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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

WARREN o. ARNOLD, the newly
elected member of Congress from
Rhode Island, has never held q public
Office before. He was born in Coyen-
try, Il. L., in June, 1889. When 8
years OF age he became an operative in
a mill, remaining thus employed until
he attained his 18th year, obtaining
common school education in the
meantime. In 1864 he removed to
Chepachet. where he entered I. cotton
warp mill. The senior partner died
soon afterward. Subsequently the
firm dissolved, and Mr.. Arnold asso-
ciated himself with a firm OF woolen-
goods manufacturers at Chepachet and
Westerly. In 1890 he bought ont the
entire interest of the firm at Westerly
and associated himself with his brother.
Thus, out of his forty-eight years,
thirty have been devoted to active bus
mess pursuits. Mr.. Arnold is married
and has beautiful home at Chepachet,
but has no children.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06
M0raylan Customs.

The Moraymns have settlements not
only in Germany but also in England,
Switzerland and America. They hold
nearly all the doctrines Of Luther.
Their largest settlement, Herrnhut, is
in Saxony, and the Moravians in many
parts OF Germany bear the name OF
Herrnfuters. In each community there
are two houses set apart-one for the
unmarried men, called the Brothers
house," and tho other for oil unmar-
ried sisters or widows who wish to en-
ter it. The MOrAvians cannot marry
without the consent of the elders of
their church, and in some cases the
bridegroom has been chosen for the
bride. They seldom marry outside of
the community, and their engagements
are nearly as solemn as the mar
ringe. The weddings are very simple,
the sister wearing but black dress
with white lace handkerchief, and
her pretty cap with its pale pink rib
bon, which is changed afterwaril for u
pale blue ribbon when the ceremony
is finished. There are always two rings
at wedding in Germany, as there
married man always wears one which
he receives from his bride in exchange
for his. The Moravians wear no erapo
or mourning Tor their dead, and they
speak of them az blessed, and OF the
dying as "going home" They call the
graveyard Goods acre, and they take
the greatest care Of the graves. But
there also is the division as in the
church, for the men are buried on one
side of the cemetery and the women
on the other. The siorayjans are all
we'll educated, and the pc rer brethren
among them enjoy the same privileges
in their excellent schools as do the
richer brethren. Life among the United
Brethren is simple and unartifcial
love to God and man being their first
principle; and many who have lived
among them bear in their hearts q loy-
ing memory OF their goodnessand OF
the pretty little village Of Neudieten-
lOrf
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

At first, when the pioneer diggers
only had their own hands and the helr
of unskilled Hottentots and Kaffirs to
improvise means for working the M mes,
their apparatus was not only simple
it was rude and imperfect. It usually
consisted Of stake, driven into the
ground near the edge of the pit, to
which was attached Il wooden pulley,
by which the buckets of earth We're
drawn to the surface. This answered
we'll enough SO long as the mine was
small and the sides perpendicular. But
it often happened, after the mine en-
larged and great crowds OF miners got
to work, that the sides were at an angle
of 45 degrees or that the buckets had
to be carried over the heads of other
workers (each claim being only thirty
feet square,. Then they adopted the
plan Of driving one stake at the bottom
Of the pit and thu ee at the top, to two
Of which would be attached large
wheel two or three feet in diameter
with handle at each end turned by
natives. BY means OF this wheel or
cylinder an empty bucket could be
lowered while the full one was being
hoisted. To the third stake at the top
was fastened stout wire connected
with the stake at the bottom. This
acted as guide for the buckets and
prevented collisions with buckets be-
longing to owners Of Intervening claims.
AS some of the diggers grew richer
and the mines grew deeper, wooden
"whims" were introduced, which are
nothing more nor less than huge cap
STAINS, turned by horsepower. [ I'M
der~tand that many Of these cambrous
machines are still in use; but as most
Of the diggers, who have gone to the
mines to make g regular business of
diamond hunting, have formed strong
and wealthy companies, several sta
tionary steann-engines have been intro
duced. -
AS the number OF CLAIMS being
worked increased, thus extending the
area of the mines, and as no work of
any kind could be carried on in the
mines but the actual digging, it soon
became matter of impossibiity to
find space for separate pulleys and
"whims" side by side; so huge wooden
scafolds were erected three and four
stories high, so that three or four diff
ferent sets of lifting machinery conld
be worked one above the other. All |
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06
She PhOsD.lorized Her Toe.

