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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13
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The Sabbath-school in Rockville was
assembled for their monthly concert.
The lesson was about swearing, and
when the children had repeated their
verses the minister rose to talk to
them.
~ hope, dear Children" he said,
chat you will never let your lips
speak profane words. But now I want
to tell you about kind of swearing
which I heard good woman speak
about not long ago. She called it
wooden swearing It's kind Of
swearing that many people beside chill
dren are given to, when they get an
CRY. Instead of given vent to their
feelings in oaths, they slam the doors,
kick the chairs, stamp on the floor,
throw the furniture about, and make
all the noise they possibly can. isn't
this just the same as swearing?' said
she. Its just the same kind of feeling
exactly, only they do not like to say
those awful words; but they force the
furniture to make the noise, and so /
call it wooden swearing hope, dear
children, that you will not do this kind
of swearing either" It is better to let
alone wooden swearing and oil other
kinds of swearing. Tile Little Chris.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13
:NGbdtA Eeuaiit,J.

OF course it should be in keeping
with the day: differing as much from
ordinary reading as our pursuits on this
day differ from those of the secular
days of the week. Could anything be
palmer? God requires Of lis q portion
of time for his service It is the time,
the Sabbath. that is required for his
immediate service Then all our pur-
suits on this day should be in obedi-
enca to the command, Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy" If a
student pursues his studies on this DAY,
he is as surely violating the command
as the wood chopper who Yields his
ak; only that the latter may disturb
others, and the former not. It has
been proven. again and again, that it
is matter of business policy to keep
the Sabbath. The laws Of God are as
cognizant Of the physical as of the
spiritual well-being. TO obey as
matter of policy is not the highest
style Of obedience; but he who obeys
so far is so far blessed. The body is
not only refreshed, but recuperated
also, by abstaining from physical labor
on this day, whether we improve our
spiritual advantages or not. Every one
knows who has personally tested it
with what renewed energy one goes
forth on Monday morning to the daily
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13
GRgEN-ROOM NOTES AND ANEC-
DOTES.
Fresh News, Idle Gossip, and amusing
Stories About Actors and the His.
tri0nic Art.
Cdn,pani'tt and His D,y.

4 homely little pug dog winking and
Linking in the glare of light in the ro-
tunda of the Southern last night, says
the ST. Louis Globe Democrat, was
the innocent cause of great rumpus
at that hotel. About 8 o'clock Sig. da
Iivo, manager of the Campanini Con.
cert Company. registered the names
Of his artists and artistes and they
were assigned rooms. The names
registered were: Sig. Campanini
and wife. Mines. Scalchi and
Gerster, sigs. Gore, Galassi anil Da
yivo. The members of the com
pany were repairing to their
rooms when Clerk Murphy espied a
pug dog in the arms of the impresario
of the troop. The clerk sprang up the
steps and laid his hand on the shoulder
OF the burly x-blacksmith. Campanini
turned round and inquired what was
wanted. Murphy replied that the rules
Of the house prohibited the admission
of dogs to the rooms. Campanini
coollv told Murphy that if he did not
remove his hand he would smash his
| head" Not wishing to provoke quar-
rel Mr.. Murphy reported the belliger-
ent tenor at the Office. An effort was
then made to induce Campanini to
leave his dog in the cloak-room, but
that worthy would not hear of such q
thing, it was case of Glove me, love
ny dog, and the only thing for Cam
panini to do was to leave the hotel. Be-
fore his departure he created q scene
IN the rotunda, rttering italicized Sax
onlc inveetiyes upon the luckless heads
Of the poor clerks, and hurting forth a
violent anathema against American
hotel-keepers generally. He then, in
company with his manager, repaired to
the Lindell, but the management had
already heard Of the trouble at the
southern, and in a polite manner re-
fused to allow himself and dog to &C.
rnpy room. Campanini and his pet
finally secured quarters at the Laclede..
When Campanini was here q few
Years ago. a somewhat similar row took
place at the Lindell. The br1rly tenor
insisted at that time upon placing his
nos On the dining-table in order that
Nc might partake OF the food on his
masters plate It would seem as if the
poor pug were giving his illustrious
owner large amount of trouble and
&nnovance.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13
Hatred Of DISPLAY.

