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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-04
TIE LITTLE II

7,,n nine years old! an ,yoa can't guess how
~ much 1 weigh. I bet!
,st birthday l weighed thirty three! An 1
Liz weigh thirty yet!
I'm awful little for my size-I'm purt' nigh
litiler an
THE Little Man!'
Ar, Doc one time he laughed an said: "I
%" ,spect. first thing you know,
You'll have II lltt!e splke'tail coat an travel
with a show"
An, men IIa~ughed-tin I looked round an
@' Aunty was a.cryin'-
Sometimes she acts like that, cause I got
son ..Curviture of the spine!"
7 sct-while nunty's washin'-on my little
An watch the little boys and girls a.skippin,
by to school;
An j peck on the winder an holier out an
..Who wants to fight the little man mt dares
YOU NIL today"
An men the boys climbs on the fence, an
An they all say.: "'Caus you're SO big, you
. think we're feared o. you"
An men they, yell, an shake their first at me,
THEY'RE thist in fun, you know, cause I got
'Curvture of the Spine!"
Aunty's Ike the fire, -
An filled an lit the lamp, an trimmed the
wick an turned 1t higher,
An fetched the wood all I'm fer night. an,
locked the kitchen door,
An stuffed the ole crack where the wind
blows in up through the floor ~
She sets the kittle on the Goals. an biles nm,
makes the tea,
An fries the liver an the mush. an cooks a
egg Tor me;
An somctimes-when I cough SO hard-her
eldcrberry wine
Don't 20 so bad for little boys with "Cury'.
ture of the Spine!"
Iut Aunty's all so childish like on nv ac.
count, you see,
I'm most afeared she'll be took bowman,
'at's what botller's mel
Cause eff my good ole Aunty ever would git
sick an die,
1don't know what she'd do In Heaven-tu =
come. by an by
For she's so ust to al my ways, an every.
thing, you know,
An no one there like me, to nurse, an worry
over SOL
Cause all the little childrens there's so
straight an strong an fine,
They's nary angel bout tho place with
"Curv'ture of the Spinner"
james Whitcom6 Riley. in Chicago Current.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-04
E ~DYspEpT.cs.
Tho Effects of Tea and Coffee on the Diees-
tive Organs.

The Effects of Tea and Coffee on the Diges-
tive Organs.
It has occurred also to the writer to
make many observations as to the cir
cumstances under which tea and coffee
are found to gree or disagree with diff
ferent persons; in the first place, as Sir
w. Roberts has pointed out, tea, if
taken at the sane time as farinaceous
food. is much more likely to retard its
digestion and cause dyspepsia than if
taken a little time after eating; and the
custom adopted by many persons at
breakfast, for instance, OF eating first
and drinking their tea or coffee AFTER
ward is a sensible one; so also it is bet
ter to take ones five-o'clock tea with
out the customary Observation-Disclosures or
cake than with it.
Indeed, while there is little that can
be said against a cup'of hot tea as a
stimulant and restorative, VIXEN. taken
about midway between lunch and dim
ner, and without solid food, it may, on
the other hand, be a fruitful cause of
dyspepsia when accompanied at that
time NTH solid food. 1t is also a curious
fact that many persons with whom tea,
under ordinary circumstances, will agree
exceedingly well, will become the sub
jects of a tea dyspepsia if they drink
this beverage at > time when they may
be suffering from mental worry or emo-
tional disturbance.
Moreover, it is q well-recognIed fact
that persons who are prone to nervous
excitement of the circulation and palpi-
tations of the heart have these symp-
toms greatly aggravated if they persist
in the use of tea or coffee as a beverage,
among the women of the poorer classes
is the cause of much of the so-called
''heart-complaints' among them; the
food of those poor women consists
largely of starchy substances (bread and
butter chiefly, together with tea, j. e.,
a food accessory which is M of the
greatest of all retarders of the diges-i
ton Of starchy food.
The effect of coffee as a retarder of!
stomach digestion would probably be
more felt than it is were it not so con-
stantly the practice to take it only in a
small quantity after a very large meal;
it is then mixed with an immense bulk
of food, and its relative percentage pro-
portion rendered insignificant; and to
the strong and vigorous the slightly re-
tarding effect on digestion it would
then have may be, as Sir w. Roberts
suggests, not altogether disadvantages;
but after a spare meal and in persons
of feeble digestive power the cup of
black coffee would probably exercise a
retarding effect on digestion which
might prove harmful. Oh. j. Burney
Yeo. ia Popular Science Monthly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-04
A FREAKY KING.
The X Whims of the Ruler of tho
Bayarian Kingdom

