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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07
Our Foreign Population and Prohi'
bitiOn.

Rey. G.. A. SwenssOn, Prcsidento OF Bethany
College in Kansas, Il Swede. said few days
ago upon the Chautauqua platform: our
Swedish Lutheran Church. as one man. OBJ
noses the saloon and the whisky element
IN notifies Some Swedish towns in Kansas
have given the strongest temperance Noto
nf nuy precinct in the Union That vote
was y Republican temperance vote. w
This is good news. There are Il !nllllon
su.odes in this country. and according TO
NJ Swensson, we can count on them as
henr against the saloon in politics. wiener
thew vote with the Republican or ProhlDi-
tion party they can be counted on as on inc
side OF prohibition. $50
Not only the Swedcs, but there are not
few Germans that are against the saloons.
Talking with an intelligent German inc
cher day, he estimated that in Wisconsin
1nsd r. the snloou and if free from politi-
III , limitations would vote for prohibition.
ca" INC h Nnrwegians are much like their Swe-
aish nniohhors belong to the same church'
md are not far behind them in their oppo-
s sition to the saloon. The Irish Catholics
arn facing about at the call OF blshop ire
1and and Father Clearly. those grand tenn
l't li,,,aa LADDERS. In this State there are
p; pr Catholic temperance leagues. and
e tals ,%yambership is growing rapidly. A few
liz II. 400 ut Menasha after an earnest ad-
d"os. hS Father Cleary. nearly l,OOo IN
Gntholic church took the pledge OF total
C shstinance for one year. This may not De
s,n;ta IN to our prohibition standard. out IL
= IN the way and will soon reach IL.
r Of ma then thank God and take courage .
rhn nopulations that we nave .h1usn'
anainst us are moving In the r'sat o'lee-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07

81 saeh an increase in the prohibition va. -.
s 20 surprise even our own friends Tho o' 80. az
onrs ;s ms increase exists in the fact that
eine Is the only party lighting for p 9ia.
parties e saeset Is no issue between the old
There is az scramble scramble for the spoils.
treasury doing no ono any good. II III il inc n
tr.s.a s.hg ~ the rate of $500, 600 a dav tnta,,
Of the people by sys sKsn
p part niaasfass g high taxation. Both old
standard 'o Of n.y. instead Of rising to the
aongress to legislate for the immetiiate ie ral
uuctlon OF the surplus in the interest of tha
pniop'e, simply frame their policies With h." a
T 1es t 70 CARRYING certain doubtful States
system should cease The Demopp eahlelS Ions
US taxed rake: whisky and the Republicans want want
~ give 1t to US free; but we don't ,rant
WI WHISKY at all. We go in for. removing the
t a.s,. and the whisky too."-Chicogo 6ouv
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07
OFF THE FENCE IN IOWA.
Former Republicans Outspol<en for the
Prohibition Ticket,


Tho outlook for strong Fisk vote in Iowa
steadily improves. Harmon Cook, of this
city, is receiving numerous letters from men
who are severing their connections with the
old parties.
J. A. Mckinney, of Fairfield. prominent
man and an old settler. writes: Il attended
the first Republican convention held in
Iowa as delegate. Have been with the
party from that time to the Chicago con-
vention. Now am at work for God. for
homes. for sorrowing wives. and hungry
starving children. and believing the work Is
of God. know it must prevail"
Thomas G. Orwig, of the Iowa Patent
Office, writes: Count my vote for Fisk and
Brooks"
J. w. Crawford. banker Of Dexter,
writes: Il am in the Prohibition party to
stay. 1 see no hope from any other quar-
ter"
d. 3; McCo1 1 Of the Capital City Bust
once took the Ioro State Registers view of
St. John. but when I came to know him I
believed in the man and not the paper
Letter from Des MOjnes IOrd
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07
Why Men Like DR.. Cuyler Are Aroused.

