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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09

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ISSoH go back to Church
&S ES8s, bilt up with all
XAAAA8 little an meen lookin,
ZGf& an sum was big an
finished off to look
nice. Rite on the corner of Main street
was good enuf house, but I CESS the
man that bilt it run out of mummy an
had to depend on weather stainin.
But around it was pritty green lawn.
so it wasent sech a bad lookin place.
Opposit to it was big square house
belongin to Mr.. Fred Roberts, who
cum from neiborin city sum yeers
after the war an settled down in Tan
gleton. The Robertses was ruther
stilish, but Mr.. Roberts was so clever
an accommodatin that he soon maid
trends with evryboddy. His wife was
q large, tine-lookin woman. an folks
thawt she was hauty. When once tina
got acquainted with her tina dident
notiss her manner. She was a VERY
devoted mother, an had nice children.
Mebbe awt not to tell little cpl
sode that Mrs. Roberts told me about
her Oldest girl, Belle. She was
smart child, allus reddy to pick up an
to mimic an full Of pranks. Well, one
Sunday afternoon when her ma was
reedin out loud to her pa Miss Belle
slipped out an turned the keys on the
outside of the doors. Then she put on
her mas watch an chain an fixed her.
self pritty grand an went fer walk,
carryin the best parasol in the house.
When Mrs. Roberts finished reedin
she found out tina was prisoners, an
Mr.. Roberts sed he'd get out Of
wlndo an open door. But his brother
in-law cum along jest then an set them
free.
When Belle got home she told the
folks she had "bin down town bum
min" Mrs. Roberts was likely too
much shocked an displeased to laff
about it then, but I've herd her laff
enuf over it since. Belle is a proper
nice young lady now, an I sepose she
don remember aboutit but it is fact.
Across the street, ways down, was
neat cottage, where Mr.. Joe Wallis
lived. He had married sister Of Mrs.
Roberts. Mrs. Wallis took with the
Majors from the start. She was fine
woman, but to my thinkin Mrs. Roberts
was superior.
Away up Church street is two fam
lys that hev seen sum reverses in life,
but now tina seam all rite. Mr.. Martin
lost the price of good farm store
keepin, all MI. Grace lost mummy sum
other way, but tina hav nice homes
WHARF tina settled menny year ago.
Tha are Baptists, of course, fer the
church is rite opposit to 'em, an handy.
Dan Shiloh Gums to my mind jest
now. He wasent altogether young, but
he married girl that was. A nifty
fine girl, too, an she has proved it by
her life since. Perhaps there is not in
all Tangleton woman that has had
moar tryals, an yet she is the saim pa
tient, sweet-faced Mary.
He take up the Shilohs next letter.
JUNIPER BERRY.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
A SERMON IN RHYME.

=, ..,n have n friend worth loving,
u We MN: yes, and let him know
maj you love him e sena ass s evening
VIZ. should good words ne'er be said
w w ~ a friend-till he is dead?
II vo,; hear song that thrills you,
sing by any child OF song,
3 pr,i it do not let the singer
Wait deserved praises long.
Wv should one who thrills your heart
LAX the joys you may impart?
Scatter thus your seeds Of Kindness,
All enriching as you 60
lie Leave them: trust the harvest Giver.
he will make each seed to grow.
60 until its happy end,
Your life shall never lack a friend.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
What Made Mrs. Bulrins Despondent

Muggins-"I understand that Mrs.
Bufiins has presented you with son
and heir. Accept my congratulate
TONS"
Buffins-" THANK you; bit unfortu-
nately it was not son and heir, but a
little girl l don't mind myself, but
RS. Batfins is quite Respondent about
.Muggins-"Why did she want it to
be a boy so particularly 2"
Butfins well, you see, she'd made
up her mind to dress him in Lord
Fauntleroy suit, and you can't do that
with girl, you know. "-America.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09

The two Connecticut men who have
gone to Constantinople to buy wives
should not be allowed to bring their
purchases into the country. Women
are so plentiful in New England that
FIRST class wives can he had for the ask
il}g, so that the notion Of going abroad
to buy them is highly reprehensible.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
THE PHYSICIANS OF CHINA.
Their Curious Mode of Healing.

