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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27
The Lion and His Tormentor.

A Peasant who was Passing throug
the Forest heard q Great Uproar in hi
Path, and Presently Arrived at Spo
where Lion lay Sleeping and a Hord
of Jackals were Rushing Around hi
in q Circle and Barking Furiously.
"Why all this Noise?" Queried tn
Peasant.
ut is to Insult the Lion,' they Al
swered him.
"But he could Annihilate the Lot
you in few Seconds"
"Oh, we are we'll Aware of that, bu
we Trust to our Legs to Outrun hlI
in case he Wakes up"
Moral: If the Other Fellow won
Fight we can Always Lick him.
Detroit Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

OF any object which will bring the feet
higher than the head, and then thread
ing needle. In the calmest kind of
seas there is usually just about enough
of a roll to make that bottle mighty
insecure rest: and as a rule the first
thing that the passenger finds. as he
attempts to thread his needle is, that
he has not only utterly collapsed, but
that his head has swung around and
struck very hard upon the rail where
his feet were resting. 1t is more fun
to watch this game than to play it.
"There are two games, properly so
called, outside Of cards and the social
diversions of the cabin, which are found
on every transatlantic ship, whether
it be English, French, German, or
italian. They may be called interna-
tional or cosmopolitan games, for it
does not appear that any nationality
develops anything novel or character
istic in the amusement devised for pass
ing time on shipboard.
"The principal of those games is
called horse billiards. 1t is somewhat
akin to the old fashioned Scotch game
Of shuffie-board, but is so different
lIOIu III llldt IL Is WOI I'LL ~ ucSCIlp-
ton by itself. A parallelogram is
drawn on the deck with white chalk.
It is subdivided into nine squares. with
semi-circular space at the top and
bottom, and figures are marked
in each subdivision and semi-circle.
This parallelogram is about three yards
long by one and half wide. A few
feet in front Of this a chalked line is
drawn, parallel with the shortest diam
ater Of the parallelogram, which, by
the way, is called the board. The
game is played with small wooden
blocks cubical in form. The object is
to send them along the deck, only SO
that they may land entirely within one
OF the sections OF the parallelogram.
Each one of these sections has a figure
marked in it. as above indicated. The
upper semi-circle which has the mark
'ten on" in it, means that if the block
is so played that it rests within it,
! it adds ten to the players score, but il
the block should rest entirely within
the lower semicircle, it subtracts ter
from his score. Ii it is so played that
it does not cross the line referred to Al
all, it counts as "no play" and il
played over again. If, however, il
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

aroused by this act was sufficient to
relieve him from the ordinary punish
ment to which passengers are subjected
who intrude upon the rigging. A case
of that kind, however, is very rare,
and that was the only one ever heard
of.
"There is a diversion, however, which
may be had upon any craft, and which
all passengers will find, 1 think, to q
certain extent interesting. I believe 1t
was invented by famous American
humorist. 1t consists in sitting on a
champagne bottle which is laid upon
the deck, placing the feet upon the rail
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

course, when the sailors saw him up
there theJ went for him, but his lord
ship was not going to get caught. In
stead of coming down or waiting for
the sailors to come after him, he went
hand over hand along rope to another
mast. and SO at the imminent risk of
his neck at several different occasions
finally led the sailors such a chase
that he reached the deck first, to their
great astonlshment The admiration
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27
SPORTS ON THE SEA.
Some of the Games INDUCED in by
Ocean Voyagers to Kill Dull
Time.
Horse Billiards and How 1t Is Played
Other PaStimes OF the
Deck.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.

iNEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
"There is no royal road to promi
hence in sports, said William Jackson,
the steward of one of the transatlantic
steamship lines. the other day, land
for this reason, ! suppose, the field of
sports is as much cultivated by people
Of the richer classes, members of the
aristocracy. etc., as by the more COM
mon people to whom Injuries are en-
tirely unknown. On the other side
you will see Lords and Dukes and
members of Parliament among the in
terested and excited observers OF a
boxing match: on this side you will
find Senators and lawyers and literary
men at the same kind of entertain
ment. Over there ladies of fashion
and wealth and rank go to the races,
and here, as ! understand it. wealthy
ladies have also been long in the habit
of attending and even betting upon the
contests at the track. On both sides the
Atlantic there are various games in
which the members Of the upper class
es engage actively and without feeling
that they have lowered their dignity a
particle by doing SO. Nevertheless,
the sports in Which the most prosper
Gus portion Of the community enters
are considerably limited. They are
not at all genteel games IN the sense
of being mild in exertion, but they are
to certain degree aristocratic, mas
much as they usually cost great deal
more money to play than the common
sports Of everyday people do. Take,
for instance, fox-hunting, hare and
hounds on horseback, yachting, and
owning of race stables. And even lawn
tennis is sport in which a considera-
BILE quantity of money has to be spent
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

