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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-19

God: and the soul following God Will
he like unto Him, He being the begin
ming, middle, and end of all things
Socrates.
THERE are too many weekdays for ono Sunday.
Then tnko the Sunday with you through the
week.
And sweeteu with it all the other days.
--Lonafellor.
IT is foolish to try to live on past ex-
perience. It is very dangerous, it not
fatal habit to Judge ourselves to be
safe because of something that we felt
or did twenty years ago. -Spurgeon'
The martyrs to vice far exceed the
martyrs to virtue, both in endurance
and in number, so blinded are we by
our passions that we suffer more to be
damned than to be saved.-Colto'a.
WHEN all our hopes gone
TITS we'll our hands must still keep toiiing OF
For others sake;
For strength to bear is found in duty done,
And he is b est indeed. who learns to mako
TIE joy of others cure his own headache.
The religious sentiment will and must
be expressed. Here it resembles not
the fire in the flint, which is struck out
by conclusion, but the light Of a lamp,
which is itself radiant.-Dr e. n.
Park.
YESTERDAY is yours no longer: to-
morrow may be never yours; but to-day
is yours, the living present yours, and
in the living present you may stretch
forward to the things that are before. -
Z. ". Farvar.
WE are wanting the strength we need
for the discovery Of truth as yet UNI
known, because we do not rest enough
in truth that we know. Crest in the
Lord" The greatest things are known
already.-R. ". Dale.
A CATHOLIC legend says that the
devil gave hermit the 1loice Of three
great vices, one of which was drunken
ness. The hermit chose this as being
the least sinful. He became drunk,
and he committed the other two.
"WHEN the Queen of Madagascar
shut up the saloons in her kingdom,
and her ex-saloonkeepers asked for
compensation, she replied: Com
pensate those you have wronged, and I
will pay the balance. "-Ne,u York
Sun.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-19
THE RdDIINy SURFACE OF THE



sun.
A considerable amount of scientific
labor has been devoted, during recent
years, to form some reliable estimate
as to the temperature of the radiant
surface Of the sun. The investigation,
however, is so subtle and difficult, that
no absolute conclusions have yet been
arrived at in regard to it. Sir Isaac
Newton thought that the heat of the
sun was at least 1000 times greater
than the temperature of red-hot iron.
Pouillet calculated that the solar heat
which falls on a square centimeter
(nearly seventh part of square inch)
of the terrestrial surface is sufficient to
raise 1858 grams (nearly troy pen
nyweighD Of water l degree of Cent?
grade every minute; and, having
adopted this as what he termed a
'coloric, y or constant unit of solar heat,
he, estimating backward. inferred that
the heat issuing from similar m easure
on the surface of the sun would serve
TO melt layer Of ice 11.8O meters (36
feet and ! inch) thick every minute.
Pouillet spoke Of a temperature some
where between $3.50 degrees and 3, ITO
degrees Fahrenheit as the probable
amount of the heat of the sun. Erics-
son assumed the enormous higher
quantity of 100000 Fahrenheit.
Prof Langley, from observations made
with his recently reconstructed bolome-
ter, or ray measurer--a very sensitive
instrument, in which coloric vibrations
are converted into electric currents
gives rs probably exact result from
l,S00 degrees to 1000 degrees Cent?
grade, and, by a very beautiful series
Of experiments of an altogether indie
pendent nature, he satisfies himself that
the suns hemisphere radiates eighty
seven times as much heat and $500 times
as much light as an equal area of incan.
descent steel in Bessemer converter,
in which the air-blast has been sustained
for about twenty minutes. This NAV.
perhaps, be fairly looked upon as the
most trustworthy approximation to any
definite conclusion that has yet been
found possible in this very difficult
branch Of human knowledge Its large
amount, at any rate, very satisfactorily
accounts for the enormous quantity
of work that is done upon the terres-
trial surface by solar heat, after its
journey Of 93,OO0,O 900 miles across the
gap which separates its source from the
earth.-Eli21ba1ygh Review.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-19
Il FHENCH WITNESS.

