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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05

band funeral approaching his post. aud
of course stopped to watch the pro-
ceedings. The corpse was laid in the
grave, and, as it would not sink, heavy
sods taken from the surface were
placed on both head and feet.
While the body was slowly sinking.
the white-headed preacher was ex-
horting the attendants in eloquent and
impressive language, and also. con-
uniting the body, "Dust to dust, etc.
Just as they were in the act of throw
ing in the dirt covering, up dartcl the
dead body, head first, more than half
way out Of the grave, and the last one
of them ran away yelling. Joe burst
outlaughing, as he saw that the weight
which had been placed on the head
had slipped off and let the body assume
an upright position. It was some time
before the negroes could be influenced
to return and complete the burial.
They believed there was something
supernatural about it, and no amount
of talking would convince them to the
contrary.
IAMPAsAs, Texas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
Quantri:l, tho Guerrilla.
By ELIZA ARCHARD,

At the beginning of 1865 Quantrill
said to his men, "Boys, the war is end
ed; the South has lost. Do the best
you can"
He sent the married men to their
homes, took most of the single ones
with him, and organized a smaller
band. With these he continued for
some time longer his life of rowing and
depreciation. With him were Jesse
and Frank James, the train robbers,
and Cole Younger. Cole Younger is
now in the Minnesota penitentiary.
Frank James is in mercantile business
at Dallas, Tex.
At the beginning of 1866 Quantrill
and his reduced band started north
and east. They worked their way
across the Mississippi River above
Memphis, entered Tennessee, and
finally reached Kentucky. It is be-
lieved that Quantrill was trying to
reach Lee at Richmond, and surrender
with him.
In Kentucky he called himself
Captain Clark, and his men wore the
Federal uniform. But their identity
was discovered. May 10, 1865, Captain
Terrell, at the head Of some Union
men. surprised the party at Wake
fields barn, in Spencer's County, Ken
lucky. In trying to escape two of the
band were killed, and Quantrill was
mortally wounded. "
He died in the United States Mill
tary Hospital at Louisville, KY, June
6, 1865. He is buried in the Roman
Catholic cemetery of st. Johns Church,
Louisville.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
v0S TRENcK,s CAPTIVITY.

One prison breaker whose adventures
have won for him place in history is
Frederick, Baron Won Trenck, who had
the misfortune to offend Frederick III.
The facility with which Won Trenck
bribed his jailors and corrupted Fred
ericks officers, and the frequency with
which he was himself betrayed, throw
curious light on the ideas Of honor
obtaining in Prussia at that period.
At his first attempt Won Trenck
attempted to carry off a brother Of
ficer who was, like himself, prisoner
but this individual betrayed him. He
afterward got warden to bring him a
file, and constructed saw out of a
pocket knife. By the aid of these in
struments he cut through his window,
which was sixty feet from the ground /;
but in descending he fell, and was re-
captured. Some time afterward the
commandant of the fortress was speak
ing to him, when Won Trenck, with a
really splendid audacity, seized the Of
ficer's swor,l, cut his way out of the
place, jumped from the rampant, killed
a sentry WHO opposed him, and would
certainly have succeeded in escaping,
but that he met another sentry who
overpowered him. Nothing daunted by
his defeats, Won Trenck bribed soldier
after soldier, and corrupted one officer
after another, only to be again betrayed.
Eventually, however, he got his guard
to allow him to escape, but in doing, SO
he had the misfortune to sprain his
ankle. For hours he and his companion
wandered about in the cold and dark.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05

vance, of The charge of tho limo
When VIC mot them 80 gtNndiy, with columns
DlOrokcll,
Ard ihe army unconquercd aud cheering was
mime.
Lot me clnsp yo:lr strong hands rs l clasped
them i'll battles
AS the cheers of the brayost went up to the
sky,
When Eai'y'a proad army. mid canaons' loud
rritio,
Eciled bnck like tho cloud when the tempest is
nigh
"igniM ca1l see the Stone river. dark, sweeping
On. red with the blood OF thoilerues tiat fell,
When ntl that were loft from the boys that were
sleeping
In death followed m, from that fre-giriled
}Gf.
ANN the flat hoofs of.l.iy charger are bringing
Me swift to the fray down the twenty mile ride,
Again lint glud shout can hear upward ring
ing,
As Merritt md Custer swcep back trsason's tide
Now see Appomattox with all of it's glory.
When our brothers in gray from the battleHelds
fiotpsd hands in friendship that ever shall
last.
Now sec-stay, my comrades. the dark mist is
falling.
Wife, country, farewel,-liit mo up-one moro
breath
j am coming, my soidierstis Custer that's
calling"
Tneenguered in life, and unconquered in death
How We Suffered.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05

