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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21
Il House Going Minister.

When the famous DR.. Chalmers said
"A house-going minister makes a
church-going people," he uttered a wide
truth. For it is not only the fact that the
pastor gains the affection of his congre-
cation by visiting and knowing them,
and making them his personal friends,
thus putting love behind duty in per-
suading them to frequent the house of
God: it is also the fact that in this way
he obtains information, gets hints, picks
up suggestions vastly and variously
helpful to him in his ministrations.
Preaching without exact knowledge of
the persons preached to is like shooting
at a target in the dark-a bullet in the
bulls-eye would be a miracle.
Called as he is to preach on a single
theme, wide and deep though it be, he
is in danger OF becoming m%onotonous.
A lawyer is supplied with a new sub
ject by every fresh case. A physician
has a new study in each patient. An
editor is provided with a new topic
through the news from day to day. The
preacher alone is thrown back upon his
W invention, judgment, prediction,
choice in the selection of themes. I'm
less he is a genius (and geniuses do not
march in regiments he will become re-
petitions and modifying, if he makes
his W unaided knowledge his source
OF supply. His passionate will be short.
His congregation will admire him the
inst year, tolerate him the second and
git rid of him the third.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21
The RcligioM I.e WaMt.

We want a religion not merely of
creeds, but Of conduct; a religion that
softens the step and gives gentleness to
the voice, that checks the impatient
word and hasty rebuke; a religion that
is respectful to superiors, courteous to
interiors and considerate to friends; a
religion not merely for the church and
the Sabbath, but that lives in the
family and keeps the husband from be-
ing cross if his dinner is late, and the
wife from fretting if the husband some
times forgets the scraper and the door
mat; that keeps the mother patient if
the baby is %fretful, and can amuse and
interest the children as we'll as govern
and instruct them; that cares for the
comfort and the welfare of servants as
we'll as pays them; that projects the
honeymoon into the harvest moon, and
makes the happy home like the eastern
fig tree, bearing at once the beauty of
its tender blossoms and the glory of it's
ripened fruit. Il would not give much
for that mans religion" said Rowland
Hill, whose very cat and dog are not
better for it" Every Christian should
SO live az to be able, with the good
Methodist brother, to say: "If you
don't believe I am a Christian, ask my
WIFE" We want a religion not merely
for the prayer meeting and the public
profession; but for the home, for the
counting house, for the marts OF bust
ness, for the entire life-one that shall
smooth the rough places of the world,
and make daily life brighter and better,
cherishing the spirit of Heaven here,
and so preparing for Heaven hereafter.
Detroit Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21
Bcuond the Craze.

DIR. Lyman Abbott has been installed
us pastor of Plymouth Church, Brook
lyn, at a salary of $4,000 per year. In
accepting the place he made Estate
ment of his faith, from whichit appears
that he believes in the miracles, in the
divinity of Christ, and in a possible
chance of repentance and forgiveness
on the other side of the grave. On the
latter point he says:
1 refuse to believe that the accident
of death transmutes Gods mercy and
makes repentance impossible, and so
closes the door of hope upon the soul
forever. What may be the Of
Gods mercy in the future I do not
know, and shrink from the dogmatism
which attempts to define them. i am
sure that when the glad day comes the
song of rejoicing will rise from every
creature in Heaven and on earth, and
under the earth, and such as are in the
sea. If there are then any voices not
joining in that choral of redeeming
love, [ believe it will be because they
are silent in that second death from
which there is no resurrection. End
less conscious sin I do not believe in. I
could endure the thought of endless
sufferings, but not of sin growing ever
deeper, darker and more awful. It has
grown to me unthinkable, [ believe it is
u~nscriptural.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21
HOP TO SEE THE w1vn.

