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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-16

just received at Mrs. Il. j.
Morrow's Third street Mill
.1inery store, the most conn
plete line of novelties ever
brought to the city. Hats,
Ribbons, Plumes, Grapes,
velyets, Laces, Beads, in fact everything
that can be purchased in the largest
eastern wholesale houses, at reasonable
prices. Call and inspect the stock.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-16

Fine line of Spring Dress
Goods at cox, QDIORNE & CO.'S
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-16
FEARFUL DESTRUCTION OF

u W
LIFE AND P~ROPERTY-Jn the
recent Cyclone in Minnesota over one
hundred lives and hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of property were des-
troyed. Don't be caught unprotected
against the fell destroyer. Cyclone and
Tornado insurance placed in the best
companies, at reasonable rates. by Jos
G. Chandler, Room 4, Pspnington'f
block, Third street.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-16

Wanted--A girl to do general house
woik. Good wages to competent per-
son. Inquire at George Browns, 4th
street, Yankton, Dakota.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-16
Id. uro,r Luntber Go.

FOR SALE-Cheap for cash-Lots 10
and II, Block 81, Lower Yankton. APP
ply, to q. W. ROBERTS, Real Estate
Agent
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-16

A tun line of the celebrated
Broadhead Dress Goods. They.
have no equal.
coy nny0RNE& co.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
1t Ran Eight Months Under Water.

Depot Master Samuel B. Kennedy
has in his possession a trinket which
has a remarkable history, and which he
consequently values very highly. 1t is
a watch and it has a story which gives
it its particular value. According to
Mr.. Kennedy's story it was the proper
ty at n time of his great-grandfather,
a seafaring man and captain of an ocean
steamship. During a terrific gale his
vessel was sunk and she lay on the bot
tom of the for q period of eight
months.
AS she had foundered in compare
lively shoal water it was thought pos
sible to raise her and the effort proved
successful. Among the first to enter
the captains cabin was MI. Kennedy,
who found the shippers watch hanging
nea the head of his bunk, where it had
been left eight months before. Lifting
it from the hook, it was discovered that
the watch had not stopped. It was
still in motion and kept accurate time.
Nj. Kennedy values the timepiece at
$1,000, and is not sure he would part
with it for even that sum.-Erie (Pa.)
Disnntc
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
The Other Side.

Injustice is as possible in a republic
as in a kingdom, and it's victims are
often denied the privilege of a fair hear
ing, but in this age of publicity facts
are less repressible than other argu-
ments, and often plead eloquently on
the side of the minority. In the Bos-
ton linden q friend of fair-play pub
fishes without comment the following
statistics: "Total population of Salt
Lake City, q ,OoO-Mormons, 90 500;
non-Mormon residents, 5000; proper
tion, 4 Mormons to l gentle. Arrests
for crime in 1886, 1876. OF these ar
rests the $500 Mormons furnished 81;
the 5000 gentiles, 1,1e0; proportion to
actual number, AZ gentiles to i Mormon
criminal. In the city are forty tap
rooms, six brothels, and an unreported
number of gambling-rooms, pool-tables.
and the like. OF these, As are run bv
non-Normons; u by Mormons, none.
The proportion of non-Mormon Grim
inals in the Territory, as compared
with the Mormons, is still larger, even
after special pains have been taken to
arrest and prosecute all Mormon
p~olygamists. Yet the whole power of
the Federal Government is used at this
time, or will be used if the new Ed
munds bill is enforced, to crush out
and deprive of its money a community
which these figures show is forty-eight
times law-ab:ding than the sur
rounding population"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
The Garden Of the Gods.

