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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-01-14

GRAY & GRAY Attorneys at Law, Room 2,
" Slattery block, corner Third and Megs streets,
Bismarck. D. T. Land-ofice business speciality.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
Siberian Prisoners.

Escapes of political and other con.
victs from Western Siberia are more
frequent than is generally supposed,
but from Eastern Siberia, though often
attempted, they seldom succeed. Save
for %convicts under sentence of penal
servltude, and actually imprisoned, it is
easy to elude the vigilance of the police
n o't away from a convict village or
settlement, but it is almost impossible
TO get out OF the country. The immense
distances to be traversed, the terrible
climate, lack of money, the absolute
necessity OF keeping to the high roads
prove, except in very few instances, In
suporable obstacles to success. In or
der to be really free, moreover, it is i'm
Peratlve for a fugitive not only to pss'
the frontier of European Russia, but to
reach some country where he runs no
RISK OF falling into the clutches of the
imperial police. Even in Germany he
is iiable to be recaptured, and is really
safe only in England, France or Swift
zerisnd: Hence, to make a good figbj
from Eastern Siberia, requires a con
}uncture OF SO many favorable and near
! impossible circumstances as to ren'
der q complete escape a rare and r.
n!alkaole event. - Contemporary W|
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
HOW INDIANS MOVE.

They Take Their Wigwams with Them
How They Dine Not an Appetizing
Sight.
Harry's papa is an of1icerin the army,
so Harry lives in q fort out on the
plains. He sees a great many queer
sights. One day he saw some Indians
moving. Indians live in wigwams, and
do not have any furniture. They do
not move from one wigwan to another.
They move wigwam and all from place
to place. They do not have any
wagons, so they have to carry their
things on the backs of horses. The In
dams rode on horses, with the pap
posses on their backs and the half
grown children sitting before or behind
them. The skins and blankets belong
ing to the wigwams were tied up, and
the bundles were fastened to the backs
of pack-horses. The lodge-poles were
tied TO the sides of the horses, so that
n end of them dragged on the ground.
The Indians stopped a few hours not a
great distance from the fort, so Hal
went out with the soldiers to see them.
They were friendly Indians; that is,
they were friendly just then. Perhaps
the next time they would see them the
Indians would be ready to fight about
something. Hal thought at first that it
would be great fun to live like Indians;
but he soon changed his mind. When
he saw still more of them he was very
certain he would not like it. He was
sure he would not like to sleep among
such dirty skins and blankets, or to eat
such food as they did.
The moving party Hal went. to SEQ
Were cooking their dinner. They had
built fires on the gronnd. They cooked
their meat on sticks over the fire, and
stewed a good many queer things in
large earthen pots.
One of the officers told Hal that tho
Indians were very fond of stewed pup
pies. Hal did not know whether to be-
lleve that or not. The Indians all
helped themselves out of the same dish.
They seemed to think it quite right to
dip their fingers in and fish out the piece
they liked best.
Some OF the little Indians were almost
pretty. There was one came up to Hal
and looked him over. He was inter-
ested IN his clothes. After awhile he
went away and brought two large
feathers for Hal to put in-his hat. Hal
stuck them in and laughed. The lit
tie Indian laughed, too; but they could
not talk to each other, for neither could
understand what the other said. The
Indians stayed near the fort until after
dinner; then they moved off toward
Their home.-OW Little Ones.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
ROBINSON cRusoE.

The night was thick and hazy
When the Picadilly Daisy
Carried down the crew and Captain IN the sea;
And l think the water EN-,
For they never, never found 'em,
And / know they didn't come ashore with me
Oh! twas very sad inc lonely
When ] found myself the only
Population on this cultivated shore;
but I've made a little tavern
In rocky little cavern,
And Isit and watch for people ut the door.
/ spent no time in looking
For u girl to do my cooking,
As I'm quite Il clever hand at making eteWs;
But l had that fellow Friday
Just 20 keep the tavern tidy
And to put a Sunday polish on my shoes.
Ihave a little garden
That In cufivating lard in,
As the things 1 eat are rather tough and dry;
For l live on toasted lizards,
Prickly pears, and parrot RiZZards,.
And I'm really very fond Of beetle pie.
The clothes I had were furry,
And it made me fret and worry
When 1 found the moths were eating of the
hair;
And 1 had to scrape and sand EN-,
And / boiled 'em and l tanned EN-, =
Till I got the fine morocco suit L wear.
Isometimes seek diversion .
In a family excursion -
With the few domestic animals you see;
And we take along a carrot
As refreshments for the parrot,
And q little can OF jungleberry tea
Then we gather as we travel
Bits of moss and dirty gravel,
An WI chip of little specimens OF stones;
And we carry home as prizes
Funny bugs Of handy sizes,
Just to give the day a scientific tone.
II tho roads are wet and muddy,
We remain Mt home and Study,
For the goat is very clover at u sum
And the dog, instead OF fighting,
Studie4 ornamental writing,
While the cat is taking lessons on the drum.
We retire ut eleven,
And we rise again at seven,
And / wish to call attention as / close
Tic the fact that all the scholars
Are correct about their collars,
And particular in turning out their toes.
-Fs0m ''Dauu and the GOblin," by Charles Car
MI, in st. Nicholas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
THE WlTCHING WEED.
Something About the History of Chewin
xnd Smoking.

