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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

THE CAVE TEMPLES OF KARL,
An Illustration of the Lapse of the Ethnis
Faiths of India.

An Illustration of the Lapse of the Ethnic
Faiths of India.
The monks of Albania and other re-
gions between the Adriatic and the
Asgean sea, dug out many a cell in the
early days, and h~oneycombed vast re-
gions, where they spent their lives. and
were laid away when the long monot-
ony was W.
The karli cave temple is very differ
ent in construction. 1t is by far the
finest in India. To reach it you take
the train from Bombay, and 90 nearly
a hundred miles eastward. on the gen
eral line to Calcutta. From Khandala
to the Karli cave temple we had a ride
OF five miles on horseback. 1t was not
long before we were compelled
to leave the carriage road and take
a path through the fields toward the
range OF mountains on our left, and by
the time we were getting accustomed
to the path we had to leave our
horses and begin climbing indownright
earnest. Now, a climb in India. even
to see its finest temple cave, is not a
little thing. My white pith hat, with
turban of light cloth folded about it
and then a double umbrella of gray
cloth white within, seemed to help but
little in keeping off the pressure of
the heat ON a late day of the Indian
November. When we reached the cool
and shaded vestibule and threw our
selves down on the first broken stones
we saw and looked up into the face
of the colossal stone goddess who sat
on an elephant of stone, we were glad
enough to rest.
The temple walls and every part of
their adjoining sculpture are hewn out
OF the stone mountain. Were there no
statuary of pagan deities, no remind
ers of al early worship. and We're the
country any other than India, one
would take this wonderful structure for
q superb cathedral. Not many serious
changes would need to be made in or
der to convert it into an English min
ster. The nave is 1874 feet long,
forty-five feet broad, and forty-six feet
from floor to ceiling. There are aislcs
on either side of the temple. separated
from the nave by octagonal pillars.
The capital Of each pillar is crowned
with two kneel.ng elephants. on whose
backs are seated two figures, repre-
senting the dtvinities to whom the tenn
pie is dedicated. These are of beautiful
features, as, indeed. are ali the repre-
sentation of deities in the karli Cave
Temple. There is nothing of that re-
pulsive sculpture which one sees at
Puma and in othermodern Hindu pago-
das. I saw no figures which we're in
part human and in part beast-llke.
Each was true to its class. from vesti-
bule back to altar. The altar, and the
place where it stands, keep up the re-
semblance to a Christian Church. Be-
bind it there are seven pillars. which
separate it from what in achurch would
correspond with the choir. There arc
altogether thirty-eight columns in the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24
CUBAN RAILWAYS.

