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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
Hytlrophobia, False and Real.

| It may be laid down in the very be
| ginning of our consideration of the sub
ject that the victim of false hydrophobia
can only have those symptoms of which
he has knowledge. Unfortunately
notice from newspapers and other popu-
lar publications that tolerably correct
! knowledge of its phenomena has been
acquired by the laity. Hence, we find
that the picture ordinarily presented
by the unconscious simulator is, at least
to cursory observation, not unlike the
real affection. There are, however,
great differences which the educated
physician will not fail to detect, and
which will enable him to do what has
never been yet done with real hydro
phobia-cure the patient.
Hydrophobia never originates, in the
lation from rabid animal, and death
always occurs in four or five days after
the development of the disease. A case
Of so-called hydrophobia came under
my notice, in which it was stated that
the patient had been bitten some three
months previous by dog undoubtedly
hydrophobic. 1 inquired as to what
had become of the dog, and was in
formed that he was still living, having
recovered. It was not necessary to
examine any further into the particulars
of the case, for if the dog had really
been the subject of hydrophobia, he
would have been dead very shortly after
biting my patient.
Again it often happens that person
easily affected by suggestions has what
he conceives to be the symptoms of
hydrophobia developed very soon after
having been bitten by rabid animal,
whereas the real disease rarely super
venes until after month has elapsed
from the time of incubation. 1t is true,
there are cases on record in which the
period of incubation was less than that
but they ore exceedingly rare. In my
own cases the time has varied from
twenty-five days to four months and a
half. Cases in which the disease is
said to have supervened many years
after al alleged incubation ought to be
received with doubt. The interval
probably never exceeds two years or is
less than ten days.--Dr. Hammond, IN
North american ReDieU.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
Tho Care ar -.

In reading or writing the rs 1;s,.
come obliquely from tie '1 s;l lights
the paper so US to fully illu lpe; iall
the !, reflection tle passing aw utpm M il
and without striking the ra az an
face, says Good House reader
the reflection from white ne spY'a,
as trying Us direct light l phaP!erisa
eyes. Let the eye rest " as !
begins to feel weary, and ~ 1850 soon
help the matter more than u nothing
physical exercise. some {
The sight should never ~ !
ing general weakness Of tho ee f TAXED
convalescence. The nerves s ira ,rame|
OF the eye share the general anu ! M \
and may easily be overtaxsd S' qed
advisable to read much o n.na 1t
down, though that may be b while
reading or writing in a c ceu.er
STOPPING posture. Sit erect ev viG
ing, and as nearly so as no boz anen
writing. possible
There is many an eve vb;o,,
riously strained and in;n na,en /
the owner does not w;s I,ea oe|
to himself or confess to n 70
that his youthful sight is wan ine \
is false modesty, and l;ahll
hnrtful as we'll. Put on tho
whenever it is needed; its fnn 4e
simply SO assist and save the ore
properly treated that organ viii III i
efficient and useful for general eni i !
uses till ]ife's close. Tbe a a.
spectacles become q NECESSITY aye ]
much, but with eyes normal snj
matched in early life it nav al IL
pected about the age Of ior H.
Sometimes it will come five 'o Ivy
more sooner, and may not have s -
at fifty; but in the latter casa ~
probable that early life has s sss'
gree of nearsightedness. '''D
The selection of proper lenses .,
time is not difficult matter. Th y
low power should be used al fret -
the purpose is not to magnify OH;
but to render them clear and d;s1
Never cast aside lenses on the or
that they do not magnify ep Or
See if the print at which Won n,
clear cut. and test the glasses bye >,
ing them for at least an hour an
possible, under a variety of cond;,
If they bring a sense of relief # +
eye while reading for at least 50
minutes, and can then be laid
without arrangement of the visio
other purposes, they are right; j
of these conditions are WANTING
are not right, and another trial s. s.
be made.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
A Western Phenomenon.

