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Smyrna times., 1886-03-24
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,,osr1Se STAR LODGE. No. s I; o. o. F-Meets
every Friday evening. at l5SoeIockoc 7 ,rao,s
,tCfro,.,TETI Fp,CAMPMENT, No. ?, y. .f.-MeeIs
Sseond and Fourth Tuesday evenings OF each
month, at ~ o'clock. =, ,,oo,. v;-s,
uaRYoNY LoDGE, No. 1S, A. F. A. M:-Meets Eiis'
and Third Thursday evenings oi eaeh noH'h
e,sxpx, AZ sZ3 LODGE No Il, I O. G. T-Mees every
Wednesday evening. at o'clock. H.. .s,,,,s
Meets first Wednesday evening OF every
month
Smyrna times., 1886-03-24

nYSPEPSIA.-ltS Nature. Cause Prevention ana
IL Cure. BY JOHN II. MCALVIN, Lowell ASsS. 5sSc
IA years Tax Collector Sent FREE 10 any aduIesS
Smyrna times., 1886-03-24
Pore AIdernY MIX.

cure guaranteed by Df. i b Mayer ka,e 10 once
10 operation or delay from business; tested by
hundreds Of cures Main Onlce, s3l Arch Street,
phila. Send for Circular aud Branch Olhees.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29

modern fashion plates are tame as com.
pared with the superhuman splendors Of
that woman's face. Joan cf Arc, Marie
Antoinette and La Belle Hamilton, the en-
chantment of the court of Charles H., are
nowhere.
There is another time when the plainest
wife is a queen Of beauty to her husband.
She has lone the work of life. She has
reared her children for God and Heaven.
and though some of them may be a little
wild they will yet come back, for God has
promised. She is dying and her husband
stands by. They think over all the years
of their companionship, the weddings and
the burials, the ups and the downs, the
successes and the failures. They talk over
the goodness of God and his faithfulness
to children's childr en-. She has no fear
about going. The Lord has sustained her
so many years she would not dare to dis.
trust Him now. The lips of both Of them
tremble as they say goodbye, and encour-
age each other about an early meeting in a
better world. The breath is feebler and
feebler, and stops. Are you sure of it?
if there is any vapor gathering on the sur.
face. Gone! AS one of the neighbors
takes the old man by the arm gently and
says: "Come, you had better go into the
next room and rest;" he says: swat a
moment; l must take one more look at that
face and at those hands!" Beautiful!
Beautiful!
My friends, I hope you do not call that
death. That is an %autunnal sunset. That
is a crystalline river pouring into a crystal
sea. That is the solo of human life over
powered by the h~allelujah chorus. That is
a queens coronation. That is heaven.
That is the way my father stood at eighty.
two, seeing my mother depart at seventy.
nine. Perhaps so your father and mother
went. wonder if we will die a. well.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29
"sEAsoNADLE HINTS.
Some Pretty Conceits in Jewelry, Toys and
CAndleSticks. !:

0OHO xE0Cty NOuC0lCDl Ill O0W0AEye XOy0 1uo
Candlesticks.
Finger rings were never more worn
than at present.
Bracelets and necklaces are both
worn very narrow.
Ornamental safety pins, set with
jewels, are worn in the laces, bonnet
strings and ribbon bows of dressy tot.
lets in Paris.
Gemmel, OF double rings, and triple
gypsy rings, each ring set with a differ.
ent stone, are sought for by present
makers of jewelry.
The plush pug, mounted on casters.
is the favorite toy dog for babies. It is
so soft that it can not hurt the little
one, so durable it is not easily hurt
itself and can run all around the cradle
or baby carriage.
Taste and custom 60 together when
wool dresses are de rigueur for morn
ing, travelling and utility wear, wool
and silk or velvet combinations for
afternoon promenades and unceremo.
NOUS calls, and silk and velvet, plush
and lace costumes for reception. dinner
and evening wear.
Among silver candlestick novelties
are a pair representing Don Quixots
and Sancho Panza in grotesquely
elongated forms. That is to say, the
Don's long legs + made immensely
longer, while his long sword, made the
same length, serves for the third leg Of
the candlestick. Sancho Panza in the
meantime, with exaggerated short
body, is mounted on his mule, which
has it's two grotesque long front legs,
slightly straddled; it's two hind legs,
also enlightened, placed close together,
with the tail cKnging to the same, thus
giving the three-legged pedestal ehecs
to correspond with the match piece
NJ y SIM.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29
wAsHINe7oN's BoYHooD.
A Story That Confirms the Anecdote Of
the Little Ratchet.

