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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01
The Curse on the Children.

In recent speech Mrs. Mary A. Wood
bridge, referring to the fearful curse of
intemperance visited upon the children
through the drink habits of the parents,
gave the following testimoney from VIM.
NJ. Taylor, M. d., Dean of the Medical
University, Cincinnati:
1t is not an uncommon thing for children
to be brought to this hospital from one
year old and upward in delirium tremens.
They suffer from heredity, and parents be-
gin to give them Intoxicating liquor at an
early age, which they increase as they de-
sire to 60 out for work or debauch, until it
is not uncommon for them to be brought
here at this age in this condition. The
little one Of whom you inquired has prob
ably lost its sight but not its hearing, and
the passion is ruling in death, for as we
pass the little crib in our routine of duty,
the child opens its mouth to receive the
stimulant, "as the bird in the nest to
receive the food from the mother bird"
Surely we must all believe when conditions
like these obtain in the rural districts,
there may be communism as in France, or
nihilism as in Russia, but American repub-
licanism cannot exist.
We therefore believe that there must be
speedy change in the habits of our people,
or change in our form of government is
inevitable
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01
Sam Reeds Savings.

Whisky lowers man and raises the devil.
License throws silveIy mantle around
the form of death, and says, behold Tir-
tue"
The man who has horn of whisky can
often blow loudest.
The beer of the saloon often leads to the
bier of the grave.
Conscience speaks loudest to those who
hear best.
If the world had no memory, it would
constantly repeat its mistakes.
1t is not an eggstraordinary thing 10 find
a hen pecked husband laid out.
The impotence of children is most fire.
quently caused by the lack of patience in
the parents.
A fretful housewife is more disagreeable
than the itch.
1t is too late in the history of Christianity
to make an apology for religion.
Many lawyer has been kept from the
bench because of too close attention to the
bar.
The maid will initiate her mistress. That
is why SO many servants need watching.
Moral compromise is snare and delu-
sion, and many there be who are deceived
thereby.
Men will stand around a bar for hours
who couldn't sit still in church five min
utes.
The wickedness of action is often no
greater than that of inaction.- Sixteenth
AmeRimcnf
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01
Startling Facts for Farmers.

The grower works at least two hours in
raising a bushel of corn. He sells the
bushel for 80 cents on his farm He spends
80 cents for two drinks, thus parting for
ever with his corn. Now follow the corn.
1t cost 81 cents, and is turned into seventeen
quarts of Intoxicating drink. The distillers
receive 40 cents gallon for converting it
into whisky The corn in its changed
shape represents the original 80 cents, and
the SIT for the distiller, making its value
at this stage 50. Then the Government tax.
of 80 cents a gallon, adds 1886 to the
value, swelling it to 1886. The bushel of
corn now passes Oh to the job statesmen and
wholesalers. and through them to the re-
tailers. BY the time it has reached the re-
tailers, it has been reduced in strength
and increased in quantity. by the admixture
of water and other more harmful sub
stances, SO that its measure has at least
been doubled, and the corn. when it begins
to drop into the drinkers glasses on the
bar, represents about eight and one -half
gallons Of drink. Allowing sixty drinks to
the gallon, the official bar average, the
bushel of corn will furnish go drinks.
which, at an average of Is cents to the
drink, will take $4,000 from the consum-
ers.-Thc Milling World.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01
THE SALOON IN POLITICS.
Some Facts for the Thoughtful Consider
alton of Every Good Citizen.

