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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18
The County.

The HERALD has neither space nor
time this week to make full report of
the doings OF the commissioners but
we Will endeayor to post our readers
as to the important matters brought
before the board, The long-pending
report Of @. e. Gafiiin a former justice
Of the peace, has at last been accepted
and The bills contained therein allowed
amounting to s9fO5.
On Jan. 10th the board completed its
settlement With the treasurer and sub
mitted the following statement for
publications:
Treasures receipts for six months
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

g. N. Hall will pay you cash for
hides. Don't forget that he will wash,
oil and repair your old harness or make
you new set cheap. He is a rustler.
Go and see him. 2W3OO
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18
Eucklen's Arnica SaIve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, salt Rheum
Fever sores, letter, Chapped Hands
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles, or NO
pay required. 1t Is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refund
ed. Price rs cents per box. For Sale by
DR.. A. M Matthias.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18
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Blade.
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Only One Dollar.

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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

Farmers, when you sell your grain
remembe. to put away dollar Or two
for your old friend. the HERALD.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

WANTED-A list Of lands for
sale in Jeraull county for customers
in the east. Albert Gunderson
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

~ Ho! Just read this. The Chicago
Weekly inter Ocean, the Orange Judd
Farmer, a is page weekly, and the
" essington Springs HERALD, (all ar
rearages being paid from now until
January LIST 1890 for ONLY $3.50. An
actual saving OF Sl.70 on the three pa
pers! Call at HERALB%o.fice. y
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

DO you want good cheap corn
shelter? Ii you Go we have just what
you want. Call and see it work.
6W29S MORSE & L.ipoINT.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

missioners Of insanity was adopted
and the bills amounting to 5000 al
lowed for the quarter ending Decem-
Der 315Jy, 1855.
Clerk McDonald's bill for services
in the last term Of court, $1024! was
allowed.
| The board rejected the application
for bridge on the line between sec
| lions 10 and Is in Crow Lake township,
but referred tc cnmmlttee Che petit
ton for a bridge between sections 2
and three of the same township
| The petition for change Of road in
Logan township was laid over.
The following road supervisors for
the ensuing year were appointed, viz:
Q. c, AIeirs, Logan. S. G. Jacobs, Crow
Lake; VI. e. Harnston, Harmony; G S
barber, Pleasant; Saml Mcdonald,
Washington Springs: E D Naumann,
Dale, ard Saml Arnold, Media.
| Treasurer Wallace fled new bond
and took the oath OF Office on the 18th
INST
Geo. r. Bateman was appointed JUS
tice of the peace in place OF A. Sturgis,
who had declined to qualify. Mr.. Bate
man has filed his bond and taken the
oath Of Office.
The board adjourned until the first
Monday in February.
The eighth volume of Alden's Mani
fold Cyclopedia extends from Ceylon
to Club-Foot, and is fully equal to its
predecessors handsome type, num-
erous Illustrations, handy form, neat,
substantial binding, and more than ali.
its sklllful editing. which brings with
in such convenient limits such a vast
amount Of knowledge, so well adapted
| to popular needs. are a satisfaction and
a delight to students. Not only in its
marvelously low price. but in every
other respect, this seems better than
| any ether cyclopedla suited for use in
| the homes of the masses, and in our
public libraries. a specimen volume.
to be returned if not wanted, may be
had in cloth binding for so cents, or in
half morocco for s. cents; postage Zoe.
Address, John 3. Alden, publisher,
New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Ga, or
| San Francisco.
The best family weekly newspaper
in the United States is the Toledo
Blade They invite every reader OF
this paper to send for free specimen
copy. 1t IS the largest and best:dollar
paper published. See advertisement
elsewhere.
SEMINARY sCINTILLAT1ONs.
Things look quite wintry about the
seminary.
MIR. Smart visited us Wednesday
morning.
Mr.. Frank Davis, a half brother of
Mrs. Freeland, has joined the school
family.
i &, Prot. Freeland, Miss Clancy, Miss
burg and several Of the scholars heard
Prof. Cornwall's lecture Tuesday eve
ming.
Owing to the storm Wednesday,
many Of the scholars were unable to
attend school.
Examination last Friday showed
many Of us that we still have some
thing to so to school for. Vera.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

j have a farm in Michigan to trade
rcr Dakota land 100 acres d new
house 1926 with an ell lGX2. feet, one
ana q half stories high, and painted.
y, " barn 32x46 feet and q spring on
tb ,and. Al kinds Of small fruits on
the farm. VIII trade for Dakota land
aad personal property. ,Ierauld county
48ertv preferred. Car fsrpart ic'lars
Obi h. Gunderson.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

The best family weekly newspaper
in the United States is the Toledo
Blade They invite every reader OF
this paper to send for a free specimen
copy. 1t IS the largest and best. dollar
paper published. See advertisement
elsewhere.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
We Are Left.

