very beneficial 10
thin land; but few farmers are willing
to do this. In fact, it is generally more
profitable, as we'll as economical, 10
plant or SOW some kind of a crop,
even if it is plowed under as a green
manure, than to fallow and till without
q crop of any kind.
In my experience I have concluded
that the m king and sowing, and then
properly applying of all the manure
s.ible, is the first essential in success
1ul farming. The longer I farm the
better satisfied | I'm that us a rule we all
farm too mu h land; that we could
materially increase our profits if a
ST al:er acreage wos planted and cult
waited; more time given to making and
applying manures, and a more thor
ough preparation and cultivation of
what we plant. Profitable farming is
in raising What we do raise at the
smallest cost per bushel Or pound, and
to obtain this we must study the most
approved and latest plans.-Pruiris
Farmer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
The Easter Festival.

The people year; ago made ready for
Easter by feasting, at first for forty
hours. and then for a longer time, until
the feast reached the length of forty
days.
If we go back fifteen hundred years,
we will ind Constantinople, which is
now ruled by the Turk, the capital CITY
OF the Chr stan world. 1t was a more
beautiful city then than now. The
people were gay, and fond of the char
lot races which were given for their
amusement. The chariot drivers were
known by the co'ors they wore, and
there would be among tie people a
bluc-ribbon party and a red-ribbon
party, and they would shout for their
favorite chariot-drivers as if their lives
depended on the winning of the race.
On Sundays they went to hear their
great preacher, John, called the Col
den Mouth. and when he pleased then,
with his eloquencn they clapped their
hands and shouted to the tops of their
voices.
When the long fast began, the BRIGHT
city underwent a total change. The
races were suspe dcd, people moved &c
and fro i'll the markets quietly, and the
nights We're still, But all of this was
very tiresome to q pa t Of the popula,
tlon and 0 and then there would be
q chariot race in spite Of the rules OF the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
A National Disgrace.

'Here's what l call an Internal out.
rage, sah,'' excla med Colonel Bangs,
looking up from his paper, as he rode
down Austin avenue in the cars the
other morning.
'What's that?" asked DIR. Samson.
"Why 1 see bya dispatch from Wash
ingtl N that the Navy Department has
authorized the West Point Foundry AS
ISOLATION to turn out two steel rifed
cannon for the new cruisers. What do
you think OF that, sah?:"
"Well, mydear Colonel, what of itp''
''What of it, Why l should say that
there's lots OF it; loo much of it, sab!
l tell you, sab, it's enough to bring the
blush of shame to every American
cheek, sah!"
"Why, what's wrong about it9"
"Wha'ts wrony, sab? I'm surprised
at you, sab. The idea of the Govern
ment, in order to get a navy, being
compelled to steal its cannons."
"loes it say that"
"Why certainly, sab! 1t says tho
Department has authorized the West
Point / oundry Company to turn out to
steal ri.led cannon for the new cruisers.
I tell you, sab. it's an outrage and a
disgrace. At least, if they are going
into that kind o. business, they might
have given the cont, act to some one
who had experience of the kind in tue
| late war. sah.'-IeGas S:tfrnas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
The Location Of Paradise.

