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How to Manage q Woman.

A Persian poet gives the following in.
structions upon this important sub
ject:
"When thou art married seek to
please thy wife, but listen not to all she
says. From mans right side rib was
taken to form the woman, ard never wa
there seen rib quite straight, and
woald'st thou straighten it? 1t breaks,
but bends It. Since then tits plain that
crooked wouan's temper. Forgive
her fault| md blame her not, nor let her
anger thee nor coercion use. as all is vain
to straig gh:en what is curved"
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Central American Railroads.

Writing from Guatemala, a CORE
spondent of the Kansas City (Mo.) Jowna!
says: "There is much in the region and
approach to Isalco to remind one OF
Vesuvius. It is the most active volcano
on the continent, and its whole appear
ance, its tremendous power in throwing
stones, scoria, and lava to heights esti-
mated at !, 200 and even 1900 feet, rem
der it the most interesting mountain OF
Central America, if not the western
world.
The railroad mounts up steep grades
at distance from the volcano of only
five miles, and bends about it until it
reaches the village of Armenia. This
town is place of Spanish days, and is in
broken region where coffee comes to
great perfection. A few miles further
will carry the road to the capital of San
Salvador, and another projected branch
bends around the volcano to Santana, o
city in the coffee region.
All Central American railroads are
narrow guage, and generally have Amer
leans back of them. though some Eng
lish capital has been invested in them.
They are generally well built, excellent
masonry and iron bridges being the rule.
Many Of the ties are ma lie of lignum Vita
and another kind of wood equally hard,
and to fastcn the rails to them holes are
bored for the spikes. .
1t is easy to see that when completed
from the Pacific ocean to the Caribbean
sea as the projected lines contemplate,
they will prove very renumcrative as well
as opening to commerce new and unde.
velopei fields; moreover there will come
an awakening of the native population
out of a lethargy inheri ed from the cruel
oppression of the Spanish rule.
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Farm and Garden Notes.

It is a good plan to have two sets of
roosting poles Tor the hens and change
them each week, setting them outside
when not in use.
Remember, it is the appearance OF
| goods that sells them. Nice, large, fat,
plump, white turkeys, ducks, chicks OF
geese always bring outside prices.
! Small chickens should never be kept OF
fed with old ones; they are apt to be in
jured. Have two or three yards and
separate them according to size and
strength.
The free use of clover seed and keep.
! ing of farm stock enables farmers to
maintain land in good condition for or
dinary cropping without purchasing
commercial manures.
Small fruit culture will always be most
successful on the intensive plan. Plant
only small area at q time and give that
the best culture possible. Better raise
300 bushels on one acre than that amount
! on five or six.
Professor Barre is of the opinion that
farmers should use plenty of ice in con-
uection with milk setting in deep cans,
and says: During the summer months
the methods of setting milk in well or
spring water without ice) leaves nearly
two thirds of the butter fat in the skim
milk"
| Good tillage is the strongest weapon
with which the farmer can fight hard
times and gain success. Imperfect cul-
ture, on the other hand, will scarcely en-
able him to gain living from the rich
est soil, and the soil will deteriorate
rapidly in quality from such treatment
/ besides.
Many persons think that corn is the
best food for poultry. 1t is if you do
not wish eggs. For eggs. feed soft food,
! bran or meal, with little salt, in the
morning, and a little cayenne pepper
added every other morning; corn, wheat
or oats in the evening. \ sole diet OF
corn produces too much fat.
| Whenever rhubarb throws out great
MANY leaves and the stalks are small and
worthless the roots should be dug up and
! transplanted, dividing them, so that only
one thrifty bud is left to each piece OF
root. This should be done early in the
spring. as soor as the newly formed buds
arc ready to push through the soil.
Large hogs are neither fashionable nor
profitable But few hogs are now bred
that, when fully developed, weigh over
! 700 pounds. The small-boncd ca"ly-de-
veloped hog that weighs from 2I5 to 300
pounds at twelve months meets the po,pu-
lar demand as the most profitable. while
those large hogs most always develop
! later, and have to be kept too long.
Corn fodder lacks the same constltu-
ents that the grain does, though not to
80 great an extent. Hence it is wasteful
feeding to feed it alone, and it does not
improve the composition of the ration to
add the grain. Bat such a ration gives
better results than either the fodder or or
! the grain fed alone, as rough teed"
helps the digestion of grain IN the
tomachs of cattle and horses.
A little five-cent blank book with still
paper covers, and Il short bit of lead pen
I'll. both of which may be carried i'll the
| vc It pocket, may be made of more real
help to q neat, tidy farmer, than many
another thing costing ten times Us much.
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What He Meant.

