Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-10-04
GOD HELP THE RICH,
THE POOR CAN BEG.

From the Shah OF Persia to the bride, a
large photograph album, containing pic
lures of himself.
From the President of the United States,
cable message asking God to keep the
Queen in the hollow of his hand when not
otherwise engaged.
From Prince Bismarck. red message.
marked Collect"
scription to the paper for one year.
From the Lord Mayor Of London, box of
caramels from BUYERS. whose ad. will be
found elsewhere in this paper.
From the regular local humorist. who
always sends something extremely funny
to the groom, and then sinks gain into OBJ
security, one jumping jack, price I'd.
But space forbids a full description OF the
wedding presents. and I pass on to speak
OF other matters.
reception and Reproduced him for some re-
marks once made by him which reflect upon
me. told him that it was hardly fair for
him to build up his own reputation at the
expense, of mine. do not play euchre
especially with Chinaman, and [ made
him admit right there before every one
that he did not mean any disrespect when
he said:
And gazed upon Nye and Nye gazed upon me,
And he rose with sigh and he said:
We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor,
And he went for that heather Chinee.
Mr.. Harte's hair is now white. also his
mustache. but his face is rudy. He has
shaved off side whiskers he used to wear,
and his eyeglasses dangIe by string.
He does not seem to have lost any Of his
American ways-at least did not notice
that he had done so.
Speaking of euchre and kindred games
reminds me of a little incident which oc-
CURED on the steamer coming over from
America. You see on an ocean steamer a
| miniature world. There are various kinds
of people from everywhere. all thrown to-
gether for week. perhaps. and manifesting
| their queer characteristics,
On board the steamer q few days ont
from New York our stoker gave up to the
heat and died. He was brought on deck to
get what air there was. for we were in the
gulf stream. and even the passengers painted
in the shade Inside the smoking-roo a
| party of men were playing poker. and an
| interesting jackpot was in the center Of
the table. Red. white. and blue chips were
poked forward. one after another. till spec
| tators held their breath. Outside the stoker
was gasplng at long intervals and waiting
| for death.
At this moment the fresh young man
with the kodak camera came along. He is
| everywhere this summer with his little ko-
dak. He Is even in Paris and London max.
! ing views of respectable American citizens
who are abroad. for the purpose of having
mlddling good time. and not for the pur-
pose OF having their pictures taken. In fact
they would pay a small bonus not to have
their pictures taken sometimes
Well. the breezy youth got ready. and
with good light on the face of the dying
man. was about to enrich his collection,
when gentleman from New Orleans. who
| really had the best hand for the jack pot
saw the performance. He rose with laugh
and throwing down his hand face up. so as
TO lose the jack pot, he went to the port
hole and said: Young man, il you do that
!. will throw you. and your cursed concer-
tina into the hungry sea Imay be a wicked
man. l play poker. and l am somewhat
unregenerate. but if you dare to photo
graph that poor..devil on the shores Of e.er.
nifty, just to brag about it when YOU get
nome. you will in less than two minutes
make the lOudest plunk that the Atlantic
Ocean has been the recipient of for some
time"
He then resumed his wicked game Of
draw. W
l have just met the man you ALWAYS meo.
who knows you and who holds on to vour
hand and makes you guess who he is. He
is generally man you do not know, and
are glad of 1t. He holds you and lets Won
suffer while you try to recall the place
where you saw his disugreeab able face. and
friends are waiting for you. You look Mt
your watch with one hand while the Other
is gently parboiled in his grasp. He looked
at me as famished numidian coon from
Georgia looks into the bright red heurt ~
laughing watermelon, and wished had
not been 10 foolish az to leave my brinht