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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-25
An Indo. Chinese Br'er Rabbit.

One night, in a very thick forest, the
elephant began bowling and the tiger
replied with howlings still more dismal.
Monkeys, stays. and beasts of all kinds
joined in the chorus and began making
of to their dens. The elephant him
self lost his presence of mind and ran
away at full speed till he met the hare.
who said: ':What are you running
away for?" .'Don't YOU hear that
dreadful tiger?: Would YOU have ma
stop to be eaten upe:" Never fear' -
said the hare; "just sit down and let
me Jump on your back and I'll warrant
no harm will happen to YOU" Before
ne jumped up, the hare put q big bit of
betel into his mouth and had let a
stream of red saliva rim down the ele-
plants pack by the time the tiger came
up. "What do you want here?" said
the hare, quite tiercely, without giving
the other time to say a word. ''Don't
You see this elephant isn't too much for
me? DO You think I'll let you go
shares?:" So, seeing, as he supposed.
the blood, the tiger got behind a tree to
watch. The hare her bit the elephants
ear, and the elephant, as had been
agreed between them, gave a scream.
Glow strong he isn' said the tiger; but
ne staid a minute longer to watch.
So the hare, who seemed quite
master of his prey, cried: "Wait
minute, andTn come to you next" and
looked SO much as though he was get
ting ready for a spring that the tiger
got frightened and turned tail. AS he
went OFT swinging through the Jungle,
a chimpanzee burst out laurbinp.
"Don't laugh, I've Just escaped from
death" elbow so? I'd like to see the
beast who frightened you. Take me to
nm" "What, to be eaten up too?"
"Come, now; don't be in a fright. I'll
Jump on your back, and we'll tie our
tails together, and then we shall run
no risk" After much persuasion the
tiger went back, but as be was coming
near, the hare chewed a fresh bit Of
betel; and as the red saliva streamed
down, "You dare to come back!' ha
shouted; "stop a minute, and I'll pun
lsh you as you deserve" At the same
time he nudged the elephant, who ut
tered an agonizing cry, while the hare
made a great leap on his sham victim's
back. Again the tiger lost heart, and
rushed away at full speed, CRYING to
the chimpanzee: "Now YOU see I'd
something to be afraid of. We've both
narrowly escaped being eaten up." But
the chimpanzee was past hearing, for
he'd fallen off the tigers back, and GOT
dashed to death against a bamboo.
Moral: tirmness and presence OF mind
eiten make heroes OF cowards.-AU tho
Year Round.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Vanity Fair is the only London
newspaper published at so high II price
ss twenty-five cents.
London has 1C5 disused church,
wards, which are slowly being adapted
for purposes of recreation. Thirty-tour
of them have been fully completed.
In 1868 there We're but two total
abstainers in the House of Commons,
the late Sir Edward Baines, NJ. P. for
Leeds, and Mr.. Whitworth, NJ. ?. for
Droghcda. At present there are thirty
six.
When Baron Siemens, the great
scientist, died recently, he was on the
eve of great electrical, discoveries. The
London Telegraph says it can not be
doubted that his death has retarded the
practical uses to which we may expect
electricity to be put.
There is a Jewish penman in Nien-
ma who writes 400 Hebrew letters on
one grain of wheat. In order to furnish
the Emperor with satisfactory evidence
OF his extraordinary skill, he has writ
ten the Jewish prayer for the imperial
family on thenarrow edge of an ordina-
" visiting card.
in the Geological Gardens at Lon
don there is a macaw known to be 119
years old. Swans on the river Thames
have lived to be $50, and there is saidto
be conclusive proof that an eagle, once
kept in Vienna, lived to be la.
Time has not been permitted to
change. the old Leather Bottle Inn at
Golden, Kent, nor its parlors, So minute
ly described in '.Pickwick Papers,"
wherein Mr.. Tupman on q memorable
occasion was discovered. Within and
without the quaint inn remains as it Was
fifty years ago, and it is in the bands
of a landlord and landlady proud Of its
association.
-Ristori furnishes a new idea in the
business of erecting statues in honor OF
living people. Her native town under.
took to put up a monument in hel
honor. but failed to secure the neces.
tsary funds. AS a happy thought, the
authorities appealed to her, when she
gracefully came forward and made gooc
the deficit. This may fairly be termcC
a Ristoritian of statues.
buckingham Palace, which wa
built and is now kept up at q vast ex.
ipeuSe, COulaluS uiluillcldDlc SullS Y.
magnificent rooms, which are empty
month after month and year after year
The Queen duringthe last twenty years
has resided there on an average for 81,
nights in each year. The palace is oper
on four afternoons for drawing-rooms
courts have been discontinued, and tho
Queen has announced she will not hole
any more ~levces), and on four evenings
for the state balls and concerts.
"A lady calling herself Nine. Dabe'
vile lately took q magnificent apart.
ment in Paris. She usually spent hel
day shopping, but her ready-money
purchases did not amountto much. The
other day two jewellers and Il clerk of g
furrier waited on her with valuable jew
elry and a magnificent fur mantle. Tho
lady examined the Jewels, tried on the
mantle, and, under the pretext of show
ing the things to a person in the mex
room, disappeared. The employee:
waited, and at length inquired for thei1
customer, who had flown down by TIN
servants staircase, taking article
worth Sc, 200.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-25
Our Young Folks.
ONE YEAR OLD.

