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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04
The Province Of jenkins.

The jenkins journals are accountable
for much of the bad fame that Manhat-
tan enjoys AZ a plutocracy. jenkins
himself in his multifarious personality
has little sense and no discrimination;
and often lacks honesty. Whatever he
chronicles he wishes to represent as the
best, so that downright vulgarity, con-
temptible sham and positive baseness
are made to appear identical with in
nate refinement, genuine merit and hon
orable conduct. One may read any day
in his column of the festivities of this
man or that woman, put forward as
fashionable, although they are not rep
utable, as Jenkins himself knows. Adj
v%enturers and adventuresses are por-
trayed as leaders of good society, as
centers of attraction, as most estimable
gentlemen and ladies. Nothing can be
much falser or more ridiculous than the
so-called social department of various
weeklies. Their stories are perfectly
transparent to the initiated, but to
the outsider they have an air of verify.
OF course such questionable characters
cultivate jenkins, and in some way or
other make it his interest to glorify them
at the expense of truth, and often of,de-
cency.
Indeed, jenkins may be called the
varnisher of worn regulations and the
toutor for diseredited circles. He plies
his vocation industriously, and exhausts
s,upurlatives in describing persons and
things the very reverse of what they
are. AS he is generally on more or
less intimate terms with the persons he
so falsely eulogizes, he may after awhile
grow to believe that they are what he
represents them. There are, of course,
Jenkinses and Jenkinses; those belong
ing to the daily newspapers of the bet
ter order being merely reporters of So
cial gossip in which they have no
special interest beyond d%ischarging
their duty and getting paid for it.
Some of the most curious and per
severing attempts to get into society
are made by long residents of the
sity, who, having got money,
are anxious to get position. In earlier
life they had no such desire or thought,
but later on they feel differently. Hav.
ing acquired property they want to cut
a figure in the world, to be lifted above
their natural level. With this laudable
. intent they commonly separate from
c&air old associates. move into a new
and fashionable neighborhood, and be.
gin by enormous assumption thei,
novel career. They create so far as
they can a fictitious part for them.
selves, and continually allude to circum.
stances and people they have had nc
connection with in the most familiar
and indisputable manner. They ar
range a plan and do their utmost tc
carry it out; the planners and execu.
tors being for the most part women
who are fond of society, keep its gates
make its laws, and who are apt to fee.
aggrieved if they r excluded from
any of its advantages.-N. Y. Cor
Chicago Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04
Breaking Up Refrigerator Man.

"Fifty dollars to the man who can
prove that any two things put into this
ice-chest will taste n of the other"
He had q refrigerator run out 10 the
curbstone, hung the above sign over
each side, and retired indoors to await
the expected run of customers. PEG.
pie passed up and down the street,
lostled each other in their hurry,
glanced at the ice-box and its sign.
and-went on. After some hours of
disappointed hopes and expectations
the dealer saw a pedestrian halt, calm
ly peruse the wonderful announcement,
and rather hesitatingly advance to the
door.
"Do you mean it?' he inquired, in an
anxious tone, pointing over his shoulder
to the sign.
"Yes-sir-ee," emphatically responded
"Put your money up insinuated the
stranger.
mo, SIR" replied the dealer, in a
pompus style; my word is as good as
the cash"
".All right, I'll take YOU" responded
the stranger, as he departed. Some
time after he returned with q box under
each arm.
''stl:k to your agreement" hs
queried.
"Uf curse l WILL" answered the
dealer, wondering what in the name OF
Christopher Columbus the man had in
view.
The stranger set his boxes down on
the Sidewalk, and a crowd began to
collect. He told the dealer that he was
afraid that he (the d%ealer) would back
out OF the bargain, but the latter as
serted his readiness to put up the stamps
it necessary. The stranger opened q
box. lifted a cat out and placed her in
the refrigerator; then he opened the
other box and took therefrom q wire
cage containing a large rat.
"Now, mister" said he, syou just
shut that door in q hurry when l flop
the a inside, and I'll go you another
fifty that one will taste of the other in
less'n five minutes"
The crowd yelled and the dealer
slammed the refrigerator door and slid
INTO he store, with a remark aboW
tools and swindlers. He still refuses 10
recognize the st anger's claim to the
fifty dollars BUT has taken his signsln'
-Demucr Republican.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04
PITH AND POINT.

