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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
PROGRESS IN M
1t Should Be Every Farmers Aim to Con
tinually Improve His Farm.

1t Should Be Every Farmers Aim to Con-
~tinually Improve His Farm.
The world moves, and why should
the farmer be content to jog on in the
same old way his father trod? Some
are enterprising enough to keep up
with the times and make use of all
modern appliances for carrying on the
business successfully and profitably;
but, as we go about the country, we see
many who are content to let things
drift so long as they can keep soul and
body together by doing as their fathers
did. The most profitable farming is
that where liberal expenditures are
made, not only for improved tools and
machinery, but for fertilizers as well.
The farm should be constantly growing
better. 1t should be the aim Of every
owner of a farm to improve the same a
little each year, SO as to bring the land
into a high state OF fertility and keep it
Lands so treated will pay far better
than those that are skinned year by
year, until at last they almost cease to
produce. Nature can not be cheated.
We must treat the soil literally if we
are to reap II reward. Let the
farmer be awake to his interest
in every direction. The mer-
chants and business men are constant
ly pushing to keep abreast of the times,
no matter how sharp the competition.
Let the farmer show something of the
same pluck and zeal. The more energy
and enterprise he displays, the larger
will be his reward. Let whatever is
done be done well. If tie young men
could find full scope for their energies
CD the farm. without tie hindrance
from their elders, we believe fewer Of
them would seek the cities for less hon
orable and profitable employments.
This is emphatically an age of i'm
~provements, and the farmer has not
been forgotten by inventors. They
aave done their part in producing la
bor-saving machinery and improved
tools for the farmers use. Let him
take hold and use them. Better
methods Of farming have been intro
duced; let the farmer adopt them. Bet,
ter breeds Of animals have been pro-
duced; let the farmer obtain them and,
in short, put forth his energies as do
vigorous men in other callings, and
then we shall not hear SO much grum-
bling about the appropriateness NJ
neutrality-suspicious..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

"A prominent chemist of Elmira,
N. Y, has given tho result of recent
Investigations to the world, as to the
proportion Of opium found in a dozen
packages of the highest priced
cigarettes in the market. These he
sent to a Pittsburgh chemist for analy.
sis. He says: 1.-The considerable guam
tity Of opium found in all the standard
brands is astounding. The universally
recognized bondage resulting from the
use of opium in any form or degree,
especially by smoking or absorption,
renders the murderous design Of the
admixture and the sharp lesson TO be
learned, terribly plain.-BuJiah
Courier.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

"WHAr we learn with pleasure we never
forget."-Ayred MERCER. The following is
q case in point. ~ paid out hundreds of
says Mrs. Emily Rhoads, of McBrides,
Mich. 81 had female complaints, especial.
ly 'dragging-down,' for over six years.
DR.. r. V. Pierce's sFavorite Prescription
did me more good than any medicine ever
took. l advise every sick lady to take it,
And so do we. It never disappoints its
patrons. Druggists sell it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

TIE Health Commissioners, Baltimore,
Nd, DIR. James A. Steuart, says of Red
Star Cough Cure: 1t combines in an unique
and effective manner approved curative
agencies which are relied upon by the
faculties of the different schools of medi-
cine, with other valuable ingredients. Con.
tains no poisons or opiates.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
Young Men, Read This.

The voLTA1c BELT Co., of Marshall, Mich,
offer to send their celebrated ELECTRo-VoLr
TAIc BELT and other ELECTRIC APPLIANCES
on trial for30 days, to men (young or old)
afflicted with nervous debility, loss ofvital'
ity and all kindred troubles. Also for heu-
matism euralgia,paralysis,an and many 9th
vigor, and manhood guaranteed. No risk in
Cured, as 80 days. trial is allowed. Write
them at once for illustrated pamphlet, free.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

Mr.. PETER MALLEN, 212 w. Twenty
fourth street, New York, says that he suf-
fered six years with rheumatism and found
no relief until st. Jacobs Oil, the sovereign
remedy, was applied, which cured him
completely.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
A Now Bedford MISSY ms