o,o ,t+,o vear with its changcful hours,
POISONING meadows IL wintry showers,
Shadow and sun.
Shadow and sun, and rain and snow;
%splendor and evening glow;
living minutcs-hOw fast they go
And the little year is DONE.
What has it brought to the bnby, pray
princess who holds u hearts III sway!
A mcrrier laugh tor lips and eyes,
A deeper frown OF grave surprise.
A hundred ways that prove her wise,
And sweet as she is fair.
Kiss her once for the year that is done.
And once for the year that is just begun,
And softly sing:
'The years that are coming SO fastaso fast-
And every hour that goes hnrrying past,
New gifts to our baby brhg!.'
M,vtrct Johnson. IN Our Little Ones.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-25
A Natural BOne.Setter.

Years ago DR.. Stephen Sweet, of
Lebanon, was called upon by those sui
fering with fractured bones from far
and near for relief. 1t was before sur
gical skill had reached its present state
Of excellency, and DR.. Sweet had a
really marvellous gift for setting mis-
placed bones. He vas a heavy, power
full and strong-armed man, and after
placing his hands over the injured parts
could at n detect the trouble and re-
pair it in the twinkling of an eye. He
had the gift from birth, and his fame
was such throughout the Eastern States
that he was almost necessarily travel
ing by stage or on horseback from one
place to another in response to de-
mands for his services. He had a fine
knowledge Of human anatomy, and in
his time no learned surgeon in this
country was held in higher and more
universal esteem. 1t is related of him
that while on a journey he once stopped
over night in New York City, and was
attacked upon the street by a party of
three footpads. who were attracted to
him by his countrifed ways, his homely
garb, and a sachel of money which
swung from his saddle. They APP
preached him on all sides. He dis
mounted with the rapidity of lightning,
and Selling the first that came to hand
hurled him to tle ground, twisting his
arms as he did so, and leaving him
prone on the sidewalk with both his
arms out of Joint. To the second he
threw a leg out, and to the third both
an arm and a leg. The fellows lay
writing and cursing in their pain about
him, and after letting them suffer a spell
the sedate humorist Slipped their joints
back into place, read them a lecture,
and let them go.
DR.. Sweet had a large family of chill
dren, all Of whom to q greater or HISS
extent inherited the gift Of "natural
bone-setting.'' Despite criticisms upon
their skill and knowledge the country
people as a rule are a unit in favor of
the Sweets, and, with them, to have
called in a Sweet in cast of a broken
bone is to have done all that is possible
for a patient. Strange stories are told
of the Sweet children's ability. From
their early childhood they practiced
their gift upon every fowl and animal
upon the farm, and it was no unusal
thing to 60 into the barnyard and find
the hens reclining c~omposedly upon
their backs, with their legs dropped
over, or a cat. or a calf in the same
~predicament. A quick movement of the
hands in replacing the joints and the
animal would get up and walk away az
though nothing had happened. The
Sweet children have now scattered, SO
that there is scarcely a large city in the
Union but has one OF them. Whitman.
tic Conn., Letter.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-25

