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H0nRV-Ma0u

Say, Perkins, old boy, why don't we see Won
at the club any more? Has your mother-in-
law shut down on your" mo Brown; the fact
OF the matter Is, my home is SO happy now that
look lncredulous, but it's positive fact You
see, my wife used TO suffer so much from func-
tlonal arrangements common to her sex, that
her spirits and her temper were greatly AT
fected. 1t was not her fault, of course, but it
made home unpleasant all the same. But now,
since sne has begun 10 take DIR. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription, she has been SO well and So
happy that we are having our honey moon all
over again."
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Ex-Spenker of the Assembly of the stato

OIL new OTHs
STATE OF NEW YORK, ASSEMBLY CHAMBER,
ALBANY, April 10, 1886.
My family for the last twelve years have been
using ALLCoCK's Porous PLAsTERs, and have
found them wonderfully eficacious in coughs,
colds, and pains in the side and back.
About ten years ago I was thrown from a
wagon and badly bruised. In three days these
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ness. Twice they have cured me of severe colds
which threatened pulmonary trouble. They
also cured my son of rheumatism in the shoul-
ders, from which he had suffered two years
JAMES W. Hustled,
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only 50c and ST.
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A FRENCH electrician claims that he
will soon be able to produce a thunder
storm wherever and whenever it is de-
sired. Married man, probably.
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hnplYto tho publisher Of the paper u 4O
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BAN francesca, July 7th, 1886.
I took a severe cold upon
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it developed into bronchitis,
and in the fall of the same
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time ceased. G. r. BENNETT.
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Christmas, New Year and Easter all the Il
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What is the board of education? The
schoolmaster's shingle.
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Why is a door in the potential moodP It's
would, or should be ~ .
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Why is tin can tied to a dogs tail like
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What sticketh closer than brother? A
postage stamp, by gum
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F0lr Books Learned in One READING.

A Years Work Done in Ten Day..
From the Chaplain of Exeter College, and
Houghton Syriac Prizeman, Oxford.
Coll. Exon. OXon., Sept 1888.
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your System had so strengthened my natural
nlemOrH that l was able to remember and give
the gist Of any book after TeGding u once.
therefore read Lightfoot, Proctor, Harold
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cesSfld in eyery one Of the nine parers. ! he
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NOVELTIES OF THE DAY.
NOTABLE FACTS DEEMED WOR-
THY OF RECORD.
An Ancient BeiI-OnIy Person Born
in the White HOuse-FOur Crops
of Strawberries in One Year,
etc, etc.

ORE fast ocean
steamers are boing
built and the trip
across will soon be
n mere bagatelle.
T Ii @ world do
move. AS London
time is five hours
faster than New
York time may We
not hope, in tho
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27

6u46E HuC
arrogance by which many Of his coun-
trymen make themselves so thorough
~ disliked whenever they get outside
the limits of their own slight little
island"
In his letters describing the battle,
Russell ridiculed the courage of the
Northern soldiers, and devoted windy
columns to describing "the wild panic
and causeless flight of the Union
army" of which he claimed to be the
one calm and unfrightened observer.
AS matter of fact, this hero led the
rout of the battle he pretended to de-
scribe.
AS he was galloping furiously along,
with his hat off and his face depicting
dread, an officer who knew him and his
mission to America, stopped him and
said:
"Where are you off to in such mad
haste, Doctor?"
"Oh," he replied. SIM the Times
correspondent, you know, and I'm in
ell of q 'urry to catch the next MALL"
And away he dashed again.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27

was private in Company E, Cobbs Lee
gion. The man was literally shot to
pieces, and has lived throug all these
years and now applies for q pension.
Here is an inventory Of his wounds: A
mimic ball entered his right leg, cut
ting the sciatic nerve, and paralyzing
the limb below the knee. A fragment
of she'll struck him on the right arm
near the elbow, breaking the bone and
destroying the joint. A mimic ball en-
tered the muscles of the right arm,
tearing them apart. A fragment of
shell hit him on the left leg below the
knee, crushing the small bone, and
tearing off several pieces of the main
bone three inches in length. A mimic
ball passed entirely through the left
leg below the knee. Another mimic
bail passed through the center Of the
left hand shattering the bones and
breaking the joint of the middle finger.
entirely disabling the hand. Besides
all this he was struck in the right side
with two fragments from shell, max
ing two distinct wounds. The applica-
ton has not yet been passed on. When
it shall he, the probability is that Mr..
Gade will get several pensions for
limbs rendered substantially useless.
This variously wounded man is in 'air
health and seems to enjoy lite.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27
Dakota.

