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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01
Young TyraMts.

On railway train the writer noticed
the entrance of a mother and little son
who were unexpectedly greeted by a
friend of the mothers. The friend was
only going from one way station to the
next, while the others were on q long
journey. There happened to be but
one vacant double seat in the car, and
into this the boy slipped, taking the
seat next the window. His mother
eager to improve the ten minutes with
her friend, asked her son to give up
his seat, and take another for that lit
tie time, so that she could sit with her
friend. "No, won't, because want to
sit by the window, and all the other
seats have people already sitting at the
windows"
"But, darling, only for ten minutes
and then you can sit by the window ali
day"
"No, I won't go. I want to sit by the
window now"
"But, dear, not to give mamma
pleasure?"
NO"
Not for just ten little minutes, when
mamma wants SO much to talk to her
friend. and you can sit by the window
the whole day long?"
"No!"-with impatient emphasis
And IN spite OF humble entreaty from
the mother, and good-natured urging
from the friend, that home-nurtnred
bit OF seltishness kept his place, the
mother never dreaming of INSISTING m
the right and courteous thing, but mnr.
muring gently that Bobby did so en-
Joy looking out of the window" When
7-year-old Bobby becomes Robert To
husband his sad little wife will wo emo
der, why is it that men have so ILL.,
tenderness for their wives ?"-Centurv
Magazine. "'9
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01

thus. Pray, don't waste your time in
conjuring up any better excuses; they
are quite unnecessary I wish you a
very good-morning."
And she went on peeling her po-
tatoes, while Gerald Miner crept out
OF the house, feeling very much like a
whipped cur.
For day or two he felt heartily
ashamed of himself, but the reward
as at least he esteemed it-came at last.
Mr.. Hiram Dale fell iii. Being ill,
he was frightened. Being frightened,
he was solitary. And consequently he
! sent for his cousin Gerald, thing he
never would have done in health.
"You don't think I am going to die,
do you, Gerald?" he asked, tremu-
lousy.
ooh, there's no danger at ALL" re-
assured the young man, as the doctor
had said that morning that the pa
TENTS spirits must be kept up OF all
hazards
"And you won't leave me?"
Certainly not, if my presence can
be any satisfaction to you" responded
the delighted fortune-seeker.
But that girl that you're engaged,
to-" grumbled Mr.. Dale. "She won't
like it."
edo you think that I could persist
anything contrary to your wishes?" re-
proachfully asked Gerald. "The en-
gagement is broken"
"Good!" croaked the old man;
engagements are a humbug in any
event; but engagements to girls that
haven't anything are still worse.
Cousin Miner, you've more sense than
gave you credit for"
Day by day, Hiram Dale grew worse.
On the fourth day he sent for lawyer,
and made his will. On the fifth day
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01

he became speechless. On the sixth
day he died.
aMv fortune is made naw," thought
Gerald. who had listened at the door
during the interview with the lawyer,
and heard directions given, connecting
his name with the padlocked iron box,
the KEY of which they hung around the
dead mans neck, and he felt that
Margaret had been we'll sacrificed.
"You wasn't at the funeral, ell ?" said
Mrs. Dunn to Widow Harmon, while
Margaret's needle flew faster than ever
through the cambria she was hem
ming.
"Well, no; I amt partial to funerals
in general, and l don't see no special
call to put myself out to see an old
miser buried that never see nor spoke
to while he was alive.
"A man can't be miser without he's
cot money, can he?" said Mrs. Dunn.
81 don't rightly know about that"
said the widow, but you don't mean
to say that old Dale hadn't anything,
after all, do you?"
"Nothing but few sticks of furni-
ture and some rusty coins, as no decent
shopkeeper would give change for"
The widows eyes shone through her
spectacle glasses.
"Lord a massy!' said she. aAnd
what was in the padlocked box, as
every one had so much to say about
the iron box as was willed to Gerald
Miner?"
Just sheets of paper as was to be
dictionary as the old man had a been a
writin' all of his days. Manuscript,
the lawyer called it, whatever that may
be. He thought it was worth deal
of money, and he had spent his all o
huntin' up old books as nobody but
his self ever heard tell of, and trav-
cling about the country to pick up in
formation"
"Humph!" said the widow; "but
what did young Miner say?"
II didn't sit near enough to rightly
hear" said Mrs. Dunn, "but them as
did tell me he swore a awful oath
when he saw what was in the box, and
flung the whole bundle on the back of
the fire; I see it blaze up myself"
"And was that all?" asked the
widow.
"Tbat was all" responded her in
formant.
"Tm glad Of it," cried Margaret,
springing up, with sparkling eyes.
"He is served right for once, any
way"
Mr.. Miner called the next day, meek
and subdued. If Margaret had been a
model heroine she would have thrown
both arms around his neck, and vowed
that she loved him better than ever.
But she was only very human little
girl, so she stood up, with dignity, and
said:
II wonder at your assurance in COM
ing here, Mr.. Miner, after all that has
TRANSFERRED"
But, Maggie"
"There's the door, sir; please to walk
QUIT" And there was nothing left for
him but to "walk out"
Old Hiram Hale sleeps quietly in the
village graveyard. And public rumor
has added yet another ghost to the
spectral population of the haunted
house"-a yellow-visaged old DOGGY
who wears wig and carries in his
hand "padlocked box"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01
ed house, the neighbors call it-and
he's moved into it, bag and baggage,
which amt much, by the way"