A curious witness recently made hef
debut in one of the Paris police courts
A woman and her husband were sum-
moned before a justice of the peace Tor
the non-payment Of a bill for 81 francs
The wife alone put in an appearance
She admitted the indebtedness ana "
only remained to decide as to the MODE
of payment.
The following colloquy then TOOK
place between the magistrate and tno
defendants:
"Well, my good woman, how can you
pay this debt?"
Il cannot give much"
"But You are married. Are you tho
legal wife of M. Debaux?"
Yes, he married me; but the char
coal was very poor.
"What dill you do before your mar
riage?"
II was unmarried"
mo doubt. But tell me, how much
does your husband earn q month";
HE is sick now"
"But when he is well?"
"He has no work"
my good woman, You don't unoel ),
stand me. What does your huspan"
do generally? What is his trade?'
Gle looks for work"
"And you?"
II wait while he is looking for it
Shave you any family?"
eyes, six children"
"Are they dependent on your
mo, they are buried" :.
The magistrate gave up the tasA "
eliciting information from the ~olnaD'
in despair, but plying her eviaeh' H.. H.
pecunious condition, decided thn' ''''
debt should be paid by installmensS
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-19
SABBATH READING.
As We Sou, So Shall We
Reap, is Gods
LaV.
GRACE, NOT GAIN, IS WHAT WE
NEED.
Our Mothers Samp'cr-Man1y Help
LOOK Tcmard the Light-7hings
to Think OF.
Oar Mothers Sampler.

1t was wrought in siiken letters,
As WIS the fashion then,
Stitched into our mothers SAMPLER
Eliza aged tent"
Twas long aso-past sixty years!
Below the name the date appears.
In eighteen hundred wcnty- threei"
We often heard hor tell
She walked two miles to school that year,
And We remember well
Flow underneath tho elm-tree's shnde
Sho rested when little maid
Above her name the alphabet,
In letters large and small,
Was wrought in red, and "true-love" blue"
Ana cross-stitchsd, ono and oil.
The rows divided of by lines,
Made from some old and quaint designs,
And through tho summer sunshine,
And through tho winters snow,
With tho sampler in her pocket.
Our mother used to go.
And afternoons, lessons done,
She worked the letters, ono by ono,
The stitches evenly were set,
With only here ard there
A misplaced one; pc! haps the count
Was lest midst childish care;
bistracting things in school, perchanco,
Stole from the work thought, glance.
They toll mo il was beautiful,
Our mother childhood face,
And speak OF NIL her kindly words,
Her ways of simple grace.
Could we have only seen her then,
That child, "Eiizn, eyed tent"
We knew her not at morning;
But when her noon-.;ne came,
With childish love and pratt 10,
We gave her the new name,
Replote with all that's pure and good
The sacred nnmc of motherhood.
And now the afternoon has passed:
It is tho evenin:-t.de;
Our mother has just entered in
Among the Glorified.
Welook her finished life-work through
The misplaced stitches, oh, how few!
Susan Z. Perry.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-19
Il CHAMPION OF L4BOR.

An Estelline man recently returned
from visit to another territorial town
when a friend said to him:
did you see Col. Softpalm while you
were out there?"
Eyes"
"Still practicing law?"
eyes, and loaning money. He has
foreclosed mortgage on about half the
farms around there and got possession
of them, and I guess will probably get
the others in time"
"He must be making money, then. I"
Eyes, he is, and never did davis
work in his life. Then he's strnck
something better STILL"
whats that?"
"Why, he's just been nominated for
the legislature on the farmers ticket
and is sure of election. All the farmers
and working men generally are simnly
wild to vote for him. "-Estellize BeH
LAWYERS are seldom, oo,,,,1lI =.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-19
Il HUNTED HOUSE.
Sensational account Of What Might Haze
Becn a Terry Ghostty 1itair.


