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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
The Human Heart.

That in many cases the heart may
be strengthened by proper hygienic
measures and medical treatment is a
question. In regard to this there is no
doubt. Systematic but moderate exer-
else, which, strengthening the other
muscles of the body, also strengthens
the heart, is probably the most valu-
able of all the means to be adopted,
and of this, climbing heights should be
prominent feature. A person unac-
customed to this kind Of physical exer-
ton should, of course, proceed very
carefully, and under the direction of
physician, till the body has become
Infatuated to the work. The food
should be of the most nutritious char
acter, not over stimulating, and espe-
cially not excessive in quantity.
Tobacco, if used at all, should be
used in moderation, for it is very GER
tain that inordinate indulgence in this
direction weakens the heart. The like
is true of alcoholic drinks of all kinds.
The mode of life should be such as to
initiate against the accumulation of fat
in the body. The heart OF man weigh
ing $50 pounds, for instance, may be
strong enough for all the purposes of
life; but if he makes his body weigh
200 pounds the proper proportion is de-
stroyed and the heart is relatively weak.
1t is just as easy to make the heart
strong as it is to strengthen the mus
cles Of the arms OF legs. And if proper
views on this subject can be caused to
prevail, and be carried out in practice,
we shall hear less of weak heart and
heart failure. A person will then be
able to dispense with an elevator when
he has to ascend to the seventh or eighth
story of building, and he can then in
dulge in fit of anger, if SO disposed,
without running the risk of dropping
dead at the feet of his antagonist
William Il. Hammond.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03

finally suggested rope, which, being
procured, was placed around the old
Indians neck and thrown over rafter
in the building. After tugging and
jerking at the rope for some time
(Which unpleasant duty devolved upon
me), the old man at last consented to
disclose the hiding place. Crossing
the room, he moved a table which
overlaid wolf-skin rug, beneath which
rug was trap-door leading to deep
cellar. Throwing the door open he
descended, accompanied by one of my
men, and returned in few minutes
with two oyster cans full of gold pieces.
A second journey developed rusty
kettle full of gold coin, and third
three large bundles of greenbacks.
AS soon as the old Indian had given
up his treasure he walked back to the
rope and catching the MOOSE in HIS hand
said: Now you hang me, white man,
money all gone. Next morning on
counting our treasure in the Younger
Bend we divided $4,000. To our dis
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
A Short Time to Live.

Young Bacon-I should like to make
application for position as bool1keeper
in your Office.
Mr.. Yeast-But my bookkeeper gives
perfect satisfaction.
Eyes; but you won't have him long.
"How's that?"
"He's just been married"
"Yes; I understand that"
"He's not long for this worlds
"What makes you think SOP"
"Why, his wife is graduate of a
cooking school, and she does her own
cooking. -Yo71kers Statesman.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03

IN Texas. She prepared to follow
but her father sent her a message
me effect that her mother was dan
lusly i'll, and she returned home
FAD. She found that her mother
as as we'll as she ever was in
NE, and that she had been
ea. and she reiterated her original
9t'on OF following Younger to Mis-
but her father asserted his pa
IL authority and locked her in a
where she was kept a close pris-
lor nearly two weeks. Then
was given her choice of attend
small school in Parker County or
m1nary in San Antonio, and she
me former. She was practically
soner there, for she was permitted
ave no communication whatever
me outside world. Cole Younger
Aea to Texas while she was still
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
The Snail at Home in Winter.

As the winter comes on, the snail
becomes sensible of the approach of
resistless lassitude, scoops hole in
the: ground, lines and covers the cham
Der with kind of'mortar made of dead
leaves and slime, and, retiring within
this cell, proceeds to make itself more
snug by closing the mouth of its shell
with o diaphragm which gradually
hardens, but is infinitely perforated
opposite the respiratory orifce. AS
the animal withdraws further into its
shell other slime plates are made,
which act on the principle Of double
windows, inclosing layer of air be-
tween each pair, and SO effectually
protecting him. from the cold. With
the return Of spring, when the woods
are melodious with the songs of birds
intent on the perpetuation of their
species, the snail reappears and sets
about making a nest-like hole in the
ground, wherein its eggs, cluster of
from thirty to tifty-in form resembling
the berries of the mistletoe-are by
and by laid. They are Matched in,
perhaps, twenty days, when the young
emerge in lovely bubble-like shell,
and acquire full growth in about
twelve months.--AW tie Year Round.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
The White Slaves Of London.

