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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Cherries were known az far back q:
Aln nora,4nn.th ooI,fl.,1

Cherries were known as far back as
the seventeenth century.
st. Petersburg is proven by recent
statistics to be the most unhealthy city
of Europe.
They are organizing societies in
Germany for the preservation and res
toration of old castles.
In Paris the carpenters and masons
have formed Il society, the object OF
which is to prevent work in building on
Sundays.
During the last ten years there has
been an increase of three hundred per
cent. in suicides in Russia. lntemper-
ance. higher price of food, and pcssi-
mism are given as the chief causes.
In Spain, when a person eats a
peach or a pear as he passes along the
road, he Immediately plants the seeds.
Fruit trees are plenty, and free to every
passerby.
The Russian Minister of Marine
has announced his intention of giving
a series of prizes, commencing with one
of 9100 and ending with several of f25
each, for the best essay on the defense
of men-of-war from torpedo boats.
A woman was sentenced in an En-
glish court to six months hard labor
as arogue and a vagabound, her crime
being that she was in the habit of car
rying a scaled and addressed envelope
in her hand, and soliciting from passers-
by a penny to buy apostage stamp.
According to a medical report just
published, the cattle plague continues
to ravage various parts of Russia.
Within a period of five years, from 1876
to 1880, the loss is estimated at no less
than 1908, 500 head of horned cattle;
but ever these figures, based upon Off
cal information, are considered far be-
low the real value.
The Egyptian Sphinx is soon to get
a thorough o~verhauling. A company
has been formed in Paris to aid NJ. Mas
pero in carrying on his excavations. 1t
is thought that the Sphinx is a tomb,
and that under it or inside of it some
valuable and interesting material may
be discovered that will add a few years
more to the length of history. The work
will be carried on with care, so that the
great Sphinx may not be disfigured by
the somewhat tardy autopsy,
1t has just become publicly known
that a missing chapter-house in Dublin,
which was buried during the great fire
there in the thirteenth century, has been
discovered by some workmen who were
e%xcavating underneath Christ Church
Cathedral. In the chaptcr-house wert
beautifully-carved effigies, coins, tiles
and marvellous specimens of architect
ure. The discovery has created quite /;
sensation. The Lord Mayor, the clergy
and prominent officials and citizen:
have inspected the %excavated articles.
The will of Kate Rowsand, the littl,
dwarf that was known all over Europ,
as '.Mme. la Marquise,' contains
novel feature. After she had disposed
of all her property there remained he,
wardrobe. "Well," said she, 'm,
dresses and linen and everything that
wore must be far too small for the lit
tlcst child; but, in order that some poo
little girl may be happy, l desire tina
the sum Of ten pounds sterling may b
applied to the purchase of twenty doll
of my size. which shall all be dresse,
from my wardrobe and given to OF
phans."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
LITTLE CROSSES.
How to Rise Above Carking Cares
Troublesome Worries,

Troublesome Worries.
1t is the petty cares in our e%very-ds
lives, the little losses and crosses, tbs
wear away the youth and sweetneS
that ought to be a part of each heat
and life. When great trouble come
or a sore grief, even the weakest s1
can gather strength to meet it. Il
most natures severe Affections ar
humbling and refining, but there 1
n othing heroic in bearing the petty
wearing cares and crosses that comet
us daily. Yet there is a lesson in ever
II if we heed it.
Last week, while trying to maxi
"auld cloes look as weel as new.
was surrounded with old garment
when in walked a strange lady to wa
for her train. We lived opposite tDI
depot, and the rude waiting-room W.
filled with loungers. I had to asstn]
a courtesy, for l thought her comln3
an intrusion, but she talked to me
pleasantly, and showed me how
clean black goods of all description
SO simple a manner, thatI had % thaD1
her for her coming.
When mother is absent, and e'aj
thing goes wrong, or we feel it a u"
to receive visits from dull or old P~s'
pie, it might be we'll for us to renen
Der there are few persons who can ~,
help us in some way. Sometimes %s
the tired feet have gone all day lvns
and the headaches are almost u nSi
durable, it is hard to bear the IIu
sneaking cares that come to us n
blessed be the one who a treas u
chance visitor with courtesy. ana e'H
all the wisdom that may fall III n
way. 1t is one way to rise above j.
carking cares and troublesome "onT
that beset us.-EUd AZ. Gue971St"
81. Louis Magazin,e.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