Two Cheap Competitive Routes with
Otherwise High Fa~res-Curiosities eA
Travel.
About the only instance Of competi-
ton which l have encountered in Cuba
is that between the two lines of rail-
way extending from Havana to Ma
tanzas. In general, railway fare is
phcnomenally high. The tariff from
Havana to C%ienfuegos on the southern
coast is SIG in gold, and the railway
company held a meeting not long ago
to ascertain, if possible, why the re-
ceipts don't exceed the expenses. But
a tirst-class fare by the longest of the
two routes to the city is only S1.10.
and by the shortest S1.50.. Second and
ihird-class fares are proportionally
cheaper. The long route has a train
which pushes right through in two
hours and forty minutes without stop
ping. save two or three times at raj
wav functions.
Tourists ordinarily make the TRIP
out by one route and back by the other.
A railway train in Cuba is not such a
curiosity as one in India, Burmah, or
even Europe. The rolling-stock was
manufactured in New England and
shipped here a few centuries ago. 1t
consequently has a venerable but withal
familiar look to any whose expert
ence runs back to the primitive sort OF
coaches and engines that characterize
1.-THE early history of railroading in our
country.
1t is in the third-class coaches that
you get the best glimpses into real Gu
ban life.
You see the negroes and the China
men, and the poor Cubans and the
Span sh soldiers all mingling on a COM
mon level. You see every peasant.
black or white, stow some live chickens
away under the seat, and you wonder,
as | have done a score of times, why
everybody persists in this curious habit.
I have'seen two-thirds of the wealthy
Cuban passengers on a steamboat take
chickens into their tirst-class cabins.
When the train stops at q station OF
| some Importance, in rush men and boys
with var Gus kinds of native
fruits for sale, country cheese,
lightning bugs. and above all. lot
terry tickets. The lightning bugs are
principally purchased by tourists as
cur;osities, for the Cuban lightning
bug, if he could be trained to system
attic illuminating habits and brought
into the United States, would soon
bankrupt the various electric light com
panies.
When it is time for the train to start
a wrinkled, emaciated Chinaman rings
a hand-bell lethargically, and the en-
CINE pulls out.
The tirst-class car is put at the real
of the train, and is nearly empty ex'
cept in the tourist season. On one
railroad there is a machine in the for
ward end of each coach displaying 6
placard that reads, "Proxima Esta
cion, Is" 1t would not be amiss i
some of our railroads thus announced
to the eye as well as to the a thu
name ofthe next station, but l imagine
some way would be found in our coun
try of having themoving wheels of thu
car operate the machine instead of sap
ping the life-blood of the tired con
ductor.-Matanzos Cor. Iames-Demo
crUt.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24
FORT poNELsoN.
General Grant Explains the Circumstances
of the Assault Upon the Stronghold.

General Grant Explains the Circumstances
of the Assault Upon the Stronghold.
cat the siege of Fort Donelson, when
the men found themselves without am,
munition, they could not stand up
against troops who seemed to have
plenty of it. The division broke, and .
portion fled, but the most of the men,
as they were not pursued, only fell
back out OF range of the fire of the en-
envy. 1t must have been about this
time that Thayer pushed his brigade in
between the enemy and those of our
troops that were without ammunition.
At all events, the enemy fell back with
in his intre nchments and was there
when I arrived ON the field. Isaw the
men standing in knots, talking in the
most excited manner. No Officer
seemed to give any directions. The
soldiers had their muskets, but no
munitien, while there were tons OF it
close at hand. l heard some OF the
men say that the enemy had come out
with his knapsacks and haversacks
AAiSu WILL AdClOuS. 1ucy ScCluCA
think this indicated a determination on
his part to stay out and fight just as
long as his provisions held out.
II turned to Colonel j. ID. Webster:
OF my staff, who was with me, ana
said: Some of our men are pretty
badly demoralized, but TIE enemy must
be more so, for he has attempted 10
force his way out, but has fallen back
The one who attacks now will be VIC
%torious, and the enemy will have to DO
in a hurry if he gets ahead of me-.
81 determined to make the assault az
once, and on II left. 1t was clear 70
my mind that the enemy had started 10
march out with his entire force, except
a few picActs, and, if our attack co'l"
be made on the left before the enemy
could redistribute his forces along inc
line, we would find but little opposition;
except from the intervening abatls. -,
directed Colonc Webster to ride VIII
me and call out to the men as wa
passed: Fill your cartridge-boAts
quick, and get into line; the enemy -
trying to escape, and he must not We
permitted to do so.' This acted ike =
charm. The men only wanted SOM
n to give them ascommand'
Grants Personal Memoirs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

SCARCELY a day passes without some
stosy getting into print telling how the
Sharpcrs have carried Off some farmers
savings by playing on his credulity and
cupidity together. Avery sensible plan
5fnz old men and for young ones, too, is
10 Asoid doing business with strangers,
and especially to avoid the ridiculous
idea that any stranger will voluntarily
bring them some tirst-rate opportunity
10 make :. handsome turn. If there is
such an opportunity q man will either
take it himself or give it to IN old &C
sIuaintAurn.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

Incident of a Journey From l:ettlnje to
Rjeka.

