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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-08-22
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES.
Associated Press Report and
DigeSts of all Important
News Of To-Day.
MISCELLANY.

SAN FRANCISCO WHEAT MARKET
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. o.
Wheat, buyer season, $1.54}; buyer
700. 81 ,453.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
Reasonable Pride.

People who have seen better DAYS are
naturally enough fond of referring to
the fact, especially in the presence OF
new acquaintance. The trait is not
unamiable. We all like to stand we'll
with our fellows.
One of u exchanges tells a story OF
a school mistress who had gone to
teach in a rural town where she
boarded round" according to the old
custom.
On the second Monday she went to a
new place." and at noon sat down
with the family at a small pine
table, on which was a dinner OF brown
bread, fat fried pork and baked pote-
toes. We are not told whether she en-
]oyed the meal OF not, but just as the
chair was pushed back, one Of the chill
dren, a little girl Of perhaps ten years,
suddenly exclaimed:
Il know what good victuals is. Yes,
ma,am, | know what It's"
do you, indeed?" answered the en-
barrassed teacher, at o loss what to
say, but ashamed to say nothing.
Yes, ma'am, [ know what good vic
tuals is. I've been away from home
several times, and eaten lot on en-"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
OUR w OPINIONS.
BY JAMES wn1Tcomn RILEY.

Us two WIZ boys when we fell out,
Nigh to the age NV my youngest noW;
DON'T fec'lect what 'twuz about.
Some small difference Ill allow.
Lived next n%eighbors twenty years.
.A-hurin' each other, me nd Jim;
He hGyin' his opinyin NV me.
Nd 1 harin my opinyin NV him.
Grew up together nd wouldn't speak.
Courteu sisters, nd marr'd 'eln. to;
'Iende same mectin house oncet Il week.
A-hutin' each other, through and through!
But when Abe Linkern asked the West
Err soldiers, we answered, Inc and Jim,
He havin' his opinyin Nv me,
Nd l havin' my opiuyin Nv hint
But down in Tennessee one night
There WIZ sound NV firm on way.
~ the Sergeant allowed thcre'db a fight
With the Johnnie Rebs some time mex day
Nd as ! wuz thinkin' NV Lizzie nd home,
Jim STOOD atore me. long nd slim;
He havin' his opinyin nv me,
Nd L havin' my opinyin NV him.!
Seemed like we knew there wuz goin' to be
Serious trouble IF me and him;
IL two schuck hands, did Jim nd me,
But never Il word from me OF jim!
he Went his way, md l went mine,
Nd into the battle roar went we,
havin' my opinrin NY Jim.
Nd he havin' his opinyin NV me.
Jim never come back from the war agin.
But l haint forgot that last. lust night,
When waitin' II orders. uz two men
Mndelp nd schuck hands afore the fight
Nd after all. it sootllin' to know
That here l be, nd wonders Jim;
He havin' his opinyin NV me,
Nd 1 hayln' my opinyia Nv him!
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
An Indians Exciting Experience in a
Montana Theater.

"You see, it happened like this" said
an old.timer. ct was in sc. My old
friend Bill Hamilton of Saltwater,
sometimes called Wildcat Bill, was a
United States Deputy Marshal and
Sheriff of Choteau County. There had
been some illegal whisky selling going
on around the Blackfoot country, and
finally Bill got after the guilty parties.
"a young Indian named Two Wolves
got mixed up in the affair, and Bill ar
rested him as a witness and brought
him to Helena. Howey was Marshal
here at that time and 1 was deputy.
when Bill arrived in town with his
Indian he called on Howey and me to
help take care of him. Well, on the
night of the day that Bill and the pris-
oner arrived there was some sort of a
show going on in IN old hall up on
Bridge street. We all wanted to go,
but we didn't know what to do with the
Indian. Finally Bill said we will
take him along with u.s. which we
agreed to do.
Neither Bill nor the Indian had ever
seen a show before. Well, we went up
to the hall and got seats in the gallery,
the Indian being seated between Bill
and me. / forget what the play was,
but it was one Of the o]d-fashioned kind,
where The whole company was killed off
before the show was over.
I'VE got Interested in the perform
ance and forgot all about the Indian.
He kept quiet until the killing began.
When the actors began firing pistols
and showing knives the Indian got ner-
vous, and finally, when the people on
the stage began falling thick and fast,
he could stand the show no longer.
Suddenly he made a jump from the
seat, and before Bill and I could stop
him, that Indian had jumped clean
through a window near by and out onto
a sort of platform.
He got down to the ground, stole a
horse somewhere, and rode twenty-five
miles bareback down to the valley.
There he stole a saddle and went home
again to his friends in the tribe.
Bill never caught him, but we heard
afterward that the Indian said the
reason he left was because he was
of being killed. He said the
white folks in Helena were killing each
other on a platform in one end of the
room and the rest of the people We're
around laughing at the business.
Helena h1dependcnt.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