A Kansas City, No., physician
the following facts to correspod
recently concerning a phenom|
located in that city:
Some time since a caller at the
of the physician desired, as he sail
place himself under medical charge
his mental condition might be pso1
diagnosed, as his friends, he alleged
lievlng him insane, were determin(
send him to an asylum. He conteI
he was as sane as any man alive,
freely admitted that at times Id
beside himself. as he frequently
into frances. during which periods
conversations were Of most 1emari
and unnatural character.
Soon he enlisted the doctors intl
and curiosity, and was retained d
the office. Only q few days cid
when the physician, upon entering
Office, observed his patients ped
condition, and was startled and
prised beyond his power of express
The man was in a trance, and INN
ately introduced himself as leal
Berlin physician, deceased the pal
years. The learned physician was
author of many valuable protest.
works, now accepted authority thro
out the medical world. The patien
rough, iiliterate German who sp
very broken English-used the
polished language and protest.
terms in discussing and reviewing
learned doctors career upon cart
we'll as his medical works. The pl
clan who has him in charge, and VI
intimately acquainted with the me'
writings Of the deceased German
sician, declares no professional,
ever we'll acquainted with these
ings and discoveries, could have han
the subjects SO we'll as his remark
patient. He explained how certain
coveries were made-in short,
doctor was treated to O miraculous i
view with the learned physician,
half century.
Since, in frances, the patient ha
peared as dead statesmen and warl
and in every instancereproduces tht
tinguished traits of the great me
represents. The doctor will, as SOL
possible, SO his friend says, intro
this spiritual wonder to the world.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05

other girls cause I'm going away off.
I'd rather stay with you if I could al
ways be just your little girl and go to
sleep in your arms as [ do now. Kiss
me, papa, cause I'm sleepy" and I
watch the long lashes tremble for a
moment on the pale cheeks and my lit
tie one sleeps.
An hour passes; no sound but baby's
breathing and occasional signs. Sud
denly she starts up.
Papa, does God love little girls very
much, and will He be very good to them
and take them in His arms just like
their dear old papas?"
"Yes, think so, little one" I reply,
and then 1 knew that my babv's life
was nearing the sunset of its brief day.
/ knew it as we'll as if the wisdom of
the doctor had told me so.
Days wove themselves into weeks,
and each day served to bring the end
nearer. Paler grew the little face. The
blue veins seemed to swell, and before
month had sprung from times loom
the crisis came.
One night she lay perfectly still. The
pIoWu eyes were open, puG 1uey 4oohcu
away and beyond. A weak little voice
says:
"Take me, papa. want to ask you
something. When Tn dead, before the
little white hearse comes for me, won't
you put something nice and pretty in
my hand, so when I get to heaven and
the angels open my eyes, 1 can give it
to God, so He'll be good to me and take
me in His arms just like you do?"
Now she lies still for few moments,
and it seems as il the light of the world
is centered in that frail little body, and
that all my future lies in the eternal
shadows Of an endless night. The lit
tie hand moved like the rustic of leaf
stirred by summer zephyr: The last
flicker of life moves her lips to whis-
per:
Papa, Inever'll be big girl"
That was all. The next morning a
little white figure lay robed for endless
rest. The hands were elapsed around o
lily and rose. Something pretty to
give God"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
American GalIantry,

The swinish propensities of the hui
man race are confined to no nationality,
sect OF color. have met with them in
England, France and Germany quite as
often as in America. Indeed, I am not
far from sure that, take him with all
his faults, the American has not alarger
share of the generous virtues than the
man of any other country. Iremember
once returning from an extended tour
abroad, during which had seen women
sickened with cigarette smoke in close
railway carriages; standing on the decks
ofsthe Rhine steamers while their we'd
ded lords enjoyed the scenery and the
Baier-bier on the few chairs in sight;
and wading through seas of mud at
street crossings, while gallant Gaul,
perched on the only dry spot, barred his
head in Difference to their sex as they
passed by.
The day I landed in New York,
rode once down and up Broadway in All
omnibus, to see how the city had
changed in my absence. The street
was i'll vile condition, as usual. Next
me sat an elderly woman of the middle
class, very plainly but respectfully clad.
She was evidently visitor from out of
town; and, when the stage stopped for
her to alight at her destination, she
looked timidly this way and that. as if
fearful she might lose her footing on
the slippery stone pavements and he
run down in the crush of moving
vehicles. In an instant young man
who had been reading his newspaper
sprang up, alighted, held open the door
and helped tLa old woman down,
escorted her to the sidewalk il safety,
ran after the stage and caught it, Jumped
aboard again and resumed his reading
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
Brtsantl. Outwitte,l.

