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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
who met us ut the door kindly allowed

who met us at the door kindly showed
us the house and grounds, answering
our numerous questions and imparting
all the information in her power with
as much apparent willingness as though
she had not repeated the story hun.
dreds of times before. This house is
one of the points of interest, and it can
easily be imagined what tax upon the
time and the patience of it's occupants
crowds of curious visitors must entail.
On the center table of the little par
lor We're several photographs of Cen
eral Meade, and on the wall hung
picture of his faithful war-horse, "Old
Badly" These had been given to our
hostess by members of the Generals
family, of whose courtesy on the occa-
sion of their visits she spoke most
gratefully.
The people of Gettysburg like to
tell the story of "old John Burns"
who, though more than seventy years
Of age. shouldered his musket at the
first clash of arms and fought in de-
Tense of his native town until he was
thrice wounded. His "brief story" was
turned into song by Thomas Buchanan
Read in his Burns of Gettysburg"
But many of the brave and heroic
acts OF those awful days will never be
eztolled in song or story. Not indeed
in the ranks, amid fire and smoke, we're
they performed, but after the battle,
among the dead and dying. And it is
heroism of no mean kind that enables
woman whose practical knowledge
OF surgery extends no further, perhaps,
than the binding up of cut finger, to
face the sickening sights of an army
hospital after great battle. But here,
as elsewhere during the war, were
found tender and noble hearts who did
not shrink from the dreadful task, but
patiently worked on as long as strength
held ont, their only care that the
wounded might be restored, or, if that
might not be, that dying mi ght be
made as easy as possible.
Yes, faithfully did the women of
Gettysburg do their work of mercy to
friend and to foe alike. Many, too,
are the interesting stories of hospital
experiences which one may hear from
the lips of actors in the drama-stories
tinged with pathos and romance that
rival the most eXtravagant productions
of fiction. But alas! the number of
those whose delight it is thus to re-
count the deeds of old is growing
smaller and smaller. On each visit to
Gettysburg I miss the face of some
dear old friend at whose feet I sat an
interested learner.
Each summer brings throngs of pill
grims to whom the story of the battle
must be told anew. So let it ever be.
Thus may we learn to love with
more fervent devotion that country,
the peace and happiness of which have
been purchased at such a cost. IT'S
holy ground. It's memories, it's asso-
Citations, its influence, must stir the
heart to nobler things.
ALEXANDRIA, Pa.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
THE DAIRY.
A Perfect Dairy Cow.

John Gould, of P ortage County, Ohio,
describing the qualities of the perfect
dairy COW, enumerates the following
points: A small bony head; broad,
prominent eyes that tell of brain power,
a thin neck, sharp back bones, ribs set
like rafters, broad hips, a high rump,
a.muscular and not fieshy udder, with a
lengthy attachment forward under the
abdomen denoting power of absorption.
She must have place to lay away food,
good heart action to pump the blood
through the veins. strong nerve power,
and good lungs to purify the blood.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
wears after being shot,

years after being shot.
The bullet struck him squarely on
the nose, we'll up between the eyes, in
such way as to split the bone, which.
closing up again, left only slight
wound that the surgeon declared had
been caused by bullet coming from a
side direction and CLIPPING off the skin
as it sped by.
belong kept his feet, suffering little,
and in few days was again in fighting
trim. He served to the close Of the
war, and returned to his home near
Van Vert.
AS the years passed, Delong expert
enced painful sensations in his head,
at first slight, but more and more Sc
we're at each recurrence, until his snf-
ferings finally drove him crazy. He
was taken to the insane asylum at Day
ton for treatment, where he recovered
his mental faculties, but received no
relief from the terrible pain and pres
sure in his head that made life almost
intolerable.
Some time before his death, which
took place in 1882, belong got the
idea that the bullet that struck him at
Stone River had indeed entered his
head, and proposed to submit to
surgical operation that would deter
mine whether he was right about it.
This opinion was not shared by his
physicians, and, as the operation must
necessarily be dangerous one, they
declined to search for the suspected
missile. He then requested that after
his death an examination be made, in
order that his widow and children,
should it appear that he died of in
iuries received in the service of his
country, might receive greatly need
ed pension. his long period of illness
and inability to work having quite
eaten up his little fortune.
Accordingly an autopsy was held.
To the surprise of the doctors, and as
belong had predicted, they found
bullet, or rather two jagged pieces of
lead, in his head, back of the frontal
bones. One portion had lodged just
over the brain, and. together with
fragment of bone that had been broken
off by the bullet as it tore it's way into
the Uranium. had become incysted with
hard growth, which, extending year
by year, pressed harder and harder
against the brain, causing the terrible
pain of which belong complained, and
resulting in arrangement and death.
His wife applied for and received Il
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13

7 the battle
of Stone Riv-
er. the 31st
ofDecenber,
1862, Abra-
, ham belong,
W b o b e
'longed to an
Ohio regi-
m e n t re-
ceived a bull
let W on n d
from which
he never re-
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
M E[UE AND TIE GRAY
or WEN WHO MET UPON THE
FIELD OF BATTLE.