1t is fortunate, now that our forests
are rapidly becoming extinct, that we
are no Ion ger dependent upon the maple
tree for our maple sugar.--Boston 1ram-
script.
A housewife wants to know how to
save dishes from being broken. 1t is
the simplest thing in the world. Simply
nick all the pieces you want to save.
and they will last till the crack of
doom.-N. Y. Graphic.
Anybody who has examined a doc
tors handwriting on a prescription will
not wonder that a drug clerk ire 1uentlv
puts up morphine when the recipe calls
Tor carraway-seed or some such harm
less.drug.--RocAland Courier.
Marie (who is on a rug by the fire.
place fond1ing her Skye. GLOW nice
twill be, Algernon, when Snip is old
enough and well-behaved enough to be
taken to church!' A%lgernon: ..Why,
haven't you enough things already,
dear, to distract you from the ser.
NOM"
Panic Avenue:
There's a street in New York known as Wall,
Ear famous Tor wind and for gall,
Where men who go in
Intending to win
Como out with just nothing at all.
Louisville COnuicr-Journa
Man is a harvester. He begins life
at the cradle; learns to handle the fork;
often has rakish ways and sows wild
oats; threshes his way through the
world, and when he arrives at The sere
and yellow leaf, time mows him down
and his remains are planted on the hill
side.
-':Inquirer." No, an intelligence
Office is not a place to look for intelli.
gence. The name is entirely irrelevant.
But if you want q green house GIRL
whom you will have to teach all She
will ever know, that is the place where
they have them on draught. Titles do
not signify anything il America
LoWeH Citizen.
An English scientific gentleman has
discovered that gold coins are eovered
with bacteria. which are liable to pro.
duce all kinds of horrible diseases. W.
have often wondered what was the mys.
ferrous cause which, for many wears.
has prevented our carrying around cold
coins. Now we know. No condition
OF impecuniosity will eve induce us to
go around with a pocketful of oold
hereafter.-1e1as Sylimqs.
-"How many of your parents, child.
rem, say grace?" asked the SUNDAY.
school teacher. "Please, mum, what's
them9" asked IN over-grown girl in a
l~ast-year's hat. "Why, Magsier ex.
claimed the teacher; is it possible Won
don't know what grace isl Doesn't
your father say something before ra'
begin to eat:!" ooh" Responded t bo
glrl, WIN a glow OF intelligence, ives.
mum; ne does; he always says. .Don'i
. make hogs OF yourselves; that's all the
buster there is in the house. 's.-Eos.on
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Italy has 4,sOO.OOO lemon trees,
which produce 1,2GO,O 900. 600 lemons per
annurn
One of the latest London novelt'e s
is an exhibition OF pictures in marble, q
new art discovery.
Limoges, France, the ancient era
die of enamel, is still a fourishing man.
Mfacturing town of $4,000 inhabitants.
One Of the most thriving industries
of Germany is the manufacture of am
tique armor, which modern wealthy
families buy to exhibit as heirlooms.
-Darmstadt, Germany, is declared
to be the dullest capital in the world.
1t has immensely wide streets, in which
human beings are rarely to be seen.
Marriages in Germany are rapidly
diminishing in number. Increasing
luxury in ways of living and increasing
i'll health of women are said to be the
chief reasons.
The Chinese believe that dusty
shoes must never be brought into any
place where the silk-worms are, nor can
they bear noise; no sick or old person
must come near them; rats and mice
must not be named before them.
DIR. Ernest Hart has been visiting
Naples, and describes it in the British
.McdicuL Journal as the dirtiest, and
'raggedest and most squalid city in
Europe, and one whose tax-paying
population is but so, 900 persons out Of
a total number of 500,
-Balaclavs, although it's name will
he ever famous in history as associated
with the famous light cavalry charge,
has hitherto remained an unimportant
town. 1t is, however, now beginning
to develop resources, and bids fair to
become a fashionable resort for in
valiGs. A medical commission Wis
iting it last summer has reported
very favorably on its sheltered position
and climate.
The annual literary prize of $4,000
francs, instituted by the King of the
,Belgians, will, for 1885, be granted to
ethe author Belgian or foreign) of the
best works on the means of popular
ling the study OF geography, and de-
iveloping it in the different educational
establishments. The works of COMPETE
tors must be sent to the Belgian Minis.
tier of the Interior before January l,
1885.
Suicides by drowning are more
frequent during the summer. while
changing and poisoning are preferred
an winter. Poisoning was once the
tfavorite mode of suicide, but hanging
has gradually become mor popular.
lin France, mature men generally hang
themselves, and young men shoot them.
selves in the head. Women throughout
Europe, except Rus ia, prefer death by
drowning.
DIR. Crichton Browne, in q recent
lecture, called attention to what typhoid
fever really means in England, and the
amount Of death, disability and expense
ifor which it is responsible. 1t caused
1929 deaths in the United Kingdom
last year. The number of cases re-
|Icrted was 1880; their average dura.
ft;on was three weeks for the illness,
and three more for convalescence, Gre
|ating a loss of productive energy which
ishould have been expended in sanitary
measures. He further said that a mar
cannot be said to have fully recovered
from the effects of typhoidfever fortive
years, and he enumerated it's mans
severe results.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04

