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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
The Latest Llta-Isoa,

Boots to put on the feet for the pur-
pose of walking upon the water, water
tricycles and bicycles are already
known. A surprising sort of life-boat
is made OF two cylindrical shells, one
inside of the other, and, no matter how
often the outer shell may roll over,
the passengers in the inner shell, which
is hung like pendulum, must always
remain right side up. The great trouble
about life-boats at sea is that they are
apt to turn bottom upward or get
swamped in being launched; but this
trouble is obviated by craft of the
sort that has two air-tight cylinders TO,
sides, and is right side up, no matter
how it fall into the water, which auto
matically sets the boat into shape to
receive its passengers and crew, the
oars being ready fastened in their
places for rowing.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
His Live Saved a Rat.

A gentleman whose modesty prevents
our publishing his name and whose
veracity is unquestionable relates the
following: Il had been picking cotton
in my field very hard all the morning,
and when dinner time came 1 lay down
in the gin house, and must have dozed
off to sleep, when all at once I felt a
sharp prick on the end of my finger.
jumped up and saw large rat looking
ct me intedtly, and he kept running
backward and forward, but comming
back at the same place each time.
picked up a nut and threw it. so, ac-
curately that it killed the rat. About
that time I discovered some cotton on
fire. which believe caused the strange
actions of the rat, and believe that I,
as we'll as the gin house, would have
been burned had it not been for the
timely bite Of the rat. "--Gordo4o (Ga. J
Press ADDe11.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
shy's Great Retreat.

A gentleman passed through the city
Sunday on his way to Excelsior Springs,
whose name three or four years ago was
one of the most popular in the daily
press of that city. 1t was Mr.. John T.
Shy, of Deming, N. NJ, whose deed Of
heroism in saving his wife and family |
from massacre by a band of savage
Apaches after running fight of several /
miles, will ever make his name a con-
spicuous one in the history of the
West. The story is as follows:
Mr.. Shy had settled on ranch in |
New Mexico with his wife and young
son, their place being seventeen miles
from any other settlement. The ranch
was attacked by rowing band of eight
cen Apaches, who sought to drive off
the stock. Mr.. Shy, VINO was we'll
armed and had plenty of ammunition,
placed his wife and child in a place of
safety within the house and then opened
fire, which was returned. The fight
was waged for some time. till one
of the Indians succeeded in crawling up
to and setting fire to the house. This
necessitated flight, so, sending Mrs. Shy
forward under cover of the smoke of the
burning bnilding, the husband and
father, carrying his young son under
his arm, made dash for the cover of
some thick brush which was growing
near by.
An Indians bullet went through the
child's hip and lodged in the fathers
body, but the fight went on. Mr.. Shy
ran forward some distance, and then,
dropping the child in the brush, would
face about and fire at the leading pur-
suer, who would thus be brought to a /
standstill for time. Then another
short flight and another stand to gain
time for Mrs. Shy, who was fleeing in
the front, and so the day was spent.
The Indians finally gave up the chase,
which had cost them no less thar SIX
warriors, and the exhausted fugitives
managed to reach the city of Denaing
with their lives, The wounds received
by both father and son were rapidly
healed, and now, when the hostiles are
forever expelled from or killed OFT OF
that neighborhood, there is no more
tiourishing or happy family in New
Mexico than that of valorous Joha j.
Shy.-Ka7asas City Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05

one case girl of 13 years of age was
forcibly taken from her home to be
married to man who had already two
wives. They heard the child scream
ing as she kicked and scratched the man
who was carrying her of. If child is
pretty and the other wives good natured,
she has not a bad time, but generally
she is made to work, and, when she be-
comes useless, they take her out on a
little islet and leave her to die there.
One of the most horrible stories was
about the devils cane" a poisonous
shrub with which old women are beaten.
After the CLASSIFICATION the body swells
up to an immense size and the women
are lett to die in awful agony.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
She Was Too Frank.

