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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21
A Slow Train.

"Terriblv slow riding, this" said one
man uneasily to another on a certain
railroad.
eyes; I don't remember having
travelled slower than this but once be-
fore in my life"
"When was that?"
at was out West last summer"
1--WE started from station late in
the afternoon, and were headed due
east. BY shutdown we had reached a
town seventeen miles west from start
ing point"
"But how do you account for it."
II can't explain it except in the
theory that the earth's rotary motion
made the wheels slip.'-Merchant
T1ure1er
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21
WITH FACE GLORIFIED.

A spring rain was falling gently, con-
tinuously, on Mrs. True's garden. The
lately transplanted geraniums and petunias
lifted their heads gratefully to the warm
shower, and the fuchsias and sweet alys-
sum frightened under its influence.
If their mistress could have seen them
she, too, would have rejoiced, for tho
flowers were her children, petted darlings,
for whom no care could be too great, no
attention too painstaking. She had housed
them in winter, set them out i'll summer,
guarded, hung over them year after year.
Involuntary one looked for her mild
face at the window, smiling out upon
them, but she was not to be seen. For the
second time only in her life Mrs. True lay
in her chamber, too ill to heed the patter-
ing rain, or to think of the plants growing
so fast IN the sweet, moist air. even
though, through the open window of her
room, both sounds and scents entered
freely, the peaceful sounds and healthful
scents of the country.
It was very still in the room where she
lay; very still and orderly. The old
furniture was polished and speckless; the
linen as white as SLOW; against the pill
lows, which had been a part of her bridal
outfit, rested the gray head, still neatly
cared for, and the face, with its pallor,
still wore q look of kindly patience.
At her side sat her husband, good
Deacon True, with bowed head and sad
ewes: and in his work-hardened hand he
held her feeble one.
Presently a footstep sounded Oh tho
muddy sidewalk outside. Then the gate
latch clicked. Some one walked up tho
path and tapped softly on the house door,
and was as softly admitted.
But the two, with their faces turned
toward each other, took no notice.
.How is she?" said the neighbor down.
stairs, who had dropped in.
aFailin'." answered Fidelia Perkins, tho
maid-of-all-wo temporarily engaged for
the emergency.
"How's he?"
Fairly beat out with. .grievin' Seems
if he hadn't no heart for eatin or drlnKln
or nothin'. Just settin' up there along
her and holdin' her hand. mover did see
folks set sech store by each other Us the!
do"
well, they haven't nobody else to set
store Nv Won sec. said the visitor, estab-
fishing herself by tho fire and holding ou'
two substantial feet to the blaze.
mo, that's so," assented Fideiia, taking
out her knitting: "Now you just make
yourself comfortable, Mis- Clapp. I'm
real glad to see somebody. It's dreadiul
lonesome here. Jest those two still crit
tiers upstairs, and me and the cat down low
stairs, and nothin' on earth to DO. why y.
there amt SO much as teaspoonIul u
dirt to clean up nowhere IN the nouse'
mover did see sech housekeepin.
aShe was master hand for cleanln
said Mrs. Clapp, shaking, her neaa
thoughtfully, "and, as say, there warn
no children to make dirt. !" ,.. :.
about t, as bad, to my thinkin', clutterin, up
the place half the year and havl9 ' 70 .ian
around with waterin pot ana ~e .;aaa
She took sight Of comfort in EN-; though i; b.,
"she was real good woman MIS- ifue
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21
It Was Not His STYLE.

A veritable child anecdote, the Incl
dent attending which occurred in Med
ford on Sunday last, is worth record
ing. A little fellow of four years Of
age came home from the session of
Sunday school swelled with the infor-
nation that Jesus had walked upon the
water. 1t made such an impression
upon his Imagination that he could not.
be content till he tried to do the same
thing. Secretly he went to the bath
room of the family, filled the bathtub
with water and attempted the feat that
was agitating his little mind. The re-
suit was that he was nearly drowned.
Taken out of the water, his first sputter-
ing effort at articulation appeared in
the sentence, II amt no kind of a
Jesus !"-Boston Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21