BavaIian Kingdom.
King Louis is, to all intents and pur-
poses, a bankrupt, both mentally and
financially. But he was clever enough
to apply to his Minister of Finance
lately for 20, ooo. 900 or 80, 900, 900 marks
to enable hin, 70 continue his fantastic
building operations. On the Minister
objecting that the country could not
bear such an enormous outlay, and Jug
costing that his majesty should retire
from the building business, he flew into
a passion and dismissed his adviser with
the curt remark: II let no man NEEDLE
with my private concerns" Soon after
he sent Councillor Klug to Germany to
try and raise a loan, but the bankers to
whom he applied at Berlin, Frankfort
and Hamburg laughed in the ENJOYS
face. On learning this, far from stop
ping his building freaks, the King
wanted money for erecting more
palaces. For months past the King has
had no personal intercourse with his
courtiers or body servant. He COM
municates his orders in writing to one
of his courtioxs, who does double duty
as secretary and valet, while even this
privileged person is not permitted to
enjoy the light of the royal countenance,
but is obliged to lie flat on the floor,
face downward, while the King dictates
his pleasures. The Bavarian Landtag,
court and people are sick of panderlng
to the Kings caprjces and would rejoice
at his Observation-Disclosures, Cor. \. ].
Herald
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-04
P,7n AND POINT.

In matters of generosity a woman
acts first and reasons afterward; q man
reasons first and generally forgets to
act.-Chicago Meas.
"A womap will face a frowning
world, and cling to the IA she loves
through the most bitter adversely; but
she wouldn't wear a bonnet that was
out of fashion to save the Government.
IN. Y. Telegram.
~ see the scoundrel in. your face,'',
exclaimed the Judge to the prisoner.
II reckon. jedge," was the response,
'.that that 'ere's a personal reflection;
amt it?"-Y. Y. Independent.
We met a man the other day who
said he knew nothing whatever about
running a newspaper. If Barnum
wants the gentleman's address we will
furnish it.-M Y. San.
The Emperor William says he feels
no older than he did forty years ago.
However, when he is called upon to put
up a clothes line, or to chop up an
armful of wood he feels the feeting
years.
Jimmy" said Mrs Tuffboy to her
recalcitrant hopeful, '.your father and I
have held a consultation about you, and
you must behave a great deal better in
the future" Considering my case in
executive session, are you?". sWell,.
there will be an executive session if you
do not reform" 81 say, ma, I shall
move for open sessions and supporf'emj
on the floor of the Senate. "-Hartord
Post. .
Mr.. Heavipurse (to his daughter)-
Eyes, Carrie, we shall hereafter spend
u summers at the North. and when
the winter approaches we shall go South,
and thus escape the cold weather" Car
rie-"But, father, reflect. l can not do
it. Justthink of the consequences" Mr..
H.-"Consequcnces? What conse-
quences?" Carrie-s'Why, you see
if I am to have two summers a year,
by the time l am twenty-five I shall be a
woman of fifty summers. Really, l can
not consent to grow oldas fast as that"
Boston Transcript.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-04
The sea occupies three-ifths of tn

The sea occupies three-fifths of the
surface of h e.earth. At the depth of
about three thousand five hundred feet
waves are not felt. The temperature is
the same, varying only a tritle from the
ice of the pole to the burning sun of the
equator. A mile down the water has
a pressure of over a ton to the square
inch. If a box six feet deep were filled
with sea water and allowed to evaporate
under the sun there would be two inches
of salt left on the bottom. Taking the
average depth OF the ocean to be three
miles, there weuld be a layer of pure
salt two hundred and thirty feet thick
on the bed of tho Atlantic. The water
is colde, 1T the bottom than at the SUI
face.-h. Y, Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-04
H CIDER CURE.
Its Devotees Pronounce 1t an Infallibls
Remedy For Rheumatism.