A young Wall street wag was recently
invited to dine with an old gentleman of
rather sudden temper. The dining room
was on the second floor and the principal
dish was fine boiled ham. When the
old gentleman undertook to carve it he
found the knife rather dull and in a sud-
den passion flung it down stairs after the
servant who brought it. Whercupon the
Young gentleman seized the ham and
with admirable dexterity hurled it after
the knife. "What on earth do you
mean" exclaimed the gentleman as
soon as he could speak. II beg your
pardon" was the cool reply, 81 thought
YOU were going to dine down stairs" ::
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THE RING'S, MOTTO.

A lover gave the wedding-ring
Into a goldsmith's hand.
"Grave me-" he said, "a tender thought
Within the golden band"
The goldsmith graved,
With careful art,
"Till death US part"
The welding bells rang gladly out,
The husband said: 20 wife,
Together we shall share the grief,
The happiness of life.
give to thee
Ny hand my heart,
Till death us part"
Twas she that lifted now his hand
(Olove, that this should be),
Then on it placed the golden band,
And whispered renderly:
"Till death us join
Lo, thou art mine
And am thine!
Rand when death joins we nevermors
Shall know an aching heart,
The bridal Of that better love
Death has no power to part,
Thetroth will be
For thee aud ME
Eternity"
So up the hill and down the hill,
Through fifty changing years,
They shared each others happiness,
They dried cath others tears,
Alas! Alas!
That deaths cold dart
Such love can part.
But one sadday she stood alone
Beside his narrow bed:
She drew the ring from off her hand,
And to the goldsmith said:
"Oh, man who graved
With careful art,
Till death US part
"Now grave four other words for me-
Till death us join" He took
The precious golden band once more,
With solemn, wistful look,
And wrought with care,
For love, not coin,
"Till death us join"
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A Years Changes.
All the flirting and deceiving

All the flirting and deceiving
Captivating, make-believing,
With its temporary sweetness, tones thu
pleasure of day;
And thrilling memory fingers
OF the touch of slender fingers.
Stolen sweetness, smiles, and bushes, that
have vanished all away.
But perhaps you know the pleasure
OF possession, in your measure,
And year of adaptation has remodeled you,
desire;
Wien you modify the nature
Of your hymeneal capture,
As you shiver in attempting to construct
kitchen fire.
-Pittsburg Commercial Gaze't,.
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day, therefore we must conclude that
these curious formations frequently ez-
plode themselves through inter- al strain
ing, as did the frog that was trying to
swell himself to the size of the ox.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
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A new method of treating smallpox
with ether and opium, the ether being
administered hypodermically and the
opium by the mouth. has been tried in
Paris with remarkable success, even in
very severe cases.
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of Smoky VALLEY, the ground is covered
with geodes of all sizes, many of which
are lined with crystals of various hues.
On some of the mountains the ground is
filled with the nodular masses, and they
are dug out by specimen hunters like so
many potatoes; indeed, in some countries
they are called "potato stones" Nodules
of iron are often found in sandstoncs that
are foot or more in diameter. These
are sometimes hollow, while others are
found to to be filled with IN ocherous
earth. The shells are of iron ore. In
that part of the Black Hills where Hunt
and McKinzie heard the mysterious ex-
plosions, there are tremendous cliffs COM
posed chiefly Of sandstone, and this stone
is probably of ferruginous nature,
liable to be prolific of geodcs.
Those who do not believe that geodes
are capable of producing the strange dis
charges of ''mountain artillery" have
only to place one in the fire Of a black
smiths forge and blow the bellows for q
short time. The man who shall make
this experiment will be convinced gcodcs
will xplode, supposing him to survive
it. Whether it is the heat of the sun or
the pressure of internal growth that
causes these natural bombshells to eX-
plode, it is hard to say. In some instan.
ces it is, perhaps, owing to the one, and
in others to the other cause. Both in the
Rocky Mountains and in the Black Hills
at the time the sounds were heard it was
in August, when hot weather doubtless
prevailed. In South America and Brazil
the days are, of course, very hot, except
dnring the rainy season. But the eX-
plorcrs in the Black Hills assert that they
heard the booming of the mysterious guns
of the mountains by night as we'll as by
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-10

