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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

tual QUE p1rd uOg mad flushed q large
Abyssinian lion.
Hurriedly putting a little Mayonnaise
dressing on our faithful Wang Wang,
we sent him out to parley with the lion
while we put on our telegraph climbers,
and. filling our pockets with bultong,
we assembled Duluth palm tree.
We had not long to wait The wang
wanga bushes parted and low, heavy
set performing lion crept softly into
the open karroo, preceded at distance
OF about three-quarters OF an inch by
our faithful Wang Wang. As the poor
fellow jumped low Kurdish bush I
heard crunching sound such as I hope
never to hear again, and turned away
my head rather than see our trusty
gun bearer in the act of backing into a
lion.
AS soon as could regain my courage
by small nip of spoopju looked back
at the sickening spectacle. All was
still save the distant song of the red
breasted blim-blam in the Kooioo
bushes.
Suddenly remembering how I had
once seen a lion-tamer make lion
quail, descended from the tree. and
taking small riding-whip with me, I
said Hill" and whipping him across the
forelegs, in the meantime frequently
making the remark Hi" drove him
away from there. Out of the kraal,
down the sloot or dry watercourse, and
across the karroo lands he sped, and
So SO on back to Winnipeg, where he joined
his congress OF rare wild beasts, as I
afterward learned.
Hastily saddling our elephants and
slnchlng them tightly SO that the how
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
Adventures

accustomed to it. The eye sparkles,
the step is elastic, and the rich blood
mantles to the nose as the gayly capar-
isoned droska speeds blithely through
the palmetto groves of the thrifty
| Occident.
Many Southern people come to St.
Paul and Minneapolis, it is said, in
order to escape the rigorsl of their own
winter. The banana belt extending
h from Duluth 70 Winnipeg reminds one
Riley Haggard and startedout for a
little quiet elephant shooting in the
country. Bidding farewell to the con-
cierge at the hotel, we packed our
heavy express rifles and smooth-bore
elephant guns, penetrated as far as the
sleeping-car could convey us, and bid
ding farewell to our faithful Wan
Wenga, who caressed us both with a
whisk broom to the value of 20 scudi.
we hired an elephant apiece and began
to penetrate the jungle, preceded 10y
our trusty bird-dog.
At the kraal or livery stable, VIII ere
we engaged our elephants, we w re
told that game was plenty about thirty
miles across the dingelow, and that in
small forest of jingsnag trees and
hoola bushes quite :ovey of quigga
and elephants had been scared up by a
Boer who had penetrated the Jungle
accompanied by his broke or dog.
The first night we camped beneath
the shade of Vienna breadfruit tree
on the borders of the Karroo, and, pre-
venting the escape of our trusty ele-
plants by attaching their trunks, we
began to prepare our evening meal.
read the directions from hook Of
African travel, and my faithful COM
rade, Mr.. Riley Haggard, did the
cooking.
First refreshing ourselves with a
long draught from gourd of spoopju
from Peoria, marked 1872 so-called
because it is placed on the market
eighteen hours and forty-two minutes
after it is made, our faithful gun-bear-
er, Wang Wang, began to carve the
bultong, Meiboss, and jerked muskrat
for the evening meal. Making bright
fire of karroo bushes and fresh train
figs, wad of mealies was soon sim
mering on the Goals, while the odor of
Cincinnati bultong pervaded the trop-
ical forest.
Wang Wang, our faithful valet, who
has made his name household word
because of his search after Schwatka
and One Night" Stanley, said that ac-
cording to the books on African explo-
ration it was now time to bed down the
elephants. After doing this he re-
turned and proceeded with the cuisine
We had hardly swallowed our sup
per, and Mr.. Riley Haggard was about
to climb date palm to secure few
luscious lecture-dates, when our ears
were saluted bya most unearthly and
ear piercing roar from the heart of the
jungle. At this moment our faithful
Wang Ylang came in, with eyes stick
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
He Was Not Superstitious.