A lady Of this city, whose little feet
are always dainty shod, is also unfort-
unately the possessor of an obstinate
and burning corn upon the smallest toe
of her left foot. Chiropodists had dug
tunnels through that corn, yanked at it
with nippers, smeared it with singing
ointments, and in despair, suggested
amputation. The corn held the fort
and successfully resisted the assaults
of the best razor the lady's husband
possessed used, Of course, without Lis
knowledge. Finally friend suggest
ed that if phosphorus was rubbed on
the afflicted toe the corn would sue
cumb. The lady determined to try the
remedy, and did SO just before retiring
the other night, and, to her subsequent
sorrow, forgot to tell her liege lord
what she had done. The hour of mid
night had struck in St. Mary's Cathe-
dral clock, when the husband suddenly
awoke and was somewhat startled to
see the flash of a FREELY at the foot of
the bed. Sleep was again asserting its
mastery when once more the sheen Of
that freely caused the husband to open
wide his eyes. He could not recollect
ever having seen FREELY in California,
but he could not disbelieve his senses.
Again and again that freely flashed it's
baleful CLEAN, effectually banishing all
thoughts of sleep from the now
thoroughly aroused d wrathy hus-
band. He determined to end Ii 8 own
misery and the tiretiy's istence SIM
ultaneoas]y. He reached out in the
dark. CROPPED with his hand about the
carpet until he felt his own heavy shoe.
He raised the weapon, slowly and eau
tiouslv raised himself in bed, and, lift
ing high the sturdy brogan, brought it
down with vigorous whack on the in
nocent freely. A wild shrek, an ava
lanche of bedclothes, and the husband
lay sprawling in the middle of the
floor, while his wife rolled around the
bed clasping her foot and moaning in
ang lish. it was the phosphorus
anointed toe. California.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06


up with the demand. and diamonds
were becoming very rare articles. In
America especially is it now the custom
for people who can afford it to wear at
least one diamond, either in ring or
some other form of setting, and it may
interest such to know how these rare
gems are obtained.
At the river mines in South Africa
the diamonds are gathered from the
alluvial rubble, which consists of
blocks of greensboro containing chiefly
chalcedon es and agates, many of them
as large as a mans hand and having the
appearance of milk quartz. This
greensboro has come to be known as
Iaal-stone, after the river on the bot
tom and banks of which it is found.
Besides the greensboro, which is the
principal element. the rubble contains
some milk-auartz, clay slate, and mag
netic-iron ore.
AS I said in former letter, these
river diggings have been almost wholly
deserted for the dry diggings, and this
will not be wondered at when the tedi-
Gus method OF working them is ex-
planned.
The diamond-seekers, after obtaining
all the rubble they could gather from
their claims, had to convey it as best
they could (mostly in buckets and
wheelbarrows) down to the river, be-
You'd all the claims. Then they had to
sort out the heavier Jumps of stone,
and the rest they washed in cradles.
about four feet by two, until all the
useless clay was washed away. All
that was left in the cradle after the
long and tedious washing process had
to be gone over very carefully, piece
by piece, for the diamonds; and as the
stones found in the river district were
very small, indeed, it can be imagined
how much patience was necessary to
properly carry on this searching pro-
cess. Although these river stones were
SO small they were OF an exceptionally
fine quality-gems of the first water
and were locally known as "glass-
stones, on account OF their clearness.
Long after the river diggings were al
most deserted for the dry mines the
finer and more valuable brilliants found
in the Kimberley district were always
called river-stones. To-day it is at
the dry diggings where the active search
for diamonds goes on, and a very differ
ent mode of operations prevails.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06
4 Chnice of Terms.