A New Bedford (Mass.) man has
turned up in that city after eighteen
years absence. He left home on O
whaling voyage when fourteen years
old, and on arriving at the island Of
Tongatabu, in the South Pacific, left
the ship. He stopped on the island,
where, as he grew older, he engaged in
trade, shipping cocoanuts to New Zea-
land and other points.-Boston Journal
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
Stranger than Fiction

are the records of some of the cures Of con.
sumption effected by that most wonderful
remedy-Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Dis.
covery." Thousands of grateful men and
women, who have been snatched almost
that consumption, in its early stages, is NJ
longer incurable. The Discovery has nc
equal as a pectoral and Alternative, and the
most obstinate affections of the throat anc
lungs yield to its power. All druggists.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
-Police,Justice Eisenmenore. o

-Police-Justice Eisenmengre, Of
Schenectady, N. Y, wears on his
watch-chain a small glass charm OF
badge, encircled with gold, which
was found on a French battlefield by
his grandfather in 1913. 1t is said to
have been the badge worn by some OF
the Scottish Highland clans during the
Scottish rebellion. in l745.--IfVy
Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
Pile Tumors,

however large, speedily and painlessly
cured without knife, caustic or salve. Send
ences and reply. Worlds Dispensary
Medical ASHTON, 663 Main St, Bufalo,N.Y Y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

COUGHS AND HoARsENEss.-The irrita-
ton which induces coughing Immediately
relieved by use of " Broaon's Bronchial
Irochesc." Sold only in boxes. % cts.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

PIXIES TooTHACHE DROPS curei in ,25c.
Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. 25c.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns & Bunions.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

SIS r%HEIearth to freeze solid?" asks az
exchange. 1t will, we think, be a cold day
when it does.-Detroit Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

AN Ohio paper contains the heading in
display type: "The State at Large" 1t
is not stated how it escaped, but it certain
" was very careless in somebody.-N. Y.
Graphic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

A LITTLE off color-The paint on the
back of a man who leaned against a new
ly-decorated wall.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

THE goodbye of lovers is generally
touching; not so much in words, but sort
of elliptical.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

81 MUST shake off this bad habit" said q
tramp, as he gazed at his battered coat
N, Y. Journal,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

MANY jokes, like wine, improve with
ge. Some of them would be more valua.
BILE if kept forever.-Pntsburgh Chronicle
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

: CHE amt no violiuist, but he can just
fiddle a cat off the fence, /" was the way q
country chap put it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

THE fact that the poet is born, not made,
relieves our educational system from a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

THE camel is the only bird we yearn to
hear MARBLE after listening to a man learn
ing to play the violin.-FdU River i'd
Udnce.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
DO You Want to Buy a Dogc

Dog Buyers Guide 0 pages, ~engravings
of all breeds, colored plates, price of dogs
and where to buy them, mailed for 15c. AS
sociated Fanciers, 237 S. sth ST., Phila., Pa.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

If afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
%Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. &c.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

To ACCUMULATE dollars, my son, you
must have some sense to begin with
Burdette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

IT'S very seldom that the umbrella gets
left. We know whereof we speak.-Bos-
ton Post,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

WHEN the cat sees a flying boot-jack he
looks upon it as a off -fenceive hint.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

A MAN is called a confirmed liar when
nothing that he says is confirmed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

"You can count on me-" as the slow cal
fingers remarked.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

1t is better to make an acre of land
worth 500 that was previously worth
only $40, than it would be to buy 800
worth of land at $40 an acre.-I9oY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-25
Questions About California,

