Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-06-15
NIGHT Ov A ca.

The man who has taken the a.,
fashioned, straight-laced cot, and WI
gun to wreak improvements on !.
not so smart man as he thinks h.
If he is working for money it is na.
bic he may get it. If he is work. w.,
for glory. or the good of his count
men, he'd better stop.
The comparatively steadfast oil -
OF our forefathers is almost extina1
Those who do any attempted sleenIn
on cots nowadays, do it upon SOM
patent spring, verterbraless jack.kn;,
affair, with not half as much slean
them as the old-time canvas sleema
troughs.
There are three stages to pcl
spent on a cot. Inception-grown
dissatisfaction-and bitter retrospel
ton.
It is almost always one Of the code
nights Of the year. You see your C
made up snugly against the wall, wild
n great many heavy clothes, and 4
ante outlook is quite pleasant on,
You turn back the bedding careful
when your hour arrives to climb in,
the arms of morpheus, and by tor.
Gus downward movements find yours
inside. Then you begin to say yo
prayers, and when you awaken it
sometime in the night.
Finding it necessary to turn oya
you forget you are not upon the cal
pus of your own big bed, and fill
yourself over with clebonaire rockies
ness. This act is virtually the end
your nights rest.
In making this sideloag movement
rift has been created somewhere to|
ards the foot. That is, the gene1
direction is that way, but when you
on rift chase, they seem to have tax
AN all over tendency, attacking the vel
small of your back aud careering
spring bed spirals all up and down til
portion.
The fire by this time is quite lo
and the feecy breath can be discern
on the upside OF the bed quilts. Th1
the front corner Of the clothes is firm
grasped. and you bring your ltd
Christian science to bear upon your Sd
roundings. But it won't work. II
clothes begin to slowly but surely 81
forward, gradually leaving the e
panse Of your back open to the invasd
Of more careering chills. You feel
back, and yet, you know, should I'd
move, the whole fabric OF bed gel
will fall off in a soggy heap upon ii
floor. So there you lie, longing
sleep, even if it only brings nightmay
Upon every slight stir on your pa
the patent legs of this new-fangled q
squawk, and you dread to hunt mud
for the coverings, fearing to be shot
midnight prowler. With despe|
ately cautious movement to at last sol
the state, you take firm hold Of I'll
slipping clothes 1t is enough. I'd
upper half of your dream tent fold
up with snap. and you come to cart
in horribly inverted attitude.
To get out and hunt up the combine
ton is the only apparently feasNI
thing to do, but somehow this wo]
work either. You fuss away in tb
dark trying to straighten this canva
riddle when suddenly the perpendicu
lar legs at the foot go to meet the
closed fellows. taking in your finger
on the way. "Then you find yon hs7
on your hands stiff, linear, trougi
like article, that won't he anything,
do anything, but bang through the boo
case doors, or puncture the sides Of tb
house. Finally you lay it down wit
not very much consideration for any
thing and as you do so are met
Phnhus, as she goes by to open up h
day. From out the duskv mistiness
the somewhere, you find your col
shoes and stick your bare feet int
them, and sneak behind the stove wit
some of the bed-clothes around yo
and muse over the depravity of inanl
mate things, and wish it would elo1
lighter so you could find your paata
looms. detroit Free Press.
TNE FAMOUS CinYIfUSIAN TABLE,
Not great way from MontereE
eighteen miles northeast of Tampazs
is the far-famed Carthusian table, ON
of the greatest natural curiosities
the continent. It is table-Iand LAW
feet high and $500 above sea Level
The figure of the table-land is an al
most perfect crescent, running eas
and west, and on it's summit are NOR
than eighty thousand acres Of perfec'|
level land, Astounding in running wv
ter. The only way to reach the top
by perilous roads, five feet wide anu
three miles long. This singular moao'
ain was named for the Carthus'aD
monks by former tribe Of Indians Sn'
Occnrio1 H. onI woro tanoht DV luz