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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18
Brewers Besieye Congress.

The bill to permit States to stop the
original package" traffic in Intoxicating
liquors is up for discussion this week.
This has sounded a note of a ralong the
lines of the liquor traffic from Boston to
san Francisco. A call has been made
for a rally of beer men at Washington to
overwhelm Congress and defeat the law.
In their call the brewers say:
"We are torcibly convinced By all that
has occurred within the last year that our
enemies, who during the last four or five
have suffered SO many defeats at the
polls, now strenuously seek to cripple our
industry by u%nfriendly State and national
legislation. In the Congress of the
United States, as we'll as in the Legisla-
lures of many States, attempts are
being made to place all manner
of distractions against the growth
of our business. Increased duties
upon some raw materials and a
separate tax on others; regulations relat-
ing to the method Of brewing; prohibit
ing the use of some most necessary ma
%terials; Investigation Of the business by
nn1 tisun commissions; otfici II inspection
of breweries at the brewers expense; I'M
itation of the number Of retallerS-these
are only a few of the numerous endeav-
ors of our enemies to injure our inter
ests. In Wow of this sudden change IN
the tactics of our enemies, by whicn they
seek to succeed unfairly in that which they
could not bring about through the ballot,
box, it behoo,es every one connected
with u industry to attend our conven-
ton" :.
Having beaten the Prohibitionists by
stolen money invested in printed lies and
bribed votes, the robber saloon mas called
it's hordes to the nations capital to nribe
and bulidoze the nations lawmakers In,
to obedience to it's behests. we shall
shortly see who is the greater in TINS gov
eminent, the saloon or a sober cltlZen-
ship,-Northwestern Mai.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18

t thy But whom eighteen hundredths Of
~ population of the United States own
snaes-n1ths of the wealth of the GTn;ted
h,', some of the other eiohty-two-
n cn,.1'soaths of the population wonld 90
t ~ ena hunery. If there is a conoes-
,Iua Oh blood about the head, the feet are
Pretey certain to be cold.-Chriat;nm
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18
FEDERAL ELEcTlo BILL.

All Glasses In the South. Very Bitter
Against It-Northern Products to Be
Ioycotted.
A prominent wholesale merchant of
Charleston, S. c., who docs not wish to
be named, was in Cincinnati the other day,
and talked freely on southern sentiment
regarding the federal election bill. He
says the people of the north have no idea
of the intense feeling that exists among
all classes in the south. over the proposed
measure. There is no disposition to talk
about it or make threats, but the passage.
Of the bill will be the signal for the crea-
tion of the EXTREMIST bitterness, a feeling
that will undo all that years Of peace have
accomplished, and that will find manifes-
tation in action. First of all, every north
ern product, as far as possible, will be
boycotted. Following this will come the
most extensive and sffectual boycoatt on
class labor the world has ever known. Ar
rangements are already under way to Sc
cure abroad thousands of white lahsrers,
and every negro employe in the south will
be discharged, and no southern man will,
under any pretext, give one of than en-
ployment, the object being to drtve them
into the north and west.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18

AN application for the appointment of q
receiver was made in the United States
court at St. Louis by the St. Louis Ora
and Steel company. The bonded indebted
ness Of the company is $4,000, 900.
S. BLISS, of Cambria, Mica, made
three attempts at salcide Sunday. His
family frustrated his attempts. twice, but
the third time ha made a CASA in his throat
which may yet. prove fatal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18
A Wise Head.

First College Boy-"What are you
going to go in for-wealth or lame
Second College Boy-"Both, I'm go
ing to be a ball-player."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18
SALES OF BEER in THE UNITED
STATES.

Inc Figures for tho Years End;,r arr,,
80, 1889, ana April 30, 1890.
nu iGe h,olaowlng figures, claimed by the
taken from the Brcwsrs' Hondh'o aie
lately issued by II. s.. Rich 4 Co ~
nhlcago, as a supplement to the Wcsiesa
hnTrcf, and furnish information which
"drys": "e's ana
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18

MANY a youngster keeps shady for
fear of getting tanned.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18
OF A DAY..
Father and Son Killed, and tho Widow
Goes Crazy.

