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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
4 FAMOUS sNou-sTORu.

Among the severe snow-storms which
visited New England in the last cen
tury was the famous one Of 1850. In
many places the snow was piled up to
the second story windows of tall houses.
while those Of one-story were showed
under. The author of "Glimpses of
Life in Westbrough" tells several anec-
dotes illustrative of the straits in which
the snow placed the people of that
town.
A farmer, James Bowman, discover
ing, in the morning, that the snow
reached to the second story of his
house, thought of his neighbors who
lived in one-story houses. He called
his boys and babe them to put on their
snow-shoes and go over and see if
Neighbor Tribbet was suffering for
anything.
1t was with difficulty the boys found
the little house; but a faint line Of
smoke on the surface OF the snow re-
vealed the chimney, down which they
called:
Anything wanted, Tribbet?"
No." came up his answer.
Blessed be nothing. Go home and
mind your cattle!"
During the snow-storm, Mr.. Daniel
Forbes was taken sick. When it
cleared off a company Of eight young
men drew his two daughters on a hand
sled to their fathers house, that they
might see him before he died. At the
funeral, the clergyman, not having
snow-shoes, vas drawn on a sled to the
house OF mourning by several men.
lie notes in his diary:
1t was sharp cold. ye Wind Pierre
ing, We sled goes oven We tops of Walls
and Fences. There We're so many
persons with snow-shoes-ye Corps was
carried on a Bier on Mems Shoulders"
-loutA's COMPANION.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
O JEALOUS.

To the commandment, "Be not weary
in w%ell-doing," n might add, for oc-
casional use. the advice: "and be not al
ways too swift" A warm-hearted lady,
whose feelings sometimes run in advance
of her prudence, wished, with all her
might, on Christmas Day, that she had
followed this amendment. She had
been invited to u dinner-party at her
sisters house, and there met a new
conner in town, a woman who had q dis
tant and v aspect, but who thawed
somewhat as Christmas customs were
discussed.
I'VE had our gifts at the table," she
said to her hostess, "and Harry, my
nephew, amused us by making a face,
and saying, ooh dear, I didn't want
books; 1 wanted taffy!7
Didn't he have any candy at all?"
inquired warm-hearted little Mrs. c.,
bending eagerly forward.
"No," was the somewhat cool reply.
We thought he might manage to exist
without it."
The lady said nothing, but her cheeks
glowed red. Before the other guests
had thought Of going, she took h erleave,
hurried home, and made up a large box
Of delicious candy from her Christ
mas store.
Take that over to No. II D Street"
she said to her maid. Leave it for
Mrs. Powe's nephew, and be sure don't
tell who sent it,"
Then she subsidized, with a conscious
ness of benevolence satisfied. No cloud
dlmmed her sky for a week, but at the
end of that time she discovered, by
chance, that Mrs. Powe's nephew was
a young man Of twenty-five years, who
had a taste for %jocose speeches as we'll
as for candy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04

Suddenly the scene changed. The
doors Of the building burst open and
out broke more than fifty school-chil-
dren. Schools out!" they shouted,
and a caravan Of children scrambled for
the horses.
In a moment the youngsters had
mounted and were riding helter-skelter
over the prairie. The Texas mustangs
seemed toscent the frolic, and kicked up
their heels as they galloped home with
the school-children. With their dinner
pals jingling on the pommels of the
saddles and their dresses and jackets
waving in the wind. they looked like a
mad caravan of Bedouins.
How far did you Gomez" I asked a
little tot who sat beside her sister on a
speckled mustang.
Il tum dood way-I tum-"
why, he's come six miles, inter-
rupted his sister. Jimmy is only 5
years old. He doesn't know how far he
does come"
II live eight miles said a little Lord
Fauntleroy on a dancing broncho, "but
1 can ride it in an hour, and have done
it in thirty minutes" Then he spurred
his horse till he leaped away over the
prairie.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
USING THE TEETH,