-
Incident of a Journey From Gettinje to
Rjeka.
From Cettinje to kjeka, at the north
ern extremity of the Lake of Scutari,
the journey lies through a sterile coun-
try, which grows more smiling and less
sterile as the lake is neared, and after
a six hours steam in a small pinnace
belonging to the Prince, the lake seem
cry en- route being most lovely, Scutari
of Albania is ut last reached. This,
with the exception of Janina. is the
most important town in the whole OF
Albania, and certainly one of the most
picturesque. Its red roofs peeping up
from among masses of green foliage;
its old tumbledown bazaar, rooted in
years ago with rough planking. half OF
which has rotted or fallen away, while
vines cling;ng round what is left afford
an ever-varying shade against the fierce
rays of the sun; its qua Mt old Venetian
fortress, ruined by time and explosions,
frowning above the town; its stunted
mosques and graceful minarets;
the lovely expanse of lake, bounded on
north. east and west by magnificent
ranges of rocky mounta .ns-all con
IT, butte to form . most striking and
beautiful whole. The inhabitants are
well in keepingwith their surroundings.
Here you may see the swinging justa-
nella and %portentous rolling swaggger
of the Mussulman ,townsman; there
the red jacket and baggggy black drawers
of his Christ an fellow; here again the
tight-titting white leggins and the
black jacket (still Worn as q s;gn of
mourtng for Islander Bey) Of the
Miridite. or the brilliant vest of the
Bamgahtar; on this side glows the
yellow. embroidered scarlet cloak of tho
Roman Catholic lady; on thatthe gold
embroidered chocolate mantle and
white yashmak of the Mussulman dame;
and endless variety of color and cos
tune are continually shifting and pass
ing before your eyes, while silver
mounted arms flashing in the sun lend
everywhere an additional sparkle and
glitter to the scene. The men here, and
everywhere in North Albania, are tall,
1.-THE and active, with an exceedingly in
telligent expression of face, sharp-cut
auuiline features, broad forehead, and
a peculiar flash of the eyes and in
tensity of look. The women, on the
other hand, are generally coarse in
feature and stunted in figure. but the
quite young girls are usually grace.
full and handsome; it is more than
probable that their subsequent want
of beauty is the result Of the sever
out-of-door labor which they continu.
ally undergo, for they are treated as
mere beasts of burden. The intelli.
gence of the men is not belied by
their looks. They are pre-em;ncnt il
building. gardening, silverwork, lace
work, architecture, and in fact in al
branches of industry requiring either
skilled labor or artistic taste; while il
is no uncommon occurrence to find al
Albanian occupying a high position i,
the Government of the Ottoman En-
pire. They arc. moreover, as a rul,
honest. hospitable, and thoroughly
true to the rules of their W code o
honor, while their valor is almos
provsrbiaL -Fortmight!y Reniew.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

"A colored clergyman who had been
put on trial before a jury in Darien,
Ca, for some otlense was brought in
not guilty the other day. The defend
ant sad; ''Read that again Not
guilty." was repeated. With a spring
he bounded into the air, giving vent to
religious calculations. The colored
women, who crowded the courtroom,
set up a hallelujah chorus. in which the
preacher Joined, and the Judge had to
sit still and let them have it out.-N.
o. Pcayume.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

The army of lightning-rod men that
began to move on Washington when the
news spread that the monument had
Seen struek has beer halted by the in
formation that the damages have been
repaired and that their services will not
fua needed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

TIE Waukcgan (nl.) Gazette pub
lshes ~ list of men residing in that city
~xho are seventy years of age and up
ward. The list comprises ninety-seven
names, of whom one is over one hun
sired years old, two over ninety, thir-
Seen over eighty, and eighty over sew
>enty. II addition to these, the Gazette
thinks there are about one hundred Ia
dies residing there WHO are over seventy
years old. This is a remarkable record
for a Western community of only about
4,0G0 inhabitants.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

PROF. RILEY, the E~tomologist of the
Agricultural Bureau. wishes it to be
understood that he is not making locusts
q regular article of diet, as might have
been inferred from a recent publication.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
FIVE LITTLE WHITE HEADS.