ed house. the neighbors call it-and
he's moved into it, bag and baggage,
which amt much, by the way"
"Any servants with him, John?"
"Only one-a crooked old woman, as
throwed a porringer of hot water over
me when I went around to ak if I
could be of any use. If they only had
black cat, I'd have the whole kit and
Doodle of em up for witchcraft. Inever
did come across sioh q rum lot in nv
life"
"Did you see tue old man yourself,
John?"
See him, Mr.. Gerald? I seen a
bundle of old bones tied in the middle,
with palm-leaf patt. rn dressin' -gownd
on, and flannel l,i.shtcap on his head,
and supposed likely there couldn't be
two SIGH outlandish old customers
goin'. He were runnin' in and out
from the furniture cart like a crazy
spider"
"That will do, John; here's dollar
for you"
"Thankee, sir. Much obleeged to
you, sir"
And the stable boy who belonged to
the inn shambled away, grinning land
pulling at the front of his cap, while
Gerald Miner leaned, whistling, against
the pillar Of the front piazza.
So old Hiram Dale had arrived ct
last-the rich and eccentric relative
on the reversion of whose fortune,
real or supposed, he had all his life
been building aerial castles. At last
And Gerald resolved to call the very
next day and pay his respects, although
the old woman with the hot water did
not add to the delight of the contem-
plated visit.
eff I hadn't heard from his lawyer
that he had taken lease of the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01

shaunted house," unused Mr.. Miner, II
certainly never should have buried my
self in this out-of-the-way place, await
ing his advent; and if I hadn't thought
[ could work into his good graces, /
never should have taken the trouble to
hunt him up. Heigho: Sometimes l
think it would be easier to work for
money than to inherit it."
And so the next day Mr., Miner
| called.
Hiram Dale received him very coolly,
sitting among his treasures, like Marius
among the ruins of Carthage. But
Gerald noticed that he kept one hand
on the ring of padlocked iron box be-
side him as he talked.
well, young man, and what do you
want?" he asked impatiently, when the
old woman, who evidently considered
Gerald was no subject for the hot
water treatment, showed him in.
"To inquire after your health, Cousin
Hiram" said the young man, smoothly.
"Humph My health is well enough.
Better than you wishit dare say!"
"My dear sir"
"But it will make no difference to
you," acidly went on the old man, still
nervously lingering the rings of the
box. II don't deny thatl have treas
ure to leave behind" (Gerald's eyes
glistened), "but it will be given to
those who consult my wishes more than
you have done.
"But, my dear cousin"
Words are all very WE'LL" said the
old man, Struggling his shoulders, "but
deeds speak the louder, You knew
very we'll my aversion to matrimony,
and yet you go and engage yourself to
get married to girl who hasn't pen
ny Eth! Don't you?" in a rising in
Election like bari, "And then, after
coolly disregarding all my wishes, you
expect me to leave you this-this-"
tapping as he spoke on the lid Of the
box.
"But, Cousin Hiram, if you wish /
will certainly adapt myself to your
opinions. / did not know that"
"Stuff and nonsense!" yelled the old
man. "What you know or did not
know is perfectly immaterial to me.
Leave me to my books and my writing,
that's all I ask of any man living"
So Mr.. Miner went moodily away.
II must break my engagement" said
he to himself. "Thats the first step;
what the second will be depends en-
tirely on fate and fortune"
Margaret Harmon was sitting in the
farm house kitchen, peeling potatoes
no very romantic occupation, but still
one which has to be fulfilled in spite
of all the guitars and fancy work in
creation. She was black-eyed,
damask- checked girl, with velvety
eyebrows and round dot of a mouth
and in those dark eyes glittered light,
half resentful, half cynical. as she
looked straight at Gerald Miner.
II understand" said she, chat you
want to break the engagement. Now
that your rich relative has come to the
neighborhood I am no longer worthy
of you"
cit isn't that, Maggie, believe me,
said Miner, twisting himself alb out
with the red signals of modification
blazing on his cheeks. "But I think
perhaps it would be better for both
Of u.s."
"And I haven't the least doubt of
it," passionately interrupted Margaret,
with heaving breast and quivering lips.
"a thousand times better, for I value
| the love of no man who can love me
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.