HRS. Edison dearly loved romance, and
as this looked little like one, she wrote q
line and had it conveyed to her husband.
1t met him Oh his way to the drawing
room, whittier he was duly escorting his
niece.
@This is an order for countermarch,"
he said in vexedtone to his companion.
| "What is wrong now?"
| "Blamed if I know" he replied, drop
ping into his favorite westernism in his
amazement. h
But he fancied that he knew rs he Wit
messed the meeting of the young couple
soon after; she, blushing radiantly, and
he, wistfully tender in the greeting.
A few pleasant words, and then the
young man stepped aside and Ellen was
conducted to the expectant guests. There
is little more to tell. They met rs they
had parted, with only the stretch of years
between.
An extract from letter to his college
chum, to whom he had told his little love
story, read thus:
"Do you remember that young lady
dressed in black was seated at the counter
when took you into my Office to tell you
of my early love affair? and you said: 4
firmly believe you will find your brown
eyed maid yet 1t was she-the very one
of whom was speaking. But come on to
the wedding, Christmas, and will tell you
all about it."
And he went, as in duty bound, and for
a wedding gift presented the bride hand
some oil painting-his own handiwork-
and called "a Cents Worth of Raisins."
And to this picture, which embellishes the
Smiths parlor, the writer is indebted for
this sketch.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-10
"Father's Ofd Boots Are There,

Many a picture of moving pathos ap-
pears in the dark gallery of drunken
ness. We have seen but few more
touching ones than this from the pen of
Mrs. NJ. A. Kidder. She describes
little Benny, the son of drunken
father, sitting in a room with his mother
and little sister. By looking at this
sad and thoughtful face one would have
taken him to be 10 years of age, yet he
was but 6.
No wonder. For four years this al
most baby had been used to seeing. a
drunken father go in and out of tn
cottage. He scarcely remembers any,
thing from him but cruelty and abuse.
But now he is dead. The green sod
had lain on his grave week or so, but
the effects of his conduct were not
buried with him.
The poor children would start with a
shudder at every uncertain step on the
walk outside, and at every hesitating
hand upon the latch. On the day men
toned Benny's mother was getting
dinner. "Will my little son go to the
woodshed and get mother few sticks
to finish boiling the kettle?"
Il don't like to go to the woodshed,
mamma"
"Why, my SOM"
Because there is pair of fathers
old boots out there, and I don't like to
see them"
why do you mind the old boots,
Benny, any more than the old coat and
hat up stairs?"
Because, said Benny" tears filling
his blue eyes, "they look as if they
wanted to kick me-"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-10
PERILOUS SPINSTERS.


II don't like it," he said, bad-tem-
peredly. "tThat's the tenth old lady
who's fallen in love with me-"
II think that's complimentary to
you"
"Is it? Oh, yes That's all right.
1 60 to party, and the old lady takes
me into corner and begins to talk to
me, and she has pretty daughter, and
there's an ocean of pretty girls, and I
see somebody I want to dance with, and
the old lady says:
"sYou don't want to dance; sit here
and talk to me-"
"Well. why don't you get out and
dance?"
II can't. A nice old lady, who flat
tiers you by asking your opinion of her
daughters beaux, and tickles your
vanity with all sorts of pretty little
touches-I tell you, my boy, you may
talk as you like about young women
and widows and spinsters and
fiirts, but there isn't any firt in
creation so dangerous as single woman
of IS, whose hair is just srrinkled with
silver. They have ways about them.
Confound it all, I remember of getting
quite spoony on an old lady of 60, who
was too old to dream of Disgusting her
age.
"You laugh! All right. Some day
you'll catch it, perhaps. But you don't
seem to be lovable. If they'd only get
mad and let you alone. But, no, they
simply take a snub quietly and wait the
next chance"
II don't think that everyboays
experience.
maybe not. That makes it all the
worse. You see, an old lady is priv
legged to talk out, even about love, and
when she talks of love you think she
means as son or something like that.
Then you find out that it's just the same
kind of love as anybody else's, and
you've kind of encouraged it and &C.
cepted it, especially if she has money.
Even money is no good. I knew an old
widow lady of IS who was passionately
attached to me, and when she died she
left all her money to a congregation.
tell you, I'm not going to stand it any
more. The next old lady who falls in
love with me will get left, and don't
you forget it. Sam Francisco Chro7a.
icIe
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-10
DOUBT.