Here is the difference. The Republicans.
when they declare u willingness to relin-
whisky. strike a Gripping blow ut their
-talked-of plan OF battle against the
liquor evil. High license or taxation is
not the prohibition plan OF battle; but it is
the Republican plan. and this is the plan at
which the Republicans at Chicago struck
a frigntful blow. Think of it. The Federal
tax of $50 100000 means S485 on an average
for every saloon Of any kind in all the broad
land of America! That single tax amounts
to four and half times us much as all
county and State liquor taxes put together
these other taxes aggregating only
S2O.OOO.OOO.
See how James G. Blaine looked at it
from the high license standpoint in his
Paris letter of last spring:
Il would not advise the repeal of the whis-
Ky tax. Other considerations than those Of
financial administration are to be taken into
moral side to it. To cheaper the price of
whisky is to increase its consumption enor-
mously. There would be no use in urging
the reform wrought by high license. in many
States if the National Government neutral
ICES the good effect by making whisky
gallon. Whisky would be everywhere dis
titled il the surveillance Of the Government
were withdrawn by the remission OF the tax.
and illicit sales could not then be prevented
even Dy Il pOlcy us rigorous ana searching
as that with which Russia pursues the Nj
hilists. 1t would destroy high license at
once in all the States"
OF course. Mr.. Blaine quickly saw that to
repeal the tax would be fatal to the claim OF
the Republican party that it meant to Grip
pie the liquor evil by high license.
But the Republican party will reimpose
the taxes through the State governments.
With that kind OF talk great attempt is
being made to deceive the people just now.
Look,at it. Suppose the Republican party
desired to do so. how would it so about it in
those States. one half of all. now ruled by
the Democratic party? Then in only few
States in which it has the power has the
Republican party been willing to pass a high
license measure.
Besides. look this difficulty squarely in
the face: Over twenty-four millions of these
internal revenue taxes are collected in the
single State of Illinois. Is it presumed that
Illinois will levy and collect tax eight
times heavier than the total expense OF her
State government? New York. Ohio. and
Kentucky pay into the United States
treasury under this tax forty-two millions
of dollars. Are these States to be per-
mitted to collect this enormous sum-tive
times more than sufficient to meet the eX-
penses of their State governments? No Re-
publican leader can seriously expect this.
II is the betrayal of Il plan. not of the ex-
change of one plan for another and Il better
one. that has created this widespread alarm
and Indignation among temperance Repub-
IcauS.-Ner York Voice.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07
Exploding q Crocodile.

Yes," said Uncle Cap, 81 have not
only seen hundreds of alligators and
crocodiles in the course of my wander
ings, but I once had the pleasure Of
destroying in a novel and most effectual
the crocodile is called in South Amer
ica."
"Was he like my alligator" asked
Bryce.
aVery like him, the only difference
being that while your alligator is about
sixteen inches long, my cayman was
little over sixteen feet, and as ugly 8
looking monster as ever swan. 1 had
been detached from the Porpoise, and
ordered to explore portion of Vene-
zuela, in company with party of Amer
lean engineers, who were constructing
a telegraph line for the government Of
that country. We were following down
tributary Of the great river Orinoco,
and rested one Sunday at little village
on the bank of the stream. During the
afternoon, as we were all lying asleep
in our hammocks, there came terrible
screaming and crying from the village,
and we ran to see what was up.
cit seemed that several boys had
been bathing in the river just below
the village, when all at once, without
the slightest warning, one of them had
been seized and drawn under the turbid
waters by the great devil cayman,' as
the Indians called one of these crea-
lures which had long been a terror to
the community.
II suggested to the chief of the engi-
neers, a fine young fellow named Rob-
erts, that we set q trap for the man
eater, and after explaining my idea, got
him to agree to it. AS we were to be
in. that vicinity for several days, we
waited until we thought it was about
time for the cayman to be hungry again.
Then We shot fat monkey, sewed in
side of him a stone bottle containing
five pounds of powder, inserted in. it
the ends of two coils of fine wire, bound
these to strong ropes of equal length,
and connected. the other ends with the
little test battery that we carried,
"When all was ready we hoated our
bait, upheld by two inflated bladdhrs.
near. where the poor boy was seized,
and crouched in the bushes to. await
developments. We had waited in per
feet silence for more than an hour; and
we were about ready to give it up, when
there came a. ripple in the water; and
the huge head, with horrid open jaws,
was cautiously lifted. Then the jaws
closed with a snap upon our. baIt, the
head Instantly disappeared, and the
ropes, began to run swiftly out, showing
that the monster was making for deeI
water. I had charge Of the battery, and
quickly connected the wires. Like 6
flash there came deep muttied explo
sion, torrent Of blood-stained wate1
was thrown high in the air, ana mingled
with it were fragments Of the scaly hide
Of the monster, i'll whose side holt
two feet square had been blown.
"The poor natives were at first terri
fed, then mystifed, and finally over
ioyed at the success Of our experiment
and ever afterwad they treated us lik'
beings possessed of supernatural pow
ers. Notwithstanding this, we notices
that the boys did not seem to care TO-
bathing for some time afterward."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07