A well-known jeweler: Il am often
asked why keep that little, old-fash-
toned silver horseshoe in my showcase.
1t certainly does look out Of place
among my watches: it would not be at
home among the diamonds either, and
it would be equally stranger in the
case with the earrings and breast-pins.
1t was made in my fathers shop in
Switzerland about forty years ago,
when l was boy, and made it.
Il made it out of silver franc after
l had been at the bench less than a
month. A little French girl gave the
coin to me, and fashioned this horse
shoe with few tools that my father
would allow me to use. 1t was breast
pin once, and after it was made the
girl wore it. About five years after
wards l brought the horseshoe and the
French girl to this country with me-
She was my wife then.
Il had hard fight with the world at
first. We went West. Then we went
South. At last we came here. After
this we prospered. All this time my
wife wore the horseshoe. l shouldn't
say all the time, but most of the time.
Once she lost it. The same night my
store was burned. The next day boy
brought the pin to me and asked me
how much it was worth as old silver
He had found it on the street. 1 bought
it back for five times its value without
question.
Twenty years ago my wife died.
Among the last things she did was to
ask for this pin. She gave it to me and
told me to keep it always. 1t had been
the means Of our marrying. and had
always brought us good fortune. With
two exceptions, it has never passed out
of my possession since.
when my eldest daughter was
married she wore the pin on her
wedding dress. She left for Europe
the next day, and forgot to return it
to me before she started. She had not
been gone a week before my cash
Ter disappeared with $4,000 in cash
and left a large deficit in my bank
balance. He was my nephew, and
would have been my partner some
day. During that month the grass
hopper plague destroyed the crops in
Kansas and 1 lost several thousand
more in bad debts. I am not supersti-
tious, but cabled to my daughter for
the pin and it came back by the first
steamer.
"The next exception was five years
ago last summer. In cleaning out the
showcases one morning a new clerk
threw the pin among the scraps in the
workshop to be melted up, thinking it
had no value. When I missed it, it
could not be found. The shop was
thoroughly searched.
Il advertised for it, offering liberal
reward, and my porter returned it to
me and claimed the $50. He had found
it, so he said, in the ash-box in front of
the store. This was one week after I
had lost it. During.that time my daugh-
ter's husband was killed III a railroad
accident in Illinois. Since then
this old horseshoe is in the case, where
it has lain for twenty long years. Every
day and every night it goes into the
safe.
"No, I am not superstitious, no one
can accuse me of that weakness; but it
would take more money than most men
have to buy that pin. I don't believe
in luck. know that losing the pin had
nothing to do with my disasters, but I
won't part with it all the same. "-Jeav-
elers' Weekly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
Modesty Receives Its Reward

The modest violet is occupying an
exalted position just at present. Flor
lists say that it is by far the most NOM.
lar OF all the blossoms, and il IS in
favor equally with both sexes Will; IL
the subtle perfume is used generally
and IN divers ways. The varions no.
fume-pouches, pillows and sachets o fe el1
f kinus sna1 are used SO lavishly in every
las1onabie drawing-room, are for the
most part violet scented; the bellies
aalnty silver "bonbonnier" is filed With
glace vlolets, she relieves her occa s;onai 1
hoa arse e! with violet lozenges. and
battles in violet-perfumed water VIII SHh
v1olet-scented soap. 1t is a matte M., ~
congratuiation that the odor is u1a, %
tngly delicate or We should soon heo
for respite. 'oon oe9
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

A REMARKABLY cool-headed man is
James Purless, of Sacramento, Cal.
By the breaking of a scaffolding
around building he was tearing down
he was thrown into a cellar. Several
OF his bones were broken and pro-
truded from the flesh, but, notwith-
standing, he continued smoking, and
qnietly directed the men in their work
of clearing away the rubbish which
held him prisoner.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

Two ONO women have the grim sat
isfaction of rejecting that but for the
opposition Of their parents they might
have been the wives of Presidents OF
the United States. Thirty years ago
they lived at Bedford, village of less
than five hundred inhabitants, about
twelve miles from Cleveland, and both
We're very attractive. To each Of them
at different times Rutherford B.
Hayes and James A. Garfield paid Sc
rious attentions, but the young men
were poor and their prospects anything
but bright, so the parents of the girls
firmly and effectually checked the
love-making.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
LETTER FROM THE CORNERS.
Uncle Toms Calm.
NECK OR NoTHIN HALL,
Kilkenny CORNERS.