HIGH license. it appears. has been eff
fective in Missouri in reducing the num-
Der of drinking places and in decreas-
ing the drinking habit. The tax on
drinking places ranges from $3.50 to
$1,000 per year. In Illinois high Ii
cense has had a similar effect, the tax
i'll that.State being $500 to $1,000. Be-
sides lessening the evils at both ends
the license system brings into the State
Treasury a larger revenue.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

IT is a curious craze which induces
people of means, and sometimes people
who a i'll afford it, to flock to Europe
for a two Or OR three months jaunt, al
though they may be in almost complete
ignorance of the natural beauties of
their w country. But every recurring
summer brings with it an increased
number of these tourists. This season
it is saidthe number of ''globe-trotters,"
as Americans are facetiously called
abroad. who will oam in foreign lands
is legion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

THE perils of Russian journalism are
mild compared to those in China, it
seems. One writer was recently SEN
fenced to he quartered. because in one
OF his scientific works he enumerated
the anne of several Of the departed
Chinese Emperors, which is strictly
against court etiquette. His punish
ment was mitigated to decapitation and
his children will be executed next au-
tumn.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

For a man who gave the world so
much advice on health. DR.. Dio Lewis
dicd at a rather remarkably early age.
But perhaps his disciples can urge that
it took an accident to kill him, as his
death was due to injuries received in a
f,I
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

"CARr." who writes the captivating
and m%uoh-quotcd Washington letters,
is a slender, red-headcd young gentle
man just t%hirty-one years old this
month. His full name is Frank George
Carpenter. and he halls from Ohio.
His pscudonym is the first section of
his surname.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

Miss MARY MCPHERSON has given
500. 600 for a Burns monument in AL
bany, N. Y. The base of the monu-
ment is to be American granite, the
pedestal of Scotch granite. and the
statue of the poet of bronze.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

Certain portions of New N q
abound in petrifications OF VIZ! W.T.
kinds. 1t is np uncommon sts%
see trees three, feet in dlane'c1 =,
nifty feet long petritied and o1'e l,.i|,
talized. The crystals-red' sy HoaI
black or white-are often very Do ~
full, and would make handsome v N
ments for Eastern parlors'"~0%
Express.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

Mrs. CARRY Il. K1LGoHE, of Phila-
delphia. the only female lawyer in
Pennsylvania, after a struggle Of over
twelve years has at last been admitted
to practice before the Supreme Court of
that State. which carries with it the
right to practice in all the courts of the
Commonwealth. Mrs. Kilgore is a
wife and a mother, and has had her
husbands entire cooperation through
out.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

The following passage occurs in Ed
ward Won Hartmann's "Religion of the
Futures" ''Without acknowledged
pessimism must evolutionistic optimism
lead to irrcligious s%ecularism; without
evolutionistic optimism musteudmmono-
logical pessimism become an INDECENT
dependency or degenerate into religi-
Gus asceticism." We guess so. That,
or something similar to it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
p OF II DAY.

THERE are $4,000 Anarchists in Eu-
O D and 9,11O in America, according to
the estimate of Mezeroff, the great Rus
sian Nihilist. Chicago has 5000 An
archists, he asserts.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND, Cath
the famous newspaper correspondent, it
is estimated, has written on an average,
$4,000 words a week for the last twen-
ty-fve years. At this average the ag-
grcgate would foot up 100000 words
per annum. or 80, 600. 900 for the quar-
ter century. That would make $50
volumes of 700 to 500 pages.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

A VERY successful attempt at suicide
was recently made in South Africa. A
colonist put a dynamite cap in his
mouth and lit it at a candle. This
method is recommended as quite effect
i've to would-be suicides in New York
State. where an attempt at sclf-destruc-
ton is a penitentiary offense.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
Laws.