Take a polished metal surface of two
feet Or more, with a straight edge; a
large hand-saw will answer the purpose
Take a windy day for the experiment.
whether hot or cold, clear OF cloudy
only let it not be in murky, rainy
weather, says the st. Louis RepuDzic,
Hold your metallic surface at right
angles to the direction of the Wind
l. e., if the wind is north, hold your sur
face east and west, but instead of hold
ing it vertical incline it about forty two
degrees to the horizon, so that the wind.
striking, glances and flows oyer tho
edge, as the water flows over a dam
Now sight carefully along the edoe
some minutes at a sharply defined OBJ
ject, and you will see the wind POURING
over the edge in graceful curves. Make
your observations carefully and Won will
hardly ever fail in the experiment: tho
results are even better if the sun il oh.
scured.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21
But if he be given to pastoral vista

But if he be given to pastoral vista
ton he will find himself supplied, ny
Just keeping his eyes and ears open.
with endless subjects. As he goes from
house to house he will get what the law
yer gets in each case, what the physl-
can gets in every patient, what the edl'
tor gets in to-day's news-a constant
succession of fresh topics. In one
house, there is abundance; in another,
poverty; in this one, sickness; in that
one health; here, sorrow; there. rejoic'
ing; in one place, trouble; in another,
disgrace-all the varieties and contrasts
of the human life.
What field of homiletics is equal to
this? How else can the preacher SO
surely vary his style and method? Now
ne will preach to life, for his themes are
fetched from life. knowing by personal
contact the thoughts, feelings, habits
of his flock, he can apply the Gospel to
their needs with unerring skill. Fol
homiletical purposes, reading is tame
compared with seeing and hearing.
"The world" says the French proverb,
"is d book" Many clergymen know
too much about literature and too little
about life. The pulpit should speak
the language of the people. This is q
good recipe for a long and useful pasto-
ate.-St Louis Republic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

A sTATU commemoratlng q touch
ing little episode in the life of the late
German Emperor Frederick is about
to be erected at Kaiserslauten. When
Frederick was Crown Prince he visited
one of the orphan asylums of that
town. Among the children was a
siekly and sad-faced little boy. Fred
crick noticed him, took him in his
arms, and %thereupon agreed to become
his godfather. The child, to whom a
earess was a stranger, appeared some
what frightened at first, but soon got
oNerhisdifficulty and began to play with
the Princes medals and decorations,
The statue in question will represent
the Prince with a baby in his arms
and the youngster Juggling at his
aordons and crosses.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21
MURDERED HIS FRIEND IN
Il

A curious theory of murder has pre-
vailed with the Governor of KENTUCKY
in obtaining the pardon of w. B.
IompAins, sentenced to prison for lite
in 1887 for the murder of Samuel
Purdy. The two men were warm
friends and had roomed together fol
several years. Cries were heard from
their bedroom one night, and Tomp'
klns was found standing in the middle
OF the room gasping for breath, while
Purdy lay murdered on the bed.
Tompkins gasped: He's gone out the
door," but the door was closed and 10
trace OF any n was discovered. Ii ?
corner OF the room was a poker covered
with blood and hair. According &c
Iompkins he said he had been a%rousej
by some n striking across him at
furdy, who lay at the back side OF the
bed, and had seized the assailant, WIG
mao broken away. Purdy's money'
sooo' was untouched, and Tomph.As
vehemently protested his innocence fS
the last. The prosecuting attorney ana
the Judge who tried the case now be
ieve that he killed his friend IL s
aream' and upon this novel theory lie
na' peer released. - CHICAGO Herald
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21
HID 1T OUT WITH MARY.

Two ladies were riding in a car, an,
as they rode were overheard discussin,
the question Of servants.
"Yes, my DEAR" said the first, 81 an
in the miseries Of engaging a new
servant. My husband says my hair haI
turned several shades grayer since til,
last tour Of the registry Offices began
1t exasrerates me every time I see vol
to remember how long you have hal
the comfort Of that treasure of your
who manages everything for you.
suppose she is still with you?"
you mean Mary?:' said the othed
Yes. she is still with me. I couldn't
get along without her, but like mos
treasures, she has got completed
spoiled. She thinks she owns me and
the house and everything else. Bu
last week I couldn't stand it any Longer
and l had it out with her. 1 tell you
felt positively worn out when I wen
up stairs, and they all scarcely believed
me when I said, Well, I've had it on
with Maryr"
Did you really?" asked her friend
much interested. SLOW did she taxi
it? And what in the world did 70,
say?'
ooh, yes" replied the courageou
woman. Il thought it was no us'
trifing any longer. Oh! I was yer.
decided with her. She was quit
abashed, 1 a assure you"
what did you say" asked her frieni
eagerly.
Il looked her right in the eye, and
said, why, Maryr"
And the intrepid oma drew her
self up with the air of one who la:
bearded a lion in his den.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21
NOT LUCK.

