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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27
HOMEMADE CANDY.

How en- Make Taffy, Caranaels, Peanut
Condy and Butter-Scotch.
Here are some receipts for making
candies at home which are easy of
executions:
For peanut candy half as much sugar
as glucose must be used, and as much
or more weight in peanuts as the sugar.
In fact, the peanuts, must be stirred
into the syrup just as thick as possible.
Let the syrup come to q boil, throw in
the nuts, and stir constantly until the
syrup chairs when it drops from the
spoon. Then pour it N a slab. That
which is to be cut up in bars is marked
while soft. Almond and tilbert bar, are
made in the same way. C%ocoanut
candy is softer. The best cocoanut
candy is that made with some maple
syrup in it.
4 good proportion for making cara
mels is one gallon of cream, five
pounds of glucose. two pounds 0 fsugar,
using such t1ayoring as desired. Three
quarters Of an hour is longenough time
to cook caramels. When done the
syrup should be poured on a slab and
marked.
Molasses taffy is made by using three
pounds Of glucose to five of sugar and
one quart of molasses. There is no
candy more difficult for a novice to
make than molasses tafy. It must
neither be cooked too fast nor too slow,
too much nor too little.
Equal portions of molasses and sugar
should be used. To two teacupfuls of
each, for instance, put in about a tea
spoonful of butter and three table
spoonfuls of vinegar. When it is
ready to remove from the fire add
about a half teaspoonful of baking
soda, and Immediately pour into a but
tered pan. When cool enough to
handle, kneadit, just like bread, sprink-
ling lemon extract over it, and then
pull it, well, till you grow tired-on
any convenient hook.
Butter-scotch is good only when
fresh. It is made in the proportion OF
three pounds of glucose to five of
sugar, one pint of molasses and three
quarters of a pound of butter.-N. Y.
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27
YOUR READING.

How 1t Enters into and Influences Your
Whole L.ife-The Importance of Choosing
Only Good and Pure Books.
Books make life and books make
death. Every book which is read as a
good book ought to be read enters into
the readers heart-blood for veal or for
o 1t may mingle with the flowing
current as q life,destroying poison, as a
deadly narcotic, or as the very river of
the waters of life. You can choose at
the beginning what books shall enter
into the composition of your ~life-forces;
but after you have once read a book,
you can not always prevent it from con-
tinuing to influence your life. Read an
evil book, and the stain may remain
with you always; give your mind over
for a day to the written words of some
master OF skepticism, and in after DAYS,
when your battle of life is ~tiercest and
your need Of faith is sorest, his words
may rise up out of your own mind to
torment you with doubts that other
wise you would never have known.
Many. a man would give all his gold to
rid his mind of the false or impure
thoughts which his early reading
had made abiding guests in his
brain. Why should you seek to
gain such an experience. Whv
should you seek to know the evil
spending your money for that which
Is not bread, but which creates an un-
healthy craving for deadly poisons?
Eye shall be as God, knowing the GOOD
and the evil" is the promise of the
tempter. but the promise ends in max
ing you as Satan. Have nothing to do
with book whose chief power is the
evil that is in them, or which have
nothing to offer you but empty mega
tlons. Ii the student of special litera-
ture must know these, 50 much tho
harder forthe student of special litera-
ture. Christ calls you to no comn]cte-
ness OF culture which would involve =
towering OF your moral or spiritual
standard; better for YOU to enter into
life manned in respect to the scona ~
your reading. then UNNAMED to be
cast into Gehenna. Let the sensational
go; refuse to soil your mind
WIN a Dook which is essentially evil.
however skilled an artist of works ito
author may be. There are enouoh
good pure, strong books in the world
to supply all the demands of yeur intel
lectual life. Read these; and when the
current OF q free and healthy mental
INC Is flowing in your veins. Won will
r';t,l regret that you refused to defile it
MN those trelcherous streams which
azure but to destroys. S. Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27
Clrefulness in Old Age.
A medical man compares an old /,