@aers is it leading US. this sud procession
OF yelled hours and weeks. all grim and gray
he summer dies in autunns chill embrace
Then winter calls dear autumn tide away;
III spring days come. all redolent with flowers
Once more to mock us with their brief bright
SMILE
And summer comes but once again to vanish,
For all tho seasons last so short WHILE
But whittier do thoy tako us in their passing?
Eyes wax but dim, hearts beat slower tune
Hands fail to do the work that seems so pressing.
IT'S winter time, ere we have welcomed June.
We cannot stay them, passng-ever passing
Fen though our lives wax shorter as they go,
Although we tremDle at the gathering shadows,
That wait around. and hide what none may
Oh. life, sad life, Ibid not ask thy dover,
did not take on me thy weary pain:
Thy pleasures never we're by me demanded,
And having ltvod, would not live again.
Still would fain be given wider knowledge,
See clear and fair not darkly through glass,
Made darker yet to sight dmmed oft by crying,
SO dim cannot see the way Ipassl
There is no sunshine hero without shadow,
No smile that has not its swift following tear,
No bliss that is not paid for by sorrow,
That casts before its shade of mortal fear.
1s there no life. OH life. wherewe are happy,
Safe in the knowledge that our blessings are;
That love is real /: life's best joys unending
Beyond the horrors of some Judgment bar?
Mono answer, for tho shadows grim and dreary
Arc silent with tho silence OF the dead
Tho dead. they are so quiet safe, untroubled,
Not knowing aught within their churchyard
bcdi
oh IL hn tbnf all hut 1oa6 rlc
TO share the silence whore past ages Sleep;
That Life himself doth yield our only harvest,
And what we SOW we here alone may reap?
Ali the Year Round
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-10

they say there is perfectly wonderful
speaker to be on the platforms wo-
man from Syria; are yoat gong,
Harry?"
al don't know" replied Harry indif-
ferently.
"Dear me, "said Alice; "boys are so
queer. Now L thought it was just
splendid last night, but Harry won't
even say he liked it, was all stirred
up and ready to give all my jewelry-
only haven't any to give" and Alice
chartered on until breakfast was over,
and the familywent their several ways.
All this time Harry was thinking, and,
as you will see, thinking to some pur-
pose. He had an errand down town
for his mother, and as he went out Of
the gate he said with energy, GIL do
i'll"
Now, Mrs. Danvers was q timid
woman, and very much afraid of dogs.
True, she tried to hide her fear and
aversion for Harry's sake, but she had
nervous dread of some member of the
family being bitten by the dog, and
only few days before, Harry's father
said: "My boy, 1 sometimes wish you
could make up your mind to give that
dog away; your mother dislikes dogs
so much.
Remembering this, Harry did not
consider it necessary to say anything to
his father about what he intended to
do. His way down street led him past
Col. Bates residence. He stopped at
the door and rang the bell, asking to
see Col Bates. When that gentleman
appeared he said, though his voice
trembled:
"Have you bought dog for Frank.
yet?"
"No; have you made up your mind
to part with yours?"
eyes, sir; if your offer holds good
for to-day"
Certainly: walk in and we will set
tie the business am very glad; we
are going to rather lonely place for
the summer, and the dog will be both
comfort and protection to Frank"
The transfer of property was made
in the course of the morning, and,
strangely enough, Col. Bates sat beside
Harry that evening and caught the
glitter Of the gold-piece which the boy
dropped into the basket as the col
lection was taken up for the Indian
Mission. And this is what he thought:
Here's boy who has made sacrifice !;
He has given what has cost him some
thing, and gave what can spare as
well as not! for once will give some
thing that shall feel"
Father, why didn't you buy those
horses you were talking about?" asked
Frank, a few days later.
Because bought dog for you in
stead!"
"But Jack did not cost $1,00o!" said
Frank puzzled.
"That is just what it cost me-" re-
piled Col Bates, smiling at his boys
bewildered look. And then he told
him the story of the gold-piece, and his
own sacrifice, and the boy, after little
silence had fallen between them, said /:
Father, you need not buy the dog
cart; the old pony-phaeton will do.
Give me the money it cost in gold
pieces, please, and I will go to the
next missionary meeting and offer aay
sacrifce.-The Panseu.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-10
SCHOLASTIC NOTE