"A young lady in Ulster County,
n: y, called at a lawyers office in
Kingston the other day, and asked to
have suit begun against a former lover
for breach of promise. He promised
to marry me four times" She said,
''but he hasn't kept his word, and nv
affections are all blighted." ..How
much damage do you wish to claim:o'
said the polite lawyer. well, | was
blighted four times, and L link 500 a
blight is none too .much.n So suit was
entered at $500 damages for four
blig hts.-Albanu Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-25
A Pitable Race.

The story recently published of the
astonishing results of a volcanic erup-
ton which occurred near Onalaska,
October l6, has not only brought out
confederation from another source, but
has evoked the recital Of other phenome-
ma Of a similar character. The new
narrator is NJ. Malowanski, who has
been for many years a resident of the
trading post Of Petropaulovski; and, as
the bulk of the incidents which he re-
lated had their scene in the Kurile
Islands, Il few words of description of
be pertinent. the Kurile Islands, then
droop like q chain of small links from
Kamschatka down to the japanese
Island of Yesso, SO closing in the
Okhotsk Sea from the Northern Pacific.
Russia claimed them as q part of her
Arctic possessions, but they have re-
Gently been coded by the Gar to the
Mikado in exchange forthe large Island
Of Saghalien. Russia has psofited by
thetransaction for Saghalien affords ex-
cellent tishing-grounds, while the Kur-
lie Islands, rich as they once were with
the costly fur OF the sea-otter, are now
little more than a barren reef. The sea-
offers have been ex~terminated, and the
Kurileans have almost become extinct.
The islanders are a small race. hardy,
honest and peaceable. BY the Aleuts
they are called the "hairy men, but
whether this is because they dress en-
tirely in skins or because they are SPAR
ingly provided with that Arctic rarity,
a beard, is not known. Anything more
cheerless and unlovely than the lives of
the Kurileans can scarcely be imagined.
Living on what is not much more than
a succession of huge stepping-stones
from Kamschatka to Japan, they are
exposed to the full fury and rigor of the
winters of the far North. The late
spring is comparatively pleasant, but
with the summer come on such fogs
that an impenetrable wall seems to be
raised between the islands and the rest
OF the world. The fogs clear off, there
is a brief glimpse Of a low sun, and
then the bleak winter comes down
blackly again. Not q thing grows on
the islands except moss, the whole
group being destitute of tree, or shrub,
or blade of grass. For food the natives
depend on whatever they may catch in
their fishing and hunting expeditions,
with the rare addition Of a little bears
meat whenever bruin is adventurous
enough to swim off from the mainland.
Just as the islands are destitute of
foliage, so they are of animals-the only
creature on them besides the natives be-
ing a breed of small, swift foxes. The
habits of the Kurileans are in keeping
with their surroundings.
Hardy and adventurous, having no
such word as home in their meagre Ian
guage and no appreciation Of such an
institution, they roam in their canoes
from island to island, killing whatever
'breathes, putting up rude huts when
they are forced into winter quarters, but
generally despising ANYTHING like shell
ter and living in their boats. So little
are they used to the art Of construction
that. unlike their fellow-natives, they
do not build ska canoes, but make up
what are called baidara, a class of craft
shat is a primitive as the rest OF their
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-25