Fenimore Cooper. in his stories oil
hairbreadth escapes from Indians, never
hit upon a more extraordinary device
for eluding pursuit than one which was
related to President Carnot during 9
recent tour in Corsica. A French trav.
eler, SO the story went, ventured, some
years ago, to pass through q mountain
GUS district of Corisca without escort OF
any means of protection, and in crossing
particularly rough and craggy region,
found himself pursued by band oil
brigands.
As the traveller had some money on
his person, and feared that, besides be-
ing robbed, he would be held in cap.
tivity for ransom, even if he were not
put to death, he took to flight.
Knowing little of the country. he soon
stumbled upon the border of lake in
the mountains. There was no path
around it; it was impossible to swim
across it, and the brigands were behind
him, though he was hidden from them
as yet by the rocks.
Whatever he did must be done in an
instant. Necessity quickened his wits;
he saw at once way out Of the difficulty,
and availed himself of it.
He hastily cut with his knife one of
the long, hollow reeds that grew on the
shore OF the lake. Then he stopped up
his ears and nostrils with wet clay from
the margin, took the reed in his mouth,
and waded out into deep water, where
he remained submerged, with up
turned face, just allowing the upper
end of the reed to project above the
surface.
On came the brigands, following the
travellers tracks to the waters edge,
But what had become of him? Had he
flown across! Certainly he could not
have swan. There was no other way
of escape, and the surface had by this
time stilled to perfect calm.
The brigands remained waiting on
the shore for some time, but no sign of
the traveller appeared. They con-
cluded, at last, that he was q sorcerer,
who had caused himself to vanish into
thin air.
Then they disappeared, and the
Frenchman, who had been under water
all this time, breathing through his
Ouue. caAo out. ne managed TO keep
under cover and make his way to Ajaccio
and there he declared that he had been
under water four hours.
1t is possible that his distress and
alarm may have caused this period to
appear many times longer than it really
was; but in confirmation of the main
part of his story the Fren,...uan brought
with him water-soaked section Of q
hollow reed.-EEch0nOe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
The Hudson Bay Railroad viii Be Pushed
to Completion.

TO Completion.
Hugh Sutherland, of Winnipep
President of Winnipeg and Hudson's
Bay Railway and Navigation COMPANY
is highly elated over the bright pros.
poets for the construction of the Hud.
son Bay Railroad for which he has been
laboring constantly for the last tan
Years. He had hard fight, having at
first to conquer the general feeling and
belief that the scheme was visionary
and lmpracticable, that Hudson's Bay
could not be navigated more than few
weeks in the year and that the country
throug b which the road would pass was
unit for agriculture or settlement.
Those that did regard it as feasible
scheme We're interested in the Canadian
Pacific Railway, and the men at the
heed OF that great corporation opposed
Mr.. Sutherland at every move. Finally
he induced the Dominion Parliament
OF which ne was a member, represent.
ing Manitoba constituency, to give his
company a charter and a land grant
Such additional all has now been given
by the Dominion Government that
MIR. Sutherland does not hesitate 70 sav
that work will be resumed at the earl.
est possible time, and rapidly nressad
10, completion. All the necessary CAPT
tai has been secured in England, on the
strength OF the Governments subsidy
and Mr.. Sutherland will cross ~
water to complete some details of tho
schema. "A'" - Tue
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
K.ep,n.. Diaries by Double Entry.