Father and Son Killed, and tho Widow
Goes Crazy.
Christian Eckert was killed by the explo-
sion of a gas generator in New York, and
two of hi7 sons were seriously burned.
They were making soda water at the time
OF the explosion. Tho son Chester, aged
IS, died in the hospital later, but the other
son wall recover. The widow and mother
had four other children. She became in
sane and r'.nnot be found.
70 succ1e.l the Pope.
Il! ferlng to the i lisss OF tn j, pope. the
Mo;treal Witeeas nomi, ates. Cardinal
lac -ereau as hla successor.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
Stanley After His Return.

Nothing worried Stanley more than q
tap at the door while he was writing.
He sometimes glared like tiger ready
to spring. When his courier knocked
tremblingly at his door he would cry
out, "Am l a prisoner in my own house?
I've brought you this telegram, sir
"Well, / detest kilograms. Why dc
you persist in bringing themY'
Every time Sail, his African servant,
approached the den the least thing he
expected was that the inkstand would be
thrown at his head.
One day he originated new way OF
saving his head. He had a telegram to
deliver, SO he ingeniously fixed it on the
end OF long bamboo, and getting the
door just ajar he poked it into the room
and bolted.
Although averse to reading correspond.
ence, Stanley read some letters with
keen delight, and one in particular from
little girl. 1t contained the following
Characteristic lines:
1T was very kind OF you to go through
such perils to rescue Emin Pasha. |
liked SO much to hear of your fighting
against the dwarfs, and should like to
see one very much. They must look so
funny, being SO small. | am a little
school girl at - school, and I am II
years old. am very fond of geography,
and am always longing to go round the
world. "-Scribner's.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
Putting Gold on Books,

In room at the government printing
Office adjoining the one in which a
drawer full of gold is kept, you can see a
man putting on gold titles on superb de-
partment ledgers and such things alto
gether by hand. He lays the pieces of
gold foil on the backs of the bound and
completed books, and burns the lettering
fast with little wooden handled dies
that he keeps heated in small gas stove.
1t requires great skill to get the titles
perfectly straight and symmetrical,
though black silk thread is used to
make preliminary lines across the gold
film for a guide. Finally the gold is
rubbed off with leather tipped stick
and with burnt rubber.
Real gold is only used in this way for
particularly fine books. Designs and
lettering of the sort for ordinary volumes
are done at the government printing
tofice in nearly the same manner, but
with a yellow composition called Ger
man metal" which looks very much
like the gold and is decidedly cheaper.
No trouble is taken to save the wastage.
and each book cover, after being stamped
by the hot die, is simply put through
brushing misunderstanding Star
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
Reminders of Rur,s

In Dumfries one cannot lool, nno- q
single olden structure, or follow with
the eye any close, wynd, vennell or street
without knowing that at some time Il
was more familiar to Burns than anv
portion of the old city is to any one Of
It's inhabitants today. In the ancient
Bank street house where he firss lived In
Oumfries, in the three tiny apartments
more than one-third q the more than
lO0 poems he produced in Dumfries were
composed. Then in the Mill, now Burns.
street home. which was his last, the re-
malnder were given birth. Among these
were "Auld Lang Syne," "My Wife's a
Winsome Wee Thing" 1.-THE Soldiers
Return, Willie Wastle," ''Contented
W. Little, and Cantie wi MAR" 'sThou
Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie, ''Ye Banks
and Braes o Bonnie Doom" "My Love Is
Like Red, Red Rose" 'tMy Heart Is
Sair, Daurna Tell" go Vert Thou in
the Cauld Blast, ""Duncan Gray" GLOW
Gently, Sweet Alton" and that grand
martial ode, "Bruce's Address" The
old, though still spruce, Kings Arms inn
could never have so longa stood the
assaults of time and tourists had not
Burns, in forgivably irreverent and
delicious mood, scratched upon its WIN
dow pane.-Cor. New York Commercial
Advertiser
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
A Cat Filtration.