Prohibition, sustained by the Supreme
Court, is making rapid, strides. The Home
Mission Monthly says:
Fargo with its ten thousand people re-
joices. Sixty saloons that existed here are
closed. This is remarkable in q new Ter
ritory, where the saloon-keepers were the
pioneers and pre- tempted its supposed
rights, where the inhabitants ore from ev-
cry country under heaven, that in the first
contest prohibition should be SO over
victorious. While we thank
God'and take courage. we expect the work
is but just begun. Eternal vigilance is
the price of safety. But the idea. that it
was, possible to have such q, victory at the
polls shows the worth Of home missions in
the West. Missionaries and mission
have, under God, wrought glori-
ouslv. and Dakota, not yet a State, is
placed in the van and leading older COM
i'll Kidding our commons country
of the saloon and itstrain of evils"
Many counties are "dry.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27

expected battle that day. I can say,
from my knowledge of Banks, gained
afterward, that if there was any doubt
about his instructions at that time, he
was just the man to construe them into
meaning fight. The man who, ten
months later, could hold on to Port
Hudson till it yielded, when his COM
munications were cut off, New Or
leans seriously threatened and his own
army reduced by sickness and assault
to an equality in numbers with the be-
sieged-this was not just the kind of
General to spend much time thinking
aboutiwhether to fight or not.
have read somewhere that General
Won Moltke, the German commander
in-chief in the Franco Prussian war of
1870, never witnessed one of the battles
that he planned. This is what is known
as the con,mGnder-in-chief idea. It
is no imputation upon the courage of
George B. Mcclellan to say that he
had too much of it. He was under fire
too often to leave any doubt that he
was brave; but he was thoroughly i'm
pregnated with the European notion
that the business of the General is to
fight battles by telegraph. I suppose
no soldier of the Army of the Potomac
of 1862 doubts that had McC lellan been
little nearer the advance at Williams
burgh, where he might have hurried
up re-enforcements, instead of back at
Yorktown experimenting the en-
barkation of troops, an indecisive battle
would have been turned into a fine
Union victory. The German way won't
do in America.
Sheridan was always an example of
the opposite style. He commanded q
division before he did an army, and
never got over the conviction that the
General must be near at hand, where
he can direct the fighting, and get into
it himself, if necessary. There was
not battle of his Shenandoah cam
paign but he was under fire, and in
some of them he was close to the front
lines. His soldiers know that the fact
had much to do with his success.
There is long roll of gallant Union
Generals killed in action. The veneer
able Mansfield at Antietam and Wads-
worth in the Wilderness; Kearnev and
Stevens at Chantilly, Reno at South
Mountain, Reynolds at Gettysburg;
Lyon at Wilson's Greek, Lytle at
Chickamauga, Mcpherson before At
lanta, Sedgwick at Spotsylvania.
These are but few; they and hum
dred more who foil in the fight grandly
redeemed the title of General from the
Sinking, the imbecility, the actual
cowardice into which others dragged it.
Yes, there were brave Generals, as well
as brave privates.
-The rank is but the guinea stamp.
The MANS the eowd. for a that"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27

Placed over so many West Po;nter, q.
ne was IN Louisiana could have dove
better than he did. Be that az + nav
no soldier in any army comman5aa iy ~,
nun ever doubted his personsI sour.
uee. IN fact, it was often said that he
sats as himself needlessly. for the
SAKE OF example. The men who fought
under INN we're in the habit of SEEING
nm ut the front, and he certainly took
nome with him at tho close of the war
the respect which every good soldier
OF his commands felt for General
VINO could always be found where the
nght'ng was going on.
he was in the habit of using GRAND
Language, which sometimes provoked
q q smile, but it was perfectly natural to
plm. another Massachusetts General
once told me funny little story of
Banks that will bear repeating. On
his retreat down the SHENANDOAH VAL
ley IN May, 1862, pressed by largely
superior force commanded by Jackson,
he was attempting to make a stand
ne"r winchester. Some of his subor-
dlnates thought the situation more
threatening than the General did. and
advised that the march be resumed.
mo. gentlemen" said Banks, II will
retreat no further. The opinions of
the people are more imperative than
the bullets of the enemv."
1t was good thing to say, but the
retreat had to be continued to the Fo-
tomac, just the same.
August 9, 1862, long before I saw
Banks or had any personal knowledge
OF him, he fought the bloody battle Of
Cedar Mountain, the opening gun Of
Pope's disastrous campaign. It was
one of those battles, too numerous in
our war, that never ought to
have been fought, because it
was impossible for any advantage
to come from collision of detached
forces. With all its bloodshed Cedar
Mountain had no influence on the cam
paign. A controversy afterwards
arose about it. General Pope insisted
that he did not mean to bring on a
fight, and that Banks had no authority
to do SO; General Roberts, chief Of
staff, saying that he gave Banks no
orders to fight; and General Banks as
sorting that Roberts told him that Pope
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27