A discussion took place before t.e
Boston Evangelical Alliance to-day up
on the location of the Garden of Eden.
Rev. DIR. w. F. Warren, President OF
the Boston University, read an elaborate
paper in support of the theory that
Adams abode was at the North Pole.
The speaker said that he had first be.
gun to study the subject because he had
found that all religious writers were
completely in the dark in regard to it.
Three years ago he published "The
True Key to Ancient Cosmogony," in
which the earth was supposed to be a
sphere with an exactly perpendicular
axis. The northern or celestial pole
was then deemed the abode of the gods,
the southern was that of the demons or
evil spirits, while the intervening lands
were the habitations of shades.
The paper was divided into five rem
eral lines of investigation. as follows:
First, the results of explorers; second,
the hypothesis that the garden was On a
prehistoric earth, whose conditions of
temperature and cosmogony were diff
ferent from the present; third, the n.y.
pothesis tested under the light OF mod
ern science, including history, botanic,
geological and typographical, aad
pa~lHontology; fourth, the coincidence
between the hypothesis, the ethnic ira
dition, such as the old Hindoo. Aryan
and Semitic class; fifth, the hypothesis
as agreeing with details OF historic fact
not included in the other divisions, such
as the Scriptual account of the para
disc, the cosmetic tree, the four-branched
river, etc.
At the North Pole less than onc-ffth
of the time is spent in darkness and
more than four-tifths in light. Hence it
is easy to believe this region to be the
n referred to Is the land of light and
beauty. Such a land before the deluge
might we'll have been the abode of men
OF extraordinary strength and stature
and longevity. The popular impression
that the far north has ever been the re.
gion Of uncomfortable cold has been gen.
orally accepted. Science, however, has
shown that the earth is a gradually
cooling body, and it was conceivable,
on scientific reasons, that the regions
which first reached the temperature tc
sustain organic life were at the pole,
and, consequently, the life of the race
might naturally have been there. AS.
tronomy shows that this region is more
favored as regards light than any other
No more than two separate fortnights
are passed in darkness, and these are
relieved by the stars and the aurora
borealis.
/. The exact length of the polar day is
an unknown quantity, and can be de,
termined only by observations on the
spot. Whoever seeks q location for the
terrestrial paradise; with respect tc
light and darkness and celestial scenery,
must seek it at the Arctic pole. Proofs
were indicated to verify the existence Of
a great continent around the North
Pole before the deluge, with a flora and
fauna consistent with its being the
cradle OF the human race.-Boston Cor.
N. Y. San.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18

how fortunately preserved in perma-
rent form. is equal to anything Of its
kind in u language. The assault Of
Skobeleff on the Gravitza redoubt,
known as the battle of September ILLS
a masterpiece of writing. When Plev.
ma fell and Gourko crossed the Balkans,
MacGahan accompanied him. His
horse threw him, but he was at the
hand-to-hand fight in the Shipka pass,
and wrote OF it in words that breathed
of fire and smoke. This accident
famed him for life, but did not check
his ardor nor quiet his pen. Adrianople
next, and finally the spires and m:narets
of Constantinople! At San Stefano, a
suburb OF the capital ON the sea OF
Marmora, General Ignatietf drew the
famous treaty of that name. Mac
Gahan's digest of that remarkable state
paper, his comments thereon, and his
predictions that it would not stand,
have become historical.
Before that treaty was torn up poor
McGahan was stricken down with the
spotted fever and died (June 3, 1879.
General Skobeletf, whose friendship
dated back to the Kirnitz Steppe and
the shores of the Aral Sea. closed his
eyes and was chief mourner at his
grave. Hewas buried in the little Catholic
cemetery at Scutari, on the Asian bank
OF the i,csphorus. The anniversary o.
his death is commemorated in every
city and Hamlet in Bulgaria, where
services for the repose OF his soul are
said. When the Grand Duke NitGuas
was informed of Mac Iahan's death. he
sad: TOO bad. He would have been
Governor OF Bulgaria." "such in brief,
is the story OF seven years of this young
correspondents lie. He died at the
age of thirty.
For years the name Of La5our de'Au-
vergne, ''6rst Grenadier of France"
was called at night all in every regi-
ment OF the Imper al Grenadier Guard.
When the name was herd the first
Grenadier in TIE rank would answer:
"Dead, on TIE battlefield" So every
writer, proud of this knight Grant Of
the newspaper, will salute the name OF
Mac'iahan and say: ''Died, gloriously."
-PhllGIclDhSG Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
Sued by a Matrimonial Broker.

New York, April 4.-October 10, 1888,
Charles Leverich, a single man, employed
John Lewiskey to obtain a young, we'll
built, handsome and wealthy wife for him,
promising to pay 800 if the matter should
be brought to a forcus. 1t was further
agreed that Lewiskey should get ten per
cent. of the reputed wealth of the lady he
might secure. January 4, 1854, Lewiskey
introduced Leverich to a woman who owned
a house and lot valued at So. 100. Leverich
won the lady and then refused to stand by
his contract. Lewiskey thereupon brought
suit for the $37O claimed to be due.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
The Dry Earth System for Priyies.