VIZ A-ooAe
A barque was wrecked on the New
Jersey coast one wild winter night, and
the only persons saved were two boys
who got to shore over the terrible bill.
lows Oh broken pieces of timber.
1t was a sad sight when next day foul
hearses were driven to the village Gene
terry with bodies of seumen, washed
ashore in the night. The boys We're the
only mourners who followed the funeral
managed by town officials. Their homes
We're far away, and they were soon to be
sent back to the port from which they
had sailed.
The dozen men of the crew of the
doomed barque could not be saved, al
though the l~ife-saving crew of a neigh
boring station did everything in human
power to get lines or boats out to the
snip when she went to pieces scarcely a
thousand yards from shore.
TITS boys luck" said one of the life
saving crew, when the drenched boys
came safely through the roaring surf on
their piece Of timber; "let boy alone tc
get ashore, if there is a scrap of a shaw
ing OF a hen-coop to hang to-"
especially if a fellows got sense
enough left in his head to stick to his
piece of TIMBER said one of the rescued
boys.
Then it came out that the Captain and
his crew were all under the influence Of
liquor when the gale began, and that
the greater the danger became, the
more they drank to lessen their sense Of
the peril.
ct was pretty tough to see such sail
ing, and not dare to open our mouths, ("
said the other boy. WED never have
gone to pieces if they'd had their heads
enough to hold her steady and loft
shore"
"That's just it," said his companion.
"They didn't have their heads. A fel-
lows got to be all there if he wants to
make a port in a storm"
Isn't it a good thing to be sure that
one has ones head at all times? MANY
a young man has made shipwreck of his
whole life, because in a time Of danger
and perplexity he has put into his
mouth that which steals the brains
away" It is not luck but pluck which
wins, and it is the truest sort of pluck
to refuse any truce with such an enemy.
-Youth's Companion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

ONE of the most antrepid explorers
Of the day, says the Pail Mall Gazette,
is a French lady by TIE name of Nine.
lie Ray, mother Of the Due d'Abrantes,
who has been for several months en-
gagged III Eastern travel. After having
visited Babylon and Nineveh she tray
ersed the Persian deserts, amid terri
bic privations, in order to reach India.
For five days and five nights her little
caravan had to encamp in the wilds
without meeting a living soul or even
discovering the slightest trace Of a
human being. During all this time the
cold was SO intense that Nine. lie BAYS
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

A KERN County, CAL, farmer states
that last June he sowed 500 acres of
land with Egyptian corn. Last Octo-
Der he harvested 900 acres OF it., OBJ
tanning t~hirty-six stacks, OF about two
tons per acre. Into the remaining 500
acres 500 head of cattle were turned,
and in about a month they had trodden
it all down so that it looked like a field
of harvest-past cornstalks, but the
ground was covered almost white with
the threshed out kernels. Twelve hun
dred hogs We're then turned in, and
they are said to-day to be the finest,
largest, LATEST and latest hogs in the
State.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21
POWER OF Il PLUGc,
NICKEL.

