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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
A Model Deposition.

Many years ago a prominent attor-
ney residing in one of the coast towns
of Texas, obtained from a witness who
had been the Sheriff but was then the
County Clerk of a town in Mississippi.
a rather singular deposition. When re-
ceived, by mail and filed it was opened
and read by the attorney, but was not
offered in evidence for reasons obvious
upon it's perusal. He found the depo-
sition so amusing that he called the atten-
ton of the lawyers in attendance upon
the court, and offered them opportuni-
ties to read it privately in his office. 1t
was as follows, the formal caption of
return being omitted:
In%terrogatory l. "Did you visit Tex
IS in 1912 If yea, what made you
come here"
Answer. "I did. I came on general
principles"
Int. 2. "What places in this State
did YOU visit during your trip in 1S47?
What precisely occurred at each of those
places while you were thereP"
Ans. 81 came to Galveston on the
steamer New York, commanded by
Captain Wright, after a rough voyage,
during which l became acquainted with
Tom, Dick and Harry. who were pas
sengers like myself. On landing we
registered at the fremont House, and
thereupon Tom invited all three of us
to take a drink, which we did. Then
in turn Harry invited us to take adrink,
which we did. Next I invited the
party to join me in yet another drink,
which they cheerfully did"
Then followed several pages, closely
written, stating the places in Texas Wis
tied by the witness during the trip and
the number of drinks, and with whom
he took them while at each place, and
nothing else, and winding up his
answer to the second interrogatory as
follows:
II may possibly have taken yet other
drinks, and with other persons, while at
some of the places above mentioned,
but if so, after the time that has elapsed,
they have faded from my memory.
Those specified are all that l took, so far
as l now remember"
Int. g.. Have you not been the
Sheriff, and are you not now County
Clerk of - County, in the State Of
Mississippi? If yea, is there not the
record Of a deed in your office, which
deed conveys the personal property in
volved in this suit to the plaintiff there
in? If yea, append a true certified
copy thereof to your answer to this in
terrogatory, and state whether you
have done 90"
Ans. II was Sheriff, and am now
County Clerk, of the County Court of
- County, in said State. I find the
record of such a deed in one of the
books of my Office. I do not append a
true, certified copy thereof to my an
swer to this in~terrogatory, because 1
have not been paid my foes for so do
ing, and am satisfied that it I do so, 1
should never get them"
Int. 4 and last. ''Do you know any,
thing further that might be of benefit
or advantage to either Of the parties to
this suit? If yea, state the same fully
and at length, as if specially interro-
gated thereto"
Ans. "Nothing-except that if the
plaintiff is serious in meaning to recover
the property he is suing for, l would
advise him to employ another at
orney."-1szas siyttimgs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
NOT FIVE DOLLARS FOR DOCTOR IN
FORTY.FIYE YEARS.

LII SACAS W. SHLSs
Feb. Sd, 1884.
am eighty-four years old and my wife
is seventy-seven. We have raised a am
lily of ten children. I have used BRAND
RErH's PILLS for the last forty-five years
as my only family medicine, and my doc.
tors bills have not amounted to five dol
lars in all that time. I have used hum
dreds Of boxes of BRANDRETH's PILLS;
with them l have cured my boys and girls
of Scarlet Fever, Measles, Group, Colds,
Mumps, Diarrhea and Constipation. I
have recommended them to hundreds of
other families, ana never know them to
fail whore ever they were used for
disease of any kind. When my wife
was seventy-three years old she was
troubled with a very bad Cough, and
it looked as if she would die
with Consumption. She would not call in
a doctor, but commenced taking BRAND
RETH's PILLS, two and three every night.
In three weeks she was completely cured
Of her cough, and her general health is very
good. I am sure that BRANDRETH's PILLS
have preserved and prolonged our lives.
My health is particularly good, and before
1 die I wish you to publish this letter, as I
want the world to know and profit by my
experience. r. S. DAY.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
PITH AND POINT.