Its Devotees Pronounce 1t an Infallibl0
Remedy For Rheumatism.
The %blue-glass craze and the boiling
water remedy for dyspepsia are now
succeeded by the cider cure for govt and
rheumatism, which, strange to say, is
receiving the sanction of some of the
best physicians in Europe. Cider must
in such cases be drank sweet, and a eel
ebrated chemist gives the following
formula to prepare this cheap and agree
able beverage: "Cider should be made
of good sound apples and then left to
ferment in the barrel. When the fer
mentation has almest ceased it should
be racked off into a smaller barrel by a
siphon Ga rubber tube) from the bung
of the first barrel into that of the second.
In this way your second barrel will con-
tain cider almost clear. Let it settle for
two or three days, bottle in champagne
bottles, cork, wire Or fasten the cork
with strings, and lay the bottles on their
sides. II the cider is bottled too soon, or
before fermentation has almost ceased,
it will bur t the bottles. If this is
likely to happen, stand them up again
for almost a month; then lay them
down again. In this way you will keep
your cider sweet for 0 than q year. 1t
will have plenty Of ''tizz" IN it, and
makes an excellent drink, particularly
in SUMNER" The new cure has already
many adherents, and a beautiful resort
is about to be opened in Devonshire,
of the loveliest counties in England,
where the treatment can be carried on
under the most advantageous circum-
stances, as is the case with the cele-
brated grape-cure establishments on the
Rhine and Moselle. A correspondent
i'll the London Times claims that he has
been cured of rheumatism of long
standing by the use of cider, and it
would be well to try the experiment in
the midst of some of our orchards, sit
uated in picturesque sites, where the
invalids can pursue their routine of
treatment to the best advantage.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-08-27
A Building With a History.

Among all the public buildings in
New York city to-day there is not
another that has so ancient and
eventlul history as the hall of rec
ords, or registers Office in the City
Hall Park. 1t was erected about the
middle of the last century, when
Broadway was country road, when
The only thcatcr stood on the site OF
the present World establishment,
when Center street was lake, Will
liam street swamp, Canal street a
river, and the Bowery a lonely lane,
running up mongh huckleberry
bushes.
During the Revolutionary war this
building was the chief British prison
for distinguished patriots. Here
Captain Nathan Hale, the intrepid
YsaHce, was confined after his cap
ture with a plan of the British de-
fenses of Long Island in his shoes,
and in the public common adjoining,
exactly where the city hall now
standsy-he was hanged as spy.
Here, that tough old rebel, Ethan Al
len, of Ticonderoga fame, was i'm
prisoned after his capture while try
ing to take Montreal with thirty
men and the treatment which he
and others received caused the build
ing, which now stands near the city
hall station of the elevated road, to
be regarded by the patriots with
about the same adherence as at
tached to Andersonville after the late
war.
When the British evacuated New
York in November, 1888, the jailer,
Cunningham, having won the same
Infamous reputation as the confcd-
crate jailer Wirz, was asked by his
patriot prisoners, "What is to become
of us 7"
"Io ou can go to the DEVIL" shouted
Cunningham, as he flung the keys
into the middle of the floor apd made
off.
1t was forty or fifty years after
that before the bastile of the Rev0lu-
ton was renodeled and the bell
transferred to the Bridewell. 1t
now rings prisoners to rations and
prayers over on Blackwell's island.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-08-27
SAVED HIS HOME.
How nn Old Man Retained Possession Of
Ills Residence Property.

How nn Old Man Retained Possession Of
Ills Residence Property.
David Van Dyke, of Mason, o.. scv.
enty years old, owns a house and lot,
and that's all; and owes large debt
contracted by going security for a
friend AS long as Mrs. Van Dyke
lived the house and lot could not be at
tached for debt, under the Homestead
Exemption law. But Mrs. Van Dyke
died short time ago, and suit was at
once brought against the widower and
the sheriff advertised the property for
sale Under the law Van Dyke could
not now claim u homestead, as his wife
died, and he had no minor children
or unmarried daughter living with him.
The only way of escape was to marry
again, he thought and so he went to
Cincinnati and called on several wo-
men before he found one to suit him.
At last he hit on Miss May Jones, who
was willing, and they were married,
That was but a few days before the day
fixed for the sale, and tho proceedings
In execution wcrc stopped at once. The
case was then argued in the common
pleas court, and the Judge has just do
cided that 1t was not necessary that
Van Dyke should have boon married
man at the time of tho levy on the prop.
erty, but that it was sufficient to entitlc
him to have the homestead exemption
by becoming the head Of . family any
timo before the actual sale.-M Y
Sun.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-08-27
sCAe IN SHEEP.