A medical man compares an old man
to an old wagon; with light loading and
careful usage it will last for years; but
one heavy load or sudden STRAIN will
break it and ruin it forever. Many
people reach She age Of fifty or sixty or
seventy, measurably free from most of
the pains and infirmities of age, CHEEKY
in heart and sound in health, ripe in
wisdom and experience, with sympa-
thies mellowed by age, and with rea-
sonable prospects and opportunities for
continued usefulness in the world for a
considerable time. Let such persons be
thankful, but let them also be careful.
An old constitution is like an old bone,
broken with ease, mended with diff
Guilty. A young tree bends to the gale,
an old one snaps and falls before the
blast. A single hard lift, an hour of
heating work, an evening of exposure
TO rain or damp, a severe chill. an eX-
cess of food, the unusual indulgence of
an appetite or passion, a sudden fit of
anger, an improper dose of medicine
any OF these or other similar things cut
off a valuable Life in an hour, and leave
the fair hopes of usefulness and enjoy
ment but a shapeless wreck.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27
INDIA.
rho Gradual Estrangement Between the
Natives and the English, +;

rhe Gradual Estrangemene Between the
Natives and the English, i
TIE account given me by the Oldest
and best informed of my native ac-
quaintance (and I am not talking here.
of Bengal 'demagogues. but of men
holding it may be or who have held
high office under Government and de-
servedly trusted by it) of the gradual
arrangement which has come about
within their recollection between them
selves and the English in India, is most
instructive. In the days, they say, of
their youth, thirty and forty years ago,
though there were always among the
company's officers men who from their
abuse of power were d:slihed and justly
feared, the general feahng of the ma
tives toward the English civilian was
one of respect and even of affection.
The Indian character is affectionate,
enthusiastic, and inclined to hero
worship; and the English in earlydays,
from their superior knowledge and
strength of character, exercised no
little fascination on the native mind.
Nearly all Of the older men talk with
reverence and esteem of certain teach
ers who instructed them in YOUTH. and
of certain early patrons to whom they
owed their success in after life; and
they willingly acknowledge the infu-
ence exercised yer themselves and
their generation by such individual ex-
ample. The English official of
that day, they affirm, had more power
than now, but he exercised it with a
greater sense of responsibility, and so
Of honor in its discharge. He took
pains to know the people; and, in fact,
he knew them well. Except in the
very highest ranks of the service he
was readily accessible. He lived to a
great extent among the people and &C
cording to the customs of the people.
He did not disdain to make friends
with those of the better class, and oc-
casionally he married among them, or
at least contracted semi-matrimonial
relations with the women of the land.
This may have had its i'll consequences
in other ways, but it broke down the
hedge of caste prejudice between East
and West, and gave the official a per-
sonal interest in the people, which no
mere sense of duty, however elevated,
could supply. The Englishman of that
day lookedupon India not unfrequently
as his second home. and taking the evil
with the good, treated it as such.
England could only be reached by the
Cape route. Travelling was tedious
and expensive, the mails few and far
between, and many retired officer had
at the end of his service become so
welded to the land of his adoption
that he ended his days in it in prefer
ence to ~embarking on a new expatria-
ton. 1t is easy to understand from
this that the Anglo-Indian official Of the
company's days loved India in a way
no Queens official dreams of doing
now. Also that, loving it, he served
it better than now, and was better
loved in return.-FortDiqhtsy RecieW.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27


liquor to carry him from shady act 10
act, until at last he committed forgery.
and wound up by stealing q span Of
horses and a carriage, in the act of
selling which he was arrested. Tried
by court-mart al he was cashiered and
turned over to the civil authorities, hN
whom he was sentenced to a five yearss
term in the Penitentiary. All his fam
lily influence could not save him or
abate the rigor OF the sentence. His
offenses We're too gross for clemency.
After we had left him Davidson never
went near him again. 1t was too pan.
full, but he managed to obtain some
abatemet of the labor imposed on the
wretched man while the convicts were
stationed our camp.-IAonaos j.
Murray, IN Washington Republican.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27