Any person who takes the paper REGULARLY from tils
Isa subscriber or not. is responsible for the pay.
Tho courts have decided that refusing to take news.
papers and periodicals from the. ~pUs.othcr. or rpmoy.
Ing and leaving them uncallcd tor, is prGn I Jdcie evil
uenCr of INTENTIONAL FRAUD.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
READING FOR THE YOUNG,
DO AT ONCE.

Some little folks are apt to say,
When asked their Il to touch:
sIll put it off, Mt least, to-day;
Itean not matter much"
Time is always on the wing: -
You Gun not stop its flight;
Then do at once your little tasks;
You'll happier be at night
But little duties still put of
Will end IN Never done;"
And by and by 10 time enough"
Has ruined many q one
We'll Spring.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

think of these things we are prorn.>
to exclaim with the poet:
"My heart is awed within me when 7 ~.
Of the great miracle that still goes ,nink
In silence round me; the perpetual n
Thy creation WORK 4
Finished, yet renewed forever" I
IN. Y. Obserr..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

The disastrous effect of strikes is illus
trated by statistics compiled by Brad
streets as to the losses ocoasioned by
the recent disturbances. Special ad-
vices show that at twenty-three indus
trial centers north of the Ohio, east of
and including st. Louis. the loss of wages
through strikes since May 1 has aggre-
gated So. 600, 900; loss of receipts by
employers, So, 200, 900; and Of future
contracts due to probability of labor
troubles, 1924, 500, 900. Labor and a D
ital alike have suffered greatly in the
attempt to adjust the hours of labor.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

The Belgian coal miners earn fifty
even and a half cents per day, though
about five per cent. of the men earn
eighty cents to one dollar at work SO
damaging that men OF the best consti-
tutions "play out' before reaching their
fortieth year. Men who do mining
work of another class earn forty cents
per day. Young children, girls, mothers
are compelled to do the work of draught
horses and oxen in the mines and fields.
Bread is the soc reliance for food for
the common people, with a meat treat
Oh Sundays for those who can afford it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11
NATURES

Ono of the Busiest and Yet Most Quiet OF
Places-Wonderful Workers That Never
Make Mistakes.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-14
The Old Folks.

5 Tho Old Folks.
Do the young people ever think that
they will be old; that they will soon
feel that the grasshoppcr is q burden
and fear is in the wayi Only 4 few
short years ago that aged man and fee
bio woman were young, strong and full
of life; their loving hearts were
gushing with tenderness and care
for the little ones who now stand
In their places. Do not justle that
aged couple out of your pathway,
but rather lift them with tender caro-
over the rough, declining road. You
may have forgotten how carefully they
kept your tender feet from stumbling.
and with what care they watched your
advancing steps. But they have not
forgotten and the time will come when
you will be forcibly reminded of it, by
the love you have for your own little
ones. Will they hand you the same
bitter cup to drink that you put out for
that aged father and stricken mother?
verify. with what measure We mete,
It shall be measured to you again. :"
Think OF the anxious days and nights
your mother has watched by your SICK
bed; remember her loving care; her
patience and long suffering with your
fretfulness, and then let the blush of
shame dye your brow, that you should
be impatient or unkind to her now that
she is old. Old folks are such a trial!
Yes. they know it; they feel it! and so
will you be such q trial to your chill
dren in the days that will surely come;
az, and you will remember, too!
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-14

