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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-01

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, 1889-09-27

The house of Percy, though it has kept
the Norman name, should twice, with
all intents, have changed it. The males
of the old Norman line had died out in
116s, when the daughter of the last of
them married Josceline de Louvain,
brother of Adeliza, the queen of Henry
1, and n son of the Count of Brabant.
Though the bridegroom came of the
blood of Charlemange," the bride COM
PEELED him to choose between taking her
name or her arms. He preferred the
former alternative, declining to part with
the azure lion of Hainrult, which has
since, with their crescent, been the crest
of the Percys, and was one of the most
familiar features of central London be-
fore the melancholy demolition of North
cumberland house. 1t would be q tedious
story to tell how the Northumbrian es-
tates came in 1874 to vest in the wife of
Sir Hugh Smithson, of Stanwick. the
head of a respectable Yorkshire family,
who received his dukedom twenty years
afterward. Now, we believe, the North
umbrian rent roll is nearly e100, 900, or
at least it was SO before the agricultural
depression. But when the division was
made in 17A Northumberland was very
much wild pasturage or uncultivated
waste, and the more valuable half of the
Percy estates passed to the Wyndhams.
-Blackwood's Magazine.
, 1889-09-27

An Egyptian fable states that on one
occasion a man had prepared a very
savory pot of herbs, which a wall will
fully broke. The unfortunate animal
was severely threshed for its interfer-
ence, but when the man went to pick up
the fragments of his prepared delicacy he
found a venomous serpent concealed
among them.
A very similar story, in all probability
arising out of the same fable, tells how a
favorite falcon saved a king from swal-
lowing a live serpent. His majesty had
raised a drinking vessel, presumably one
of the old style earthenware pots, to his
lips, when the faithful bird flew sudden
ly down, and throwing its full weight
against the vessel, upset it. The king,
in his wrath, killed the bird, whereupon
he discovered that there had been a small
serpent in the water, and that the mar
tyred bird had saved his life. In the
Greek there is another story of this kind.
A peasant liberated an eagle from the
clutches of a dragon. The latter out Of
revenge poisoned some water which the
peasant was about to drink, but the
eagle showed its gratitude by upsetting
the vessel and spilling its contents.-S
Louis Globe-Democrat.
, 1889-09-27

George Sand has given us a vivid
sketch of Chopin's conscientiousness as
n composer. He shut himself up in his
room for entire days." she says, weep
ing, walking about, breaking his pen, re-
peating and changing a bar a hundred
times, and beginning again next day
with minute and desperate perseverance.
He spent six weeks over a single page,
only to go back and write that which he
had traced at the first essay" (Oh, mod
ern composers, read and IearnD As re-
CARDS his c~reativeness, George Sand says
that sit descended upon his piano sud
denly, completely, sublimely, or it sang
itself in his head during his walks, and
he made haste to hear it by rushing to
the instrument" l nave already men
toned the fact that when he wrote his
last mazurka he was too weak to try it
on the piano. In one of his letters he
speaks of a ~polonaise being ready in his
head.
These facts indicate that he composed
mentally, although, no doubt, during
the improvisations many themes oc-
CURED to him which he remembered and
utilized. Some times the pictures in his
mind became so vivid as to form real
Authorizations. Thus, it is related that
one evening when he was alone in the
lark trying oven the A major Polonaise,
which he had just completed, he saw
the door open, and in marched a process
sion of Polish knights and ladies in
medieval costumes-the same, no doubt,
that his imagination had pictured while
he was composing. He was SO alarmed
at this vision that he fled through the
opposite door and did not venture to
return. Another illustration of the re-
lation between genius and insanity
Chopin and Other Musical Essays
Henry T. Finck.
, 1889-09-27
The Dog and the Lamb.