For the past four weeks our friends
have been eagerly pressing US to take
the nomination for Mayor ON the peo-
pies ticket We do not crave Office,
and are very busy man, but the pres
sure became too great we had to give
in.
Last Tuesday evening the city eau
Gus was held, and instead of being
nominated for mayor we received only
three votes out of upward of sixty cast.
Our friends were mistaken when they
insisted that we were wanted. In
stead of being the unanimous choice of
the patriotic people, we had the pleas
ure seeing of Jerry Baxter, the meanest
man in town, given the nomination.
Oh, we'll, that's human nature right
through, and an editor fool enough to
go into politics deserves to be driven
head first into the tanbark, as we were.
We have word to say, however );
the Kicker will not only bolt every
candidate on the ticket, but we guar
antee to have nine-tenths of the nomi-
nees in prison before they are month
older. Feai cssnagra'ats i! which is Lat
in for saying, Don't monkey with
newspaper man.-Arizona Kicker.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
The Force Of Dynamite.

Dynamite is 80 instantaneous in its
action that a green leaf can be COM
pressed into the hardest steel before It.
has had time to fatten. One of the ex-
periments at the United States Torpedo
Works was to place some leaves be-
tween two heavy, fiat pieces of iron,
set them on a firm foundation, and sea
what gun-cotton would do in forcing
the iron plates together. A charge
was placed upon them by COMPRISING
the gun-cotton into cylindrical form
about one inch thick and three or four
inches in diameter, through the center
of which hole Is made for a cap of
illuminate of mercury. by which the
gun-cotton is exploded. The reaction
was so great, from merely being ex-
ploded in the open air, that one of the
iron pieces was driven down upon the
other so quickly ana with such force,
that it caught an impression of the
leaves before they could escape
Portland Transcript.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
Fondness for Snake,

Henry Smith, of Brook Center,
Conn.,, was in the highway on his way
to his days work in the fields when he
suddenly beheld in the road what
seemed to him curious circus. A
blacksnake, six-footer, was curled
on the ground, but instead of having a
head, as the serpents Mr.. Smith had
been familiar with all had, this snake
seemed to begin and end in tails.
Eager to know the mystery of his
queer construction, if possible, Smith
picked up stone and hurled it at the
strange reptile. He didn't hit him, but
the mystery came apart in the middle.
The big black fellow had swallowed
about half of another one that was
nearly as large and Of the same spec
les, but instantly he disgorged him
when the stone struck the ground.
Both snakes were lively and slipped
into the roadside wall before the man
could find another missile.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
Soft Shell Tortoises.

There are tortoises in the South Sea
Islands, but their shell is of little
value, and on the Galapagos Islands
species exists which sometimes attains
a weight of half ton. A. seaman of a
New Bedford whaleship some years
ago was missed by his companions on
these islands. They sought for him
for several days without success, and
were about to leave without him. when
they were surprise to see him coming
down from the mountains, driving one
of these huge brutes with a club.
This was the largest specimen ever
heard of, and was probably hundreds
of years old. The sailor had spent
several days and nights, with true
Yankee pertinacity, in guiding the
clumsy brute from the mountains to
the seashore. These tortoises and
multitudes of hideous iguanas seem to
be the only inhabitants of the CALI
pages, which are a mass of extinct
and barren volcanoes.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
A Roundabout Route.

Mrs. Gabb-'Where are yon going
this SUMMER"
Mrs. Gadd Qightly)-''Oh, to New
port, Saratoga, and don't know where
all. We will make the rounds, I sup
pose. Haven't decided yet just when
we will start, but I'll let you know, my
dear"
Mrs. Gabb (meaningly)-"Oh, Ill
be sure to hear of it when you leave,
because my Cousin John is the railroad
ticket agent here"
Mrs. Gadd (hastily)-"Our first
journey, however, will be to my dear
aunt's farm near Squashville. and do
hope she won't insist on keeping us all
summer, as she did last year. New
York Weekly.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
A Doubling Thomas.