"A deserted damsel rushed into a
ballroom at Alviso, Col, the other night
and threw a pan of molasses upon the
shirt front OF her faithless lover.-Den.
Ger Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-25

LADY suffrage is what they call
Inc franchise in Washington Territory,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-08-30

"Look here" said Col. Bloster, .ad-
dressing an acquaintance whom he
suddenly met in turning a corner
"you are a. very long time in pay
ing me that bill. You do not seem to
care"
"Oh, yes do, colonel"
"No, sir, you do not. You do not
seem to even remember your obliga-
ton"
"Oh, l remember it colonel. Ii
did not, would not cross the street
avoid meeting you. l have u keen
sense of obligation, otherwise / would
not be put to so much trouble"
"Now here; you are not acting right
ly Just place yourself in my place
and" i8t5H 4#.ft
Impossible, colonel. Icannot put
myself in your place. comet mag.
inc your feelings, for no one ever owed
me. "-Arkansaw Traveller. 94a.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-08-30


old fellor ri2 npin bed aud rubbed his
eyes to.seoswlias upon the hyin yeath
itHall meant ana when entch a sight
efhiHs if LhadF beep aFoRdy skecr-
cd to death, he would have finished
me--a settin' up thar in red flannel
shirt without his wig and teeth was
old Brother Cole"
81 wanted to fly but way too weak
To movo."
"Tho good old man helped me down
the steps and won't back to the tent
and aimed to stay thar and not shsw
my face no more. / know in reason |
said poop a thousand times, and tho
word was still u ringin' in my head
when rugged myself out in frock I
hadn't wore and borrowed Nancy
Singloton's hat and made shore them
boys wouldn't know me l waited till
the II o'clock sarmont and everybody
was at the stand and the singin lat
sot in, fore made up'my mind to go ;
but after / got fixed | made shore they
wouldn't know me, and stepped out
and siz my red umbrill and started
across to the stand feelin' all right
when about dozen little boys the
size of Jake Simmons sot in to holler-
in peep, peep, peep loud as they
could holler, and all eyes begin to look
at me.
AIT was all I could do to stand it.
I started back, but ! knowed that
wouldn't do. They had done seed me
anyhow, SO thought I'd face EN- and
go to tho meetin'.'
"Weuns laughed at Cal and tor
mented her life putty nigh out'n hen
about it.
"But Cal gifts into so many scrapcs
she don't mind it.
All sorts inginnerly goes up thar tC
the Union camp mootin'-good ant
bad, high and low, rich and poor
young and old, niggers and white
folks, babies and dogs, mules, horses
and steers.
"My taller candle has burnt smacl
down into the sucket, and is winkin
and a blinkin'. I'll mould somo NOR
and tomorrow night I'll finish tellin
you about the camp meetin'. "-Atlanti
Constitution.
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y PHOTOGRAPHS
0AC4 ItAR AlIEC4n
By )T7f4r
CA gill;: 7.

Fine Card Photographs $3.50 to
$2,00fper hall dozen. Cabinet Size
$3.50 to $500 per half dozen. Panel
Size $3.50 per half dozen.
Three Gem Pictures for fifty cents
and one given away from same face.
We cannot boIbeat on enlarging old
pictures Send for special rates for
copying old pictures. Can furnish
frames for all sizes of pictures.
Address J. A. CARGILLE,
johnson City, Tenn.
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Am Ideal Old Man.

