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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27

inc suffering the discovery would entail.
She slumbered calmly after it was all
asghtly. e 0'Aeo
At daybreak the latter awoke with a
scream of horror.
Wilfred Thorne was released from the
ban the siren had sought to place upon
him. wv
For, lying dead upon the bed. dagger
driven to its hilt in her heart, was the
beautiful Beatrice Langley.
Later they knew what the tragedy signi
fed; later they shrunk in terror from the
woman they had loved.
A letter was found by the bed. It was
signed by Ernest Waldron.
In it he stated all that had occurred OF
the lighthouse.
He had caught sight of Beatrice Lang
leys face as she extinguished the beacon.
In that flash he recognized his wife,
Dragged, dazed, he fell into the sen. es-
capped, traced down his heartless wife. and
was now determined to steal into the villa
and kill her.
Thus Beatrice Langley terribly atoned
for the wrongs she had done him. and for
the lives lost on the steamer outside the
harbor bar.
The next day the body of the unfortunate
Waldron was found floating in the water
near his recent post of duty.
Husband and wife we're buried in the
beautiful cemetery at Sea Beach.
| Six months later Wilfred Thorne and
Ethel Lansing were welded.
In the golden sunshine of love they never
think without shudder of that dark hour
N their lives when they were rescued by
Beatrice Langley.
They try to regard her charitably when
they remember her heroism, but her bale
full plots form dark page in their past
when they were wrecked in port. e.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27
The Seventeen. Year Locust.

The seventeen-year locust is not
locust at all. This may seem strange
thing to soy, but it is true, neverthe-
less. The locust looks very much like
grasshopper, while the seventeen
year cicada, which is the insects proper
name, looks a great deal more like
gigantic fly than anything else.
Just fancy spending the best part of
your life prowling about in the dark
ness underground and then coming up
into the sunlight with gorgeous pair
of wings. only to die in short time!
That is what the seventeen-year CT
cada does. In the very first place, it
is an egg which its mother deposits in
tiny hole in twig. In i few weeks
it makes its way out of the egg and
drops to the ground, into which il bur-
rows, and in which it remains nearly
seventeen years before it is prepared
for life above ground.
When, at last, it is ready for the
bright sunlight, it may be one foot
from the surface or it may be ten feet
deep in the ground. In either case it
begins to dig upward until it finds it's
way out, when it climbs up the nearest
tree and fastens itself by it's sharp claws
to leaf or twig. There it waits until
It's back splits open, and behold it
Immediately crawls out itself, SO to
speak.
The new insect is soft, dull fellow
at first, but he grows as if he had been
storing up energy for seventeen years
for just that one purpose. Within an
hour, two pairs of most beautiful wings
have grown, and in o few hours more
it has become hard and active.
The female cicadas are quiet enough,
but the males are as noisy as SO many
little boys with new drums. Indeed,
they do nave drums themselves. Just
under their wings are drums made of
shiny membrane Us beautiful as white
silk, and these are kept rafting almost
all the time.
One cicada can make noise enough !;
but imagine the din of millions of them
all going at the same time. It sounds
as if all the frogs in the country had
come together to try to drown the
noise of saw-mill. Now It is the
saw-mill you hear, and now the frogs.
1t sounds like big story to say mil
lions, but if you could go into the
woods where they are, you might be
willing to say billions. I have count
ed over Thousand cast-off shells on
one small tree, and on one birch leaf /
have seen twelve shells. And the
earth in some places is like sieve from
the holes made by the cicadas.
But within few weeks from the in.
sects' first appearance their eggs have
been laid and the cicadas have all died.
A great many Of them are eaten by the
birds and chickens, hut most of them
simply can not live any longer.-Joha1
E. COryell. IN st. Nicholas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27
Anecdotes of Mrs. Stowe.

Miss Catherine E. Beecher, in the
last years of her life, was pleased to
dwell on the renown of her more gift
ed sister, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
She related the following anecdotes of
her: Mrs. Stowe had agreed to give q
Lecture in Jacksonville, Fla, for some
charity. The morning of the day it
was to be delivered she was working in
her garden several miles from that city
when suddenly remembering her en-
gagement she hailed farmer driving
to town with load of vegetables, and
went on her way in calico dress and
hands soiled with her occupation. Once
in the city, she asked permission at a
hotel to make her toilet before going
to the lecture-room. She was inform
ed that there was but one vacant room,
and that was for Mrs. Stowe. Her as
severations that she was the person in
question had to be verified before she
obtained her request. When Mrs.
Stowe was in England Queen Victoria
sent her word that on certain day she
would be pleased to see the author of
"Uncle Toms Cabin" Mrs. Stowe re-
piled that she had an engagement for
that day. The Queen would see her,
and sent lady-in-waiting-a personal
friend Of Mrs. Stowe-to make the
necessary arrangement for an observa-
ton. There was to be pageant of
some kind that day, in which the Queen
would take part, passing the hotel
where Mrs. Stowe was residing, and
the royal messenger had agreed to
place her hand on the authors left
shoulder to distinguish her from those
with her on the balcony as the process
sion passed. So Queen Victoria and
the distinguished American gazed al
each other for few moments in silent
recognition, but Mrs. Stowe was no,
pleased that she was outwi.ted. Cor
NeaD York T2iL2x7ae.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27
About Fans.

