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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04
HE LIVED IN BED.
Was as Well as Anybody-Quser Case
Of H~allucinntiOn.

> was as wei as An~ybOdy-Quber Case
Of Hallucination.
The death of Robert j. Wright at Bustle.
ton On Saturday last will recall to mind a
very peculiar man, says the Philadelphia
record. Deceased was a son of the late
Joseph Wright, of umbrella making fame,
.ndfounder of Wr;ght's Institute, at Frank.
tord. Ihe country seat of the elder Wright
was on Powdermill lane, near Frankford,
where the son, Robert j., also resided, and
TOT nearly twenty years was scarcely ever
seen out of doors. He kept hlmself
locked up in a room from which every raw
OF daylight was excluded. He also had a
doctor to attend him regularly, although
ne had no ailment. He had a couch ar
ranged in the room upon which he laid,
and seldom it was that he was found
upon his feet. The hellucination
that he was suffering from a disease
lasted for many years. The late DR..
William Guernsey, of %Frankford, was for
several years Wright's physician. One
day while seated near the cot upon which
Robert was lying the doctor said to him:
MI. Wright, you could not walk if you
wanted to, could you?" Quick as a flash
the sick man bounded out of bed and
skipped several times around the room
like a rabbit"-as DR.. Guernsey said in
describing the scene one day-and when
he jumped into bed again he said to the
doctor: Cant l, thought"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04
Phosphorus.

This name, which is now applied to
the substance used in making friction
matches, wa formerly employed to
designate any substance capable of
shining in the dark. Rotten wood,
decaying fish, and other such substances
We're described by the word, which
means q "light-bearer." The particular
substance which now bears the name
was originally known as noctiluca, or
the lighter of the night.
One hundred and fifty years ago there
was only one shop in London where
phosphorus was sold. The chemist who
enjoyed the monopoly of it's sale wrote
OF it: "This phosphorus is a subject
that occupies much the thoughts and
fancies of some alchymists who work on
mlcrocosmical substances, and out of it
they promise themselves golden noun
tains."
Phosphorus was first carried into En-
gland in 1877. It was shown to Robert
Boyle, who had worked on the subject
OF phosphorescence in general. The
naturalist was particularly struck with
a substance capable Of being made ito
shine in the dark without having been
before illuminated by any lucid sub.
stance and without being hot as to
sense"
Boyle noticed that the substance was
luminous only in presence of air, and
that the water in which it was immersed
acquired "a strong andpenetrant TASTE"
On evaporation it would not shoot into
crystals, but coagulated into substance
like jelly" On heating this it gave off
flashes Of fire and light" and had a
"garlick SMELL"
But the most curious observations of
Boyle were upon the small quantity Of
phosphorus required to produce a lumin-
GUS effect. "a grain of the noctiluca
dissolved in Alkohol Of Wine and shaken
in water, rendered four hundred thou
sand times its weight luminous through
out. And at another TryalI found that
it impregnated five hundred thousand
times its weight; which was more than
n part Of Cochineal could commune
cate its color to."-Youth's Compare
;on
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

the palaces OF Europe the walls are mosaic.
OF shells and glass are arranged
by artists and aggregated into a pictorial
splendor. Whatl made out of broken shells
and broken glass! Oh, yes; God grant that
by the transforming power of His Spirit we
may all be made q part of the eternal
palaces, our broken and ~fragmentary ma
lures polished and shaped and lifted up to
maxi a part of the everlasting splendors of
the heavenly tempted
For sinners, Lord, thou cam'st to bleed.
And I'm a sinner vile indeed.
LORD, believe thy grace il free;
oh, magnify thy grace i'll me.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04
Decidedly unromantie.