Man never attains his ideal. He
comes nearest it the day he leaves
school all that year he hovors around
it in pleasant proximity. Sometimes
l think he quite attains it on COM
mencement day. But a year away
from school, he and his ideal part
company. He sees it drifting farther
away from his eager hands. l have,
in my own brilliant and aggressive
career, pursued several fleeting and
more or less perfect ideals. From
where / now stand at the distance
pole, | can sec the majority of them
scooting under the wire, and / feel
that am shut out. One. can see, is
yet near&oin sight, send z lam very
10th to see it get entirely away from
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-08-30
IEbana mX iaGal n nhrsioc.a 81,

: Ifhave my ideal Of physical per
iection.in tho aged. This is the man
ner OF old man l want to be. / am
not tall man now l do not really
have to stand up to look over the back
Of car scat. l stand up merely be-
cause / can SEQ farther. But as |
grow old I want to fat up. / want to
develop o capacious bay window, so
that when my summer vest ia hanging
on the limo it will look like a sooner
coming down ewing and wing" Then
| can wear my watch in my fob, with
q great big seal dangling from it like
a bell clapper. l want to be short in
tho breath and wheeze when | climb
up stairs, and puff and pant whom l
walk up hill, and have to take two
steps to cross tic gutter. And Would
wear clawhammer coat, with wide
lapels, all the time, and carry my
handkerchief in my hat. ! would like
my hair to turn snow white or else
fall off, | am not very particular
which. | would like my mustache to
bleach out until it looked like streak
of -four across my lip. | believe this
is all. I think that is the photograph
of the kind Of an old man would like
to be. This is my ideal old man
Cane and wheezy laugh, Of course.
And l am just as confident as / am
that | will die rich that, as grow old
will shrivel up and dry out until ]
look like a shoestring with clothes
on.--Btwdette. ~a
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-08-30

Admiring Cousin--"What are you
going TODD, Tom, now that yours out
of college?" hf.aa.1
Tomslwhe wishes to be considered
cynical)-AOh! / can stand aside and
let the world real on" .Fsgiasaosi "a
Admitting cousin (charmed)- why
that's very kind of you. Tom."-Har-
ward Lampoon. ,4sss,vts sss.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-08-30
THE REST NEWSPAPER
IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.


The Knoxville TRBUKE is the best
newspaper III Tennessee. II you do
not believe it send for specimen copy
and CONVINCE youraeif. M r. ~ -. :. /, aTs
The TRIBUNE is a st;lunch Demo
cratic newspaper end advocates tho
election OF !. ai9issR lHr soaais Nl.l Y
q CLEVELAND ARD IIESRRIcKs sar
who will DO the next President and
Vice President OF the United States.
The Knoxville " EELLY TRibcNE IL
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news of the day 10 any person who
wishes TO take it on trial, wo viii send
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40 n III eiotoa. :

Published DO request. Mt
IThe Lines toaskeletane ie.one of
the finest things in All wailnoetty, 1t
was found pinned TO- skeleton ia One
Of the museums in London, and first
published in the Moraing Carpnicle Of
that city. when a reward OF 30 guiheas
was offered for discovery of the author.
Who the author was has never been
known or suspected.
Behold this ruin, twas skull
Once of etherealspirlt full;
Phis marrow cell was life's retreat,
This space was thoughts mysterious scat.
What beanteOus visions filed this spot
What dreams of pleasure long forgotI
Nor love, nor Joy, nor hope nor fear
Have left one trace of record hero.
Beneath this mouldering canopy
Once shoHe the bright and busy eve.
But start not at the dismal void
If social love that eye employed,
If with no lawless fire It CLEANED,
But through the dues OF kindness Reamed,
That eye shall DO forever bright,
Whom stars and suns are sunk IN night
Within this hollow cavern hung
The ready swift and tuneful tongue
If ialsthood's honey 1t disdained,
And where it could not praise was chained
II bold in virtues cause it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke,
That silent tongue shall plead for thee
When time unveils eternity.
Bay, did these fingers delve the mine,
Or with its envied rubies shine?
TO hew the rock or wear the gem
Can little now avail 10 thom
But il the page of truth they sought,
Or comfort to the mournor brought,
These hands a richer need shall claim
Than all that waits on wealth or fame.
Avais Il whether bare or shod
These feet the path of duty trod2
II from the bowers of ease they fled
TO seek affections humble shed;
Ii grandeur's guilty bride they spurned,
And home to virtues cot returned,
These feet with Angels wings shall vie
And tread the palace of tho sky.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-08-30
30 Cent?.