A certain lady had once a valuable st.
Bernard of excellent pedigree, carefully
trained, n in all respects of well nigh
ideal excellence saw for one fault: he
would kill lambs. He was beaten, he
was imprisoned, the body of the latest
lamb which had fallen a victim to his
fury was fastened around his neck as a
badge of shame, but all to no avail. His
mistress concluded that it was impossi-
BILE to break him of his fault and that
she must sell him.
While matters were in this state a
friendly farmer who had upon some oc-
casion got into his head the fact that the
dogs mistress was fond of pets sent her
a snowy cosset, all gay with ribbons and
looking as innocent as innocence itself.
The lady was in despair. She expected
that her dog would fall upon the lamb
and tear it limb from limb; but having
in the past had much experience with
!, pets she said to herself that if this catas-
trophe vas to happen she did not pro-
pose to nave it postponed until she be-
came deeply attached to the newcomer,
and so deliberately led the lamb up to
the dog, said to him that it was her
lamb, and directed him to watch it.
The dog looked at her rather wistfully,
evidently requesting permission to tear
the pretty innocent, but she sternly
shook her head and departing left the
pair together on the lawn.
She is willing to admit, nov that the
trial proved successful, that she had no
idea that it would, and that she expected
to find the lawn strewn with the dis
membered fragments of the lamb. When
a few hours later she returned, however,
the dog vas found to have taken the
lamb into his especial favor and under
his especial protection. He lay down
with it, he followed it about, and seemed
to have become uncommonly fond of it
in n way not at all allied to carnivorous
instincts. In short the lamb and the dog
became the closest of friends, and as long
as the two did live they continued to
dwell together in peace and affection.
And the remarkable part of the tale is
that from that day the dog no more mo-
Tested any lambs whatsoever. 1t was a
plain case of similia similibus %curantur.
The dog was at nee and forever cured
of his vice, and his fond mistress relates
this story to admiring friends with ming
led pride and INSTRUMENTATION Courier,
, 1889-09-27
The rostboy In tho Enst.

There he stands. the guide, or postboy,
the youth upon whom depends the trav-
eler's comfort for the next stage. The
hard working, sober, good natured
charpa boy is the guide, philosopher and
friend of the traveller Whorides post in the
east. He is ready to amuso his temporary
master, TO tell him the local gossip, to
quote poetry TO him, and do his duty to
the traveller and TO the horses under his
charge to the best of his ability. Nat
urally enough the Persian postboy pre-
fers the society of the native servant to
that of the foreigner, his master. The
traveller who is not in n hurry is his de-
light, but If the mar who posts Is really
anxious to travel quickly, the postboy
rises TO the occasion and honestly does
his best. He doesn't look much like the
Courier of Lyons, the gentleman in the
jack boots, the ~beribboned hat, the red
waistcoat and the laced jacket. To tell
the truth our postboy is not ornamental.
He is shod with great brown leather
slippers, and his legs are swathed in
coarse wooden bandages bound with
goats hair strings; In lieu of the tradi-
tional buckskins he wears q loose pair of
blue cotton peijamas; a jerkin of gayly
colored but time worn and dirty chintz,
n sleeveless sheepskin jacket, hair side
inward, and n h~emispherical felt skull
cap complete his costume. His waist is
girded by a bit of cotton cloth which
forms his girdle, and contains his frugal
meal, q FLAP jack" or loaf of u~nleavened
bread, and perhaps n couple of onions.
The postboy always takes his food with
him, for as often as not at the next
stage nothing is to be got but water, at
times ever not that.-Good Words.
, 1889-09-27

Launches propelled by electricity are
now common on the Thames. Hereto
fore the use of the team launch has
been attended with more or less discom-
fort, but by mean of electric storage
batteries the distasteful features of COM
mon navigation are done away with.
The use of the storage batteries involves
obtaining a supply of electricity when
ever this may be needed. To accomplish
this floating electric power stations have
been put at various points on the river
Detroit Free Press.
, 1889-09-27

' Professor F. w. Newman, now past so
years, gives us a hint concerning the
food which he finds most strengthening.
He says:
81 ave never been a convert to oat-
meal porridge, but l find l never tire of
yesterdays potatoes fried up with a
little finely sliced onion. / can eat it
any number of days without needing
change though sometimes any other bit
of conformable vegetable may be added
in. Without the onion l should not per-
manently get on In omelet with herbs,
chives are more delicate than onions.
of Health.
, 1889-09-27