We see a cat come stealthily rubbing
up against chair leg, the head inclined
coquettlshly over one shoulder, regard
ing us with furtively coaxing smile
With a fiirt like that, whether maid OF
matron, there is no occasion for cere
mony. You snatch her up and on YOU
knee; she pretends to be offended and tc
struggle to escape. But she curls her.
self up with sensuous purr when YOU
begin tickling the fur that lies just be.
hind the ear. and thenceforth it is ali
plain sailing. 1t is very different with a
corpulent and sturdy Tom, who, though
he may have luxuriated in comfortable
quarters all his life, has, nevertheless,
had his sad experiences, and seen some.
thing of the worst side of human nature.
Mischieyous boys have heaved hall
bricks at him, i'll bred and unsvmpa.
thetic servants have resented his patri
clan manners, expelling him with igno
mlny from the lower regions, and some
times punching his head. Even his
master, who is the reverse of a pusso
maniac, may never have appreciated him
according to his merits. No wonder that
q cat of that stamp should be slightly
misanthropic and suspicious. Naturally
he mistrusts strangers advances, but.
nevertheless, there is something in your
voice which sends culver through his
ears and makes him visibly relax the
r1g1dlty of his tai. Saturday Review.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
The Andes Sinking.

The startling announcement is made
that the Andes are slowly sinking into
the earth's crust. As proof of this La
Gazette Geographique says that Quito
was 1856 feet above the level of the sea
in 1745; in 1900 it was only $50; in 1881,
1857, having sunk twenty-six feet dur
ing the ffty-fve years following 1745, and
but three fees during the thirty-one years
which interviewed between 1900 and 1881.
In 1868 the citys level had been reduced
to $500 feet above the level Of the Pa
c1fic. To sum up the total, we find that
Ecuador's capital has sunk seventy-six
feet in 1879 years. Antisana's farm, the
highest inhabited spot on the Andes
$4,000 feet higher than Quito, the highest
city on the globe), is said by the same
authority to be- 1S feet lower than it was
in 1745.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
He Wanted the Best.

Speaking of the Hindoo deity reminds
me Of story friend of mine told me
the other day about his little boy, and
which is entirely true. The little fellow
is very slow dressing in the morning,
and to cure him Of this habit his parents
told him the next time he failed to be
ready as soon as the others he would
have to go without his breakfast. Being
tardy again, when he came to the table
he was informed that he must either eat
bread and water or do without eating al
all. The boy was silent and would not
eat. The father, not wishing him to &c
altogether without food, said:
"You might be situated SO you would
be glad to have bread and water. Sup
pose you were away out on the ocean,
and the angels should fetch you bread
and water and tell you that you must
eat that or nothing, what would you dor
II wouldn't do NEWER" was the an
swer. ''rd just want what God had for
breakfast. "-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
Exploding for Water,

The practice of American oil well
sinkers of firing the torpedo to start a
dry or increase the flow of sluggish
well has been taken advantage of in Eng
land successfully in the case of water.
At the Herne Bay Water works well
bored into the chalk 576 feet deep from
the surface yielded little or no water
and upon the advice of Messrs. John
Taylor & Sons two charges of roburite
were fred-the first consisting of TWEEN
ty-seven pounds of the explosive placed
at the bottom of the bore hole, and the
second of twenty-five pounds at fifty feet
above the former. The second shot had
the desired result, and produced vol
ume of water estimated at 10000 gallons
day, which rose to the top Of the we'll.
New Orleans Picayune
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
Filial Affection Among Hebrews.

There is nothing in the world of pleas
ure and recreation to compare with the
beautiful devotion that is paid the old
Hebrew people by their children and
grandchildren at the various summer
resorts. A rude remark is never made
in their hearing, nor disrespectful word
uttered to aged mother or father. The
gentle yielding of easy chairs, the offer
ing of choice things to eat and drink,
the last consideration of self where there
is drive or sail for a limited number,
and the graceful anticipation of creature
comforts are attributes of the children
towhich the filial respectof the Christian
is not approachable.-New York World.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
The Sense of Smell.