Something About the History of Chewing
xnd Smoking.
Cigars we're not known until about
1915. Previous to that time pipes were
used exclusively. ..+4
Chewing had been in vogue to a linn
tied extent for some time, while snuff.
ing dates back almost as far as smok-
ing.
The first package sent to Catherine
de Medici was in fine powder. She
found that smelling 1t in the box af-
fected her similarly to smoking, which
led her to fill one of her smelling bot
ties with the dust. Her courtiers
adopted the habit of snuffing small por-
tions Of it up the nostrils, and as the
precious stuff became more plentiful
the snuffilag habit became more gen
eral, until al last a man or mn was
not considered as in proper form unless
they snuffed.
The custom became so common in
England that a snutf-box was no longer
a sign of rank. Then it was the law
prohibiting the culture of the plant,
except for medicine, was passed. About
the same time a heavy tariff was placed
on the imported article, thereby prac-
tically placing it beyond the reach of
the common herd and giving royalty a
complete monopoly.
Since it first began to be used as q
luxury there have been conflicting opin-
ions in regard to its effects. The Ro-
mish Church once forbade its use, and
the Church Of England acclaimed
against it.
The Wesleys opposed it hotly, and at
one time it was considered so unclean
as to unfit men for membership in the
Methodist Church.
Baptist and Presbyterian ministers
preached against it, and societies were
organized to oppose the spread of the
habit, but all to nc purpose. Parents
disowned and d%isinherlted their chill
dren because they used it, and hus-
bands divorced their wives on account
of their having contracted the habit of
smoking.
1t is singular that when women get
into the habit of smoking a pipe they
prefer a strong me-.
There are few men who have nerve
enough to smoke a pipe such as q wom-
an likes when she has become a con-
firmed smoker. When they first begin
putting cigars they prefer them yery
mild, but it is not long until they want
them black and strong and lots of
them.-PItsburgh Dispatch.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
THE
How Prisoners Were Formerly Tortured in
the French Galleys.

How Prisoners Were Formerly Tortured In
the French Galleys.
We suppose the GLADIATOR temporis
acts' will never entirely disappear.
There will always be found those who
will maintain that the former days were
better than the present, and that the
affairs of this world do not move so
smoothly as in old times.
Undoubtedly there may be reason in
such assertions, as in some instances
III days show a degeneration from
those of our forefathers; the belief in
;hc overruling providence and good
ness OF God, the respect of youth to-
ward old age, the sentiment Of ODE
dience to the commands of law, we fear
have lost somewhat of their influence
,ver the actual generation.
But without stopping to enumerate
the many points in which our own age
has made a decided advance over those
shat have preceded it, let us merely re-
fleet on the position of prisoners and
sailors of the present day as compared
with those when men were condemned
and not always for crimes committed
to the living death of the galleys:
Baras de la Peuve, who served forty
years as an officer in a galley, thus
writes in 1918 of them:
"Those who. enter a galley for the
first time are surprised to see so many
souls on board. There are, in fact, in
Europe an intinity of villages which
do not contain so many inhabitants.
But that which cause still more aston
ishment is to find SO many men in so
mall a space. 1t is true that the
greater part have not the liberty to lie
down at full length. Seven men are
put on each bench; that is, in a space
of about four feet wide by ten in length.
AT the prov are to be seen even thirty
sailors, who have no other lodging
place than the plans DIES rambades,
which are two spaces of two feet in
length by eighteen wide. From stern
to prov one can see nothing but heads.
The captain and officers are hardly
any better lodged, their only refuge is
the poop, which, considering its size,
one is tempted to compare with the
tube of Diogenes. When the pitiless wind
from Lydia, sweeping across the Ro-
man beaches, surprised the galleys on
the sea; when the impetuous Aquilon
assailed them, or the Gulf of Lyons do.
livered them to the humid wind of
Syria, the galleys must have been an
image Of hell itself. The m%ournful Ia
mentations and frightful cries of the
crew, the horrible howlings of the
chain-gang, the grooming of the vessels
frame, mingled with the noise of chains
and the roaring of the tempest must
have produced a sentiment Of
terror in the most intrepid heart.
Rain, hail, lightning, the habitual
sccompaniments of these violent
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