u
She was going away for week ano
wanted her dear little hubby to keep
diary of his movements and dolng'
while she was gone, SO that when she
cot back she would know just what bel
husband had been up to. OF course
he consented. He kept two diaries
After seeing his vile safely off on the
train for weeks outing, he made III:
way to his office as quickly as he coule
and said to his typewriter:
81 am going away for week. Tel
everybody that [ am out of town OF
business.
Then he vanished in thin air to gel
back in time to meet his wife. on her
return home.
Here is diary No. 1 he handed he,
when they reached home:
June 30-Went to court. Pleaded
all day in grand larceny case; Co
no fee. Had prisoner acquitted. Sc
exhausted retired at $3.50.
July Spent the day in office writ
| ing up brief for several cases. Had one
beer at noon. Back at Office until il
at night.
July 2-Had breakfast at club. List
ened all day to evidence as referee in
divorce case. In the evening studied
upon my report in said case.
July 3-Did various Office chorc work.
Dictated sixty-five letters to stenogra'
pher. Retired at 1880 p. m.
July 4-The heat and noise of the
day drove me to the Office, where
spent the day and evening at work.
July 5-In court all day up to time
of meeting dear little WHEY at train.
This was the diary he showed her,
but he smiled grimly to himself when
he thought of the glorious time he had
had. The contents of diary in his in
side pocket which WHEY didn't see ran
as follows:
June 30-Saw the old woman off Oh
train. Shot out the Office to see the
gang. Had good time. Got home
some time about daylight.
July Ned called me and said the
"boys" would meet us at early train
for B. They were daisies, too. Had
q lovely moonlight ride and grand
old dance at the roadside notch.
July 2-Second night that I haven't
had my boots of. The "boys" took O
team and dove home, leaving Ned and
myself at hotel all night. Must see
liveryman and shut him up with q
blind. Spent whole day at club.
July 3-Had boots of last night.
Ned, Tom and Jack slept in the house.
Had quiet evening till about three in
the morning. Fired the hall girl fol
having too much to say about the racke,
in the house. But will hire her owe,
again before wife gets back and raise
her wages to keep her still.
July 4-Went out for walk at c
a. m. That was the last of me for the
day. Did not know anything after 8 p.
IN. Must have been taken home in a
hack some time during the night.
July 5--Casar! Wife gets home this
a. m. Sent word for hall girl to return.
Re-hired her at raised wages. Had q
Russian bath and shave. Put on q
boiled shirt and clean collar and cuffs.
Went and got one brandy smile to help
me smile to receive wife. Ned prom.
ised to swear to everything in Diary
No. | if my rackets get out to my wife.
This is not literal translation of the
diaries, but they are reasonably cor.
rect, and the average husband and wife
who reads these diaries will no doubt
think that such things do happen in
many a well-regulated family right
here in Albany.-AibG71y Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
The Life of a Funny Lecturer.

The lecture platform (alack that it
should be SOY is become booth in
vanity Fair" and they that stand
therein have wares to sell. And there
be some of US standing in the market
place who morn that the passer-by may
lament unto us; some OF us there be
who pipe that the light of heart may
dance. And others still are there, good
as the best of those who toll, and stand
idle even unto the eleventh hour because
no man hath hired them. But alike
are thew all in the market place. The
lecture business is business" The
lecturer invests comparatively speak
ing-much in it. He causes to be made
Autograph Of himself which resembles
him, "as the mist resembles rain" or a
silver dollar resembles the Goddess of
Liberty: He complies book of press
notices." so uniformly and extrava-
gantly laudatory that we might fear he
stood in danger of the woe pronounced
upon us when all men shall speak we'll
Of US, did We not suspect that the press
notices undergo rigid civil-service en-
animation, and that only the fittest for
the business survive the ordeal of
natural selection. He salaries an adj
vance agent, or nestles under the wing
OF lecture bureau. He provides for
himself many changes of raiment, extra
sandles. and scrip for his purse. He
pays full railway fares; often he travels
hundreds of miles between engage
ments; he eats when he has oppor-
tunity and there is aught to eat he goes
to bed when the committee is too sleepy
to sit up in his room any longer; he
passes sleepless nights on freight trains,
he endures, because he must, the mad
dening roar, and racket, and rush, and
jar of railway trains, day after day,
months in succession; he lives without
companionship; there is no time to read !;
he hears no lectures save his own, and
of them perhaps he grows a-weary. He
attends no concerts, no tlleater, he sees
little of his friends, less of his family
Robert j. Ratrdette, in the Forum.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
Mrs. Rayes's Goat.