WHILE worlmen were eXcavating the
site for the new postoftice and custom
house at San antonio, Texas, the other
day, they unearthed large quantity
OF human bones buried in promiscuous
heaps. The spot where the CHASTITY
discovery was made was once the very
heart Of the historic Notifications and
battle ground known to fame as "The
Alamo" and is situated immediately
across the street from the celebrated
church containing the relics of those
primitive days. The remains are UNI
doubtedly those of the thousand or
more Mexicans belonging to Santa
Annals army who fell while storming
the refuge of the pioneers. The bones
have been gathered up by the city and
decently inferred. Coincident with the
discovery comes the announcement
that Nine. Candelaria, the Mexican
lady who proved a warm friend to the
early Americans during their struggle
for liberty, has been found in San An
tonic living in poverty. She is 100
years old. and steps are on foot looking
to public subscription in her behalf.
Nine. Candelaria was in "The Alamo"
with Crockett and Col. Travis when the
massacre occurred. She was actually
holding the fearless Col Bowie up in
his bed when the Niexicans entered
and butohered him. She was nursing
Bowie, who had typhoid fever.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27
EY Ri ANN & BLANK.

Tux Gainesville (Ga.> Eagle says;
"Yeung James hongstreet writes from
WASHINGTON that lie has had the honor
&, dine en- famiile with the Secretary
.,sf She InteYior (Mr. Lamar). He does
not seem to think that the Secretary
WAX IN his gayest mood. though his
talk with him was to the point, and Of
Iast nine words, viz. :, What part OF the
.s,lrhes wAI you have, Jim?'"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

QUEEN EMMA of Holland continue
ally winks while speaking. For this
reason she is obliged to have all her
prescriptions put up by telephone
Burlington Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27
A TiresOme SuitOr.

First Sweet Girl understand that
handsome stranger has been calling on
you quite regularly.
Second Sweet Girl-Yes, he's awfully
tiresome.
"Tiresome?"
Yes, he don't do thing the wha,s
evening but sit on the extreme end ci
the sofa and talk"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

of that county Oct. I, 1892. Toward
the conclusion of it he says: Il recon-
mend it to my sons, from my eSperi-
ence in life, to prefer the happiness
and independence OF private station
to the trouble and exactions of public
business; but, if either their own incll-
nations or the necessity of the times
should engage them in public affairs, i
charge them, on fathers blessing,
never to let the motive of private in
terest or ambition induce them to be-
tray, nor the terrors of poverty and
disgrace. nor the fear of danger or
death, deter them from asserting the
liberty Of their country and endeavor-
ing to transmit to their posterity those
sacred rights to which themselves were
born"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

1,nE Eustis (Fla.) Lake Region says:
Jack Smiths old roam hen has recent
w developed considerable mercantile
ability. The other day Jack heard
some notes in the chicken yard, and
pent down to investigate. In one
corner OF the gard the roam hen Bette
sas standing by a matchbox full of
Bugs. These she was peddling out to
She other fowls, bug for four grains
of corn. The big Dorking rooster jim
was standing by to see fair play. The
way the count was made was laugha-
Die. The purchasing fowl would place
81 grain of corn by each of Bettie's toes.
Bette would examine it critically, rake
1t TO ONE side. and then pass out the
bag. When Jack got there she had
andy two bugs left. The corn received
ssould have filled pint cup.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

saRs. GERTRUDE gladden., of Fhtla-
deI,,hia, is q blooming little woman OF
81, and yet she has been twice widow
and rs 8 grandmother. She was mar
ried when she was Is, and when l6 was
slse notaaer of nice little girl baby.
At 30 She was a widow. At b she
gnar,.ed again. and on the same day
het daughter. then is years old. mar
ried. Sia months later the mother be-
GAME she second time widow. and a
few veeKs ago became grandmother.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

Y.hr next Republican National Con-
ve..sien at Chicago will be tue fifth
.eAat has been held there in the history
OF Che party. The following shows the
dates and places at which the National
Conventions OF the Republican party
have }seea held. and the Presidential
,,srniaaae saectnd at each:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

.ruf4sp are three ministers in the
present House OF Representatives.
Judges Stewart, of Georgia. and
e4hea4,e, of Indiana. are ex-preaciiers,
ysat the aew Congressman from New
Hap,tsaaire, Rev. Mr.. Mckinney. has
t,eesa ~ the 1niversalist pulpit during
his whole active career. He is the first
Democratic Congressman from New
Haassassnre an ten years, Oddly enough.
She last Democratic Representative
aeons Rkat State was Frank Jones, the
,EaH-ossnF
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