Five little white heads pecped out OF the
mold. 500.
When tho ley was damp and the night was
And they crowded their way through the soil
with pride.
" Hurrah! We arc going to be mushrooms"
they cried.
But the sun came up, and the sun shone
down,
And the little white heads were shriveled and
brown:
Long wcro their faces. their pride had a fall
They were nothing but toad.stools, after all.
-IVdltt7 Learned, in St Nicholas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

The New York XcYal's weatherwise
editor prophcsics al exceptionally hot
period in July, August and September.
He says the supply Of cold waves from
the Arctic Ocean are already running
short.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

GENERAL GoRDoN's diary, extracts
from which have just been published,
show that the writer valued his soldier
ly honor and the prestige Of England far
above his own life. There have been
few such heroes as Gordon in modern
times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

WHETHER or not tho Afghans are de-
sscenGants of the Los: Tribes, rs the
Amccr has declared, it is certain that
so far as he is concerned they will be
COST tribes if the Russians acquire do
minion over tho Afghan territory.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

SNAKES are rapidly disappearing from
New York State, in the opinion of a
correspondent of the Orange County IN.
~ Farmsy. who assigns the decapitat-
ing power of the moving machine as
on CT thc principal causes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24
Laws.

: Any person who takes thu. paper regularly from tht
eptOndce, whether directed to his name or whether ht
Ea subscriber or not, is responsible for the pay.
The courts have decided that refusing TO take news
I'D and leaving them uncallcd for, lie prinsd Jdcie evil
xh!uct. of INTENTIONAL. FRAUD.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

DURING the fiscal year 146 new Ma
dional banks were organized, and the
charters of se%vcnty-three were extended
for twenty years.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

CHINESE, grasshoppers and Dennis
Kcarney, says a California paper, are
The three pests Of the Pacific slope.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

The Lick telescope is now assured.
The gigantic glasses are cast, and free
arom defects. Probably in a year hence
astronomy will be advanced by seeing all
celestial bodies %magnifed eighty times
instead of thirty times, the present
limit. The space penetration will be
proportionate, and extraordinary rcve-
aations in the heavens will no doubt
result,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

"A t%hirty-ton rock recently rolled
down the mountain side near Herald.
Vile, VT, and blocked the Dutlanc
Ra lroad track. 1t had to be removed
by blasting.-Rutlana Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

THE problem, what to do with the
telegraph and telephone wires? is
fhought to have been solved on Fourth
street, Cincinnati, in this way: 1t is not
to bury them, but to elevate them sixty
feet above the ground. The 'poles''
are such sticks as were once used for
Che masts of men-of-war. Put the wires
ZIP out of the way.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24


TIE whipping-post seems to be grow
ing in favor, although many people
urge that it is not the proper sort of
punishment for any white man. The
application of the lash to q couple of
~wife-beaters in Baltimore recently has
set the ball in motion. At Richmond,
Va, u few days ago, a number Of ladies',
married and single, held a meeting and
passed resolutions in favor of Furnishing
with the lash husbands who beat their
wives.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

Mobile, Ala, was founded by .he e
French in I'LL and Now Orleans BY
same people in 174l.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

The Connecticut law prohibiting the
sale OF certain flash literature has had
"a good effect. The publisher OF the
most offending periodical in this line has
sent his agents into that State, changed
the name Of the periodical, and is other
wise stirring himself to counterfeit the
effect of the law. His agents have
2een arrested: his illustrated vileness
'confscated, and the press of the State
have very generally failed to advertise
>or assist him in any degree.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