"a oIOEy AA0C ~ o4
the Little Ratchet.
There is a story told of George
Washington's boyhood-unfortunately
there are not many stories-which is to
the point. His father had taken a great
deal of pride in his blooded horses, and
his mother afterward took great pains
to keep the stock pure. She had sev-
eral young horses that had not yet been
broken, and m of them in particular,
a sorrel, was extremely spirited. No
one had been able to do anything with
it, and it was pronounced thoroughly
vicious, as people are apt to pronounce
horses which they have not learned to
master. George was determined to
ride this colt, and told his companions
that if they would help him catch it, he
would ride and tame it.
Early in the morning they set out foe
the pasture, where the boys managed
to surround the sorrel and then to put
a bit into its mouth. Washington sprang
on it's back, the boys dropped the bridle
and away flew the angry animal. Its
rider at once began to command. the
horse resisted, backing about the field,
rearing and plunging. The boys be-
came thoroughly alarmed, but WASH
ington kept his seat, lever once losing
his self-control or his mastery of the
colt. The struggle was a sharp one;
when suddenly, as if determined to rid
itself of it's rider, the creature leaped
into the air with a tremendous bound.
1t was its last. The violence burst a
blood-vessel, and the noble horse fell
dead.
Before the boys could sufficiently re-
" to consider how they should ex-
tricate themselves from the scrape,
they were called to breakfast; and the
mistress of the house, knowing that they
had been in the fields, began to ask
after her stock.
''Pray, young gentlemen" said she,
shave you seen my blooded colts in
your rambles? 1 hope they are well
taken care of. My ~favorite, I am told,
is as large as his sire"
The boys looked at one another, and
no one liked to speak. OF course the
mother repeated her question.
"THhe sorrcl is deaA, madam" said
her son. 81 killed him!'
And then he told the whole story.
They say that his mother flushed with
anger, as her son often used to, and
then, like him, controlled herself, and
presently said, quietly:
sit is we'll; but while I regret the
loss of my favoritc, l rejoice in my son
who always speaks the truth.'-Heze-
kiah B%utierWo1th, in st. Nicholas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29
THE WASP.
Johnny Tells ali About the Business H.
terprise of This Funny Bird.

Johnny Tells ali About the Business %.
terprise of This Funny Bird.
The wasp is a very funny bird; he
has two wings, four legs and a light
ming rod. He is not as useful as the
hen, but all the same he lays for
humans.
Last summer old Mrs. Bogmyre's
baby fell down on a wasp. But when
the wasp let go, old Mrs. Bogmyre's
baby went right up pushing Clouds"
Soon after that 'Bill Squacks'' sat
down or one. But Bill didn't linger,s
he seemed willing and anxious to rise.
Then he went capering off home, He
had to carry himself in a sling for q
long time.
Wasps do not have to be tanned, they
are always tame enough. When one
comes up sly-like and whispers some-
thing in my ear, it makes me weep to
think they are so familiar with man.
And then 1 wish they would never
come nearer than a mile away.
Wasps build their nests in f1ocks.
And it is dangerous to go neal the nest
while the old one are sitting.
Once, grandfather owned a bull and
a wasp nest at the same time. l went
out to the farm to spend vacation.
The old bull seemed to take an inter-
est in me from the start, and didn't act
as though he wanted me to play out in
the field. So l let him chase me up to
the fence corner. where the plum tree
was thathad the nestin, then Ipunched
the nest with a stick just to see if the
wasps were at home, and out came the
wasps like pop out of a pop bottle. One
old civil engineer wasp slid down an
imaginary line and brought up on the
old bulls nose. A thrill Of wild delight
seemed to go clear through the bull.
He reared up on his hind feet and
beckoned for me to come ver and have
some. But l declined. Then he yelled
to the COWS to come and see what he
had found, but by the time they arrived
he seemed satisfied and with a couple
of toots he signaled off brakes and
tried a race with himself down to the
back field, giving vent to his glee in
loud snorts. As he went, he pointed
his tail up. l thought that was prob.
ably the road he wanted me to take.
About this time the COWS saw the
joke, and they seemed as anxious as he
to go off to some quiet place and smile.
One old COW had to leave or burst right
out laughing, so she winked to the res,
as if to say "Come, ladies, let us re-
tire then they gamboled off down t
where the bull was, to talk it over with
him.
forgot about the wasps and climbed
upon the fence to see the race. But JUS
then an old business wasp dove down
pricked open his misery bag and vac
cinated me in the neck; then l jumped
down and ran to the house. l couldn'
see very we'll from there any way.
If you ever see an old wasp kind O
smiling like, and backing up toward
you at the same time, and acting a
though he had a load of something h
wanted to dump, you want to flee; don
stop to argue; if you do you will b
bowed down with sorrow, bumped u
with sadness, and do your fleeing after
wards.
I think the best way to handle wasp
is to let the job to some one else an
then go off on a visit.-PecE's Sun.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29
THE T~EAR-KERCHIEF..
A Tyroleso Custom Which Is Both I'm.
pressive and Peculiar.