Readers will surely be interested in
knowing something about the origin
and history of that article of use and
ornament, the fan. According to the
learned / roissard, the fan originated
from the necessity felt in all hot eli
mates of something to keep off flies,
whether from the sacred offerings in
the temples, or from the faces and
hands Of officiating priests. In China
and India the original model of fan
was the wing OF bird. The fans of
the high priests of Isis were in the form
of q half circle, made of feathers of
different lengths. Such, too, were the
fans carried in triumphal pro essions,
and which among the ancient Egyptians
and Persians served as military stand
ards in time of war. The fans carried
by the Roman ladies during the Angus
tan age we're not like the most ancient
Chinese fans, made in one piece, but
were composed of little tlblets of per-
tuned wood, specimens Of which can
and Naples. The fans of the middle
ages were worn in good society sus-
pended by gold or silver chains fasten-
ed to the girdle, and were usually made
of feathers. The fan was introduced in
France by Catherine de Medici, where
it was quickly adopted by the bellies of
the period and also by eifeminate tops.
France has since led the world in fan
making, and designing decoration of
fans has become a fine art. A fan was
made for the ex-Empress Eugene
which cost the equivalent of $2.4OO in
our money, and one for the Princess of
Wales which cost 600. Partisan fans
are esteemed all over the world for their
their artistic beauty and workmanship.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27

The great plague broke ont in Lon
don during the reign Of Charles Il,
and the physicians did not know how
to treat it. When the plague came
into house the people used to mark \
red cross upon the door, and write,
"Lord have mercy upon Ms" The
shops were shut up and the Who'll. city
desolate. The following year. 7RG6,
the great fire broke out. The yehole
city from the Tower to the Tcmp5c Eax
destroyed, and st. Paul's Cathedral
and innumerable churches were re-
duced to ashes. It burnt oat the
plague, however, by DESTROYING many
old, dirty, and disease-breeding build
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27

The "mint house" in Boston, existed
thirty-four years, or thereabout. All
the coins issued from it bore the dates
1862 or 1862, the same dies being prob
ably used through all the time Of the
coming there. Some coins had been
made for Virginia as early as 1914.
Copper coins bearing the figure of an
elephant were struck in England for
the Carolinas and New England in
1894. Coins were also struck for Mary
land, bearing the effgy of Lord Balti-
more.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27
Machine.Mnde Crayons.

Photography, it is claimed, is to be
still further advanced by the use of the
air brush. In this device little hold
er is charged with India ink, and by a
bellows, operated with a foot-pedal,
after the manner of sewing machine.
the fluid is blown upon family out
lined portrait, the result giving a
picture superior in many respects to
the best crayon drawing-the whole
operation involving only a few hours
time.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27
The Earth a Big Magnet.

The meteorites that fall upon the
earth are composed chiefly of iron.
Signor Bombicci suggests an explana-
ton of this. The earth is q big mag
net, as shown by the proceedings of q
bar of steel freely Suspended and accur-
ately bala iced on its center. Bombic-
CTS idea is that this big terrestrial
magnet, when rushing through space
containing meteoric particles, exerts q
selective attraction for those which are
ferruginous.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27

W1FE-"say, hubby, have you read
that novel called One Word Only p.
Husband-"Yes, guess SO" Wife
do you know who is the anthor?-
Husband-"No; but I'm sure It was
not written by o woman. "-HarsJord
Journal,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27
There Was Scientific Reason in It

There Was Scientific Reason in It.
Mission Teacher-The object OF this
lesson is to incu1eate obedience Do
you know what obey means?
Apt Pupil-Yes, marin, I obey my
pap.
Eyes, that's right. Now tell me why
you obey your father?"
"He's biggern me- Chicago Necs-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27

The eyes of poisonous snakes hare
been found by DR.. Benjamin Sh~p 10
have elliptical pupils, while m thu
harmless species they are circular.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27