foRESTNILLE, MD, April Is, 1880.
To the Editor of THE EVENING STAR:
Could you inform me through the columns of
THE WEEKLY STAR on the following particu-
lars-1. How to go hence to California; .. When
is the best time, as to season and climate, to go
there; g. How the seasons there vary from
those here; 4. Also how much money it will
take to get there; and 5. Whether they have
mixed schools, Or, as here, separate schools for
the white and coiOred population. You will
confer benefit by answering these queries il
you can or, ii you cannot, by telling or suggest
Ing where can be informed about them.
Respectfully yours, A SUBSCRIBER.
L. Three ways are open; viz: by the Pacific
Mail steamer line via the Isthm us of Panama;
by the Central Pacific, and the Southern Pacific
railway lmes,-but the two latter are usually
used. The better way perhaps would be to go
by one road and return by the other. The fares
are the same on each from this point to San
Francisco.
2. The best time to go to California for pur-
poses of pleasure travel through the state, etc.
is May and June. 1t may be added that travel
In the state is much more expensive than on
the Atlantic seaboard, railway fares averaging
about 10 cents a mile. Hotel bills are, how
ever, somewhat lower than on this side.
.. The seasons there vary from ours in these
respects: Except in the high mountain regions,
the winters are much milder than here-oc-
casional light showers taking the place of the
wintry snow and rain storms of this locality
In summer the interior valleys are hotter than
our hottest weather: outside or west OF the coast
range it is colder, and in San Francisco it is
cold enough to be uncomfortable for a good part
of the summer season, especially ifexposed to
the constantly blowing winds, or in apartments
where the sunshine does not penetrate for at
ieaSt portion of the day.
4. The cost of the trip will depend somewhat
onthe taste or will of the passenger A first
class ticket from Washington to San Francisco
costs S119.6O. To this sum must be added
about $50 for sleeping car berth, and about
$50 for meals, if taken at regular eating sta
tons and at regular prices. A second class
ticket costs $3.50. BY this train there are no
sleeping car accommodations, and an econom-
ical traveller could probably subsist on 81 90
per day, if so disposed.
8. The school system Of California does not
vary greatly from ours. There are probably not
colored people enough there to raise the ques-
tion of mixed schools on their account but our
impression is that colored people and Chinese
are not admitted to the public schools Of the
state-ED. STAR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-25
DRINKS IN DISGUISE.
Tricks That Are Played TO Deceive the
Public-A Bartender's Revelations.

The other morning an old man walked into
the bar-room of a large downtown hotel and
glanced around as il looking for some one. then
stepped up to the bar and ordered boldly a
bottle OF ginger ale. Two things in the trans
action were out OF the usual routine. The first
was the man who generally passes about
town as a teetotaler. The second popularity
was the drink, which was half whisky, as
the bartender acknowledged after has Gus
TONER had paid for the drink and slid out.
TINS style. l. have an especial box in which
Keep these bottles to separate them from the
fuily removing the tin-ioil capsule from the
neck OF the bottle. / then take out the cork,
hstL! pour OUT about half of the ale MI up me
bottle with whisky, quickly shove back the
cork and replace the capsule. am then ready
10 satisfy the desires OF that old codger, and
Many them? Yes, there are a good many.
Inc out and out profeSsed teetotalers are not so
numerous, tut there are lots of business men,
known That they drink. We have two or three
rooms in the house where these men can drop
wiser Tor 1t but themselves. We are a good
many dollars ahead AT the end of the year on
account of this sly trade
The bartender was interrupted by a waiter
coming up to the bar nd ordering seltzer lem
onade for DIR; So and So, who had just come
down to breakfast.
Here's another dodge" said the mixer of
DRINKS, as he poured into the glass OF lemonade
a stin horn of Holland gin. This being white in
who sat next to the one who gave the order.
lie is a clergyman a reverend doctor" Oh
served the bartender as the waiter departed
towards the dining room. "fe has stopped
here for the last ten years whenever in the city,
and OF course know his habits, but il wouldn't
do for me TO tell the good people of his parish
about some of his capers. He doesn't drink
oh, no He only takes a little WINE for his
stomach IS sake, but his stomach can stand a
good deal. He is not the only one who CON
ceals his appetite for liquor by the dinner table
scheme. There is a wife of a well-known Repre-
sentative who is said by her friends to be a bril-
liant after dinner conversationalist. She be-
comes very bright and animated, but wonder
what they would think If they knew the cause.
In each of the two little cups OF black coffee
which she drinks just before rising is mingled a
pony OF the purest French brandy, ard 1t i this
stimulant which brings out her entertaining
qualities"
Just then three well-dressed gentlemen walked
in and called for something to drink. and as the
bar tender turned away to fill the order he said:
Don't give me away and some day I'll put You
on other games which people work TO deceive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-25
The industrial school Question.