The law of deterioration from disuse
obtains with the teeth, as we'll as with
other things. The constant and regu-
lar use of them in masticating hard food
tends to make them continually grow
harder and stronger, and better able to
resist the influences that make for de-
cay, while on the other hand, living on
soft food and neglect of mastication
makes them tender, softens the enamel
and renders them easily susceptible to
corroding effects. This is sometimes
especially shown in the case of people
after a long illness, who find their teeth
tender and sore when they begin to re-
turn to a diet of solid, hard food. A
dentist, speaking on the subject, says:
"Some men have healthy teeth all their
lives because they were given good,
hard food during infancy. That is the
period to begin to save the teeth.
Mothers and nurses give children soft
food, utterly ignorant in many cases Of
the result. Crusts and hard stuffs
should be given to children as soon as
they can eat them. In this way the
teeth begin to grow healthy, and grad
ually harden with time and use. The
chewing gum girl gives her molars
plenty Of wholesome and unwholesome
exercise. But chewing gum is not es-
pecially healthy, because only a part of
the teeth are used. 1t is jaw exercise
more than anything else. But in eat
ing hard, wholesome food all the teeth
come in contact with the substance,
Tobacco chewing is not healthy for the
teeth, because the tobacco is generally
placed in one location, like chewing
gum, and there remains until thrown out.
The Southern negroes have better teeth
than most any race, because they use
them from childhood up in masticating
hard food"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
SERVANTS IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Servants are as unmanageable. III
South America as they are everywhere
else, and in many respects more trying,
says F. NJ. Stoddard III Good House
keeping. General house-workers are
unknown. For the smallest family mi
needs o cook, a housemaid and, instead
of a man-of-all-work, a boy of any age
from ten years, and I have seen even
younger. on duty in native households.
Besides these, no washing can be done
at home. There was, I am told, at one
time even a law against the drying Of
clothes in ones own patio or on the
roof. At any rate a laundress is an al
most impossible person to get, and
clothes are given out to lavandaras, who
support themselves by the pursuit of
that profession alone. They wash in
the river, which is very wide, and very
shallow on it's southern shore, and ris-
ing only when gales are blowing from
the sea, leaves or its retiring great pools
of water in the hollows Of the beach.
These pools are the washtubs for the
whole city, and fiat stones are used as
boards, the clothes being rubbed between
two such, so it is not to be wondered at
that all kinds Of wash goods want fire.
quent replacing. The same women
who wash do not iron. They are them
selves employed by the person engaged
by ones self, who usually is the ironer
and who receives the pay for the whole.
l found this arrangement very unsatis-
factory, for there was no one person who
seemed to be responsible for the return
of the things and for the in
which they We're done. 1t is a fault
found by every one, but there seems to
be no way Of %remedying it: Some few
families have succeeded in getting reg
ular laundresses to join their retinue of
servants, but it is still a hard thing to
manage and the cooks object to it.
Wages are high. Cooks get from Is to
thirty n~acionales, or SIS to S25; these
are not remarkable servants, but only
ordinary ones. Men, French or Italian
cooks, are much better paid. The mer-
est slip of a housemaid will get from IA
to 20 nacionales ($12 to .$1S), and the
necessary mnchacho gets nearly the
Same
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04

the monotonous hum OF the car wheels,
the believing of stock, and the bitter
cold, all combined to make me SUI
premely miserable. To increase my
terror, the car next to mine was occu-
pied by a number of tramps, who made
night hideous by their oaths and foul
talk, and 1 trembled to think what
would have been my fate had they found
out my hiding place.
When the cars stopped at a little
station above here to wait for the pas
senger train Icould bear it no longer,
and getting out from my place of con-
cealment I ran into the depot, where 1
met the conductor of the train, and he
brought me to Omaha"
Such was Miss Corners story, which
was interrupted many times by sobs and
weeping.
Mr.. Harris, a gentleman who was in
the waiting room, was deeply interested
in the girl, and succeeded, through his
influence with the railroad men, in get
ting her a pass to her Eastern home.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
ALWAYS RE TO HELP.

1t was a piteous appeal, says the
Washington Post. He stood shivering
in the chilly air. A look of semi-re-
spectability and better days peered
from his countenance and dignified his
frowsy clothes. He held a nickel in bis
outstretched palm.
Stranger" he pleaded, "give me a
nlckel-just five cents. L have got to
have a drink of whisky. I make no
concealment, sir; I must have some
whisky and must have it soon. See
how my hand shakes"
The one addressed beckoned to a col
ored bootblack.
DO you know where VS. is?'
naming a noted colored saloon.
Deed I does, boss"
Then take this poor man up there
A glow Of human kindness lighted
up the gentleman's face.
My poor fellow" said he to the
thirsty one, $50 with this colored man.
lie will show you a place where yoa
can get two big slugs Of whisky for yoar
i've cents. Give him one and take
the other yourself. I am always will
ing to help the deserving poor"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
His Woy of Putting 1t.