ever come to grief, the verdict will not
be, as it ought to be so often, The
engineer got drunk"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

the Empire State he took his i,
his head and, kneeling, kissed II
"Begorra, the bloke's cray
Irishman who witnessed the nsr,1
Walking toward the countrv
mile beyond which was the
once owned, he stopped to al
branch that ran along the waller
the pine hills. On the slope, al
distant, was the grave Of a Feil
dler-a prisoner who had dill
way to the stockaoe. Lookjn,
direction, he saw a white ol;|
ghost" he thought. But it nov
with a quiet briskness no. peculi]
ghost family. I'll see what n
muttered. Approaching, be note|
railing around the grave. The B
q woman placing flowers on it.
be q ghost" he thought; ahis
maybe" She softly placed
bright colored blossoms, which
the kindly task. She looked up
him.
-Alice!" he spoke.
She leaned ngainst the reiI
thought it her ghost, so pale she
"Tobe, why did you stay away
You promised to come back Sd
you never wrote but one letter
He covered before this ARA,
and evadingly answered:
What does this mean, Alira;'
To-day is Decoration Day. i:
thing new to you. This grave v
some, and l have made it cheest
I wrong?"
GOD have mercy on me for
you." he gasped. "Can YOU fo.
am going to the old home; "
what for. Will you walk with N
"Yonner come Miss Alice,,'cr
a dozen pickaninnies, as the two
the gate.
Dress yer sweet soui. whar's
all day?" asked the old negro
who took her bonnet. I'D gun
little anxious erbout yer. But
This is MIR. Linthicum, Aunt
expect he's hungry. | am"
AWhut! Am dat Mr.. lobe Lin
whut went ter Brayzill? He's
Drowned an sorter gray, but no
ct i'm, dem whiskers KANT hide
per's eyes an his mudder's smi
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

Could ne utilize free labor as he had slave
labor? He did not believe it possible to
himself or any other man. ~
Inc walnut trees that shaded the fam
ny burylng-ground were in half Iaaf
when ne got home. He stood with S;s
mother beside his fathers grave.
MY son, she said, you must o;va tho
oia home a fair trial. it's bad, I know uo
n,;aa Will not leave you, mother" he re-
Another spring saw new grave there
: was us mothers. II have notbino
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
along the shore
Walked Hannah More:
Waves, let this record last,
Sooner shall We.
Proud earth and sea,
Than what clio ,ur; M, l 500.

Than what she writes be past"
In reply to the gallant rhyme she
wrote:-
Some tirmer basis, polished Ianghorne, choose,
70 write the dictates of thy churnlang muse;
my strains i'll solid characters rehJarse,
And be thy tablet lasting as tn, veSse."
Literary women DO not always shine
in society. George Sand was notably
deficient in talk. When her sparkling
friends were firing off their conversa-
tional pyrotechnics, she sat in Devil
dered admiration, stupefied rather than
inspired. Charlotte Bronte was so shy
that society became an actual infiction
to her. We can easily believe that Mrs.
Browning had a quaint, graceful
humor OF her own" but never spoke in
sallles OF wit or repartee. George Eliot
talked as she wrote, in sentences wise,
weighty, epigrammatic. Mr.. Cross says
no one could be more capable Of en-
Toying and communicating genuine,
hearty laughter" We need only to
judge by her books, however, to know
that she was serious to sadness. Jane
Austen was "no more regarded in So
ciety than u poker or a fre-screen or
any other thin, upright piece Of wood OF
iron that fills its corner in peace and
quletness." After people read her
Pride and Prejudice" she was still a
poker, but a poker of whom every n
was afraid"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