Some Facts for the Thoughtful Consider
alton of Every Good Citizen.
What have the 1000 saloons of New
York City done for her? They have fasten
ed upon her citizens the most shamefully
corrupt government ever endured by a COM
munity indulging in the illusion that it was
free; they have almost made it impossible
for an honest. educated man to touch local
politics, much less take office; thew have
degraded the conduct of affairs to their own
low level; they have brutalized every
institution they had to do with; they have
perverted and spoiled the democratic sys
TEN, making a kissing and a reproaah Of
American citizenship and suffrage, estab-
fishing political SHAMELESS, pandering to the
worst vices Of the worst classes, detilinp
everything decent and pure with their
ribald scoffing, and producing at intervals.
as proof OF their quality, tendencies and
powers, such abominable scandals as that
OF the Tweed ring, or the most recent sale
OF votes in the Board of Aldermen.
The saloon is an arrangement for the
maintenance and propagation of the worst
vice with which humanity is afflicted: q
vice which destroys every elcvating in
tiuence, kills shame, manhood, ambition,
family affection, honor--all that makes life
worth living; Il vice which fosters brutality.
self Indulgence, and all the train Of ignoble
and degrading passions and inclinations.
Now, the purpose and intent OF the saloon
being. what it is, the developments noted
are simply what ought to have b, Ell ex
pectcd when SO large a share in the gov
eminent of the country was permitted to
be seized by this sinister agency.
The American system of government is
theoretically sound. The means of educa-
ton are open TO all. But when our chill
dren have passed through the public
schools and enter into active life, if they
wish to take part in public affairs they
must descend to the saloon for instruction
in politics, and in the same institution the
foreign immigrants must graduate before
they can exercise the right of citizenship.
These are our political schools, in fact and
they give the tone to our politics. city.
State, and national. The candidate for Of
flee finds it indispensable to make himself
solid with the rum power. He must buy
the favor of the saloon keepers. He must
frequent these places and fatter the vanity
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01

SOME of the philanthropic citizens
of Brooklyn nave conceived plan
whereby the fear of being buried alive,
which haunts the minds of many per-
sons, may be removed, and they are
about to bind themselves together as
an incorporated company. In the sub
urbs edifices will be erected fashioned
to hold large number of collins. In
these receptacles the collins will be
ranged about with open lids, and will
remain in the receptacles until the
bodies they contain show signs of life
or are proved by decay to be dead.
Means will be provided so that if per-
son in any of the collins should be alive
he could communicate by speaking-tube
or telephone to an attendant, and re-
ceive the proper aid.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01

of those who gather there. Through them
he must obtain the votes of the idle, the
vicious, the criminal classes. He must be-
come familiar with all the ward striker" "
and loafers.
He must be represented at the caucuses,
which are always held where drink abounds.
He must defer to the views of men OF the
lowest intelligence. He must subscribe to
platforms drawn up by demagogues and
time servers.
Is it any wonder that self respecting men
so often shrink from these ordeals, and
prefer the obscurity of private life to pc.
litcal career demanding such sacrifice and
debasement? The foreigner who lands IN
this country obtains his first idea of its
governmental system from the saloon.
There he is introduced to the lowest in
trigues of fractional conflict There he is
taught that the chief end and aim of poll
ties is to make as much as possible for the
workers" There he is made to under
stand that he is not expected to think for
himself, but that he must obey implicitly
the party mandate. reverence the Saloon
keepers of his ward, submit himself humbiy
to his "boss, and on election day be thank
full that he can sell his vote for couple OF
dollars or a debauch on bad whisky. This
is no fanclful picture. There is not a con-
siderable city in the United States in which
purchased votes are not cast by the thou
sand at every important election, and these
votes are almost invariably bought and paid
for in and through the saloon.
1t is absurd to expect that under such
state of things politics can be anything but
corrupt. 1t is absurd to look, in parties
dependent upon the saloon, for enlightened
patriotism, progressive politics, or any real
care for the welfare of the nation.
The country is now in defenseless con-
dition. All the riches of the seaboard lie
at the mercy of any tifth-rate power with
which we may happen to quarrel. Yet it
has been impossible to rouse Congress to
action.
A Congress which refuses to investigate
the liquor traffic and will not authorize the
necessary appropriations for the defense Of
the coasts against foreign enemies, is in
one sense Il pattern legislature. 1t is a
pattern, that is to say, of the best that can
be expected from the saloon in politics. 1t
can be relied upon to protect the rum
power. 1t can not be relied upon to de-
fend the country against invasion from
without or corruption within George +.
Parsons, an Atlantic MOnthly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01

truth when she heralds change in the ex-
listing order of things. lis others in poorer
conditions who throw open their hospitablo
hearts to the unattended stranger.
"Nay, more; it is not the jewellers amid
the glare of the world, but the humble and
lowly, who most clearly discern new duties,
as the watchers placed in the depths of u
we'll may observe the stars which are OBJ
scured to those who live in the etfulgence
of noon.
placed below the egotism and prejudice
of self interest, or of class-below the
cares and temptations of wealth or power
in the obscurity of common life. they dis
Germ the new signal, and surrender them
selves unreservedly to its guidance. The
Saviour knew this. He did not call the
priest, or Levite, or Pharisee. to follow
him; but upon the humble fishermen of the
Sea of Galilee. THE Voice.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01
Pithy. and to the Point.