I o r twelve OF
thirteen years !
have been q resi-
d e n t of til e
United s tate s.
Some years ago 1
d e t e rnlined to
study the profess
sion of medicine,
and when 1 grad.
Il q tie from the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09

WE sometimes think that it is the
transitory alone which changes: the
eternal st ands still. fades and falls to
pieces; the eternal continues by chang
ing its form in accordance with the
movement of advanced ages.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09

"a HARTFORD man, when asked to
give his consent to the marriage OF one
of his daughters, turned with beam
ing face to the applicant, and answered
fr;hnkly, "Yes, yes; and don't yo1l know
sokae likely young man who would take
th0 other 80
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09

9fHE American system of checking
,aefgage is admitted to be excellent.
NoT if some genius would invent a
nel hod of checking the American bag
our system would lie
,er lfect
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09

EouNG writers should remember that
articles for newspapers are not like
tire les. It does not kill them to cut
the I'm down. On the contrary, many
article are killed by lazy editors be-
carlse it is too much trouble to cut them
,1o,frp
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
Some thing to Be Thankful For.

Have you done any thing for me?"
asked the condemned man, in pitiful
tones, as his lawyer entered the cell.
eyes, indeed" said the legal gentle
man, gleefully.
"Oh, what is it, demanded the MUIR
lerer, "a pardon?"
"No."
"a communication of sentence?"
"No."
Then in mercy's name, what?"
II have succeeded" said the lawyer,
lin having the day of your execution
changed from Friday to Monday. FRI
day is an unlucky day, you know
Yankee Blade.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09

MORALS differ from customs in so far
rs the former are certainly the science
Of human happiness, while the latter is
the result Of habit and example, often
formed, we know not how, and as often
Hnwholesome as wholesome.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09

A CORK TRUST is about to be formed.
1t is strange that those who WIZ % al
fected by it don't move an es1opPe''
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09

Or the 1884 inmates in the Fulton
MokD insane asylum but one is
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
ANNALS OF TANGLETON.
JUMPER PLACE. June 81. 80.

10 the publick !: Let's
go back to Church
street, which was
bilt up with all
sorts of houses, sum
little an meen lookin.
an sum was big an
finished off to look
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
OUR FORESTS.

What have the trees to do with the
floods? Some day in March, when
the winds and the warm sun have
caused the evaporation of most of
the snow, go into the neighbOring
wood. The trees, even stripped of
their foliage, have shut out SO much
wind and sunshine that far more
snow lies here than in the meadow
without This is just as true in the
wooded districts where the thousand
little rivers rise and unite to form
the Hudson, the Merrimac, the Con-
necticut After the first two or three
storms of early winter, the forest
floor keeps its carpet of white till
spring; the pasture and the farm
land lie buried in wind-swept drifts,
today, and tomorrow are half bare.
Let us dig through the snow to the
soil below; on the open land you are
almost certain to find the ground
frozen deep. In the forest you will
find under the snow a layer of loose
leaves; below this the forest soil,
scarcely resisting the stick with
which you loosen it; and still lower
the deeper layers of earth that have
not felt the frost since the new year
began. Each fresh mantle of snow
has done its part to keep the others
warm; the lowest strata are slowly
melting and oozing away into the
softened soil, while the meadows
outside are hard as adamant- Now
come the spring rains; whatever
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
ALLEGED HUNOR.

Eiffel is said to have gained the first
idea of the tower which bears his
name from sitting behind an Ameri-
can woman in an American theatre.
II Life.
Did you divide your bon-bons
with your little brother, Mollie?"
Yes, mamma; ate the candy and
gave him the notices. You know he
is awfully fond of reading. ~ Time.
Tramp-Thank We, ma am, for Civ
in me the grub, but | kin never eat
without a fork. Farmers wife
Well, amble along and you'll find a
fork in the road little further on
IN. Y. Tribune.
'Astounding electrical progress, :"
the New York Sun calls this notice
from a London paper: "BoRN-on
May -, 1889, at Darjelling, to the
wife of John James Brown, Esq, a
son (by telegraph)."
The Dear Departed.-Towne-
That's too bad about Dingley, isn't
it? Browne-How? What's that?
Towne-Joined the silent majority
Browne-What! Dead? Towne-No;
married. Time.
Angry subscriber to editor-Pm
mad all the way through, an want
my paper stopped. Yes, sir; do you
want to pay for what you owe?
No, | amt mad enough for that
TPhpniX, Arr, Herald.
The President-Well, sir, what can
l do for you? Caller-I want post
office. Where do you live?
Caller-Oh, l can live anywhere that
the post office is. Us Indiana folks
don't mind travelling. Puck.
She was young woman of an in
curing turn of mind, on her way
home from college, and during a de-
lay at station she walked up and
down the platform, calculating the
pOnderabilities Il WONDER" she
said to her papa, what's the weight
of this tramp Really, my dear, |
couldn't say, but" 81 know what
it's" interrupted animpatient drum
mer, its about four hours and a
half" Then the girl went in and sat
down to think awhile Washington
Critic
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
POVERTY IN INDIA.