,,,.r Stories of the Rebelllon-tud
hr' ,,;.rs and Sailors Recite Interestipp
.,n;,cenccs of Life in Camp and on
80 Field.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
THE STOCK RANCH.
Excited Horses.

The best thing and only thing to do
when your horse is excited is to calm
him. In high state of excitement the
horse does not comprehend what you
want Every one has seen team where
one horse would go forward and the
other fall back. All the whipping and
"hollering" that hundred men can do
will not start such team once in 1000
times. The team is excited. The horses
show that by every action, and lashing
and loud talk only makes matters worse.
Calm the horses. Time will be saved if
half an hour is taken to quiet any ex-
cited horse. An excited horse is just
like an excited child. We have seen a
child scolded and "jawed" at until it
could not comprehend what was wanted
of it to save it's life. Stop scolding and
calm the child, and the work you desire
of it will soon be done. 1t is idle to ex-
pect an animal to do your bidding as
long as it cannot understand your
wishes.-H0rse and Stable.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
Poultry Note.

NOTHING is SO clean as dry dirt sprin-
killed. on the floors of poultry houses, and
in the stalls of the stables and cattle
sheds.
The slow, lazy breeds of fowls are
more likely to have scaly legs than the
quick moving fowls. Hence more care
should be taken to prevent.
THERE is nothing finer for the table
than q Wyandotte fowl, if plump and
fat. They have yellow legs and flesh.
which add much to the appearance, and
command the better price in market.
The gizzard of the fowl masticates the
food, but this can only be done with the
aid of sharp, gritty material. A hen can
eat pounded grass with benefit. Many
of the ailments of poultry in winter are
due to the lack of gritty substances,
the birds being compelled to digest I'M
masticated food, which results in indi-
gestion.
The Pekin duck, introduced from
China few years ago, is one of the
largest varieties, and under good man
agement most profitable. It's color is
pure white, which makes its feathers
popular. It is not very hardy, and is
especially susceptible to injury from wet
and filth. If allowed unrestricted run
in the water in cold weather the ducks
will go lame and become nearly worth
less. Kept dry they produce picking
of feathers every six weeks during the
warm weather.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13

cattle, and sheep, should be so neglect
ful about their poultry, while the fact is
before them that these pay a larger per
cent. of profit than either of the others?
While the cattle are warmly housed,
kept clean and fed by rule for profit. the
hens roest on the timbers of the barn,
the cart wheels. and benches, on the hog
pen, or out in the trees, wherever they
can find chance. The food they get is
what they can steal from crib, manger,
or trough, and neglect, with them, is the
order of the day. This can not be 'ex-
planned save that the force of habit and
the inherited tendencies are strong.
These men have not come to look upon
the hens as q source of sure profit, to
feed and protect in order that a rich
harvest may be realized. The fact that
the great law of compensation applies as
we'll to poultry rs to COWS, and that we
here receive in proportion as We give is
entirely overlooked. The cattle trade is
immense. There is money in the dairy,
but nowhere can such returns be realized
as from the well-managed poultry yard,
in proportion to the cost. The egg
trade is valuable when we study to meet
the demands of the exacting market OF
to-day. The poultry market promises
sure returns when we grow the article
demanded by those who are ready to pay
tor what pleases their fancy. The pos
sibilities of the industry seem unlimited
II we but apply ourselves to the work
Understandings.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
Feeding Farm Horses.