-Disparage and deprecate no one;
an insect has feeling and an atom q
shadow.-Fuller.
An Alabama letter-carrier has Just
delivered a letter written in 1850. 1t is
not known what reason there is for this
extreme haste.-M. Y. Graphic.
1t has been discovered that the
American translation of Nitaw-eg-
Elbow, the name OF the Indian pedes-
trian, is n-afraid-of- clustering
hls-feet.
Yes" sighed a broken-down man
who had given his signature to oblige
a friend, "the most foolish thing | ever
did in my life was to learn to write my
own name.-M. Y. Commercial! Adve7-
User. I
"A correspondent writes to a coun!
try paper that by using phosphate no
has had the best corn he ever raised.
We have never tried phosphate, but
we have found a pair OF tight boots to,
pc a very effective corn raiser. -Bwfaio
EIprcss.
--Dumley came into the dining-room
and, casting a sweeping glance over
the table, jammed down into his chair,
and muttered under his breath, oliver
again, of course. We've had liver ev-
cry morning for two weeks" "What's
the matter Mr.. Dumley?" asked the
landlady; aren't you feeling well this
morning?" mo, madam ne replied,
shortly; Il am suffering with liver COM
plalnt.-Ha aielphaa Call.
-'Bridget," said Mrs. Wigglesworth
10 the new kitchen lady from Messina,
YOU may lay the table" is thy
servant a hen, that he should do this
s%aingg?' queried MIR. Wigglesworth,
lac%etiously, as the door closed. ''Why
not?' returned his wife, for once com
ing to time,' "She is a Biddy." And
MT Wigglesworth said ''H'm!" and
Went out to see if his sweet peas were
coming up, and found that with the
assistance of the neighbours hens they
"ere.-hockLanI lourtcr- Gazette.
What is my opinion of prudence?
A. Is the head on a nail which prevents
u being driven too far in......What is
my opinion of atlectation? 1t is a
Gtheap chrome ''touched up to look
IKE an oil painting.....M hat is my
oplnlon of bra gadocio? II is a linen
cellar with the starch washed out of it.
...."hat is my opinion of intemper-
ance' 1t is a fire we kindle in our
serves without a dollars worth of in
sarance on the premises
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

They chopped down one of the
big trees of Mariposa, Cal, a few days
ago, the rings of which betokened
its age to be 1890 years, and imbedded
in the heart of the monarch of the for
est was found q joke about ~house-clean-
ing and a man falling down stairs on a
piece of soap.--CMicogo Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
The Big Brewery.

Mr.. ]. Hirsch, College Point Brewery,
L. l., N. Y, writes that he employs q
large number of horses n hands, and
having tried st. Jacobs Oil, the great pain.
cure, for rheumatism. aches and pains Of
his mon, and for gals, splints, thrush,
wind-galls and ether affections Of his
horses, finds it superior to all remedies,
and would not be without it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

WHAT will cure Mhsoptng Couxhl That
IL q question asked every day. W. can
answsr that we awe found the remedy in
fapiilon Cough Cure. It never fails, and
can be administered to infants without
danger. 1t is perfectly harmless.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
nsuranc

Insurance is a good thing whether ap-
piled to life or property. No less q bless.
i Risn is snX VIM gd tha iii ENSURES 4rn s9od ne srsat
remedy. 1t is a mild but efficient cathar-
tic, and acting at the same time on the
Liver, Kidneys and Bowels, it relieves all
these organs and enables them to perform
their duties perfectly. 1t has wonderful
power. Soc advS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
In Sacramento, Cal, the other day

in Sacramento, Cal, the other day
a little child lost its way while wander
ING about the streets with a large dog,
and, becoming weary, lay down and
fell asleep. The faithful dog watched
the sleeper. and would permit no one
to approach his charge. He was only
outwitted by having q blanket thrown
over him, when the child was removed
TO the police station.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

of the thirty-seven graduates at
West Point this year seventeen are
sons, nephews or other relatives OF
army or navy officers.-M Y. Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