-':As soon as we got on to the gang
we dropped that they were crooks, and
we went under to pipe. The gang
sent out two crows to watch for cops.
The three others walked down the v
nue., and we felt that their lay was to
touch a store. They stopped to crack
the store 1O6 Sixth avenuee but quit it
cold and worked their crabs-that is,
they went up Clinton place to the Gin
cinnati Laundry, 1873. There was a
woman asleep inside. but the biggest
crook went inside and swiped: the till.
We did not collar the three men, be-
cause we knew they would split the
stuff. When they did, a little further
up the street, we got on to them, and
after a tough scrap, ran all three in
Trenton On. J.) Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
! sbou,d have left tracks oehind that W

should have left tracks oehlnd tina W.
can see to-day"
Every strange" said Uncle Will.
smiling. ..But these are only q few Of
| the MANY wonderful tracks of past ages
written on the rocks. Did you ever
think, Edith, that all of us-especially
young folks like you-are making
prints which, like these bird-tracks,
may last long after us?"
.'Why, how, Uncle WillP" asked
Edith.
II told you this rock was once a soft
substance, into which these great claws
easily sank. As ages passed by, the
mire hardened, hardened until that
footprint was a part of the rock,
never to be eff:aced.n
..Young peoples minds and hearts
are very like the soft mass; and the
thoughts they think, the persons they
associate with, the books they read, are
all doing something towards making
walk often through the young mind and
heart with wrong, untrue ideas about
life and its duties, these things will
| surely leave their ugly prints growing
firmer and firmer, deeper and deeper
| until they can never be etfaced. And SO
again, right, sweet, loving thoughts and
I endeavors will as surely leave their
marks too. Then ought we not to be
very careful about the marks we are
making as we go through life? careful
about things that may seem very trivial
in II daily lives; and | know of noth-
ing which may leave deeper marks OF
good or evil on young hearts than tho
| books one may read"
Edith's face had flushed deeply, and
| she listened to her uncle with her eyes
fixed upon the strange, uncouth marks
before her.
Although she was overload of fool
ish, Improbable books, Edith was a
bright, sensible girl, and knew directly,
from the beginning of her uncle's talk,
why he had brought her to the museum,
and to this particular case.
She felt ashamed, but she looked up
bravely and said, with just a little
tremble in her voice:
"Uncle Will, 1 know what you mean,
! and l will try to be making better foot
prints"
And Uncle Will held her hand tight
a moment, and they left the museum
AIRS. Lucy Randolph Fleming. IN S. s.
| Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

The wheat production Of 1884 is re-
ported by the Agricultural Bureau at
.513, 600, 900 bushels. OF this amount we
require for hcme consumption and seed
about $40, 900, 900 bushels, leaving a
surplus for export of i73, 900, 900 BUSH
els. For the six months ended Febru-
a.ry 1 we had exported 5000, 900 BUSH
els, and for the ensuing six months we
shall export probably enough to make
$50, 600, 900 bushels as the exports OF
the year.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
"A North Carolina, wn1

"A North Carolina woman, who dis
covered that a heifer which had been
stolen from her was il. the possession
OF a neighbor, went to = agistrate for
the purpose of instituting legal pro-
ceedings for the recovery Of her prop
erty, but the magistrate told her that
the cost of lawful proceedings would be
considerable, and, as the heifer had
been taken from her illegally, she had
better raise a sufficient crowd to 90
and take her back by force, and thus
save expense.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

A DOCTOR who ought to know, says
that the practice of the wholesale use of
smelling salts, which came in with the
universal fashion of carrying smelling
bottles, is sure to have it's influence on
xhe olfactory nerves sooner or later, and
render the victim unable to distinguish
cologne from asafntida. More than all
that, it causes headaches, sore Threats,
and red noses. The last argument will
have its weight. The smelling bottle
must go.
1T is not an easy matter to amend the
Constitution of the United States.
A two-thirds vote upon the proposition
is required in the House of Representa-
tives and in the Senate, and then the
Presidents signature. But after that
the proposed amendment will have to be
agreed to by Twenty-Five States, or in
fact fifty-eight legislative bodies upper
and lower) before it can become a law
of the land. The difficulties thus pre-
scented are almost insurmountable. and
it will be readily seen that nothing short
of a terrible upheaval will admit of 3
thought to alter the constitution.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

SMALL tobacco pipes are frequently
uncarthed in Ireland. They are sup
posed to antedate the Introduction of
tobacco in Europe by Raleigh. If this
be so it would prove that tobacco was
smoked by the Northern Nations Of
Europe long before that event..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