it wus play tibet everbuddy went
we he'd got sturted, l foun out
tibet sum one he'd Civ William
Henery pass to git in, an tibet wus
why he were so anxious to go. Ben
an the schoolmarm went along with us.
Whin we got thare they hedn't on
locked the dore yit, an so we sot down
on to the steps to waite.
Arfter while the opened the dore
an we bot our seats an wint in, an sot
down into sum awful nice cushingd
cheers.
Laws William Henery wus tibet TUX
with the house tibet he sed he wus q
goin to bid him one jes like it sum
"Golly, Hester Ann," ses he, "haint
this Jest ALFRED slick!"
him not to talk so lowed fur peple wus
beginnin to cum in an they'd no he
hedn't never bin to an nopery house
afore.
But, Mr.. Editur, I tell you tibet wer
an awful fine house.
They wus curting up to the front
of us thet he'd sum auful purity picturs
on to it. One OF EN- wus pictur of
ole-fash'n'd we'll, jest like it ust to be
to my ole fatherses, an it made me feel
lump into my throte to think of the
times when wus little gal an I'D go
to tibet ole we'll fur drink O voter.
Lawd sakes, how sum of the wimmin
wus dressed! 1 arsked one womin tibet
ut IL .~r1,k al rs ~ Oh IL
she'd forgot to put on her bask afore
she lef home. 1 tole her tibet she
Good hev my big shawl to put aroun
her to hide her bare selfli if she wood
except it.
She jes Civ me look threw her
glasses tibet she he'd on to the eend of
a stick, an then turned to the young
Teller tibet he'd brung her an sed sum-
thin about aborigoners, an then they
both looked at us, her threw the
glasses on to the stick an him threw O
little solt suller he stuck into his eye.
The schoolmarm WHISPERED an tole
me tibet the gal wus in "full Dress"
Good laws! I tho't it wus emmy
thing but full dress, it looked to me
more like undress. When I looked
dIOuu over Uue house tQO, InaTe WIS
lots and lots Of winning jes es bad es
her. The curting ris up an the play
went on till pore little Eva died an
went to heving. I jes lade my he'd onto
William Henery's sholder an cried an
cried.
Thar wus the meenist man into the
play, his name WIS Legree. William
Henery sed II jes like to punch tibet
ole sinners he'd fur him. He bot pore
ole Uncle Tom an then abused him jes
shameful. William Henery stood it es
long es he Good an then he ses:
It'll be dad burned eff I'm goin to
see tibet ole black cuss abused emmy
more, even eff he is nigger," an he
got rite up an ses he, "See here, mis-
ter, don't you hit tibet niger agin or
III go over thare an gin you good. "
The schoolmarm TUX holt O. his cote
tales and pulled him back, an tole him
it wus only into the play, but he sed,
"I'll be gol rammed eff I'm a goin to
see niger abused: even in play"
But laws, I'll tell you the res mex
time. Yourn,
HESTER ANN ScoopER.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

WILLIAM D. HowELLs host of friends
in all parts of the country will be
grieved to learn Of the blow that has
befallen him in the death of his eldest
daughter, Winifred, in the twenty sixth
year of her age. She had been an in
valid for several years, but such be-
reavements are not much, if any, easier
to bear when they come for having been
foreseen and dreaded. Mr.. Howells
has two children left, younger daugh-
ter, who is studying art, and son now
at Harvard.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

LEE HANG, a member OF the Chinese
Legation at Washington, went into
Chamberlin's a few days ago and had
what might be called an international
racket. He drank German wine,
French champagne, and ended up with
a hot drink made Of Irish whisky
sweetened with Cuban sugar ard
stirred with a Connecticut spoon. He
paid his bill out OF Chinese silk purse
drawn from a pocket up his sleeve,
found piece of ginseng root, which he
put into his mouth, and went away
haDDy
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

An instance of presence of mind ap-
preaching to the horrible occurred in
the Grand Theater, Glasgow. Miss
Rose Lee, while singing a love song,
saw @fyman" fall head foremost from
the flies to the stage, a distance of
twenty-five feet. She not only con-
tinued her song, but moved forward to
the front of the stage in order that the
calcium light which was directed upon
him might not reveal the form of the
dead man to the audience.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

A FARMER in York County, Maine,
recently shipped twenty barrels of
apples to Liverpool. After freight
charges and other expenses were de-
Quoted he found his fruit had netted
him cents a bushel.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
know

The Empress of Austria carries a
travelling basket fitted up so that she
can make soup on the cars. It has sill
yer sauce pans with gold handles, and
the Empress declares that she can
make in it better broth than any chef
can cOncOct
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

HERDS of buffalo are said to be still
roaming in the Businesses of the Qua
dalupe Mountains in New Mexico,
which are also full of other large game,
such as elk and bear
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

Newton, of New York, has been doing
the same thing, and other clergymen
have been doing similar good work.
A writer in the A0UGnte tells OF q
warm-hearted layman who has recent
ly set apart $500 to lend to clergy1nen
for the purchase of books and maya
zines.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

Miss MCMILLAN, daughter of the
new Senator from Michigan, is said to
bear such striking resemblance to Mrs.
Cleveland that she is often mistaken
for her in Washington.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

Mrs. DAVID BROWN of Princeton, n.
j., has given Princeton College s25, 900
in addition to the $4,000 which she
gave few months ago.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

Col. CELSIUS PRICE, OF Missouri, the
cultivated scion of an old and honora-
BILE family, is said to be working as a
porter in q wholesale dry goods store
in New York.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

SENATOR STANFORD paid $500 for
windows from which to review the in
augural parade, Senator Hearst $500,
and Ira Davenport $3.50.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

Mr.. STURGEON, the famous Baptist
preacher, has for many years been in
the habit of sending fresh books to
country clergymen who are unable to
buy such books themselves. Heber
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