Smell is the most acute by far of the
five human senses. Take an ounce OF
musk-most powerful of scents-and
leave it where the atmosphere is still,
open on table, for a year. At the end
of that time, having for full twelve
months rendered odorous the whole all
in its neighborhood, the most delicate
scales cannot detect that it has lost a
particle in weight. Yet the smell has
been infinitely distributed, microscopic
portions of the musk floating off and ex.
citing impressions upon the nerve pa.
pill@ under the delicate lining of the
nasal passages; for this is what smell
means. The sense has grown almost ru.
dimentary in human beings through
want of necessity for its use under civil.
lied conditions, but it is highly probable
that the cave men had it quite as well
developed as the sharpest nosed beasts.
New York Telegram.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
New York "Groceresses., -

The PROGRESSES of New York, to coin
feminine term, number 500. Nearly
all are widows. Mrs. Catherine Egbert,
of No. CAT Washington street, the wife
OF skilled mechanic, preferring to be
independent, conducts retail. grocery
business by herself, and is proud and
aappy in the success she is making of it..
More sweet things are done by this
pretty, gray eyed, raven haired mer-
chant than the world will ever know.
Her ledger is black with bills that she
has no expectation Of collecting, but that
does not harden her in the least, and no
woman or child is ever denied the credit
asked at her counter.-New York World.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
The Musical sense IN Animal.


The higher animals can also enioy
themselves, as my house cat shows, when
she comes at the playing of the piano to
SIT by the player, and sometimes jumps
INTO her lap or on the key board of the
instrument know of q dog, too, in a
family in Berlin, which comes in in like
manner when there is music, often from
distant rooms, opening the door with his
paw. knew of another dog, usually
thoroughly domestic. which occasionally
played the vagabond for love of music.
Whenever the semi-annual mass was
celebrated in the city he could not be
kept at the house. AS soon as the so
called Bergknappen, who were accus-
toned to play at this time in the streets
appeared he would run away and follow
them from morning till evening.
Evidently neither cats nor dogs, no,
other animals that listen to human
music, were constituted for the appre-
citation of it, for it is not of the slightest
use to them in the struggle for existence
Moreover, they and their organs Of hear.
ing were much older than man and his
music. Their power of appreciatina
music is therefore an uncontemplated
side faculty of hearing apparatus
which has become on other grounds
what we find it to be. So it is, believe.
with man. He has not acquired his
musical hearing as such, but has re-
oeived highly developed organ of hear.
ing by process of selection, because it
was necessary to him in the selective
process, and this organ of hearing hap.
pens also to be adapted to listening tc
music.-Popular Science Monthly.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
WHERE TO GEL LOB PRINTING.

Attention is directed to the jobbing de.
partment Oft the MARIETTA JOURNAL which
is provided with Steam Power, New Job
Presses, New and Latest Styles of Job
Type ana most approved and extern
sive facilities for the execution of Job
printing of all kindsfrom the smallest label
to the largest poster, in black or colored
inks, at prices as low as can be had else
where for an equal grade of work. We are
prepared to printat short notice pamphlets
posters, programmes, circulars, letter heads,
checks, envelopes, bill heads, blanks of all
kinds, catalogues, business cards and every
hing in the line OF printing used in the con-
duct Of every day business. We will du-
plicate Atlanta prices. Give Us a trial
and see.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
NIGHT ON PoNTcHARrRAIN.

Ntgns on Pontchartrain-how the brilliant star
" evening shines adown the western sky.
slowly descending in It's golden car.
As II inclined to hnger; while on high.
Her cup of light half flied, the moon ,',ass ~,
ripping stray clouds with silver, as through
1ney, wandering, chance to meet her radiant
N.Sn1 on pontchartrain-and for such night
we gladly hail the closing Of the day.
Bow soft, but yet how brilliant. Is the Gyb.
~ yon iair stars that food the heavenly way.
Iwnkiing and shining stu with la.nbent raw
Ake oeauteous eyes oft opened and oft seaied
showing meath languid lids a bright d;sniay
ana the soft sounds that fall upon the ear
are well accordant to the lovely scene
so soft Silence, herself listener.
Is not disturbed by them; yet so serene
mat the low whisperings of the winds. weea.
Gan scarce be called q zephyr, while the sound
OF nurm1tng ripples cometh stil between
New Orleans Times Democrat
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
A Maine Mans Trunk.

was talking with one of the old set
tiers the other day, and he said:
"Don't know Hen Jones, do you?
Wall, when you see him youn know
him; he's got the darndest nose on him
that you ever seed on a live being.
Tother day Isee Hen coming down hill in
to the village, and he was driving horse
with one hand and maxim queer motions
with tother. When he got up to me
seed what he was doin'. He was pickin'
up pebbles from pile in his wagin and
was stonin' mosquitoes of'n the end Of his
nose. "-Lewiston Journal
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
The Price of His HANDWRITING.