ye0DeS ~ tHOSe LITTLE SnelGerS
required not "stoop-
ing little," but suppliant and hum
bic position on hands and knees No
other equipment of the soldier can
speak so eloquently to the heart to-day
and remind the veteran of the sacrifices
of those days as the little shelter tent.
The soldiers of both armies can meet
under it's folds and talk over old times,
and the young, as they see the diminu-
tive dog-tent, will hardly believe that
their fathers slept in such humble quar-
tiers.
1t is surprising that in the many
plays, theatricals, camp fires and other
gatherings of soldiers, no attempt has
been made to bring out the shelter tent
and portray life beneath its folds. Much
has been written about the flag, the can
teen. the haversack, the blue uniform.
the cartridge box, but poet and writer
seem to ignore the shelter tent as be-
meath their notice. Poets sing of old
houses having ears to hear, eyes to see,
and tongues to tell of what occurred
within their walls. Comrades, if those
old shelter tents could only come to us
and tell us of our life beneath their
folds, what valuable diary they would
furnish. They could tell of games of
euchre and seven up, of luxurious sup
pers, of days and nights of hunger and
cold, of books read, of Bibles studied,
of prayers of strong men, earnest
prayers that God would hasten the day
when peace, honorable peace, would
again come. Those little shelter tents
could also tell of letters received from
loved ones, of answers written, Of men
in tears as they read sad news from
wife, mother or child, news which made
them long to rush to their aid, news
that made them feel the bonds they
had voluntarily assumed and reminded
them that they had surrendered per
so1eal liberty. Comrades, let the shell
ter tent be pitched at every soldier
gathering, to bring to our remembrance
the days of our bondage to a higher
power, bondage that we accepted at
the call of duty.-Chicago Ledger.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05

DR. PAuL1N1s mentions an epidemic
OF diphtheria, in 1884, which followed
the arrival of flock of turkeys in Ski.
atos, one OF the Grecian isles, where no
case OF the disease had previously been
known for thirty years. Some of the
turkeys were sick, and it is believed
that the diphtheritic germs were con.
veyed from them through the air to the
hrst human victim.-Arkonso,y Trap
eler.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05

ANYTHING else?" asked landlad,
OF the new boarder, as he pushed bach
IRON the table Yes, I'd like to hav,
a crowbar." What foran .To =.
that tough beefsteak out Of nv teeth :
Indeed! And while YOU are nrv;no
"i.n ene crowoar will you please try to
ra IL. a little money to pay your board
bill ?"-Arcola Record.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
Sheridan, H,,,nnr.

It is told of Sheridan during his
fatal illness that while in Washington
he was propped up to look out of the
window and caught sight of the eques-
trian statute at SCOTS circle, block
away. General Scott is bestriding the
most extraordinary old screw in bronze
an equine, it is said, that used to
cause General Grants grim features to
expand into broad smile every time
he looked at it. General Sheridan
looked at it steadily, then he said very
earnestly to his brother. Mike, if ever
a grateful country should erect an
equestrian statue Of me, for Gods sake
see that I have better mount than
Scott"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
PRAISE THE COOK.