No LADY need be without Mrs. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound because she is far
distant FROM drug stores. The proprietors
send it postage paid by mail from Lynn,
Mass, in the form Of lozenges or OF pills;
price, 81 per box, CT SIX for S.. Send for
the ''Guids to Health" which gives full
Particulars,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

IT is said that boots can be blackened
with q banana peel. So can eyes, il you
happen to fall right.-Bosten Transcript.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

Is IT proper for an old topper to speak Of
ms drunken companion as his booze.um
friend?-GouverneMr Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

EXCURSIONS let a man go cheapt to places
where he does not care about going.-M.
O. Pic0yuns.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

The body of Laurie Moller, of San
francisco, was kept in a dollhouse. so
that decompos ton might set in and
convince her friends of her death. Her
complexion changed after death and
one arm moved. She had been lied
by gas.-San francisco CAL.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

KIDNEY Complaints, Female Weakness
and Debility are absolutely cured by Par
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

.~Yeu will be Happy. Make your old
things look like 10Y BY using the Diamond
Dyes, and you will be happy. Any Of the
Wells, Richardson e. Co., Burlington, Vt.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

EVERY one has . right to drop q line to a
fsh.-Picoyune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

"WHAT HON. ]. c. BURROWS SAYS"

For more than five years past a member of my fami-
ly has been afflicted with Hay Fever, eliminating late
In the fall with a hacking cough, which would increase
in severity until the return of warm weather. Every
remedy provcdfuttle, and relief was only found In a
change of climate. There was o recurrence of the diff
hculty last fall, attended Will the usual cough and
violent protracted sncezing. Nothalf a bottle of Pap
illon Gatarrh Cure had been used before the cough en-
tirely disappeared, and general relief followed. 1t lie
simply wondcrfu.! Don't fan to try 1t.
j c. BURROWS
Ex-Memb. Congress, 4th Dist, Mich
Kalamazoo, Mich, March 18th, 1884.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

SURE sign Of rain-leavinE home In
the morning without an umbrella
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

MEN who hate long sentsnces-Crimi.
nails. This is q Life sentence.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

ANY man can make money-go.-WAi
hall Tines.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

OBJECTION is made in New York to
drowning stray dogs for fear SO MANY
sunken banks may obstruct navigation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
"a DRUGGISTS

Or the 18th Of March I sold Manson Coins, barber
in Martindalc's Block, one bottle of Papillon Cough
Cure, and a week later he told me that it had not only
relieved his child. but had almost entirely cured 1t of
Whooping Cough. julius A. HAAa.
Dentson House Drug Store, indianapolis, Ind.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

Glenn's Sulphur SOAP
Is used Hospitals rs a disinfecting agent.
Fixes toothache drops cure in one minute,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

WHEN an old boo wants to puaish q lit
tie bee she gives it beeswhacks.- Wtrm
Weather W.T..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

If anfcted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompsons Bye Water. Druggists sell il. 25e.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

If you feel yourself growing weaker,
your strength failing, the functions of your
body becoming impaired, take warning in
nourishment. DR.. Guysott's Yellow Dock
and Sarsaparilla is food for the blood. 1t
purifes this stream of life and strengthens
every part of the body, rebuilds a broken
down constitution, produces dreamless
slumber, n restores wasted energies and
u shattered nervous system. A trial bottle
will convince. No othar remedv EQUALS IA.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

JOHN A. SMITH, the largest merchant in
Gainesville, Ga, says: 81 suffered for
years from the combined effects of Fry
sipelas and Eczema. l continued to grow
worse under medical treatment and by
taking medicine containing Potash. s. s.
s. cured nae thoroughly and absolutely.
Ny appetite. strength and flesh returned
as I was cured with it,"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

Prso's REMEDY for Catarrh is a certa!
cure for that very obnoxious disease.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
No LADY need be without Mrs.

WHY is a great bore like . tree? Both
appear best when leaving.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

IT is a cold day when the chunk Of ice
doesn't get left.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

WHY is a United States Treasury note
like a caterpillar? Because it is hard to
counterfeit (count-her-feet.) - Chicago
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

IT is leap year and every good gir'
should have . sir prizs.-Detroit Free
Press
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

"CAN the ball-player, who steals bases
be called q base deceiver?" asks the Bos-
ton Star.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-03-19
WHY Widows Win.