Poverty! poverty! poverty l find
written all over India, writes Frank
6. Carpenter from Agra. Its char
acters shine out in the shrunken legs
and fiat stomachs of the people. The
blazing sun paints the word on the
huts of every village and the squalid
want which fills every part of the
cities l have seen is so plain that he
who runs may read. The condition
of the East Indian people is far worse
than that of the Chinese. The Ko-
reans are fat and the Japanese veal
thy in comparison with the people
around me. The Malays, the Siam
csc and the Burmese have plenty to
eat and leisure for loafng. These
people work from morn until night
and go to bed hungry. They are not
more than half clothed. The masses
wear two strips of thin cotton cloth,
and of the 253, 100000 of people in
India four out of five go bare-footed.
Just below here about the city of
Patna is the great opium-producing
district of India, and l am told by
one of the leading opium officers of
the government that the people of
this region invariably feed their chill
dren small quantities of opium daily,
in order that they may by this means
ward off the cold and reduce their
aDDetIteS
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
Gbe Californian.
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.

1. It's early work will be to equal
ize the revenue and expenditure. 2.
1t insists upon the reform of the civil
service, begun under republican adj
ministration g. 1t will insist upon
the bi-metallic standard, and upon
maintaining the use and circulation
of both gold and silver coinage. f..
1t will heartily support protection of
home industries and home labor. 5.
1t will favor the extension of the
charters of national banks in any
safe and proper way. 6. 1t propos-
es to stamp out the wickedness of
polygamy wherever the United States
government has the power. Z. 1t
favors the reduction of letter postage
to one cent per ounce. s. 1t asserts
that lawful citizenship is and must
be the panoply and safeguard of him
who wears it. and should protect
him, whether high or low, rich or
poor, in all his civil right, at home or
abroad. 9. 1t intends to take care
that no men who have hOnorably
worn the federal uniform shall ever
be inmates of an almshouse. 10. 1t
will maintain the doctrine that the
United States is a nation, and that
I'm maintaining our national rights
and honor all governments are alike
to u.s." however greatly they may
differ in power II. 1t will cordial
ly sustain all wise and well-directed
efforts for the promotion of temper
ance and morality. ~. 1t will favor
ocean mail service by American ships.
- 1t will literally support the
building up of the navy to stan
dard of efficiency worthy of our
country. IA. twill favor education.
state and national. Is. twill also
favor the exclusion of pauper and
criminal immigrants. These propo-
sitions have so often been set forth
by those who are entitled to repre-
sent the party, that they will be re-
cognized as thoroughly republican in
their general scope and bearing
Senator Morrill, in the Forum.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
A TINY CENTRAL A MEXICAN STA TIE.