Jesus must have hated ything like
display. Gods greatest work has never
been done in crowds, but in closets
and when it works out from thence, it
is not upon crowds, but upon individ-
uals. A crowd is not living thing.
1t is not body. Its atoms are not
members one OF another.
A crowd is chaos over which the
Spirit of God has yet to move, ere
each retires to his place to begin his
harmonious work, and unite with all
the rest in the organized chorus Of the
human creation. The crowd must be
dispursed that the church may be
formed.-Geo. Mac Donald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13

business of life, after sustaining en-
tlrely on the Sabbath. It has O new
interest, and one works better and
more for the cessation. Those who
have gone farther and rested in thought
as IN deed, turning entirely to spiritual
chlngs, are so much the more strength
ened and the better furnished for con
thned secular work, in whatever de-
partment they are engaged. Thought
Is labor; so change Of thought is change
OF labor, and as essential to the student
or professional man as to the daily
laborer who works with his hands If
we could fully understand the wisdom
OF obeying the laws of God; if only the
youth could understand it in their
youth, and to come early into the in
herltance of the riches that fall to the
lot of the obedient, what riches of
knowledge, of health, wealth, and wis
dom would fall to their lot. To keep
the Sabbath because God, our Father,
has ordered it; to go to church to wor-
ship, not to be entertained (the enter
tainment in good sermon should be
secondary to the Worship; to put aside
our weekday avocations, books, pa
pers, and amusements; making it con-
scientiously the Lords day; and SO
varying our service and occupation as
to relieve WEAKNESS and monotony
then, indeed, will we find it delight,
holy to the Lord. Interior.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13
Stage Chat.

| Mrs. HENRIETTA CHANFRAU and her
son Henry will jointly star next season
in repertoire of new plays.
NEARLY all the money required for
the erection of a monument to the
memory of the late John L. Raymond
| has been raised.
EDWIN Booth and Lawrence Barrett
averaged upward of 81, 600 for every
performance at the Baldwin Theater in
San Francisco.
IT is reported that Maural, the
French barytone, will come to this
country this year at salary not much
less than $3.50, OO0."
DlGBY BELL says it's no wonder that
his voice is not as good as it used to be,
for comic opera business would wear
the bloom off steam caliope.
MARGARET MATHER has entered suit
against Manager Hill at New York for
the annulment of her five-year contract,
on the ground Of injudicious manage
ment.
KYLE BELLEw has been engaged by
Manager Abbey to support Mrs. Potter
next season. The lovely "Curly" will
be the Anthony to the Potter's
Cleopatra.
THERE is a troupe of learned seals at
Horticultural Hall, Boston, that do
everything but firt, and they will
probably pick up something Of that if
they cultivate the big cities.
The New York Clipper is printing a
history Of the American theaters. The
author is Col. Z. AIlston Brown. who
has been engaged for more than thirty
two years in collecting material for this
great work.
NINE. ADEL1NA PATTI returns to En-
gland about the middle Of November
next. Her stay must be short. owing
to continental engagements, but on
Nov. 20 she will appear at special
concert in the Albert Hail.
The following curious advertisement
appears in New York dramatic paper:
"To City Managers young man,
tall, with excellent references, being
disengaged in evening, desires light en-
ployment at city theater, before or be-
hind the curtain Address" "Tall,
with excellent references" is apparently
the latest qualification. Perhaps it is
intended that the young man shall
teach up in the flies or act as the roller
of the drop curtain.
TWENTY years ago Stuart Robson was
doing travesty of Hamlet" in Boston;
Frank Mayo was managing theater in
Rochester; Frederick Robinson, Of the
Madison Square, was supporting Miss
Henrietta Chanfrau; Louis Aldrich was
nlaying heavies with the Boston Theater
Com pany; Lolita was playing Topsy in
"Uncle Toms Cabin" Alice Harrison
was doing little Of everything in
"Humpty Dumpty," and Fred Maeder,
now o playwright, was memorable
Smokey in "Under the Gaslight." But
with all these changes there was no
change in Maggie Mitchell. She was
PLAYING "Fanchon" just the same
Etldy's Sq1ti6. :
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13
THE DEs7RoYERs or PEACE.