Dr.. Nj is very enthusiastic sur.
geon and delights in cutting up the de.
funct in the cause of his profession.
He was lately called upon to attend q
case at st. Mary's Hospital. A poo,
fellow had his face filled with bird shot
and one arm nearly taken Oft: The
Doctor had come directly from the dis.
secting room and his head was full OF
his work there. Walking into the ward
with both hands in his pockets, as Is
his way, lie approached the bed.
"Is this the subject?" he asked,
briefly.
swered, "rm not subject yet; I'm
only an object, and he smiled comic
ally. -,
The Doctor nodded grin,ly Che likes
a Joke, even at his own expense), but
he gave an extra touch to his profes'
sional care for the witty patient
Detroit Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06
THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.

Why have you screwed up your hair
ike that?'
ooh, it's the newest fashion.
"4onr head looks like washerwo-
mans"
What nonsense! It's q Greek
knot"
Il don't care whether it's Greek or
Egyptian; but won't take you to the
theater unless you unscrew that knob. ("
"Boo-hoo!"
Such was the evidently coniugal 'lia-
logue which t1oated from North Side
vestibule last night at the hour when
theater-goers seek the softly padded
landau cushion or, more frequently,
the leathern strap of the somewhat less
luxurious street car.
Are Greek knots really the proper
thing?" inquired the reporter OF Miss
Minerva
ooh, yes, indeed!' she replied. Off
teen out of every twenty fashionable
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06
conspicu.

! I4atlisf slippers with Rhine stone
buckles, and bronze ones with tiny
buckles OF amber, yellow topaz, or
PINK coral are particularly swell.
Common-sense' slippers won't be worn
TINS winter. To DO ordinarily sensible
aDout the cut Of yonr walking boots is
now considered sufficient; in the house,
your toes may be as pointed and your
heels as high as yon like"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

without it. Women ~ FILE FILE ','''-
with sharp features should never in
du]ge in high, pointed coiflures. They
should dress their hair low, and aim at
rounded effects. Yes, French twists
are still good deal worn, and many
women cling to the coil on top OF the
head, but 1 think, on the whole, hair is
descending, and I hear that in Ger
many it has already arrived at the
nape of the neck.
Can l tell you anything about
gloves? Well, this much: that the ef-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06
people are not always, or even most
of the time, either directly in front Of

or directly behind
you, and your colt
fure may be very
pretty at the back
and extremely be-
coming to y on T.
full face, and yet
leave a great deal
to be desired. The
principal use of q
hand-glass is to give
you three quarter
and profile views of
your face, and if you
don't use it in this
way you might al
most as we'll be
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

,,e,r MILLION DOLLARS of the third
,,.eace bonds of the Northern Pa
"a, railroad have been taken by q
Gnrman syndicate in which the Roths-
chiIds and the Deutsche Bank of Ber-
In are the principals.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

women wear them
now, and to nineteen
out OF the twenty
they are appallingly
unbecoming. The
t W en- tie t h lucky
Great ure look s
charming. She has
the peculiar style OF
face and head, some
thing like Mary An
derson's you know,
ts-1 -
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

life. Possessing
these, a man may
start poor and ig-
norant and be-
come rich and
wise. The most
beautiful, as we'll
as the most USE
full and practical
things in this
world, are the
O ifs rings of
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

inhabitants in the dwellings, of the lat
ter under threats of violence and re-
senge in case of complaint. The
prlgands defy the police, and find
means to escape when caught, and have
thus terrorized the population in the
provinces.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

