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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18
The Fancy for "i3lankcts.

The "swell'' thing Just now says the
Philadelphia Press, is the tailor-made
suit of heavy cloth, like a blanket; in
deed. the gray blankets, which sell for
So or $3.50 Il pair, might well be util-
lied for the purpose. The thick, rough
cloth will, undoubtedly, be comfortable
in the arctic winter predicted by the
weather-wisc-but pretty? Well, that
is a matter Of taste. Given Il perfect
figure whereonto display it, IN expert
tailor would give chic to q costume corr
posed of drugget.
The new wraps are many, some of
them fearfully and wonderfully made.
The visite and the Newmarket have the
lead and will keep it, There are, how
ever, numerous new shapes il jackets.
mantlcs. and especially in long, wraps.
The greatest novelty is the University,
in shape like an academic gown, with
the square University cap to match, 1t
is undoubtedly picturesque, and. as
might be expected, is having great sue
cess with the girls OF university towns.
Some of the wraps are SO much like
dresses that it is hard to tell at a first
glance which is which. One style in
particular has a tight-titting bodice,
pointed slightly back and front, with
full straight skirt plated on thereto,
with a ribbon tied around the j%uncture
with long loops, and ends falling direct
ly i'll front.
The old-fashioned ooat which our
mothers wore as the basquine, intro
duced by Eugenie in the first days of
her pride and power, is revived, and
bids fair to be fashionable. 1t is the
same garment which Pingat has from
time to time brought out, with more or
less success-a close-titting basque,
with long, straight skirts, and with full
plaits at the back to accommodate the
now universal hustle. 1t exceedingly
becoming, and is also admirably adapt
ed to the display Of handsome mater
jals-thick matelasses, heavy brocades,
and tleece-lincd ottomans, ~velvcts, etc.
Bands of fur form the appropriate trim
ming, and the buttons may either be
large and handsome. small and unob-
trusive, OF none at all, the fastening in
the latter case being hidden under the
band of fur which. encircles the throat
and extends down the front of the coat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18
What Is to be Done With the Negro?

The negro is no longer a problem.
He is part of the body polite ard the
body social of the republic. He is
firmly rooted and can not be moved.
He is here to stay; and any attempt to
disturb him, u excite his fears as to his
right of life. liberty, and thc pursuit Of
happiness, is nothing less than a crime.
ACQUISITION touching the negro like
any other, must be. considered from.this
.common-sense standpoint, and every
suggestion for its, solution. must be
subjected to the probing and searching
;''What goodPn Prejudice must not be
allowed a voice in its solutions, and pas
sion must be excluded from counsel.
The negro will ~not,consent to his own
deportation. The Southern planters,
too, would not, if they could, consent
to it, nor to any agitation of it, because
it unsettles and unhinges the labor that
is more profitable free than it ever was
or could be in the days of slavery. The
negro is more intelligent now than
then, and therefore more valuable be-
cause q better, d closer, and more
skillful worker. Deportation is not.
for these reasons: to be considered. We
must, therefore, deal with the negro
and treat of him with the full under
standing that we can notget'rid ofhim.
His commercial v%alue,' supplemcnting
his rights under the Federal and State
Constitutions, says we can not.
What, then, is to be done with the
negro? Nothing but increase the num-
Der OF schools and schoolmasters, make
education compulsory, and make tech
meal education easily, available to him
in all parts OF the South. The negro
must be taught the virtue of %self-re-
lance. and the value of the courts as
his safeguard and defense under the
Constitution and laws of the nation and
of the States. Agitation exalts the ne
gro to q degree OF imaginary import
nee that people at the North can not
understand. He is a sensible maj
within his limits Of mind and compre-
tension, SO long as he feels that he is
not the center of Il pet anxiety. Agi-
tation has retarded and interfcred with
his growth in the past; it has proved
exceedingly mischievous, and is not to
be thought Of in the future. 1t breeds
dissatisfaction. raises hopes that can
never be fulfilled, and tends to widen
the breach between the races. N.
Heating, IN I0pul0r Science Monthly
tor November. q
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18