The telling Of joke upon oneself re-
quires more self-deniaL than the majority
of persons care to exercise. It has the
advantage, however, of hurting nobody's
feelings, and Of affcrding a field for
legitimate exaggeration. The late Mrs.
Lucy Webb HAYES was especially fond
Of recounting her own defeats and mis-
haps, as this anecdote, which she told
one evening at dinner ct the White
House, will show:
1t was ut our home in Fremont, one
evening in November, when without
any warning the thermometer began
falling and snowfakes filed the air. I
was alone in the house with my young
est children and their colored nurse
Winnie. The men servants had gone
to their homes before dark.
Suddenly thought of poor Christie
pher Columbus, our long-haired pug
naclous Angora goat, out in the pasture.
1t seemed cruel to leave him there WITH
out any shelter. so presently went and
asked Winnie to get lantern and come
with me.
At the barn we found great box into
which we put some straw, and together
We rolled and pushed and carried the
box across the road and into the past
ure.
Christopher saw the light and came
toward it. We retreated behind tae
fence and tried to coax him into the place
OF shelter. Imagine our sentiments
when he mounted to the top of the box
and there took up his abode for the
night!
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
Honesty in the Dark.

A Detroiter who was down in
lucky on business few days ago
up at a hotel which was very NJ
crowded. and found himself obIise]
occupy q room with stranger,
claimed to be from Wisconsin.
pair set and conversed for whit
size each other up. and then escl1
tired to his own bed. They might
LETT their money and watches with
landlord, but each seemed to feel tha5
valuables would be no safer down s1
than up. After the light was su1
out proper disposition was made OF
sonal property, and no doubt each
lay awake for an hour or two to VI
the other. Both awoke about the s
time in the morning, and as they go
the Wisconsin man observed:
Isn't that your wallet there by
wash-stand?" l
Good lands, but it is! Unjust y
worked out from under the matt1
What's that under the foot OF J
bed?"
Bless me, but it's my $500 watch
must have kicked around o good .
What's that under the head OF y
bed?"
Hang me if it isn't my watch
must have worked loose and droH
through. Is that anything belong
to you there on the hOor?" Il
Il should remark! That's my wal
Thus, despite all the precaal,,|
taken, the property of each had !
exposed to the taking, and next NJ!
as they tumbled into bed, eyeryt1
was left to hang with their cloth IN
Detroit Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
Dragon-Trees.

The vegetable and plant life on the
Canary Islands has not so luxurious a
growth as that which is found on the
Madeiras; nevertheless there is great
variety of interesting plants which we'll
repay the attention Of botanists, and
some parts of the islands are like beau
tiful gardens.
OF all the botanical wonders which
can be seen there, the one which is per
haps most worthy Of special mention is
the dragon-tree (dracena draco.) Alex
ander Won Humboldt was the first one
to direct attention to this gigantic tree.
The example of this kind of tree
which was measured by him was in the
garden region Of Orotava, on the north
ern coast of the island of Teneriffe, and
had trunk circumference Of seve N.Y.
nine feet. Humboldt reckoned its age
to be 10000 years, but the latest critical
researches prove that he placed the age
much too high.
The next largest tree of this species,
which is, known to-day, is the dragon
tree of Icod de los Binos, on the West
ern coast of Teneritfe.
This tree was carefully measured in
1857, and again in 1854. The first time
the circumference of the trunk, at the
height of little less than three metres
from the ground, was found to be nine
and one-half metres; twenty-seven years
later it was eleven meters. seventy
centimeters, more than thirty-eight
feet. The tree therefore has been
proved to increase in size much more
rapidly than Humboldt supposed.
The top of this tree is of thick clus-
ters of sword-shaped leaves on rather
soft, pliable branches, and spreads out
in very picturesque manner.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05

as if he had done only the most natural
thing in the world. A thrill went
through me as felt that I was once
more in the country where, even though
polish of manner was sometimes lack
ing, the real essence of politeness was
deeply seated in the National heart
Oh, yes, we do have the Great Human
Hog here-nobody denies that-but he's
the rare exception, not the rule.-Kate
FielGs Wnshi3lgtO7a.