That the service of the Union Pacific,
The Overland Route" is becoming bet
Ter every day. The latest addition to the
already excellent equipment, is a line of
through Pullman sleepers between Chey-
cnne and Chicago, VIA Denver, Kansas
City and Chicago & Alton railroad. These
cars are of the most improved pattern,
aud this additional service will be arpre-
ciated by the patrons of the %T17ion pco;fc.
..1Hrds, corner 4
, 1889-09-27

Dumas once said toa young gentleman
who was invited to a Russian soiree, and
was dazzled with the stars and ribands
of the gentlemen present: You are the
most distinguished man here this even
ing" said Dumas to him; you are the
only one who is not decorated"
, 1889-09-27
TYPOGRAPHICAL WIT.
Points That Every Practical Printer-EdI-
tor VIII Appreciate.

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!" "H App
RAPID comp Will distribute more let
ters IN a day than a maj carrier can dls-
tribute IN a month although a comp
mas 70 READ an OF ms letters before dls-
Irritating them. Tor some
people (nArrled ana singleh man T
Tlers are not required TO 40
Like man carriers, comps are haoie 10
urop letters INTO the wrong OoN' occa-
honaly:
Questlonaoie-fE
Clrcula ietter-o'
An open letter-T.
row. Case men coop.
IaIoearer-Ihe letter
Saseihates-frmter irlenos-
OomPosltors are the only CLASS OF men
VINO WORK hard uake tneir G 5 ut the
sane 'nhe' anu VINO SET sIahulhS.
Ai"ays oked-I ietter {.
n long ana snort oil III ana l.
Sood printers are never nara cases.
never couhtefieited-frlnters quolns'
CoPPeriaced yPe Oh mahklnu-lh
uianS'
Douoie ieaded Ioaded
with grape ana canister.
printer purse Is never 20 run out
"hat II mas space Tor more COINS
mere IS TINS ulIerence between prln-
, 1889-09-27
Dr.. &c.


We offer no apology for devoting so much time
and attention TO this much neglected class OF
diseases, believing that no condition of human
lily is too wretched to merit the sympathy and
best services OF the profession to which we be-
long, as many are innocent sufferers, and that
the 9hysieian VINO devotes himself
them from worse than death, is no less a
philanthrophist and n beneiactor to his race
plication eXcels IN any other b anch of hispro-
fession. And, fortunately fol humanity the day
Is dawning when the false philanthropy that
condemned the victims OF folly or crime, like
the lepers under the Jewish law to die uncared
for, has passed away
YOUNG M FIN
Who may besuffering from the effects OF youth
full sollies or indiscretions VIII do well to avail
themselves of this the greatest boon ever laid
at the alter of su; fering humanity. DIR. WAC
4 will guarantee to forfeit fve hundred dol
vate disease of any kind or character which he
undertakes and fails to cure.
MIDDLE-AGED MEN.
There are many men of the age OF 30 to 60 who
are troubled with too frequent excavations OF
the bladder often accompanied by a slight
smarting or burning sensation and a weaken
ing of the system in n manner the patient can
not account for. On examining the urinary de-
posits a rory sediment will often be found, and
sometimes small particles of albumen will ap-
pear, or the color will be of akin or milkish
hue, again changing to a dark and turbid ap
peaTanc-. There are many men who die of
this difficulty ignorant of the cause, which is
the second stage of seminal weakness. DIR.
Wagner Will guarantee a cure in all such
cases and n healthy restoration of the genito-
urinary organ. Consultation free. Thorough
examination and advice. $500.
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Daily Denver News and Tribune-Republf
can.
All communication should be addressed
DR.. WAGNER & GO.
lil4 Larimere street. Address, Box 27Sa Den
yer, Colorado.
Cut this out and take along
, 1889-09-27

Mr.. f. P. Loveioy, a large dealer in
general merchandise at Wabuska, Ney.,
says: II have tried St Patrick's Pills
and can truthfully say they are the best |
have ever taken or know used" As a
pleasant physic or fer disorders of the
liver they will always give perfect salts
faction. For sale by B, B. David.
, 1889-09-27