" into our conception Of Christian dife,
refors moi to the awards of Heaven, but
to The uses of tire earth. Doubtless
there are joys in glory rendered pos
| sibls only by sorrow here. and service
in Heavent the apprenticeship for which
! comes on the path of earthly pain. But
there are also Joys and services here for
which present trial is fitting the soul.
So let us Danish from our thougM
that far-away look which is disposed to
separate by the river OF death between
the discipline and the reward. That
~co-working by which call things" con-
spire for the believers good is a visible
and fruitful energy Of the present, as
well as the future. The two angels OF
our Joys and our sorrows move SO close
together that the wings of each may be
said to overshadow the other. And that
only is a true philosophy of life which
recognizes the pre- ent h%elpfulness OF
those overshadowings. The nature
most sensitive to pain will know the
rapture of l%iveliest Joy.
"Ncver the exquisite pain, then never the ex-
Ouisite bliss:
For the heart that is duh to that can never 10
strung to this" Dbl. T.
This is according to the constitution
of nature, and grace works on that line.
When the Hebrew captives walked the
fiery waves of the seven-fold heated fur
mace they were not comforted by the
hope that the Lord, some future day,
would balance their fears. He did it
then by walking beside them. And
those are getting the best out of atflic-
ton who do not heavily endure the
present suffering in the prospect of a
future glory, but who get the CLEAN of
that future as a present crown for sor-
row, and who so anticipate the Heaven
that its brightness even now can dissi-
pate their fears.
And it will be easy to realize this in
proportion as we understand the true
nature OF Heavenly rewards. If we
think of them in a gross way as consist
ing of harps and crowns in eternity, a
walk on golden streets, and al empire
among the tribes of Israel above, then
let the thought of them be adjourned
| into eternity, and let there be nothing
to cheer us here but the far-away hope.
But if God is our reward. and his pres
ence our Heaven, then we may have
that reward and presence at the very
moment that the shadow OF the rod
falls upon us. Instead Of a hope, we
may have the Lord. Instead OF bear
ing the fire in the hope that eternity
| will lift us out of it, we may have the
finer experience that the Lord, walking
with us, keeps the very smell of fire
from our garments. That we may have
harps ~here-their song all the sweater
because set in the minor key-and u
way among shadows and graves shall
be a softer, holier path than any gilt
tcring road of gold. We will get the
full value of our experience as we go
on, when we understand that God is
the good toward which our days are
working; that no. in events will be our
gains, but that %'iniinite compensations
forever are found in Him.-CAic0go In
terror.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27
WHAT WAS NEEDED.
A Dead Church Warmed Into Life by a
Little Healthy Exercise.

Little Healthy Exercise.
A little church in a certain inland
town was like that of Laodicea. Moth
ing could be said against it but that it
was dead. The pastor-a " ing, zeal
Gus man, on the first day that he faced
his congregation, saw a body of we'll
TODD, elcgantly-dressed, polite people,
who rose and knelt at the proper times,
and gave money properly when the bag
went round.
Three years later the same faces met
him, and he had not kindled in one OF
them a CLEAN of spiritual life. In the
meantime he had preached the terrors
OF the Law and the mercy of the Cos
pei; he had wrestled with God for them;
he had carried them, a dead weight, on
his heart.
.'Ihey are frozen to death!'' he cried
to an old minister. "Wny docs not
God warm them to life?"
ga little exercise might have that
effect" said his friend. Butthe young
er mar did not understand what he
meant.
About this time a poor woman died
in the town. She sent for the pastor.
II have four Children" she said. 81
want them to be Christians. l will give
them to your church."
'To my church," exclaimed the
young man.
eyes. They are godly men and
women. I have asked God that they
may be fathers and mothers to my
children"
The woman died on Sunday morn
ing. The clergyman told his flock the
story that day, and repeated the mes
sage without a word of comment. ''The
mother is lying dead in the tenement
house No. 10 Blank street. The chill
drcn are with her," he said.
After church he went to No. 10. One
member after another of his congrega-
ton came in. They wore different
faces from those he knew. Stern old
mon patted the poor babies tenderly on
the head, the commonplace, and fash
ionable women took them on their
knees with plying hearts, and a holy
mother-loye shining in their eyes.
The next day there was an informal
church meeting. The children were
placed with a worthy woman in a clean
little house. Provisions and clothes be-
gan to come in; eve the young girls of
the parish made pretty little comforts
for ''our babies" The matrons of the
church grew intimate over this mutual
charge, and the men presently sug-
gested that the house would accommo-
date other motherless little ones.
This was five years ago. There is
now an o%rphanage belonging to this
church, in which all the members take
a keen interest. The fact that these
children look up to them as examples
of Christian life is a perpetual spur and
warning to them.
The old minister visited his friend
last summer. ''Your people are the
most live body of Christians I have
seen for a long time" he said. 81
think they have had other treatment
besides prayer and preaching. Souls
nesd exercise as well as bodies to keep
them warm.'
The young man smiled. He had
learned how to understand many
things in these five years.-YouM's
CO1np0R21Oz.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27
Arctic Phenomena.
A crowd standing upon the $