SEWARD MITCHELL, of Palmyra, Me-,
is too good to live in that sharp Yankee
State. He had a good farm, which he
sold to a neighhor, who made a small
cash payment Mitchell took the mans
word for the balance Of the payment,
thinking that it was wrong to take q
note or security from neighbor. The
neiehbor has never paid up. Mitchell,
who of course is getting poor, though
once we'll off, now has scheme for
keeping store which shall be left open
10 all, 80 that any one can take what he
wants and leave in exchange anything
he thinks fair.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06
teen out oil

it. Unless you are the twentieth wo-
man consider the Greek knot suicide.
1t is. the most trying style Of couture
ever invented. Why do so many wo-
men who otherwise display very good
taste do their hair so unbecomingly?
Oh. don't know. I've often tried to
discover, too. 1 think one reason is
that the average woman utterly refuses
to see the necessity for using d hand
glass, OF if she makes use of one at all,
it is only for the purpose of finding out
whether her back hair is all right
which, of course, is proper enough as
for as it goes, but doesn't cover the
whole ground
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

IL excavating for az addition to q
,,r;sou in salt Lake City. recently, five
foreground cells were found, each two
a,1 cne-llalf feet wide, six feet long,
,n1 threo feet high, and with walls two
,o.t thick, covered with hard plaster
rement The doors were gone, but
mart of the hinges remained. There
are believed to be many moro Of the
coils at the same place. They are
s,,nnosed to have been reached, when in
nsa. by subterranean paths. Whether
tbcir doors were grated OF solid is not
known. ------------
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06
DIAMONDS.
How the Precious Crystals Are Dug
Out OF the Bowels of the
Earth.
The Mines Of South Africa-The Dia-
mond Craze a Thing Of
the Past.


HERE are few people
in society who do not,
or who would not like
to, possess one or moro
diamonds. Ii it had
not been for South AZ
RIGA many who are now
fortunate O wners of
brilliants would have
had to go without-not
because they had not
the money wherewith
to buy, but because
twenty years ago the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

j, l.. MERRY, of Westport, CT, now
veteran of 81 years, is tailor, and
remembers we'll when he sat as jour
newman Mt the same table with Andrew
Johnson, who, he says, was not good
tailor, although he did become Presi-
dent Of the United States. Mr.. NIur,y
relates with appreciation his expert
erce in New York in lS4t He was
drawn on jury, and lost so much time
that he atterward joined the volunteer
fire department 10 escape jury duty.
Soon afterward occurred the great
Broad street fire, at which he received
injuries that laid him up for sixteen
months.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

r,ro THIEVES were arrested in Chi
while making away with large
''9 l.r stove in which hot fire was
parI'' ~
l..,r,,inC.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

Mr.. TAYLOR, the colored Democrat
from Kansas City, Mo-, whom the
President appointed Minister Resi-
dent and Consul General to Liberia,
has left his post of duty in disgust
and proposes, as soon as the sixty days
leave of absence he has obtained has
expired, to resign his commission. He
has prepared a report of $50 pages,
which will not be pleasant reading for
Mayor Latrobe, of Baltimore, and other
enthusiastic originators of the Liberia
colonization scheme. ut is the tough
est country" he says, II ever struck.
They have no mules, no plows, and the
average wages are S4.sS years. S.
year, +" he repeated. "They have some
rich gold mines, but they will shoot
any one who attempts to develop them.
My God!' I exclaimed, if this is the
country Of my fathers it is Il good thing
they left it, and any negro who wants
to get back ought to be hanged, and
any white man who wants to go there
should be put in an insane asylum.
There is no business for Consul Gen
eral to do. Only four American YES
sells come there year, and all from
Boston. The General of the army is a
feed Consul for Belgium; the Post
master General is a feed Consul for
Hayti. The Liberian brass band, con-
sisting of one drum, with hole in it,
and cracked fife, came and serenaded
all the night of the Fourth of July,
and next morning sent me bill OF
$50. They have their bill yet for their
pains. l was earning q good living in
Kansas City, when my friends urged
me on Secretary Bayard for this place.
1 want to go back to Kansas City
again. l have had enough of Liberia. ,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06
be more trying
| M, J,,t l,n ~