The best salve in the world tor cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum. fevel
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
sorns and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. 1t il
guaranteed to I've perfect satisfaction OIL
money refunded. Price 25 ccuts per box.
For sale by b. B. David, Druggist.
, 1889-09-27

Job Printing neatly executed at the
Leader Job Priitins Rooms.
, 1889-09-27

A hale old man. Mr.. Jas. Wilson, of
Aliens Springs. ILL.,, who is over GO years
Of age. says: Il have in my time tried a
treat many medicfbes, some of excellent
atty; but never before did / find any
Uld.s coDfpletely do all that is
as Chamberiain's Collie
Va, ~CD Coz Wasrrhea Remedy; It Is
'SSasOea 90 pSSA rsaedicine." For sale
SNoAcrs SSccoeiias
, 1889-09-27

All kinds Of Job Printing neatly and
promptly executed at the eader Office.
, 1889-09-27

kdin, to show him that such is not
Use, takes a scarf from his shoulders
is SO light that it almost floats in
Fir, and. tossing it up, sewers it be-
it can descend. That SCOTS story
y no means an exaggeration is proved
q a traveller who relates that he once
saw a man in Calcutta throw a handful
If floss silk into the air and a Hindoo
sever it to pieces with his saber. New
York News.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-07-03

choose Mr.. Cleveland, just as it was in
1888, for "there is literally no one else to
choose FROM" and that it would again
lose New York, and for the same reason
the CD. never did think there was much
presidential timber in Governor Hill,
but it adds: Everything is possible
under God, and ready imagination,
glancing from heaven to earth and from
earth to heaven, may see strange things
in the Clouds 1t then suggests several
possible leaders, Mr.. Randall not being
one, "because he has not kept in line
with the party;n but the funniest of its
supposings is: Suppose that Chief
justice Fuller should be called upon to
decide some question causing the Demo-
cratic heart to stir and thrill throughout
the Union, what then?" Sure enough,
what then7
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-07-03
THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM.

From the first, the indianapolis News
has sought to make capital for free
traders against the industrial system"
of this Countrywide vicious tariff
system" is its usual phraseology. 1t has
rarely come up to the full measure of its
hatred and hypocrisy in the same breath,
but yesterday it excelled itself in this
role of the demagogue. Referring to
the coal-mining troubles at Brazil, it
says that "the miners would be wisest,
perhaps, in leaving altogether and wan
dering forth on the face of the earth
more victims to the present industrial
system-taking whatever their hands
can find to do; going to the poor-hOuse
if they can find nothing. We are in sad,
sober earnest in this"
"Sad, sober earnest indeed. No
"sadder" hypocrisy was ever uttered by
newspaper which pretends to fairness
in discussion of current events. What
are the plain facts? The discovery of
the largest natural gas field in the world
here in Indiana has in the past year pro-
duced cheaper fuel than coal, and.
therefore, the mines, running at full
tide year ago, suddenly found the mar
ket for millions of tons cut off. With
an over-supply and sharp competition,
prices were forced down, and hence the
present temporary embarrassments at
sthe mines, which, it is fully be-
ieved, will soon be adjusted to
the new condition of things. New dis
cOverios and great inventions have
occasionally in the past disturbed the
order of things, and may be expected to
DO so. But the fertile and elastic nature
of the American people soon rights these
things. "Victims to the present indus
trial SYSTEM" indeed! The industrial
free-tr system of some countries of
Europe puts more people down to starva-
tion and tramping on the road than any
system in the world, which, of course,
the free-trade organ knows. 1t knows,
furthermore, that there are 100 labOring
people who own their homes un-
der our industrial system" to where
there are ten owning homes in free
trade England. These things count for
nothing when an opportunity is offered
to score point in the line of precOn-
ceptions and prejudices, no odds how
absurd and illogical the facts and con-
ditions. Boosted Independent journal
ism has sorry time of it masquerading
under load of free-tradeism which
pushes it to such absurdities and expos
ures., 1t never has anything to say
against the industrial systems"
of countries which compel labor at one
quarter the price paid here, or starve.
Oh, no! Its demagogy would not serve
it there in selling few copies more of
it's issues. But terror may be tolerated
where intelligence and truth are left free
to combat it," and SO our industrial sys-
TEN survives both ignorance and dema-
gOgism.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-07-03
NATURAL GAS FOR CINCINNATI.