grows but prickly pears, and SO thick
are the clumps that the traveller cannot
leave the road, which is hedgcd in by
this razor-back cactus. When West
ern Texas man, who has seen prickly
pears every day of his life, afterward
happens~to travel in Europe and is
shown as great curiosity one sickly
little prickly pear plant in q flower pot,
it makes him laugh away down in his
boots.
In order to flourish luxuriantly, the
prickly pear asks for o semi-tropical
climate and poor soil. The more
tropical the climate, the poorer the soil,
the bigger, the higher, the plant grows,
and the more thorns it has to the
square inch. Over IN Mexico, where
the soil is poorer than an amateur con-
cert, the prickly pear grows six feet
high, and the leaves are as big as those
of an extension table, while in Texas
it only grows of convenient length to
sit down on.
There are some purposes the prickly
pear is good for, and there are others
for which it is good for nothing. The
fruit, which is about the size of an in
FAINT pear, is of a rich purple color. It
looks as if it might taste delicious, but
moderately fastidious hog would ele-
vate his nose at it, such sickening
flavor has it got The prickly pear
plant is covered from head to foot with
long, keen needles of assorted sizes,
that for sharpness and meanness may
we'll cause the blush of shame and envy
to mantle the cheek of wasp. Never
sit down on the prickly pear bush to
rest yourself Take my word for it.
I tried it once accidentally. It was
many years ago, but the memory of it
haunts me still when I sit down.
The prickly pear bush is a good place
to select if you want to be bitten by a
rattlesnake, which heightened reptile
usually has his private residence at the
foot of clump of prickly pears. If you
want to find out how painful it is to
have thankless child, just fool around
a prickly pear bush near the Rio
Grande. You will know tight off how
sharp a serpent's tooth is, and, as
Shakespeare says that it is sharper than
serpent's tooth to have a thankless
child, a pretty fair estimate Of the
sharpness of thankless child can be
obtained.
But the prickly pear is otherwise
useful to man and beast. It can be fed
to advantage to cattle, in an emergen-
cy, after first burning off the thorns.
AS poultice for sores and wounds the
prickly pear is unrivaled. If properly
applied it might even heal the feeling
of soreness between France and Ger
many. A live hedge can be made o.
clumps of prickly pears that will keeI
out even an ofice-seeker. There should
be hedge of that kind around the
Presidential mansion.-Teras Sifti71gs
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21

In Russia. eating and drinking take
up no small part of mans existence.
Fish is as common a dish as with
Americans, and is prepared in a novel
manner. In the dining-rooms of some
of the large cafes there is pool of
fresh water in which fish of various
kinds and sizes swim about. Any pat
ron of the restaurant who may wish a
course of fish for Il ,ner, goes to the
pool, picks out the particular one he
may desire, and I'M; fly the waiter has
captured it with 1; ;, net, and sent it
10 the chef.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21
THE PR1CKLY PEAR.
BY ALEX. E. SWEET.
HE prickly pear be

= " =
(longs to the. slab
sided, razor back
breed Of cactus. It
can be found in
Texas, on the Rio
Grande, W b e T. Q
there is a strip Of
territory sixty miles
long and a bou t
twenty W id Q o n
which nothing else
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21
BILL NYE'S INSTRUCTIONS TO RE.
P0RTERS.

one thought at a time and transferring
it to paper, then thinking another. and
80 on till these children of the brain
get more and more seldom, then wipe
| che pen carefully on u neat little olive
green chenille pen-wiper, battle the
head IN tepid water, polish the brow
with manicure set, and take brisk
/ walk in the open air.
Removing the coat in order to write
The following editorial paragraph is
unnecessary: 1--WE call special edi-
torial attention to-day to the announce,
ment on the first page of this issue, to
the effect that owing to the prevalence
Of smallpox, which are now quite
thick to men, school will not take up
till next Monday two weeks"
Taking off the coat and vest and let
ting down the suspenders in order to
write burning thoughts is gradually
becoming more and more obsolete as
women become more and more identi-
fed with journalism. A man may, if
he will, just as easily sit erect, throw
out his chest, and pull in his tongue,
as to cultivate eccentricities and seek
to attract attention by assuming odd
attitudes while at work. know a
good, scathing writer who goes into
his Office about 10 o'clock, locks the
door, takes off most of his clothes,
being wrapped up in thought almost
exclusively, sits on the fourth lumbar
vertebra, braces his heels against the
wall little above his head, and as he
works he screws the nails of his boot
heels into the hard wall harder and
harder as he goes on.
But it is not necessary that we should
seek to enhance our greatness by as
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21

