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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28
"1N THE SOUP"
The Latest Idiotic Slang Phrase From the
EHcte East.

A man whose s=.S5:a-ance betokened him
to be commercial traveller sat in the ho-
tel Cadillac Office last night, tipped back in
an rm-chair, contentedly conversing
with that glibness peculiar to his profess
sion.
I'm addition to selling the best line Of
goods in America" he said, with benign
smile, Il am introducing in the uncultured
west new slang phrase that is running
wild in the mouths of eastern people, par
ticularly residents of New York city,"
What is it?"
It is sin the SOUP I've been in Detroit
two days but haven't heard it used. In
the east everything is 'in the soup'-Cleve-
land and the democratic party. for in
stance. Ii man has little hard luck or
meets with misfortune of any kind, off
his base and kindred phrases are tabooed,
and in the soup describes his predica-
ment.
unlike most slang phrases, its origin is
unknown. Last spring when Kilrain, the
pugilist, returned from Europe on the Gu
nard steamer Etruria. his friends in New
York prepared to give him grand recep-
tlon. The vessel arrived i'll the evening
and lay off quarantine waiting for daylight
to come into port. A party of Kilrains
friends, considerably the worse for liquor,
procured tug and went out to take their
hero off and bring him ashore. but the cap
tain swore the drunken crowd should not
come near. AID they did not. While cruis-
| ing around the steamer one of the tugs
passengers, man named Johnston, in
leaning over its side, fell overheard. One
of his companions who witnessed his fall,
but was too drunk to throw him q rope or
offer other assistance, contented himself
with calling out:
"Ho! Johnston's fell in the soup!"
Comparing the Atlantic ocean to plate
OF soup was SO supremely ridiculous that
when the incident was related in New York
papers the expression struck the popular
fancy and is now destined for run. de-
| trOit Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

of the Twin Cities-St. Paul and Mime.
apolis-from whence more than 200 pas
senger trains come and go every day.
Fifty years ago they were mere Indian
villages; to-day brick and mortar is being
piled up in buildings SO high and massive
that they thought land must be scarce in
Minnesota. The great mills of Minneapolis,
which grind every day enough -four to feed
one-fourth of the people Of the Union,
gave additional ca',se ct monderment to
our judicial friends. The two cities but
indexthe growth Of the mighty tributary
region west to the ocean. New York,
Buffalo, Chicago, Duluth, st. Paul, and
Minneapolis, chain Of cities along the
northern zone of power, each with thou
sand industries in hand, but none moro
important than the grain trade. with steam
cars and boats, bustling %harves, vast
warehouses, elevators, and mills, and
swarming life in many score avenues of
traffic, in the perplexity of which is seen
the evolution of commerce from mere bar
ter to the precision of science. A new
claimant is asking place among the grain
cities, in Tacoma, the city of Puget Sound,
where European vessels come for the
wheat of Washington Territory. This
hard like that of Dakota, is larger
grained. and often exceeds the legal
busbel from 4 to 8 pounds, making it tho
heaviest wheat in the world, and it's yield
is marvellous, so bushels not being un-
common for whole farms. A peculiality
of Pacific grain growing is the volunteer
ing of crops, as h gh as 20 bushels having
been gathe, eli from = field the third yeai
without ,eseed, g. There are mora thnn
300 varieties OF wliea' known to man, hut
those grown il 80 tllw stern America lea
tho void in purity. quaint v aud guilty
of -four. III. countries left behind in the
race OF civilization have never gotten le-
yond. the simple hand mill Of stones.
The ,oller process IT t,ou' max .sg in tho
Northwest differs as M CHI fr.m The old
burr-lnil rs 1t d,tie o.. lie Seriptuial
band mill in use a'.p-- Asian people.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

winds from the Pacific, even far into Da-
kota, giving all the region much milder
cultural and stock privileges than in the
more elevated regions to the south, where
the land is lifted into the dome of the
continent. This accounts for the existence
of more arabic land than is found south,
the Northern Pacific alone having more
land capable of utilization along its route
than all the other transcontinental lines
combined. The presence of great nayi-
gable rivers-the Missouri, Yellowstone,
Snake, Columbia, and numerous tributa-
ries-is evidence of the fact.
The development of the Northwest is
going on at rapid rate, progress to be
accelerated the coming Year BY the Ger
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28
THE AMER1CANDEsER
A WONDERFUL rRANspos,r,o. A.,
PREACHING THE MIRACULOUS.
Tho Great Northwest Now . r,,,,;.u Ca.
don of Bountlful Hu.bandrv-pa,.t,,,
Edifices and Populous cities sunn,ant
tho Indiian Tene. .,,, v,,,..