A boy came home from Sunday school
one morning aud said. Mamma, a Per-
SLAMS going to talk this evening in his
clothes"
Why, of course, DEAR" mamma re-
piled with a smile.
But 1 mean in his own Clothes" de-
chred the child. "The minister said
so.'
It was the little fellows way Of inter
preting the expression, Sin his native
costume. -Horper's Young People.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
THEY,RE PLUMP .DARLINGs.
A U,itey Who Couldn't Find a Fiat
breasted Girl in Span.

A Writer Who Couldn't Find +" ft0t-
breasted Girl IN Span.
As regards her stature and mold, the
Andalusian girl is almost invariably u
petite brunette, and, although not all
are plump, and many are too stout, the
majority have exquisitely symmetrical.
tapering limbs, well-developed busts,
(fat-chested women are almost I'M
known in SPAIN, and the most dainty
and refined hands and feet. Regard
ing these feet, Gautier makes the most
astounding assertion, that without
any poetic exaggeration it would be
easy here, in Seville, to find women
whose feet an infant might hold in its
hands. A French girl of Z or s
could not wear the shoes of an Anda-
lusian of 90" 1 am glad to attest that,
if the feet of the Sevillian women really
we're so monstrously small fifty years
ago, they are so no longer. 1t is dis
%couraging to see a man like Gautier fall
into the vulgar error of fancying that,
because q small foot is q thing OF
beauty, therefore the smaller the foot,
the more beautiful it must he. Beauty
of feet, hands and waists is d matter of
proportion, not of absolute size, and too
small feet, hands and waists are not
beautiful, but ugly. We might as we'll
argue that, since a mans foot ought to
be larger than q woman's, Therefore the
larger his foot, the more he has Of
manly beauty. If Andalusian women
really had feet so small that a baby
might hold them in its hands, they
would not be able to walk at all, or, at
least, not gracefully. But it is pre-
cisely their gait and carriage for which
they are most famed and admired. All
Spanish women are graceful, al com
pared with the m of other nations,
but above them all, the Andalusians
are pre-eminent in the poetry of mo-
ton, and this is probably the reason
that, although regular facial beauty is
commoner in Madrid than in Seville,
l found that you a not pay a greater
compliment to a girl in Northern Spain
than by asking her if she is an Anda-
lusian. It would be useless to seek
among land animals for a gait COM
parable to that of the womenbf Seville,
Cadiz, Malaga and Granada, and when
you compare it to the motion Of a swan
on the water, . fish in the water, a bird
in the air, it is the birds and the fishes
that must feel complimented. -Scrib-
neT'S Md0asine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
True STORY OF FLORENCE NIGHT.
A

TRUE TORY OF FLORENCE NIGHT
INGALE.
When the celebrated philanthropist,
Florence Nightingale, was a very little
girl, and living in Derbyshire, England,
everybody was struck with her thought
fulness for people and animals. She
even made friends with the shy squirrels.
When persons were i'll she would help
nurse them, saving nice things from her
own meals for them.
There lived zeal the village an old
shepherd named Roger, who had a
f%avorite sheep dog called Cap. This
dog was the old mans only companion,
and helped in looking after the flock by
day and kept him company at night.
Cap was a very sensible dog, and kept
the sheep in such good order that he
saved his master a deal of trouble.
One day Florence was riding out with
a friend, and saw the shepherd giving
the sheep their night feed; but Cap was
not there, and the sheep knew it, for
they scampered about in all directions.
Florence and her friend stopped to ask
Roger why he was SO sad, and what had
become of his dog.
"Oh," he replied, "Cap will never be
of any more use to me: I'll have to hang
him, poor fellow! as soon as I go home
tonight"
Hang himw said Florence. "Oh,
Roger! how wicked of you. What has
poor old Cap done?"
He has done nothing" replied
Roger, "but he will never be of any
more use to me, and I cannot afford to
keep. him. One of the mischievous
schoofboys threw a stone at him yester-
day, and broke n of his legs" And
the old shepherd wiped away the tears
which filled his eyes. "Poor Capt." he
said, "he was as knowing as a human
being"
But are you sure his leg is broken ?"
asked Florence.
"Oh, yes, miss, it is broken, sure
enough; he has not put his foot on the
ground since"
Then Florence and her friend rode
on, but the next day Florence returned
with a physician, and the old dog, whose
case had been regarded as hopeless,
was soon restored to health and useful
ness.-Youth's Temperance Banner.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
ToMMY,s SUSPICIOUS =