Are widows really so fascinating? The
popular impression seems TO be that
single women are placed ut an extreme
disadvantage when brought into compe-
tition in The matrimonial race with
those of their sex who have once worn
the orange blossoms and who have been
compelled by cruel fate to assume the
sable habiliments of woe. Strange to
saw widows themselves do not share in
this almost universal opinion. There is
not one of them who does not believe
that she is heavily Handicapped" 80
to say, in the contest and who would
not gladly exchange places, il she
could, with her single sisters. The at.
tractive widow, nevertheless, carries oft
the bachelor sweepstakes very often,
leaving her spinster rivals pale with
envy and wild with rage. Her con-
quests, however, are very much exag-
gerated. Widows who have not com.
Portable bank account or corner lot
find it as difficult to elicit proposal as
other dowerless members of the sex.
Whom we first love we rarely marry
has become truism, and herein lies
the advantage of the widow with large
dover right. The old admirers return
and the old flame is easily relighted
Beauty in distress with good-sizec
package of government bonds is some
thing quite irresistible.-M 7. journal
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-03-19
VERMONT.

A man in Jay receives S2.75 per
week from the town for taking care OF
his own father.
The little town of Montgomery has
IS widows.
The Brattleboro asylum has 427
inmates.
The directors of the White River
Agricultural society at Bethel have
voted to hold their next annual fair at
Bethel, Sept. 3, and 8.
Burlington wants a soldiers monu-
ment. A youth up there who signs
himself gu. A. W." says he will be
one of forty to plank down $4,000
for the object.
H. w. Love, of Rutland, is dividing
his time betweed studying law at AL
bany for three days each week and de-
voting the rest of the week to his
journalistic labors for the Revieac.
Very few towns in the state on
March meeting day voted to adopt the
town system of schools.
A Spiritualist convention will be
held at Junction house hall, Essex
Junction, Friday, Saturday and Sun
day, March 21, % and %.
Rev. H. H. Holmes of So. Royalton
has received call to the pastorate Of
the Congregational church at Orleans,
Mass.
The term at the medical college al
Burlington "opens very auspiciously.-
At the opening lectures one hundred
and fify-four students were present
a larger number than on any opening
day in the history of the college.
st. Johnsbury voted SlOo Tor Mem
orial day, and 500 to move the bod!
Of Lemuel jenkins, revolutionar,
soldier, and build monument to him
The old burg is getting patriotic.
Heman Gaylor of Newport Cente
has gone to Rutland for four hundre
and six days on account of drinking
too much and abusing his wife an
horse.
Postmaster Tiffany of Benningto
has absconded leaving deficiency i
his account Of several thousand dollars
His son, q reckless lad of 20, has bee
arrested on the charge of taking none
, from the office.
This being leap year, an Odd Gir
society has been formed in Barton tt
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-03-19

ltCpNillu, q AOi'f 49, ~ 80 @NNN'
Quite n crowd collected IN the neigh
borhood of Baltimore and Front streets
Yesterday shortly after midday, and tho
gaze of each and every one WAS direct
ed heavenward. Following the line of
their observations. two figures could be
seen on the top of the shot tower. The
height was necessarily too great 10
distinguish the countenanccs of tho
aerial excursionists, and when one OF
them climbed the flagstaff which tops
the tower, went through queer move
ments, and then rapidly descended, ex-
element was at its height. The crowd
increased momcntarily. and from many
windows in the lower section of the city
which commanded n view of the lofty
elevation curious persons gazed upon
the two figures. Presently both disap-
peared inside of tho tower, and the
show was over. An American man
went over to the tower and ascertaincd
that Mr.. August l.. Eickc, in company
with colored man, one of his en-
ployes, had been busy fixing up the
iightning-rod attached to the tower, and
doing similar lofty work. Mr.. Eicke
said This tower is 2l7 feet high, and
it takes 304 ordinary stair steps to
reach the top The flagstaff is 80 feet
high in addition, and to-day | put my
lightning-rod glasses on the staff and
renewed the flag halyard>. The flag
staff is only about eight inches in diam
eter at the base. and when climbcdup
it shook like willow. | would have
remained up longer and completed
more work, but to-day, like every other
sultry day, the air at high attitudes is
full of electric currents. and they be-
came so strong at one time that | was
compelled to slip down the pole a dis
lance of more than six feet, and thus,
you see, lacerated and cut my hands
1t is much warmer up there than it is
down here, and was in profuse per-
SEPARATION all the time. Tomorrow [
shall continue my work, which will oc-
cupy me two OF three days, and finally
/ will come down the lightning-rod out
side OF the tower, and repair any de-
fects may see "-Baltim0re 4Americau.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-03-19
Cats On Shinboard.