To LOVE and to be loved is the great
est happiness of existence.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

THE Chinese penal code provides
that when ali unskillful physician, i'll
administering medicines or using the
acupIncture needle. proceeds contrary
to the established forms, and thereby
causes the death of the patient, the
magistrate shall call in other physicians
to examine the medicines or the wound
Ii it appears that the injury done was
unintentional, the practitioner shall
then be treated according to the statute
OF accidental homicides. and shall not
be allowed any longer to practice med
icine. But if he have designedly de
parted FROM the established forms. and
have practiced deceit in his attempts to
cure the malady in order to gain prop
erty, then, according to its amount. he
shall be treated as thief; and if death
ensues from his malpractice, then, for
7 having thus used medicine with intent
to kill, he Shall be beleaded. There
appears to be nothing in the celestial"
code answering to the laws of "barbar-
ian nations concerning civil damages
recoverable by parties made to suffer
from "unintentional" NAL practice.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

IT seems as if the bread and past
cook might not inappropriately
termed Q dough-mesuo,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27
The Event Of Events.

Sunday-school teacher-Now, CHI
dren, we must bear in mind that b
tween our last weeks lessons and tn
quite period of time is reprepentt
as having elapsed. During this tin
very important event has taken plac.
Yes, Annie, you may tell us what it
Annie-We've all got our fall hats
Philadelphia Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

IvnE will Of the famous George Ma
snn. OF Gdnston Hall, Fairfax County,
VA, was recorded in the clerks office
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

Yssssass.E has been complete recon-
<,iliat1on between the Empress Euge-
mic and Prince Victor Bonaparte,' says
Ilonden Truth. 1.-The Empress visited
RruasAs the other day, and her young
relative met her at the station: dined
and breakfasted with her at the Hotel
Bellevue, and escorted her to the new
picture galleries. Prince Victor is to
visit the Empress at Amsterdam, and
me will come to England to be present
at the reinterment of the collins OF the
late Emperor Napoleon and his son at
inwni,orougA
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

p4LoTsE CRY has 100 inhabitants,
ard ts,e Portland Orego7oion says that
it has the following business houses:
fEYlreA merchandise stores, drug store,
TWO hardware stores: millinery, three
implement and machinery stores, har-
ness and saddlery store, two livery
stables, hotel, restaurant, and lodging
house, barber-shop. meat market, two
syacbsmith-shops, wagon shop, society
ih4sll, furniture store, two printing
Offices, two saloons, two Jaw offices,
Iaui company's Office, sash and door
factory, brewery, real-estate Office, two
saw mills, postotiice, variety store,
photograph gallery, iewelry store, one
wasss house and three more under con-
stzuosion, and three vacant store build
i4asss nearly constructed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

Ten IlHEA,Y. Of st. Louis, says:
Only certain races have contributed
champions to the prize ring. The gen
eral public don't suspect it, but never
sheaess the Jews have supplied their
esuota There was Dutch Sam, a first
GLASS man inp,is day, and Daniel Men
aea'. was anything but SLOUGH. Later
we have the Lazarus and Aaron fami-
dies aad others whom ! do not recol
Eect Nobody ever heard OF German
ar French pugilist. The Germans and
the French can become good fencers,
s1t when it comes down to fist fighting
:sheY have no heart, or, as we say in
sporting circles, no bottom. Sullivan
is certainly the strongest man that
ever SHED castor in a ring. but Jem
Mace, in has day, was the greatest art
5cf' u
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

AtCoEDIN" to Chinese computation,
there are now 100000 Chinese in the
United States, says a San Francisco
paper. The fact that they are to he
found i'll every part of the country in
dicates that the estimate is not t
high. According TO the census, the total
number i'll the United States i'll 1850
was 100, us. But there came in 1851
| /, $50. and in 1852, under the pros
pect Of restriction, 39,57g, making a
total OF l37, lib up to the date OF the
restriction act The death rate among
these people by reason Of their defiance
of the laws of sanitation, wherever
the are located, is always much higher
! than among our own people, especially
when the fact that they are all mostly
adults, without the proper proportion
Of young and old among them. is taken
into consideration. The deaths that
have taken place since the date stated
must at least have been 20, 600, leaving
on hand, say, 1871 900 OF 100000. But
! the number in the country is supposed
! to be at least so, 900 more.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27

AT one time during the late civil war
the National Hotel at Dalton, Ga, was
used as temporary hospital. Re
Gently, as some workmen were engaged
in making some interior repairs about
the building, a letter, faded and yell
lowed with age, was discovered behind
the plastering OF the wall OF one OF
the rooms. Upon examination, the
letter was found to have been written
by soldier of the war. probably while
lying wounded i'll the building. Much
Of the chirography WAS illegible,
though enough could he deciphered to
show that the letter was brief history
of the war. which the writer had doubt
less intended to have forwarded to his
home folk. How it came behind the
plastering is question to be solved.
MAY be the wounded soldier in all at
tack Of delirium slipped his epistle
through a crack in the wall, installing
it for one OF Uncle Sans mail-boNes.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-27
TRACING THE CONNECTION.
Signal Dangers Which Are Made
known Before Consumption
AnDearS.