A committee of the House of Com
mons has for some time. been investi-
eating the sweating" system as prac-
ticed in London workshops. It has been
learned that thousands of work girls
are obliged to stay up till 1901 o'clock
at night, working in the most unwhole-
some places, and frequently for as little
as five shillings week, or even less
San Francisco Chronicle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03

He begin to hecter her, fust holm
her yarn SO tite she coodnt croshay, an
then jerkin her work an pnravelin it.
She got haf mad at him. It'll slap you
up to peek in about hat mint,
Mr.. Scooper," SEES she.
"Sho, now" SEES he, "you woodn't he
so weekid when Teller jest wants to
holp you leetle.
We'll, you jest keep on an see whot
happens" ses she, reel kindly snapish
like. Lizzie is ginally reel MISE
spoken gal, but she wns loosin her
|, patients.
. He jes KEEP rite on, an purity quick
he drapped the ball an they both made
lunge fur it, an slap, bang, ther two
beds cum together.
she he'd bumped him on to the nose
with the not on to the top O. her he'd.
It didn't hurt her none, but it made
William Henery's nose bleed like sixty.
I'll hev you sude fur damidg," SEES
We'll, sue away; You won't git over
five deAAxs' damidg," ses she; "thet
is all ~ Hev to pay fur DRAWN blnd
on fellers like you" an she laffed. I
ooodn't see nothing funny about it, On
was reel skesaa at first, thinkin he
wus hurt sefv(W.
Well, he wa.f, an we got his nose
stopped purity soon. =.
We dropped the dore keys down his
back, an he chawed a wad of paper an
itstopped. After he he'd washed his self
we he'd tea. My sakes, it appeered to
me es tho Mis- Hoppers he'd everything
you Good think of tibet WIS good to eat.
cant begin to tell you, Mr.. Editur,
of all the good things she he'd, but
there wus heaps an piles of vittles.
William Henery he SEES, Liz, the
belt you hit me jes give me number
one applecort.
I'D better hit gin, and hit below
the belt, an maybe I kin Civ You bet
ter one yit," ses she.
Il don't want my ole man manned
fur life" ses I, mot by no one."
"Seein es I think SO mulch of you,
Mis- Scuper," ses Lizzie q latin, II
wont hit him agin only in self-defents. ("
everybuddy scanned to injoy themselves,
but it was over at las and we all got
up an went into the parler expectin
sum of the gals es stayed to help with
the deeshes.
Purity soon I heerd emotion ont
there an looked around fur William
Henery.
He want to be sean, so I went to the
dore an opened it iis in time to here
him sayin:
Hear stan afore Miss Blodger;
She's a goin to strike al I'm a goin to tlodge1
But he didn't dodge worth a cent, fr1
she throwd turkey laig at him an hit
onto the nose an got sum greece into
his eye.
1t do seam es eff William Henery's
nose wus allls a gittin hurt; I spose
it's caus it's so long.
We went home soon arfter tibet. ]
felt tibet it wer best to git him home
afore emmy serus damidg WIS dun.
The schoolmarm sed, 1--WE had fine
large time, didn't we, Mr.. Scooper?"
"You bet," ses he; "thet Liz Blodg-
ers is RATHER"
William Henery," SEES I, sturmly,
"dont use slang"
By tibet time we WIS to the house.
So good-by.
| HESTER ANN ScooPER.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03