Emo Great Northwest Now a Thriv;np Car.
uen "f bountiful neutrality-suspicious.
Ances and Populous Cities Supplant
inc Indian Tcpee and Village.
An exploring party sent out by the Cen
- sla ,o Iourt OF Massachusetts, Bay COLONY
IN 1850 reported that tho interior Of the
country was most desolate," and that to
extend settlement more than twenty miles
from the coast would be useless, as the
lana was rocky and like the desert" This
ecarecrow of the desert has always stood
III Inc way of the westward movement of
population. The adult reader of this will
remember that his school geography put
sne limit of the agricultural area ut the
mississippi River; all beyond was tie
Great American Desert" and the un-
tnyeied citizen Of the East has not un-
learned this lesson of his youth. Cross
ing the Mississippi and then the Missouri,
sne advance guard of civilization found,
not the desert, but grassy meadow lands
and wide fields where nature in
the remote past had, with it's massive
i narrow OF ice, pulverized the rock
INTO soils perfect in chemical proportions
Tor the growth of vegetation. Everywhere
t6e piowshare moved through the soil like
the keel .hrough the water, and countless
acres wer added to the food producing
area of republic. The discovery Of
these W led fields, the gardens of the
deseS ttled the question of more and
better at and bread for the hungry mil
lions earth. New appliances were
needed Rp land where The pillow could
move miles without meeting an OBJ
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

tainty Of statehood and self-government
by these great Territories. Land is the
basis of wealth, agriculture is the basis
Of civilization, and diversified industries
the key that retains wealth in commu-
nifty. Examine these Territories on this
hypothesis. They have countless acres
of Timber, mineral, grazing and farming
land. The land will produce all that is
needed for the support of human and AMI
NAL life. The forests comprise every va
ripe civilization. In the mountains.
crowned with forests and enlivened with
cooling streams, are to be found nearly
every precious and base metal known to
man: all the metallic and mineral eartha
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28
Tho Ghost of a Chance

"Materalizes" and becomes q veritable reality
when henlth, will-o'-the-wisp often chased in
vain, is sought by the nervous, dyspeptic,
bilious invalid through the agency of Hostetters
Stomach Ritters Looming in tho distance ut
frtt, it is surely drawn toward the sufferer by
tie Bitters potent influence. 1t incorporates
itself with his being. 1T is seen reflected in the
hue f the countenance, the animation of the eye.
It islfelt in a sense of renewed vigor, in the
restoration of nerve tranquility and digestion,
and andisturbod nightly repose. What person,
suffering from any Of the maladies to which the
Bitters arc adapted, will postpone the means OF
cure knowing it can be relied upon? Dyspepsia
constipation, malarinl disorders, rheumatism,
biliousness, kidney inactivity are certainly
conquered by it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28
A Good Word for the Women.

In the northern and western cities thou
sands of women hold the position of
cashiers and other places Of trust, but not
one of them has ever been known to
pocket lot Of money and skip to Canada.
that they could not live on their salaries.
or that they had been unfortunate in spec
ulation. But the women who receive
hardly any salaries at all manage to exist,
and behave themselves and take care of
their employers interests.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28
Share and Share Alike.

A correspondent of the Boston journal
submits the following table of interest. It
shows how during the first 1O4 wears of
our national life under the constitution
the supreme political power will have been
placed for exactly equal periods with the
republican and democratic parties, or their
predecessors in pedigree, as far as political
parties in this country can be said to have
traceable pedigree:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28
Catarl.Il (,ured,

"A clergyman, after years of suffering from
that loatllsome disease. Catarrh. and vainly
trying every known remedy. at last found u
recipe which completely cured and saved
dreadful disease sending self-addressed
stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Law
renee, IS Warren street. New York City.
will receive the recipe free of charge.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28
A Radical Cure for EpileptIc Fits.

To the Editor: Please inform your read
eFs that nave pos ,e remedy for the
cure the worst cases. So strong is my faith
in the virtues of this medicine that will
send free IL sample bottle and valuable
treatise to any sufferer who will give me
his P. O. and Express address. My remedy
has cured thousands of hopeless cases. r.
G. Roof. NJ. c.. 1873 Pearl street, New York.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28
Cancer Cured.