now" he said, to b;na>
Alice, but she is too ao. me be-.
no country. l will ~ sooa for o,
there" 80 to Bal
He sold the pronsr
dsdls; c ns ptrospsrsdD. Bpt' 1 d
could not Linthicum as a.s CO.'S
BILE longings of his ''c oal u
dreams were of the pr pSa BE-
homestead. That SPOT s1avss !
tended, was now grown once
every sprig of which pointaap i
contempt at him. T Tbsu'ed III
their limbs as if in n,;s VAIN
sweet pale face at the painful s !
grew psle ts, when the he answer ss'ssss :,
written her only once, bee bee
he look backward? The out VI
to him; he was anothsr past
land. nan
One day he received q H..
tanned a miniature Amer;e as'tst
ing else. Two weeks af ftaa 4
a passenger on a steamer h asl;
York. When his foot toue Jhoa9a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
Asking Too Much.

Stranger (out West-See here!
want you to arrest those two nan over
there for forcing me into a game of
poker with them and then swindlino
me.
Policeman-Y'r askin' too much.
stranger, l can't arrest them gents.
Ones tn honored Mayor of tbs ere
city, an tn others tn Chief of lerlice.
-NeW Yo7k Weekly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

In 1920, Magellan, a Port"S h
the employ OF Spain, sallea -
the straits which bear his nahs,'
into the Pacific. It was Nv
known one could pass aroul,e !;
Horn. Magellan lost his NE 4
Philippine Islands, but ols Il,
smallest ships succeeded IN ll ah,,
circuit of the earth, the first Wv
accomplished the feat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
fix sumpn scrumpshus fur him

Alice" he began.
The old Linthicum property >
lobe. Papa bought it. When l
l turned farmer. Had l been
might have gone to Brazil"
Alice, had I nothing more thal.
to bring back I would not be hess
I have money too. I tried to STA, "a;
but you-and this taking the III
from his pocket and holding II.
her-"are responsible for my ;
You sent it?" g..
Dinners ready, Miss Alice. .
voice from the front stoop OF 'ns
* * x s.
The walnut trees were in lut
The graves beneath them were
with hyacinths and buttercap''
lovers sat on o bench near by.
Il was wrong" he said, 10 So.
no country. I felt it sadly durlnS
years of my exp%atriation. bu !,
atoned the folly by kneelins uy1
covered, and kissing the grouna ~
arrived at New York. l Will "
the atobement by making lnG luz :,
States nv home again, and VIII
vow by kissing" =, h
The American flag" she sa'4 ia !
the miniature against her lips. nsI,
the flag, and as he did SO ne gen.
it away.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

DO YOU eve wonder why poe,s talk
SO much about flowers? Did y,u ever
hear of poet who did not tail about
them? Don't you think a poem, which,
for the sake of being original, should
leave them out, would be lik. those
verses where the letter a or e o. some
other is omitted?
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
WITHOUT COUNTRY
The Story Of a Se!f-Expatiated
Exile.
BY CHARLES s. ELAckDuES.

ODE LINTHICUM
was mad when the
civil war ended. The
thought of again see
Ing his mother made
his heart throb with
emotion; bat he had
fought for a lost
cause, and defeat an
eered him. The old
home was gone to
ruin. h Q fences
were down, and weeds
had usnrped the place
OF corn and oot.~
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
A Perfume of Wit.

Hannah Moore enjoyed a wal of
words, and was q match for any one
with her ready wit. A good story is
told of her. She and MI. Langhorne
were friends, who spent their summer
vacation at the same seaside resort.
They We're wont to meet at a certain
time on the shore. One day the gentle
man inscribed on the sand the follow
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-08-16

Dawn - dim on the soft water
SOFT and passionate. DARK and svoos,
Loves own self was the deep seas dAueheoa
Fair aud nawlcss from face 70 feet.
Hailed OF all when the world was golden.
Loved OF lovers whose names beholden
Thrill mons eyes AS with light Of olden
Days more glad than their flight was ne~<
So they sang but for men that love her
Souls that hear not her word In vain.
Earth beside her and heaven above her
Seem but shadows that wax and wana
Softer than sleeps arc tho seas carsasea.
Kinder than loves that betrays and blossos
Blither than Springs when her nowerfu
trcsscs
shake forth sunlight and shine with rain
All the strength OF the waves that perish
Swclls beneath me and laughs and siaha.
Signs for love OF the life they cherish.
Laughs 10 know that Il lives and dies.
Dies for Joy Of It's life. and lives.
Thrilled with JOY that It's brief death givoa
Death whose laugh or whose breath forxivc1
Change that bids II subside and rise
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-08-16

