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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
TEMPTATION.
How It May BE Met and Successfully Re.
sisted.
(Sunday-School Times.1

CSunday-School Times.1
The serpent has found its way into all
the Edens of this world. Never, until the
mortal puts on Immortality, does it put off
finally the possibility of SHINING. Nowhere
can a man go that temptation will not
find ain. Temptation possesses a free pass
ON all the railroads, a free berth IN all the
boats, a free entrance to school rooms, and
business offices, and playgrouuds-and
even to the churches. Little escape, for
example, does the reforming drunkard
find in boarding the express train that,
with every moment, puts another mile
between himself and his old saloon haunts.
Old evil associations he indeed leaves
behind, but not the old evil thirst, the old
fierce temptation. That shares his seat in
the train, his state-room on thesboat and
halts only when he halts. Temptation
finds the hermit in his ascetic retirement
as readily as though he mingled with the
crowd. Temptation climbs the high ana
bare and guarded wall of the convent as
well as he atticed arbor of the pleasures
seeker. Temptation pays no heed to warm
ings of "no admittance,' be such warnings
moral, legal or ecclesiastical. Tempta.
tion's very power for evil is in this con-
slant presence which leaves not an I'M
guarded moment or movement of the soul
unnoticed. Then what? Then we must b.
vigilant. If temptation insists, we must
resist, and must persist in resisting. If
the evil is watchful in attack, we must be
watchful in defense. And, above all, if
temptation tempts US with that subtlest of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in the strug-
gle-let us lean lard on the divine prom
Use that our temptations will never be be-
yond what we are able to bear. Gods
help would nave made Canaan the Land
of Rest to the Israelites if they had had
faith, even while they found it a land of
conflicts. Gods love will give US rest
amidst our inevitable struggles-if we will
rest upon that love.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
Sinful Lamentine.
(sunaay School Times.1

l0uAooJ SCAOO1 4ll4C5sl
Nc man to whom is granted the full illu.
mination of the sunlight need lament if,
during the bright day, his means OF his
circumstance forbid him the added light
Of a candle. Possessing the light of the
sum-, he possesses all the light that he
needs. There is comfort in this thought
for those who, rich toward God, are rich
in no other sense. Perhaps the light
of a desired knowledge, or of a fuller ex-
perience, is denied to them; and perhaps
the lack is to them a cause of constant
self torturing. This self-torment is sim
full as well as foolish. God withholds
no light that He does not with
hold wisely. And when He shas given
the full sunlight of Christian truth, is it
rights it grateful-to spend ones days
l%amenting the lack of a minor light whose
beams seem darkness itself in contrast
with the strong shining of the sun?
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
SPANKED II BOY.
AAo sigma Success Which Attended Inter-
terence in Family Matters.

~ sigma Success Which Attended Inter-
ference in Family Matters.
All the adult passengers in the wait
lngg-room had their attention attracted
by his antics. He wanted candy, and
he wanted to see the river, and he
wanted to go aboard the train, and he
wanted more than any city the size of
Detroit could possibly furnish free
gratis. His mother hushed him up the
best she could, and several times he
slapped her face and kicked her shins
n got Off without even a pinch. BY
n by an old nan who sat near her,
n whose feet the boy had walked on
several times, began to get nervous
and turning to his right hand neigh
Dor, said:
Gland o massy! but I've either got
to git outer here or spank that boy!"
"He just aches for it," growled the
other.
HE does. He puts me in mind of
my. William. I've seen William when
nothing on airth but Il spanking would
put good nature into him"
say | will go!" shouted the boy at
this moment.
PLEASE, Johnny, be good" entreat-
ed the mother.
81 won't!"
"oh, do! See howthey are all look
ing at u.s."
~ don't care if they arc!!"
r With that he walked up to the old
man and made a kick, and then the cur
tain went up on the play. With one
twist and two motions he was seized,
whirled yer a pair of knees, and before
he could squawk once the spanking
machine began it's work. If ever a boy
of seven was neatly wound up and the
ugly taken out of him inside of sixty
seconds the work was no more COM
plete than in this case.
"There!' said the spanker as he up
ended the child and placed him on a
seat, ''you'n feel better-a heap better.
Hated to do it, you know, but saw that
you was suffering for it. Beg your
mothers pardon for interfering in
family matters, but you set right thar
till the train is ready!'
The boy ''set," and such a calm and
solid peace stole over the crowd thai
the yelIs of the hackman outdoors gave
everybody a pain.-Detroit Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
A Prize in the Lottery