DR.. T. T. Pond is having wonderful sue
cess in the treatment and cure of cancer at
the cancer hospital at Aurora. iii. There
are numbers OF cures recently made bv him
which are truly wonderful. Those afflicted
should not hesitate. but should go there for
treatnent>at once. For Information. adj
dress DR.. z. L. Pond, Aurora, Ill.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

ana elements used IN medlclne, cnemlS-
try, farming, or the arts, either exist as
natural productions or can be pro-
duced. A single county in Northern
is producing quarter of the entire lead
output of the Union. In seeming COM
pensation for roughness a few acres Of
mountain land in rich district will give
employment to large population and
produce more treasure than many thousand
acres of farm land. A trip through this
northern region is one of surprising inter-
terest; everywhere instruction for the in.
telligent observer, and opportunity for cap
ital. In the Yellowstone Park nature
seems to have taken q holiday and in q
mad frolic made the wonder region Of the
world. Montana produces more mineral
wealth than all the other Territories COM
bined, making Helena the richest city per
Spokane Falls will some day contest. A
trip of 2,OO0 miles is nothing to do now.
Times have changed since the days
when the pioneer travelled with an
OK team; the sleeping-car and the
dining car are great innovations
upon the pilgrim outfit Of generation
ago. Even the second-class cars running
from st. Paul to the coast, and they are
only second class in name, are models OF
comfort and convenience. Our illustration
shows the interior of Northern Pacific
free family sleeping-car, fitted up with
hunks or berths like Pullman, the car
having in addition cooking and bathing
facilities. The writer met two Judges
from Iowa in one of these cars en- route
to the coast, riding in these in preference
to tho regular coaches. Remembering
when there was no railroad west of the
Alleghenies, they marveled at the traffic
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

81 have been afflicted with an affections
Of the Thromt from childhood. caused by
diphtheria. and have used various rene
dies" but have never found anything equal
to BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRocuEs. Req. G.
H. r. Hampton. PiketoM Ky. Sold only in
hnYas. D
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

LIFE appears to be too SHORT to be spent
in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Charlotte Bronte.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

ONE Of the reasons why SCOTS Emulsion
has such large sale is. because it is the
best. DR.. W. H. Cameron, Halifax. N. s.,
Of God Liver OIL soith Hvpophosphites, for
the past two years, and found it moro agree
able to the stomach aud have better results
from its use than any other preparation of
the kind I have ever used" Sold by all
Druooists
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

WHAT is really momentous and all-im-
portant with us is the present, by which
the future is shaped and colored.-Whit-
tier.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28
Plain Statements

Hamlin's Wizard Oil certainly surpasses
all similar preparations we have ever sold.
It is seldom we note a medicine so popular
and welcome to the afflicted. Thomson g.
Ohmste ed, Galveston. Texas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

THERE is atranscendent power in exam
pie. We reform others unconsciously
when walk uprightly.-Mane. SUetchine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

Hamlin's Wizard Oil is the best selling
article in our stock. We have sold four
thousand seven hundred and fifty bottles of
It in the past six months. T. G. Smith g.
Co.. Charlotte, N. G.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

THINK we'll over your important steps in
life. and. having made up your mind,
never look behind.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28
When the Presidential Electors Meet.

The presidential electors will meet the
second Tuesday in January in the various
states to cast their ballots for president
and vice. president. Prior to February,
1887, the date for the meeting of the col
lege was in December, but the law was
changed SO as to fix the date the second
Tuesday in January. The order of bust
ness is first the presentation of the certi-
fcates of election from the board of can
vassers, which must be found to be cor
rect and satisfactory. Then the usual
formula is put to them Us to their qualif-
cation for holding any Office under the
United States government, and, should
they reply in the negative, the oath is duly
administered by the secretary of the state.
The college is then organized by the
election of Il president and secretary, and
then the electors cast their vote for presi-
dent and vice-president of the United
States. The vote is duly read, certified,
and sealed. and three copies are prepared,
one to be taken to Washington by a spec
ial messenger and one sent by mail. The
placed in the archives Of the common
wealth. The college then proceeds with
the election of a messenger to- carry the
vote to Washington, whose compensation
is solely by mileage, at the rate of 25 cents
a mile.
EVERYBODY familiar with Ayers Almanac
knows that it is much more than mere
vehicle for advertising the Standard Fami-
~ Medicines Of DIR. J. G. Aver & Co., of
Lowell, Mass. It's reliable astronomical
tables, historical data. fresh and whole
some jokes, not to mention its weather
predictions, makeit one of the most well
come and valued of ANNALS. And now we
have to acknowledge the receipt of a neat
ly bound presentation volume of the AL
manac for 1883, containing copies of the
various editions in English and nine other
languages, also snecimen pages of pamph-
let's issued by the company in eleven ad-
ditional tongues-in all, twenty-one Ian
guages. From the preface to this interest
ing book, we learn that between thirteen
and fourteen million almanacs are issued
by the company annually, consuming
about twenty-five miles Of paper day.
Surely, with all this advertising, to say
nothing of the newspapers and posters, it
would be inexcusable in any one not to
know that Ayers Sarsaparilla, Cherry Pee
toral fills, Hair Vigor and Ague Cure are
superior to all other preparations of the
kind in the world. Ayers Almanac for
1889, in its usual attractive form, is now
ready at the drug stores.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

If put some touches of rosy sunset
into the life OF any man or woman, then I
feel that have walked with God.-George
Macdonald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