WORTH is said to have made this remar
to a lady who was dowdily dressed
Madame, cannot risk my reputation Of
YOU"
AN anxious inquirer asks: "Where woul
the cornet?" "To the woods, dear sill:
the deep, dark, damp, dangerous woods.
"WHY are old maids SO devoted to hei
cats?" asked young coxcomb of an elder
ly lady. Because, having no husbands
they take to the most treacherous animals,
was the reply.
II DECLARE exclaimed Brown Il be
lieve have forgotten all I ever knew
"Sorry to hear it, remarked Fogg. HOW
ever, you can take an hour some day an'
learn it all over again."
"YAAs," said young Smythe. II suppos!
everything created has some use: but, pol1
me honah, ii is deuced hard to bele''
sometimes. don't cher know" "1es. Sl1
replied, looking him over critically. it's
indeed!"
FRIEND: What on earth are You pLo'oo1
graphing the umbrella for, dear boy:
Amateur photographer: "Yon sand yo5
wanted TO borrow it to go home with. any
I'm getting something to remember Ii |1
that's ALL"
SMITH: II once possessed SPLENDID
dog, which could always distinguish M'|
tween a vagabond and q respectable pe5 81
son." Jones: well, what became of Inn
Smith: ooh, l was obliged to give nun
away. He bit me-"
AN American millionaire, who was look,
ing at level tract Of land which he Ia al
Just bought at an extravagant price sa y
to the agent who had sold it to him. Il ~! ~
admire rich green fat" "Sc do l. sly
niticant!y replied the agent.
He slipped quietly in at the door. 1 .,,
catching sight of an inquiring face owe, NV ar.
stair-rail, said: Sorry SO late, my uvm ..
couldn't get car before" $50 the ta .-
were full, too" said the wife; and tn''Hs'
remarks We're unnecessary.
AT dinner she had doctor on eisn,,
hand, one of whom remarked that the! Wv
we'll served, since they had duck oe'Ne[ II
them. Yes" she broke in-her VII y , ",
the sort that comes in fiashes--"and !, "'
between two quacks." Then silence zen
Young wife: II am determined to le' Ill.,.
at just what hour my husband comes Io ann
at night, yet, do what I will, l cannon NJ, IA
awake, and he is always careful no' any V
make a particle of noise. Is there r n Is,I
drug which produces wakefulness: ,,l.ls
wife: mo need to buy drugs. sp'AAA''
the floor with tacks." H.,
SHE wanted to break her husband o. to
habit Of drinking brandy, and besa Ward
cook his food in little of it, having ne not
that it would prove etfectual. he ola ad no
say anything on the first day; he "Saecond
signs of noticing the change on the 81 se.h he
day, but after supper on the thl1d ua' how
said to her, MARIA, you don't Know ,o the
you've improved i'll your cooking d'u"s
last thres days!"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01
FIGURES FOR MORALIsTS.
Beer Drinking and Cigarette Smoking the
Growing Vices of Americans.

