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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
THE PARK.

Conditions Likely to Make it the Great
Winter Sa~nitarium of the United States.
From my own observations, and
from inquiries made on the spot, I am
of opinion that the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park possesses, in a high degree,
all these essential conditions. In
elevation above the sea it surpasses
Davos; the great plateau of tse park is
between seven and eight thousand feet
above sea-level, while it is stated that
not one of the narrow valleys dips
below six thousand feet. The noun
tain ranges, partly surrounding and
partly within the park, rise to heights
Of from ten thousand to twelve thou
sand feet. I should anticipate, there
fore. that all the advantages which, as
a winter resort for invalids, Davos pos
sesses from it's elevated position. would
be enjoyed even in a greater degree in
the Yellowstone Park. The period of
permanent snow is longer, SO that in
valids could remain there probably
until the end Of April, whereas the
melting of the snow generally COM
pels them to leave Davos early in
March, when the climate of the valleys
is peculiarly unfavorable for chest
complaints. 1t is to be expected, from
it's greater elevation, that a still clearer
sky and a larger proportion of sunny
days would be experienced in the yell
lowstone Park, while the wholesome
ness of the air would be still more
marked, owing to its comparatively
greater freedom from zymotic matter.
PROF. Edwar1 F~yaaklamd, IN Popular.
Science Monthly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
Why They Fail.

The other day a number of students;
were refreshing themselves in a res
taurant after several hours exhausting
mental labor in calculating the chances
of one able-bodied man batting a ball
and another agile fellow catching it
and putting out another one less agile.
They had spent the afternoon at a
game of base ball, and of course were
greatly in need of refreshments after
their exhaustive occupation. During
the evening the conversation turned
on college life and the application to
their studies demanded by the faculty
of those who would graduate with
honor. The poor fellows who spent
the afternoon in their rooms pursuing
their studies, preparatory to next days
r%ecitations and lectures, were commits
serated by these more e%asy-going stu
dents, while the general sentiment of
the party was voiced by n of their
number. who said: II did not come to
college t. study--I came to be taught"
The Measure this young man takes Of
college life and the opportunities which
it offers to those who rightly improves
them is the key which -unlocks the
secret of many a young mans failure
in lite.-LGncaster (Pa.) Ncv Fro
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
HOLLAND.
A Country Which Owes Its Existence to the
I. Industry of It's People,.

A Country Which Owes Its Existence to the
4. Industry of It's People.
Living in a country which owes its
existence almost to the industry and
labor of man, it is net surprising to
find that scrupulous economy and
great foresight are the characteristic
virtues of Dutch workmen. Few coun-
tries possess a population that %fulfills
with more exactitude the domestic and
social duties. What they have acquired
with trouble they keep with care. He
cares little about politics, and wastes
no time, as his neighbor scross the Bel
gian frontier does, in political agita-
lions. His ambition in life is to better
his condition. The questions of the
moment, the topics of the day, have for
him but little interest. He prefers his
Bible to his newspaper, the health of
his family to the tavern, to the reading
room, or political meetings. Jealous
to the last degree of that liberty which
he possesses, he wishes forno more and
likes better to enjoy in peace those
immunities which he has. Holland is,
not a manufacturing country. Scat
tered here and there in different parts
of the kingdom may be found cotton,
flax, silk and wooden mills. The man
%ufacture of spirits at Scheidam, and
the cutting and polishing of diamonds
at Amsterdam are both important in
dustries. In spite of his eontentment
and economic habits, the Dutch work.:
man is poorly paid. The nominal sal
airy OF agood mechanic, of a%carpenter,'
a joiner, a plumber, or a smith, for
example. may be estimated in the
largest towns of Holland at about four.
dollars per week. The working-man's
wife adds, perhaps, for washing, eighty.
cents to a dollar, and the man himself,
by working additional hours, some
times earns thirty to fifty cents more.
1t is possible, therefore, for a hard.
working family to thus manage to earn
from five to five dollars and sixty cents
per week. The average Dutchman
lives in the most frugal fashion,
Hague Cor. Philadelphia Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
EASTERN