A veterinary surgeon recommends that
those who have charge of horses, es-
pecially farm horses, be taught that the
stomach of horse is not like the rumen
Of COW, o mere receptacle for food,
but an essential organ of digestion OF
limited capacity, which does not need to
be crammed in order to perform its
proper functions, and that it cannot be
SO treated without danger to the animal;
that the teeth of the horse are provided
for the purpose of masticating the food,
and that food which does not require
masticaion should be sparingly, if ever
used. He further recommends that no
horse be put to work Immediately after
o full meal, and where horse has done
q full DAYS work it should be allowed to
stand in the stable until it is cool and
comfortable before being fed. A little
water may be given, and if q little good
hay be put into the rack it will occupy
his attention, and besides requiring
proper mastication will further have
the effect to slightly stimulate the stom-
ach to secretion and prepare it for the
reception of the feed which list follow.
Should horse require more food than
usual to supply the extra waste OF It's
sues caused by hard work, give it by all
means, but let it be i'll excess OF its
albuminoids or nutritious constituents,
and let the horse be fed oftener and not
in increased quantities at Tune
Northeastern Furmer and Breedsr.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13

~ the old statesman, beloved by the nation.
ISlose by the side Of the great and the wise.
. .,.. there u tablet that each generation
c. Sseinc it honors the spot where he lies.
pite il out clearly, his whole life's perfection
5cnrmount it all with the Unions own crest:
,rnishing food for moments reflection
WAIVED in his blanket the soldier sleeps hest
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
Making Good Hu,ter

Wisconsin, for instance, produces an
nually about SO. 900, 900 pounds of but
ter. Not more than six or eight million
pounds can be classed as first class. the
balance goes into the general category
of ordinary farm butter. What is the
matter with it? The milk as 1T came
from the COW was as q rule all right.
Clearly, then, il is the Judgment that
handled the milk after it left the COW,
that made the butter and then sold it,
that is to blame for the wretched result.
What is the reason that these farmers
and their wives are content to 60 along
year after year doing such Improbable
work? Simply lack of good dairy
judgment, that is all. In the first place
vast majority have no Judgment of
what constitutes real fine market butter.
A good way to get that judgment would
be to send to Chicago or some other
good butter market, and buy small
package Of gilt-edge butter, such as
brings the highest market price and set
to work to seriously study the color,
style of package, grain of texture, and
above all the flavor. There is Just
where the pinch comes. The taste of
the farmer or his wife may be suited
with their own. butter. but the market
taste is not. A little study like this, at
small cost, will correct lifetime of err
roneous notions HOards Duiry7nan.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
HOUSEHOLD AND AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS DISCUSSED.
Kitchen.

A Budget Of Useful Information RELATING
10 the Farm, Orchard, Stable, Parlor, and
Kitchen
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13

The house on Seminary Ridge, At
Gettysburg, occupied by General Lee
as his headquarters during that battle,
was recently sold by Hen. Eward Me
Pherson, executor Of the Thaddeus
Stevens estate, 10 resident OF Getrys-
burg for $?LG.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
Gettysburg.
BY ANNE ALLEN.

.TARLY in the cool of
" a delicious morning
7 lin the summer Of
g 1884, 1 found myself one
@of a gay party setting out
Flor o visit to the famous
Gettysburg battlefield.
8For more than q month
we had been the recipients
! Of an ideal hospitality in
Q charming home but a
few hours drive from this
historic spot. AS the days
4 4 Of our visit sped by each
3brought some new pleas
ure planned with assid-
uous kindness. Now It
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
THE FARM.
Cattle Lice.

Prof. Gillette, of the Iowa Experiment
Station, successfully applied kerosene
and lard and kerosene emulsion as
remedies for cattle lice. The kerosene
and lard were used in proportion of
one part of the former to three parts of
the latter, melted and thoroughly stirred
and applied warm, rubbing thoroughly
IN the hair. The emulsion used was
eight per cent. of kerosene, applied to
the animals with small force pump.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
Breed and not luck will secure such q
Prof, in slkim,ncd Milk.

1t is said in the columns of the Mcine
Former: I'VE believe there is no way
the skim milk will net SO good returns
as fed at once to the COWS which gave
it" This is not one of the points about
which We have merely belief, hut we
actually know it. We have seen it used
in this way in Chautauqua County, New
York, where it has been the conmon
practice for years and years, and there
are no better money making dairynen
in the world. We do not say they make
fine article of butter in this way, for
they do not, but it is because they have
universally the villainous habit of set
thing the milk inshallow pans for forty
eight hours and until the milk begins
to clabber at the bottom. then they run
the skinned milk into vat and feed
from there, thus letting it get moro than
half rotten before the COW gets it, thus
of course, tainting the milk with a
cowy odor. But if fed fresh when
sweet or nearly 80, there is no more
profitable use can be made of skinned
milk.-AmericGn D0irNman.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13

The Singular Case of Abraham belong.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
THE POULIRY-YARD.