A charming romance has code to
light over in the unromantic @ty of
Brooklyn, says the New York EU(ni,eg
San. 1t appears that not longIago a
teacher in one of the schools for chill
dren set them to writing compost Hons,
of which she herself was to be thd sub
ject; that is, the scholars wef told
they might write out their impreB sions
of their teacher. One of these 6says,
of peculiar literary excellence Dor q
child, drifted in some way into dbe of
the Brooklyn papers, which in i4 turn
fell into the hands of young dentist in
one of the growing towns in Md tana.
The description of the teachers dlarms
so captured his fancy and fire his
imagination that he was moved I'd write
q letter, addressed to her in 9are of
the paper which published the] COM
position. In due time the letter
reached her hands. She answefed it
and brisk correspondence soon }prang
up, with an exchange of photographs
and condolences, which resultedlin the
formation of an engagement. II mar
riage date was set, and shortly before
the month containing the wedding day
arrived the young dentist received q
letter from his tiancee in whidh she
said that she had one more important
fact to reveal to him, namely that,
while her picture represented her as
being q young woman Of some personal
charms, she consideced it only frank to
tell him that her beauty was maSred by
very defective teeth, which, shesnaively
added, could easily be repaired after
their marriage without any gteat ex-
pense. Z
Whether the young woman's physical
defect or her business enterprise de-
stroyed the young mans ideal is not
definitely known, nor is it really known
at present that the marriage 81 posi-
lively declared off, but it certainty does
look as if it we're, for three timej since
the receipt Of that letter has thFjkittish
ceremony, ana che young WOMAN :
consequently obliged to keep Altering
the fashion of her wedding gowns, in
order that her troussseau may very prop
erly represent the latest MODES
privilege which every bride is certainly
entitled to.
This fable teaches, or should teach.
that a young woman should manage he,
matrimonial arrangements with dis.
erection as we'll as with frankness.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
He Saw.

Kin do anything wild alpusson who
calls me "a theft" he asked, as he
stopped a patrolman on Beaubien
street.
Il am afraid not"
"But amt that agin my charcter!
"Yes, but suppose you went to law,
and the other party should come INTO
court with the feathers? ?"
"What feathers?"
"Chicken."
"H'm! 1 see! I reckon I hadn't bet
ter pay any 'tenshun to that pussons,
rcmarks. He doan' dun amount D
nuthin', anyhow!"-TNe General Mart aft
ager. Sg
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
Tie wide-Awalso Car portdr

"Do you know" said businass man,
that had an experience Recently
which was not at all complimentary to
my vanity? Istarted from Sad Fran
cisco to New York, and on the day after
my first night on the sleepi4g-car I
noticed that notches had been cut in
the heels of both my shoes. I sup
posed that the porter had doneI this to
identify my shoes. and was disposed to
forget the whole affair. I noticed,
however, chat the porter was assidious
in his attentions to me, although there
was slight, almost imperdeptible,
touch of hostility to me in his manner.
He was good porter, however,, and
when I changed my sleepi1g-ear 1
tipped him literally. After ny first
night on my second car 1 remembered
the notches, and looking on Ry boot
heels found cross on each. decided
that this was notice to porters that I
was liberal Upper. Still I|noticed
the same concealed dislike of The por-
ter, and his earnest desire to please me.
1 found his service excellent, However.
when took my next sleeper ct
Chicago I met there porter with whom
L had travelled before and who knew
who 1 was. While he was Brushing
me down the next morning he kept
chuckling to himself. what tickles
you so much, Sam?' finally asked.
He only chuckled and grinned the
harder. At last he said, checking
with laughter, .Dey's took You for
spotter, sah.' This meant nothing to
me, but Sam explained that the first
porter had imagined I was spy. He
found out that 1 was going to New
York, of course, ana not knowing how
far my wickedness extended, warned all
porters whom I should meet. The
cross was substituted where the signs
changed. There's esprit de corps for
you. should not wear those shoes if I
were to start on another railroad Jour-
ney tomorrow. "-Neac York Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
Salt Liciks,