The Garden of the Gods is the fan
ciful title of a little mountain valley
lying four miles northwest of Colorado
Springs. The road enters it through
the beautiful Gate," which is a a
row passageway between two lofty but
narrow lodges Of cliffs which is still
further narrowed by a rock pillar thirty
feet high standing nearly in the center.
The Garden consists of a tract of land
somewhat less than 500 acres in extent,
hemmed in by mountains Oh the west
and north, bordered by ravines on the
south, and on the east ~ a line of old
red sandstone cliffs, which shut it in
entirely from the plains. It's remark
able features are a number of isolated
rocks, unheaved into perpendicular po-
sitions, some of them $50 feet high.
These rocks are mainly of a very soft,
brilliantly red sandstone, though sew
eral ridges are of q white sandstone.
The foothills in the vicinity are many
Of them capped by similar upheavals,
while all about the main cliffs in the
valley are numerous separate spire-like
columns Inter Ocean.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Dictates Of Fashion.

Miss Style TO coachman)-"Jamlpgshs
your whiskers are not in harmony wiz liz
Fido's. It mortifies me dreadlun aI
when L go on the boulevards. l I sar.
you to take Fido with you to- the u Spl
ber's, and have your whiskers tflf'N|'
to match his" ,,o..
James-4Mightn't I have the doS
hair cut to match mine, ma'am? mi,
Miss Style (sternly)-"How can ~
think of it? Fido is just in styie. NJ,
Il thay, old chappie, car you ie arae
have your horse to divine in my u .sse:
this aftahnoon?" why, OF cou aNr
but why not drive your own! ,i;ss
deah boy, I'm going to axe ,raals
Dwesser dwiving, and she always Wi Is
that deuced we'd dwess. NY noisoh
ecwu. y know, and they don't ~'"'
RAMBLER.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
A Dinner in Islam.

In the Oriental household there a
no fixed hours, no fixed habits, no rel
ular sitting-rooms, dining-rooms, bel
rooms. The divan which serves as
seat or lounging place during the ID
serves al a'couch at night. Each pei
son eats when disposed to. Swee
meats, sherbets, and coffee. particuls1
ly the last, are partaken of at Interval
all day long. When a regular meal
served, it is usually an Occasion
some sort, and it is served in course
The greater the Occasion" the largo
the number Of courses. One dish com
poses the course. It is served on
large platter Of copper, or brass, !
silver, or gold, according to the wealtI
of the host. This platter is placed q
a circular table of the same c%ircumte!1|
ence as the platter, and about a coupql
of feet high. Around this table thl
guests place themselves either on cush|
ions or-in order to be accurate l mus
be MISUNDERSTANDING. There az
neither knives, forks, nor plates, notssl
ing but the huge platter, which entlrel,
covers the table; and from this hug1
dish each person helps himself with tn
first two fingers OF. the right hana|
Never, under any circumstances, mus
food be touched with the left hand; z
do so would be to defle it. A mea]
served in this way consists anywheI1
from six to twenty-six courses. SOM
of them are rather nice, many OF thep1
are very nasty. It is hardly Necessary Sal?
to say that no wine is served. LUZ
good Mussulman never drinks VINE.
in public! After every course servans
hand to each guest a small basin coa.
tanning tepid water, delicately, pei,
fumed, and a clean napkin. This ,
very refreshing, and when the manner
of dining is remembered, very neees
sary. There is no lack of liquid II Z
freshment, but as this is made up "
sherbets of various tiavors, but all e.
tremely sweet, one is opt, about n'lasn y
of the feast, to long for a draus1 po ",
cool, clean, comfortable water. n0''
Eutj770e
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
The ul.Used Farm Boy.