Gus, Int her foot is
perfect. Half : low
shoes are used a
good deal in place of
slippers, trimmed
with big bows of
ribbon or 1enther,
and, it goes without
laying, buckles.
Buckles Of silver,
gold, jet, and al
sorts Of stones are
everywh ere this
year, and especially
on low shoes and
slippers. Patent
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

NOTHING is more common or more
fatal than the grasping of an advantage
at the cost of ten tines It's value.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

EVEN reckoning makes lasting
friends and the way to make reckonlngs
even is to make them often.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

ONE of the most extraordinary cases
that have ever come up before the SUI
preme Court of the Dominion has just
been argued in Ottawa, and is likely
to be carried to tho Imperial Privy
Council of Great Britain, the highest
tribunal in the realm, before it is
finally disposed Of 1t involves the
question of right of the Roman Cath
Ole Church to exact or collect fines
from members of the congregation
who have failed to conform to the rules
OF the church. The case at issue is
that OF Poitras VS.. Lebeau. The suit
arose out of the refusal of the appel
liant to kneel on both knees during high
mass in the Church of Ste. Anne du
Bout de PIsle, near Montreal. The
action for $4,000 was brought against
the respondent for having instigated
proceedings charging the appellant
with having committed in said church
an irreVerent act, for which he lthe
appellant had to pay the sum of
$500 penalty. The case was tried by
a jury, and verdict was rendered in
favor of the respondent. This verdict
was moved against before the Court of
Review, when a new trial was granted
on the ground that the evidence was
contradictory and that the plaintiff had
suffered damage. The Court of APP
peal reversed this iudment and con-
firmed the verdict. Appeal was then
made to the Supreme Court.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

TUE FRENCH CUT showed me sixteen
different shades of tan-colored suedes
the other day. Short-fngered gloves
are now thought bad style, and the
French cut is the proper thing. French
gloves, you know, have long fingers,
and that makes Your hand look long
and slender. I think % moderately
short sleeve and an eight or ten but
toned glove is much more 'styleful'-
to use the. latest word-than Il long
sleeve and a four-buttoned glove,
though some people prefer the latter.
Have yon heard OF the new left-hand
shake? l am sure it must have been
invented by some woman with pretty
hand and arm and an unlim ted COM
mand OF fresh gloves. It is accom-
! plished high in the air, and woe be
unto you, therefore, if your gloves are
not q perfect fit or are the least bit
soiled, for they become for the moment
the observed of all Observers The
hand is grasped warmly, raised to a
good height, and then suddenly Quit
ted. Yes, exactly the action We con-
meet with the common pump. The ef-
feet upon neophyte is very startling,
something like an electric shock. At
Lenox this fall al the girls were wear
ing with their tailor gowns those heavy
dressed-kid English gloves, with Tapped
drawn seams sewea as harness is
sewed, to show one light edge of the
leather. Then, for neglige, they had
sac gloves, cut very ful, without a
slit at the wrist, aud made of soft dark
kid. Cndressed kid are always worn
in this evening, and very long; but it's
no longer the thing to let them wrinkle
on the arm la Bernhard To keep
them smooth it is a good plan to slit
them neir the top, and pass an elastic
band through the slit and around the
arm, turning down the top OF the glove
little bit to hide the elastic. You can
buy extra skins now in all the evening
tan shades for making slippers, which
must exactly match your gloves.
Boots with light silk tops and straps
across the front are good deal worn.
Beige-colored sill c.,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

fort to send tan-col-
ored gloves out was
quite unsuccessful,
and they will be
Worn as much as
>ever this winter. The
ysalesman at Blanks
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06
Pluck.

My DEAR NEPHEW: Pluck and hon
estY are the two essentials to success in
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06

Beige-colored sill k
galoched w. tn pat
ent leather are pref
t.y, and the black
galo;lle makes the
foot look S N a | |.
/ ark col ors, of
course, always make
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-06
BUcHLED suOR.

I know a girl on the south Side
who in the evening always wears
black-silk stock ngs and white-bid
slippecs or course, nothing could