Fry, Who lived IN a neighboring village,
went to visit his uncle. He recently
purchased a bicycle, and rode to Fry'ys
on his machine. The same AFTERNOON
he went on the race track for a spin.
He had gone but twice around the
track when he heard the bull believing
behind him, Looking back over his
shoulder he saw tho bull following him
at the top of his speed, and only 4 few
feet behind him. Pickens ran his bicy-
Gle as fast as he could, supposing that
he could easily distance. the pursuing
bull, but he had not yet become an ex.
pert on the wheel, and be found that
the best he could do was to keep only
just Sc far ahead OF the animal. The
bull kept his position until he had
chased the bicyclist twice around the
track, when he began to fall behind.
Pickens had been shouting at the top
of his lungs for help. but the farm
house is nearly Il mile from the track,
and no n heard him. When he saw
the bull begin to weaken, as he sup
posed, he thought he had escaped all
danger and could get far enough out of
the way TO permit his rial, ing his way
out of the lot with safety, On looking
back, however, he saw the bull bearing
down on him by Il cross. cut from the
track, and the next moment the animal
struck the bicycle with his head lower
ed, and machine, rider and all, were
hurled into the grass at the side of the
track. Pickens does not remember
how he extricated himself from his
wheel, but when he recovered himself
he was on the opposite side of the fence,
three rods from '!the track. The bull
had evidently been dazed, also by the
shock, for he was turning around and
around i'll a circle near the spot and
shaking his head in a curious manner.
A few moments afterward he seemed
to recover himself, and walked slowly
away as if nothing had happened.
Pickens had received some bad bruises
and scratches, but no serious injury. He
hurried back to the farm house, and his
uncle went to the rescue of the bicycle,
which was badly wrecked. The bull,
which had never seen a bicycle before,
had evidently become enraged at its
strange appearance in his domain, and
had broken the rope by which he was
tied to a stake and started in pursuit OF
it.-AeU York I.aleS. - 4
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18
THE IDEA OF GOD.

To one familiar with Christian ideas,
the notion that Man is too insignificant
a creature to be worth the notice of
Deity seems at once pathetic and gro
tesque. In the view of Plato, by which
all Christendom has been powerfully in
tluenccd, there is profound pathos. The
wickedness and misery OF the world
wrought so strongly upon Ilato's keen
sympathies and delicate moral sense
that he came to conclusions almost as
gloomy as those of the Buddhist who
regards existence as an evil. In the Ii
maios he depicts the material world as
essentially vile; he is unable to think
of the pure and holy Deity as manifest
ed in it, and he accordingly separates
the Creator from his creation by the
whole breadth of intinitude. This view
passed on to the Gnostics, for whom the
puzzling problem of philosophy was
how to explain the action of the spirit
ual God upon the material universe.
Sometimes the interval was bsidged by
meditating eeons or carnations, partly
spiritual and partly material; some
times the world was held to be the
work of the devil, and in no sense di-
vine. The Greek fathers, under the
lead of Clement, espousing the higher
thcism. kept clear of this torrent of
Gnostic thought; but upon Augustine it
fell with full force, and he was carried
away with it. In his earlier writings
Augustine showed himself not incap-
able of comprehending the views Of
Clement and Athanasius; but his in
tense feeling of mans wickedness drag
ged him irresistibly in the opposite di-
rection. In his doctrine OF original
sin, he represents humanity as cut off
from all relationship with God, who is
depicted as a crudely anthropomorphic
Being, far removed from the universe,
and accessible only through the medi-
ating offices Of an organized church.
Compared With the thoughts of the
| Greek fathers, this was a barbaric con
ccplion, but it was suited alike to the
lower grade of culture in Western Eu-
rope and TO the Latin political genius,
which in the decline Of the Empire was
already occupying itself with its great
and bcnclicent work OF constructing an
imperial Church. For these reasons
the Augustinian theology prevailed, and
III the Dark Ages which followed it be-
come 50 deeply ~inwrOught into the in
nermost 1ibres OF Latin Christianity
that it remains dominant to-day alike
in Catholic and Protestant churches.
With few exceptions, every child born
OF Christian parents in Western Europe
or in America grows up with an idea of
God the outlines Of which were cngray.
ed upon mems minds by Augustine iii
teen centuries ago. Nay, more, it is
hardly too much to say that three
fourtns Of the body Of doctrine current
ly known as Christianity, unwarranted
by Scri pture and never dreamed Of by
Christ or his apostles, first took coher-
ent shape il the writings of this mighty
Roman, who was separated from the
apostolic age by an interval of time
like that which separates us from the
invention of printing and the discovery
of America.
The idea of God upon which all this
Augustinian doctrine is based is the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18

