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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16

not return to a great now; bu mo
gFain-fed dairy that has been ided
over, and paid for it's grain twice over
at that, does show q great gain,
and therefore a double profit. I am
inclined to think the New England
farmer is making q big point with D
means we in Ohio are laughing at,
SOOTHING at, c%allin;, . "sour-krout
factory" and all that, and that is the
silo. If they can fill their great pits,
and by the LIST of October begin feeding
their ensilage and keep up the flow Of
milk until far into the winter, and bv
having a few fresh COWS to bridge the
chasm between the two ends of the
milking season sell forty-two-cent but
ter all winter in Boston and New York.
it seems to me that we had better ex-
pertinent at little before calling them
lunatics, and declaring that they are
Did any one everhear of a New England
farmer having his ensilage butter re-
turned to him as unstable? Did any
n ever hear of his dairy getting off
their feed, and dying from hunger and
other dire calamitics, by feeding en-
silage? If he, with ensilage, can make
No. l butter. and have his COWS look
and appear as if con summer grass"
should not we Western farmers look a
little more thoroughly into this matter
before we decide against it? There is
not a doubt but Ohio dairymen have
got to make longer seasons and get a
larger average yield, and make dairy
ing more continuous, or else we will
hear something drop, and to our dis
advantage. We can not longer afford
to laugh at the success of other dairy
men. and dismiss it as ':~ncw-fangled"
and %''visionary." Their success is from
more and abundant foods, calculated
to stimulate the milk flow. and is Sc
cured by soiling in some of its forms,
and by that. and that alone, is the sue
cess secured.-1homa Emslcy, in Ohio
Farmer,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
with very nicely cut sharn do. ..,. 80.

with very nicely cut sharp die. that Gu.
ter VIII not be obliterated by the f;n;sh.
ing process. Next the men is moulded
in a form which combines oranafminass
W.T. Waen strength. The rounding enables
.ne pen to hold the requisite ink, and
TO distribute it more gradually than
coM,d oe done with u fiat blade.
Inc llttle hole which is cut at the
eho OF the slit serves to regulate the
eiasl'city, and also facilitates the run.
nlng OF the ink. Then comes the pro-
cess or hardening and temperino. The
steel IS heated to cherry red. and then
plunged suddenly into some cool sub
stance. This at once changes the
qlalty OF the metal from that Of a soft
1eaa-llke substance to a brittle. springv
one. liner the temper of the steel
must be drawn, for without this pro-
cess 1t would be too brittle. The draw
ing consists Of heating the pen until it
reaches a certain color. The quality
OF the temper varies according to
the olo to which the steel is per-
united to run 1t is the quick eye for
color and the quick hand to fasten it
that constitutes the skill of the tenn
perez OF steel. When the steel is heated
Tor tempcring it is bright. The first
color that appears is a straw color.
This changes rapidly to blue. The
elasticity Of the metal varies with the
color, and is fastened at any point by
instant plunging in cold water.
The processes of Sitting, polishing.
pointing and finishing the pens are
operations requiring dextcrity, but by
long practice the workmcn and work
women become very expert. There
have been few changes of late wears,
and the process of manufacture is
much the same that it was twenty
years ago, and the prices are rather
uniform, ranging from seventy-iive
cents to four dollars a gross. accord.
ing to the quality of the finish. The
boxes sold almost universally contain
\ q gross.
Fancies come and 90 in the styles o:
pens as in other fashions. One Amcri.
can maker alone turns out about three
hundred and fifty patterns. Some arc
very odd. such as the stub pens, tho
d~raughtman pen, which makes two
parallel lines at once, the mammoth
pen, suited to use on rough paper. and
the pen with a turned up point that
writes a thick mark vet runs smoothly
over the paper. Then there are deli.
cate pens for ladies, pens that make 6
fine hair line and yet can spring out te
a heavy shading. Already the Amcri
can steel pens have become famou;
abroad. and many are exported. Many
pens are made of other metals beside.
steel. One kind is the German silver
non.corrosivc pen for red ink. An
other is an imitation gold pen made o
non-corrosive metal. There are pen:
OF all colors and sizes for all trade:
and professionally. Y. Sun.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
seen any n raying mad. Another