Tow the Authorities ofPsnsia Punish 1hNer
CriminAls.
The Zil-i-Sa1tan at Ispahan and The
late Hissam-us-Sultan at Meshed have
been distinguished for the severity Of
their punishments. The most com,
mon of the various punishments in
Persia is that of ''the sticks" Per-
slams frequently menace disobedient
slaves with 1.-THE sticks" The offender
is thrown on his back upon the
ground, his bare feet are passed
through leathern loops attached to a
six-feet beam of wood, which is twisted
until the loops are painfully tight
about his ankles, and is held in the
strong grasp of two men, so that by
no writings nor efforts can he rise Or
remove his feet. The sticks are gene
rally light quarter-inch green rods four,
or five feet in length, and if sentenced
to ''fifty sticks" twenty-five are laid
on each side of him upon the ground.
Two executioners then break stick
after stick by beating them upon the
soles of his feet, with horrible result,
of which a months lameness is likely
to be the painful consequence. Both
these Governors are said to have
adopted the same punishment for the
suppression of highway robbery-they
built the captured robbers into pillars
of masonry. The Koran recommends
the cutting off a hand as the punish
ment for theft, and there are men in
Persia who carry about evidence that
this cruel punishment is sometimes
%practiced. "A Persian Governor is
alleged to have been successful in
enforcing taxation by a practice of
filling the wide trousers of recalcitrant
subjects with freezing snow. Crimes
of robbery and violence are more fire.
guent in the south than in the north of
Persia. Some ascribe this to the large
nomad population which, according to
the season, moves from the shores of
the Gulf toward or from Ispahan.
Everywhere in Persia it is the habit of
wayfarers to gather together for mu-
tual protection. Peasants passing
from town to town with, perhaps, .
bag of silver in their pockets, feel
happy if they can join some caravan
which includes armed men, and es-
pecially safe if they are in the aravan
of a European. The most common
form of execution is to cut the throats
of criminals, and to leave their bodies
lying in the public square. The bow
string is occasionally used by skillful
"ferashes," two of whom twist the
rope round the neck of the criminal
and kill him by strangulation with
awful rapidity. If a European is in
jurcd, one difficulty attending COM
plant is that the Persian Government
is so easily reused to indiscriminate
and wholesome vengeance upon its
subjects. There will certainly be some
victims for the knife or the string or
the living death at the hands of the
executioners; the main evidence may
be that the prisoners were taken near
the spot. In Persia there is but the
feeblest and the faintest security fol
the administration of justice.-London
GRAPHIC.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
"A lady in Brunswick, Ca, found q

A lady in Brunswick, Ga, found a
nest of half grown hooking birds in
her yard recently. She succeeded in
capturing them. They were put in q
temporary cage, and the cage put in a
room. During the day the mother bird
flew into the room and was readily
caught and placed in the cage with the
brood. She began instantly to feed
them with the food which was in the
cage, and did not seem to notice the
Imprisonment. On the day following
the male bird flew into the room, and
offered no resistance nor showed any
signs of fight when the lady captured
him. He was put into the same cage.
and the lady now has the entire family.
They seem contented and happy.
Plttsdurch POST
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
WAYS OF
Obstacles in the Way of Young Attorneys
Fees Always Cared For.