(ous and governing power on the
(der that made her terror to Off
and well-doing people. She was
[urally handsome and graceful, q
hing horsewoman, crack shot with
revolver and rifle, and as bold and
rless as o tigress. For a dozen
IRIS her home at Younger's Bend, near
fala, was the rendezvous and hiding
ICE of the worst desperadoes of the
bst. Jesse James spent six weeks
Ire once while officers were searching
country for him.
But Belle did not owe her fame to
re association with thieves. She
kself planned and led daring raids,
it was supposed that she knew
RE about the cruel murders that
be Of such frequent occurrence near
home than anybody else.
Belle always dressed plainly, but
erever she went her dashing appear
he in the saddle attracted so much
ention that she was a marked woman.
broad brimmed white hat, such as
ommonly worn by cowboys, sur
tnted by a wide, black plush band,
ii feathers and ornaments, gave her
appearance of saucy independence,
ich was heightened by the bristling
play Of guns and revolvers that al
rs swung from the saddle or Shout
She was Of medium height, with
good form, and bright, intelligent
ck eyes.
ehe disliked newspaper notorietv,
but few reporters We're ever sue
Eful in learning the history of her
(ntful career from her own lips. She
med that newspapers had done her
ross injustice once.
Belle was born in Carthage. Mo-,
fty-four years ago. In 1868 her
per, who was a Confederate, moved
his family to Texas, where they
tinued to live after the close of the
After the surrender Quantrell s
tiocked down to the vicinity OF
les home, and they were always
come guests at her fathers home,
be loved to listen to their stories of
RIDER and pillage. She fell in love
Cole Younger, who was one of the
It daring Of all the guerillas, and
ugh her father objected to the court
p she ran away with her lover and
married to him on horseback. John
her, famous Texas stage robber,
her horse while the ceremony was
ng performed.
cess than six weeks after the mar
Be Younger became involved in a
tight, which ended in four men
ng their lives, and he had to run
y to Missouri, leaving his wife be
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
IN heaven.
nv FBES e. RExFoRD.

40 earthly friendships fail US
so ,Ths sa winds Of sorrow blow,
W ,a;r frail blossoms perish
AZ n,aan ,l the frost and snow.
be ,;e that seems the strongest
NAY ~, nnr hearts remember
Io ,, rin nothing sure but Heaven.
-, o,,n we lean on wcakens,
n Tna hand we grasp grows cold,
.1i dross is in the treasure
Ah we counted purest gold.
,,, M in His strange, deep wisdom
"G neI takes what He has given,
rs ecu mite lips seem to tell US
! There's s nothing sure but Heaven.
a heart beyond the shadows.
,rnare ours are ours forever,
VT from earth's loss and ills.
s S.s neyermore will fail US,
lV Vino patiently have striven,
y, nat dear land we long for.
AZ Nh things are sure in Heaven.
,ocToN, Wis.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
+ DIED IN HER BOOTS.
EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF A
FEMALE OUTLAW.

Starr. the Southwestern Woman
,,perado-First Winning Notoriety as
10 Younger's Wife. After His Life Term
|rgin. She Marries i. Cherokee Indian
IA Life OF Crime.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03

The Anglo-Saxons had arched
hearths and chatting dishes were in use
until the introduction OF chimneys
about 1900. Chimneys became general
in domestic architecture in 1910. The
ancients used stoves which concealed
the fire as the Germans still do. Apart
ments were warmed by portable braz-
iers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
An Anchored Boarder.

Winks-How often do you change
your boarding house now, links?
Jinks--I never change at ALL"
Winston don't. Perfectly COM
Portable, Ell?
Jinks-No, I'm mighty uncomfort-
able; but I've changed often enough to
know I never gain anything by chang
ing.-Neav York Weehlu.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03

"YoU can't go home when it's raining
like this. You'd better stay and have
dinner with u.s." ooh, no, it's not
quite so bad as that"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
A Joker that Ought to BE Jailed.