Of life which is usually unappreciated I'M
til it is lost, perhaps never to return, is
health. What a priceless boon it is, and
how we ought to cherish it, that life may
not be a worthless blank to us. Many of
the diseases that flesh is heir to, and which
make life ~burdensome, such as consump-
ton lscrofula Of the lungs) and other
scrofulous and blood diseases, find q COM
plete cure in DR.. R. V. Pierce's "Golden
Medical Discovery when all other rene
dies have failed. DR.. Pierce's pamphlet on
consumption mailed for two stamps. Adj
dress Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso.
citation, Buffalo, N, Y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
Youn. Men, Read This.

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Your social standing will not be injured
by a pair of tight boots, if your hat fits you
in the morning.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
"A11 Men Are Liars.,,

said David Of old. He was probably
prompted to make the above remark after
trying some unreliable catarrh remedy.
Had he been permitted to live until the
present day, and tried DR.. Sage's Remedy,
he might have had a better opinion of
mankind. We claim that no case of
catarrh can withstand the magic effects of
this wonderful medicine. One trial of it
will convince you of its efficacy. By drug
gists; fifty cents.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10

= = = Delicate diseases of either sex,
however induced, speedily and perma-
nently cured. Consultation free. Book
Medieal Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10

81 MUST shake off this bad habit" said a
tramp as he gazed at his battered coat
N. y Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10

Mrs. PART1NGToN, dear old lady, says
there are very few people nowadays who
suffer from ''suggestion of the brain.1
N. 7. InQependent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10

The Oldest book in the Con-
g%ressional Library is said to be "The
Olive Leaf" by one Hauser, of Georgia,
a tune book concocted .'for the glory of
God and the good of mankind."-WasA
5n0tOn Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10

IT has been discovered that the knots
which O vessel makes at sea depends upon
the tied.-TTOD Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10

"MAGa1E, 1 don't like to see this dust on
the furniture" "All right, mum. Pill shut
the blinds right away.'-Norristown Her.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10

A YOUNG lady who keeps an autograph
album expressly for male signatures relers
to it as her 'him-book."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10

A COUNTRY seat that always rents-The
barbed wire fence.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10

THERE are some things man can not
do;" remarks a philosopher. This is true,
especially true. if his wife happens to say
so.-BostOn Post.
PIKE'sToOTHACHE DROPS cure in / minute, 2g5c-
CLIENTS Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. 25c-
GERMAN Corn REMOVER kills Corns & Bunions-
IT takes a good many strikes to make a
baseball match go off well.-OW CITY Der
rick.
IF afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Ihompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 26c~
A PHILOSOPHER has observed tina very
often it is green youths who paint tho
town r~ed.-BuBalo Express.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
CANCER Of The TONGUE.
A. Case Resembling That Of General GRAM.

Some ten years ago I had a scrofulous sore on my
right hand. and with the old-time treatment 1t healed
conccntrated in cancer, eating through my cheek, to
the top OF my left cheek bone and up to the left eye
gone | could not talk: on October first, 1854, com
menGed taking sTifrs Specific. In a month the eat
fearful ns fa aperture in my cheek has been closed and
crossing, and it seems that nature is supplying a new
tongue. Ican talk so that my friends can readily un-
dcrstand me. and can also eat solid food again. /
would refer to Hon. John II. TraylOr. State Senator,
of this district, antt d.. I. S. Bradiield, of LAGRANGE.
Ca. IRIS MARYL L, CONNIE
LAGRANGE, Ga. May IA, 1885.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
Tue SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ca
N, Y. 1857 w, 2ad ST.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-05-21
Battle With COnvicts.