Debts are among the lists of the
agencies which mar our peace and
make life burden. Many debts can
and should be avoided. The credit
system, so extensively practiced in the
sale Of farm implements, and farm sup
plies generally, are the serious aids to
Indebtedness, mortgages, and bank
ruptcy. It is not merely the fact that
supplies are bought on credit, but the
system has necessitated the practice of
charging twice as much for thing as
its cost and reasonable profits ought to
be. If reapers, mowers, planters, Gull
tivators, sewing-machines, and organs
were sold only for cash they could be
profitably sold at one-half and possibly
one-third ofpresent credit prices. Then
the farmer would not be coaxetl and
betrayed into buying articles which he
did not need under his present financial
condition. II the agents of agricult-
ural implements, sewing-machines, or
organs were to approach customer to
sell for cash, and he had no money, the
question would soon be settled, and
the peddler would soon be on his way
to other fields. By over persuasion
many farmers last spring gave their
notes for various things of the kind
named, which they could have done
without, and which they would not
have bought if the terms had been
cash. The day of payment is near at
hand, and money matters are no more
flush than last spring. Trouble besets
the man and he will probably be COM
PEELED to mortgage his horses or his
farm to raise the money. Interest will
be eating, his days will be ones of anx,
iety, and his sleep troubled with the
ghosts of officers and executions.
The peddlers Of supplies on credit
must be avoided as deadly enemies to
peace, and closer economies practiced.
Much of the trouble and expressions
of which our farmers complain of
monopolies, rings, and combinations,
are their own faults. Debts are sour
ing their minds, deadening their nc
tions of promptness, marring their
peace, making them dissatisfied, and
giving rowing disposition to seek
other climes where debts will no longer
annoy. -Des Moi,aes Register.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13
I'LL s1HIOUs DUNCES,

Isaac Newton, when boy at the bot
tom Of his class, was kicked by the boy
above him. He fought the bully and
beat him, out of which victory arose
the thought that as he had beaten him
with his fists he might also do it with
his brains. And he did. Isacc Barrow,
the divine, was quarrelsome, idle boy.
His father said OF him that eff it
pleased God to take away any of his
children, he hoped it might be Isaac.
Adam Clark was pronounced by his
father to be "a grievious dunce;" but it
is recorded of him that he could roll
large stones about. "Take note, +"
writes Edward Butler, "of boys who
can and do roll large stones about.
They may take to rolling great
ideas about" Dr. Chalmers was
expelled from the parish school Of st.
Andrews as "an incorrigible Ounce. {"
Walter Scott, at Edinburgh University,
was labelled by Professor Dalzell,
Ounce he is, and Ounce lie will re-
main" John Howard was an illustrious
Ounce, learning nothing in seven
years." And then Napoleon and Well
ington were dull boys at school.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13
Matters Of Interest to the
Workers in the Lords
Vineyard.
LET'S KEEP A GOOD HEART
A Mans Triumph-Hatred of Display
Wooden Swearing-Sunday Thoughts,
Etc, Etc.
a. Mans Triumph.

This is our doctrine, the permanent
value OF trial.. that when a man con-
quers his adversaries and his difficulties,
it is not as if he had never encountered
them. This power, still kept, is in all
his future life. They are not only
events in his past history, they are ele-
ments in his personal character. =
Phillips Brooks.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13
he Forrest Home f;os. actors,

Inc managers of the Forrest Home
IL thomas Cochran, A. Hartel, E. NJ.
NJ pA'hs. Fred Zimmerman, Joseph
'u 'e' Jr., and Daniel Dougherty.
a. ele aro nearly as many managers
sr,. Dere a1e inmates. This is the re-
'S u generous mistake made by Mr..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13
EIl1H-CUnE IN ENGLAND.