To the Editor Of The EVENING STAR:
Allow me to obeerve, in reference to the in
dustrial school question, that such institutions,
as at present conducted, are an injury, instead
OF benefit An injury to the pupil, inasmuch
as he obtains just sufficient knowledge of the
trade which he essays to learn to make him O
botch. An injury to the workingman who en-
beavers to support his family by labor at his
occupation, because this half-taught labor.
offered at rates far below the regular standard
OF wages, is too frequently availed Of by greedy
employers to effect q reduction in the compen-
sation of skilled mechanics To be as brief "a
possible, will only refer, as samples of the in
furious enect Of these "kindergartens," to the
use MADE OF them during the righteous strike
OF the teiegraphers q year or two ago Also, to
iegiumate business men In that line Of indus
Try OF thousands OF dollars which they would
otherwise earn. "S
The question, how the American youth shari
OBTAIN knowledge OF o trade, is a momentous
one, Dut 70 turn out hundreds of half.tanpht
amateurs will not solve IL. How would II do to
let each employer have as many apprentices
as ne desires, at the same time cOinpellino him
70 teach the boy all branches Of the trade the
mlnllment Of this part OF the Contract to he az.
termined. ct the end Of the boys apprentice.
ship, by means Of rigid examinatiOnf
APru 80 1861 AUGUST DONATE.
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WAITING FOR THE HANGMAN.
The Program for s'May Day. at the
JaiI-LanEster's Death Warrant Made
Outflow Minor and LanSster Spend
Their Time. &c.

The Court in General Term having on Mon
day last adjourned without day, the date of the
execution of John Langster alias Hudson, the
colored workhouse convict for the murder Of
Police Officer Fowler and of the execution OF
Frank Minor the wife murderer, 1.-The second
Friday after the adjournment OF the Court in
General Term became the first day of
May. Over a week ago, however, the papers
committing Minors sentence to imprisonment
in the penitentiary fer life was received at the
jail, and the fact was made known to him.
Thus far no official information of this commu-
tation of Minors sentence has been received at
the court house. the papers having gone direct
to the warden of the Jail. 1t was, therefore, in
cumbent upon the clerk of the Criminal Court
to transmit to the warden
A DEATH WARRANT
in each case. These were made out Wednes-
day and sent to the Jail on Thursday. These
read as follows:
In the Supreme Court of the District of Column
bia, April 90, 1888.
United States NJ
agt. Mnrdor
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Night Piece.

HIeces
Written for THE EVENING STAR.
The rivers silver thread Is bright afar;
Rich odors finger on the list ming night;
Sad langours DER me creep, with subtitle power
All Heaven smiles In light.
Son, as . dream, throbs forth the distant bell:
The vesper bell that calls the monk to prayer
A holy peace, steals through the dewitt dell;
Ny ve-dream heth there
Where oneold willow broad, doth droop, and sway.
Where no rude strifes e'er reach the leafy gloom:
But where the summer wind with Aowerets play
She lies within her tomb
And, gazing here. upon the dim, white stone
White. cold and full. looks down the cloudess moon.
While nature sleeps-my soul is very lone
Oh. love, TO die 20 soon!
Alone to ton-to battle fate alone,
No more when weak, thy rare swee4 tones to cheer.
Thy voice, thy look, thy soothing touch has flown;
Still ever. love, thourt near.
Yea, by the rays Of quiv'ring worlds above;
That, through all time, art ever bright-the same:
Like their pure light. the memory of thy love
WIN shine - reverens name.
Alsxaadxia, Aprn 30th, lsSA RLM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-25