seen any n raving mad. Another
disease for which Bokhara was, remark
abl so far back as the time of An
thony Jenkinson in the sixteenth CEN
fury is the rishtrom (1aria medinensis),a
worm that develops under the skin in
May and August in the form of a cylin-
drical body which lengthens at the rate
OF about an inch in a week, and lies
extended or curled up in q lump two
inches in diameter. Later on an abscess
appears and through it the head of the
worm. Native specialists, usually bar
bcrs, insert a needle under the worm
and draw out one end with the fingers
OF the right hand while those of the left
press the affected part, the operation
lasting from one to five minutes. Rus
sian medical men wind off the animal
on a reel, so much daily as comes out
without force, till the whole parasite,
measuring from four to seven feet, is
extracted. Should the worm break a
painful illness ensues for several
months. We met with an unsuccessful
case n the military hospital at Samar-
cand, where the portions of the rishta
extracted were given to me in spirit to
bring to England. 1 remember that
DR.. Wolff contracted the disease from
drinking the Bokhara water, and thus
forewarned l drank only tea, hot or
cold, or allayed my thirst with melons
and fruit. No Europeans live in Box
hara except two or three Russians, and
these would be insulted as are the Jews
if they did not take the law into their
own hands and sometimes give a ma
tive a thrashing. The Bokhariots have
not the power to Cypress, so they are
outwardly civil, but they curse the Gin
fidels' at heart. and the Emiris servile-
~ obedient to the imperial will.-Cor.
London Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
THE
There Was One, But the Editor Didn't
Like it When the Old Lady Told Him
Il. L IX-nr

There Was One, But the Editor Didn't
Like it When the Old Lady Told Him
What 1t Was.
Good morning." wheezed an old
lady, coming into the EDITORS room at
the head Of the step elevator, good
morning. Amt you the editor?"
Eyes, madam" the man at the desk
responded, as he threw a chew of to-
bacco down u knot-hole in the floor
and slipped his s%uspenders up on his
shoulders. "Can l do anything for
you to-day?"
"Well, not very much. 1 heard
something about you, and as I had
been reading your paper l came to see
for myself if it were true"
".Ah, indeed! What was it? Moth
ing bad, 1 hope
Not so bad, and not so very good
either. They only told me you were
just like Ananias. You know who
he was, don't you?'
Not exactly, madam, though [ have
seen some reference to him during the
recent campaign"
II didn't think you knew him. He
was a Bible character, who was struck
dead for being a liar"
Great Caesar, madam exclaimed
the editor, with a start that knocked
his pastepot over and sent his scissors
rafting to the floor, II hope you don't
think now, after you have read my
paper and met me, that l am like this
man Ananias?"
mo, sir" the old lady replied, get
ting up to go. Il notice there is a
difference"
"Ah, thanks. madam; you fatter
me; you"
Don't mention it, sir; the differ
ence | detect in you is that you are still
alive"
The door closed on the old lady, and
the editor jabbed his pen into his upset
pastepot and began to write an article
on the cruelty and deceit of women
Merchant Traveller.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
vILLAcE
Beautiful Buildings to be Seen In Eng
land and Wales.