Beer Drinking and Cigarette Smoking the
Growing Vices of Americans.
The increase in the amount of whisky
distilled and drunk during the year now
ended was 100000 gallons over the
amount for 1855, the total consumption
of this liquor being 100000.
Estimating the population of the country
at 81, OO0,OOO, this gives about one gallon
and a pint for each one of us, including
women and children and those of yet
younger years.
some 254, 100000 gallons, an increase of
more than 100000 from the preceding
year, which admits of an allowance of
eleven gallons to each inhabitant, or, count
ing out the children and one-half of the
adult population as total abstainers, the
rest are to be credited with the inhibition
of half pint daily.
Analysing these figures further, it is seen
that while the increase in the total amount
of spirits consumed is considerable, in
dividually we are growing more temperate.
For, i'll the years closely preceding, the
quantity of whisky drunk in the United
States averaged almost six quarts for each
inhabitant, and going back to 1870, the
records OF the department show produc-
ton, under q low tax, that gave nearly two
"
child in the country.
The growth of preference for malt
liquors, which these figures show very
! plainly, the average consumption of beer
having increased from seven to eleven GAL
Ions within eight years, is doubtless one
| of the influences that have produced this
result.
The use of tobacco is also constantly in
creasing, except in the form of snuff, the
falling OFT in the consumption of that article
reaching nearly 100000 pounds.
In the comparatively novel practice of
cigarette smoking, which has, in fact, come
into vogue within the last fifteen years,
there has been an increase Of IS per cent.
the total number burned being 1910, OOO,-
600, or about twenty five apiece all around.
| Of manufactured tobacco for smoking
and chewing, there were 1Ol, 200, 900
pounds each, and for cigars 3,5OO.0o0, 900,
an increase of $4,000, 900 from last year,
or about fifty mine for every inhabitant.
If, now, calculation is made of what
these large aggregates have cost the con-
sumers, supposing them to have made their
purchases at retail. we may reach an APP
proximate Imagination of the tax which
our minor vices lay upon the collective
purse of the average man. Taking the
lowest prices, as cents for cigar, and
10 cents for gill of whisky, the total will
be found to amount to more than $780,
600, 600, not SO much less than our national
debt, or $50 each from all who live in oul
prosperous land.-Sf. Paul Globe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01
Rum and Ruin.

4 late number of the Philadelphia H.
4ni'er mentions the a,raignment of three
saloon-keepers in the Central Police Court
OF mat city, arrested upon the complaint
OF Josiah w. Leeds, a we'll known rhila,.
thlopist, for issuing advertising cards upon
which was printed improper language, in
citing to immortality. Before the same
magistrate, and on the same day. was ar
ra1sned bartender of one of the Phila-
delphla saloons, charged with assaultine a
little girl OF ten years who had been SEM to
the Il, saloon to get piece of money changed.
The frantic mother cried out in court: SHe
has ruined my child; I'd rather he'd have
< little Mary; and here or elsewhere,
~ n; l. can lay my hands on him, I'll kill
MN; ne shall not live; Ill tear him to
pieces. y These are illustrations and sam.
pies OF many Of the ways in which drink
ing saloons are instrumental in effective
the Il ruin of young girls and women and
me destruction OF the home. Philanthro-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01

AT Winnipeg, Manitoba, John Smith
has been paying attention to Miss Re
becca Smith, but the lady gave him no
encouragement, probably on the ground
that there was no chance of changing
her name, and Smith s not man that
people would travel miles to get. He
asked her to marry him, but she re-
fused him. Nothing daunted, he Sc
cured carriage without the formality
of hiring the same, repaired to the
lady's house and announced that he was
ready to take her as his wife. Not get
ting any response, he entered the house
and found that she had locked herself
in her room. Proceeding upstairs, he
broke in her door and dragged her out,
and was making rapid progress toward
Dakota, when the carriage was wrecked
by the horse taking fright, and the lady
escaped. He was afterward overhauled
and placed under arrest for kidnapping,
horse stealing, and house breaking, and
put in jail. Out West girls are so
scarce that they don't have to take up
with the freckled hired hand in fear
that they will never get married.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01
Charles Summers Rep.y to the Charge
Of FaMaticism.