that their national game has not become
Americanized. Baseball is not better
known and appreciated here than is hurting
in Ireland, and vet until this winter there
has been no systematic effort to introduce
the game to this continent. Occasional
matches have been played in various large
cities, so that the name of the game is rec
ognized, but it has not as yet taken con-
spicuous place among American sports. 1t
bids fair now however, to enjoy consid-
cradle boom. and by another season there
may be hurting league with championship
contests and big audiences at the grounds
to see the fun.
The Importance of this game on the other
side the Atlantic may be inferred from
the fact that in the Gaelic Athletic Associa-
ton of Ireland there are seventeen hundred
hurting clubs. Each club must have
membership of at least twenty one active
players, for that is the regulation number
of men to side in championship matches.
This tremendous league manages to dis
cover the champion club every year. and
at this time the season of play is in full
blast. AS it would take several years of
constant playing to play every team in the
seventeen hundred against every other.
the association has adopted a system OF
subordinate matches in order to eliminate
from the "All Ireland" championship con-
tests such clubs-and that means the great
majority-as would have no hope Of win
ming. From the LIST OF February to April 20
every county in Ireland is alive with matches
played by it's local clubs. Only such clubs
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01
'LuAH BROWN.
By LOUISE GREY srrrr.

SITS good to be snug indoors tonight
Said Farmer Brown to his wife.
1.-THE wind is BLOWN a regular gale;
never see it worse In my aife.
Them ere clouds is full of meanin', Nancy.
Or else miss my guess;
It pears like blizzard a brewin' uDthere;
Ieastwse it's nothin' less.
sl'll Just run down to the cattle-shed
And give em more fodder and straw;
I'm 'fraid them shoats O mine II freeze,
For tell you it's cuttin raw.
4 few miles out on that country road
AwomAn, infirm and frall,
Was drifting along with uncertain step,
Needing not the winds bitter wall.
As she stops at farmhouse door, she asks.
please tell me, Sir ii you can,
Il 'Lijah Brown lives near these paris
Lifeline, do you know such amanT
y knows him, indeed he's q neighbor o mine.
jest two mile and a half furder down;
/ reckon he's known all overthe West;
Every one knows Lijah Bfown I
sThat great big house and barn is his'n;
Why, yes, every one knows Brown.
lou know he owns nigh every farm
For miles around yon town.
sBut, law you can't get there tonight, woman.
It's too dark and stormy and late;
Make yerseH comtterble here till morn,
And by that time tho storm IL aD6to
Come, sit We down, and rest and warm,
And have bit to eat and drink
I'm sure you look nigh tuckered out
And feel SO, too, think"
.No, I'll trudge along-its hard toy wait,
When know at last I'm SO near.
I've ben waitin too long for llllah noWs
It's up'ards OF twenty year.
Ont on that desoate road again.
She staggered along in the storm,
Breathing prayer 10 God tho while,
To save her bent old form,
TIL Lijah could see her yet alive.
AS she prayed, she cried for Joy;
st last. alter twenty year had passed,
She had found her long-lost boy.
GOD pity all vino are out to might"
Said Farmer Brown to his wife;
.Trat gust O. wind fairly shuck the house.
10 be out is worth ones life.
sHarkl did YOU hear that crashin noises
It's the cid . * tree blown down;
planted @ for monument
10 the moluer of Liiah Brown.
sWhen left her and sot out fer the West
Nancy
And then III come back and pay off the debts
From our old home-all for your sake.
"But luck went agin me the first few years;
had norhin good to write;
Still, l writ nnd writ, but never q word
From her since left her that night.
aThere's sound as of some one knockin'
Nancy;
Some traveller may be tossed to our door,
10 opens it wide, and there. crouching, lies
A woman, weak and sore.
Gently he brings her in by the fire.
And looks at her pale. withered face
Again and again; though wasted and wan
There remains familiar trace.
Eagerly he waits to know If there's life.
10, Godl" in his anguish, he cries,
And the great strong frame Of Farmer Brown
Trembles Us he wipe his eyes.
As he tendcrly watches that withered form,
He prays by her side till dawn.
Then slowly she opens her weary eyes,
And whispers, 4'Lijaht my oy!'-and 10 gone
D.. CHICAGO, Ill.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01
How 1t Happened.

