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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31

FUTURE GLIMPSE OF WARD M'ALIIsTER.
Thereisconsiderable significance about
this apparently unconcerted but syn
erroneous movement at the three great
capitals of the world-Paris, London
and Washington. 1t will not do to laugh
at the action Of the 'Philanthropic Tai
lors. for they have as much to say about
the garb of man as Worth has about the
garb of women. True, their movement
is Notwithstanding and offering
no substitute for the existing order of
things-but at this crisis the English
ARTISTS" step forward with the sugges-
ton above referred to-a return to the
costumes of the Elizabethan age. Should
the garment makers succeed in their de-
sign. as they possibly may. the end of the
Nineteenth century will be noted among
other things for the triumph of the
picturesque over the prosaic. DR.. Walk
ers constitutional amendment" of
course is not to be considered seriously,
but still there is the remote chance that
it contains the germ Of potent idea.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31
The Society Islands Annexed.

Not to be outdone by the English and
the Germans. the French have under
taken the requirement of colonial terri
tory. Through some strange oversight
the Society Islands up to last summer
had not been annexed" by any civilized
power. although France began to give
the natives protection" some years ago.
Now news comes that the dusky inhab.
itants have been paciied by combined
naval and land force of 5000 men. 1t
required some little fighting to bring
about the result, but in the end the ma
tives left aive-quite number being
hlled-were induced to accept the rule
OF France, and thus modern "civiliza-
ton" scored another triumph over the
unspeakable barbarian.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31
HURON VS.. WATERTOWN
AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS by A HURON
FoR-CAPITAL PAPER.
The Barter of the Peoples votes Made by
Few Men Who Go I'D Nos Deliver
the Goods.

$4,000 of Huron's money is so
eagerly sought for, and comes 80 handy
in any emergency, wouldn't it b.. well to
try and secure the remaining 100000 10y
voting for Huron for the capital7 That's
the business way OF putting it.
Watertown has two-fold purpose in
voting to place the capital at Huron.
First. Because of the convenience in
reaching that city from this section of
the state. rendering it possible for the
people to go there within few hours:
and second, because of the financial in
terests involved in the contest. Water
town wants factories and it wants money
to get them Thirty thousand dollars
will go long wavs towards getting
them. Vote for Huron.-Watertown
Public Opinion.
F-om the above items we have the
Opinions assertion that few of the
business men of WATERFOWL have made q
sale of the votes of that city to Huron
for $4,000 and their note for 500 900
when the goods are delivered. How in
dependent these voters will feel when they
are run in to the polls, their ticket given
them, their arm propelled to cast their
vote for Huron; under guard they are not
free men. Ten thousand dollars down
and the balance, $50, 900, after the 4th
Of March. How do they know they will
get it after the date specified if they do
deliver the votes? Don't that city know
that Huron has already gone to the end
os her credit? Do they not know that
they are not paying any Of their workers
now, that their school bonds, being pro-
tested and contested at home, are not
negotiable? She has bankrupted herself
in the vain attempt to take the capital
away from Pierre, where the pcopleplaced
it last fall, and where can WATERFOWL
have any assurance of the $30, 900 when
she fulfills her part of the contract. We
do not believe the voters of Watertown
have consented to the sale and will never
allow their votes bartered away without
some tangible proof of the sincerity Of
the mortfagor to fulfill his part Of the
contract, without collateral security. It
is no small thing for afree peopleto allow
their sacred sutfrages bartered away by
a syndicate, at least, without some as
surance of personal remuneration. HUI
ron will not get the capital by several
thousand votes, and with the amount
she has blown into this campaign never
can keep her head above water, must
sink like stone to the bottom of the
sea, total wreck. We are sorry to say
it, but it is true and should not be kept
secret from those with whom they have
made a fair bargain.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31
OUT OF AMMUNITION.

The Sioux Falls Press is out in al
article of s.if's' and s.supposes" OF
lhe capital contest and the same :.
numerously copied by the Other
Huron organs. This great BOBBY Of
a sheet now holds it's hands up in
holy terror toward locating the CAPT
tai at Pierre, lest in the next cen
fury there might come an Indian
outbreak, and they might sack the
town and burn the state records.
Only short time ago they were try
ing to impress upon the minds of
the farmers, whom they must take
for lgnormouses, that the hot winds
had kept this country an appropriated
barren waste, where new state rec
ords would never sprout etc. Now,
they are going to have us burned
out by the Indians. All this con-
vincing(?) argument is brought out
to make the farmers of the eastern
part of the state vote for Huron.
Why haven't the Indians, the same
tribes, for instance, whose agency
extends so near to Bismarck, broken
out and sacked that capital that
stood for so many years in posses
sion of the archives that held the
records of the entire territory? Are
not the government troups stationed
up and down the river in close prox-
unity to Pierre, the state capital?
Will they not be SO stationed until
the tribes are all civilized or re-
moved? No such language, no such
clumsy arguments can forestall the
expression of opinion in favor of
Pierre at the polls on the fourth of
next month. Such articles are
hardly worthy of notice, so devoid
Of reason are they.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31
An Unusual Phenomenon.