A Tyrolese Custom Which Is Both Inn.
pressive and Peculiar.
In some portions of Tyrol a peculiar
and beautiful custom still prevails.
When a girl is about to be married, be.
fore she leaves her home to go to the
church, her mother hands her a kerr
chief, which is called a tear-kerchief.
It is made Of newly spun linen, and has
never been used. 1t is with this kerr
chief that she dries her tears when she
leaves her fathers house, and while she
stands at the altar.
After the marriage is over, and the
bride has gone with Der husband to
their own new home, she folds up the
kerchief and places it Unwashed in her
linen closet, where it remains IN.
touched. The tear-kerchief has only
performed half of it's mission.
Children are born, grow up, marry,
and move away from the old home.
Each daughter receives from the
mother a new tear-kerchief. Her own
still remains where it was placed in tho
linen closet on the day of the mar
riage. Generations come and go. The
young rosy bride mas become a Wrln-
killed. old woman. She may have sur
vived her husband and all her children.
All her friends may have died off, and
still that last present which she received
from her mother has not fulfilled it's
object. But it comes at last. At last
the weary eyelids close for the long,
long sleep, and the tired, wrinkled
hands are folded over a pulseless heart.
Then the tear-kerchief is taken from
it's place and spread W. the placid
features of the dead. never to be re-
moved until we are summoned to come
forth on the resurrection morn.-Ier0s
Sifjin03.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29
VERY CURIOUS.
4 Scotch Physician's Experience With q
Chinese Patient.

4 Scotch Physicians Experience With Q
Chinese Patient.
The Chinese are firm believers in au.
spicious and inauspicious days. When
about to undertake anything of impor-
lance, they resort to d~ivination to ascer-
tain if the project will turn out we'll.
An American merchant, residing at
Canton, was once asked by a rich
Chinese merchant to visit his son, who
was sick, and to fetch a foreign physj-
clan with him. Having chosen a Scotch
physician named Cox, the American
called at the mansion, where they
found the invalid in his own suite of
apartments, attended by numerous serv-
ants and looking veryill The doctor
ton prepared at his own dispensary to
the sick boy. But a day or two after
ward, the American learned that the
boy was better, though he had been
unable to take the medicine prescribed
by DR.. Cox. Another question devel-
oped the reason why he did not take it.
About A. u. 1894, there lived a
famous physician named Hwa-To, now
delfled and WOrshlped as the god OF
medicine. 1t is customary before TAX
ing medicine to burn before an altar
dedicated to Hwa-To fragrant matches,
and then, with three small pieces of
wood, to divine whether the medicine
! will prove beneficial or hurtful. The
divination consists in casting simulta-
neously the three pieces of wood, which
are fiat on one side and convex on the
other, into the air. The ann in
which they fall to the ground gives the
information sought for. When the
prescription was received from DR.. Cox,
this ceremony was gone through, and
the result being inauspicious, the medi-
cine was not taken.
"No good chance" said the father,
in pidgin English. TOO muchee curio!
Kok-see (Cox) number n handsome
mani"
That is, it was very curious the signs
were not suspicious, as Cox was such
stout man, and the Chinese think stout
ness a sign of ability and a mark Of
beauty. Youths Companion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29
LEGENDS.
Upon What Principle Are They to Be
Explained:

EApAdlAou.
One principle of explaining what
seems at first sight purely irrational in
the legends and customs of the world
has been established, and a wider ac-
quaintance with the traditions and Gus
toms of the various races of mankind
has only served to confirm it-namely,
that there is something in the very
nature of language, and of custom too,
which favors the growth of what seems
irrational. In order to rouse opposition
and attention, / ventured many years
ago to call mythology a "disease of Ian
guage," though l am quite willing to
admit that it might have sounded more
philosophical to call it a modification,
an affection Of language, SO as to ex-
clude the idea that such a modification
was always a change for the worse. 1t
might have sounded still more philo-
sophical if l had said that ''the ex-
preston of our ideas is dependent on
the capabilities of each language,
and that it is hardly possible, in giving
utterance to our meaning, to avoid using
words which language has coined to
express a more or less cognate thought"
l might also have adopted the meta
phorical language of ethnologists and
Psychologists and called these various
and but half Ineligible myths and
customs survivals, considering that in
many cases disease also is the effect of
a survival or of the existence within II
physical organism of something that
ought to have been assimilated, digested
and carried off, instead of remaining as
a strange or hard element beyAd the
time when it was wanted. What we
must hold fast, however, is that every
myth and legend was at first an in
telligible utterance or an ineligible
thought. When Greeks OF Melanesians
spoke of the flight as covering, hiding
or swallowing everything, and particu-
larly the sun or the day, there was
nothing irrational in it, at least hardly
more than when we say that nights
follow one another, instead of saying
that they are successive joint effects of
the earth's revolution round its axis.
But when that saying survived after the
names given to night, sun and day had
ceased to be Ineligible then the
Melanesian story that Dong (night)
came creeping up from the sea and that
after a time CAT cut the darkness open
with a piece of red obsidian till the
dawn came out, had become unintelli-
gible and may be called a myth
Nineteenth Century.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29

Speaking of the ideas some people
have of being relieved from immediate
distress through charity, the Galveston
Mews says: "a little eight-year-old,
who suffered by the fire, hearing that
he might get relief by applying to the
committee, was told to prepare his
claim. He wrote it out as follows: "A
bicicle, 50; Two GIMME pigs, 50; n
prery dog. 81; half pound shot, Sc; .
rifel, $6; cartickets in bank, &c."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29

The Legislature of South Carolina
has apportioned $1,000 in order that a
practical test may be made in the cul-
ture of tobacco. A premium of $50 is
to be given to one farmer in each
county and a premium of 800 to the
farmer reporting the best result. The
selection is to be made by a committee
of three practical farmers in each
county, appointed by the Commissioner
of Agriculture .-LouisviNe Courier
.LoxrnHL
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29

Nearly two years ago a stage
driver on the Reding and Lake View
route in California was drowned while
crossing a stream, and the mail-pouch
he was carrying was lost. Recently
the missing pouch was found on the
bank of the river, and its contents were
in q fair state of preservation.-San
Francisco Call.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29

The common daisy is perhaps the
most Invisible plant in the garden.
Each separate branchlet may be re.
moved, with its modicum OF foot, and
every bit will form a plant.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29

The oattlemen of Montana have
formed a protective organization, of
which the motto is: "You had better
mind whose range you are on and
whose cattle you are branding"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-01-09
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The residence Of Col. Chas. Z. Hooker,
near Bovina, Miss, was destroyed by fire
on the night OF December 81st, Messrs.
Matt. and Charley Hooker barely escaping
with their clothing.
PATRICK CAIN, of Cleveland, Ohio, lad
10 years old, drank whisky in such quanti-
ties on New Years Day that he died on the
night of the I'd.
PURE petroleum has been struck near
Park Hill, Ont, at a depth Of 175 feet
There is great excitement over the dis
covery.
THE Hall and Ordway Manufacturing
Company of Nashville, Tenn, on the I'd
turned out the first completed pair o.
mems shoes made in any factory on an ex
tensivo scale south of Louisville.
BErwEEN 1900 and 1000 bales of cotton
ware destroyed by fire at Opelika, Ala, on
the Cd. The loss is placed at $4,000, with
SOL, 600.
OLIVER DowD BYRON was convicted in
Cincinnati on the I'd of violating the law
prohibiting theatrical performances Oh
Sunday.
A NATIONAL health and sanitary conven.
ton will assemble at DeFuniak Springs,
Fa., in March. Its object is the proven
ton of yellow fever and other diseases.
THE establishment of line of steamers
between Havana, New Orleans, Colon,
Linon and Costa RIGA has been accomplish.
cd. Regular tri-weekly trips will be made.
The treasury department last week pur.
chased $4,000 ounces silver.
THE Southern Hotel at New Orleans was
burned on the I'd. The inmates barely es-
capped with their lives, and lost all their
personal effects. Loss $4,000.
The Supreme Court of the United States
on the 4th decided in favor of the Missis-
sippi Railway Commission upon every
| point at issue.
A STATE Bar Association was organized
at Jackson, Miss, on the 4th.
THOMAS w. KEENE, the actor, was
stricken with paralysis at Kansas City, on
the 4th, and is in critical condition.
TIE fire loss in the United States. and
Canaua during 1901 10 eSuHiaVeu az WV
DOC, 900, or S15, 600 less than in 1884.
AT a meeting of Charleston Presbytery
on the 9TH resolutions were adopted declar-
ing DR.. James Woodrow unfit to teach in
the theological seminary on account OF his
evolution theory.
THE heaviest snow storm Of the season
prevailed very generally throughout the
West and Northwest on the 9th.
TYPHOID FEVER is prevailing to an
alarming extent throughout New York
State, owing mainly to the continued mild
ness the winter.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-01-09
OIL has been discovered at PARK Hill,