Although pussy Is the unrclenting
enemy of rats, and they stand in whole
some awe of her presence, she Is not al
them. have seen cat rolled over
and over by q patriarch on whom she
had bounced, and retire from the fray
discounted, with severe bite through
her lip. In connection with cats and
rats | will m ton two episodes that |
could not have believed possible had
they not come under my immediate no.
tice. On board the Elbe we had n
grand, great yellow cat in the after
part of the ship-for cats have their
own well defined homes ailoat rs ashore
and resent intrusion within their boun-
diaries from feline rivals quito as
conservatively rs their brethren who
enjoy the blessings of the land. Sandy
then reigncd over the saloon and quar-
ter deck and was the most accomplish
ed and gentlemanly cat l ever was ac-
quainted with. One morning while we
were lying in the Scheldt abreast of
Antwerp, Sandy was seated on the rail,
watching the Decentralization of the
cargo and various operations of the
small craft which surrounded the steam
err, with that responsible air of general
superintendent which distinguished
him, when he suddenly caught sight of
y rat in one of the lighters alongside
Without y moments hesitation he
sprang down from the rail sheer int
the lighters cargo space, q descent of
nearly 30 feet, perhaps more. As may
be expected, he was nearly killed by
the fail and lay for days almost insen-
sble, but we nurscd him around again
with beef tea and brandy. The other
incident was horrible had brought
an old cat with me, on joining certain
rat-ridden ship, knowing him to be a
good sporting animal; it was not mine,
but one had borrowed for the voyage
on hearing the vessels reputation for
natural history. She was fairly over
run with vermin from stem to stern,
but it appeared that there was an ex-
traordinary concentration OF the ratty
element in the store rooms underneath
the fore-peak. Nothing served to re-
strain their depredations or to diminish
their numbers or audacity; it was
scarcely safe to venture down there,
and the storekeeper was at his wits end
to know how to protect the articles I'M
der his charge. At length he asked me
to allow him to put Tim down there at
night, not so much in the hope Of de-
stroying the rats as of soaring them
away. Tim was therefore conducted
thither before the gratings were put on,
and left with his saucer of bread and
milk, his mat and no lack of company.
In the morning nothing remained of
him but some gnawed bones and some
scraps of fur.-AN The Year Round.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-03-19
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Claremont has voted to appropriate
$4,000 for the purchase ola steam fire
engine.
James Chase, the oldest man in
Hillsborough, is in failing health
He was 81 Dec. 25 last.
The trustees of the New Hampshire
Conference seminary at Tilton have
voted to raise s5O,OO0 for. the purpose
of enlarging the school building.
A man in New Durham, in order tc
save the life of weak little pig, made
room for it in his own bed.
Potatoes are almost drug in thu
market at Lancaster, selling at 20 an'
25 cents bushels. Last fall the.
could have been sold at prices rang
ing from 25 to 80 cents a bushel.
"Aunt" Lydia Plummer, aged 80
of Brookfeld, lives alone and cheer
fully does her own housework.-
"Aunt" Lydia Wiggin, 81, of tn
same town, lives with her son job
and does salework to keep herself OF
of "mischief.