"Have any of yon fellows ever lived
in haunted house?" said man in the
smoking apartment Of Pullman car,
ON the Milwaukee limited train, to St.
Paul Globe reporter.
"Never have, I suppose" he contin-
ued. "Well, if you had you would be
more experienced and less liable to be
imposed upon, My father never be-
lieved in such things, although he was
raised in Kentucky with negro servants.
He never believed in the stories Of
haunted houses, and never lost an OPP
portunity of investigating any houses in
which the haunted business was re-
ported as going on. The more he in-
vcstigated such things the more he was
convinced that there was nothing in it.
ave lived in Missouri when ] was o
boy, not far from Palmyra. My father
had farm. Not far from us neigh
Dor put up a new frame house, very
pretty one. Shortly after getting into
the new home the neighbor got to drink
ing, and one night he and his wife were
killed. 1t was always supposed that he
killed his wife and then himself, al
though nothing was known about it
save that their dead bodies were dis
covered the next morning.
Pretty soon the house was said to
be haunted, and everybody in the whole
neighborhood was talking about the
strange sounds and goings-on in the
house. Everybody had different
version of the affair. The more talk,
the more excitement there was. All
this while the house remained vacant,
and the grass and weeds grew rank
about the whole place. AS boy can
remember the feelings Of indescribabie
horror and awe that experienced when
going about the old house in daytime,
and nothing could induce me to go
there after dusk.
Imagine my feelings when 1 was
| told that my father had rented the
place. and that we were going to move
in within the next few days. We did
so. That night nothing unusual oc-
Cured, except that two Of the doors,
closed the night before, were open on
getting up the next morning. The
same opening Of doors took place regu-
larly every night, and during storm
that occurred, most unnatural noises
We're heard coming from the attic.
"The noises, we aftclward discovered.
were produced by q tree, blown by the
wind, scraping on the caves of the roof,
but the opening of the doors was not so
easily discovered. The doors would
open, even if locked, and the opening
would take place in the presence of any
one, without any visible cause. 1t was
finally ascertained that the door-frames
and surrounding timbers were of green
material, and that, shrinking away, the,
caused the three doors thus situated to
open. At least that was the cause as
certained by a carpenter who exam.
ined the house. New doors and floor
ing were put in, and the house ceased
| to be haunted"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-19
Things to Think Of.

SPEAKING without thinking is shoot
ing without taking aim.-Miss Careu.
The talent of success is nothing more
than doing what you can do we'll with
out thought of fame.-LonUello,c.
CovErors ambition, thinking all too
little which presently it hath, supposeth
itself to stand in need of all which it
hath not.-Si1 Waller Raleigh.
The end of lie is to be like unto
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-19

A GENTLE heart is like ripe fruit.
which bends so low that it is at til,
mercy of every one who chooses to
pluck it, while tie harder fruit keeps
out of reach.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-19

LAWYERS are seldom consulted 10 re-.
gard to ladies' suits
Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-03-26
A strange IntozIoant OF Sheep.
Portland Oregonian.I


In reference to the statement published
In regard to 200 bucks being poi
soned in eastern Oregon. a gentleman
who has extensive interests in that sec
ton, and who has spent several years on
the sheep ranges there, gives the follow
ing information: There is low weed
growing on certain ranges which, when
eaten by the sheep in the fall. proves
fatal. The sheep run on these ranges In
the spring without damage Then they
are driven to the mountains for the sum
mer, and when they come back on the
range IN the fall this poison weed is ripe,
and the seeds have fallen on the ground
The sheep feed on the weed aud prob
ably the seeds Presently their ears
droop, they froth at the mouth aud their
brain is affected. After standing for a
while in a dazed condition they start oil
in any direction they happen to b. headed
and keep going till they walk over a eli
or into gully or fall dead They can
not be turned or stopped, but walk off
bluff as composedly as if il was level
ground So far as known there is no
cure for sheep which have eaten this
weed. Cattle and horses are not poisoned
bv IL
Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-03-26
A Barber Discovers Something New.