cCAOx<AoAASS ~ "
"What excuse have you gov u
absent from your class yestera'
the question put by a professO'
linquent pupil.
II was too sick to attend
was the reply. T.
"a gentleman informs me u
played billiards most OF the a''s
replied the professor.
II dare say"
II am also informed that 70"
nine saloons on the avenue III"
in every one of them" No.,
Student, Indignantly: n ,,as
did. What do you want fe ea
with himself the whole day io y,
he is too sick 10 attend SCHOOL,
Sifti,1gs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-10
FUNERAL NOTE.

A certain Austin landlord is a very
dlfflsive sort of man, much given to
speaking before he thinks. He recently
met Prof. Shore, his new tenant.
Good morning, Professor; good
morning. Glad to see you looking so
well. How do you like the house ?"
Every much, indeed"
Glad to hear it; very glad to hear it. y
Yes, sir; like it. I hope to die in
the house."
IL hope SO, too. Glad to hear VOL,
talk that way. "-Teras sDtings.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-10

A CERTAIN wealthy candlda's
laid in a supply of Mumms :, 70
champagne, a witty FRIEND :,
that ut was q strong point III -. -
leader to keep Mumm, espe.'1d, !,
his friends were always eA''' y
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-10
FUN,

"A'i seat that alvo,,
the b'rbed-wire fence.-Bsa,s~,asyn'
A MAN !, never brags of how NV"
owes to the assessors. -Bosto os !
A TEMPERANCE movemss y"
the Jug under the countas 'A'-
1h'areler.
A WISE sausage dealer nou
semi-profane expression, s @m'
-Ne'o York Journal. log
The English alphabet !, \
virtuous. Twenty of the = st Il
never been in prison. Ys ss'' =
what a lot of them are NOW
tiary. Ill
THE cockroaches in this bo,
remarkably versatile" said -. ~
hotel table, picking up a G WI
notice IT that they appear in \
rolls every morning"
The man who is right sell,
much to say. 1t is the ma 'u
wrong that talks, and talks 1a!l
the view of changing the on;n;e i
other than to convince himself
is right. As Puck SAYS, "Ws.]
these mortals be!"- Bostou 81
PAPA! what did the preacbI
by that word 'purblind q" asla]
of her father on their way from
II know" interrupted Freddie
often heard people say, whd
heard cats singin', that thev al
where the purr came from, and R
that's purr-blind, ain'tit, pa ?n
Gazette.
DEBIT AND CREDIT,
You gave me smiles and kisses
1gave diamond ring,
For tender looks, the newest books
And latest songs to sing.
I'm in a hundred letters
Beginning Darling Love-
And now think, a withered min.
A worn, though tiny glove,
You'll get again those kisses
These tender chances, too,
But never I'll get back the pile
OF money spent ON you!
e. D. Pierson, in CHICAGO Rambler
"WHAT pay do you get?" asked
who had just arrived in \
Dakota town, of the Marshal. 81
five dollars a month";" "Jsn|
pretty small wages?" ooh,
would be if 1 had to work all ii
You see, whenever the cowbo1
in and get drunk, and the air I'd
get sort of thick and sultrv I'd
bullets, I go home and crawl i
cellar. They are here pretty ID
80 L have an easy time of it.'l
line Bell.
They had just been mario
seized her hand and said nj
tremulous voice: cit was yonI
modesty and apparent indiA|
dearest Sallie, that made NE I'd
vow to marry you at all ID
EYES," she sighed, "but I slippe
three or four Of the most
young men in Austin before
shat the only way to rope igI
was to come the innate md
total Indifference racket Oh
Teras SJtings.
A STORY is told of Sheridan
an Irishman, that one day, when
back from shooting with IN emf
he did not like to go home con
empty, and seeing q numbero
in a pond, and a man OF farmer
on a rail watching them, Shcril
"What will you take for a slid
ducks WELL" he said, II Il
half 8 sovereign" "Donc!" sail
dan, and he fired into the middll
flock, killing q dozen. II am
you made a bad bargain" "V
don't know" said the man,
weren't mine"
HE KNEW 1T ALL.
rG- ttnn