run q pastars. Ths valus g a.iunals.
at g rauoA : pound hvs wight. 81
q oourse s. readily calculated. and :
J. 900 ID. ysazling stssrat IS hundrsd.
i worth just 90; now II hardly needs
2 reasoning process to understand that
II this yearling steer should weigh no
moro next April 3Oth, than he did
December 1st, he = worth no more
them than now, and whatevet iced he
has consumed; II It DO only DO worth,
has been absolutely wasted, while II he
should make gain Of $50 lbs, ct .
cost Of 4l6, the waste would amount to
only IS, and he would moreover 70 on
to his summer feed in good condition
and gain far, moro rapidly than his
companion, whose rations have merely
served to keep him J. alive, and
whose summer growth viii barely begin
till summer is half over. Tho only
plan is to keep pushing tho growth Of
the stock kept over winter ~ much q
possible, knowing that the only thing
to depend on for the expense OF their
feed and care Is the growth they make
during the winter and the good oondi-
ton in which they 60 onto pasture in
the spring-a very Important item in
reckoning upon . satisfactory growth
during tho summer-so important, in.
deed, that Were the winters growth to
cost its equivalent In additional food
required over and above that required
for mere sustenance, so that the waste
would be rs great as though no growth
had been made, there can be no ques-
ton but the extra feed would be we'll
invested: Many young, inexperienced
feeders do not realize that an animal
is more likely to eat his head of when
insufficiently fed, than when crowded
to his full capacity.-Natio,sal Ltv>
Stock journal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-14
The Flint Balloon.

>.~
The discovery OF the balloon was due
to Stephen and Joseph Aontgol6er,
sons Of Peter Nontgolder, q paper max
or at Aunonay, France. Tho brothers
had observed the suspension of clouds
In the atmosphere, and it occurr ed 10
them that II they could enclose any
vapor Of the nature Of . cloud In .
large and very light bag. it might rise
and carry the bag with 1t into the air.
They accordingly made experiments,
initiating bags with smoke from q fire
placed underneath, and found either
that the smoke or some vapor from the
tire did ascend and carry the bag with
1t. Being thus assured OF tae correct
ness OF their views, they determined
TO have q public ascent Of = balloon
on = large scale. They accordingly
invited the States of Vivarais, then
assembled at Annonay, to witness their
aerostatic experiment, and on June 5,
l763, In the presence of . considerable
concourse Of spectators, . linen globe
of los It. In circumference was inflated
over fire fed with small bundles of
chopped straw, and when released rap
idly rose to great height, and have
been using Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton for the past four years, and
find 1t the best remedy 1 ever used for
coughs. HIRAM LEWIS.
Big Prairie, Mich, July Is, 1885.
descended at the expiration of ten
minutes at the distance of about II
mile. The brothers Montgoltier i'm
agined that thc lag rose because of
the levity of the smoke or other vapor
given forth by the burning straw. and
It was not till some time later that it
was recognized that the ascending DOW
or was due merely to the lightness of
the heated air compared to an equal
volume of air at q lower temperature
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-14
THE LATEST l.tkA1E,.

a parcel today / recstvsd b. express.
And what there was . 4 you aevsr could
1ts coming 70 mo ". : perfect surprise,
ANA who could have sent II I could moi
With some treptdation the fastening,
For ! i though. tina. It might ). !. practical
'Fw.; . sn1,:Red like pillow, and whom / un
The cover, expecting, Of course, to b sold
Out dropped small note with this read
Accept from = lady Iii. pillow Of dr."
a pillow it was, and handsome one. too
AND sewed to one corner were ribbons Of
The case was embroidered with pretty de-
signs
A tree and bird, and beneath them thes<
lines.
"whe %t you lie down at night by cares bur
The frs fragrant odor will sooths you e
It's perfume already my senses regaled,
for s exSs,e %a' the fragrance the pillow
And felt = strange joy and my thought,
Who sent me the beautiful pillow Of FIR.
Just think Of the pleasure the present viii
III fancy I'm still in tho wood. summer
The pillow is near, a. I'm writing these
lines,
And feel in my room here tho breath Of
the pines.
Aspsll of snchantment around me it waves-
The singing of birds and the .rustliug OF
leaves.
The musical murmur Of streamlets I hear,
And forests and lakes to my vision appear
And all this enjoyment I'm owing to her
who sent me this beautiful pillow Of fir.
questioned q lady tonight, and she says,
That making fir pillows has long been q
craze
Among the young ladies who summer In
Maine;
II so, then the matter to mo IL quite plain.
spent my vacation in Maine, as you Know,
And met there-Ah! Well, Tom, tomorrow
l1lgo
And search for the fair one and hope soon
to see
The maiden who sent this rare present to
me,
For have . secret l burn to tell her,
The lady who sent me this pillow Of dr..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-14