the woman. with sweep of the arm
that held the snuff mop, "is percenci-
pa!ly Baptist; an that's, the crowd me
an my ole man trains with, every
time!"
The boys laughed, cheered the old
lady, and rode on to find people with
more pronounced views on the war
and they soon succeeded.
On the Both of September, 1861, the
ladies of Logansport, Indiana, held q
meeting, at which the following stir
ring and patriotic resolutions were
passed. They will serve to show the
young people of to-day how very much
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27

aHello, old LADY," called out one OF
the boys. sAre you = secesh?
@Not much. amt. she replied.
"Then you are Union" said the SOL
''s mo I amt; an I wouldn't be if I
conld." was the woman's startling
answer.
"Weil, if you amt secesh or Union,
vhat in thunder are you?" asked the
Hoosier. .p:,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27
Other of Our Generals.
BY JAMES FRANKLIN Fits.

write this time of the real Gener-
that is, the men who creditably
nmanded armies or subdivisions Of
m in the field. Some of them were
cessful, some not; but the soldier
0 did his best in his station, who en-
red the hardships and dangers of
i've service, and who did not finch
the bullets when they came his
that man is entitled to honor
ether he wore q leather belt or 8
low sash. And having blown my
lie trumpet in a previous sketch
'ut the show, the loafer, and the
Tard Generals. it is a real pleasure
say something of the other kind,
We're credit to the cause, and
ON the soldiers hOnOred and were
ud Of.
comparatively few of the surviving
Grams 7, knew anything in the war
that gallant Irishman, General
pes Shields. It was my good
tune to meet him two or three
rs before his death. and I was
epletely charmed by the magnetism
me old mans manner, his rich fund
"reminiscences, and the drollery of
eye and voice. He was already q
eran when the war began, having
a distinguished and honorable
nee IN the Mexican war, where he
elved bullet through one of his
IS which caused his death thirty
rs after. He had surprising pub
ecord, extending over forty years.
adopted citizen OF the United States,
was the early friend of Abraham
coin, General of distinction in two
ur wars, and q Senator from three
efent States. Although he was
le advanced in years, there were
VINO thought that his early retire
:. =, ron the service during the War
inc Union was a mistake on the
OF the military authorities, and
n ne would have been heard from
ne commanded later in the war.
was heard from in 1862, when
nad the distinction that after
9 g became proud one, of defeat
otonewau jackson in battle
ae shenandoah Valley. 1t was an
oent OF that time that I wish to re-
ana to which all this is introduce
An officer of the Twenty eighth
Aork was present and related it
le. General Shields was wounded
piece OF shell in that engagement
was not able to mount his horse.
10y expected that he would appear
W. sne column the next day; but the
rs mad made but short distance
su 45 march when the General over
NJ Shem. He had pressed into service
~ - ~ gig which had probably carried
~ :, Virginia doctor over the Valley
rs II the days before the war, q
81 Sl, equally venerable was between
s ai: and Shields, with one arm
Dfh.ng, was urging the animal up to
o front. 1t wasn't every General
r eould get cheer from troops on
tonged one. : ' >'
80 mention of the locality and the
ks reminds me of General N. P.
- he was not accounted sue.
il - IN me war, Notwithstanding his
1na logged work at Port Hud.
"a -, naa good opportunities to OBJ
ppbt no man, and I have always
eA' mat NO volunteer General
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27
n earnest the ladies of the North were

in earnest the ladies of the North were
at that time:
Resotped that VIC deem it to be the duty of
every young married man to enlist and fight
for the honor OF his country, his flag. and
his own reputation.
That the young men, in this time Of our
country's peril, have but one good excuse for
not +, being soldiers, and that is cowardice
That the young man who now fails to re-
spond to the call Of his country is not worthy
the kind regards or the smiles OF the young
ladies' of our native State, and that none but
ladies of doubtful age will smile on such
mon.
That we shall have nothing to do with
sHome Guards" who are hereby warned to
keep their distance.
That the young man who has not pluck
enough to fight for his country has not the
manliness to make good husband.
That we will not marry till after the war is
over, and then sHome Guards?" No! never!
/ think it was A-temus Ward who
decla red, after attending war meeting
in Cleveland: "The ladies, God bless
'em, are for Union-to man"
A great many patriotic merchants
and other employers agreed to continue
the wages of their enlisted clerks so
long as they were in the battles front.
A boarding house keeper-a stout Ger
MANN Cincinnati, thought she would
initiate this spirit, so she surprised her
boarders one night by delivering to
them little speech, something like
this.
"Eef any oaf de poarders in dis
house will for sojers to dot war go, den
I lets dere bills run ride strade on till
dey comes pack, und Isharges no more
as de reglar rades, eef dey py de house
staid, unit dond go away aireaty to dot
war;"
Her offer was respectfully but firmly
declined.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27
A Southern Soldiers Wounds.