WHEN banks become unsteady b.
cause of failing tendencies, even the
depositor is liable to lose his balance.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-27

"D1cK, did you ever see the church
bell that hangs in the tower2" NO
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belle that sits in the right-hand 'front.'
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Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-25

Robert f. Lee, son of the famous Con-
federate general, still lives on a spacious
farm, Inherited, through his mother, from
George Washington Parke Custis, TO
which be retired Immediately after the
surrender AT AppOmattOX. II is at Roko-
nocke, five miles from West Point, in
King William county, Virginia. His cot
tage home stands on a great bend OF the
Pamunky, about to join the York river
it Is a snug bachelor retreat, and is fur
uished with many articles formerly at
Mount Vernon. Among these are some
handsome old-fasEloned chairs, curious
candlesticks porcelain and silverware.
The cottage is five miles from any habi-
tation. He began work ON il with the as
sistance Of only a negro servant who had
been with him in the field. Robert Lee
was a lad when his father fought the bat
tie OF Gettysburg, being in the ranks Of
an artillery cumpany He has done much
to improve the land. and is kept very busy
looking after ii. He has various memen-
tOs of his father in the house, which are
preserved with tilial care. A fine portrait
of the general hangs in the dining room,
also the sword which was not surren-
dered TO Grant when Lee gave up the CON
test. Young Roberts tastes are entirely
Of a rural kind, and his world centers in
the broad acres of his inheritance New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-25

Almost all bites and stings are destruc-
tive from their acid nature; consequently
the cure is an alkali Spirits of hartshOrn
is one of the strongest, and is kept in al
most every household, and you have only
to pour some of it out in a teacup and
dabble it on with a rag. Relief is i'm
mediate
If you have not hartshOrn. then salera-
tus is suitable alkali Every cook in the
land has saleratus, and we are daily eat
ing ourselves into the grave by its extrav-
agant use-the use of half a thimbleful a
week Is eXtravagant.
MoiSten it with water, and use as in the
case OF hartShorn. Or, pour a teacup of
boiling wafer on as much wood ashes, stir
it, and in a few minutes you will have an
alkali The lye of ashes will answer a
good purpose while the physician is COM
ing.
Remember the principle-bite Is an
acid, the cure is an alkali.-Halrs journal
of Health
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-25
Fiv. EHasperating street SuIsances.

In strollug along the sidewalks of Chi
CagO | meet with five eXaspcrating nuis-
anCes The first is the window washer
The long handle Of his brush gets between
my legs, and he splaShes water all over
my suit Of clothes and my newly polished
boots. The second is the festive janitur
emptying his hudS of ashes into the street
barrel always happen to be to the
wlndward, walking toward him, and he
makes me look rs white as a miller. The
third is the mat-beater. The mat is busted
regularly once a month by beating it
against telegraph post, whenever the
wind is high and the sidewalks crowded
with people The tiend bangs it against
the post for half an hour and every time
he bangs it brown cloud of ill-smelliug
dust blows over fifty innocent passers by
The fourth is the spittoOn washer He
brings ten saloon spittoOns to the side
walk, ranges them in line along the
CurbstOne fills them with water, stirS
them with a stick, and leaves them there
half an hour to soak. Then he empties
them into the gutter, where brown pud
pie stands the rest of the day sickening
every one who beholds it. The fifth is the
fool who carries long things, like a crow
bar or JOINT OF Easplpe, balanced on his
shoulder. The head devil In this line is
the surveyor, or his chainman walking
the sidewalk with his theodolite on his
shoulder. The three legs OF this internal
tripod have ferules rs sharp ms needle,
and these are always carried in front. He
trudges along in careless manner, chat
ting with the idiot by his side, and is only
amused to see the people scamper toavoid
being impaled. He ought TO be hanged.
Chicago Journal stroller"
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-25

Chocolate is one of the articles of trade
most susceptible of adulteration, since a
very small quantity of the cacao bean i'm
parts taste and perfume To a mixture OF
tastcless and not always harmless matter.
nsCrupulOuS manufacturers land espeC-
cially IS this applicable to the small
pruduCer) introduce into the paste
-four. ground corn and beans. stale coffee
grounds, veal or mutton tallow Ito supply
the necessary oily substanceJ and the
dreSs of ground nuts tpeanuts) after the
oil has been completely extracted. The
latter substance, which a few years ago
was employed as fertilizer and occasion
ally made into cakes as food for dogs, is
now profitably converted into chocolate
Add to the above in gedients cacao shells
and ground brick. the latter to give
weight, and the CompOnents parts OF
cheap chocolate are given.
Chocolate manufacturers admit, with
refreshing artlessness, that adulterated
chocolate Is very little used in France, but
is prOtitabiy exported 1t is difficult
to distinguish good chocolate from
fabricated, from the appearance of
the tablets. Good chocolate posses ses
the following qualities: it Is oily, possess
ing full and undeniable flavor of cacaO,
breaks regularly and smooth, it is slightly
yelluwish in color, with crystalline appear
anCe, and when cooked with a little
water or milk becomes only moderately
thick. Adulterated chocolate, on the con
trary, breaks irregulariy, is somewhat
gTavelly and porous, is whttlsh in color,
thickeus considerably in cooking and gives
forth an odor resembling that Of glue
COnfectiOners' Journal
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-25