Ilissssasasa g - lal1se 0ssssessa.
Two eolosed bazhsra, oasan Old man
lfand the other ) young one. The young
ono took OF his apron and started out
Of tho door.
Eos gwan to got : drink, Jimi''
asked the elder.
.'Dat'ssxhat I's gwan to do.
Go and GIT yo' drink. yoost to dc
dc same ting when 1 was young.
When WAS fust married dab wa1 4
gin-mill next door to dc shop wha' /
wucked. an / spent in it fifty and seb-
enty cents day 0uten de dollar an 4
half I earned. Well, one mawnin' /
went into dc butchah ship, an who
should come in but de man wat kept
de likker shop.
Glib me ten pounds po'terbouse
He got it and went out. l sneaked
up to dc butchah and looked to see
what money l had lef'.
/ what do you wante' said the butch
Glib me ten cent wuf of libber,' wuz
my remark.
1t wuz al could pay fur. Now yo'
90 an git yo' drink. You II eat libbcr.
but de man wat sells you de stuff will
hab bis pc 'terhouse steak. De man be-
bind do bar eats po'terhouse-d man
In front eats libber. l amt teched de
stuff in thirty years, an I am eaten
pote house myself"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-14

.! O. q would - putin 9: bsanttful
|! eaekes I'D ts1y Would, ofoss youl
sAeads Just g and eover Won al ovsl
with Neee, ana you would 70 straikh,
g heaven. al
Every day she grow % fat and rosy
s az q Last Miss Caroline said one day
y hardly think Ar. Downer would
believe this g b tho same little girl t.
whom he Gate the flowers
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-14
Tho Farmer's Wife.

One of the neatest, and at The same
time, one of tho most truthful and Just
tributes to the most important factor 10
securing success for the farmer,-his
wife-coming under our observation, is
that by Capt. Brewer, an ex-editor, in an
address recently delivered before the
Hancock County Kentucky Agricultural
Society, in the following paragraph:
mo class of men are more indebted to
their wives for the success that comes to
them, thap are farmers. The wife and
the mother who has the courage to 70
out with the husband of her choice and
commence the struggle of life with him
on the prairie, or on a new farm with
but little capital, except that boundless
capital of head and heart. is worthy to
stand by the side of the Spartan woman
an OF whom poets have exhausted their
words Of praise. Upon her falls the
brunt of the strife, no matter how hard
the husband may toll. His work closes
with the day, but hers continues long
after. and with her children, and the
small chores that many of the begin.
ners look after, her let is not one to be
envicd. And when after years OF
struggle, success, with reluctant feet,
comes to crown the husband with honor,
the brightest wreath should adorn the
brow OF the noble wife, who was the
stay and anchor, the comfort and the
source of all hope in the stormy days OF
trial. The wealth. should crown her
queen. We hear much of the man. We
hear that so and 80 is making money
and he gets the credit of being q fore.
handed mar, but it is quite as often that
the mobile little woman, who has tolled
and complained not, who has pinched,
and saved and murmured not, is the
one to whom the State and Nation il
most greatly indebted. These are the
women who lead men up to that higher
and nobler manhood, to that shrine
where, like knights of old, they bend
the knee of homage, not to beauty, but
to worth and royal manhood. These
are the women who are queens in the
home and who find the bri ghtest homo,
and will find the greatest glory in
heaven making the refuge of her chill.
dren. and from which they will 70 GU,
good men and good women. There
God decreed, was her greatest glory
and there is the shrine where Worth and
Honor shall come and pay their HON
age" ...:. ~. :.