Wife Cat the theater)-See here,
George, you said your only object in
going out was to see man named
Smith who owes you money. What
does that odor mean?
nd-Um-er-the fact is. nv
dear, Mr.. Smith is short of cash to-
night, and as he could not pay my bill,
he insisted on treating me. l had to
accept, of course. 1t don't do to
offend slippery debtor. York
WepEbJ
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01
The Acme Of HOsDitaIi.y.

First traveler-Yes, the people of the
South are hospitable and large hearted,
but in my visits to Ireland L have been
treated to refinement of hospitality
which, Kentuckian, as L am, 1 acknowl-
edge rather beats US.
Second traveler-In what respect
First traveler-The bottles are round
on the bottom and won't stand alone.
When you open them you've got to
drink every drop.-Chicago Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01
ROMAN remains have been fou

ROMAN remains have been foun1
Wiveliscombe, G.. b., with tessell'l
Mosaic pavement. A Buddhist eN
called Suastika, was also found au]
the remains. This symbol, it is /
has been found in many Roman Otl
lngs. 1t has also been found cl|
stone in the north of Scotland, anu
clsed upon bronze implements and
pons of early ages. It consists o.
crosses with arms of equal length
additional pieces extending troD
end OF each arm at right angle. 4
called by some a fire eeDssSu,
others the wheel which is synp
the sun wheeling along the heaven
Is an Eastern sign which dates Is
as 1000 years B. G..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01
On the Cross.Examination.

Lawyer Ito witness)-You are
minute in your statements, and yo!l
very particular in your details. y
want to know if you are really so
scientions that you are afraid to
something that is not so?
Indignant witness-No, sir, no
the least; quite the contrary
S .fti71qS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01

THERE may be difference between
homeopathic and allopathic pills, but
there is very little perception in the
bills.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01
GAMES AND PASTIMES.
THE IRISH NATIONAL GAME BECONI.
ING AMERICANIZED.

Tho Exciting Game of Hurting, and How
1t Is Played-Diagram of the Ffeld-A
Talk with the Champion Individual
Hurler of the Green Isle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01
GRAsPING AT SHADOWS
BY GENEVA MARCH.

sHe's come, Mr.. Gerald"
"Come-come at last? Are you sure
Of it, John?"
"Sure as taxes" said John Baldwin,
with confident nod of his head. Hes
taken that old stone house-the thaunt-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-01

of Mr.. Cullen. who told the writer all about
it recently.
TO begin WITH" he said. leach side has
an umpire. and there is a referee whose
judgment is final on all disputed points.
When the opposing captains have tossed
for choice OF positions, the hurlers stand in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-09
VituS ISehrinG.