No contributions to the as Marriage a.
Failure" discussion have yet arrived from
Salt Lake City.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

WHAT is liberty without wisdom and
without virtue? 1t is the greatest of all
svils; for it is folly, vice and madness,
without tuition OF restraint.-Burke.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

The papers say that wine is disappear
ing from the table," It goes under it,
probably, with the drinkers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

Thou who wouldst give, give quickly.
In the grave thy loved ones can receive nc
kindness.-C0rlNle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

Baker 25e pounds Of nutritious bread from
a l96-pound barrel of -four, or rs to 80
more ioaves than he can get from m equal
amount Of the winter wheat product. The
conclusion of scientific Investigation is
that the long and continuous sunlight in
tie pure ar of the Northwest is the i'm
portant factor in not only perfeoting the
wheat but all the other oereal crops. The
valleabf the Red River ofthe North is the
most Productive grain growing section of
the country Bayard Taylor called it
the Nile of America. Seven counties on
Athe Dakota side in 1887 produced 23,eOo.-
LOT wheat, 10000 600 bHshels
RQQ0, 900 bushels of barley.
Il crop of the United
grown in Dakota and then
and to produce all the other
of the Unien. A large
is still unoccupied. 1t
the present population of
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

LIVE virtuously and you can not live too
long OF die too soon.-Lody r. Russell.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

stacle, and so the gang pillow was invented
and substituted for the single one. Sow
ing grain by hand was too slow, and SO the
seeding machine was called into use. The
sickle, the scythe and the cradle disap-
peared before the reaper and mower and
Utter i'll turn went down before
binding harvester, and the
doing the work of an
IN with fails. Tho cramped
he East would never have de-
labor-saving implements now
,he Western prairies, where
of the sons have been quick
5adened by the vastness of
here the soil is fertile to
eahd where the bracing air,
and healthy food develop the
pes of physical life. 1t is the
of frost that makes the north
the only one of Importance
a. Between the 10th and 5Oth
Prth latitude in the United
g found the largest cities, the
the finest health condi-
enterprising people and
usion of intelligence and
world. Tho center of
=. yer is Minnesota and Da-
only the best wheat is
st flour is made. Under
process winter wheat was
u pest, but since the flour
spring wheat has become
|. bakers all over the world
much speculation why
n is ready for the thresher
- from the planting, has it's
hard quality aud makes -four of
such strength and purity as to give the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28
: American Tribune.

sh ThS Soldiers Family Paper; Every soldier
posted on all new laws Pension matters and is f
OF go9d War Stories, written by soldiers containing
valuable War History. The paper is published to adj
vance the interest Of soldiers Published everweek
Rec H nc T neT HSar; nie GGFH gent
The Soldiers Family Paper. indianapolis, Ind.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

hard quality aud makes flour Of
such strength and purity as to give the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-28

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-10
Chauncey Depew and the Western
Cemetery.
ES0pz IA Ttues
Ffom the Times.

There is one thing about Western town
i mean away up IN tho Northwest-that
pleases me beyond anything in the United
States l do love in the annual tour that
l make to strike, away up u thousand miles
from here, booming town where every
body has got rich in reality, and profoundly
rich in Imagination, ,whers lots are selling
at $1,000 the front foot one day and $4,000
the next day | stood last fall in one of
those towns up near the Arctic Circle, upon
lot which had sold tho day before for
$4,000 front foot, or more than they
charge on Fifth avenue in New York
The proprietor of it took me ont on the lake
to show ME the city, for, he said, 'the mud
is so deep in the streets | cannot show it to
you in any other way. Laughter And as
he was pointing out this lot and telling me
the marvellous prices they had brought,
said to him: You Deem to have everything
but a cemetery. Is it because land is so
scarce here that you throw your dead in the
lakep [Laughter.l "Oh, no." said he
"Where you see that solitary white stone
up yonder was the cemetery, but it became
so valuable we had to dig them up and
plant them over the hill. But it was not an
unmixed evil, for the principal avenue ran
right by my lot, and made it corner one.
| had to take up my wife, but, dear old
girl, she would have enjoyed it if she could
have keown about it, because she always
was wild about the growth of the town. "
prolonged laughter
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-10

WHICH to act, as the twenty years. limita-
tionclause in all such cases would expire in
a few days. In this emergency OK Judge
Veecer, of Brooklyn, was retained as coun-
sci, and he preceded to open twenty eight
ejectment suits against the parties holding
possession of the property under tie old
partition sale. The summonscs were all
served during tho great blizzard storm.
The trial of these cases will como before the
Supreme Court seine time next autumn.
The magnitude of the claim can bo ap-
preciated when it is said that the present
value of this property /, probably sS,000,-
dispute, will swell the amount still higher.