Such names Us those of Licking
River, Big Licks. and the like, in some
of the Central States mark what were
curious phenomena to the first settlers
of the country west of the Alleghanies.
They We're places to which the larger
game, such as deer and bison, used to
resort for supply of salt. The springs
at these points were briney. and the
soil about them became like o cake OF
salt. This the animals used to lick,
just as our domestic cattle will lick the
ground where salt has been sprinkled.
It was from this circumstance that SO
many places in Ohio and Kentucky got
the name of "licks."
These were favorable hunting places
with the Indians and with the early
white settlers. The habits of the AMI
mails and their times of visiting the ticks
were well known. To lie in wait for
herds of deer or bison on their way to
the springs, was an easy way of secur-
ing game. The wholesale slaughter
soon frightened those that escaped, so
that they abandoned the springs, and
the region as we'll.
It is said that the bison tracks led di-
rect to these salt springs from dis
lance of $50 to 200 miles. They were
followed year after year, and by gener-
alton after generation of the bison, UNI
till they were worn SO deep and plain
Us to be traced long after the country
was settled.
The practice of the animals was to
drink Of the salt waters, to battle in
in them, to lick the soil impregnated
with salt, and to roll in the mud. 1t
was medical treatment for disease, to
which these animals were subject in the
fresh pastures of prairie and marsh. Al
ter some days of sailing, the bison re-
turned in good health and spirits, well
covered over with coat of drying,
cracking mud.
The clicks" had been the resort OF
animals from time earlier than that
of deer and bison. In the mud and
mire Of the springs have been found
the remains of mammoth animals be.
longing to an earlier age of the world
than ours. The Big Bone Lick took its
name from the gigantic bones found
buried in its mud.-Yoattl'S COnlpn31
| ion
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
British Columbia Cann,bals.

An Ottawa writer SAYS: Mrs. Tate,
who has just returned from work among
the Indians of British Columbia, says
that among the heather Indians
of the province the women are
slaves, and are always degraded.
The heads of the babies of the
Flat Head nation are compressed with
boards, which destroyes all that is good
and noble in them. In another tribe
the heads of the babies are bound until
they assume the shape of sugar loaf.
This pressing of the heads out of shape
is terrible cruelty. They have their
heather feasts still. A short time ago
she came across feast where there
were 800 of these people engaged. A
short time before this they went to their
was held, in which tie cannibals bite q
dead body and also bite living people.
Some of the children who came home
had been cruelty bitten in this way.
The DEVILS dance. which is prohibited
by legislation, goes on about the same.
There are four religious biters," or
dog-eaters. These men hide in caves,
where they fast for days. and then come
out in frenzied state. Sometimes
they bite raw flesh out of human bodies,
and when they can not get human flesh
they will seize living dog, tear it up.
and devour the flesh. This is to APP
pease angry devils. Disease and sick
ness are spread by the cannibals.
There is still the whisky feast, for the
purposes Of which the tribe, get whisky
from Victoria sufficient to fill canoe,
and men, women and children dip into
the canoe until they are all mad drunk.
Then they fight and stab each other,
and the friends of those who have been
murdered, when they become sober,
slash their own bodies with knives.
She relates shocking story of the
superstitions Of these Indians. When
an infant is brought into the world they
kill crow, tear out the heart and put
It palpitating on the child, to ward of
disease. Deformed or puny children
are killed or allowed to die. Girls are
married at 8 and 10 years Of age. II
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
A Fine Market ON the Lane.

Mr.. Hawker (from Garden City,
Marian, our fortune is made!
Mrs. Hawker-What's the matter,
Abner?
Mr.. Hawker-I was goin'S through
Maiden Lane, daown to York, when one
Teller asked another how the market
was, and he 'laowed that it was over
faorty dollars a carrot, IN stiff at that!
Jewellers lFeekly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
To Slaughter TIL. sparro,vs.