Visitor Ito man in celD-@What are
you here for, my man."
Prisoner-"For stealing pair of
Shoes"
visitor-"Don't you regret your ac-
tion?"
Prisoner-"I do; both shoes We're
lefts."
Visitor "Then you got left"
Prisoner-"I say, Mr.. Jailer, here's
q man that ought to be in my place."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03

IS a.; A.; -: !! 3 :!s:
two cats in tho family. One was a
slender, geAts e shaped Maltese, very
ingly nimble in her motions. 1t was
pretty tight TO SEQ her gamboling with
her kittens, or leaping up in the air to
snap at a passing fly. On such occa-
sions I often used to wish that her
portrait could be taken by the famous
Swiss artist, whose wonderfully nat
ural feline pictures gained for him the
name Of 1.-THE Cat Raphael"
The other cat was old and infirm.
He was called Grizzly Tom," on &C.
count Of the color of his fur. Whether
rheumatic pains and aches made him
irritable, I know not, but for some
reason or other he. was the crossest
beast that one sees in lifetime. His
ill-temper was particularly manifested
toward the Kittens; of which Pussy
Malta had several broods year. Woe
70 them il, while chasing their own
tails, they tumbled on him as he lay
stretched out in the sunshine! All
agreed that Grizzly Tom was NUS
ance, but he had lived in the family
from kittenhood, and they had not the
heart to order his execution. So he
lived on. splitting and growing, claw
ing and scratching, whenever he was
not asleep. He: aHa Pussy Malta did
not come to blows, for she was too
busy to attend to fighting, but she
never sough his company, and while
they were tapping milk from the same
little trough she would keep one eye
on the lookout to see what he was
likely to do next.
One day Pussy Malta came in from
the barn uttering the most piteous
cries. Whether she had been kicked
BY the horses or had eaten something
poisonous, we never knew; but her
sufferings were most painful. Not
withstanding the application of warm
bath and warm blankets, the swelling
continued to increase and her limbs
twitched convulsiyely. Grizzly Tom,
who was sleeping on the "stoop," was
reused by her first cry, and came look
ing in at the door to see what was the
matter. Inever saw any dumb crea-
ture express sympathy so humanity as
no Ulu. I10 WAAA0u SLOWLY TOuuu anu
round Pussy Malta, looking at her
wistfully, and. now and then laying his
paw gently on her fur, as if he wanted
to say, II wish I could help thee" But
nothing, ayailed. In less than an hour
she, was lifeless. Her hunting days
were over, and she would never again
;frisk with her kittens.
| She left three little orphans, so
youpg,t that their eyes we're not vel
opened. When their mother breathed
her last, they lay curled up together il
o little furry heap, on bit of carpet il
"a corner of the stoop, all unconsciou.
of their loss. Grizzly Tom bad watched
all that was done for Pussy Malta,
ever and anon touching her gently will
his paw. When she lay stretched out
cold and stiff, he looked at her min
ute, and licked her fur. Then he
walked off to the stoop, and lay down
by the blind kittens, putting his paw
over them protectingly. From that
moment he never deserted them till
they were old enough to take care of
themselves; and, though they often
leased him by pulling his fur or play
ing with his tail when he wanted to
sleep, he never struck them blow.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03

HARRY-I bought you an amulet at
Tiffany's. Elsie-Oh, how kind of youl
And eggs are SO dear. !.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
nALTA AND TOM.
BY cYeALE.
AIRTY'

AIRTY or mora
years ago. when I
was boarding with
the family of Friend
Joseph Carpenter,
10 Quaker farmer in
New Rochelle, NY,
II witnessed o scene
lin animal Life. which
touched my teel-
|ings deeply, and by
its singularity i'm
Spfessed itself indel-
libly upon my nj em-
low, fCho,, ,vo~o
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
my wife Betsy, aged 3d."
Little Hone"

He has buried the little hope" he
had, but he was still marrying man,
and after being "consoled" he began
inquiring among the neighbors If they
knew of desirable woman who wanted
to marry. "-Atl12ltQ Journal
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03

E LIE STARR,
who met q vio-
lent death in the
Indian Territory
'not+long ago.. was
the most remark
able woman who
ever figured in the
history of border
outlawry. Her life
reads like a page
from a work of fc-
tion.' Welded in
girlhood to a DASH
ing Captain of
Quantrell's CUT
throat band. and
associated all her
life with murder
ers, train-robbers,
; and horse-thieves,
eLolaan-oo lon
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
From Grave to Gay.