Foot-Rot and Kindred Diseases Duo 10 the
Carclossncss Of Shepherds.
Somebody has said: Nothing sue
cecds like success" SO long as there
are good results men work with en-
ergy and Judgment; but when trials
come, and there are no profits to en-.
courage effort. they become careless,
Indifferent and neglectful
In Sheep-raising this is as true as in
any thing else. When sheep are prof
liable it is easy to take good care of
them. They seem to eat less, die less
and make nicer money and in less
time than any other stock on the farm.
AT such times there is real Joy and
enthusiasm in sheep; shcep-men seem
never tired and attending to and talk.
ing about their sheep; they carry wosl
in their pockets to show to each other,
and it Is pleasantly limited that they
have "wool in their teeth But when
the depression comes sheep men are
mum on sheep and wool topics. And
If You will 60 to their sheep barns you
will find they have gotten careless and
the sheep are doing badly. The owner
will declare to you that he can not see
why his sheep are looking so badly; he
win declare he feeds them the same as
he used 10, but all to no purpose; he
can't understand what ails them. The
sheep can not tell, and only On old
sheep-man knows that they have not
been paying. and consequently have
been neglected.
Scab and foot-rot always follow de-
pressions in prices of wool. AS soon
as prices begin to come up somebody
begins to ask how 10 cure thess ills.
While these two ailments are
serious enough they are by no
means the worst known 81
sheep, provided the flock has been
well fed and kept in good health.
They can be cured by any one who will
take the time and give the attention
and 60 to the expense. No ono ought
TO buy a scabby or foot-rot flock nj
prices of sound sheep. Such focks
are not hold at such good prices,
either, They are often sacrificed on
account Of their diseased condition.
Had l such q flock, they should be
cured, and not discounted ono cent,
Were buying. though. it would be
another thing altogether, then expert
ence and skill should be worth some.
thing to me; these were bougl and
paid for years ago, when young in the
business. A careless man, who would
allow his flock to become thus dis
eased, deserves 10 be the loser. And
the man who proposes TO give time
and pains to fitting up diseased flock
ought to make some money by it.
just here, be Il remarked, wo nocd
severe laws ON the subject IN every
State. Australia has law oD scab
that is o model. Southern laeitudes
need such law more than nofthern,
but there Is needed statute ON this
everywhere. Foot-rot depends upon
soils good deal. Rocky and alkali
soils will cure foot-rOt- Yet in Yer
mont many flocks have foot-rot, and it
rs shame TO their owners. for there
ought 30 be none there. 1t is due to
carclessness there and everywhere
else.--R. M Bell, IN Wool Journal.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-08-27
GOOD JUDGMENT.
Plain Common Sense as Factor In the Dc
cision OF Legal Points.

Plain Common Sense as q Factor In the Dc
cision OF Legal Points.
A farmer, noted for his good judg.
mcnt, having been made the admins
traitor of an estate, applied to Yankee
lawyer for advice.
Don't bother yourself about the
law" answered the lawyer, "but de-
eide each matter, as it arises, accord
ing to your own idea of right and
wrong. Should any one object, you
come to me and l will undertake to
find the law 10 sustain your decision. !"
"That's the whole thing in plain
English, ma lorrdds," said John Clerk.
an eminent Scotch lawyer, clinching
a point be was arguing before tho
House of Lords.
"You mean in plain Scotch, Mr..
Clerk" answered Lord Eldon. allud-
ing to the broad dialect of the counsel.
"Nae matter" retorted the lawyer;
''in plain common-sonse. ma lorrdds,
an that's the same in o. languages we
ken weel eneuch.
Inc OcONnnaI ana Ine anKee were
right; plain common-sense or good
Judgment is the same in all languages
and in all people. Luther, the great
reformer, was not lawyer, but his
good sense often enabled him to do
eide correctly knotty questions Of law.
The following case was once placed
before him for his decision.
A miller had an ass, which went into
fisherman's boat to drink. The boat
not being tied fast, foated away with
the ass, and both were lost. The miller
complained that as he owed to the fish
erman's neglect to tic his boat, the
loss Of his ass, the fisherman should
make that loss good. The fisherman,
ON the other hand, complained of the
miller for not keeping his ass at home,
and desired him to pay for the loss Of
the boat Luther's opinion was asked
as 10 whether the, boat took away the
ass, or he ass the boat He answered
''Both men were in error; the fisher
man that be tied not fast bis boat. the
millef In NOT keeping bis aSs athome.
-YoutHs Companion.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-08-27
A Careful Fellow.
fArkansaw Traveller