It is stated that corn meal mixed with
strong brine or molstened with salt.
dried, exposed to the ravenous appetite
of the sparrows, is as sure Us electricity
therefore not o cruelty to animals. -
Philadelphia Record.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
TIE MOTHER WANTS HER BOY.

There's homestead waiting for Tou, my boy,
In a. quaint, old-fashloned town;
The gray moss clings to the garden wall,
And the dwelling is low and brown;
But II vacant chair by the tireside stands,
And never IL grace is said
But mother prays that her absent son
Soon may be honleward led,
For tia mother wants her boy.
She trains the vines mud tends the flowers;
FOR she says. My boy will como;
And l want the quiet, humble place
10 be Just the dear old home
That it seemed when he, IL gentle lad,
Used to pluck the orchards gold,
And gather of roses and lilies tnll
Fur more than his hands could hold,
And still want my boy"
How we'll she knows the very place
Where you played ut bat and ball;
Ard the violet cap you Wore Ut school
Still hangs on it's hook in the hall;
And when tho twilight hour draws near,
She steals adown the lime
To cosset the lambs you used to pet,
And dream Won are home ngnin
For the mother wants her boy.
She is growing old and her eyes are dim
With watching duy by day.
For he children nurtured at her beast
Have slipped from her arms away;
Alono and lonely, she names the hours
AS the dear ores come and go:
Their coming she calls The time of fiowers!"
Their going 1.-The hours of enow!"
Work on toll on give strength and mind
To the task iii Your choaen place,
But never forget The dear old home.
And The molhers loving face!
You may count Your bles sings score on score,
You may heap your golden gain.
But remember when her srave is made
Your coming will be i'll vain
his now she wants her boy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05

A MAN often finds it difficult to break
the ice, but the past summer it didn't
take any effort for ice to break man.
IO1lkers Statesman.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05

"MueG1Ns, how many more times are
you going to deal? Seems to me it's
my turn" Juggins-Do you see that
sign? Thisis the Ideal Whist Club"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-19
THAT sPEAK-EAsY LIST.

The light in which that police list Of
speak-easies was placed in the License
Court yesterday was not calculated to in
crease respect for its accuracy. The fact
that the first case in which it was brought
publicly into question, necessitated an al
teration of the list, suggests the explanation
that the police were not willing to COM
mence prosecutions on the basis of their list,
because they did not have evidence enough
to establish a case against the alleged
speak-easy proprietors.
1t is not remarkable that list containing
so many names should require alteration
and retraction. The force of the assertion
that there are eight hundred illicit liquor
sellers in the city is very much modified by
the discovery that this total is reached by
including every case reported by the police
in which ''they had reason to think" liquor
was sold without making further investiga-
tion. THAT warrants decided discount
from the rather startling total reported BY
the head of the police department, and it
also indicates the necessity of revision when
the accuracy of the list is brought into
actual question.
But there would be even more interest if
the issue could be raised before the courts
as to the accuracy of the theory that it is
not the duty of the police to prosecute when
cognizant of violations of the law that are
prejudicial to public order.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-19

two or three times their real value. That
they have right to indulge in the privilege
of grumbling no one will dispute. But in
telligent minds will equally perceive that
when the inflated property is all unloaded
on the dear public the reduction of divi-
dends to the normal earning power of the
corporation must inevitably follow; and the
investors will have to take returns not on
the ten pounds of pretended values which
they were persuaded to take, but on the four
or five pounds of property which their shares
actually represent.
This is what THE DISPATCH has pointed
out as the inevitable result of the syndicate
operations of which we have heard so much.
The brewery stocks were the first to start the
craze; and the complaints over their unsatis-
factory dividends are only the prelude to the
mighty chorus that will be heard, when the
old discovery is made anew, that taking one
dollars worth of property and calling it
three dollars in the share certificates, can
not make it yield an additional cent of
revenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-19
THE ALLEGHENY CONTEST.