A cluster Of ten graves attracts the
eye of everyone who visits the grave
yard at Griffin.
These graves and the legend above
them awaken an irresistible sense Of
humor. At the heads of the five larger
graves stand plain marble slabs, each
being simply tioriated and bearing the
name and age of "My wife" The five
little graves have small slabs Of the
same design, each bearing the name Of
child.
One husband has buried here his five
wives, and one father his five children.
By the side Of each mother sleeps her
child, and one husband and father
buried them all.
He said the reason he had the same
kind of tombstone placed over them
was his strict sense Of impartiality. He
had loved each alike, and no one wife
more than the other. No later Rachel
had supplanted Leah, and he did not
wish to show any partially in the mat
ter OF their graves.
The slabs are so arranged that the
first is that over the first wife, then
comes the headstone OF the child
grave, then the second wife and the
second little child. So that reading
them in proper order you get the fol-
lowing legend and moral:
my wife Mary, aged 25."
Little Simeon"
"My wife Jane aged 81"
Little Georgia."
"My wife Anna, aged o."
Little Birdie"
my wife Maria, aged o."
Little Ruth"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
LETTERS FROM THE CORNERS.
The Last of tho Tea Party.
NECK OR NoTRrN HALL,
KILKENNY CORNERS.

II. EDlIUR: i
Good see tibet Will
: lam Henery WIS
/ awful Uneasy, an
!, a lookin at the
very haf-minit.
/ his eye an Civ
savage, warning
n then he sneake,l
off to one side an
sot down by Liz
zie Blodgers, who
Awus a settin over
by the winder .
o,,>o1,o-s-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03

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The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-06-25
LONDON AND DEMOCRACY.


The matter Of aristocratic titles is
sometimes as much ridiculed in
England as elsewhere, notwithstand-
ing that nowhere in the British en-
pire is '.jingoism," or conservatism,
more rampant than in South Bri-
tain. We clip the following from
one of our London exchanges, as it
gives a tone of advanced notions of
democracy rather unusual in the
columns of London journals:
I'VE are quite as democratic as
other people, partly because we have
faith in the essential principles of
democracy, and partly because we
like to be on the winning side. All
the same we believe that democracy,
like any other ocracy or archy, is
quite capable of making mistakes,
and we consider that the new Lon
don County Council, in It's endeaVors
to illustrate its democratic spirit,
has decidedly Numbered. By way
of protest against any sup
posed social inequality amongst
It's members, it has decided that
the chairman, Lord Roseberry,
although a peer, is not to be ad-
dressed as My Lord" but simply,
like the rest of them; as "Sir." Now,
at the risk of being thought philo-
logically pedantic, we wish to OBJ
serve that the latter form of address
savours even more of feudal aristo-
cracy than the former. "Sir,"
though in its origin a word convey
ing respect for age, is from its later
use more distinctively indicative of
Iordship than the word "lord" itself,
which simply attests a mans posi-
ton as the "Ioaf-giver" of the fam
lily. The mistake of this very demo
cratic council consists in selecting
the wrong title for adjustment.
What they should do to keep the
whole membership in state of
social equilibrium is to my lord"
each other all around. Of course
we are quite aware that the original
loaf giver" has, owing to the dolce
fer niente habitudes of peers in gen
eral, been popularity abbreviated to
'Ioafer," but the "lords" of the
council would no doubt keep up the
good old meaning. Any way, if
they "my lord" each other all
around, and reserve Sir" for the
chairman, we have no doubt that his
lordly soul will be as contented as if
it were t'other way about.