IF farmers would make their sons
detest farming and lay their plans for
leaving the old homestead at the first
opportunity, let them keep their boys
out in the rain. as we saw q father do
ing q few days ago, leading a horse to
plow. It was q cold, dreary day, and
late in the afternoon. The team was .
single horse, the pillow q heavy, old,
rusty affair. that was probably LETT out
all winter-the land was weedy and
wet, and by no means easy to WORK
The boy was barefooted and scarcely
more than q dozen years old, and prob
ably A,ght to have been in school.
The father could have guided his horse
with . pair of lines just as we'll as the
boy could lead, and probably much
better than with his single short bridle-
strap scarcely long enough to allow the
boy to keep from under the horses feet
when coming round the corners A
boy generally knows when his work is
useful, paying work, as when riding a
horse to cultivate out the crops, but in
the plain work of blowing it must seem
like labor thrown away to do at a dis
advantage what a man could better do
with the lines under his W control.
The farmer who requires man or boy to
drive one or two horses while he holds
the pillow, will, as q rule. find it cheaper
to buy his corr than to raise it. It is an
old proverb, "He who by the pillow
would thrive, himself must either hold
or drive" and may once have been q
wise saying, but now the farmer who
would make his farming pay as an oc-
cupation should pay must both hold
and drive when he takes his team afield
to turn the mellow soil. Farmers
boys. and all other boys, should learn
to work, but they should feel when
at work that their labor is worth
something, that they are really earning
part of their living. Leading an old
horse or driving a pair of lazy oxen to
pillow, with the belief that the man who
holds could do both just as we'll, is not
very improving to a boy. He might as
we'll 60 a-fishing, even though he
catches nothing. His life would then
seem worth living.-New England
Farmer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Gypsy Pallnistry.

Their observations are always upon
the left hand, and with a tolerably
well-developed system. The elements
observed are the thumb, fingers, nails,
joints, lines, and mountains. There
are four. principal lines, the line of life,
which is the most important, curving
between the forefnger and the thumb,
around the base of the thumb to the
middle of the wrist; if regular and
dark-colored, it indicates long life; if
crooked, pale, and broken, i'll health
and short life. The line Of health starts
at the base of the forefinger, and passes
directly across the hand: if clear and
regular, it indicates soundness of the
mind and body; if tortuous, it reveals
a propensity to steal; if interrupted
in the middle, it points to great perils.
The line of fortune runs to the base of
the little finger, and according to its
various phases indicates happiness or
misery, poverty or riches. The noun
tains are the various protuberances
within the palm, and are called re-
s%pectively the Mount of Venus, the
Mount of Mars, mountain of sun OF
moon, and so on. Small lines parallel
with the line of fortune at the base of
the little finger promise happy mar
riage. Small lines taking the form of
the branches of the tree indicate gen
eral prosperity; spots on the nails, the
fulfllment of hopes.
The foolishness of all this is perfect
" apparent, yet the longing which ex-
lists in all minds to penetrate the fu-
ture in a measure sanctions and fosters
its professions. If the fortunes of it's
dupes are not manifested, the fortunes
of the OWNERS are sustained.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Size Was Busy.

May and Edith are sisters, fos1r and
five years cd respectively. May had
been very naughty, and mamma had
taken her over her knee to administer
corporal punishment, when Edith sud
denly pushed the door ajar and peeped
in.
Turning her chubby face as far round
toward her sister IS the peculiar posi-
ton would permit, May said very
gravely:
Go right out, Edie! Don't you see
I'm busy?"
1t is needless to add that mamma
granted a respite. -Boston Record.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
Judge Davis and the Confidence Man.

VAN NVAAAAuCNCC NVAIks
One of the late Judge Davis friends.
now residing in Washington, tells q
story of the great iurist which is en-
tirely characteristic: A confidence
man, thinking that Mr.. Davis was
something OF o g%reenhorn, stepped up
to him while he was in a bank one dav
depositing a large sum of and
dropped a IS note on the floor, nudged
the Justice in the side with his elbow
and whispered: you've dropped some
thing" AL right" quietly remarked
Mr.. Davis, who knew a thing or two
about the gentry to which his oficions
friend belonged, CPL take ca., of i. "
With that he planted his ponderons
foot and whole weight on the note.
while he handed in his deposit. That
done, be l%eisurely asked the confidence
maj to pick it up for him. The LATTER
could not but comply with the request.
1t was with a twinkle of his eve hal i
disappeared in Judge Davis pocket. to
ind its way on the following dav into
the treasury of some charitable inst;.
utlon.-Rochester Post rpyess.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20

MRS. L1yERMoRE is yet firm in her
belief in cooperative housekeeping.
She thinks that isolated housekeeping
must be merged into cooperative
housekeeping, in order that housewives,
obliged, by the increasing demands Of
the nineteenth century life, to be
sacks at all trades and good at none,"
may have time and strength to prepare
themselves for the higher social, intel
l%ectual, and benevolent demands made
upon them.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
undermining History.