An unusual phenomenon was Wit
messed at Neville island Thursday.
During the heavy thunder storm a shock
OF green corn in lot a few feet from
Squire Shanks' residence was struck by
lightning, and taking fire, instantly
burned until it was entirely consumed,
the flames rising several feet above the
top Of tho corn. The corn was not only
wet by the shower, but was entirely
green. having been cut but few hours.
People who witnessed the sight were
reminded of the story Of Elijah's COM
petitive test Of the products Of Baal, the
fire coming down from the sky and con-
Stunning q pile fully as wet as was the
sacrifcial altar. Several people in the
vicinity were somewhat stunned, but
not seriously injured. Dis
patch.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31
The Tin Industry.
Fnulkton Dpnnhlican


Senator Moody is very hopeful of the
tin industry of the Hills. In recent
interview he said: 81 do not believe
the people of the Hills, or of the coun-
try at large, appreciate the import
ance of the measure. Why, tin will
simply repeat the history OF iron in
this country. The price os steel rails,
under the protective duty, fell from
$12o per ton to the present rate, S28
per ton, besides building up the indus
try in this country. Next to iron the
lin industry will become the most inn
portant manufacturing interest, the
country and the Hills of course reap a
large and immediate benefit, for under
the terms of the act 5000 tons of tin
must be produced annually within five
years from the time when the duty
takes effect, a provision which will
naturally hasten Developments
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31

the little Masons, who are his Joy ami
pride, would scuttle of to bed to avoid
the gloomy grandeur of his portly pres
ence.
Again, put on Ward McAllisterl
oourtly limbs the brave habilimenb d
the gallant Leicester, and can one imag1
inc him inviting people to take part ID
picnic and bring their own luncha
Hardly. Rather would he appear as thu
mighty host whose vassals dined on
roasted oxen while his friends ate dain. f
ties from golden plates and drank choic /
est sack from crystal goblets.
But If changes of this sort are to come|
in the statesman and the courtier, where
can be placed the warriors limitations
What enemy could withstand the fiery
zeal Of general like Scho6eld, who to
intellectual attachments. thorough train
ing and lofty devotion to duty added the
inspiring ar1nor Of a Walter Raleigh?
It is great field for speculation this
opened by the proposed alteration Of at
tire. Of course. if the revolution oc-
ours, the gallants of the day must carry
daggers instead of cigarettes, and swords
must take the place of canes. The hot
word that is born Of cold champagne
must be resented, not with bitter Ian
guage, but with bloody thrust, and it is
scarcely beyond the bounds of proba-
bility that the "Philanthropic Tailor" in
reviying picturesquenesso of costume may
become responsible for many affairs Of
honor, as well as for cloaks, ruffs,
slashed doublets and hose of gaudy silk.
As for DR.. Mary Walkers national
costumer," if he ever is appointed he
will do well to bear in mind these quaint
lines of Robert Herrick:
A sweet disorder in the dress
kndles IN clothes wantonness-
lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into fine distraction
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthrals the crimson stomacher-
cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribbands to flow confusedly-
winning wave. deserving note.
In the tempestuous petticoat-
careless shoestring, In whose te
see wild civility-
20 more bewitch me, than when art
Is too precise in every part.
FRED G. DAYTON.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31