The filing of bill for contest of the
Mayoralty election in Allegh eny, which is
announced in our local columns, makes a
number of interesting averments, which, il
substantiated, will produce remarkable dis
closures as to local political methods.
OF course the burden of proof that
enough illegal votes were cast for Wyman
to overcome his majority lies with the con-
testants. To make that matter clear is be-
yond doubt no slight task; but the assertion
that 600 such cases can be shown in single
ward proves that the lid will be lifted from
a very interesting, if very malodorous, stew.
The outcome OF the case is of course de-
pendent upon the proof; but every honest
man will join in the hope that, if an cleo
tion has been carried by illegal voting. tine
fact will be proved and the illegality and
corruption held up to public scorn and rep
rotation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-19
FLowERY swINDLERs.

Flowers are lovely everywhere. Dwellers
in cities in these latter days are able if
possessed of tolerably long purses to compass
one of the greatest delights of rural life,
and surround themselves with flowers.
Conservatories and convenient florists
have made the Transformation of city
houses into veritable bowers OF Flora.
Pittsburg has long enjoyed these sweets OF
rus in urbe in marked degree, for this
city is one of the greatest of floral centers in
the country. For this reason the failure of
Klunder, the pre-eminent florist of New
York, whose reputation is national, should
have peculiar interest here. 1t is hardly
the failure either in itself which is so inter-
esting, as the peculiar causes thereof.
In the exclusive circles of New York
society Klunder has been Flora's high
priest for years. No dinner table, no ball
room, no fashionable event of any sort
was complete or correct except Klunder's
ministrations were had. He had the cream
OF the fashionable trade. His customers in
cluded the great Four Hundred and as
many more of New York's blue bloods as he
face of this condition Klunder's lot would
appear to have, been enviable. But the
truth is said to be that the very fact that
his trade was so exclusively patrician was
his undoing. The leaders of society who
ordered hot house flowers by the acre, the
fair creatures who had to have orchids in
their bouquets, the dandies who wanted the
rarest roses for their boutonnieres did not
always pay their bills. So many of them
did not crafty Mr.. Klunder with the sight
of the desirable legal tenders that he was
forced to make an assignment.
This is mournful commentary upon the
morality of the golden youth and reigning
queens of the metropolis. 1t is beautiful,
of course, to cultivate an aesthetic taste
lovely to decorate ones house and ones
person with flowers; but it is hard on the florist
if these desirable tendencies are gratifed at
his expense. Before this it has been noticed
that swindler is apt to be fowery. Under
certain circumstances it seems a bouquet
may be the badge of deadbeat
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-19
CONCENTRATION IS THE WORD.

Mr.. Andrew H. Green's plan to include
the county of Kings and parts of the coun-
ties of Westchester, Queens and Richmond,
in the city of New York has been again
brought forward in a bill now before the
New York Legislature. 1t is merely pro-
posed by this bill to inquire into the plan,
and examine its feasibility.
This metropolitan movement, If it takes
definite and active form, may lead other
communities to consider the advisability of
concentration. Why should not Allie
gheny and other outlying dependencies of
Pittsburg devote a little serious thought
10 the advantages of consolidation. 1t
is the tendency OF the times in the
new world as in the old. London and Paris
have responded recently to the demand for
concentration; SO have Boston and Chicago.
Pittsburg has plenty of excuse for consider
ing the question. Braddock and McKees-
port are knocking at Pittsburg's gates in
one direction, Charters in another, and
many others beside. The great city of Allie
gheny with its manifest destiny pointing to
a union with Pittsburg, ought to lead in the
movement.
How would it do to follow New York's
example, and at the next meeting of the
Legislature have bill passed appointing a
commission to consider the consolidation of
PIttsburg and her satellites? It would do
no harm to discover the obstacles, if they
exist, to ascertain the desires of our people,
and to prepare the way for the inevitable
event