Cone OF my ancestors won a battle
during the crusades by his skill in
handling his artillery" said the Baron.
"But. my dear Baron" said his friend,
"at the time of the crusades gunpowder
had not yet been discovered" Il know
that as we'll as you do, and so did my
ancestor" GLOW did he win the bat
tie. then?' He brought his artillery
to bear on the Saracens, and the stupid
fools, seeing the guns, supposed that
powder had at last been discovered,
and fled in dismay. "-Telas Siftinqs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
THE LITTLE FoLKs.
Darnink-Needle

Little old dame with q ball Of yarn
Nothing did but sit and darn;
A gaping hole, or a single stitch,
To her It never mattered which, 5te
While her rocker piped tts wooden sAiek,
Darn, darn, darn.
Little old dame with q ball Of yarn.
What could the tired needle do,
As under and over, through and through,
Why it winked is single eye, and said:
II like tho old lady we'll enough,
But I can't abide this tattered stuff.
Through, through, through, I.
Is tho thing Of all I hate to dol"
Little old dame took snuff, you see,
Tap, tap on her box, n then, "kerche(i"
So once, in tho midst Of . pleasant sneeP,
Eight out Of the open window flew,
With q nod to the thimble, and his adiAh:
"Kerchee, kerchee, kerchee!
She'll never know where to look for me."A
Then fitting her glasses on her nose,
And with wondering "mys," and "ahs,A a
"ohs.r
The little old lady peeped and peered
With, Il never see, and, II never heerd."
In every ~crevice, and under her chair,
She pried and spied, till in despair
At the "ahs" and "ohs."
The very glasses fell from her nose.
Where did the darping-needle go?
We can only guess-we cannot know.
It had no wings, like q bee or bird,
So to think it flew would be absurd.
And it had no legs torun with speed,
Nor wheels, like a boys velocipede.
No, no, no.
It must have had ways Of its own to 60.
Listen! know O. shady pool, \
Where lie the lily-pads, thick and cool,
Their glossy surfaces lined with red;
Where the cat-tail browns its furry head;
The PUSHES rustic there. side by side;
And the schools Of shining minnows hide,
Cool, cool, cool,
And safe all day in the shady pool.
Go, tell the dame with the ball of yarn,
Ii she needs a needle again to darn,
That there are scores of steel-blue things,
Poised there in the heat on steady wings.
They are dnrning needles, and plenty enough
To mend, twice over, her tnttered stuff.
Darn, darn, darn,
Little old dame with q ball of yarn.
Wide AaUQke,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20

BUCK" GRANT was interviewed by q
Denver reporter the other day, and
asked how he came by the nickname.
The explanation was simple. When
the Grant family moved from Ohio to
Missouri he was a little boy, and some
one called him, in joke, "The Little
Buckeye" The name stuck, but in the
process of time "the little" and "eye"
were dropped. and the name as it now
stands remained.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
MECHANICAL.