"By the way" said the barber, athere
is a new fake in town. A barber shop is
great place to catch ON to new things.
If a man gets new wife, new baby, a
new hat, new boots, a new boil on his
neck, a new joke or a new ism, we are
pretty sure to hear of it almost as quick
as anybody The new fake | think of
takes two men to work it. They go into
barber shop, or saloon, or restaurant,
but they don't appear to notice one an
other or be acquainted at all. One of
them pays his bill and then disputes about
the change. He declares he handed you
81 bill, when it was only 81. While you
are disputing about it the other one comes
up and is surprised to meet his pal. The
new conner affects an air of dignity and
indifference, you know, and says he
knows nothing about the merits of the
case, but he does know the man-has
known him for years-and, of course, GER
titles to his good character They tried
the game on me one evening last week
He must be right, said the confeder-
ate, for he is a very careful man. have
known him ten years, and he is as honest
as the day is long
That's all right, my friend, said l. but
it is considerable after dark now. Both
of you had better hurry home or you may
be caught out by a storm or a policeman ;"
Chicago Herald
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Garfleld's tomb has now been guarded
by the military for four years. The de-
tachment of soldiers which was ordered
to mount guard on the iron gates and pre-
vent a despoilment which was never
threatened and never really feared is still
there Nightly the sentinel strides back
and forth, curiosity to screech owls in
the trees and fatal and unnecessary
warning to the agents of medical colleges,
whose scientific research takes no thought
OF dead presidents. Not long ago story
was in circulation that one of the soldiers
on guard in Lake View cemetery had
become insane and had been sent to the
government asylum at Washington
The story has never been verified and at
the tomb nothing can be learned of the
affair, which is clouded in mystery
Awaiting the construction of the Gar
field monument, the remains of Ohio's
favorite son rest in the Scofield vault, half
mile from the site selected for the mon
ument. Garfield's coffin is in plain sight
of all who pass along the principal road
way of the cemetery The casket rests
about two feet from the floor, presenting
side view to the outside world. Looped
and tasseled drapery of q brownish color
conceals the framework or trestles or
whatever may support the casket A
vase of living flowers is placed on the
floor between the gateway and the
drapery thus described, and there is
barely room for it. Another bunch of
flowers is placed ON the coffin directly
over the dead presidents folded arms A
low temporary wire fence incloses a space
of about ten feet in front of the vault, and
outside Of this the soldier-sentinel, in a
H.. Il. 4 \
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The GrImness Of the Revolution.

Poor Andre, who had been cutting up
tricks and shines and counting the girls
and playing the staff fool suddenly found
that war was thing of terror, and that
he was not held at his own valuation, but
at the valuation these fierce men put
upon him. namely, their enemy spy
and endeavoring by covert means to trick
them out of the independence they had
nearly won by open warfare. Arnold had
gotten away, but Andre was his hostage
They made short work of him, tried by
such a court-martial as many an Irish
rebel is tried by the British army in times
of revolt, and he saw his gallows and cart
all prepared and not a sign on earth or in
heaven of either remorse or pity.
1t is wonderful thing to examine at
Albany the pen sketches this young
fellow made Of himself the night before
he died. He had general smatter of
several of the arts, music, drama, the
pencil, poetry, and here he drew in that
little old stone-house, from looking
glass perhaps, the profile of himself
and you can see it at Albany among many
other curiosities. The poor young fellow
appreciated the grimness of the American
revolution as he had never beheld them
in his mind before. He died with big
lump in his throat but all the exterior OF
a soldier he could assume After great
many years. when England and America
were on good terms, the British consul or
other agents here had his remains ex-
humed at Tappan and taken across the
water and monument was put ND to
him in Westminster abbey 1t tells the
story of his fate in such a way as to in
terest all men who study up these rare
private tragedies in war. Indeed it was
the most pathetic thing among the
English in their long endeavor to re-
capture America. -"Gathn in Boston
Globe
Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-03-26
Sewing on Buttons.

In some of the villages in the south of
Germany there are number of employ.
ment Offices where children are engaged
to sew on buttons The children are
taught, almost in infancy. to sew on tiny
white buttons TO shirts. an industry
which is generally farmed out to agents,
who. in turn, employ poor families to do
the work, whose children are allowed for
every gross (144) of buttons the astound
Ing sum OF one pfenning (2l mills United
them in coin. but--the agents. for the
most part being country grocers-in
coffee, sugar or other colonial produce.
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addition to a new subscription list, which is
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enjoying large circulation in this city and
vicinity, but is also mailed by every steamer to
subscribers at almost every landing on the
other Islands, and also to foreign countries
thus combining the advantages of both daily
nd weekly editions. The coming month,
our paper will have much large
circulation than all the other daily papers
combined, as we intend sending specimen
copies to every resident on these Islands
who reads English.
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Third-It is our aim to make the DAILY

Third-It is our aim to make the DAILY
PRESS the leading paper in
this Kingdom. With this object in view we
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The "walklnq skeleton."

James Mclaughlin, canalboat cap.
tain calls himself the walking skeleton
of Andersonvile. He claims that he
served longer term Of imprisonment
in Andersonville than any other Union
soldier-namely. thirteen months. On
leaving the prison ne weighed forty eight
pounds; he now tips the beam at 40.