send me baby-brother." And since
the baby's arrival his mother had not
heard him say his prayers until one
night, when baby was nearly two
weeks old, she said to him: "Come,
dear, and say your prayers before you
20 to Sleep The little fellow looked
up in utter astonishment and said (:
"Why, mamma, I don't have to-" "Oh,
yes, you do" replied mamma. "No, I
DON'T" persisted Lester; II don't,
cause I've got my brother" Well,
you must say your prayers Just the
same" explained mamma. "No, ]
mustn't, mamma, cause if I do, God
will be sending along some more bro tn
ers, and have got mine" Evidently
he thought he knew what he was talk
ing about, and didn't intend to have q
houseful of brothers.
A friend of mine has two little girls,
Ethel and Enid, aged three and five.
They were very great friends with a
little girl who lived next door, and
their little hearts were almost broken
when she moved away. In few days
Jewish family moved into the house,
bringing with them two little boys.
One day Ethel looked out of the win
dow and saw her sister Enid playing
with the little boys in their yard.
Quick as flash she threw up the win
dow and called: enid, come home
don't you play with them Jewesses-
they killed our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christi" emo, we didn't" screamed
the little boys in chorus. "Yes, you
did!" eve didn't! We didn't" an
swered the little fellows, this time in
tears. And if Ethel's mamma had not
happened, just then, to step out in the
yard and explain matters, can not say
who would have come off victorious
Chicago LEDGER
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21

SKIN AND BONES - The m::i strcls'
tambo and castanets.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21

ALMA TApEMA, the great English art,
list, ID to be kniphted.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21

SOMETHING everybody has a hand in
Gloves.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21
The Little Ones.

T always amuses me to
read Of the bright re-
marks made by chill
dren, and, as I know
Aof one or two that
have never been pub
lished, I will give them
for the benefit of 9th
who enjoy them as ]
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-22


Il. SAcKyIlLE WEST,
CuARLEs TurrKM
Washington, February -, 1883.
ANOTHER rnoroCAL
Tho American plcnipotcntiarics having
received the communication ol the British
Observation-Disclosures Of this date, conveying
their plan for the administration 10 bc Oh.
served by the governments Of Canada and
Newfoundland, In respect Of the fisheries
during the period which may be requisite
for the consideration by the Senate VI the
treaty this day signed, and the enactment
Of the legislation by the respective govern.
mcnls therein proposed, desire 10 expires
their satisfaction with this manifestation of
an intention on the part of the British
plcnipolcntiarics by the means ~
lcrrcd 10, 10 maintain the relations
OF good ncighbothood between the
British possessions In North America and
the United States, and they will convey
the communication Of the British plcnipo-
tcntiarics 20 the President OF the United
States with n recommendation that the
same may hy him be made known 10 the
Senate for It's information, together with
the treaty, when the latter u submitted 10
that body ior ratification.
TT. BAYARD,
WI. L. PurSAn,
JAS H. ANoEiI.
Washington, Feb. IS, 1888.
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Uncle Sol passed the tobacco TO his
ncighbor and said 10 was strange that the
weed could bc made wandering chow
and after that the listeners all wandered
Jarih PfpTrru.
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ccrning the Interpretation Of Article ], OF
the convention oi October 70. 1918, the
United States VI America aud her majesty
tho Queen II tho United Kingdom OF
Great Britain aud Ireland, being mutually
DESTROYS Of removing all causes Of misun.
dcr-,anding In relation thereto, aud Of
promoting friendly intercourse and good
neighbofhood between the United States
nnd the possessions Of her majesty In
North America, have resolved 10 conclude
treaty TO that end, and have named Their
plonipoicntiarics, Who, having communi
Gated 10 each other their respective full
powers, found in good and due form, hay,
agrccd upon the following articles
Article I. The high contracting parties
agiuo 30 appoint mixed commission 4
delimit. in the manner provided In Thu
treaty, the British waiofu, bays, creek
pnd hafhors Of the coasts Of Canada and %
Newfoundland, 10 10 which the Unite,
States, by Article ], of the convention %
October ~, 1878, between the Unitec
states and Great Britain, renowned for
ever any liberty 10 take, dry or cure tlsh.
Article III. The commission shall consis
81 two commissioners 10 be- named by h \
Britannia majesty, and Of two commission
ems 90 bc named by the President Of tn
United States, without delay, after the ex
change u raiiiicaiions Of this treaty.
The commission shall meet aud com
pleie the delimiiation a. soon A. possible
thereafter.
In Gaze Of the death, absence or inca
paciiy Of any commissioner, or In IA,
event Of any commissioner emitting o
oeasing Ia act as such, the President Of th
United States or her Bitannic majesty
respectively, shall forthwith name anolhe
person 10 act ~ commissioner instead o
the commissioner originally named.
Article I'LL. The delimitation referred 4
IN Article L., Of this treaty. shall b.
marked upon British admiralty charts b,
series Of lines regularly numbered AM
duly described. The charts 10 markes
shall, on tho termination Of the work o
the commission. be signed by the commits
sioncIs In quadruplicate, one ospV whcrro
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-22
1t Towers to the Skies.