A Whole Ca, Load Fascinated M,
by an Outsamed Coin. AAA
A tall man with a dark must..,
and imperial got into o south.b ons !,
Broadway a at Twenty-second strs''
the other day, and took a seat ANY,
midway up the a When the oos
ductor came for his fare the man fish,. j,
a nickel from his pocket. The cos
ductor looked at the coin sharply o.,
passed it back again.
What's the matter?" asked the mo,
cts plugged" said the conductor |
The man put a pair of eyeglasses al
his nose and critically surveyed I'll
nickel. He found that the condnc,,,l
was correct, and handed him a po,l
nickel. He was about to put the hal
one back into his pocket, when II
noticed that every one in the car wa
looking at him. He turned red, hes;
tated, and finally dropped the nicks
slyly on the floor. Every one saw him
do it, but every one tried to appear as \
he didn't notice it. The nickel Law al
the floor in plain sight, but no ors
would look at it. All seemed to thin
that they would appear as if the,
coveted it if they did. Every ora
seemed quite uncomfortable. Two q,
three men tried to read, but the,
couldn't concentrate their attention on
their newspapers. The conductor
passed over the nickel once or twic4
and tried not to notice it.
At Fourteenth street q man got in an;
was about to sit down, when he espiej
the nickel. He picked it up and triei
to hand it to an old gentleman with
red face and a white mustache, saying
"You dropped this, sir"
mo, I didn't said the old gentle
man, with a laugh.
Then everybody laughed, as if great,
relieved. The mar who had picked II,
the nickel looked closely at it, turned
bright crimson and dropped it again
Everybody saw him, but whichever wa,
he looked he saw only averted faces
The people would glance slyly at hin
from the corners of their eyes and thel
look away again very quickly. Again
no n looked at the nickel, althougl
every MAI there knew to a nicely JUS
where it lay. Tt staid in the sam
place on the floor until the car stoppe
just above Chambers street. Here til
conductortold the passengers to take tn
next car. as that one was going to switc
off and go uptown again. AS they le
the car all the passengers took a La
glance at the plugged nickel. but n
one touched it. 1t started up-tow
again, and all the passengers went dow
town with that nickel weighing heavi
on their minds .-New York Sun.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

WHEN the Omaha tribe of Indians
was broken up by their own consent,
to take land in severalty, Miss Alice
Fletcher was presented with the "sa-
cred tent" which al the very embodi-
ment of all that they revered under
the old order of things, and this is now
deposited in the Peabody Museum,
Cambridge, Mass. Quite as significant
a relic has now been presented to Miss
Fletcher by the Nez Perces. The pipe
of war and council, which has been
used in all the tribal deliberations for
v e thirty years, the II which was
gravely passed around when the tribe
made their last outbreak, has now been
given to Miss Fletcher, with due cere-
monial and impressive statement that
she had destroyed it's significance, be-
cause they were no longer a tribe, but
citizens of the United States.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

ONE of the most remarkable women
in England is Mrs. Meredith, who has
created and directed the career of that
complicated organism known as Mrs.
Meredith's Institutions with q degree
of unerring good Judgment and won
derful executive ability. Her father
during her childhood held an official
position connected with the prisons in
Ireland, and was early impressed with
a desire to do something to mitigate
the desolate lives Of the women con-
victs. Some time in 1860 she began
speaking at the Social Science Con-
crosses" and elsewhere Of the evils
which resulted from the incarceration
OF women at Brixton, shut off from
all beneficial outside Influences, and
OF the imperative need to make decent
citizens of the discharged convicts,
In 1866 she obtained leave to visit the
inmates of the prison, and many wears
she made it her daily duty to go to the
woman prisoners with words Of coun-
sci and sympathy Feeling that a
helping hand must be stretched out to
the discharged prisoners if their prom
lses OF reform were to be fulfilled, Mrs.
Meredith established a refuge for them
in houses adjoining her own home, and
later opened a mission on Chaplain
road, where they are employed at laun-
dry work or needlework, and no female
prisoner is allowed to pass from out
the prison gates without some attempt
being made to reclaim her to the ranks
OF honest citizens. These N
though hardened by crime, possess
one instinct Of womanIood hard to kill
love for their children and q desire
to save them from eorauptiug inAu-
ences.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21
HOW DID HE LE4RN sUcH r11xe