A young man, evidently from a
part Of the country where the shrek
of the railroad engine has never been
heard, called on the county clerk, and
in business like way asked:
Fell any yit?"
"What?'
Marriage license fell any yit?"
mo, same price"
"WulI, come in the other day, an
er fellow told me they mout fall air.
ter county court met"
mo, they are the same price"
"Tn mighty sorry NV that, fur I've
been engaged to gal fur about two
years. loves her nightly, an she
says that she amt goin' to wait on
me no longer, but l wouldn't give
three dollars fur no set NV license
that wuz ever writ out. It's mighty
hard to give her up, but reckon I'll
have to let her slide"
Look here" said the clerk, 'tcll
you what I'll do with you. I'll pay
for your license" )"
"Much obleeged, cap'n. Jis write
it our, an Ill go down and break the
good news 10 Susan. It'll tickle her
mighty nigh TO death when she hears
NV my good luck"
The license was issued and the
young fellow hurried to the wagon
yard where Susan was stopping, and
conducted her to the office Ola justice
of the peace.
"Cap'n, whupll you charge to mar,
ry us?"
The magistrate told him, and shak.
ing his head he mumbcd: "Kain't
erford to pay that much these hard
times"
Nobody will perform the ceremony
any cheaper
"Well, then, Susan, you'd better GO
back to the wagon yard while l &c
roun' an see if 1 can sell the license
to some other fellow. l hate
TO give you up, Susan, but l reckon
you'd better marry Bill. Hes rcck.
less sort NV fellow, and don't mind
stravigance."
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-08-27
A Drop of Ink.

How apparently insignificant is drop
of ink-so small that it lies trembling
on the point of pen, yet 1t is micro
cosm in which are centered the mighty
forces of q macrocosm. Minute as II
is, it has swayed nations and shaped
empires with more than the imperial
power OF an Alexander, a Caesar or q
Napoleon. 1t has caused prosecutions,
wars and disorganization of society.
The world never shook beneath tho
tread of such gigantic armies as daily
contend on the battle-fields of thought,
and drops Of Ink are the intellectual
life-blood that is spilled. Under the
flags of truth and error, these hosts,
armed only with the pen, achieve more
brilliant victories than any which his
tory records. Alice NJ Krtmbiu, IN
Current.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-08-27

. If you are going to Chicago or
the Northwest, take the l.. 81 N. to
Louisville, and then take the Louis
vile, New Albany Il Chicago, which
will place you in Chicago by fast
trains. This line runs free reclining
chair cars, and passengers are made
as comfortable as possible. Any in
formation wanted can be had by ad
dressing Il. A. Hathaway, at Louis
vile.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-08-27

w. w. Wilson and William Lam.
bert, Of Cedar Creek, S. G., agreed to
meet at certain place and go turkey
hunting the next morning. About day
light Lambert set out for the place, and
as he nearedit he heard turkey COB
Cling, and crept up to shoot it, Soon
he thought he saw it, and fired. After
he shot, his friend Wilson rose from the
ground and staggered toward him, say
ing: "You have killed me! Take care
of my wife and children" and then he
fell and died. He had heard the turkey,
and, like Lambert, was creeping to get
shot at it when he himself was shot in
the neck.-M Y Sun.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-08-27
A HORSES JOURNEY.
Why Horses Should Not Be Driven Over
Thirteen Miles Day,


Thirteen Miles . Day.
According to the Hon. John E Rus
sell, secretary Of the Massachusetts
Board of Agriculture, the regular jour
ney of horse should not exceed twelve
or thirteen miles. This is as great o
distance, he thinks, as can be eoonomi-
cally allotted a horse as o days Journey
for every day in the week. If he has .
longer daily journey ho must have a
day or two off each week. This days
work of the travelling horse is based on
the experience Of stage and car COM
panies. For the stage, where more
speed is required. ten miles have been
found tho limit Of an economical days
journey. But great deal depends on
the speed. Give horse plenty of timo
and he can do longer daily Journey
than he can II urged beyond an easy
gait In emergencies o good horse can
do fifty or sixty miles in day. Sew
cnty-live and eighty miles have been
driven, But such long, fast journeys
are very trying to the horse, and he
needs to be managed with great care
and judgment to prevent harm from
such violent, continued exertion. Such
driving can not be repeated often with
safety, The regular days journey
should be heightened or shortened ac-
cording to the condition and character
OF the road and the weight of the load
Then there is difference In indlvidu-
als, and what ono horse does with ease,
may be very hard for another, Feed
and care are also factors in the problem
not to be overlooked. Il Chicago Times.