Twenty eight stories high eighty.
two feet higher than the stone tow.
ers of the New York and Brooklyn
bridge. Such is to be the height of
a building to he erected at Minnea.
polls, Mimi, and yet so exact is the
calculations and so we'll adapted the
material that experts are satisfied
the structure will be safer than an
ordinary six-story stone building.
The supporting frame, which In this
instance is the chief part of the
building, is to he continuous skeIe.
ton Of iron and steel, consisting of
Illuminated rivetiron posts and Cir
iers, diminishing in size as they as.
cend and braced diagonally after
the manner of lattice bridge Orders.
Outside OF this will be the walls of
stone and copper: but the upper
part will not rest it's weight on the
lOwer-lt will be supported by pro.
jecting shelves of lion. These will
be concealed by the stone, aud the
exterior finish will be handsome.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-22
BAD RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

MANSFIELD, o., Sept. 14.-The
Baltimore and Ohio northbound pas.
senger train was derailed by a switch
at Ahkneytown siding. The mail
car, followed by the express car and
two day coaches struck the engine,
and rolled over on their sides com
ple.ely wrecked. Almost immedi-
ately, the freight engine boiler ex-
ploded, throwing wreckage In all di.
rections. The two coaches contain.
ed one hundred and ten passengers,
nearly all returning from the encamp-
ment at Columbus. The hot water
poured into the coaches, and the pas
sengers, who had not been hurt by
broken timbers were scalded.
Mrs. Edward Valentine, OF Chica.
go, and F. Luckeus, the express
agent, were firmly pinned under the
wreck. Harry Tomlinson, the freight
engineer, was standing on the side
track next to the passenger train,
and was found between the tender
and boiler of his engine, with the
front of his head blown off. He re.
sided at Newark, Ohio.
David Wilson, the baggage-mas.
ter, was found doubled up alongside
the freight train, with his neck brok.
en- and his skull crushed. He has
wife and two children living at
Sandusky. Thirty-five persons injur.
ed and three killed.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-22

Eighty-one persons were lost in
the collision at sea and sinking of
the steamer Sud America.
Fifteen Thousand acres of land in
Switzerland are under water, and
whole villages are flooded.
Not having been paid their allow
ance, the Indians in Northwest Can.
ada, to keep body and soul together,
found it necessary to kill and eat
their offspring. English justice.
General Harrison received large
delegation of ish.Americans from
Chicago, and made them strong
speech on the necessity of every
Irishman in this country voting for
protection as against the English
free trade ideas of the Democrats.
President Cleveland breaches "a
strict and steadfast adherence to
the principles of civil service reform
and then bounces a railway clerk of
twelve years experience-F. Nee.
Parker. of w. Va.-and a perfectly
clean record. o consistency, thou
art undemocratic
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-22
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.


The way the Republican politicians
talk of the free trade tendency Of the
Mills tariff bill proves one of two
things: Either they don't know what
they are talking about. or they will
fully misrepresent.- -.StateSDidn
Much has been said about remov-
ing taxes upon necessaries and i'm
posing upon 'luxuries.' What does
the Mills bill propose to do in that di-
rection? 1t gives free olive oil to
the epicure and taxes castor oil 81 per
cent; it gives free tin plate to the
Standard Oil Company and to the
great meat canning monopolies and
imposes duty of 100 per cent. on
rice 1t gives the Sugar Trust free
bone-blaek, and proposes prohibitory
duties on grocery grades of sugar; it
gives free licorice to the tobacco man.
ufacturer, while retaining prohibitive
duties on manufactured tobacco; it
imposes duty of 40 per cent on the
poor mans blanket" and only 80 pei
cent. on the Administer carpet of the
rich. 1t admits free of duty, the fine
animals imported by the gentlemen
of the turf and makes free the paint
ings and statuary of the railway mil
lionaire and coal baron" SAMUEL j.
RANDALL, NJ. c., lifelong Demo
craf
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-22

!" Yes" he said, /" life is SO lonely.n
" 1t is lonely sometimes" she an.
swered. Wouldn't it be sweet to
have a little cottage covered with
ivy, honeysuckle and rose bushes 7"
.Oh wouldn't it 7" aAnd when a
fellow comes home tired, from bust.
ness to have nice little wife meet
him at the door with a kiss
"Y-e-e-s.n And then the sum-
mer nights, the windows open, the
sunset just giving light enough in
the cosey parlor, and-you-I mean
wife at the piano singing in the
cleaning. 1t wonld be lovely" 81
--think--it- -would--be--nice."
" sand then" At this point a
careworn woman came around the
corner with a pair Of twins in a Ter
ambnlator. A dead silence fell up.
OIL the summer air for little. Then
they changed the subject.