I'm lanternjawed halfbreed with hair on my teeth,
was born on the mountain but howl on the heath,
From Texas TO Greenland, It Is my belief
There's NO such bold pirate as am,
I'm big.fst lop.sided son Of the plain,
Ny breath Is the blizzard, my spittle Is rain;
Like DO tiled blue lightning the blood in my vein
I'm Q son Of = cyclone nom Siam
Six hundred swart sons Of the Saskatchewan,
Each armed 70 the teeth, I've mortgage upon,
The brAvest Of bruisers-the very bon ton;
Not . foot Of the whole gang Il tender.
Mr.. Middleton's minions we're waiting tn eat
Mr.. Meigund well pulverize into naince meat,
And the Winnipeg warriors viii wall their defeat,
And wish they'd not come on this bender,
So get there re CORY galoots nom the west,
Carve the Qutver1ns lung from each breast
We started the fight, and II each does his best
We WIZ none OF ~ die NOR surrender.
Minneapolis Tribune.
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At the Chapel Door.

Written for THE EVENING STAR
Let me stand in the shade of the portal,
The night-wind Is wailng so shrill;
The snow-fakes fall fast On my forehead,
My blood courses feeble and Chill
But III see him come forth from the marriage
Let the winter wind sting as 1t will
The lamps in the chancel are cleaning,
The fair bride stands full in my sight:
hear the deep bass of the organ
And see all the maidens in white
The voice of the good priest arises
On, Heaven. support me tonight!
All, many q time has he told me-
He loved me far dearer than life;
And vowed on the honor Of manhood
To make me his own welded WIFE
1beneved-and fell-Cod forgive me.
1he thought rends my soul as o knife!
Twas fair,-for all lauded my beauty
And pure as the purest might be;
Ldeerned him so honest and noble
He never would prove false TO me.
Too late have found out my error
No man can be f,lser than he
bore him q child In my anguish
wee little waf without name.
WANTED him near when twas buried
He promised. and, yet, never came.
Perhaps tbs best dead since INV darling
May not know her poor mothers shame,
g., 'neie nA'e oeen times When fancied,
That he would return 10 my side;
That L should be led to the altar
Respected and loved as a bride
But, alas, can now see before me
The gulf that our lives must divide.
Can the cold touch of death heal dishonor-
Or the soul nom Its thraldom set freee
When sleep meath the snow In the church vav,
wonder If he'll think of me
When he kneels at his own family altar
Dare he mention my name in his PRAYER.
Dare he think of the life he has bIightedY
Dare he think of my tears of despair.
Oh! wild, winter winds, wall unceasipe,
You're kinder than mortals may be:
What hope Is there Left for weak woman
When wrecked on life's turbulent sea,
The ghost Of my youth, and my sorrow.
Are all that are now LEFT to me.
FRANCIS C. Lone
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Invocation.
Written for THE EVENING STAR.

Written for THE EVENING STAR.
A sweet little songster
Ofsparrows the best,
With music of Heaven
Astir in its breast,
One bright summer morning
Went blithely in quest
Offood for its wee ones,
Asleep in the nest
On a twig of the bushes
That swung like swing
II quickly alighted,
And folded its wing
To ask for a blessing
Or rather to sing
From Him who remembers
The tiniest thing.
And sweet was the music
That trilled On the air
From the heart overlooking,
A caroling prayer
That pleaded for mamma
The angels prepare,
And thanked the good giver
For tenderest care.
The music if spoken
Would certainly say:
Give us, Father.
This beautiful day,
The food we are needing,
Forgive us, We pray,
As we forgive Others
And keep harm away.
Still louder and sweeter
IL caroled again
The pure matin service,
1t seemed to me then
To sing the soft cadence.
As uttered by men:
For thine is the Kingdom
And glory, amen.
April 81, 1885. JEROME BuRS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-25

The prohibition party Of Maryland WAS or
ganized In Baltimore, Mr.. VIM. Daniel pre-.
siding. state central committee and COM
mittees on organization and platform were
appointed.
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PLEASURES OUTDOORS.
sports and PaStimes on Land and Water.

ACTIVITY AMONG THE BOATING MEN-THE
COMING STRUGGLE FOR AQUATIC HONORS-
THE BASE BALL MEN AND THE BICYCLERS.