The following communication to the
Onida Waterman is very much to the
point.
The Dakota Ruralist IS a stock paper
one of the many branch schemes to get
money from the farmers, owned by
| Loncks and Others claiming it to be the
organ of the alliance and compelling the
members to subscribe or lose their stand
ing in the alliance. After getting a large
subscription in the way described it tum-
bled to the independent tnmble-we"d par
| ty. Next, for a consideration it tumbled
| to the Huron capital scheme, and the
consideration tuInbled into the pockets
of Loucks, ct al, and by force of sur
roundings is trying to tumble the voters
OF Sully county into the Huron line but
none Of the consideration will tumble IN
to their pockets. BY his own admission
he worked with the democrats in Missou-
ri, then tumbled to the republicans in
Dakota and is now tumbling around the
state as an independent tumble-weed.
H. O'CoNNoR.
That Ruralist is laboring very hard to
keep in with the alliance, be the acknow-
lodged leader, and deliver the votes Of
that organization over to Huron on the
capital question. Bro. Cummings poses
as great reformer and farmers friend.
lie is simply as keen after Doodle as any
man in the state and as two.faced as
double clock. Did he not pose az an
anti-railroad man in the Legislature last
winter after accepting of the hos
pitality of the Northwestern
railway and pocket the mileage allowed
him by the state? Yes, he is q reformer,
he is u fit leader and dictator to an or
ganization that has for its prime object
the elevation of the farmer and their
protection from trusts md monopolies.
Is he not at the head of the alliance
block syndicate and using the entire in
fuence of his paper to rope the farmers
who are members of the organization
into taking stock in q concern when they
cannot get FIVE cents on the dollar for it
thirty days after they subscribe? His
scheme will not work and there will be a
new organ started soon that will be a
true exponent of the alliance and one
conducted ON the plan OF truth, economy
and justice, founded on the fundamental
principles Of that organization. 1t will
be edited with O man whose interests are
identical with those of the other men,
bers of the organization and who will
not attempt to sell and deliver the votes
OF the alliance to any syndicate or poll
teal party. We do not believe this to
be compatible with the views of ma
jority of the members of the organiza-
ton, nor is it carrying out the real in
tent and purpose for which it was organ
lied and no amount Of false statements
will coax the members to believe they are
owned and controlled by tho Rev. Re-
forming Ruralist or his paper. The far.
mers will not allow any man or syndi-
cate to sell their votes to Huron when
they favor Pierre.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31
Given but a Peep At Prosperity.

It is said that one of the most pathetic
little figures to be seen in New Orleans
is that of Carlotta Patti, the niece ana
ex-adopted daughter Of the great diva.
Two years ago the half starved girl was
taken by her aunt to the noted Welsh
castle. loaded with jewels 4nd given q
glimpse of the Injuries wealth can COM
mand. Then liant Adelina" shipped
her back to New Orleans, and now she
is poorer than ever, for she has acquired
tastes that limited means cannot grahfy.
srasburg pies and champagne are not
on the menu of the penniless.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31

The sstarmers are heavy tax-pay
ers" says the Huron for capital or
gans, and in view of this fact and
their bad luck in raising crops,
would it not be better for them to
encourage railroad building by keep
ing the capital at Pierre, and have
steady employment all winter:
What saw, farmers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31

Will not the saving to the farmers
in future years by having the CAPT
tai in the center of the state with rail-
roads in every direction be greater
than by placing it at Huron, and
going from the Hills down through
Nebraska and to Sioux City to reach
the capital during every session of
the legislature.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31

HOW MR. MASON WOULD LOOK.
have sanctioned it and added sugges-
ton, and DR.. Mary Walker has proposed
an amendment to the constitution of the
United States-au tending toward sar-
torial revolution. The French tailors-
why they lay claim to the virtue of phi
lanthropy does not appear-have declared
war against the dress suit. Their En-
glish allies go step further, and pro-
pose to replace the swallow tailed coat
and decorous but inartistic trousers
with the garb of the Elizabethan age.
and simultaneously with these contem-
plated innovations as to masculine at
tire DR.. Mary Walker asks THAT ma
honal costumer for the women of the
United States be selected from some for
eign court. whose especial duties shall be
to devise costumes for every woman in
the United States and territories that
shall seem appropriate to him, and that
this act includes squaws rs we'll as all
other women"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31
A SUGGESTION FOR GEN. scHoF1r,

SUGGESTION FOR GEN. SCHOFIEI.D.
1t is curious to note that the most re-
Gently popular of English authors. Je-
rome X. Jerome, Endorsed in advance
the sartorial revolution now preached by
the tailors Of his own country and Of
France. Clothes he writes, "alter
our very nature. A man could not helm
De'ng fierce and daring with plume in
me bonnet. dagger in his belt aui. .
lot OF puffy white things all down his
sleeves. But in an ulster he wants "a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31
Madison Leader

Madison Leader
Pierre's new city directory just is
sued by Charles Pettibone, contains
1881 names, which, by using the null
tiple of two and one-half, shows apop.
ulation in round numbers of 1000.
Sioux Falls, Grand Forks and Aber-
deem used the multiple three, which,
II used In this directory, would swell
the population considerably.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31
The Sioux Falls Papers and tho Capital.
Wo~a I'd prona