idea Of a Being. actualed by17uSnan pas
sions aud purposes. l~ocalizable in space,
and utterly reniote from that inert ma
chine, the universe in which we live,
and upon which he acts internationally
through the suspension of what are
called natural laws. So deeply has
this conception penetrated the thought
of Christcndom thatwe continually find
it at the bottom Of the speculations and
arguments Of men who would warmly
rcpudiate it as thus stated in its naked
outlines. 1t dominates the reasonings
alike of believers and skeptics, of the
lists and atheists; it underlies at once
the objections raised by orthodoxy
against each new step in science and
the assaults made by materialism upon
every religious conception of the world;
and thus it is chiefly responsible for
that complicated misunderstanding
which, by a lamentable confusion of
thought, is commonly called" the on
tict between religion and science" "
AOrsmber INuNLc.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18
Wear and Tear of Gold.

The annual loss of gold, by attri-
ton, shipwreck, fires, ETC., is very
small, not quite two tons, OF $3.50, 900.
According to Sevons, gold coin loses 2
per cent in 100 years-that is Gl47, 900
per annum on the actual amount t736,-
900, 900. The loss by shipwreck can
not possibly be higher than one-sixth
of the ratio of loss in s%ea-borne mer-
chandise-say e. for every G1,0O0
shipped, and as the quantity Of sea-
borne gold in 1S71-SO averaged &c.
400, 600 per anhum, the loss by ship
wreck would be tl01, 900. Ii we allow
1872, 900 for loss by fires, we make up
a total wear and tear of f2SO, 600, or
two tons, the existing stock being a
tritle under 11,OOO tons. McCulloch
used to reckon for jewellers, loss, wear
and tear, etc., about ! per cent, which
would be nearly "a, 900, 900 Il year OF
our present stock.
The ''consumption''by jewolry is prob
ably even more now, but this nowise
affects the question of a possible gold
famine, since the jewelers. consump-
ton goes to swell the uncoined reserve.
1t would appear that eighty years age
the uncoined reserve was better under.
stood than to-day, for l find in the
Edinburg Record of 1903 the following
passage: ''The precious metals have q
lwo-fold use-tor manufacturers and
coin. Ii there is a deficiency Of coir
The plate will be melted and coined. Ii
there is a superabundance OF coin il
will be melted and manufactured.h-
Contemporary Revtew.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18
.NIr. Vanderbilt's Cares.

A New Cork correspondent of the St.
Louis Globe Democrat writes: William
II. Vanderbilt is concerned about his
mansion in Fifth avenue and his MAUI
solemn on Staten Island. The NOR
tuary structure is well along toward
completion, and he visits it every day
or two. The millionaire is much alb
sorbed in this tomb, which will have
cost 500, 900 when all is ready to re-
ceive his body. In the matter of the
Vanderbilt residences. of which there
are altogether five in Fifth avenue, the
family rests ~uneasily because the street
is fast turning into u business thorough
fare, and the laying Of horse railroad
tracks threatens to hasten that change.
A big grocery has been opened al
Fifty-ninth street, the lower corner of
Central park, and stores are scattered
all along down the venue The fate
of the famous street is deemed so GER
tain that an enormous building, occu-
plying the block between Fifly-eight and
Fifty-ninth, intended for q family apart
ment house of the most fashionable
character, is to be finished off as a no.
tel, the owner %dcspairing Of filling it
with the desired tenants. The residents
of Fifth avenue are fast scattering into
the side streets. Vanderbilt does not
wish either to or to be surround
ed by traffic. He thinks that the I'M
pending annoyance can be deferred, il
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18