Forty State convicts employed on farm in
Brazos County, Tex, escaped On the 14th inst.
When work was stopped on the evening of that
day large mob of armed men surrendered
the guards and their prisoners and demanded
the release of the latter. This the guards re-
fused, whereupon fight ensued, in which the
convicts took part with the mob. The conflict
was terrible, and resulted in victory for the
attacking party, who disappeared with the
convicts. 1t is reported that several persons
were fatally injured. The outrage is due to
the hue and cry against the employment of
convict labor outside of the penitentiary. The
Governor has offered a reward of 5000 for the
conviction of any Of the leaders in the affair.
On the following day Is of the convicts who
escaped were surrounded near Bryan by posse
of citizens. The fugtives. however, came out
victorious, killing one of their pursuers and es-
Gaping, although several of them are supposed
to be wounded. Every effort is being made for
the capture of the convicts
At last accounts number of the cOnvicts
have voluntarily surrendered. The remainder
at large-20 in number-have stolen horses and
are heading for Western Texas. They are well
armed, and will make a desperate resistance if
the authorities come up with them. Some of
the escaped convicts are among the worst class
of Texas criminals, and state of considerable
excitement exists among the farmers along the
route they are supposed to be taking.
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G. A. R. ORDER.
RHODE ISLAND.

General Orders, No. A. issued at Providence,
r. l., May l, are as follows
The 10Th annual session of the National Encamp-
ment OF the Grand Army of the Republic will he
held in Portland, Me, upon the 23d. oath and 25th
OF June, 1885. The parade will be made upon the
first day.
Comrades in this Department Wishing 10 attend
can procure certificate from Adjutant of the Post to
when they belong, and upon presentation of same
to .. III. Briggs, Asst. Gent Ticket Agent, No l
sion tickets via n Y. Il N. f. X. r. TO Boston. and
Portland Steam Packet Co. to Portland. for S3;
from Providence to Portland and return, all rail,
Si5O Rate from Boston to Portland and return by
either line of steamers, 81. So by railroad So The
Boston y Providence Railroad charge regular rates
Tor single tickets, but Posts going in Il body can
procure from the Superintendent of Transportation
Geo. H. Greene, Providence, rates based upon one
hall fare Comrades of Posts situated upon the New
York, Providence & Boston Railroad can procure
tickets from their local agents, from Mr.. D. III.
Briggs, Providence. Posts going in body can
upon application to Gen. Geo l.. Beal, Portland,
secure quarters lii camp, including straw, water and
lights and local caterers will provide rations at q
cost not to exceed 81 per day per capita. The camp
Is located in the city.
The steamboat companies from Boston will fur
nish meals to Posts at 30 cents per at special
contract, for which address them at Portland. The
hotels in tho city all engaged, but the hotels at
Peaks Island, Cape Elizabeth. and Old Orchard
Beach, within easy access of the city, can accom-
modate 10000 guests. Prices vary from 81 20 to 50
per day. Ii several Posts of this Department go in
body, the General Committee at Portland recon-
mend that they organize battalion and have
quarters assigned them together.
This is the best opportunity for comrades of this
Department TO attend session of the National
Encampment at very small expense that will
probably occur for many years, and the Department
Commander is in hopes that many comrades will
avail themselves of it.
BY command of EUGENE A. Cory,
+. HENRY jerks, A. A. u. Dept Commander.
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SONS OF VETERANS.
NEW HAMSPHIRE.
HEADo'Rs FIRST GRAND DIVISION,
Sons OF VETERANS, u. s. A,
NJ n u An, 1 1903