A corros-e1x manufsct0,,.
shipped ten of the most ; mner
chimes to Russia, O. the ResoSed
eminent wants them to ernss:n
cotton culture in the Blacn ,unent
inces. pea
To REMOVE candle grease f,o-
niture without iniurino H. rom
rub it off with . little warm ~. warn
. rag. ""sef
A CALCULATION made Of tho @
of q mile-long railroad train nsd
q single locomotive, establishas a
there were 1888 tons weight ..
train, which was drawn by 3 w
ton engine. This would be- ma uels
the weight of many steamships
their cargoes.
REMARKABLE accuracy is nv.
tanned by engineers in cutting Wv,
through mountains, working FROM sal1
ends. Thus at the Musconetcona y
mel, on the Lehigh Valley Raj
the alignment tested to 6.O4 taa.
less than one-half an inch. In Thu
levels were run 5000 feet long.
LOUISIANA claims it possesse,
largest area of merchantable timhe.
America and the greatest var;sta
woods; it possesses iron ore and !,
closer together in abundance than
are to be found anywhere else in
world; it possesses water power to \
all the factories of civilization: fa,|
lands without limit good for all
products of the temperate and tro]
zones.
The distribution of mecbsO;
motive power is receiving increa,
attention in Europe. Should /
problem once be solved, the o.,
factory would disappear SO far as IS
lates to it's repelling features. +
Paris Temps has just given an
count of one method of distribut
which is actually at work in the Frer
capital, in the Rue Beaubourg, a In
ity in which o number of the small
dustries which peculiarly characte,
Paris are carried on. The princi
employed is that of rarefed air.
means of a large steam engine q va
um of seventy-fve per cent. is :
duced in a pipe, from which sma
tubes branch off to each worksb
The workshops are severally PROV
with small motors, worked, of cou
by means of the difference of press
between the density of air in
tube and that of the atmosph
Thus the power can be dist
uted in quantities no greater than
be needed to work a sewing mach
for instance. Each workman is
piled with an automatic registering
paratus, and as he is able to shu
the power when it is not required
is charged only for the quantity
ually used. A fixed monthly rem
charged in addition to the installat
the rent being proportionate to the
of the motor in the workman's re
The principle of rarefied air has
adopted in preference to that of
pressed air, because there is less
ger of accident and the inconvenie
which might arise from the chi
consequences of the use of compre
air in small workshops are avoi
The Importance of the economic
tribution of motive power in fract
quantities in Paris is indicated BY
fact that in one municipal div
alone there are five thousand per
engaged in small Industries who
quire in the aggregate from tel
twelve hundred horse power per
Taking the entire population Of P;
forty per cent. are engaged in
small Industries.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20

40 not to extremes in anything
m~edlocrlty is best in all cases; he Who
walketh IN the middle of the way can
snake hands with the pedestrians IN
both sides of it. on
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20

The palanquin wa introduced into
Greece and Rome from the East, in the
first instance as an article of luxury
for females, but afterward it came to
be pretty generally used for mex Is
well as women.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20

The woodlands of Louisiana are fast
passing into the hands Of Northern
men. -Four years. ago q number Of
shrewd Western capitalists sent their
agents down there to examine the
Southern pine, to see what kind Of
lumber it would make, and the quality
of the woodlands. These agents made
q thorough examination at q minimum
cost, and sent back the most favorable
reports, urging the firms they repre-
sented to make purchases. The result
has been that up to July /, 1856,
1,15O, 532 acres, mainly of pine lands,
had been bought at 81. 25 an acre, about
one-half Of all the Government land
in the State, and nearly one-quarter of
the area covered by the long-leaf pine.
This is all picked land, and though only
one-fourth of the area, contains half
the merchantable long-leaf pine timber
in Louisiana.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20

The editor of the Valley Falls Reg.
lister, of Kansas, shows q properly
thankful and devout spirit in the fol-
lowing paragraph: "Our receipts be-
ing reduced, the editor arose with the
sun Monday morning, and with his lit
tie pop sent a bullet crashing through
a fine rabbit sent us by the hand of
Him who seeth the sparrow fall, and
meat became plenty in our larder.
There was JOY in our household, and
fresh meat plenty once more"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20

tooth and a piece of the upper lip, and
was Juggling away at these when the
shrieks of the quack drew a crowd,
who took the enraged cattleman of,
and ended the performance.