gOodly share of Washington society
is made up from those who have legally
outlived their official usefulness and gone
on the retired list Their honors the
judges of the supreme court come first.
and they insist on being invited out when
ever the younger and more active of those
on the bench are. Then We have rear
admirals and commOdOres, laid up in or
binary, like dismantled iron-clads; gen
erals and colonels, broken winded and
condemned as unfit for service. The crowd
is complete by eX senators and representa-
tives, who have not moral courage enough
to break away from the Circean fascina-
tion of the metropolis; claim agents, cor
respondents and confidence men, all anx-
ious to advance some little bill" in the
success of which they are pecuniarily in
terested. Boston Budget.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-25

Every one who eats his matutinal egg
eats Il sermon and miracle. Inside of
that smooth, symmetrical, beautiful shell
turks a question which has been the Troy
town for all the philosophers and scien-
fists since Adam. Armed with the engines
Of war-the misCruscOpe, the scales the
offensive weapons of chemistry and reason
they have probei and weighed and ex-
perimented; and still the question is IN
solved. the citadel unsacked. Professor
BOkOrny can tell you that albumen is COM
posed of so many molecules of carbon and
nitrogen and hydrogen, and can persuade
you Of the difference between active and
passive albumen, and can show by wonder
fully delicate experiments what the aide
hydes have to do in the separation of gold
from his complicated solutions; but he
can't tell you why from one egg comes Il
little rid him." and from another a
bantam.
You leave your little silver spoon an
hour in your egg cup. and it is coated with
compound Of sulphur. Why is that sui
phur there: Wonderful, that evolution
should provide fOT the bones of the future
hen. There is phosphorus also in that
little microcosm; and the oxygen of the
air, passing through the shell, unites with
it, and the acid dissolves the shell, thus
making good strong bones for the chick
and at the same time thinning the prison
waQ.-PrOfessor Matthew Williams.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-25

A few days ago | heard sermon on
Lazarus" and I've hen thinking about
what sort Of time Lazarus would have IN
this day. Lazarus, full Of Sores" lay at the
gate of the rich man, who was clothed in
purple and fine linen and far,d s;lmptuouSly
every day" Lazarus wanted the crumbs
That fell from the rich mans table Now We
are all taught that the rich man WAS very
wicked ami hard hearted, hut suppose "A beg
Jar in the fix of poor old Lazarus should
attempt to lie at the gate Of an Antlantlan,
rich or poor, what would lie done! The IaJI,c
would bc telephuued for, and the Black Maria
would carry Lazarus off the highways The
rich man would have 10 give his share toward
the support of Lazarus, but Lazarus would
have 10 take his support at the poOrhuuse. II
he could get u goat wagon, or if he were an
idotic paralytir, or if be were even Ittlr
child, begging tiiet and training for the penI-
tiary, the wise authorities might let him
alone, provided, Of course, he wouli consent
t. move on" nally.-Atlanta COusti-
futiDn
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-25

The time is at hand when, If labor and
capital are Ia - hand in hand, the wide gulf
that exists between their homes must h,
closed up. The man whose wife does her own
work dos not want a mansion 10 live in,
nor does she want her home arranged for
stair climbing Large rooms are not their
ambition, nor is frtsVOiug or fancy woods
their desire. The working man wants convr-
nience, ventilation and outlook. He Will take
ii in cottage or Z tenement with equal con
tentInent, only that be gets what his simple
necessities require and hisl peace Of mind noe,ls
Ii is not a dItfiSult problem, but it is an I'M
Inrtant one. As the Havtrhill Labnrer states
ii: "A man working for average wages,
having an ordinary sized family. must hive
them in a tenement block or some crowded
quarter Of the city, or he must pay from u
third 10 a quarter Of his entire earnings for a
decent place 70 live in The average amount
paid for cottage by the English workngman
At home Is from OuC-siNth TO One-sevcuth of
his income. Boston Budget