Extracts from an address before the peo-
pie of New York at the Metropolitan Thea
ter, May 8, 1856
"ln such a cause I am willing to be
called fanatic, or what you will; care
not for aspersions, nor shall l shrink be-
fore hard words, either here or elsewhere.
"Hald words have been followed by per-
sonal disparagement, and the sheer is often
launched that our enterprise lacks the au-
thority of names eminent in church and
state. If this be SO the more is the pity
on their account; for our cause is needed to
them more than they are needed to our
cause.
But, alas! it is only according to the
example of history that it should be so. It
is not the eminent in church and state, the
rich and powerful, the favorites of fortune
and of place, who most promptly welcome
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01

HE five leading fashion journals
published in Paris have been bought
up by German, and are fast becom-
ing the expressions of German taste in
dress. The designs and engraving of
the chief papers are oil German, and
the proprietor does not scruple to puff
German goods-"French Silks" which
are made at Crefeld, Limbach, and
Furth. "French textures" which are
made at Elberfeld and Augsburg, and
other German materials. It is rather
startling to believe that Paris will no
longer rule the world of fashion, for
the influence of the magazines is fur
ther spread than that of the exclusive
French dress-makers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01

NEW excuse for pocket-picking has
been invented in Berlin. An old gentle
man, possessed of very ample share
of this worlds goods, had purloined in
the course of few months no less than
seventy-ive beautifully embroidered
ladies' handkercbiefs. He was finally
discovered when pursuing the same
occupation Inter den Linden on the
Enperor's last birthday fete Togeth-
Ell with a number of other gentlemen
of the same profession, he appeared
the other day before the magistrate,
who sentenced him to ten days i'm
prisonment. And here DR.. Friedman's
(the lawyer art steps in, for, while ad-
hitting that his client was not suffer-
ing from the convenient ailment known
as kleptomania, he urged that the old
gentleman was subject to a morbid
state OF mind, which compelled him,
whenever he saw beautiful woman, to
try and obtain as a souvenir some OBJ
ieet which had belonged to her The
old pickpocket was acquitted, but
whether the High Court was moved to
compassion with the prisoners homage
to beauty, or whethe" the beautiful
women" were touched by it, and de-
manded his release, the chronicler does
not say.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01

EIGHT feminine physicians are regu-
lar practitioners in Paris, the most
celebrated of them being Madame
Madeline Bres, who was the first to
take the degree Of doctor Of medicine,
which she received through the favor
of the Empress Eugene during the
Emperor's absence. DR.. Bres writes
on hygienic subjects very ably, has
large number of distinguished patients
of both sexes, mingles in the best socl-
ETY., and is the salaried physician of
the Theater Chatelet. Madame Rose
Perree is another social favorite, and
commands big fees. Mademoiselle
Ferneuirs speciality is brain disease,
and several others have had marked
success with nervous affections of
their own sex, with which mysteries
nobody but woman can fully sympa-
thiZe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01

AN old gentleman finding a couple of his
meces 1encing with broomsticks said
Come, come, my dears, that kind Of am
accomplishment will not help YOU in oett;n n,
husbands" II know it, uncle. resnonds
ca e one OF the girls, as she gave a lnnne
"Dut 1t Will help to keep our husbands IN
oraes when We have got EN- -
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01

A CHATTANOOGA liquor dealer who mad
an assignment recently attributes his fail
ure to the shrinkage in business produce
by the growth of prohibition.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01

STRIKERS who discuss their grivance
in saloons are right in the midst Of the
chief difficulty Chicago Inter Ocean.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01

Mr.. H. P. MITCHELL, one of the
best-informed men on labor statistics in
st. Louis, has been devoting consider
able time to the question Of female en-
ployment. In conversation with Re
publican reporter he said:
1.-The number of women engaged i'll other
than household occupations in the United
States lie probably much larger than is gen.
orally supposed, and with its ever-growing
proportions, both from natural increase of
population and the continued crowding of the
great army still seeking employment into new
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-01

The owners photograph must now
appear on all passports in Turkey.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1886-03-07
Unguento Holloway.

Este maravilloso bGlssmo sana infAliblemen
te las heridas antiguas, las llsgss, y los male
de piernas de pecho. Por medic de su inhuen
cia las tlceras virulentas tomHn muy prontc
un sspeoto ccnvaleciente desapsrecen. ia
mas deja, este unguentO ferrigerante, de pro
ducir una cura perfeots de las afecciones de Ia
miel, los constipados, las toses oil redmatiE
no. sun ouando SO ha spelado en- vano to
dos losdamks remedies.