Obstacles in the Way of Young Attorneys
Fees Always Cared For.
A young attorney was accosted by
an acquaintance yesterday with the
commonplace salutation:
'How do you do?"
Gas there is nothing to do" was the
nonchalant reply. sit is immaterial as
to how it is done"
...Does the depression in commercial
circles affect the law business gener-
ally for the worse? Ishould suppose it
would give it an impetus"
.'The business is not SO very bad, ex-
cept among young attorneys. De-
preston in business is not the sole
cause of our i'll luck. Elder attorneys,
and some of them having a lucrative
practice in the higher courts. are get
ting in the habit Of descending to JUS
tice courts ven in matters of small ac-
count, 1t is true that some of the
older lawyers make a practice of turn
ing over petty suits to younger men,
but they are few"
care collections from clients becom-
ing more d%itlicult?"
OOLlC"udU3 buU uO ii q Poo4 4'WJCA
who can not collect his own fee. There
are certain wcll-known attorneys recog-
nized in the profession as model law
yers, able speakers and good counsel,
who bind their clients with a rock
ribbed contract. If money car not be
paid them their chattels are accepted
in lieu. A very well-known attorney
recently made it a condition of a con-
tract of this kind that in case the
money was not forthcoming, then he
was to receive the seal-skin sacque
which his lady client wore Others
will not take a case without what is
known as a retainer, which is nothing
more than part pay in advance. Not
q few lawyers of a certain class are
willing to take cases, making their pay
contingent upon winning the case.
OF course the pay is commensurate
with the risk and is usually half the
amount sought to be recovered; but l
have known q case in which three
fourths was allowed. These of urse
are desperate cases which no reputable
lawyer would take, and indeed which
no attorney with but little or no repu-
tation as such would touch unless con-
strained to do SO by the hope OF Win
ming the reward and a peal from the
bugle of fa;ne."-DetroI Post.
jenkins sent two dollars to get a
''sure way to raise whiskers." Now
jenkins thinks the world is all hollow!
holloWM hollow:M because by return
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31

jenkins sent two dollars to get a
''sure way to raise w~hiskers." Now
jenkins thinks the world is all hollow!
hollow!! hollow:!!, because by return
mail he was told to rut them on an SIS
cending elevator.--N. Y. San.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
# thc Tabernacles-Typical of
,,r March to Hosvon-Our
lance Here p Temporary
Affair at Most.
..crccn and Fresh Religion

=, viii, IL: $50 forth unto the
.ei fetch olive branches and pine
IN and myrtle branches and palm
nd branches of thick trees to make
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-02
ALL SORTS.

Know Thyself, by reading the "Science of Life"
the best medical work published, Tor young
and middle aged men.
1t is Well to Remember-That the fruit of sue
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-02

as Gar of all the Russias. At GER
tain point in the ceremony. the en-
peror took the imperial crown from
his own head, and placed it for just
a moment on the brow of the en-
press-the sweet and gentle Maria
Dagmar who knelt before him. Just
a moment it rested there. and then
he restored it to it's rightful place
and gave her her own queenlv dia-
dem. 1t was but touch. but it
halved the empire of Russia, and
made Maria Dagmar empress of all
the Russias.
We do not ask your crowns, but
what we want is just this touch of
the kingly power which shall halve
the empire of home, and make us
sovereigns in deed as well as name.
"God is our guide-No sword we draw,
We kindle not wars battle fires,
For truth and justice, reason, law,
We claim the birthright of our sres''
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-02
whom are reformed drunkards,

We have sold quite a lot ofyour Athlophoros, and
in every case it has given perfect satisfaction. H.
F. Wyatt, druggist, Plymouth, n II. Testimonials
to the same effect showing its cures in rheumatism
and neuralgia are received by the hundreds.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-02
Agrienltlral department.
FROST AND FERTILITY

Persons who have not studied the
subject carefully do not understand
the part which frost plays in disin-
tegiating and mellowing tie soil and
in setting free the elements of plant
food. Nevertheless. 1t is the chief
means hy which the fertility of soils
IN northern climates is held from
soon becoming barren. The lack of
frost is the chief reason why soil
continually cropped, SO soon becomes
unfertlle III southern climate. 1t
is the hard freezing and subse quent
thawlng of the soil, especially in fall
plowed lands, that renders it so soft
and friable. Hence the reason, we'll
known to thinking farmers, why
hard winter. or a succession of them.
gives other seasons of fertility. Yet
how many farmers are there who fail
to take advantage of this natural
law, to get the greatest advantage
from it by fall blowing, leaving the
surface rough to the action of frost.
How many farmers reap the full ben
eft of this unlocking of the elements
of fertility? Not those certainly who
pillow loans and clay when SO wet
that they will not disintegrate when
cleaving from the plowshare.
Every clod or lump in a field de-
tracts from its fertility in proportion
to its size. An analysis of a lump
and of surrounding mellow soil may
show identically the same. In the
case of Jumps, however, they are no
better than stones. Roots can not
penetrate them; the fertility con-
tanned is locked up. The tendency
Of all cultivation. or rather of soil
long cultivated, is to become COM
pact below the line of blowing. Sum-
mer droughts often compact such
soils to such degree as to render
them almost impermeabe to the win
ter or rains. Hence many soils be-
come pasty and run together. Hence
again, the value of undertaking as
a corrective. Why? The frost en-
tiers such soil more deeply, and it
remains open and porous down to
the line of the tile.
When not filled with water the
pores of the soil are filed with air,
and this air is always giving up
moisture to dry soil. Thus two i'm
portant ends are reached such soils
are moister during droughts and they
are drer in wet spells. Thus just
the proper conditions are secured for
the growth of crops, through the va
por of water in the soil, for root
tibers do not take up actual water in
the state Of vapor-the state in
which it is found in moist Soils
Chicago Tribune.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-02