II IL mistake TO suppose that cold
drinks are necessary 10 relieve thirst.
Very cold drinks, rs rule, increase tho
feverish condition Of the mouth and
stomach, and so create thirst Expert
ence shows IL to be fact that hot drinks
relieve thirst and "cool off" the body
when Is is in an abnormally heated con-
dition better than ice cold drinks. IL is
far better and safer to avoid the free uso
OF drinks below 90 degrees; in fact, n
higher temperature is 10 DO preferred;
and those who are much troubled with
thirst will do well 10 try the advantages
10 DO derived from hot drinks, instead OF
cold fluids 10 which they have been nc.
customed. Hot drinks also have the adj
vantage OF aiding digestion. instead OF
causing debility Of the stomach aud
bowels.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-08-16

During one OF our many marches
through Tennessee we were very scarce
OF something TO satisfy our craving
appetites. As rule. in such cases.
soldiers would hold council TO decide
what was best TO do. So, after going
into camp at night my mess, which
was composed OF Geo. Wilkins, Ad.
Barnes, Byron Deer and myself. held
council and IL was decided that Deer
and myself do the foraging, and II we
rot anything that needed 10 be cooked
the other two were to attend 10 that
part after we returned. We started
ON our mission. and the first game we
came across was "A flock OF geese; but
as we wanted something more tender,
we advanced about three quarters OF a
mile further--about one mile from
camp. We discovered an old log barn,
with IA shed. Into the shed we made
way. Deer reached his hand 10 the
top OF an old hay rack and found what
we were seeking for--chickens. He
pulled their heads of and handed
them 10 me. by the time one or two
were served that way heard the clang-
ing of sabcrs. | told Deer TO come
down or we would be captured. We
made good time and barely made our
escape. by keeping the barn between
Us and the rebs. We captured a goose
apiece ON onr way back. which took
the other boys of the mess the rest Of
the night 90 cook. But the next day
we managed te pick clean the boncs.--
u. PearDgan, 3Isf Ind.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-08-16


Whom your wife writes letter all kisses and
honey.
Look out for the post script .rm all out Of
money ~
How long was Bronson's speech p
don't know. didn't have my gas
meter with me.
A woman who married lazy man
says she hasn't any fear Of starvation,
because there IL sure to be loaf around
the house.
Il allus like to patronize people that
have full line OF goods. said the tramp
as he carried Oft the weeks washing from
the back yard.
Am drcadfully sorry. Flora has got
influenza"
~Awfully sorry. Your intended?"
Intended? No--horse.
"oh, for the wings OF dovei' sighed
the poei!"
"Boshl" said his friend the broker.
"The breast of a turkey is much better
to till up on.
He-Will you have some ice cream"
Shell don't care.
He Telicved) right. we won't havo
any"
AT the garden concert--"Won't the
gentlemen take a seat inside? II rainJ
SO hard
"oh, no. thank you; we have lids to
our beer mugs.
Shell didn't hear anything OF fathers
dog. He held his peace tonight. didn't
he.
He (bitterly)-Yes; his piece of my If
teen dollar trousers
Grocer-Don't put those fresh laid egg5
SO near the stove.
Clerk-What's the matter, sir?
Grocer-They might hatch.
PATIENT say, doctor. what sort Of q
lump is this on the back of my neck?
Doctor-lt's nothing serious, sir but
would advise you, nevertheless. TO keep
your eye ON il.
Whatever troubles Adam had.
No man could make him sore
BY saying, when no told Jest.
Ave heard that Joke before"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-08-16