Good cooks are said to be almost "a
sensitive as good actors. Without
proper appreciation and applause they
will not show their finer qualities. How.
ever conscientious they may be, they
require this stimulus for any brilliant
or effective execution. It is fact that
many master or mistress might recog.
nize with profit that while continual
fault-tinding may ruin cook who has
good possibilities, praise will stimulate
to development of hidden abilities.
An authority on the subject says:
IF the employer is man who is
learned in the secrets of their calling,
and is able to recognize their best
achievements, and criticises them will,
intelligence and subtle appreciation,
the ordinary chef will do anything pos.
sible to extort admiration from his pa.
tron. He will stand behind curtains,
watch the waiter bring his dishes to the
table, and listen with q greedy ear 70;
the EXPLANATIONS of surprise and pleas.
ure which they elicit from his cultivated
master. Then he will return to the
kitchen in his happiest possible frame
OF mind and anticipate with beating
heart the time when the gratified EN-.
.ployer will descend to the kitchen and
compliment him in enthusiastic phrases
on the latest development of his skill
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
The Youngest sold,er OF tho war.

An Eastern contemporary claims that
the youngest enlisted man in the
Union army during the late war was
Albert G. White, who is now pastor of
the Amesbury (Mass.) Universalist
Church. He was born in 1852, in New
ark, Ohio, and when not quite nine
years old was mustered into service as
. drummer in Company d of the Sixty
fourth Ohio Volunteers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
THE OLD LADY WAS NOT Fur
GOTTEN. =,

@Ethel," asked o Lewistown nlo'ns
of her daughter, as the fair young .! T. T.
sat down at a late breakfast IL ~ ~
morning gown, did George leave ,,. -
package for me last evening" o'n :,
blushed and said falteringly, ""ns' 81 =,
mamma! What made you ask ~
nothing. I only heard him say =. ..s
door as he said goodbye, Now, h s:1n
one more for your mother and a' 10,
know but it was that pattern 1ot ~. ~
lam0requins that his mother has p a,,i,
ised me-" Ethel said nothing. -1'"
ton Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05

side wet sloughs that were almost i'm.
passable. The Ridge proper was from
a quarter to half mile, and in some
places even wider, and thickly settled
and we'll cultivated. For what purpose
we had been camped there we never
knew, unless to try our constitutions in
the very center of malarial produc.
tions.
just where our regiment was camped
the Ridge was divided by bayou OF
lagoon of water, and back of us, across
this, were camped probably more than
a thousand contrabands. Our men
were nearly all on the sick list, but
managed to do picket duty nearly all
of the time. The contrabands were
also suffering severely from fevers, dys-
EMERY, etc, and dying off very fast,
although thoroughly acclimated under
ordinary circumstances.
Our picket line was stationed Just
back of the contraband camp, in the
edge of the swamp, but what was ex-
pected to come through this morass ex-
cept alligators and other indigenous
animals was more than we ever found
out. Near the post occupying the
northwest corner the contrabands buried
their dead with all the superstition and
solemnity Of the African nature. From
comrades who had occupied this post
we were often told of strange things
that happened at burials here, which,
in spite of the solemnity of the occasion,
would convulse us with laughter.
One day after he was relieved, Joe
G. s. told us of an incident that
often recurs to me. The ground was
so low naturally that grave or any
hole dug in the ground would imme-
diately fill with water to within few
inches, of the top. This condition of
things made it necessary to put weights
on the dead bodies in order to sink
them for covering. 1t was impossible
to get collins or boxes Of any kind,
and all burials were made in blankets.
just before night Joe saw contra.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05

QUEEN VERONA is something of
granger. She will he President If Tho
Royal Agricultural Association for this
year The Queen never repulses an
honor or title ~
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
OLD CHOCOLATES TARGET PRA
TTGE

OLD CHOCOLATES TARGET PR4(
TICE.
De tree dat doan' glib yo' fruit gibs \
shade.
De lawyah sellum goes toe law on
own hook.
Eff beatin' nd do emmy good de jackh|
! I'D refawm.
Hit ali toe late toe masha yo' coT
aftah yo' dun cut hit.
Yo' kin often gain mo- by holm \
tongue zen yo' kin by hahd wuck.
Efpromises wah debts dar I'D be fe1
men dat I'D 'scape bankruptcy.
Hit am foolish mouse dat nd ahsa
wild cat Wen hit kin reach ho1
fust.
Yo' ull fin good men in de wus' con
p'ny, jis' ez yo' ull fin posies 'mons
wus' weeds.
Hit amt so much wat goes intoe 1
front do dat makes man po' ez w
slips fro de back gate.
Eff q long beard an a sollum looks'A
fo' wisdom yo' might ez well spec a gu
toe tell yo' fawchune.
Oar er a few things yo' kin do bes IL
hurry, an one ub UNI am gittin QUE
anoddah's mellon patch.
De man dat sows shif'lessness Ill
spring an cult'vates laziness in de sul
man mus halves hungah in de fall =
wintah.
Some men doan' know wat toe 40 W.
success wen hit comes toe UNI emmy ~ ),
ZEN had-car1iah nd know wat toe !
wild an elefunt won at a rattle. ~
WalQrOn. IN .JaAI0e.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
EY JAMES FRANKLIN Fits.