This is an offer for tho campaign.
The regular price OF the WEEKLY
TRIBUNE is $50 year The DAILY,
TRIBUNE will be sent to aAy subscrib-
rlfor three months for So. s--.t, \
Address THE TRIBUNE,
4 Knoxville, Tenn.
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mo, no,a,pg sa,a ], "yes ne, Sds !
did--na, ! dfdnt, yes, did, says /
tryin' 70 scramble up, but my knees
give'a%qy and l fell agin. The good
cid man had shuckled into his cloths,
and lifted me upon my feet Tother
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-08-30
Science Hill Institute,
JOHNSON CITY. TENN.

J0lINbON Sll 1ENN.
The next session OF this school will
begin September LIST, 1884, and CON
tinue 36 weeks. Course of study thor
ough and complete. The most com
petcntand best trained teachers. The
teacher of music will be a lady of ex,
perience, possessing thehighest degree
OF culture both in vocal and inst1i-
mental music. q
Primary department perteTm of months $3.50
Junior Collegiate nM
Senior gLO
Muslc, with Csc Of inhtuinept .s2.6S
|, A Contingent lee bf 400 each Der
term Of 4 = months, or 800 for the
session Inna9 be- paid I'M advance.
Good board at reasonable rates.r 1g7,
w. A, EVANS,
= Pldn. Science Hill Institute.
.JuK 96. 1894
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-08-30
75 REBUILT Sewing MACHINES

Good as new and worth all I ask for
them, $40 each. They consist OF
Weed, Singer, Howe, Wilson and Vic
aor. Order at once and get choice.
S.P. ANGEL, Knoxville, Tenn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-25
Democratic Meeting at Lannon'S Hall,
WEDNESDAY Ev'G., OCT. %,
at S o'clock. Will be addressed by
Mai. A. NJ. KELLEY, of Richmond ana
Hon. JNO. 5. BARBOUR, of Alexandria
All citizens are requested to attend

cHrrpcH SERVICES, SC, To-AoRRoW.m -
rl,;,t CBu,cb.-Scrvice at IL q. 10. ana Goo
y. ID. by Rev. H. Suter, :,
T. 81 Puurs CNmch.-Service at IL a. m.
and D. M. by Rev. DR.. Norton.
Grace Chmch.-Service at II a. m. and
$50 D. 10. by Rev. Fl. T. Sharp.
81. Muy's Uurch.-Mass at I a. M, and
High Mass and sermon at II a. m. by Rev.
Father DeWolf Vespers at Up. m:
First Presbyterian Church, Service at II
a. M. by Rev. c. Ii. A. Bulkley, d. ID.
Second Presbyterian Chnrch.-Servlce at
II a. m. and 7:30 p. m. by Rev. DR.. WIN.
Dinwiddio.
Baptist Church.-Service at II a. m. ana
80 D. m. by Rev. DR.. Flppo..
Trinity Meth. Epis. Church. Service at
II a. m. by Rev. w. F. Hemmingway and
7:30 y. m, by Rev. John Edwards: Revi-
val services at night. Sunday School p. m.
Meth. Epis Church South-Servlce at IL
q. m. and 7:30 p. M by Rev. J. A. Kern.
Meth. Prot. Gurch.-Service at II a. m.
and 7:30 p. M by Rev. c. B. Middleton.
Free. Meth. Curch.-Servics at IL a. M.
aud 1880 p. N.
German Lutheran Church.-Services at i
q. IN. by Rev. J. A. Schwoy.
Young MEMS Christian Association.-P
err meeting in the Baptist Church at p M
Jail at p m. Aims House at $50 p. m.
Gospel Temperance Meeting of the Reform
Club at 3 p. m. at their rooms, on Fairfax
street