Mrs. Waxter-James, I am uneasy
about Tommy.
MIR. Waxter--Why, what's the matter
with the boy? Is he sick?
Mrs. Waxter-No. He's well enough.
but he stayed awake all through the
sermon this morning, and made all the
responses in the service as devoutly as
II he were the preacher himself. I tell
you. James, that boy is either getting
up a Wild West gang among the hood
abut here OF he's getting ready to
go to that ~shivaree" tomorrow night
Chicago Tribune
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
ITS ORIGIN.

1t is when pretenders most DIDO
themselves to be displaying their wis
don that they are most likely to make
themselves ridiculous, and Of this fact
n sees instances every day. A case,
in point, happened not long ago, when
the talk had turned upon the deriving
OF words from the anne of people.
Several instances had been men
toned, such as burke" '.grapgerize'
and boycott" and then one of the
company asked if there were any words
OF this sort which had originated in
America. For a moment no one spoke.
Then a man said:
There is the word polka you
know"
"'Polka?'" repeated one Of the COM
pany. What proper name does that
come from?"
Why, from President Polk, OF
course! The dance was introduced
into this country during his administra-
ton, and they named it in his HONOR
No n had any reply to make, al
though the listeners could not help ex-
changing amused glances at the pro-
found wisdom which twisted the mama
OF a Hungarian dance into a sort Of nm
on the name OF an American president.
WHEN a man tries for all he is
worth" and doesn't succeed, probably
he is NOT worth mnoh pM
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
Little Johnny's Composition on tie Lion.

Gees Kisses, but ducks quacks, and
wen Frankly, that's the baby, is painie
in his lap he hollers, but the lion roars
like distant thunder and makes the well
kin wiring! Uncle Ned, wich has ben
in Injy and every were, he says n mite
a lion come out of the woods and went
to his correl to eat his cattle. Uncle
Ned he got up and looked in the correl
thru a crack the lion shode his teeth,
and Uncle Ned sed, The idiot thinks I
am a dentist, but 1 haven't no time for
to tend to him. He sent for the lion
tanner for to quell him with his L.
San Francisco Examiner.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
THE
Some Pleasant Stories for the
Amusement of Our Mue-
nile Readers,
As WELL As OLDER FOLKS.
A Good Little Boy-His Way Of Putting
limiting Poetry-Pony
Practice, Etc.
GoOd L,ttle Bon.

PA, you wouldn't care if I gave a
cripple part Of the dollar you sent me
out to changer"
mo, my son. Why"
Because 1 gave fifty cents Of it to
the one legged man that sells tickets to
the circus. Slime.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
QUITE UNITED.

l thought you We're going to marry
Mss G~oldthwaite. Charley? Haven't
you had some aspirations in that line? ?"
=" L had, bat it was no go. Her family
We're all opposed to it."
We'll, but if the girl herself"
Il said all the family. She was one
Of Iem''-PucIs
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04

1t makes a great difference in the
taste OF Jamaica ginger whether it IS
bought In a prohibition state or in a
licensed neighborhood. In the former,
l. is SAID, it tastes more like whisky,
1han Jamaica ginger. It must be al
1ected by the climate .-NoyrtstoN"
Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04
Writing Poetry.