A crowd standing upon the snow at
a distance of one hundred yards is
exaggerated and distorted beyond
recognition. Once having fingered a
little behind the rest of the party 1 was
startled at seeing along line of shadowy
dog sledges moving silently through
the air at a height Of eight or ten feet
from the ground. The mock 'sledges
were inverted in position, and the mock
dogs trotted along with their feet up
ward in the air, but their outlines were
as clear as tErose of the real sledges and
real dogs underneath. This curious
phenomenon lasted only a moment,
but it was succeeded by others equally
strange, until at last we lost faith in
our eyesight entirely and would not
believe in the existence of anything un-
less we could touch it with our hands.
George Kemnan, ''Canpimg IN Kuns
ecLntk0.n
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27
%SABBATH-DAY READING.
MY LESSON.

Nv heart was heavy with its pain.
i could not count my losses gam.
Nor understand my prayers mlgh. oe
Rettcr denied than granted me-.
Faiths tender flowers were rudely chilled
Nor could kiss the hand that tilled
Win love's red wine life's goblet up,
But dropped a bitter in the cup.
could not hold 1t love that babe
So sore a cross be on me laid.
But, only deemed that it must be
A punishment sent unto me.
So YEARLY my heart made moan,
And ate her bitter bread alone;
Too proud to yield, too weak to trust
Too doubling to believe Him just.
With my rebellious will laid down,
NV cross becomes my joy. my crown;
Whate'cr another's Christening be,
know my own is best for me.
-Mdrjouie Moore, in N. Y. Examiner.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27
The New York Null ment:nns

The New York Mail mentions a
millionaire who has a young woman
secretary whose duty it is to ozark in at
least thirty newspapers every day the
articles she til nks he would like to
read. This is called a ''timc-saying
arrangement"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27
lake care of your cha':acte,

TAX care of your character. Do
moI ne too much concerned for your
aepu,atlon. Keep the character right,
ana inc reputation will give YOU no
srouole: Character is everything
something chat can not be hid from
you or man, that can not be changed
H a; we chahSe a garment; but we carry
~ WIN us wherever we go, and by if wa
are known every day of II lie. A
pure, earnest, broad, consistent svn-
;netrical character-what divine riorv
~ rejects, what blessings it confers on
the Horld!--Ziom's Herald. 'A ~
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27

life, like war. is a series Of mis-.
'ahes; n he is not the best Christian
nor inc best General who makas tho
lewest false STEPS. Poor mediocr,ty
may secure that but he is the hest who
WINS the most splendid yictor e De1 Nv WI" the
son. ~. 4aoQE1R
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27

If there is anything more sweet
than a young man with black car NUTS
On his ears and red mittens ON his
hands. we desire it t o be trotted II
Immediately, that it may receive q
chrono.-OM CS;y Derrick.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27

"A smart old lady, being called into
court as a witness. grew impatient at
the questions put to her, and told the
Judge that she would stand down., for
he was "raly one Of the mosv inlu.si-
tive Old gcntlsmen she ever seen."-N.
Y. Ledqer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-27
ST. VALENTINE.