Another dip of the ssccharometer
shows the desired advance in density.
and quickly the syrup is relieved and
bursts from the pan into the wheeled
car-tank, for the work is done, the gram
ulation point is reached and the plead
ing questioner in the darkness sees .
great light; for, bending forward. his
lips quietly touch the forehead OF his
his lovely companion and he whispers
endearingly ''My sweetheart and my
wife"
He, too, has attained the c~rystali7a-
ton of sweet success.-JanncS B. Cable,
IN The Current.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04

Some mothers do not know what
to do with the baby on the nurses
"evening out" Various plans OF aus
posing Of him have been suggested 10
us. One way is to put the kitten to De"
with him, and then go to the theatre.
This, however. has been objected to by
Mr.. Bergh as being cruel to the kitten,
Another method is to let his papa wan
up and down the nursery while NJ
sings him to sleep in his arms; tns'
however, is bad for the baby's moraIs
IS he is apt to pick up many stlan t.
and curious Intersections from no
father: The most popular method Is ,o :,
leave him alone upstairs with the uG pIs
shut, while YOU drown any posSlphls
noise he might make by playing "paO!
Nine on the piano in the Psflof'
LUZ
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04
No Harm From the Dead.

"For myself" remarked q leading
member Of the medical profession here,
sit would not shock me at all to know
that my skeleton, scraped and strung
with wires, is to be hung up in the lab
oratory of Jefferson Medical College.
The skeleton of DIR. Warren, the cele-
brated surgeon of Boston, is hanging in
the laboratory of Harvard to-day, but
is not shown to strangers out of respect
for his family. This was done at his
great deal of exaggeration in what has
been written and said about the pollu-
ton of water and air by the bodies of
the dead. Earth is a great deodorizer,
aud when bodies L placed in it they
gradually decompose and all septic
and poisonous matters are removed. OF
a human body weighing one hundred
pounds, se~venty-five are water and ten
pounds bone, leaving less than twenty
pounds as q source of disease. Take
into count the vast amount of water
in the Schuylkill, and the distance that
any poisonous matter has to percolate
through the soil to reach il, it seems
folly to assert that it would affect the
water we drink. If q torrent of water
should suddenly rush through Laurel
Hill Cemeteryi in contact with the bodies
there the stream would purify itself in
| q quarter of a mile. And then there is
another foolish idea that people indulge
in that worms eat the human body.
They do not, but live on vegetable sub.
stances. The bodies of dead animals
and human beings gradually resolve
themselves into their constituent ele-
ments. An animal drops dead out on
the plains. Birds OF prey and jackals
pick its bones and they in time crumbN
into dust.
$50 with the human body. The slow
process of combustion goes on in the
grave, but it is out of sight. The gases
that escape are seized upon by other
forms of life. We are dust, and what
is the death of NJ is the life of another.
But it would be very different if a dead
body We're lying in a drain and the ex-
halations came up into the houses. In
London the subject is attracting. a great
deal OF attention, the burial places of
the dead occupying an enormous amount
of room. There they are a~gitating legal
enactments to compel cremation. The
arguments used there are the economy
Of space and for sanitary reasons. In
London, where the death rate is one
person per minute, it is becoming a
serious question where they shall place
their dead. AS an instance that gases
from the bodies of the dead do not af-
feet theliving, Twill mention the Church
of the Capuchins at Rome. The body
of each monk when he dies is placed in
the earth below the church until it has
docayed. 1t is then exhumcd and placed
against the walls Of the vault. Tho
survivors who live over this charnel-
house are not affected by exhalations or
gases producing disease."- Philaasl-
| Dhgn 1sDaeS.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-08-01
OUR CONGRE>>MAN'S POSITION.
Views of Hon. John W. stewart, a> stated
by the Rutland Herald-iIe Prefers
any Republican to any Demo-
crat for President.