Brer Harte is now liv ing in quie.
cottage Ia Grove End X DAD, near Sc
Johns Wood. He Is getting old and his
hair IL white. but the novelist still re-
tains all his old fire. His books sell Inn
mensely in England-more than those
of any other American writer. Mr..
Hartc's family IL not with him. and the
general impression in London il that he
is widower. Mr.. Joseph Hatton,
warm friend and neighbor of Mr.. Harte,
informs me that ne Is not now In the
consular service. No American Is In
vited into the best English society more
than Bret Harte. His American stories
warm the English heart. They never
tire Of the novelist's story about the first
jury trial in California. and this Ii the
way he told il the other night:
IL was over in the Mariposa Gulch, In
90. They had never had jury trial
there. IL man stole horse they
lynched him, and that settled t. But
the people. many OF whom came from
Massachusetts,, began 10 tire of lynch law
and sigh for the good old jury trial Of
the East. 20 one day, when Bill Stew
ems had jumped poor mans claim, the
Massachusetts, fellows resolved to give
him a good old fashioned jury trial.
They took him into the back end OF the
board post Office, selected jury. and the
trial commenced. Dozens OF witnesses
were called, and finally the jury retired
10 agree ON verdict. When they had
about concluded that Jim was Innocent
the boys outside came banging at tho
door,
"What do you fellows wsnt2" asked
the foreman through the keyhole.
we want TO know II you hain't about
agreed on the verdict. II you haint
you'Il have TO get out. We want this
room 10 lay out the corpse inl"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-08-16

The popular captain OF Company G,
Twelfth Vermont regiment, was stroll
ing in the woods just out OF camp one
day during the war. when he came
upon member OF his company sitting
upon n stump OF tree and looking as
though he had fought his last fight.
What's the matter BillPn said the
captain. "Oh. nothing" was the re-
ply; II am all right" You look as
though you had a fit Inconsistencies. y
mo, sir" said Bill, with some resent
ment. nothing OF the sort. " well.
what are you thinking aboutp' asked
his qucstioner. II was thinking"
said the Vermonter, that wished
was in my fathers barnw lin your
fathers barn? What on earth would
you do II you were in your fathers
barnP' The poor fellow uttered "A long
drawn sigh and said; I'D go into the
house mighty quick"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-08-16

wcro being made 10 bring about an en-
change by both the North and South,
and that their efforts would probably
soon be successful Upon the strength
OF this report we concluded to let our
tunnel remain quiet for the time,
thinking that II exchange failed we
could have final recourse TO 1t. The
exchange did fail; and heavy thun-
der shower loosened one OF the timbers
OF which the stockade was composed,
that II settled into the shaft, dis
Iering TO the authorities our tunnel.
they quickly filed It up.-T H.
inn. ia The Century.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-08-16
The Russian Army.

1t Is a curious fact In connection
with the Russian army that while II
has often met defeat il was never
routed; though beaten and driven from
the field, 1t never became pane
stricken mob. This conference under
defeat was probably due TO its splen-
did discipline and rigid obedience to
orders, which were paramount to all
other considerations. A Russian force
was moving TO the attack OF "a position
that was impregnable. A superior
officer asked the commander where he
was going. ITO attack the position
In front he answered. but IL is
folly-madness. II know II. but
have my orders" "Oh. you have or
ders; move on. Them the officer coolly
said. This incident takes good deal
OF what has always been regarded as
exaggerntion out OF the story that is
told OF Russian army surgeon on his
professional round. on entering II
ward the officer in charge gives the
command, Attention. when each In
lnate ut once takes the position OF a
soldier. Tongues outv' Is the next
order. followed by the instant projec-
ton OF that member. The surgeon,
accompanied by an attendant, then
proceeds along the line. examining
each tongue and giving directions as
TO treatment When the inspection Is
over and the medical officer takes his
departure the command Tongues inlN
releases the line from lis unpleasant
and lndicrous position. and I'm place.
rest, " allows the men 20 resume their
cots. And yet military writer's admit
that the soldier who thinks always
gets away with the human machine in
battle.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-08-16
Anecdote ofLlncoin.

Secretary Stanton was once greatly
vexed because an army officer had re-
fused TO understand an order, or, at
all events, had not obeyed. IL believe
I'll sit down. said Stanton. 'and give
that man piece OF my mind. 's'"Do SO. :"
said Lincoln. write him now. while
you have IL ON your mind. Make II
sharp; cut him all up" Stanton did
not need second invitation. IL was
a bone cruncher that he read TO the
President. That's right. said Abe.
that's n good one" Whom can
get 10 send IL byP' unused the Score.
tary. 'Send i'll" replied Lincoln;
send III Why. don't send Il at all.
Tear IL up. You have freed your mind
on the subject and that is all that is
necessary. Tear. 1t up. You never
want TO send such letters. never
do.m