The royal family of Mosquito ter
ritory owes it's origin to the shrewd-
ness of the early English traders who
succeeded to the business of the buc-
cancers and freebOoters when the lat
ter were driven from the Spanish
seas. AT that period the Moscos
were divided on the question whether
or not to welcome the English. The
English favored the friendly portion,
aided them in their fight, and CROWN
ed the conquering chief as king. The
royal purple and insignia comprised
a faded red coat cast off by some
lieutenant, silver-gilt crown, a very
large sword, and scepter of mOder-
ate value. The traders pursued the
same policy with lesser chiefs, and
such illustrious names as Lord Mel
son, duke of Wellington, duke of
York, and Marlborough, were hand
ed around so freely that along the
shore today one feels as if he had
dropped into the most exclusive cir
cles of Belgravia. The hold the Eng
lish got upon the country has never
been relinquished, and the mother
country still continues every consul
lar office she ever started.
The people of these small towns
are thoroughly children of nature,
without any form of religion, and
apparently given as much to the
habit of thought as one would eX-
pect to find among the inhabitants
of the unexplored portions of Africa.
They believein a certain water spirit,
''Lewira," who is represented as a
water-dog, and in an evil spirit called
"Walusha." Their god of the high
country or mountainous region back
from the coast is represented as a
turkey. They have great faith in
their medicine men, whose authority
is often greater than that of the king,
and these gentlemen of the medical
profession always exact one-half of
the stipulated price of attendance in
advance. When children arrive at q
marriageable age, they pair off by
agreement among themselves, and
are considered man and wife until
they choose to break the contract,
which they are always at liberty to
do. with the proviso of equal distri
button of their fortune. This parti-
ton of the estate is often cause of
much trouble, because it is difficult
to balance old and broken-dOwn
mules, against a matched hut, its
cooking utensils, few banana trees,
and a corn6eld; and the latter the
wife always expects to retain in her
possession to render her q more at
tractive Divorce. When the parties
are unable to agree the king is chosen
as arbitrator, and if his decision is
appealed from, the British cOnsul's
word is final 1t is astonishing what
a reverence these people have inherit
ed for England. They still imagine
her protectOrate over them to be i'll
full force, and believe it to be their
mainstay against the pretensions of
Nicaragua. Old king John was wont
to speak of Queen Victoria as his
royal sister, and rather pathetically
reminded her of his existence on her
jubilee by presenting her with a quin-
tai of the finest selected cacao berries,
about all that his slender purse could
neutrality-suspicious. of the New
York Times
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
SAHARA.

The Sahara as whole is not below
sea level; it is not the dry bed ola re-
cent ocean, and it is not as fiat as
the proverbial pancake all over.
Part of it, indeed, is very mountain
Gus, and all of it is more or less va
ried in level. The Upper Sahara con-
sists of rocky plateau rising into
considerable peaks; the Lower, to
which it descends by a steep slope, is
"a vast depression of clay and sand, >"
but still for the most part standing
above high sea level. No portion Of
the Upper Sahara is less than 1900
feet high, a good deal higher than
Dartmoor or Derbyshire. Most Of
the Lower reaches from 200 to 800
feet, quite as elevated as Essex or
Leicester. The two spots below sea
level consist of the beds of ancient
lakes, now much shrunk by evapora-
ton, owing to the present rainless
condition of the country. The soil
around these is deep in gypsum, and
the water itself is considerably salter
than the sea. That, however, is al
ways the case with fresh water lakes
In their last dOtage, as American ge
ologists have amply proved in the
case of the Great Salt lake of Utah.
Moving sand undoubtedly covers a
large space in both divisions of the
desert, but according to Sir Lambert
Playfair, our best modern authority
on the subject, it occupies not more
than One-third part of the entire AL
gerian Sahara. Elsewhere rock, clay,
and muddy lake are the prevailing
features, interspersed with not infre-
quent date groves and villages, the
product of artesian wells, or excava
ted spaces, or river GASES. Even Sa-
hara, in short, to give it its due, is
not by any means so black as it's
painted.-[ Cornhill Magazine.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
CEN. FISK NOT DISCOURA GIsD.

In speaking of the prohibition de
feat in Rhode Island, Gen. Clinton B.
Fisk, late prohibition candidate for
the presidency, said: The liquor
dealers of that state, backed by the
Liquor dealers association of New
York, played their game very well.
They originated the strongest posi-
bic combinations of both the republi-
can and democratic parties. They
took into their counsels the leading
bosses from both sides and worked
their deals. They poured into the
state all the money they could use
Iegitimately and illegitimately, and
the people they controlled Obeyed
their masters to dot.
They arranged it in the Legislature
that the vote on the repeal of the
amendment should take place two
days after the question had been
voted on in Pennsylvania, as they
were morally certain of the result in
that state. The result was the over
wheIming defeat of the paaty that
stands today on a living and vital
principle" General Fisk believes
that there is little to be hoped for by
prohibitionists until the high license
craze has run itself out. 1t has
drawn from the ranks of the prohi-
bitionists thousands who honestly
believe in temperance, and are foolish
enough to think that high license is
a step i'll the right direction, and
that they may be able to secure that
while they might fail in securing pro-
hibition. What we must do, is to
elect state Legislatures, which will,
by statutory provisions, restrict the
manufacture and sale of liquor as a
beverage, and ultimatel destroy the
business. No halfway measures, no
compromise with the dreaded enemy
will suffice. We are not dishcarted;
l. is but a temporary setback and
we shall recover from its effects and
gain strength through that very
SoIIrt.fl -
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04