Nr Stewart comedies that there are emi-
ucnt and honorable names in the Rcpllh-
licHn party who have hitherto expressed
grave di-tru~t of MIR. Blaine's methods
and temper as a statesman and of his pub
lie integrity ~ a man. But Mr. Stewart
insists that these eminent critics of Mr.
Blaine ar, like other men not infalliblc in
judgement, and that the weight Of evi-
drucc public and private concerning Mr.
Blaine i overW hpmngly in his favor, and
that. having examined and fairly cousid
erred il. he can cordially support Blaine
.cNru against the honest and patriotic
Judgment at eminent Republicans
who have done the party and
the state lrcatcr honor and Scr
vice than lr mas ever rendered Governor
Stewart say, hat when Bluiuo'~ lifelong
political comradc. Garfield, summoned
him to ,ho head of his Cabinet, Blaine was
confirmed without a dissenting vote II
any senator Democrat or Republican, had
attached lhc slightest importance To the
MUllgu letters was NOT that a good time
to have declared his opinion lay his vote
The conclusion Is in Blaiuc'S favor Bur
says MIR. Stewart, suppose we 20 further
suppose ! meet an old Vermont Rcpubli-
can, who can not cOuotruc the record aud
the evidence i'm Blaine : case as do, what
then Even then. i'm that case, would
rather vote for Mr.. Blaine, because there
i no Republican, however cluudcd may
Ice his political career, | would not prefer
a~ a patriot. to see President of the COuE-
try. rather than the ablest and WhiteSt
man the Democratic party contains, why.
Because Democratic President means
the South. with all its narrow minded, in
tense, rr,ulutc. brutal BourboniSm, in the
national saddle for twenty years. If
Cleveland was elected President. Con
grc,oman Bark~d1lc, who was the secret
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-08-01

1t might occur that under circumstances
of some diliculty-I don't think il will he
IN the next election. but il may occur un-
der circumstances of some diilCllty-that
the President of the senate will have to
take his part in the counting Of the elect
oral vote, and allow me To SHY that the
duty is not to be discharged in Obedience
to amy set of men or to amy party: but in
"beIicn"' 10 higher authority IAp-
platSc.
Gentleman. you have referred to the
fact that am honOred by this nomination
IN "A very special degree. ac-
ccpt the suggestion that in this
candidacy ! will represent the right
OF the people To choose their own rulers. If
all the people are denied tht right tochooSc
their own officers according tu their own
Judgment what shall become of the rights
of people at all ? As soon ts it may bc con
Nenicnt and possible to do So | will address
you more formally in respect to the letter
You have given me. | thank you gentle
men. Applause.
NJ the close of Mr. llendrickS'S remarks
hearty applause was given. He was then
introduced to each member of the com
mlttee and IL general handshaking follow
ed. After this the assembled audience
pad their respects to Mis-. Hendricks and
then quietly dispersed
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-08-01

The following letter, from the wife of At
turncN General Fair, of Tennessee. gives Il
clear and emphatic report of the great benefit
received from the MS" of compound . Nygcn:
BOCNTNlILF. Tenn, October Ii. ISS,
"pR> STAREEN \ PAI.EN: For |. wears I
have been sufferer from dj>'1S'd ir,r. having
contracted the disease while living i'm the ma
ldal districts oi Texas, each succeeding
attack being more severe, ana leaving mo lrss
strength tu bear the next About two wears
ago Wa~ induced to try Compound ONIpCu.
uItd >iuc. NW tim, hlr. s',udlg iuGInrri
IrtiuUt ann fuUuIG LU,i. For U,uIN LuJ jIot
bui irp gu0d uipit~ i,,i U succession Inn
since Using your remedy, have slept well. It
is now twelve months since / have had ui,
attack of bilious collie, and hur, t,ir,i ,i5,I1-
toms ~ U,, To'uJi OF U' d~,oN, man t,l, i.Jt.
You are ut liberty To publish this.
NliS, JUuN Fam.
Ou "IrDI'bJ ou CompDHud Otuu,u." con
tanning history of the discovery and mode nt
action of this remarkable curative agent ana
"a large record of surprising cures i'm Con
sumption, tutauh, Neuralgia. Bronchiti.
Asthma, etc, and wide range of chronic
diseases. will hc N,lt trs'. Address DRS ST,R-
KEY PNirN, lloA and I'M Girarl ST. Philudn
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-08-01
4 DISTRESSING SUICIDE.