We had been in New Bedford ten
or twelve days and had selected our
particular sea captain and listened to
half dozen of his yarns without be-
traying the slightest evidence Of doubt
Of any statement, when stranger from
the far west arrived and rather forced
his presence upon our coterie. We
were on the back veranda of the hotel,
five or six of US and the old whaler,
and the latter had just started on q
story, when the westerner came out of
the smoking room and drew up a
chair.
':Now, go ahead, captain" he
brusquely observed, as he lighted a
fresh cigar.
"Well, gents" began the captain,
after an uneasy look around, Il was
going to tell you about whale as''-
'What species of whale?" inter-
tupted the stranger. ''There are sew
eral species, you know, and you had
better designate.
A right whale, SIR"
''Oh! That's all right; go ahead"
''We were lying to and drifting
while trying out a fish captured the day
before, and the wind was from
'Was this on lake Erie or on the
Atlantic ocean," put in the stranger.
ION the Atlantic, of course"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
A Penny Now. Please.

Heiresses are so plentiful just now
that the fact that little miss in Bos-
ton is growing up to inherit the largest
fortune of any American woman passes
unheeded, but an amusing story was
told me recently of the child, which
illustrated the care taken of her dispo-
sition. She has not been allowed to
know how brilliant are her prospects,
but it appears that at the school she
attends young person of tender
years and yearning soul expressed her.
self as wishing she was rich" as her
little friend. Whereupon the mite,
returning home inquired whether she
really was very rich? Size was told
that ''some day, no doubt, she would
have large fortune" The child
pondered moment and then, bright
ening visibly, exclaimed, "All right!
Then couldn't l please have a penny
now?-Epoch.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
Taking Out Teeth in Texas

Henry Dixey says that he was once
playing in small Texan town during
his early stage days, and having SUI
fered tortures with an aching tooth,
at last decided to have it out. On
inquiry he learned that the only
dentist there was an alleged Indian
doctor, whose Office was located in a
tent on the outskirts of the town.
The fellow was an Indian only in
dress, however, for in reality he was a
type Of the untamed cowboy of the
plains.
my tooth has been paining me
dreadfully," began Dixey, as he seated
himself on the only camp-stool in the
tent, land I want you to give me
ether, doctor"
''Ether!' roared the cowboy dentist,
as he swung a huge wooden mallet
around his head. either be bowed;
we stun 'em here"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

'Then I am with you didn't
know but you were whaling on the
lakes. Better locate the spot little
closer, however"
'.It was off the coast of Brazil" re-
piled the captain in an indignant
voice.
''That will do, but it is long coast.
Go ahead and never mind which way
the wind blew"
1--WE were drifting, as I said," con-
tinued the captain, as he swallowed a
lump in his throat, s'when the man at
the masthead called"
EXCUSE me, captain" interrupted
the stranger, sbut if all hands were
trying out, why did you have look
out at the masthe ld?"
"Let him go on!'' called two or three
voices.
'Oh, certainly, but he must be sure
of his facts. Go on, captain; you had
a man at the masthead, where he didn't
belong at the time, but perhaps you
managed things that way. He sud-
denly sighted whale didn't he?"
The captain would have retired, but
we looked at him so appealingly that
he decided to make one more effort.
1.-THE lookout hailed the deck and
said that large whale was bearing
down on our starboard," he said, after
4vry0
leaped"-
''Say, captain" softly inquired the
stranger, "was the lookout man of
veracity?"
"Of course he was"
"All right, then; but have known
lookouts who would lie like trotting
horse about whales. Go on. You
were going to say that you leaped over
board. What happened them"
'Gentlemen, l can't stand this"
protested the captain, as he rose
up.
whats the matter?" asked the
stranger.
''You seem to doubt my word,
sir.'
Glands alive! but how did you get
that idea? On the contrary, I have
the most entire faith in what you say.
By the way, captain, in what year,
month and day of the week was this?
What was the name of your ship? Are
any of the crew willing to go before a
magistrate and make affidavit? I should
also like''-
But the captain had turned his back
and walked away, and our pleasant old
liar never returned to us. He had
been smothered by the stranger, and
we had to hunt up and listen to the
yarns of a mate, who couldn't tell
yarn without his face giving him away
every time he pulled a leg of truth out
of joint. New York Sun.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
OTHER BLACKS.
Something New About the Natives
OF Africa.