Behring Straits are SO named from Vitus
Behring who was a navigator in the Russian
service He was born il Denmark in 1850
and died in l74l. He entered the Russian
naval service in 1904, was made a captain by
Peter the Great, served with distinction in
the war between Russia and Sweden and in
1725 was placed in command Of an cEpedi-
ton Of discovery in the Arctic seas. Return
ing from this, no was in IT'S placed in com
mand of another expedition to the seas bord-
ering upon the northeastern part of Siberia
The explorations connected with the eypedi-
ton lasted several years, in the course of
which he discovered that the continents of
Asia and America were separated by the
narrow strait which bears his name On
June t. l74l, he again set sail from Okhotsk,
in command OF two vessels. He sailed ap-
parently as far north as latitude GO degs,
but stormy weather and sickness in his
crews compelled him to return. He was
wrecked on a desolate island in latitude So
dogs. % min. north, longitude l66 dogs. east,
where he died This island and the sea in
which it lies still bears his name. Hefounded
the Russian settlement of Petropavlovsk in
Kamtchatka. The adjacent coasts of Behr-
ing Strait are uninhabited. Russia acquired
her American possessions which she sold to
the United States, by virtue of the right of
discovery, Vitus Behring, as above explained,
having in 1T4l discovered the rocky range of
mountains, the browning peak of which is
Mount St. Elias.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-09

The salaries of the New York fire depart
ment are as follows; Three commissioners,
5000 each; secretary to commissioners, 81, :
600; assistant secretary, $500; medical
officer, 81, go; two vice medical officers, So
900; chief of department, 5000; assistant
chief, IS, 800; second assistant chief, $500;
twelve chiefs of battalion, 81, 80 each; fore
men, S1,SOO; assistant foremen, 81, 500: en-
gineers, S1,4OO; firemen, first grade, $1,000;
second grade, 81, 100; third grade, 81, 600; fire
marshal, $500; assistant fire marshal, 81 $50;
attorney, $4,000; superintendent fire alarm
telegraph, 5000; assistant, 500; chief
operator, $500; also, nine assistant opera
tors, at salaries of from 81 900 to 81 $50; IL
spector of combustibles, 1850; two survey
ors at 81 200
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-09

Morphy, the celebrated chess player, could
play several games of chess simultaneously
without seeing any of the boards on which
the various games were being conducted. 1t
was certainly a wonderful feat Of memory,
to see how attention and abstraction were re-
tanned throughout most extraordinary
feat, and one performed by him over and
over again, as he used to stand alone attack
ing and defending himself against the several
opponents who were arrayed against him.
That his brain at last gave way and that he
died insane proves that physiology has some
thing to say to memory. Like every other
gift, memory must be used with discretion,
or else the frai frame with which the mind
is associated may be shattered by overstrain-
ing and what has been the best may be cor
rupted into the worst. A wonderful genius
may degenerate into an idiot.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-09
Salt

There are many interesting facts connected
with salt which it is well sometimes to re-
member. To begin with the name itself, a
curious fact is to be noted Salt was for
merly regarded asa compound resulting from
the union Of hydrochloric Tor, as it used to be
called, muriatic) acid and soda, and hence the
generic term of salt was applied to all sub
stances produced by the combination of a
base with an acid Sir Humphrey Davy,
however, showed that during their action on
each other both the acid and the alkali I'M
derwent decomposition, and that while water
is formed by the union of the oxygen Of the
alkali and the hydrogen of the acid the So
dunn of the former combines with the chic
rine of the latter to form a chloride of So
dunn, and this term is the scientific designa-
ton of salt, which, paradoxical as it may
seem, is not n salt Chloride of sodium must
be considered economically under two heads,
relating respectively to sea or bay salt and to
rock or mineral salt. The one is probably
derived from the other, most salt rock depos-
its bearing evidence of having been formed
at remote geological periods by evaporation
from the sea
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-09

Watkinson library, of Hartford, wrote to
London News and Queries in 1870 that cit
was in very common use in the United States
during the late civil war, as descriptive of
the policy of some of our generals who were
in favor of letting the rebellion die natural
DEATH" Another authority insisted that
Cowper must have originated the idea if not
the phrase, in these lines:
When adnirals extoll'd for standing still,
Or doing nothing with deal of skill
Then another remarks that mastery mac
tivity" was easy to say after Cowper's line
was written In London Notes and Queries,
Sept. Ia, 1852 correspondent has this note:
'This expression was used by the late John
c. Calhoun in debate in the senate of the
United States upon the acquisition of CUBA,
in which he alleged that when the proper
time came Cuba would gravitate toward the
United States, and that in the meanwhile
the policy of the United States was a master
ly inactivity"