TIE Pennsylvania Railroad is ar
ranging to connect New York and Phil
adelphia at the rate of mile minute.
Distance, Lightweight miles; present
time, two hours.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

Gov. AMEs, of Massachusetts,, is re-
ported as favorable to the old custom
of wearing ruffled shirts and ready to
assist revival Of the by-gone fashion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

NEBRASKA is to have law to punish
any one who discharges firearm with
in sixty rods of public highway.
When they want to shoot man they
will have to invite him to walk out into
the huckleberry swamp.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

PEAcHsToNEs are used for fuel in
Vallejo, Cal. They bring Sc ton.
The apricot stone does not burn 80 we'll
and does not bring so good o price.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

The kangaroo is said to have got its
name in this way: Captain Cook first
discovered the animal in Australia.
When he inquired it's name of native
the latter replied, Kangaroo" which
in the Australian language is IT don't
Epox,- :.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

A GREAT man is happiest when he
can sit down and write his memoirs and
forget all the mean things he knows
about himself.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

been greatly exag-
gerated by rival
States, and though
at times the Their
monleter lowers it.
self in the estima-
ton of society, the
cold is of such a
bracing character
as to seem almost
oppressively hot to
those who are not
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

Miss WILL ALLEN DRoMGooLE is a
literary lady who has cut her official
throat with her little pen. Some of
her recent magazine sketches of life
in the Tennessee mountains carried a
sting to the denizens of that section,
and when Miss Dromgoole recently
sought an election to Senate clerk
ship big rough-bearded Scion from
an up-county arose and roared out
She wrote agin the mount'ns! Iwar
be known'st ter it, and I'm agin her. {"
The Senate sat petrifed and Miss
Dromgoole incautiously giggled. It
sealed her fate. Another hill-county
legislator was hoisted to his feet by
indignant colleagues to second the OBJ
lection. He did it tersely and effec-
tually: "She lowed the wimmin folks
went b'arfoot an Their men talked a
diurlec. I'm agin anybody as is agin
the mount'ns." The issue was Joined,
and on the ballot being taken Miss
Dromgoole was beaten.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

QUEEN VICTORIA is said to have &C.
quired a marvellous fuency in Hindo-
stance, in which, language she con-
verses freely with her turbaned Indian
servants.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
\ MIGHTY HUNTER is HE
ELL NIE,s ADVENTURES IN THE
MINNESOTA JUNGLES,

de Penetrates the Tropical Depths of the
Great Northwest on the Back of an Ele-
plant, and Meets with Several Thrilling
Adventures.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

Nor a poisonous reptile, insect or
plant is found in the Puget Sound
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
RY I'm, ANK & BLANK.

DANCING is said to be declining il
popularity in England.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

THE locomotive builder is noted for
his engine-uity.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

POPE LEO has entered upon his S0th
year. He is extremely feeble in health.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

A LIVELY correspondent tells how
the Morton and Mckee children were
lost on inauguration day, the drivers
of their carriages driving about town
when they should have gone to Will
lard's Hotel. The families were Wild
Mrs. Mckee suffered agonies and
Miss Morton tainted in her anxiety fol
her little sister Mary. Mr.. Mckee
and Mr.. Halford, though they said it
was all right, kept running out in the
rain, and messengers were sent in
every direction. After an hour the
carriages drove up and the little ones
We're Rugged and kissed until they
We're in more danger of being damaged
by the smother than they had been OF
perishing Of cold or hunger while lost
in the streets of Washington.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
men both

that the winter here was much like that
of Singapore, but 1 would not have be-
lieved it even then if I had not person
ally tried it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

n the celebrating
Northwest, 1889: The
cold of Minnesota has
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19
A-HUNTING WE WILL GO.

ing out like sore thumb, to announce
that our bird dog had flushed large
Abyssinian lion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-19

A SPANKING team-Our parents
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-07-15
The Strike Ayerted,

The great strike at the Homestead
steel works has been averted. The
parties met in determined opposition
and after studying the position, the en-
ployers sought a conference and yielded
enough 10 secure agreement. The vital
point in the matter was the demand of
the manufacturers that they should
have cheaper labor than their competi-
tors demand which obviously the
steel workers association could not
aecede To, without throwing their men
in other mills out Unemployment, by the
consequent silencing of such mills thus
discriminated against in the wages
scale. When il became clear to
the Carnegie firm that this great adyan-
tage Ia steel making could not he gained
BY them without defeating the iron
workers association, they came down ms
gracefully as they could, and we are told
that +" some essential points were con-
ceded and that the conference is stiu
proceeding. All of which means that
the steel workers association have sul,-
stantially succeeded in their resistance
10 the manufacturers unfair demand. II
was an essay at monopoly, permissible
and indeed prompted 10y the laws of the
country, that Was happily beaten.