IT takes the constant time Of one of
a}le assistant private secretaries of
President Cleveland to open and assert
-2lis mail. Every hour large sacks Of
letters are laid upon his desk, which he
opens ard carefully arranges. The
Presidents private mail is also opened
10y this secretary. Those marked ''per-
soaal." private" ''important," econ
1idential," etc, suffer exactly the same
Fate Us all the rest.
, 1885-10-17

81 win tell you snmefing. ven
you vas eourting a girl, hug her de
first chHncc yeu get, ,und she will dink
more uf you, dot vas de reason vas
80 popular nit de girls ven 1 vas
young man. Ven half de men In de
world don't half any ideas like uf de
right way uf hugging girl. Der var
shust as mush art in hugging ~ dere
vas In anything else. Ven you vas
courting always sit on de righthand
side uf de girl, shust slip your left
around neck und let 1t drop on her
left shoulder you know. Den you tell
de girl, she vas de sweetest ding in
de vOrlt, and draw her up easy like,
until her head rests on your sholder.
Den you put your right arm around
her waist und den bring her a leetle
clnser, und my gracious, your toes
draw up und you viii feel 80 happy
dot you will shut your eyes and dink
you vas harp mil ad0usant strings.
Ven yOu want 10 kiss her, shust lift
her chin up easy, you know, Ike,
init your left hand, until you can git
at her sweet littl mOut, mitnut
sticking her nose In your eye. Den
you shust kiss her lips long and easy
und before you haf been dere tree
seconds you hears leetle birds sing
ing up In de trees, you sees beautiful
flowers, und thinks you vas floating
far avty. WhooPi my gracious, Ike,
1 feel vas young man vonce more,
ven talks about IT, Dake my ad-
vice, und ven you meets anoder girl
vot halls money, hug her as soon as
possible, und ven you do 1t, don't act
as II you vas lifting a sawlog. Be
easy and nice, you know.
, 1885-10-17

AFTER the political Waterloo Of
last fall the republicans have been
compelled to keep pretty dark.
They have have had no occasion to
break out IN hOlsterOus acclamatlOns.
On the contrary they have suffered
from a feeling OF humiliation and
modification that had anything but
a tendency to promote hlldrlty. The
democrat and his hermaphrodlte
any, the mugwump, have had the
GAd eHtirely to themselves, and the
hOsannas Of victory have only been
heard from that side Of the house.
With democratic administration
and the lever Of government patron
age the democrat and his measly
follower Of the renegade shade could
whoop Il up In good shape with the
chances strongly In favor Of a con-
finnatian da,isi sussatiS Sttgvoss.-
The contemplate, weak-kneed, pu-
sillanlmous traitor thought the re-
publican party could not exist with
out his aid and support. While in
the confidence Of electlng a presl-
dent democrats Imagined that once
a victor meant a victor for all times
How surprised must have been the
first class Ito name which Is an in
suit TO honest demOcrats) and how
disappointed the latter when at the
first election held after the election
Of Cleveland, Ohio rolls up repub.
llcan plurality OF 20,0OO, or over, all
the state officers, securing the legis-
lature, and insuring a republican
senator 10 succeed John Sherman.
The news Is hailed with delight by
republicans throughout the length
and breadth Of the republic. Il shows
that the party has lost nothing by
the defeat Of last fall and Its mem
bers are not Of the stamp TO be dis
couraged by adversely. The party
Is even more firmly united now than
a year age, and the E0lce NJ Ohio
will be repeated by New York ct
the state eleutiOn next month, and
this Is OHiy a forerunner Of Sashat
may be expected In 'ss. By carry
Ing Ohio the republicans have devel-
oped extraordinary strength. Judge
Hoadley, the democratic candidate,
defeated FoRker, the republican
candidate for governor, in 1888, by
l2,629 majority. Foraker had not
only the discoursEing majority Of
two years before to overcome, but
had besides to face party flushed
by a national victory, and yet he has
beaten his opponent by one Of the
largest mJOritles the state has ever
given for governor. In sympathy
with all republicans, we feel just In
the humOr to yell