Beautiful Butldines to be Seen In Eng
land and Wales.
The village churches in the south
west counties, or cider counties as they
are sometimes called, are particularly
rich. Many of them are of Tudor
Workmanship, and are built on a much
larger scale than the tiny edifices OF
Saxon aad Norman times. When
Henry VII. was building his beautiful
chapel in Westminster Abbey, many of
his lieges'caught the same feeling and
taste that prompted his outlay on this
work, and reared in their own locali-
ties editices that were in the same
style. without attempting to vie with
its richness. Then, perhaps. to these
structures a porch was added when
Queen Elizabeth was making her sum-
mer progresses, and subsequently fur
Their alterations were effected when King
Charles had come to his own, tinged
with classic taste, telling of foreign
travel, all Of which yield a lighter air
and tone than the work of the masons
of earlier centuries.
Abbey Dore church. near to Here
ford, is an unusually fine village
church. with much work in it of these
latter tlmes-mysteriously vast, indeed
as though built with vague longings in
the HEARTS Of its builders for some
greater purpose. Within three miles
or so, at Kilpeck, is a small. massive
Norman church of great curiosity.
with some lingering traces on it, at its
angles, of the plodding touch of previ-
Saxon masons.
There are little Welsh churches. built
of stone, with slated roofs. so plain, so
~featureless, that it is difficult to be sure
they are not barns. There are others,
again. no larger, that arrest all paSsers-
by with their plaintive beauty. Here
is Llanbedr church, of the dashing,
darling Artro, 1t is full OF dclicacy
and grace, though consisting only OF
the usual nave and chancel, with a
small beil-cot on the west end. A gen
erous giver, however, recently added a
small vestry and an open-timbered
porch. Like the rest, it stands in a
n%hurchyard, only the tombstones lie fiat
upon the earth, fringed with the grass
that grows around them.
These memorials of departed Welsh
villagers are made of slate and inciscd
with Welsh inscriptions, giving the
names and the dates OF the births and
deaths in the usual way. Over the en-.
trance to the church is q small slate
tablet, inscribed with an admonition
which is likewise in Welsh, to the effec'
that none should enter that privileged
sanctuary save with good thoughts
We may venture to cross the threshold
notwithstanding. Within all is orderly
There is an ancient, open-timbereo
roof; an unusually picturesque chanccl
arch, formed with rough-hewn, slab
formed stones; a central pathwa,
between the two rows of sittings:
stained-glaSs window on the south side
and a second stained-glass window q
the east end. both masterpieces of color
steel, pale, and wan tints contrastin;
incomparably with deep and rich tones
a few mural tablets, and a general al
and tingc Of refined and homely piety
In q word, these village churche
present a field of interest that is prat
!. tically MISUNDERSTANDING QuIrer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
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BOkHARA.

a Strange City-How business is Carried
On-Mcthods of Healing the Sick.
On approaching Bokhara we stood
before a city reminiscent of scripture
language, with a wall great and high,
having, not twelve, but eleven gates,
shut, indeed, by day, though they GER
tainly We're by night, and SO fast that
none might go out or come in. The
scene was not a street of old London,
full Of nineteenth century people, but a
city out of which there came from the
Viccroy to meet and escort us an array
Of dignitaries of whom, mutatis mutan-
dis, one might have said: '.These are
the princes which King Solomon had;
Azariah, the son of Zadok the priest;
Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shis-
ha, scribes; Jehosophat, the son Of Ali
,lud, the recorder; and Benaiah, the
son of Johoiada, over the host" and
so on.
Business is carried on in twenty-four
caravanserais and six timis, besides
ordinary shops, the various kinds Of
merchandise, asin other Asiatic towns,
being sold apart. SO likewise the vari-
Gus trades are for the most part local
lied in several streets, anything like a
universal provider' being quite un-
known in Bokhara. Nor is there a
booksellers shop, or a printing press,
much less a newspaper. Their weights
and measures are Il splendid illustration
of the rule of thumb. For instance,
the olchire Suggestive of the cubit) is
measured from the elbow to the end
of the fore1ingcr; the kulatch is the
space between the tips of the fingers
when the arms are outstretched; the
giaz is the measure from the center of
the breast to the end of the fingers;
and while in Bokhara oil and honey
are sometimes soldby the chuyeh, which
is the one cubical measure they pos
sess and that of variable size, in Kara
teghin corn is sold by the hatful, ire
spective of whether the vendors head
be large or small.
OF courss they have no hospitals.
We gave out that those who were sick
might come to be treated, which gave
us an insight into some of their dis
eases. I need refer only to two. For
the treatment of the insane they have
. special mullah called ishan, who is
brought to a man when he begins to
get silly, and who reads over the pa
tent, for a week or two, prayers from
the Koran. II this proves una
vailiag the patient is taken to the
ishan's house, or rather yard picketed
to a post like a horse, and kept on low
diet for a couple of months. AS a fur
ter step he is beaten while prayers are
going on, and if the poor creature
manifests pain it is regarded as a favor
able sign: 'But suppose he does not
improve" I asked, "'what do you do
with him? He remains there chained"
said they, until regarded as quite
%incurable, and then his parents are
obliged to take him away and lock him
up" But suppose hehas no pareats?"
Then he is turned out and allowed TO
run loose until some one takes COM
passion on him." After hearing this it
was a comfort to be told by u edu-
Gated Mohammedan hat they had not
much insanity, and that he had never
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
SNAKE-BlTES
How \ Yucatan Indian Applied Remadle,
With q Successful Result.