Il don't think much of ready-made
poetry" said little Simon, as he seated
himself at papa's big desk and took up
a big pen which he dipped in the big
ink-bottle. "Ill make my own poetry, %
said he, and he dipped the big pen
again and made-a big blot! so DEAR
said Simon, now 1 must begin all over
again! That'll never do on a valen-
tine So he took a new sheet and
wrote:
@My dear ever-blooming Rose
II thought of that yesterday said
he's tell you it looks. fine on paper!
Won't that please her? Now what
rhymes with Rose? Toes-of course
thatl never do! Shows-I don't want
to say anything about the circus, I
guess. Nose-I wouldn't care to speak
OF her S I wish eyes would rhyme;
l could write something nice about
them. Froze-hoes-clothes-O pshaw!
it's all awful job! There goes Dick
with his new dog! Sha'n't catch him if
I don't hurry. B'lieve I'll take the
r%eady.maae kind, after all. Who wants
to write poetry, any how?'-Youth's
COMDOniOn.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04

WHEN a man tries for all he Is
WORTH and doesn't succeed, probably
he is not worth much.-Rome Sentinel
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-05-22
Victoria's Costly Forgetfulness.

From Laiies' Home Journ1l.l
Some years ago her majesty bought
from we'll known London jeweller
three very valuable pearls, the united
cost of which was not far short of $500.
A lutte while after the purchase had
been made the merchant was surprised
to receive a letter from lady at
court, which read: "The Queen wishes
very much to know if pearls will burn" !"
The reply to this tart inquiry was an
assurance that if her majesty wished to
oxygenize pearls fer her amusement
she would find that they would burn
in an ordinary fire. The rejolnder
brought the secret to light. The
Queen had placed the pearls on her
writing desk, wrapped in a piece of
tissue paper. AS she was writing one
morning she used the tissue paper to
wipe her pen, and threw it into the
fire. The pearls, all unobserved, went
with it. The ashes of the CRATE were
searched for them in vain. They had
been destroyed so utterly as to leave
no trace. The Queen had with her
own hand cast three splendid Jewels
worth more than the average income
of her middle class subjects, into the
blaze
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-05-22
THE STATUE OF-LEE.
TO BE UNVEILED IN RICHMOND
NEXT THURSDAY.

Many North Carolina Troops will Take
Part in Doing Honor to the Great South
ern Chieftain.
The equestrian statue of Gen. Robert
E. Lee from France has arrived in
Richmond and it will be unveiled
with appropriate ceremonies on the
18th of May, in the city Of Rich
mond.
The statue has been for months on
exhibition in Paris, where it won the
admiration of thousands Of Americans.
Lee is represented in the full uniform
of his rank, seated upon a horse The
statue is considered by those who saw
it on exhibition a master piece. 1t is
about twenty one feet high, twenty
three feet across and weighs about
eight tons.
The statue is consigned to the order
of Governor Mckinney, of Virginia,
who will, through his Representatives,
make ready for its unveiling on the
desi gnated day. It is estimated that
the statue will cost $4,000.
The ladies of Richmond and the Res
ident Maryland Association, assisted
by the Richmond military, will tender
a complimentary reception and ball to
the visiting military and veterans at
the Richmond Theatre, Wednesday
evening, May 2Sth, 1890, the eve of
the unveiling OF the Lee monument.
North Carolina will be largely repre-
sented there on the occasion. The
Governors Guard will go from Raj
eigh. Among the off of the Gen
eral and Personal staff who will go
from this State, are Adjt GenI Glenn,
Inspector General Cameron, Quarter
Master Gen'l Olds, Asst. Adjt. Gen'l
Smith, Asst. Inspector Generals Came
ron and Smith, Coils. Aston Grimes,
John II. Cunningham and Thomas w.
Strange, the three last being the Gov
ernor's aides.
Col. Anthony, of the Fourth, is ar
ranging to take his full regiment, and
Col. Gray, of the Third, is making the
same arrangement, Col. Cotton will
take four companies Of the First, and
three companies of the Second regiment
will attend. All these troops will be
quartered in the big exposition build
ing which has been specially prepared
for the purpose, AID will be formed as
a brigade. All the troops, while in
Richmond, will be quartered and ra-
toned free Of charge. 1t is probable
that the bands of the First and Fourth
regiments will accompany the troops
The latter band, very fine one, has
twenty six pieces. 1t is expected that
considerable portion of the troops
will remain in Richmond on the 30th
to participate in the decoration cere
monies at Holly ywood. at which Gov.
Fowle is one of the speakers.