Something New About the Natives
OF Africa.
throughout the great area included
in the equatorial provinces there must
be varieties in the physical type. The
tribes are not, however, strikingIy
different to casual observer. They
are all finer people than the west
coast negro whom we see in America.
The head is higher, the face less prog
nathous, the features more agreeable.
and the limbs more symetrical, and
muscled we'll down TO the extremities.
The long heel and crooked shin, which
we consider characteristic of the true
negro, do not belong to the negro of
the upper Nile. The type improves as
we ascend the Nile. The Baris are
fine, large men, uncommonly tall and
we'll filed out. The women Also are
tall and strong. The Maids are, how
ever, the beauties and handles of the
whole country. One will see there re-
ally handsome men. They are not so
large as the Baris, but very symmetri-
cal, and their features are often posi-
lively agreeable. They take more
pains in personal decoration than most
of their neighbors, dressing their
hair very deliberately and often paint
ing their bodies in fantastic patterns.
All of these people are armed with
spears, and many of them carry bows
and arrows as well. Shields are by no
means universal. Such of the tribes
in the immediate vicinity of the Nile
as carry no shields seemed to dread
the shields of the Makraka warriors
from the west, who were occasional
allies of the troops of the provinces,
quite as much as they feared their
fierce courage and reputed cannibal-
ism. In arms as in dress there is some
variety in detail The size, shape, and
barking of spear and arrow heads vary.
The arrows particularly are often
iendishly contrived to lacerate
terribly, and to be withdrawn only by
free cutting. Poisoned spears and
arrows are used, but from such infor-
nation as I could gather I concluded
that the danger from them was easily
exaggerated. The people have not the
knowledge to concoct poisons that will
at once last on the head of the weapon
and be quickly soluble in human blood.
It is doubtful, indeed, if they have any
poison that would produce serious
general effect If introduced into the
circulation, although their poisoned
weapons make ugly sores. In short,
they cannot fight with specifics any
more than white men can; but must
rely upon their individual courage and
address, in which they are not de-
ficient, and upon the quality Of their
weapons, which are formidable
enough.-H. G. Prout, in Scribner.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
0utlasting Her Welcome.

Perhaps you have known what it is
to have visitor prolong his or her
sojourn with you beyond a reasonable
limit-outlast their welcome, that is.
The next time this happens the follow
ing recipe may be of service to you,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch:
Some weeks, or months rather, ago a
certain young lady who dwells in an
other state was invited to stay with a
Pittsburg family. The length of the
visit was not prescribed. The young
lady came and staid all June; then all
July, and when August came she show
ed no signs of moving. She was a
medium-weight, average looking, fair
ly agreeable young person, and during
June her hosts enjoyed her society.
In July they began to grow weary of
her, and the verge of August brought
them to the verge of a genuine dislike
for the guest Still they were too we'll
bred to show their feelings, aud il
there had not been a mischievous boy
of IA in the family have no doubt the
girl would be still emulating the exam
pie of the Old Man of the Sea- It was
this boy who conceived plan to start
the tarrier homeward. He studied a
society journal for the correct style
and then wrote to paper which makes
a specially of such things the follow
ing paragraph:
'Miss -, who has been staying
with for the last three months, has
returned to her home in -"
The author of this society note took
care his victim should see it. She
took the hint and departed.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
Shorthand.

According to a paper read before the
recent meeting Of the Londo Library
Association shorthand has flourished
more or less for 1900 years. Cicero's
famous writer, Trio, is known to have
had rivals in his own time. and Caesars
feats in debating several letters stimuli
taneously while travelling still remains
unequaled. But shorthand as now un-
derstood is the product Of the present
century. It is computed that the lit
erature relating to the subject would
fill no fewer than $4,000 volumes, and
England alone has given birth to 3O7
different systems.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
The "Bulging Brow Superstition.

''That man has a fine forehead" I
said to-day toa friend on the street, as
a person with perpendicular forehead
OF great amplitude passed us. But my
friend. who was physician and some
thing OF q phrenologist, remarked:
"Humph! Not necessarily. There Is
not more groundless fallacy abroad
in the land than that about fine fore.
heads. Any man of ordinary reading
and observation, if he will reflect for a
moment, will see that a perpendicular
forehead is not an invariable accom-
paniment of great intellect, and that a
narrow or retreating forehead is not
always a sign of mental weakness.
Some of the greatest men that ever
lived, whose genius and force of char
acter have exerted the greatest infu-
ence on history and civilization, have
had these low or retreating brows,
which ara popularity called weak fore-
heads. The listof them includes Alex
ander the Great, Frederick the Great,
Savonarola, Sir Thomas Browne Cal
vim, Bunyan, Darwin, Emerson, G am
BETA Lafayette, Washington, and
even Lavader himself, the founder of
phrenology, who says that perpendicu-
larity OF the forehead indicates cold
ness of temperament and want of capac-
ity, while retreating forehead is a
sign of originality, .brilliancy of con-
ception, and moral courage" AS I
was not ready to dispute my friends
theory, and indeed had no interest in
doing so, merely passed my hand
proudly over the upper end of my phys
ioguomy and babe him good morning
Chicago Journal.