How \ Yucatan Indian Applied Remedies
With q Successful Result.
Prompt action and a good knowl-
edge of antidotes enable the natives of
warm climates frequently to avert fatal
consequences when bitten by venomous
snakes. Mr.. Samuel A. Bard, in his
"Waikna," describing his adventures
in Guatemala, relates how an Indian
boy was bitten and rescued from death:
My Paya boy, while engaged in
gathering dry wood, took hold CT a
fallen branch under which was coiled a
venomous snake. known as the tama-
CASA. He had scarcely put down his
hand when the serpent struck him in
the arm. He killed il. grasped it by
the tail, and hurried to our camp.
81 was much alarmed, for his agita-
ton was extreme, and his face and
whole body were of an ashy color.
My 1ucatan Indian, Antonio, was
not at hand, and l was at an utter loss
what to do, beyond tying a ligature
tightly around the arm. The Paya,
however, retained his presence of mind,
and unrolling a mysterious little bum
die, which contained his scanty ward
robe. took out a nut of about the size
and much the appearance of a horse
chestnut, which he hastily crushed, and
mixing it with water, drank it down.
Antonio having returned, ard
learning the state of the case, fastened
away to the low grounds on the edge
of the savannah, whence he came back
in the course of half an hour with a
quantity Of some kind of root, which
had a strong smell of musk, impossible
to distinguish from that Of the genuine
civet.
"Ths he crushed and formed into a
kind Of poultice, bound it on the
wounded arm, and gave the boy to
drink q strong infusion of the same.
This done, he led him down to the
beach, dug a hole in the moist sand, in
which he buried his arm to the Shout
der, pressing the sand closely around
it.
81 thought this an emphatic kind OF
treatment, which might be good for
Indians, but which would be pretty
likely to kill a white man.
"The boy remained with his arm
buried the entire night, but next morn
ing, ave being a little pale and weak
from .he effects of these powerful rem
edies. he was as we'll as ever, and re-
sumed his usual occupations."-
YOUTHS Companion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
us ouh HIS EMILY.