By the will of the late Francis A.
Drexel, of Philadelphia, one-tenth o fhis
estate is to be devoted to charitable pur-
poses. The property is %variously esti-
mated at from ten to fifteen million dol
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

The condition of the country as re-
CARDS material wealth was never better
than at the present time. The farmers
of the West have a large surplus of
grain, and manufacturers have cheaper
raw materials, cheaper fuel, and lower
wages than for many years.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

GLADsroNE's Tory brother long ago
predicted that civilian will ruin his
country and his Queen, and die a mad
man." and the prophecy is being re-
called in England now.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

New YORK CRY, with $4,000 men
and women out OF employment, feels the
need of an immediate and general re-
sumption of activity in the manufactur-
inp industries.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

THIS winter has been one of destruc-
tive severity to feathered game in
Illinois. Many prairie chickens have
been frozen to death, and quails have
been almost eXterminated.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

New JERSEY has q law that no train
carrying oil shall pass a passenger train
on a bridge or in a tunnel. Abill to re-
peal this act was recently introduced at
She instigation of two railroads, and
having passed the Senate, is now pend
ang in the Assembly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
A German cabinet-maker

"A German cabinet-maker of
Schenectady, N. Y, has on his loft
hand in place Of an index finger a toe,
which is exactly similar to a mans
great toe. 1t is about two inches long.
thick, and has bone ON one Joint. It
does not in the least interfere with his
w0rk.-1rou lSp%2
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

AN idea Of how quickly gossip flies
may be gained from a little incident
that occurred in Birmingham, Ala,
recently, where a m ''got OUT that
one of the female school teachers was to
than fifty applications for her place were
made.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
ToPlcs OF I'LL DAY.

MEMBERS of the Dominion Parliament
are apparently in a permanent state of
nervous excitement for fear of internal
machines.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
MARYLAND woddin,

"A Maryland wedding had to be
postponed because at the last moment
it was found that somebody had stolen
the marriage license. 1t is curious
whas chances some fellows do have.
even when it would seem the last on
portunity of escape had passed.-Bur-
Anoton Hawkeye.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

IT is remarked in London that in the
general lamentation for those who have
died in Egypt, very little is said for Col
nneI Eyre, who worked his way up
from the ranks by personal merit, but
had the misfortune to be of plebian
hjrfb
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

TIE National Confectioners' Associ-
alton will add sweetness to the City of
Brotherly Love by holding its second
annual convention there in April. AL
ready the Philadelphia papers have
begun to dispense taffy about the ad-
vantages of their town as National Con-
Nention Headquarters.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

"A condemned murderer at Mar
snail, lex, passed his hat around to-
courtroom on receiving his death ser =
six children.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

-"Tain't no use tryin' to drive a
woman. Its mighty like when We
tryin' to drive a passul O. hens come
into the house; and We chase 'em up and
say Shoot and gifts 'em almost to
the do; and they jist run straight
past it.-Auntv LosM, in .'1rue," bv
George Parsons LatAt0p.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20

The Connecticut Senate has passed
the bill providing a State bounty of ten
cents to any person planting, protect
ing and cultivating elm, maple, tulip,
ash, Eastwood, oak, black walnut, hick-
ory, apple, pear or cherry trees, not
more than sixty feet apart, for three
years, along any public highway.
THIS is what General Gordon, in his
~sReilections in Palestine, said of the
tongue, and especially of the tongue of
''The tongue is glib, serpent
like, and it is odd that women have it
in such perfection, which none have yer
doubted. 1t is their defense. The wo-
MAJ ate first, and the tongue is her par
ficular forte. Yet when women speak
good, how well they speak it out. They
are in this point the salt of the earth"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
To

Al communications for this paper should be accom-.
panied ~ the name Of the author; n2t Peseessarfly for
part Of the writer. Write only on one,side 0f the, pa.
per. Bc,particularly careful in giving names and dates
to have the letters and figures plain anddtsttnc. Prop.
er names arc often difficult to dociphcr, becaus60f the
careless manner in which they are written.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-07-07
Give Him n lSOQuet.

An item of more than usual interest will
be found in the report of the session OF the
Board OF Education printed in another
column. Mr.. Warren presented a set Of res
olutions so framed as to do away with the
custom OF permitting every member OF the
graduating class, be his work good, bad or
Indifferent, to infict his production on the
audience. He asked that action on them be
postponed until next week, and supported
them in little speech, showing that It would
also serve as at incentive to the pupils, who
would naturally be ambitious to receive the
honor appointments. The plan seemed to
meet with much favor, aud doubtless the res
olutions will be adopted at the next meeting
either wholly or in part.