Since / became total abstainer l
have felt my purse heavier, my
health stranger, my brain clearer,
my spirits lighter.-Dr. Gutheris.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-02
TO REVIVE OLD FRUIT TREES

A writer in the Country Gentleman
gives the following as the best meth
cd of stimulating old trees which
have lost their vigor from age or
neglect or want of some proper
fertilizer. He says that one of the
easiest of applications is to spread a
coat of barn manure broadcast for
twenty-five or thirty feet distance
from the trunk of the tree on each
side. This treatment will frequently
be sufficient of itself, IN addition to
pruning out any dead branches, or
thinning in the head from the outside
or both. For smaller trees which
are required to be in grass or where
they cannot be cultivated, strong
impetus may be given by radiating
trenches from within few feet of
the tree rod or so in length, on all
sides and filling these with compost.
The large roots which lie on each
side of these trenches will send their
side roots into the compost, and the
trees will be pushed rapidly in
growth. Another mode, instead of
cutting these radiating trenches, is
i to cut a circular ditch around the
tree at some distance from the trunk
and to ill this with compost. The
several roots will soon send new
fibers into the compost, while the
pruning which the roots receive will
promote fruitfulnes. Some judgment
must be used to cut the ditch at the
right distance if too near, it will
temporarily check the growth too Sc
verely, before new roots are formed {;
and if too far away, the labor will be
great, and the result less striking.
In most cases, however, and with
orchards of some size, cultivating
and top dressing will be sufficient.
All cutting of the roots or branches
must be done while the trees are not
growing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-02
WINTER DAIRYING.

1t is most profitable to be doing
business when most other people are
idle. This applies especially to dali
rying. SO few dairymen can make
first-class butter, and so few can, or
will take the pains to pack it perfect
ly, that the demand for fine butter
during the winter, is greater than
can be supplied. The winter dairy
man is now about beginning busl-
ness. His cows have been resting
during the hot weather, in the shade
of wood-lot. while he has been
busy with his crops, and now that he
has these all secured, his late fodder
and roots prepared, and his fall pas
lures in the finest order, he is ready
to begin butter making, with advan-
| tage in his favor. The summer dali
ryman has been worrying through
| the heat, consuming ice at great
cost. and has succeeded only in get
ting q second quality of butter, which
will sell twenty-five to fifty per cent.
less than that fresh made in winter.
The necessities for winter dairyino
are few. and are easily provided.
They are: fresh COWS, coming in
about September; plenty of good
hay and fodder, with roots and sup
Elementary food. which Is cheaper
now than at any other time, because
it is in season, and is abundant; an
airy dairy house, warmed to an even
temperature by stove, avoid every
difficulty. and the dlirynan is in full
control of everything needed for the
best management of his business, in
stead of fighting flies, torrid heats,
dry weather, and every other diff.
Guilty, as in summer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-02

In hundreds of cases, Hoods Sarsaparilla, by
purifying and enriching the blood. has proven
potent remedy for rheumatism. Hence, if you suf-
fer the pains and aches of this disease, is fair to
assume that Hoods Sarsaparilla will cure YOU.
Give il trial.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-02
TURNING MEN FROM DRUNK
ENNESS.