benjamin +. E>trs of New York, who
Shot himself Sunday. died Yesterday after
noon at 5:3o Mr. Estes was frequent
visitor to this city and was well known
here. He was to have been married to
an cStimablc young lady of jericho next
week, and was i'm this city last
week, making arrangements for tn" wed
ding. On Thursday, in answer to a
telegram from his father. he returned to
New York. tn" rest of the sad story is
told by the New York HcIuId a. follows
On Saturday afternoon Mr. Estes took "A
room at the Grand Central hotel The
chnmbelmaid the next morning on pass
ng Estes room, about 10 o'clock heard
some one grOaning loudly inside Beiev-
ing the new lodger was sick and needed
assistance Sh" notified Mr.. Sprague. the
hotel clerk. The latter went to the room
and in trying the door found that it was
open. He entered and saw the lodger
stretched upon the bed fully dressed \
handsome pearl handled revolver lay be
SIDE the PROSTATE man. Mr.. Sprague
suspecting that Estes might be dead NOV
ed the man body and was surprised to
see the guest sit upright in bed.
Then the clerk noticed a bullet wound
on the side of the guest head from which
the blood triCkled slowly. Although spoken
to several times the man did not appear to
understand what was said to him. but
gazed vaCantlN about at his surroundings.
He mechanically drew his gold watch
from his pocket. looked at the time and
put it back in his pocketwi thout making
any remark.
I'm the meantime the clerk had despatch
ed Il messenger to the police station and
an ambulance soon arrived. Estes was
placed in the vehicle and conveyed to -
Ninccnt's Hospital There he lost con-
sciousncSs, and il was some time before he
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-08-01
The IIuinorOf Women.

\ woman rarely trllS an anecdote, or
boards up good story, or comes in and
describes To you something funny that
she has seen Her humur i like Il flash
of lightning from a clear sky. coming
when you least expect it, when it could
not have been prcmedtatrd, and when to
the average CONSCIOUSNESS, there is not the
slightest provocution to humor, possessing
thus in the very highest degree that clc-
ment of surprise which is not only a fac
tor nall humor but to our mind the most
important factor.
Nou tell her thu, You cdnuot spend the
winter with her. hrcau-r you have prom
i-'d To spend il with some one else, and
she cXclaim>, 20 Ellen why were yuu
not born twins 80 She ha, perhaps re
Gently built for hcr~cf a most charming
home, and coming to see yours, which
happens to be a trilc more luxurious and
charming, she remarks a~ -hoturns away I:
".\ll can say iS, when YOU want to see
,iUuipr, come and visit me in oxford
street .'' She puts down her heavy coffee
cup oI -tuu"-Chiua with its uuta-tcd coffee
aj little country luu, 7ayiuC with ~i-h /.
ITS mo U~., can't get aj il It's like
trying to dIjuk We" one wall. she
writes III "a ..tt'r parted this morn
ing with Mutl action that i~ |
suppose We did .... that my ~atj-tac-
llon Was m"'ua .t for tWp.'
for two
She ask, her Jtlc ~ less daughter in
The most iuSinUttinr '.aeS if she would
not ike To- sit in pt pa, lap and j. Ivc, him
tell her a story ana when the little
daughter responds with most mcum-
promising mo- turn, her induce
mcut into threat nd remarks with
severity well, hc Il god girl, or yuu will
have to" She complains, when You have
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-08-01

NEW YORK. July 2S.-A notice has been
issued by ErastuS Brooks. chairman of the
state Board of Health requesting mem-
bcre of the state Boards of Health of iii
noiS. Tennessee, Kentucky. New York and
other States to attend conference to be
held in Washington. ID. e.. August 1th, to
consult with government officials as to
the best methods Of meeting and master
in4 the cholera, in the event of its appear
ance in the United States, Marine and
quarantine hospital officers are respectful
iy requested to take part in The confer
pucc.