With all that is written in these DAYS
in the public journals, daily and week.
ly, and in journals and books devoted
TO the subject OF sewerage. and bearing
especially uron the subject of water
closets, it is strange that it is so rare we
see any reference made to that nuisance
of civilization, the common privy, and
of a simple method of abating the NUS.
ance which is within the reach of eveyy
one. About twelve years ago quite an
interest was aroused in this community
upon the introduction of the s.Dry
Earth Commode," and my attention
was then first called to the subject. AT
that tine l was living in the country
and at once put the system in operation
and have never ceased to advocate il
and urge it upon the attention Of indi.
viduals, some of whom ave introduced
it and will never abandon it SO long, at
least, as they have no facilities for
water-closets (and so far as health is
concerned the %dry-earth system is pre-.
ferable to that).
Now, no machinery is necessary, al.
though when used it is convenient. In.
stead 81 locating this necessary institu..
ton twenty to fifty feet away from the
house, and over a vault, that is a perfect
abomination in hot weather and often
p,oisons neishboring wells, place it in
close connection with the house. For
my own use it adjoins an ell, and one
does not have to go QUITO Of doors to reach
1t. Have simply a floor under the at.
Keep a box OF dry earth, of any kind,
Just as you may gather it from the sur.
race O your garden or the street in dry
weather. Have a scoop holding
about a pint and, after using, scatter a
single scoop-full of earth upon the ex.
crement and all olor at once ceases. !
should have sad, put about an inch Of
ory carth upon the floor before using,
which, with the constant additions, will
absorb the liquid hat passes in. Coal
ashes can be used but they are objec'
tlonable on account of dust. The con.
n need not be removed until the re-
cep'acie is nearly full, and then they
should, OF course, never b. placed upon
the sur ace OF the ground, but, if dried
they become as unobEctionable as the
earth itself-in fact, can be pulverized
and used e again. But as this is not
necessary, you have one of the best fer,
tl'tzers for your garden, or lawn, and
IN excellent shape to be handled, en-
!lreiy tree from odor and not giving any
indication as to its origin. 70 dry it, !
nave q box five feet square and eighteen
lncnes deep, with q slanting cover 10
sneu Inc rain, keeping it partially cpea
an the time and raking over a fol-
a neighbor who has Just built a house
has adopted an Improvement upon ny
plan. He has had two large galvanizel
IRON pals made, and lifting the whole
seat. SETS them in, and, of course, the!
retain all the liquid; the pals can easily
DC emptled when full. No slops shoua
ever se thrown in-empty them in 's
garden or in the grass.-L. p HasSS'
Z" Mc Sanitary News.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Queen Christina is a thorough Aus
TRAN, and she is intellectual. She de-
tests the Spanish bull-fght.
Beatrice King, a thirteen-year-old
girl, has been sentenced to one months
imprisonment in London for stealing a
pint Of milk.
-Ninety-one wills deposited in the
Berlin Royal Court over fifty years ago
are still lying there unopened and with
out claimants.
A professor in the University. OF
Upsala offers to freeze any person who
will volunteer. depriving them of all
appearance of vitality, and to bring
them round again at the expiration Of
two years without injury. No one has
consented to the experiment, and it is
proposed to try it upon some con.
dcmned criminal.
The single square mile of the city
of London proper keeps pace with the
growth of the whole metropolis of 10
square miles. 1t has been about one
seventh of the valuation OF the whole,
and, though the metropolis has grown
rapidly OF late, the latest statistics show
that the city still keeps its proportion
ate value.
An Indian Prince has had made at
Birmingham a remarkable throne of
cut g,ass, which is believed to be the
most important example Of cut-glass
work in existence. Every portion OF
its surface has been cut. The peni-
shaped finals that surmount the arms
have no fewer than 1924 facets The
dome-shsped canopy is surrounded by
a large star, and when lighted by cleo
tricity it presents a very striking APP
pearance.
-Andorre, or Andorra, is not only
the Oldest republic, but the oldest
State, in Europe. Its present organi.
zat;on dates from the end of the eighth
century, when Charlemagne, in his ex
petition against the Moors, conferred
the privileges of an independent gov.
eminent on the inhabitants of the An
dora Valley, midway between France
and Spain, for their fidelity and devo
ton in conducting him through The
posses of the Pyrenees.
Mamie Dickens, daughter of til,
Nsvelist, says her fathers study was t.
the children ''rather a mysterious ant
Awe-inspiring chamber, and while h
was at work nobody was allowed t,
enter it. The little ones had to pas
the door as quietly as possible, and tn
little tongues lett off chattering. Blu
at no time through his busy life was h
eve too busy to think of them, t
amNse them, or to interest himself in al
that concerned them"