VERY remarkable
application for al
lowance under the
wounded-soldier act
has been recently
sent to the Execu-
tive Department.
The applicant is Mr..
S. A. Gade, of Rich
mond County, Ga.
whO dnrinu tho wor
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27
The Ladies.
SQUAD of Indiana

SQUAD Of Indiana
volunteers out scout
ing in the mountains
OF Eastern Kentucky
came one day TO q
log cabin, in the
door of which stood
q raw-boned. bare
footed woman, en-
gagged in dipping
snuff. 4
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27
A Newspaper Man.

NE of the most con-
spicuous, if not the
most prominent, men
at Bull Run was DR..
Russell, correspond
ent of the London
Times.
Russell was thor
oughly Southern in
his sympathies, and
he had all the in
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27

MR.. MOODY said recently at Louisville
of the liquor traffic: "Wo have got to
make this business disreputable." Ihatia
just what high licenses does not do,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27

OF COO casss OF inehriety in tho Kings
County IN. W lnebriate Asylum 45S be-
came inehriates FROM going with drinking
men and inducing in the habit Of treating.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27
Chairman National Prohibition Committee.

CoMMEHriNG on the aggressive influence
Of the su'oon,ia politics, fl:rper's Weekly
takes occasion to say: The saloon is now
not merely ~ resout for drinkers. 1t has
become All organized interest and very
elective force in politics. It dominates
candidates. and controls elections solely
with reference TO its own advantage. and
consequently those who otherwise would
be disposed to disregard the question are
compelled to- interest themselves in it to
prevent c. degrading and disastrous ascend
ency i'll pnbi,c ai1aits." The only effective
WAY to get rid Of the troublesome saloon
question in politics is to abolish tbs saloon
itself. AS long us it has legal existence
it is practically an open political club
house, continually on the alert. through
the bribery Of appetite and other corrupt
ing methods. for its own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
and to parpetua.e indefinitely itss;supremaoy
and cGLtyul
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27

AN English medical .aan Of high eu-.
thorily, DR.. J. H. Ruthszford, of Newcas-S
tls. says that "mo1ern science has mace it
perfectly clear that slipping cold water
slowly is the best cssss for the drink
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27

REV. DE-. CHlcKER1NG, Secretary Of
the Congressional Temperance Society, in
q recent letter writes: II have. had unusu-
III success. 30 far. in canvassing the Fifth,
eth Congress for membership, having
found some noble recruits"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27


I'D o Judgment in our hearts. and the ten
ants name was Fear;
ce or, sion's drawing mandate was q call for
men and arms,
zach M recurring eventide but brought US
fresh alarms.
!, had notified the General that he must
weld to fate.
III the munimcnts Of war surrender to
| the State.
on aes on board the steamer all the forts
| artillery.
" loyal was his purpose, but the foe OWNED
+ %ls w;ly Texans set a guard to intercept
aii Ia to bear the message they placed their
| watch with care.
unaware.
! ! this was rather awkward, sir, as doubt
less YOU will say,
the Major, who was chief OF staff. resolved
to have his way.
mite the watchful provost guard; so he
asked his wife to send.
4, n little box of knick-knacks, q letter to
tile lie, ,nissive held one sentence remember
to this day;
b thread is tor your nelGhbor, Mr. French,
across the way.
dispatched youthful courier. Of course, as
YOU will know,
texans searched him thoroughly and or
dered him to show
contents OF the letter. They read it DER
failed to find the message they had him
dered once before.
reached the English lady, and she WON
lered at the word.
gave the thread to Major French, explain
ing that she'd heard
Wished spool Of cotton. And great was
his surprise
uch a tribe scnt, unasked, through leagues
OF hostile spies.
eres some hidden purpose, doubtless, in
the curious gift. he said
h he tore away the label, and inside the
spool of thread
Major Nichols order, bidding him convey
to sea,
the arms and ammunition from Fort Dun
cans battery.
Nu to BraZos speed your horses" thus the
Majors letter ran,
1T equipments and munitions, and embark
thom if you can.
the transfer was effected. for the ships lay
close ut hand.
the Texans guessed their purpose they had
vanished from the land
know it for O fact, sir? It's no story that
I've read,
sbut a boy in war time, and carried him
the thread.
pile E. Eastman, in Nev Yo,a: Independe,s t