not ayerted, by defeating the scheme
for n street railroad, To that end he
has devised a stage line to supply the
residents with handy transit, and make
them content without rails, He is civ
ing his personal attention to this mat
ter, and TO all intents and purposes has
become Il champion of stage-coaching
against ~railroading. His time during
the week has been devoted to the ac-
quirement of an abandoned franchise,
under which he will capitalize and
equip q service of improved stages. He
has taken the opinions OF many experts
as TO lust what idealization of the old
fashioned coach ought to be attempted,
ard the outcome is likely to be some
thing very luxurious on wheels. The
block right across the way from his
own and two daughters homes is a
Roman Catholic orphan asylum, site of
which has long been in the market, but
at a price that prevented a sale. Van
derbilt and McCloskey could never
agree on Il sum, though the former
made several offers; but now he has re-
newcd negotiations, and is willing to
pay whatever may he demanded be-
cause he breads the erection of stores
there. He is not greatly helped by
~neiehbors, however, in his efforts to
save Fifth avenue, Two Of Jay Gould's
partners are interested in the railroad
project, and Gould is planning to-. build
Il residence elsewhere. The three fam
lilies of Astors live in antiquated houses,
and contemplate new homes facing
Central park. SO Vauderbilt's palatial
architecture seems sure to be left uu-
desirable for Vanderbilt occupancy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18
City and Country.

When the manufacturing industry
took its wonderful start in this country,
the work people in the factories were
taken from the farm-houses. The farm
er's daughters of New Hampshire and
Massachusetts,, in the 'neighborhood,
Hocked to Lowell and then worked in
the mills long enough to earn a good
outfit as matrons of families, but they
did not expect to make factory work
the business of their lives. Manufac-
lures caused a hegira from the country
to the cities and villages of young men
as well as OF young women, and the
agricultural newspapers and Farmers
Almanac groaned over the change, and
the perverted tastes and instincts of
the children of the farm; nor have they
recovered from the habit yet, although
the labor troubles affect the manufac-
turing, and not the rural populations.
1t showed that people could change
their employment when greater profit
is offered by the new than by the old.
The manufacturing interest has grown,
and the work people have become a
class which forms unions and denounces
all class distinctions but their own; and
when it is pointed out to them that
there is q remedy for the evils under
which they suffer, and Of which they
complain, in the abundance of land,
and the certainty of at least a living in
farming, the reply is made that they
have not been brought up to that pur-
suit, and to lose their work in the fac
tory is to lose all. But the change is
no greater than that for the farm boys
and girls when the factories first OPEN
ed, and many of the operatives have
had some experience in agricultural la
Dor. There are at least enough of such
to relieve the pressure in all manufac-
turing industries. There is one pecu-
liarity about farming as a business
which distinguishes it from all others.
That is, that it gives one a living even
if he is unskilled and im%provident and
incompetent. The shiftless farmerd does
not starve to death, since the product
of a very small plot OF land i'll titled
saves him from that extremity. The
knowledge and skill and energy which
would make a business successful in
the city OF village would make a most
prosperous farmer, while a majority of
the farmers pursue their calling as their
fathers DID before them, II put no
more brains into it than is convenient,
and yet they live in comfort, and have
some Injuries which only the rich can
enjoy in town. There is no need even
OF going out West tor the country life.
The farms have been abandoned for the
manufacturing villages, and the pres
sure Of population, and that upon the
means OF subsistence, will insure that
these will be rcoccupied again and
made more profitable than they were
formerly. 10 Il majority OF people,
however, the town LIE is SO attractive
that they prefer want and the prospect
OF pauperiSm with plentiful society,
and the eNcltements and variety OF col
]ected humanity, 10 the monotony OF
the country, with It's freer ain, greater
abundance OF all the real neccsssaics
OF life, and the neayncss to the soil
which is the natural refuge Of mankind.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18
a Bull ard Il Bicycle.

There is an old half-mile racing track
on the Fry farm, two miles from Elk
ton, Pa. 1t has been used but little for
several years, but last summer a num-
Der OF young men who owned good
road horses had the track put in order
to exercise their horses on, the roads IN
the vicinity not being i'll good condi-
ton. During the past week Farmer
Fry has had a t~hree-year-old blooded
bull tied in the lot where the track is
situated. The bull had never mani
tested an ugly disposition, and never
took any notice of the driving or noises
around the track, although he stood
neur it. On Friday last a young man
named Stephen Pickens, a nephew OF
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18

'Business is business and hustling is
hustling," said a State street merchant;
''but OF all the hustlers l think the life
insurance men take the mutton pie.
One day last week, While at dinner in
a Dearborn street restaurant, l happen
ed to mention to Il friend of mine that
l believed | would take out a life insur-
ance policy pretty oon When l got
back to the store ] found thirteen in
surancc agents waiting for me. made
my escape by way OF the elevator
Mtca0o HGlu.d.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18
Wood-Noscs From II Cage.