HE actual work of
war is full of dan
gers, which are its
common incidents,
and which everybody
WHO reads can appre-
ciate and under
stand.
The perils of the
battlefield are things
that speak for them
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
BRAVE MEN WHO MET UPON THY
FIELD OF RATTLE.

Thrilling Stories of tho Rel,el,ion-Oltl
Soldiers and Sailors Iscclte Interesting
"Reminiscences of LILO in Camp and on
the Field.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
SAN PArcH.

"Reminiscences Of the ORE.
J.nspef-His First ava L... I,etebrd
A grizzled old farmer named l'v W;n,
P. Brown YVES in town the otbar !,
says Mit d etown letter in tho y
York Times, and fell to giving ren;'
cences of Paterson Is he renew ''l
the place sixty years ago. ISL
on Manhattan Island" he said. a,'
all the upper part was nothing Int ~
lands, and !. wen. TO work in a co.s
spinning factory in Paterson as swaa
and errand-boy when 1 was II years
Paterson was small place then /
the factory was small affair, too j,
one Of the owners was Sam Patch
afterward became famous "a NJ
jumper. I saw him make his first !
Jump at Passaic Falls.
"The story of the jump is this; s.
Patch and a man named Brannigan y
partners in the factory and they faile1|
business. Sam was a Cape Cod d
by birth and had been sailor from
boy up till he cameFto Paterson,
was daring and reckless fellow !
could swim like duck. It was D
that while he was sailor he often
hibited his skill and daring by iumnl
from the high masts Of ships into }
sea. After the failure Sam Patch hi
around Paterson with nothing to do J
til he got pretty hard up. Then, 1 81
pose. the thought occurred, to him n
he could make raise by jumping
the rock at Passaic Falls. So notice
given that at certain day and Id
Sam Patch would jump off the clif
the falls into the river below, dits1
of about eighty feet, for a purse Of d
made up by some Of the sports Of \
town. Few people believed that
would make the jump, but there wal
big crowd on hand to see it all \
same.
"Sam came to the falls stripped
his undershirt and drawers. He show
no fear or nervousness, but his face ]
flushed, as I thought, by drink.
took couple of small stones in
hands and wentsto the hkiHt of the d
and dropped Mem oAdn after }
other, and watched whefe they str1
the water down below. Then he walk
back few yards and turned and tool
little run to the brink of the cliff \
jumped off, clearing the rocks about 4
feets He went down feet first, but vi
his body inclining considerably to d
side, and in this shape he struck !
water and disappeared. A few secon
later his head bobbed up at point dol
stream, and he began padding for
shore. Then the crowd gave him /
cheer.
"Sams jump at the Passaic Falls u
considered a marvellous feat in thd
days and made him famous the count
over. So he took to jumping for mon
from the masts of ships and from Bird )
and other high places, and went abb
the country giving exhibitions. q
fortunately for him, too, he took up 4
other practice that soon cut his card
short. I didn't see him make his d
jump at the Genesee Falls, at Rochest4
November IL, 1929, but those who
see the tragedy tell me that when
approached the brink to make the LED
of 125 feet into the seething pool beld
he was dazed and unsteady from drinl
He made the jump SO bunglingly that
struck the water fatwise instead Of fe|
first, the conclusion crushing in 4
breast and sending his dead body to Il
bottom like a stone."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
sheri,,an's Las, Battle.
ny SHERMAN ~. RICHARDSON.