A faith-cure fake is in session dow
at Newburyport pronounced Moo
bryprt) Mass The performers an
nounce themselves as ready to perform
miracles to order. People having il
their possession miracles which they
would like performed, will do we'll te
call on the Noobryprt convention be
fore going elsewhere. Prices as low as
the lowest, and all miracles guaranteed
Long. standing and obstinate cases Of
faith cured by expert faith,
healers in one application. Be
ware of counterfeits; no cases guar.
anteed without the name of the heale,
blown in the miracle. documentary
minds also cured and warranted never
to return. -Burdetie.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13
COAL md C-iTILE TN WYOMING.
"Iha world at LARGE doasn't know q

Ihe world at large doesn't know it, ii
said Capt. Murrin. "but Wyoming has
the biggest coal fields in the United
States, more iron ore than can be found
anywhere else on earth, big lakes OF
soda more oil than we could possibly
use, veins of copper ore, and stone and
marble quarries. The Territory has
wonderful natural resources, and
these will be developed before long.
The cattle days are gone, the hundreds
and hundreds Of miles of wire fence on
government land will be torn down,
and the Territory will drop far down
on the list of cattle producers. The
business has really retarded the devel.
opment of the growth of the Territory,
and it may be for the best, after all. y
Kansas City Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13

The man who stoops to pick up q
cent often ruins half-a-dollar's worth of
suspenders.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-13

ALWAYS listen to advice. It's O wav
other people have of disclosing their
own mistakes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
An Elaborate Entertainment.

When Queen Elizabeth of England
paid her second visit to the Earl of Lei
cester in 1915, a temporary bridge of
seventy feet in length and twenty feet
wide was thrown across a valley to the
great gate of the castle, and on each
side stood columns hung with the offer
ings of seven of the deities to her Maj
esty. Sylvanus offered two cages of
wild fowls, Pomona two large silrer
bowls filled with apples, pears, oranges,
lemons, pomegranates; Ceres presented
two silver bowls containing barley,
wheat, and oats; Bacchus gave two
silver LIVERY pots" filled with wine, and
grapes in clusters both white and red
as his offering. Neptune presented a
large plate strewed with fresh grass, and
containing various sorts of sea fish.
Mars offered the habiliments of war, and
Phrbus gave musical instruments of va
rious descriptions. During the seven
teen days of the Queens stay at kenil.
worth, to prove the Earls hospitality
"the clok bell sang out a note while her
highness WOE thear; the clok stood also
still with all; the hands stood firm and
fast, always pointing at two o'clok,'
which was the banquet hour. 1t is i'm.
possible to describe all the festivities,
but it may be added that the quantity of
beer drunk amounted to 320 hogsheads.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
said man who was on his way to his
Office in Wall street

said man who was on his way to his
Office in Wall street.
"Oh. yes, sir" returned the digni6ed
party, eyes, live here in New York,
but always deprecate this spirit of
hurry, this rush, this intense
strain under which we labor"
and his face assumed panied,
thoughtful expression. "Now, here's this
man, perhaps mortally wounded, when
if he had waited another moment
he could have crossed the street in safe
ty. 1t is this hurry, this rush," went on
the dignified man, this haste, this un-
natural-oh, great Scott!" he groaned,
''thcre gees my car-but III catch it or
bust" and he shot in front of furni-
ture van, gal:oied around junk cart,
stepped on uewsboy, lodged the pole
of an ice wagon, and at last got hold of
the rear platform of the disappearing
car and was pulled in over the back
dashboard by the conductor the way a
man hauls in seine full of fish, and got
his coat turned wrong side out, and his
hat battered and one thumb partially
smashed. why" he said, ~ wouldn't
have missed this car for $l0," and he
looked back complacently at another of
the same line coming not half block
behind.-Neao Nrk Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
BluestOne as q DiS.n ectaat.

I have come in the course of some ex-
periments, says writer to the New York
Tribune, to regard sulphate of copper
otherwise known as bluestone-asa more
effectual disinfectant and germicide than
sulphate of iron by more than ten to one.
It seems to me that for disinfectiug
sinks, drains, ETC., one ounce of blue
stone will do as much as pound of cop
pcras, while the stains of the latter are
almost entirely wanting in the former.
In fact bluestone seems to approach in
power as a gentle germicide and disin-
fectant that dangerous and corrosive poi
son, the bichloride of mercury, otherwise
corrosive sublimate, while possessing no
more poisonus properties than copperas.
The popular fear of the salts of copper,
as seen in the green of copper and brass
utensils, has little or no good reason tc
be: a truth demonstrated by commits,
sion appointed by the French Govern
which reported pickles and other pre-.
served vegetables might be "coppered
within certain limits without making
them unwholesome.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-01
A Pair of German Lovers.