The Sioux Falls Papers and the Capital
Howard Press.
Last year the Sioux Falls papers
were claiming the success Of that city
in the capital contest by a total vote
of $1,000. They hooted at Pierre's
pretensions. They said she could not
entertain the legislature. They ridi-
culed the idea of locating the capital
at a point with telegraphie connec-
lions with other towns by one wire
only. They predicted disasters dire
from snow bound trains and all that
sort of rot. They slandered the trans
Missouri country and belittled all
paris of the state not directly tribu-
tary to Sioux Falls. Because of their
Doodle they expected to purchase the
capital. They made a magnificent ~
campaign-those papers. In the final
roundup Sioux Falls took fourth
place and Pierre-that s'gumbo idol
out ON the border of the Bad lands
received nearly three times as many
votes as Sioux Falls and beat her by
10000 votes.
This year Huron started out to
initiate Sioux Falls Doodle campaign
of year ago. She paid those two
ssinfluential" dailies of Sioux Falls,
the Press and the Argus-Leade about
$4,000 to repeat their slanderous
misrepresentation Of the greater
part of the state, They are faithful
servants. Their work of misrepre-
sentation goes merrily on. Theyare
claiming for Huron this year what
they claimed for themselves last year,
and when the 4th of November shall
come they will find themselves buried
with Huron beneath just such an aw-
full avalanch as swept them out of
sight Oct. 1, 1889.
The voters in this locality of the
state are giving the capital question
the most careful consideration in the
light of its bearing on the develop
ment and prosperity of the state as
whole, and the narrow platform upon
WHICH IlulOu UdScS ucI C1dlluS Is
shrinking every day. Asone eminent
statesman once said to another emil
nent statesman whom he was trying
to put in the soup, the voters of
the state can say to our ambitious
neighbor up the Jim-''we are doing
this solely for your own good" AS
we have remarked before Huron will
be a better town in ten years with the
capital at Pierre than if she gets it
herself, and Mitchell with her splen-
did prospects, will be the best
town of all the Jim river Valley
Mitchell Capital.
A man of Mott, Colorado, went on
a fearful spree last week. AS soon as
he sobered up he went to a logging
camp and was set to work. In hand
ling his first log he disturbed large
RATHER that struck his fangs deep in
the mans wrist. The poison did not
circulate in the arm, but the snake
died ina few minutcs.-Ex.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31

The desperate and ignoble methods
resorted to by Huron in the capital
campaign will only render her defeat
all the more Illuminating and pltiable.
Her defeat, her fall, will be sudden
and terrible, but the nastiness will
cling to her for years.-Yankton
Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31

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long cylindrical real b bam' times ii at q
rugged about the X ). picture,
xh.s right gh ipi have tx h. b, !, and y
Gods world <. hideous. o. T sbeort n
wicked thoughts con,e men men wild
spectable q never can sob o. AM
I'm told. SO that DOM ,n De Sen
want to put on lavender co,a matte
with red velvet breechea' o ans Il
doublet slashed with va11o' and
ngat ), blue p, silk cloak on NV % sst b
and q black eagles plume mo1 shou
my hat. and q big sword word a moving
ana ! = lance lance. and prancins hi e
eyes of the people. why ss sladas1
Try to look 91, like ants crawling ovs, y
heap! Why shouldn't wa d,s' ses q
gayly? I'm sure il we did ID M !,
be happier. True, it ia a ,; W. 81 d
but we are a little race, and I wts u !
use OF our pretending othera aas
spelling fun7 Let philosophers " WIS }.
selves up like old crows il thavs IT,. =
let me be a butterfly" AAe
Accepting Mr.. Jerome's .ssa,s.-
10 the costume Of other d.v, Nv s.o =
feel fierce ana daring the noss',
presented are vast in their m.,,s s:sl
and potentiality. Only think o If y
rotund. effervescent Conereesm.ss 9
lam 2. Mason, Of Chicago, tryinpta
a funny speech on the tariff while ~ =,
as was the great Lord Bacon,
couldn't do it. he would b. ~ .
portentous, profound in his rer
and when he sought his home a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-31
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-10-31

Il was only a common cold. John had many %
wuis, cold and got over IT, This would wear of
as the others had done. so IL was neglected aud
neglected until steady pam came lu the chest,
and slight. hut not very distressing cough h,'-
came constant But John didn't mind the pain
he ignored 1t and went ON with his work as
though pain meant nothing After q time he hr
gan to grow thin and weak. and an attack oi
dysentery compelled him to call in physician
The physician discovered his condition. and by
this time ufltratiun was well advanced IN the
right lung Now the fight for life became ser
ous. and It all came from common cold that
taken at first could have been easily cured The
physician. being an experienced practitioner
recommended Downs Elixir. and John used ii
faithfully and pulled through; hut how much
hutter il would have been had John bought bot
tie of the Elixir at once. and taken a dose ON 20
ng To- bed and walked mp the next morning cral
/ AS a whistle
In view uf the fact that the season Of cold
and coughs is now Ht hand. We call the attention
/ of our readers to the advertisement of Downs
/ Elixir. which will be- found ia another column.