When catarrh has existed in the head and
upper part of the throat for any length of time
the patient living in the district where people
are subject to catarrhal afIection-and the dis
ease has been left uncured, the cataIrh inyari-
ably, sometimes slowly, extends down the wind
convey the air into the different parts OF the
lungs. The tubes become affected from the
swelling and mucus arising from catarrh, and
in some instances become plugged up so that the
air cannot get in as freely as 1t should. Short
ness of breath follows, and the patient breatheS
with labor and with difficulty.
in other cases there Is a sound OF cracking and
wheeling inside the chest. AT this stage OF the
disease the breathing is usually more rapid than
when In health. The patient also has hot flashes
over his body.
The pain which accompanies this condition is
of IA dun character, felt in the chest, behind the
breastbone or under the shoulder blade. The
pain may come and go-last a few days and then
be absent for several others. The cough that &C.
ours in the first stages of bronchial catarrh Is
dry, comes at Intervals, is hacking in character
and usually most troublesome in the morning
on arising, or gong 10 bed at night, and IL may
be the first evidence of the disease extending in
the lungs.
At first there may he nothing brought up by
the cough; then there is a little tough tenacious
mucous, which the patient finds great difficulty
Sometimes there are fits of coughing Induced
by tough mucous-so violent as to cause vom
iting. Later on the mucous that is raised is
en-, which indicates that the small tubes in the
lungs are now affected, With this there are
often streaks of blood mixed with the mucous.
In cases the patient becomes very pale, has
fever and expectorateS before any cough APP
pears.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-27
Cam Catarrh he Cured?


The past age might be called a superstitious
one. The present can more properly pc called
an age of surprises, for many things once classed
among the impossibilities have now become
everyday possibilities. 1t would be superfiuous
to eriumerate them. Bpt nave we reached the
utmost limit2 Have we? Physicians who claim
to make certain ailments the human body is
subject to a special study, and claim to. be able
to cure such diseases, are pronounced by other
self-satisfied practitioners as preSumptuons but
does their saying SO make 1t SO? The man who
can come the nearest to overcoming the seeming
impossibilitieS of others is now all the rage, and
well does he or they deserve the success they
Mccoy ribs associates do not make claims to
anything marvellous, such as raising the dead
and giving them new life; neither do they claim
to give sight to the blind; but by
their new and scientific method OF treating
catarrh they have cured and do cure catarrh as
well as bronchial and throat troubles. They
make catarrh a speciality, because 1t is one of
that the people of this climate are heir TO. Since
DIR. Mccoy and his associates have located in
this city they have treated with success hun
dreds of persons whom other physicians have
told their disease was classed among the IN
curables. Do they not publish from week to
week in the daily papers testimonials from
some of their many grateful patients, giving In
each case the full name and address of the per-
son making the statement, that the doubling
and skeptical may call and interview the said
people prior to visiting the doctors offices for
consultation. The people advertised as cured
are by no means obscure or unknown, but in
the majority of cases are citizens well known
and it Will more than repay any one suffering
from catarrhal affection to visit those. whose
statements are published, or consult with the
doctor or his associates at his Office.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-27
AZ TILL II o.chocK.
Board of Trade Members Discuss h
bylaws.

The adjourned meeting Of the board OF
trade held last night to consider the revised
bylaws of the organization and hear the re-
port Of the manufacturers committed on the
resolution introduced by Mr.. f. Rosewater
and passed at the last meeting, was only
fairly attended. First Vice President Meday
was in the chair and Mr.. q. M. Nattinger
was at the secretary's desk.
In. explaining the object of the meeting
Mr.. Meday said that that part OF IL
relative TO the manufacturers committee was
embodied in the bylaws and the committee
would make no report.
MIR. Wheeler moved that the bylaws be
taken up, read and approved section by
section.
Colonel Chase criticised them as beng i'm
perfect.
Several suggestions and amendments were
made TO the printed slips passed in the hands
of the members and these will be embodied
when the work is completed. 1t was IL
O'Clock when the last section in Article 2 was
disposed of, and an adjournment was ordered
until to morrow evening.