At the end of tho second week, says a
Berlin letter in the Chicago Tribune, the
lover came in one morning and pre-
sented himself before the young lady,
who was in the room, and asked for a
few moments private conversation. l
stepped out to give him the floor, and
this is what she afterward related trans.
pired: The young man advanced toward
his beloved and handed her q note, in
which were written few lines from her
mother, saying the bearer was about to
propose in good form, and for her to ac-
cept him. AS she finished reading, an
agitated voice in the vicinity of the door
was heard, for the young man was ex-
ceedingly nervous on this occasion :
"Most gracious and respected fraulien, l
have the honor to oTer you my heart
(and he clapped his hand over that or
gam and hand in holy marriage" Here
emotion checked him, but not the young
lady, who was twenty-n:ne years old.
"Most esteemed Herr Won H." she said,
II thank you for q proposal which do
myself the honor to accept" Herr Won
H. bowed, kissed the young lady's hand
and retired, and The latter came out and
threw herself on my neck, exclaiming,
81 am engaged" in voice which
plainly implie |, CAT last, at last. >
We'll, they were married, but first MANI
ma gave several parties in their honor,
and there we saw them sitting side by
side on the sofa getting acq tainted.
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4 Kentucky Horror.

Near GAINESVILLE, in Kentucky, there
lives a man whose life has, indeed, been
a most unusual one. He was born an i'm.
beetle, and as he grew older and stronger
he became violent and had to be con-
fined. His name is Mark Griffin, and at
the age of fifteen years he was placed in
q cabin built in the corner of the yard
where his parents lived. The cabin was
built especially for his occupancy, and
he was placed in it and kept in confine-
ment, never permitted to leave the
house. It is said that he would allow
nobody, not even the members of the
family, to come near him except his
sister, who would bring him his meals
and sweep up the room. When she was
in the room he would jump into the bed
and sit down and watch her until she
had left. He is sixty-five years old and
his hair is as white as snow. He has
never been outside the house since he
was put into it but once, and that was
when it was torn down to be rebuilt.
He has been in the house, which has no
window in it, with the door barred, for
fifty wears. aud has never had communi-
cation with any human being except
some of the members of the family,
who take his meals and arrange his
bed. There are several of the family
who 90 into the room now with safety,
but the sight of stranger fills him with
horror and causes his wild nature to as
sert itself, and he raves and gives vent
to the most unearthly screams and hid
eous noises. They never go into the
house, because he would attack them
seriously the moment they crossed the
threshold. The family are compelled to
remove his bed from the room every day,
as he would tear it into shreds. They
can leave nothing in the room with him,
for it would be destroyed. He cannot
be induced for a moment to leave his
cabin, and if the door were left standing
open he would not come out. He has,
indeed, seen an unusual life, and at the
same time a most unfortunate one
E3.1Dhir
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Feasting on Elephants Feet.

Sseaking of elephants foot takes US
naturally to the Kattirs, where this dish
is. the crowning triumph of their bill OF
fare. Night is the time generally selected
by the Katfir for the enjoyment OF this
prime luxury. Other portions OF the
elephant are eaten with great gusto, but
the feet are esteemed the delicacles OF
the feast. A hole is dug in the ground
and a fire made on the bottom. 1t is al
lowed to burn down to heap of Goals,
which are scraped out by the cooks.
When the oven has been freed from en-
bers, the foot is rolled into it and covered
with twigs and green leaves. After this
the hot embers arc replaced and roar
ing fire started over the heap In this
manner the foot is baked, and when the
fire has burned low the contents OF the
oven are lifted out by several men, and
the feast opens. Travellers who have
feasted with the Kaffirs on occasions OF
this kind have paid glowing compliments
to their cookery. The natives are said
to love elephant foot next to the marrow
taken from the leg bones of the giraffe
or eland, but the preparation of this
food does not afford the enjoyment
which is associated with tho dish we
have described. .-Philadsl0hia Times. /