dash OF wild ducks Within the city that last
year spent 100000 in public Improvements,
there were but few log huts and bark wig,
vans Where now hundred trains daily un-
load their thousands, dozen swarthy trappers
district where last year millions worth of sta
pies were wholesaled few traders were swap
ping beads and blankets with Indians for, furs.
now Portland has four daily, fifteen weekly and
three monthly publications: The Morning Orc
seventy miles Of paved streets and 10 miles Of
sidewalks. It has electric lights, gas, telephone
district-telegraph and MESSENGER service. and
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07
LII SURPRISE THE NATIVES.
W. 81. John Predicts Big Prohi-
b!tiOn Vote in November.

81. John Predicts q Big Prohi-
nition Vote in November.
NOV. st. John of Kansas was at the
u"m Yesterday. He is looking remark
AK. n ior man working night and day.
ISihs by the audiences" said he. our
mus grown wonderfully since 1884. we
My day OF some prominent RepuDn-
"'to mas turned Democrat. or wee
H. rof every such case occurring
'wo old parties we can show
Il,v In the North We draw prln-
n. rom the Republicans, and IN
"nerc they come from so long rs we
'ri,h. getting Them. We are not sitting
s W. worrying about winning TINS
kv'Ste are working. and don't care to
,i II. on the result. We are content 70
(Lnn! ''ic ballots are in and counted. ana
N'e 10 doubt that the result will show
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07
PARSONS, Kan.
A Club OF F0rty-tWo i'll q Iear.ins.
Town.

The voters in this yearling, town are,
Rocking to the Prohibition party. This is.
largely due to discomfort and to the efficient
missionary work Of party Prohibitionists.
They hnvo just organized a club with
forty two members. the President of which
was prominent Democrat. Many con-
yerts here are from the Democratic party.
Only seven votes were polled in this town
ship for st. John. Last spring the town
voted dry" by 10 to 49, This fall it will
give $50 votes for Fisk and Brooks.-Letter,
from ST. Paul Park, MINI.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07

HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING, PORTLAND, OREGON.
a day. There are public libraries and reading
rooms good hotels, dozen banks and four street.
building west of the Mississippi River. seven
ward school houses and eighty seven teachers.
IT. factories employ 4,on0 mon. The city is
rich, and everywhere ars cottages which display
not wealth so much as taste care and thrift
making every locality respectable and knowing
tionately of those in tie 'f bumber Wpks
OF life who own their own homes. Look at the
causes that have made this growth not only a
possibility but necessity. The Columbia River
waters Of the Pacific Northwest, and Portland
is the point Of discharge of a funnel being not
only the converging point of all the fresh waters
the only natural grade to the coast. come
through the passes OF the Columbia. MAX
ing it the only Pacific seaport reached from
sity Of climbing heavy gradee, passing through
long tunnels, or contending with SHOWS Pass
ing with the Columbia River through the Cas-
cade Mountains. the railway and steamboat
inland empire rich with mines with forests, with
grain fields and pasture lands. Portland 10
the real terminus Of the Northern Pacific.
cifc Railways, and the nominal terminus
Of the Canadian Pacific, Of which these are
traffic connections. 1t is also headquarters for
the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's
extensive system of ocean, river, and rail
service. Fourteen separate lines of river
boats center at Portland, exclusive Of regular
ocean service by steamers and sailing
vessels to all parts of the world. Port
land is ITO miles from the ocean, on
the Willamette River, twelve miles from
its confluence with the Columbia. and is reached
by deep sea vessels in all seasons. 1t controls
the greet salmon fisheries of the Columbia, has
large trade with Alaska, and derives the major
benefit from the development of the mining dis
tricts OF Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. The
Willamette VA1laV alone has an0uQh
to support million inhabitants, not to mention
the other elements OF greatness within the grasp
OF Portland-the wonderful mines, the vast for
trade the products Of pasture lands and orch
ards, and important shipping interests, which
have developed into commercial size that de-
manas resogn6n ana IN some nstance s,d SUI
MOSES FOLSOM,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07

THE accession of Mr.. T. B.. Rogers. the
most earnest and widely known Sunday
the Prohibition party. is regarded as Il great
gain by the Prohibs.-,Letter from Gsatton.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07

JUDGE JOHN W. RANsTEAn. the most pop
ular Democrat and strongest lawyer Of
Kane County. Illinois. has pronounced
squarely for Fisk and Brooks aud the In
diapapolis platform,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07

A Boston man shot himself because.
his wedding clothes were not furnished
in time for the ceremony. Some men
do not know when they are in luck
Na,v York Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07

One of the most amusing things ia
life is to note the frantic efibrts Of the
average hotel waiter to look like d
man.-TQled0 Blade.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07

A BARRIERS school is talked Of in
Boston. OF course only little shavers
will go DISQUALIFICATION Critic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07

JOIN the bright side of lila. The
fools are On the other side.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07

Next Lesson. AThe Slnitten Rock. -
Mum. 20: lib:
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-12
Servants I'm German Families.

In Germany It makes no difference TO q
noblemaD whether you own shop or are
merely employed In one. In both cases you
work, and that Is sufficient. The effect of
this L. that the German shopkeeper and
man Of middle class does not keep his
clerks and servants at half the distance
that his American confrere does. An Ameri-
can shopkeeper hives in fine house and walks
about his emporium Of fashion" as haugh-
tily as a car. IL his wife or daughter honor
the place at all it is when they want a new
dress or a check from papa In France or
Germany the same class of shopkeeper lives
in the room over his shop, and in all proba-
bility has his wife keep his books and his
daughter wait at the counter At night,
when the house is put 10 rights, the house
maid will come into the family sitting room,
and while knitting listen to her employer
read his papers or chat with the family. She
is not kept in a back room in the attic nor
thrown entirely Oh her own resources for
amusement
Hence the Germans and French do not ex-
perIence that difficulty in securing capable
domestic help which most American house
wives too often encounter They bring their
customs, more or less, to this country; and
III American cities the first to get good house
servants and the last to lose them are not
American but German and French families.
Time was, in New England at any rate,
when house girls were not called servants
and were not treated Us machines out of
which was to be gotten all the work possible.
They used to say help" II New England,
and when the "help" had finished her duties
she not seldom rolled down her sleeves ind
took her seat at the table along with the fam
lily That custom is no longer in vogue, ex-
cept perhaps now and then in the country,
OF in very small towns, and as a result it is
now as hard to get house help in New Eng
land as in any other part of the country
Cor Washington Post
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-12
Audiences OF south America.