The natural-gas movement in Cincin-
natl has reached an interesting stage.
A company of capitalists, cOuncilmen
and newspaper reporters have visited
the Indiana gas-feld, and have seen the
wells blaze and heard them roar. They
are satisfied that the gas exists here in
large quantities. No doubt about that.
They are also pretty we'll satisfied that
the Indiana law against piping gas out
of the State will not hold good. They
are doubtless right about that, too. 1t
is one of the numerous fool acts of our
late blundering Legislature that will be
knocked into smithereenS as soon as it
is tested. There is no trouble so far as
the existence of the gas is concerned.
nor about the legality of its transfer
from one State to another. The trouble
is in piping it such distance and deliv-
ering it in quantities and at a price that
will make it available as fuel and
enable it to compete with coal. The
Journal does not believe that can be
done. The nearest portion of the Indi-
ana naturalgas field to Cincinnati is
that of Delaware county. This is
eighty-five to ninety miles from Cincin-
natl. The gas can be piped that far, but
it would be at heavy expense and would
require very large pipes andtremendous
initial pressure. Natural gas is piped
ninety miles to Buffalo, N. Y, but there
is pressure at the wells of over eight
4 l. T. nj
the initial pressure is about 325 pounds.
This would make slow and feeble de-
livery in Cincinnati. Besides, Cincin-
natl is lower than Delaware county, and,
as natural gas is lighter than air, that
would add to the difficulty of the deliv-
cry. Again, the smaller the pipe the
greater the friction. 1t is proposed to
lay a twelve-inch pipe to Cincinnati.
The friction In pipe of this
size would be such as to add mate
rally to the difficulty of the situation,
and the amount of gas it would deliver,
with an initial pressure of only 1926
pounds, would be very small in warm
weather, and considerably less in cold.
In discussion of the subject before
the Cincinnati Board of Public Affairs,
on Monday, Major c. Il. Doxey, who
represents the piping scheme, avowed
his belief that eff it were possible to lay
a pipe around the globe, the natural gas,
with 300 pounds pressure, would flow
through" If pipe of that length could
be erected perpendicularly, or on steep
inclipe, the gas would probably find the
outlet-butn not on level. Major Doxey
seems to forget that gas is fluid, and
subject to laws concerning friction,
etc., as fixed as those which govern
matter. Major Doxey is proposing
to deliver 20,0O0,0O0 cubic feet of gas a
! day through twelve-inch pipe. 1t can
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-07-03
THE NEW soHooL-BooK RING.

The public school system of Indiana is
in imminent peril of great disaster.
The acceptance of the bid of the So
called Indiana School-bOok Company
would be a blow to the system from
which it would not recover In years.
Our public schools have been the chief
pride of the State. The success of this
speculative scheme would strike them
deadly, blow in avital part. What would
be thought of proposition to exclude
from the list of teachers all the grad
yates of normal and training schools and
substitute for them q set who had not
passed and could not pass an examina-
tiOnf This. would be no more than the
exclusion of standard textbooks of ap-
proved character and the substitution of
obsolete and discarded books from other
States, the cheap refuse of cheap pub
fishing houses, and the worthless debris
of other failures. That would be the
result of the acceptance of the bid
now under consideration by the Board
of Education. 1t is scheme to
lHlOdQ Ou tuC CtdtO dhu PCOplO VI IL"
diana parcel of obsolete and monde
script school books the like of which
cannot be found in the schools of any
other State. The people of Indiana de-
mand free textbooks, but they do not
want inferior ones. Their children are
entitled to the best. They must not
have forced upon them lot of inferior
school books in order that a speculative
firm in St. Louis may utilize its worth
less copyrights and unsaleable stock
through the agency of an Indiana
syndicate. Under the thin pretext of
breaking up one school-book ring it is
proposed to create another with all the
OdiOus features of alegal monopoly added
to those of political ring. The people
ask for bread, and they are offered a
stone. 1t is the most insidiOus attack
ever made on the public school system,
and it is made for cold -blOOded, specu-
lative purposes.