electric conductors. But that this
may be done by induction there can
be no doubt, for it's feasibility has
been shown in daily practice upon
thelines of the Lehigh Valley railroad
for the past two years. A moving
train may now receive messages
passing along neighboring wire al
most as readily as New York COM
municates with Philadelphia by or
binary methods. Nor does the great
speed of the train interfere with sue
cessful communication. If it could
attain the velocity of a meteor, sig
nails upon the wire would fly across
the intervening space, inductlvely
impressing themselves upon the met
al roofs of the cars, with the same
certainty as if the cars were motion
less upon a side track; and it is not
even essential that the train and the
line be separated by clear a1r-space,
for non-cOnductIng or nOn-magnet1c
substances may be interposed with
out impeding transmission. During
the memorable blizzard of March,
1883, the capacity of the system, in
this particular, was subjected to an
instructive test on the Lehigh road.
Il From the Telegraph of Today"
by Charles L. Buckingham, in July
Scribner.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04

States senator"
Fifty dollars"
1.-The mistress of the White House,
perhaps, and you had thrown away
the opportunity of giving her a
name
''Fifty-five dollars"
The limit seems to have been reach
ed Beyond the White House? No,
that is not possible. The bidding
lags. There is a struggling raise"
of one dollar on the right 1t is at
once seen on the left. And then a
determines voice cries:
"Fifty-eight dollars"
"Fifty-eightd ollarsl" says the auc-
tioneer; ''fifty-eight dollarsI Fifty
eight dollars for the first time-fifty-
eight dollars for the second time-fif-
ty-eight dollars for the third and
last time
Down comes the hammer-fgura-
lively speaking contents of a
hundred shooting-irons are fired in
the air, and the crowd breaks out in
wild shouts of applause for the lucky
bidder
'Hurrah for J. c. Almeyer. Hurrah
for Jim He's dandy!"
Name? Name ," cries the uuction-
eer.
Name ?" echoes the crowd
Jim" hesitates a moment and
bushes.
Name ?'' Name ?" comes from ev-
cry quarter.
"Oklahoma," says Jim at last;
"Oklahoma Lewisi"
Three cheers for Oklahoma Lew
isr'
They are given with will. The
poor baby looks frightened, and,
wildly clutching the beard of its
grizzly nurse, nestles closer for pro-
lection. A whi1nper and a whine es-
cape it The nurse looks decidedly
uneasy.
Take it to its mother, Jack you're
no good at nursing" yells a cowboy.
mot worth a." is the judgment
of the crowd.
And presently it surges back to
where the ''outit" of the Lewis fam
lily stands-a dilapidated wagon
with bonv pair of mules feeding at
the crib, the torn canvas covering
but half the wagon-boX, and afford
ing poor shelter only to the mother,
who lies beneath, wondering when
that baby of hers will be returned.
The father, yellow, raw-boned, ague-
Shaken-lOOks foolish and embarraSs-
ed as the spokesman hands over the
money, but a tear trickles down his
furrOwed cheek, more eloquent than
words. Their poverty is the result
of a series of miSfOrtunes, and not
their fault. The privations and hard
ships endured on their way here
brought on the premature birth of
the baby. Neighbors collected fifteen
dollars for the family yesterday, but
the dOctor-at least he calls himself
one, though he is a disgrace to the
profession-hearing of it, put in bill
for exactly that amount Acommit-
tee of citizens waited on him last
night, paid his bill and then request
ed him to leave the town on the next
train. He has not been heard of
since.
"Oklahoma Lewis-we1l, it's a
pretty enough NAME" unused the
gambler and auctioneer on his way
back to the tent, where soon after
ward l found him engaged in the ac
tive practice of his profession, ITS
pretty enough name. Oklahoma
Beautiful Land. Little O. K will
have to rustic, though, to keep up
with the procession.-[N New York |
Tribune