In the Tribune of a recent date
appeared an article relating to the
reformation of three men. who had
been drunkards. One of them, who
had sunk to the lowest depths, had
been taken to the Christian Home
for Incorporate Men in West Eighty
sixth street, where, four years ago,
he was fed, clothed and converted,
restored to mis- family and society,
and is to-day well-to-do and re-
spected business man down town.
Many such instances could be cited.
The general public knows less than
it should of this Home, though dur
ing the eight years of its existence
more than two thousand drunkards
have been inmates, and, according
to the managers estimate, one thou
sand of these have been saved from
lives of misery. Generals of the
army, colonies who never fiinched
from fire of grape-shot, fallen cler-
gymen, broken down merchants,
me chanics, and men in every grade
and profession, after leaving the
Ho me have been well known as So
Der men, have prospered, and are
respected by all. The Home is a
large building, constructed after the
style of a neat hotel. at Madison
avenue and Eighty-sixth street. The
rates of board range from Sc to $25
per week, but fully half the forty or
fifty who are usually to be found in
the house are admitted free. These
do light work in payment for treat
ment. Many af them go there in
rags, pitiable objects to behold.
They are bathed, clothed and fed by
Charles A. Bunting, the manager,
and his assistant Mr.. Pulls, both of
whom are reformed drunkards.
An old negro at Weldon, n. c.,
at recent lecturer said: "When /
see man going home with gallon
of whiskey and half pound of
meat, dar's temperance lecture
enough for me, and l see it cherry
day! l know dat cherry Ting in his
home is on de same scale-a gallon
of misery to cherry half pound of
comfort.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-04-25
Jewish Diet and Cholera.
american Hebrew.l

The comparative immunity of Jews
from the worst results of epidemics is
still occupying the attention of European
journals The London Echo has the fol
lowing:
zone noticeable feature about Jewish
cemeteries in the south of Europe is the
scarcity of newly made graves after an
epidemic of cholera or yellow fever Sta
tistics show that fewer of them die than
any other race from these or kindred dis
eases. During the late cholera scourge
in Toulon only two orthodox Jews died of
it, while in numbers they equaled fully
20 per cent. of the population. Their i'm
munity flo the disease, and the certainty
with which they recover when attacked
by it, is accounted for by the simplicity OF
their diet.
Our friends of the advanced school
who think that dietary laws are all non
sense, and kitchen Judaism superstition,
will not feel so comfortable when they re,
view their sins of commission and omis
sion by the light of the advancing cholera.
Now is the time for them to return to the
olden fare, to discard shell-1sh, those
scavengers of the ocean and see to the
proper preparation of the animal food
generally admitted to their tables. Errors
of diet are the most prolific causes Of
cholera attacks in the times of epidemic y
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-04-25
What He Got by 1t.
[ArkanSaw Traveller

"Come mighty nigh KILN fine buck
dis mawnin' said an old negro.
Comm long through de woods an ell
ole buck he jump up an bookerty, book
erty he run off few yards an stop still.
Come in one er shootin' him, sah!"
why didn't you shoot?"
didn't hab my gun wild me, sab.
Then how did you come in one OF
shooting him. "
Case. sab, come in one O. takin' my
gun wild me.
"Why didn't you take your gum"
Didn't hab none, sab.
you are an old fool -
Look heah, doan 'buse er man dat
way when yer ain got no cause. I amt
got no gun, fur Teller dat wuz erbout
ter buy one frum, axed me jes' 81 mon ]
could pay. So 1 come in one o. gettin' de
gun. Eff had er got it, would er tuck
It long wild me, an eff I'der had it, / could
er shot de buck easy, sab. So doan come
'roun' 'busin' er man when de Jacks are
all ergin yer. I hab knowed folks tel
fetch trouble on dar selves dat way FL
pusson oughter be keerful in dis heal
worP o science an SPECIFICATION. Good
mawnin', sab. Since yers acted dis way,
l wouldenter gin yer none O de meat if
had er killed it. Fore yer talked dat way
woulder made yer present O some O. d.
buck. See whut yer got by it, sab.