Low do South American audiences differ
from our own" asked the reporter
South American audiences are very sensi-
two to tho good and bed points Of n perform
once. While they will almost go crazy with
enthusiasm over great artist, they are not
ashamed, as | have Just said to show their
dsapproval by vigorous Kisses A peculiar
feature OF tho Brazil audiences is that the
ladies have fashion of proclenading in the
lobbles during tho entr'actes, as men do here,
chatting with each other, and criticising the
good or bad points of performance. Bra
zil is an empire and Montevideo is a republic,
but, singular enough, you see more soldiers
OIL duty at the theatre of the republic
tEan at those Of the empire sup
pose tie reason Of this is that Santos
the la,e president Of Montevideo, was
shot through the head in the theatre, and
this has made the Montevideans guard the
theatres very carefully. Every night before
the opening of the door q body of 100 soldiers
files up and after the performance begins
they are distributed throughout the house
Fifteen bombeiroS, or members of the fire
brigade, also appear, and these are placed
principally on the stage to guard against
danger from fire. All the scenery, you see
is painted on paper. 1t is done in Italy and
is very beautiful 1t can be shipped more
easily than canvas scenery-you can carry a
dozen palaces in your trunk and still have
room for collar button-and can be easily
replaced if damaged or destroyed 1t is
pasted on canvas after it gets to the theatre.
1t is, of course, very infammable, and the
precaution Of having so many fremen con-
stantly in attendance is by no means an I'M
necessary one.-New York Times Interview.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-12

consequence OF winch tneir tastes are similar
and their intellectual pursuits enjoyed In
common. They both are ardent connois-
seurs Of Eastern art and literature, and the
hotel they inhabit in Paris is perfect treas
ury of Indian carvings, manuscripts, pottery
and hangings The girl is an excellent horse
woman, and early every morning she and her
father are to be seen gailoping side by side in
the Bots Afterwards they work together,
for she takes great interest in his public
labors and performs many Of the duties Of
secretary for him. She paints VIII consider
able skill and sings charmlngly and there
have been whispers OF late about her efforts
in verse, which are said to be such as Owen
Meredith himself would not be ashamed to
acknowledge York World.
MAY DAY SUGGESTIONS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-12

In the days when Lord Lytton wrote
poetry and was better known as Owen Mere
dith, people who pretended to know insisted
that he had some unhappy love affair with
married woman, to whom some OF his most
famous poems were addressed. Afterwards
he cOusoed himself with a wife of his own,
but he always retained great fondnesS for
the Lucille type of woman, with pale, clear
skin. and dark hair and eyes, such as the wo-
man of his first passion is said to have had.
Strangely enough, his daughter strongly re-
sembles the girl he was SO fond OF describing
over and over again in verse, She and be
are the most inseparable friends and com
rades and the affection between them is really
beautiful to see.
She is very clever, it is said. and be has
educated her in great measure himself. in
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-12
A Queer Savings Bank.

There is a certain young student at the
Boston School of Technology whose method
of regulating his personal expenditures is so
strikingly original TO be worthy OF de-
scriptiou Like many another youth of salad
age he finds it impossible to refrain from
squandering his money 1t simply burns
hole in his pocket. No matter how much he
is supplied with, it is all expended in frivol-
BUSINESS as soon as he gets it. This weakness
of his has given much pain to the young
gentleman's relatives, and to himself has
been source of no little embarrassment.
So, to get over the difficulty, he has hit upon
the following plan;
Upon receiving the check for fortnight's
allowance intended to cover his living ex-
penSes, be first iIqudates any Indebtedness
That may be outstanding To his lodging house
keeper and washerwOman and converts the
whole of the balance INTO 30 cent silver
pieces Then going to his room and closing
the door, he takes the CONS by handfuls and
few of those which remain in plain sight he
puts into his pockets. When they are spent
he picks up few more, and 50 on, as neceS-
slUy requires. After a week or so has passed
he is compelled to hunt about pretty sharply
for the cash, and the last days of the fort
night find him grubbing under the wash.
stand and the bureau, pOking beneath the
bed and squirting down the register in the
hope of discovering a stray half dollar that
has eluded previous search, But, though
Aosc-i~---n- i-.'saevarishAd ha Is Seldom