Sons OF VETERANS u. s. A,
MANCHESTER, n. H., May IL 1885.
General Orders, No IA.
l. Headquarters are hereby removed from Con-
cord to Manchester, n. II.
H. In accordance with the obligations of our
Order and the requirements of its laws the Sons of
Veterans of the First Grand Division will participate
In the ceremonies of Memorial Day by rendering
their services to the Grand Army Posts located in
their towns, in any capacity in which they may be
useful, and assisting in all proper ways in the OBJ
Servance of that solemn and patriotic service. To
this end Division Commanders will issue all neces-
sary orders. Ours by inheritance will he the duties
and privileges of this memorial celebration in not
far distant years. Let therefore learn well its
country
III. Owing to the high wholesale cost of ribbons,
the following prices estabishe after this date
To Divisions, 81 per dozen; to Camps, 81. % per
dozen: single ribbons, Is cents each
~. Orders for badges and ribbons designed to be
filed before Memorial Day should be filed as soon
possible to avoid the delay which almost nvari-
the manufacturers.
V. 1t has come to the notice of the Grand Divis-
ion Commander that some Divisions using blank
forms different from those furnished by the Com
mandery-in Chief This practice not only dcprives
that body of portion of its revenue but it destroys
uniformity IN reports and is contrary TO the Rules
and Regulations
vi. The Diviso- of Maine has elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing and they have been
duly commissioned, viz: Commander, John e..
Blake, Auburn; Lieut. Commander. Charles III.
Mckusick, Portland; Vice Lieut. Commander,
Edward W. Reynolds, Bangor; Chaplain, Edgar
II. Crosby, Monsoon.
BY order of FRANK H. CHALLIs
HARRY T.. WEBSTER Commander
Assistant Adult { General
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HOW BARRIOS DIED.
Two Bullets Pierce the Brave Usurper as lie Leads
His TrOODs to Victory,

Theodore Pasckhe, an engineer who volun-
teered to accompany Barrios on the expedition
against Salvador. writes to friend in Hoboken
this account of the dictator's death:
On Sunday March 90 we started for the frontier
and reached Chingo next day in the forenoon. The
Salvador forces bad intrenched themselves on the
other side of the river, and awaited us. in the
afternoon our artillery was moved into position and
opened fire. About p. m. our forces began to
cross the river, and hour later the SavadorenoS
We're put to flight. All their trenches were taken,
end our troops pursued them until dark.
Next day headquarters moved into Salvador,
OH a hacienda called Magdaiena. The Si,ivadorenos
they had fortified themselves. By Wednesday
morning about 10000 men had been pushed ahead
toward that position, and our headquarters was
moved ahead again right in front of the iowa on a
hight from which the whole coming battlefield
could be overseen. Our artillery opened fire to
draw out the enemy and feel their position. Their
artillery responded and the duel kept up
our side to cover the movements OF our troops. BY
nightfall troops had taken such position that
they had cut off the enemy from all re-entorce-
ments and from retreat and it seemed as II they all
must become our prisoners.
Next morning our artillery opened fire again, and
our reserves were put into position. Between aud
10 o'clock officer came to headquarters and told
the fight under the leadership of its commander.
Barrios left headquarters to make speech to these
troops. In the heat of speechmaking he asked II
they would go to battle with him. of course the
answer was one VIVA and he then and there
opened the battle in person. and led this battalion,
took a couple of trenches, but fell pierced by two
bullets. The battle opened all around, and our
troops began to close in on the enemy, but as one
battalion after the other learned that their Patron"
had fallen dead, they became demoralized, with
drew and gave up a battle already won. j went
back with the body of the chief to the capital where
il arrived on Sunday, April 5.
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Death OF Commodore Jonathan Young.

The commandment Of the New London, Conn,
Navy Yard, Commodore Jonathan Young, died
at the Croker House in that city on Sunday
last, in his 59th year; remittent fever being
the cause of his decease. He entered the Navy
as Il Midshipman, from Illinois, in 1871; went
around the world in the ship Columbus in
1S45-46 and forced ali entrance into YeddO,
Japan, to deliver letter from the President to
the Emperor. He also took part in the Mexi-
can war on the California coast. He was pro-
NOTED to Passed Midshipman in 1S47, and
made second trip around the world in the st.
Msrys in 1S50-'52. He was commissioned
Lieutenant in 1855 and fought the Indians on
Puget Sound. He took an active part in the
war Of the rebellion, and in 1867 was promoted
TO Commander on account of gallant and meri-
torious service during the war. In 1873 he was
made Captain with rank of Commodore, and
had been in command Of the New London sta
ton since June i, 1883.
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4 Brutal Stepfather.