From His wife After the War;,
n,ston Bootblack Finds Her Again
Thouphtful (and Kind) interview
,;nn of a Newspaper Man.
.Ob, sab. wouldn't it make dis ole
.ort ioyful to hear of dem agin. l
Zion | shud mos die frumjoy."
The speaker was an aged colored
nan. a bootblack, we'll known in the
unity of the newspaper offices, and
w addressed a member of the news
napcr fraternity.
El1.Wbat is that, uncle?:" asked the
latter. 49,,
..Didn t yer hear what l was sayin'
90 that ccmman l Skinned fore you,
h,..e |, was bout my family. Dcy
If. Mis'sip fore de war an went to
T,,,s. Dcre was my wife, Emily, an
.,,c chil'en. de younges' bout five
,,,r ole. ! amt never heard from
~, since. ceptin n oh de boys sotout
., i'm me on a mule. an was took
tx an he'd ter Glib it up. l recon dat
nootv nigh twenty-five years ago.
%o.. Use tried an tried ter fin some
him bout EN- a heap er times. an
.~ry'ral has tried fur me. but | couldn't
,.bber oct track of EN-
: YOU have any idea where they
VENT
sabine County. boss, dat's all /
l.,ov. Der massa was named StrOther.
Fam Strothcr, a bin man"
The newspaper man IA interested.
II will do what | can for YOU" he said
u, i barely possible | may find some
Glow TO them" He took down all the
n,r,icnlars tn" old man could give in
ir.rarl to his family-the names and
,r.s of the children, ctc.-and, with
G> boots shining like the old mans
rgcballs. took his departure. He con
suited a newspaper directory. and
found there was a newspaper published
in Sabine County. Texas, the Hemphill
h,Dyytfr. He wrote to the editor of it.
nmbodving all the information he had
obtained from the old man, and anx-
iollsIN awaited the result.
ii kinder feel. boss, s if somcthin'
WAS comm of it: somethin' tells me
Their is" said the old man. when in
formed what had been done: and his
AGED face lighted up into Il smile OF
gratitude and expectation.
..Somc,hin'" told him right! With.
in Month Of the time the letter was
lent. a reply Was received from tho
cditor of the reporter, Mr.. j. NJ
strickland. That gentleman had kind.
lv taken the trouble to make inquiries
NH, county: and wrote that he be.
Iieycl the old mans wife, Emil,
Strother. was living at a little place
sailed Milan, at the house of a son o,
her former master. The delight of tho
.,li man upon learning of this can bet
Ter be imagined than described.
Boss" he said, ''if I'd a hundred
thousand dollars, l shud feel like givin'
OF EN- to YER
!. letter was SEM to emily con.
tanning numerous particulars in regarC
10 The old mans history and family
aud a reply was soon received an
uoUncing that she was the long-los
wife. and that certainly two OF tn
children We're living. the w~hcreabout.
OF the third being unknown. A lette
from one OF the children was also re
ceived ut the same time.
The above story is related, not from
q desire on the part of the ncwspape
men to receive credit for what the,
have done, but in the hope that it ma,
suggest the means of rc-uniting tn,
other similarly broken families in differ
eni parts Of the COMMUNICATIONS Globe
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-16
o KILLING.
1t Is Not Profitable to Keep Fat Hogs
Through the Winter.

1t Is Not Profitable to Keep Fat Hogs
Through the Winter.
1t is expensive to keep a large hog in
cold weather, and in fact at any season
it is rarely profitable to keep a hog
after he is a year old; the most profit is
to kill when from nine months to q
year old. A pound of pork is
made on hog cheaper before than
after he weighs a hundred pounds;
therefore, as soon as q hog is large
enough to make good pork, it is bestt o
kill him, if the weather is cool enough.
For home use pork from a hog that
will dress three hundred is better than
from one that will dress six hundred.
The old practice of getting a pig in the
autumn to keep over winter, and not
killing him until he is about eighteen
months oldi is being very generally ADAM
doned, and the practice of killing twice
a years. becoming very general. Apig
at eight or nine months old, if he eats
well, will dress two hundred and fifty
to three hundred pounds, which is large
enough to make good, sweet pork.
No doubt it is more profitable to fat
ten hogs in the summer than in the WIN
ter, because in cold weather it requires
considerable food to keep up the hcat
of the body, much more than in the
summer
Our ancestors were very particular
not to kill Sheir hogs, or their beef
cattle, in the old of the moon, believ-
ing that if they did, the meat would
shrink in the pot; but this, with many
other moon theories, have passed away,
and but little is thought about the size
of the moon when killing time comes,
or when it is thought to be time to
NOW bushes; even the weather is
not considered SO much now as it
formerly was. Fifty years ago every
farmer killed his own meat, and,
having no ice houses. if he did not wait
and kill in cold weather, his season for
eating fresh meat would be very short;
but now all is changed; fresh meat can
be kept a long time at any season, and
can be bought in small quantities in
almost every town; therefore, if the
farmer desires to kill a hog before cold
weather sets in. he cap sell most of the
lean pieces, and buy When he wants it.
We do not realize the value of this
change. Should we be obliged to go
back to the practice Of fifty years ago,
we should find it to be a serious Ques-
ton, when was the best time to kill
hogs, and a still more serious question
as to how to keep the pork if warm
weather should set in after killing time.
Massachusetts P0ugh7nan.