Take Care of Poultry.
ful IN oyery particular about their horses
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
Experiment stations.

The first Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton in America was established Mt Mid
dletown, Conn.,, in the chemical labora-
tory of Wesleyan University, in 1875.
The example was speedily followed else
where; in 1880 four We're in operation,
and in 1887 there were some seventeen
OF these institutions in fourteen States.
In that year Congress made the enter
prise National by an appropriation of
Sl5, 1000 per annum to each Of the States
and Territories which have established
agricultural colleges or agricultural de-
partments of colleges. This has led to
the establishment of new stations or
the increased development of stations
previously established under State au-
thority, SO that there are to-day forty
six, or, counting branch stations, fifty
seven agricultural experiment stations
in the United States. Every State has
at least one station, several have two,
and one has three. Before provision
had been made by the last Congress for
the admission of the new States Dakota
had established one within her bounoa-
ries, and several other Territories are
preparing to do likewise.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
Agricultural Notes.

MEMBERS of the Farmers Alliance in
South Carolina and Georgia have con-
tracted for 100000 yards Of cotton bag
ging. This is IN outcome of the recent
movement against the te-bagging
business. The amount of money which
this contract calls for is about half q
million of dollars.
The Department of Agriculture is
preparing for thorough test of all the
various kinds of sorghum grown in diff
ferent parts of the world. The assist
ance of the State Department has been
invoked, and circular has been issued
to our consular officers requesting them
to collect and forward to the de-
partment a small sample of the seeds of
each variety of the sorghum grown in
their respective districts.
In recent interview, Secretary of
Agriculture Rusk said, in speaking of
Southern farming: Il can't understand
how it is that farming in Virginia is not
more profitable, and that farm land is
not more valuable. The land is good,
the markets are near, the climate is ex-
cellent for the crops; the land ought to
be worth 500 an acre in places where
it is worth only $40. don't under
stand it. and I'm going to find out why
it is.
FARM HOUSES present q desolate COM
fortress appearance without shade trees,
but it is possible to go TO the other ex-
IRENE and have the shade too dense or
too near the dwellings. Sunlight is a
great purifier, and for sanitary reasons
tie living and sleeping rooms should
have the benefit of the SUMS direct ray
some portion of each clear day. A New
York physician says that during an epi-
demic of diphtheria in that city there
were five times as many cases on the
shady as on the sunny side ofthe street.
PROF. w. A. HENRY says in the Breed
ers' Gazette: "Dairying is hard work.
Cows must be MIXED and fed twice a
day seven days in the week. Why
should man do this year after year,
treating all his cows alike, when por-
ton of the herd is steadily working to
bring him in debt at the end of the year,
and another portion yielding good
profits? 1 will guarantee that ninety
nine farmers out of one hundred who
will start thorough investigation to
determine the merits of each animal in
the herd will welcome the travelling cat
tie buyer to the farm within one month
from tho time the Investigation begins.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
Wrapped in His Blanket.

.,red in his blanket he's peacefully Sleep
IN lnE i, the spot where in action he fell,
ci !,r the laurel so faithfully keeping
M '"aless, unmarked, meath the suns golden
.a SIa uniformed, lies he at rest;
G. oi. whisper low: Tis a glorious story
WlE,uapped in his blanket the soldier sleeps best
,.,o the rich man In his sepulcher builded
a as. nf the rarest and costliest stone.
t Ons in large letters, all heavily gilded,
mat such man had once lived, be it known.
y, wealth, guard it closely and faithfully lest
Nave, ~ for reward rob the grave Of its burden
Wsrapped in his blanket the soldier sleeps best.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
~, IN state in a casket embedded

,irr in state in a casket embedded,
; S.r7 ugv in glass; amid Eastern perfume.
srouded in garments all thickly gold threaded,
sSleeps the old king in his rare marble tomb.
eath comes to all, and the soldier dies boldly.
Mother Earth takes him at once to her brea St,
Iar,ns him; tho king in his marble sleeps
Wrapped in his blanket the soldier sleeps best.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13

NOTHING is so clean as dry dirt sprin-
killed. on the floors of poultry houses, and
in the stalls of the stables and cattle
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-10-11

In VIEW of the popularity the late Col.
Scribner in Chicago there was much desire
on the part Of his friends that his widow
daughter of Madison, Wisconsin. be APP
pointed as his successor. The attorney
general Of Illinois decides that a woman is
not eligible, or Mrs. Scribner would doubt
lesa be appointed.