. RAW nearer, III v
comrades, the mist
up the valley.
. Like the dust from
the iloofs OF the charger,
in near,
vet I'll lead tho last
charge. rs around me
YOU rally,
Niill a s,nilc on my lips.
~ of old, without fear.
I at ire SEQ tho old fng
that was once tho true
token
If il,a nu,oJlnn'a nd
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
The Shelter Tont.
BY DRAp.

HE shelter tent,
composed of two
pieces of duck, each
aboutsix feet square,
belonged peculiarly
to the private sol der
and company Off
GERS.
To enter one of
those little shelters
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-05
Up Out of the Grave.
BY WILBUR H. WEBER,

URING the
winter of go
W e we r g
canlped at
TIL e upper
end of Met
ailie Ridge,
about t wo
miles back
of Carroll
ton, Louisi-
ana. Toward
the lake
there was
nothing else
but cypress
swamp, and
OH the river
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
A Chance to Make Money.

There has not, in many years, been a better
opening for n giant than now, SO the show
men say. Any maj who measures TX feet
can almost fix his own price. That stature
has never been exceeded so far as modern
authentic history tells, except by Chang, the
Chinaman, whom Barnun exhibited for sew
eral years. He lacked only three inches of
being 8 feet. Chang was an educated man.
DARN of refined tastes, and after accumulat-
ing $4,000, enough to make him a Wander
bilt in China, he returned to his native land.
No offers lave since tempted him to bscome
an exhibit again, and he used to declare that
only a desire to journey in all civilized lands
induced him to make his tour, which lasted
six years. Peter Feketi, the Hungarian
giant, whose death was reported recently,
was to come to America during the winter.
Te was 6 feet 4 and very heavy. The
American giants of recent times, Capt.
Goshen and Anna Swan, were all less than
that i'll stature, and they are ell dead of con-
sumption, the common destroyer of such
%overgrown persons. There is not at present
in the show business i'll the country, accord.
ing to the manager of the largest museum
i'll New York, q giant exceeding z feet
counting out his hair and boot keels-New
Vcrl- 7 attrr
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
The Schools of Greece.

Tho present king, George l, came to the
throne in 1868. Under his reign educational
affairs have moved on faster than ever, until
today there are 1000 elementary schools for
boys attended by 72,0e0 scholars, 27O schools
for girls, attended by 10000 scholars; there
are over $500 teachers, male and female,
most of them holding certificates from the
normal school, 331 secondary schools with
l,40O teachers and assistants, and with mere
than $4,000 pupils, So gymnasiums with PIG
instructors and 4,7.:2 pupils, q university
with four departments, 100 professors and
2,402 students, IL half dozen normal schools
which have supplied over 5000 teachers Of
late years, u polytechnic school at Athens
with "a instructors and 4sJ pupils, n large
number of private and ecclesiastical schhols,
several large o%rphanages, us well as night
schools in the larger places.
In 1885 the M gave for primary
education 2,2225 900 drachmai, and the gov
eminent 100000; and in the same year the
budget contained 100000 drachmai as the
government contribution to higher and Sec
ondary education. The effect of all this
combined effort has been that illiteracy is
rapidly disappearing, and the next genera
ton of Greeks to a man will know how to
read and write.-"H. w. H." in New York
Poet
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15

Referring to English progress in cduca-
tional methods, or rather the power of tradi-
ton to prevent progress. brings out the
marked contrast with DIR own country,
where the power of tradition is ut its mini
mum. The ideal school OF the future, now
clearly conceived by our best educators, is
one that shall educate the whole being; in
%tcllect, morals and physical powers having
proportional share ill the care and discipline
of the masters. 1t is not enough to thrust
religious teachings out; moral teaching must
come in. Nor is it enough to build gymnasi-
ums for sport; there must be systematic cult
ure of the whole body on physiological prin-
ciples. Manual training is an admirable
supplement to mental training, but the ideal
school is that one which provides for the
whole person that which trains him as Il unit.
Professor Woodward states the defect of our
system when he says, "Ilerc is wide coll
viction of the inutility of schooling beyond
the primary grades. "-Globc-D Democrat.