One Of the most revolving instances of cold
blOOded atrocity has just been brought to light
by the death in Philadelphia of little Lottie
Cook, the daughter Of a ,rapeze performer who
travels with Forepaughs Circus under the
name of Mile Turnour. The woman had left
her four children (who were by former marri-
age) with her husband, A. Ornoiri, contor-
zionist, whom she married last year in Havana.
and it seems they have been subjected to the
most inhuman and barbarOus treatment. On
Monday afternoon last Dr. johnson, of Phila-
delphia, was sent for by 0rnofri to attend Lot
tie, but when the physician arrived the child
was dead. An examination of the body re-
vealed numerous cuts and bruises, which the
brutal stepfather coolly admitted having in
ficted with a shovel. The body was almost
bloodless. and the physician concluded that the
many cuts had drained the life tiuid from the
child's body. Immediate death was due to
hemorrhage OF the brain, and this is supposed
to have been caused by blow on the head
The stepfather said he beat her for the purpose
of breaking her of bad habit.
The neighbors tell many stories of cruelty
practised by the father on his children. On last
Sunday morning he was seen to bind the dead
girls hand and feet together and compel her to
keep in a kneeing position until evening.
few days ago Mrs. l.. c. Wilson, neighbor, saw
Ornofri string his 11-year-old stepson up by the
thumbs until his toes barely touched the floor
and then shave his head with razor.
Ornofri has been arrested, charged with the
murder Of the child The three other children
of this monster were taken to the hospital,
where two of them, upon examination, were
thought to be fatally injured. The boy was
badly bruised about the body. His hand was
burned, and he was suffering from internal in
juries caused by brick thrown at him by his
stepfather. The eldest girl, Mabel. who is about
IL years of age, is improving rapidly, but suf-
fering from nervous excitement. The next
child, who is but four years of age, had black
eye and terrible bruises about the head and
body. Her condition, however, is not danger
ous. and all the children will eventually re-
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The Plymouth Fever Sufferers.

During the past week there has been some
abatement in the epidemic which has gone so
far towards depopulating the little town Of
Plymouth, Pa, but the trouble is by no means
at an end. There are some hundreds of desti-
tute widows and orphans to be provided for.
Efforts will be made in the State to raise fund
of 49, 900 to be used for the destitute orphans
for several years. In all nearly $4,000 have
been received, but much more is needed for
immediate wants.
In the temporary fever hospital established
at Plymouth considerable engagements have
been made, three new fever wards having been
added. An additional ambulance has been
procured to gather up the sick, and more nurses
procured.
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Trying to Prove His Victim Alive.

Emery E. Vanschack, aged 20, disappeared
suddenly from home near Smithville. Jefferson
Co., N. Y, last October The woods were
searched for several days and then his people
received a telegram from Syracuse purporting
to be signed by him, asking that his trunk be
sent to Sturgis, Mich. The trunk was sent,
but was returned unclaimed. From. time to
time letters over his signature have been re-
ceived by his friends dated at Syracuse. On
the 10Th inst a body was found by school chill
dren under brush heap in swamp near
Smithville, half decomposed. The remains
were identified as those of Vanschack. Among
the valuables on Vanschack's person at the
time of his disappearance was note for $50
given by Arthur Duncan, young man residing
in the neighborhood. The note was sent to
Vanschack's parents about the time it became
due, with the request to collect it. Elder Dun
can paid it. The Sheriff arrested young Dun
can on suspicion of murder. Vanschack's skull
was crushed by slungshot, and the body had
been otherwise mutilated and then carefully
covered. Duncan denies all knowledge of the
matter.