Oh, gooo and sweet St. Valentine,
A secret hitherto all mine,
i pray you teach me how to tell
The little maid l love SO we'll!
The flowers are dead beneath the snow;
The song birds fled long time ago;
And though I've whispered to the wind,
The trairor fails my love to find.
So teach me, pray, st. Valentine,
The words to say, or some sweet sign,
That she may truly, clearly see
How very dear she is to me.
Elizabeth II. Darts.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-15
..SIiding on a Doors,

Store open evenings.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-15
TRINITY PARISH SCHOOL.

Hts ThIrty-Fourth Anniversary Of
 Ascension Day Interesting Exer-
 cises-Awarding Of Prizes For Ex-
 cellence.
 The thirty-fourth anniversary of the Trin- ity church parish school, Ascension day, was celebrated yesterday afternoon in the Trinity chapel on George street. The boys and girls marched in at o'clock singing the process sional hymn When they were seated the recitation of sentences and prayer followed. Rev. MT. Nichols, the assistant rector of Trinity church, conducted the services. The ascension anthem was finely rendered, and the scholars knew the collect, epistle and gospel so we'll that they gave almost per feet recitation. The singing by the primary department was excellent This was foi- lowed by the church catechism, which the pupils knew almost as well as the collect. The eighth number on the programme was the ascension carol, beginning "Ye angel hampers, strike your golden lyres," after the singing of which a recitation of the first few verses of the sermon on the mount were given by the primary department.
 Prizes were awarded to the pupils by the teachers as follows: First grade-frst prize, Mary Fasser; second prize, Esther Quigly. Second grade-frst prize, Sophie Mehl; sec ond prize, Viola Glazier. The prizes ot the first grade were handsome Bibles and of the second grade neatly bound prayer books. The prize for the third grade was awarded to August Fasser Eva Duncan received a pretty basket for being perfect in spelling and Harry Prescott was given beautl- full scrap book for general improvement. August and Max Fasser were awarded pic ture books for regular attendance at Sunday school
 After singing the Gloria in Excelsis and receiving the benediction the recessional hymn was sung. The exercises were very interesting and well performed. They lasted for about an hour.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-15
LOCAL NEWS.
Rrfef Mention.


 General s. E. Merwin, who has been con fined to the house by sickness, is now i'm proving.
 Governor Harrison's reception by the Re- publican league of this city will take place early in June.
 Mrs. Daniel Beeman died at the residence of her son, c. E. Beeman, in Lakeside, New Preston, on the 9th inst, aged ninety-one. Last week the Litchfeld town clerk re- corded deed given by David Marsh in 1858 to Lewis and Myra Marsh, all of that place. Deputy Sheriff Goodrich took home his wife from this city Wednesday. She has been quite sick at the residence of her sister here.
 Colonel Watson, of Bridgeport, who has been in feeble health for some time, is going to Lakeville to recuperste. His sister re- sides there. The Naugatuck railroad company have a passenger car fitted up expressly to transport sick people and invalids over their road and allow them to be secluded from other passen- gers.
 By invitation of Rev. MT. Saunders, of Milford, George Van Horn post will visit the Methodist church in that place on Sunday evening, May 24th, to hear memorial ser mon.
 Humping Jack" Jones, who has been coaching the Yales this spring, has agreed to sign with the Waterburys and was to pitch for them yesterday with the Springfelds in Waterbury.
 A convention of the Sabbath school super intendents of Fairfield county will be held in the First Congregational church in Bridgeport on Thursday, May 21, 1885, commencing al 3 o'clock D. m and continuing through the evening.
 MT. Herbert Booth, recently in charge o the depot at South Norwalk, has been trans ferred to the auditors office of the Consoli dated road at New York. MT. J. P. Hop son. from She New London office, will talk his place.
 The revocation case of Thomas Curry, o Derby, was to have been heard yesterda. morning by the county commissioners, bu the prosecuting agent, J. M. Sweeney o Naugatuck, withdrew the case on condition that Curry pay the costs and deliver his cense to the commissioners.