Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-13

"Here he is, madam; shall unmask
him 2" ask Jim.
Madam Hatherton looked and began
to tremble. Laura glanced at the tall
figure, and felt cold chill OF appre-
hension; but jim, who had asked the
question for mere form, tore the mask
from the burglars face without waiting
for any answer.
"Edward!" shrieked Laura, and the
horror in her tone caused even that
hardened face to blush.
"NIy SOM" screamed Madam Hather-
ton, in voice Of anguish, and fell to
the floor in q dead faint. Every
one sprang to her assistance,
and in the confusion the thief escaped.
Neither Will nor Jim attempted to re-
capture him, for they saw plainly
enough that it would be deadly blow
to two women present.
1t was hours before Madam Hather.
ton again returned to consciousness,
and when at last she opened her eyes
the light seemed fled from them. She
never sat up again, never touched the
beloved piano any more, and made but
one more effort before she died Her
will was changed, but not as she had IN
tended, for she left all she possessed,
equally divided, to Laura and Ruth.
When the will was read these young
ladies found themselves heiresses.
Laura attended the old lady to the
last, and wept bitterly when she closed
those aged eyes. How many Of those
tears were for the reprobate son she
herself scarcely suspected.
Why Edward Dunbar had spoken Of
his mother as his aunt he alone could
have told. Perhaps it was last rem
nant of shame that made him blush to
acknowledge that she whom he had
deceived since the time when he was
old enough to hatch schemes of treach-
cry and cunning, was the woman who
had graded his baby head and dreamed
high hopes of brilliant future for
him. Be this supposition correct or
otherwise will never be known, for Ed
ward Dunbar was never more seen in
the haunts where he had been o
familiar figure, and together with
many other things concerning Madam
Hatherton, it must remain mystery.
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PECULIAR PROPHETIC, WHICH
WEAE GIVES TO IRON.
"Vibration, when continued for a
long time" said the Superintendent of
an iron foundry, causes iron to lose
its tenacity, and it becomes granulated
and brittle, something like pig iron, in
stead Of being long in the grain like
wrought iron,
"How do you account for this" said
the reporter.
II don't know" was the reply.
"There are many things about iron that
no one can explain"
"What do you think Of the chance of
the elevated roads having a long lease
Of life? Is there any likelihood Of their
breaking down through the iron of
which they are made becoming brit
tle?"
"Not for good many years, but GER
tainly the vibration is bound to affect
them through time and something may
snap. They ought to be inspected very
closely and renewed before the time
came when it would be dangerous to
ride on them. L have known heavy
iron beams to snap through vibration
which looked perfectly sound, and at
the point Of breakage were apparently
as strong as in any other part, but the
cohesiveness was gone and the sections
presented granulated instead of q
tibrous appearance
"Does the iron of rails when they are
of wrought iron become brittle also ?"
said the reporter.
"No," said his informant, "they do
not. They acquire an entirely new
property, or rather they lose one es-
sential property, that of capacity for
being welded. Every blacksmith knows
that bit Of wrought iron rail cannot
be welded if it has been worn for a num-
Der of years. The parts split into fbers
when heated and struck, but do not
weld together.
GLOW do you account for the iron
being affected differently?
II do not know. All I do know is
that it is the case, and every intelli-
gent blacksmith will tell you the same. "
-Nep York Euenioag Telegram.
THE ROD IN SCHOOL.
The Bavarian Government has issued
directions that no child in any school
shall be punished except by rod, and
two sizes ore prescribed, as also the
number and dimensions OF the two
twigs, reminding one of the time when
in the deeds Of many schools in En-
gland 800 years ago it was laid down
that every scholar "shall give I'd. to q
poor scholar appointed by the master
to provide rods.
1t is only quite of late years that the
charre at Eton for q lircb ne hale j,