Shat-whal-what thcre. my pct canary?
What ara D lryine, my town-bred bird? :.
Fou. whose performance used never to Varyl
All, ! can guess ut the rogLo you've heard!
DAY after day, in vodr bright brass dwelling.
You lived in comfort; YOU took yolr dlP;
Your cup ran over with seeds Tor sheliNgi ..
Your dear delight was Il cclcry-up.
Primly and trinity you Eleeked your feathcrs.
TO swing in the ring you considered onss;
And YOU sang, sang, sang III all seasons anu
wcRthcrs,
With a swelling throat, such a song IS this;
Sweet, sweet, sweet,
Sec~ds-to-eat!
Swce-cct! -
Just-hear-me-trill like a ri.l. 1ill, rin, rill
Sweet, sweet, E"eet!' -
But away at the farm house last July, Sir.
Don't ] know who, i'll the dawn and dew,
Came, like Il fame, to a branch near by, Sir,
Flashing, and dashing, and haunting youa
who hut the Oriolc, orange and sable?
Brilliant Lord Baltimore, velvety-neoked,
Whistlinm out clear, through the moru's gay
babel,
You're Gagged l sec. 'Tisn't fair, but I don't
I'm free, free, freel Ohio, it's rare,~and I
don't Care!'
'.Free?"-You listened, and learned his mean
ingI ,!h.
Shadow and meadow and breezy tree
Cherry and bcrry-tiitting and cleaning
Mating and building
"Oh, free, free, frec!"
And now you repeat, though n trihe queerly.
That nOnchalont melody, DER and DER. ,t =,
And persuade yourSclf-Or so very nearly
You are auitc as content rs you were be
fore? - "
'.-'Tisn't fair. but don't care!
i don't care!"
Helen Gray Gone, in st. Nicholas for No
Vcmbcr.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18

Playing in Boston long ago the elder
Booth was seized with Il sudden fancy
for taking long night walks, on which
he made his son.accompany him" One
night they started out after midnight,
and for three hours walked about the
docks and auays. Not a soul did they
meet until their return to the hotel,
when they saw q dark figure following
them, skulking in the shadows of the
warehouse. Edwin was somewhat
scared, but his father stepped forward
and in a loud voice said, Good eve
ming, my friend" The mar did not
answer, but came forward into the light
and showed himself, in looks at least,
a thorough rui1ian. With a curse he
came toward them. The old MAI drew
himself up and asked, "Who are you,
my friendp Who are you?' Pm a
thief, that's what L am" said the fell
low. land IL said:Rooth, in a voice
of wonderful sweetness, ''am pirate"
and lie shook the astonished ruilian
warmly by the hand. The effect was
electrical, Edwin Booth said, and the
man troubled them no further.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18

Noted purse, half flushed. was IN Que
compartment, with some old coins tied
up carefully in the end, while in the
largest division were Il pair of pretty
white gloves which the girl who wore
them had embroidered, and which,
when Worn, must have reached almost
to the short pulled sleeves she wore
Lacy G. Lishe, IA Aa1pey's Magaatns
for NOUenlley.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18

1t is estimated that there have been
Turkish rugs sold in Boston recently in
sufficient quantity to cover Boston
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18
Sulplur. Iron, Magnesia, and Lime,

Others are simply pure, limpid water. Tie toxin
IS 1ully supplied With lirSt-clasS hotels ample. in
siZs and appointments. foH accommodating ,rrr,
.iaS wishing to make a protracted Stay III ti,
tension Of -.1iI - VI Wy
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-18

9zOV; VvV cents postaae, and by mail YOU Viii
gel free a package OF goods OF large value. thar
will start Nou in work that villa once Dringyou
III money faster than anything else in America.
All ABOUT III" SOC. 900 III presents With each box,
AGENTS wanted everywhere. of either sex, OF Mi
ages. for al lifetime, orSparc time only. toM@il
for Us at their oWn homes. Fortunes for AL wor.
kers absolutely assured. Don't delay, II. HAL
LEFT q CO.. Portland. Maine.