HOW DID LIE LE-4ISN SUCH Talk?
A little boy of four years has for
some time had a habit, very trying to
his mother, Of waking about midnight
and calling for a drink Of water. At
last his mother told him, one evening
as he was put to bed, that she would
not get up any more to wait upon him;
that she would put a pitcher of water
and a glass on the stand heal the bed.
and shat if he wanted water in the
night he must get up and get it himself.
She placed the water on the stand in
his sight and left him.
!, That night, at the usual time, she
heard the boys cali
Il want q d'ink O. water! l want a
dink O water!"
But she paid no attention. He called
two OF three times, and after he had
whimpered a bit she heard him get up
and thump along the floor t. the stand.
And then through the darkness came
this very positive ejaculation:
IL hope I thpill every jam jopw-
Boston Transcript.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

The Vine and Spirit Gazette tells
a good story son" the House of Com
mons After an all-night session
which resulted in the passage of the
original Irish closing bill, q radical
temperance measure, a reporter, at z
o'clock in the morning, went to the bar
of the house-not that where members
are arraigned, but where they refresh
themselves, and asked for a little
brandy. "Bless you," said the waiter,
"they have drank up every drop OF
spirits in the Houseo of Commons hours
ago: in order to pass a Sunday closing
law for poor Ireland"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

In n of the small islands of the
New Hebrides a trading vessel recently
put ashore a sailor to buy some yarns,
arranging to call for him in a few
hours. While he was waiting a band
of natives attacked him and carried him
off into the interior, where subsequent
ly he was roasted and eaten.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

A CORRESPONDENT of the american
Field, writing from Stockton, Cal,
calls attention to the depredations
which are being committed by the Ne
vada Piute Indians in that State.
They make annual raids into Califor-
MIA and slaughter deer by the hun
dreds for their hides and for dog meat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21
IN THE VINEYARD.
Some Gems of Thought Culled
for Sabbath Day Reflee-
lions.
tons.
WHOLESOME READING FOR ALL.
The Mercy of God-A House Going Minis
tey-Beyond the Graye-The Religion
We Want.
The Mercu of Goo.

The mercy of God is discriminative.
1t flows out most to those who need it
like the ministrations Of q mother.
Wherever, exclaims one, you find a man
wrenched and broken down; wherever
you find a woman crushed and despair
ing, wherever you find wrestling,
struggling and downfall, there Christ is.
He is mighty to help, comfort, v
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Clara Barton,
and other more or less prominent women
have organized the Lucy Webb Hayes
Temple Association. Their aim is to
erect in Washington a monument to
the late Mrs. Hayes. They want five
thousand charter members at S. a
member. Several hundred members
have already been obtained.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

One of the keepers in Bushey Park,
England, lately discovered two fine
bucks lying dead in a ditch, with their
horns locked together. Both animals
had received severe body wounds.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

The wealth of John d. Rockefelleri is
estimated at $3.50, 600, 900. He devotes
two hours daily-from sever until nine
IN the morning-to the examination of
the pile of letters addressed to him,
soliciting money for various purposes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

TIE featof lowering a large house
intact from an undesirable location on
a hill fifty feet high to the street was
accomplished in San Francisco lately,
the cost being 800.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

HERE is:an admirable arrangement
tor quickly and safely emptying the
house in use LII the fremont TYleater.
Boston. BY simply touching q nutton
IN any one OF the eight handy places in
the theater seMens cen exits open, act
uated by electricity.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

Doctor McK1SsoS, Superintendent
OF anIadustriL school in Canada, who
has charge of EOS boys, has figured out
the average cost of feeding a healthy
boy at club rates. Tt amounts to
Sl.o7.3per week. ,or about $50 per wear.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

THE proposition to erect a monument
to Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg re-
calls the fact that there is yet on that
illustrious field no memorial of George
Gordon Meade.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-21

1T was shown in a lawsuit in a New
England town, the other day, that one
Ebenezer Skinner made affidavit that
a certain remedy had cured him OF
rheumatism of twenty years standing,
and all he charged for this swearing
was fifty cents. He had never had the
rheumatism in his life.