OIL has been discovered at PARK Hill,
Ontario.
THE 200 Eastern cigarmakers who are to
take the places of Chinaman have arrived
at San Francisco.
TIE Canadian Parliament has been pro-
rogued until February 18th.
CAPTAIN GERRocI of the schooner Racer
is under arrest at Boston, charged with
scuttling the vessel. The penalty is death.
AN old man named Nallen and his wife,
of Perth, Ontario, were burned to death in
their dwelling on the ID.
A LARGE number of persons in the vicin-
ity of Spring Grove, Mimi, are said to be
afflicted with leprosy.
THE Newark IN. J.) children who were
treated in Paris by NJ Pasteur, sailed for
home on the ID.
AN old scheme has been revived in
France to connect Marseilles with the River
Rhone by a canal.
OLIVER DoUD BYRON was convicted at
Cincinnati, o., on the I'd, of violating the
law prohibiting theatrical performances
on Sunday. He was not present to receive
sentence.
| EXTRAORDINARY numbers of Jews are
going to England from Germany, Russia
and Roumania.
DANIEL OSBORN, arrested for forgery,
near Columbus, o., on the I'd, was shot and
killed by the Marshal while attempting to
fire at the latter,
A CONVENTION of steel manufacturers
will be held at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 7th
to consider the advisability of advancing
prices.
THOMAS w. KEENE, the actor, was
stricken with paralysis at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the Sd.
THE Southern Hotel, New Orleans, burned
on the Sd, and one unknown lodger lost his
life.
The funeral of the Fenian Buckley al
Cork, Ireland, on the Sd, was made the
occasion for great political demonstra.
ton.
BISMARCK has withdrawn his opp ositior
TO the marriage of Prince Alexander Of
Bulgaria with the daughter of Crown
Prince Frederick William of Germany.
A DESPERATE attempt was made on the
Sd to burn the town of Tarentum, Pa.
In the recent fight with the British near
Koshey, in the Soudan, the Arabs lost GOO
men.
THE twenty fifth anniversary of the &C
cession of Emperor William to the thron,
of Prussia was observed quietly at Berlin
on the Sd.
FRESH trouble has broken out among tn,
naval cadets at Annapolis, Md, and I
court martial is probable.
GUsTAvE and Herman Knoch have beef
arrested at Detroit, Mich, charged will
the murder Of their mother.
SEVERAL West Virginia farmers hav,
been swindled recently by accepting
worthless checks from itinerant dealers il
pay for stock.
FREDERICK FIsHEL, of New York, VIII
stole $50, 900 from his employers, went t.
Canada, was captured, taken back and i
now lodged in prison for it.
THE body of George A. Cooper u
found in the woods near Columbus, Ind
on the 3d;Ss'fA the head badly beaten, on
eye and part of the nose gone and severa
bullet holes in the body. Evan Fox, Dus
pected of the murder, is under arrest.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-01-09
A Dead RObber Identified.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, January The
remains of the robber killed by Luther
Cline Wednesday night were brought to
this city yesterday and identified as those
OF u man named Thompson, who had been
stoppingat the Powell House in this CITY
for the past two weeks, and who had
been under police surveillance since his
arrival here. On the lining Of his hat were
the words printed in gilt, "New York
Hat Store, Arcola, Ill.,, and it is
thought that he came from that section.
An hour after the shooting, a man stopped
at farm house near the village Of Broad
Ripple, and inquired the way to this city,
and blood stains were found along his
tracks yesterday, indicating that he was
Thompson's companion, and that Ciine's
bullet had taken effect upon him.