One of the wittiest and most popular
of American writer's tells of his citation
in the budding days of his authorship
when he saw his name in long list Of
Autographs of distinguished men fo1
sale displayed in a shop window. En-
tering with an air of Indifference, he
asked, How do you sell Blanks auto
graphs?" naming himself.
Two for three cents, sir" was the
prompt reply.
II left the shop" he says, "a sadder
and wiser man. If they had said "a cent
apiece Icould have borne it. But two
for three like rotten banana! From
that hour | adjured popular applause. !"
Youths Companion.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
Tied His Horse to q Grasshopper.

Miss Cooper, . daughter of the novel
ists James Fenimore Cooper, states that
when in Paris she saw French transla-
ton Of her fathers tale, 1.-THE Spy" in
which there were several mistakes, but
one OF them was such that it was almost
incredible that any one could possibly
have been guilty Of it. The residence Of
Mr.. Wharton, one of the characters who
figure in the story, is spoken Of by the
author as The Locusts-r Now, the
translator had evidently been ignorant
of the circumstance of there being any
species of trees bearing this name.
Having. therefore, looked up the word
In his dictionary, and finding the defni-
ton to be given as lies SauterelleS--
grasshoppers-thus he rendered it in the
text. Presently, however, he came across
paragraph in the novel in which it was
stated that visitor to the house of Mr.
Wharton had tied his horse to locust
Then it might. be naturally supposed
that the translator would at once have
discovered his error. Not bit of it,
His reasoning would appear to have been
somewhat on a parity with that of cele-
brated countryman Of his, when he de-
clared that ''if the facts do not agree
with the theory, 50 much the worse for
the facts"
Nevertheless, the writer seems to have
been conscious that some explanation
was due of SO extraordinary statement
ss that horseman had secured his steed
to grasshopper. So he went on gravely
to inform his readers that in America
these insects grow to an enormous size,
and that in this case one of these, dead
and stuffed, had been stationed at the
door OF the mansion for the convenience
of the visitors on Observation-Disclosures
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
Language Oddities.

IN recent lecture professor of Ian
guages, in commenting on the difficult
ties foreigners had to overcome before
they could master our language, made
mention Of the following pathological
oddities: The letter changes lover
into clover; makes crow crowd; k
makes eyed keyed; g changes son into
song; transforms a pear into a pearl;
S changes q hoe into shoe; makes
bough bought; and w makes omen
women.-St. Louis Republic.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
Descendants of Great Men.

1t is a singular fact that great men
seldom leave direct descendants. Ma
poleon, Wellington, Washington, all
prove this rule. Shakespeare left only
two daughters, whose children died
without issue. Probably the nearest
relative to the great poet now living is
one Thomas Hart, resident of Aus
tra1ia, who is said to be the eighth in
descent from Shakespeare sister Joan.
Walter SCOTS line ended with the Sec
ond or third generation.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16

Abner Dorsett, negro living in Hickory
Mountain Township, North Carolina, has
the largest head of any person in the
United States so far as heard from. 1t
is thirty-two inches in diameter, and
gives Abner decided stop heavy" ap-
pearance.- Louis Republic.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
A Study in PhiIoIogy.

Sumway-It is strange how one word
brings up another in the mind
Mrs Sumway-So it is.
Sumway-Now the word "sardines'
always suggests to me the word "com-
pact"
Mrs. Sumway-I wonder why.
SUBWAY - Because they compact -
come packed very compactly too.-West
Shore.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
Saving tho Government Money.

"You want a pension, and yet you say
you were not even enlisted On what
do you base your claim?"
~Just this: If had gone to tho front
I might have been totally disabled, and
80 been in position to claim 800 a
month. AS it Is / ask for only $25.
Money in the governments pocket. don't
you see. "-Harper's Bazaar.