I have read a number of paragraphs
n the newspapers about how various
people act when they come in and try
to dictate a letter for the typewriter,
said an operator. 1t may be that when
stances and some thai were more funny.
But I have had no such experiences as
are attributed to my profession by the
press. The only funny one 1 ever had
was that presented by an honest old
man who, after watching me for some
time, came up and in q good sort Of a
way asked me to explain the machine,
which / did.
you mean to say" he asked, shat
you can write o letter on that thing for
anybody"
"Yes," said /.
"Then you may write one to Saman-
thy. / want to let her know that /
am well. and that 1 am coming home
next week, and that l have got along
fust rate in what 1 came for"
shape and then read it to him. He said
it was all right and signed his name to
it and I dropped it in a letter box for
him.. Inc next morning ne came TO me
somewhat excited and said,--
"Say, miss, you remember that letter
you writ for me yesterday to Saman-
thyY
YES" Z replied.
WELL" he continued, Il want you to
write another one to her telling her how
you done it and how / signed it. You
see, when she gifts that letter that is
printed jest like a newspaper aud then
sees my scrawl at the bottom Of it she'll
know there is somethin' wrong. She's
mighty suspicious emmy way, and if you
can fix it up so as to let me out of it I'll
be ever so much obleeged to you"
To satisfy him I did as he asked. He
took the letter and I have never seer
him since. But I have found all my
other customers to be plain, matter-of-
fact men. The novelty and romance OF
the typewriter are wearing away.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04
Justice Waiting Outside.

Doctor Tanner tells a story on a cir
Gus follower whom he met on his travels
in the past. The CRATER in question
was arrested for stealing a silver watch
from a canvasman, and was duly tried
before a Justice of the Peace and &C.
Quilted. When the crowd had gone
the Magistrate saw the former prisoner
still sitting furtively watching the
door.
"Ah, my good man," said he. "the
law has found you to be innocent. Why
don't you go?"
$50! gow gasped the CRATER"
with that big strong-arm guy that I
swiped the watch from laying for me
outside? I guess not; I'll stay here as
long as he does."-Cimcinnaa En-
r3Li1,py-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04
THE usED-ro.BE.

Beyond the purple, hazy trees
OF summers utmost boundsries.
Beyond the sands, beyond the sens.
DesSnd s only 1i in fh o. eyes ike these,
Enraptured gaze of memory.
There lies a land long lost to me-.
The LAND of used-to-be,
A land enchanted-suca ma swnng
In golden seas when sirens clunge
Along their dripping Drinks and sung
To Jason IN that mystic tongue
mat dazed men with its melody--
q On, eucn a land, with such q sea
kissing its shores eternally
ls the fair Used-to-be.
land where music ever cirds
The air with belts Of sinrinr birds
And sows all sounds with such sweet wo,.7e
That even in the lowing herds
A mean1ng live SO sweet to me,
Lost laughter ripples limpidly.
from llpe brtmmcd DER with all the p,ee
VI rare old Used to-be
Lost laughter and the whistled tunes
OF boyhoods mouth Of crescent unes.
That rounded Though long afternoons
To serenuding pl r~iiunesS
When startling fall 40 mistilv
Inau, peering up from Blended knee,
l dreamed twas bridal drapery
showed over Used-to-be,
Oh, land OF love and dreamy thought,
And snlnlng fields and shady spots
Or coolest, Greenest. grassy plots,
Embossed with wild forget-ine-n ots-
AND all we blooms that cunningly
Lift your races up to me
Out OF the past. i kiss in thee
The lips Of Used -to-be.
And love We al, and with wet ewes
turned gilmmeringly on the skies,
NV blessings like your perfume rise,
Till DER my soul q silence lies
sweeter than any song TO me-
Sweeter than it's melody
Or its sweet echo, yea, all three
My dreams Of Used-to-be,
flames Whitcoynb Rileu.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04
They Are Engaged Now.

Thomas "a lover from Wayback)-I
suppose, Susie, that there to
every woman, soone or later, on ire
sistible yearning to lay her head upon
some strong mans shoulder and give
vent to the o%utpouring of a full heart.
Susie (timidly)-Yes, Thomas.
Thomas-Well, Susie, if you eve
feel that way, my shoulder is at your
disposal.
Susi e embracedher opportunity, and
Thomas embraced Susie.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

Siz Novels Free. will DO sent by cragin &
Co.. Philada.. Pa. to any one in the O. s. or
Canada, postage paid. upon receipt OF Is
Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers. See list
Of novels on circulars around each bar.
6oap for sale by all grocers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

ALBERT PULITZER, publisher of the
New York Journal, is suffering with q dis
ease of the eyes that threatens to be as
as that which af1icts his brother,
Joseph Pulitzer, of the World,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

A HousEMA1D who sits down imme-
diately after she has finished sweeping
need not consider it tantamount to dis
missal if told to get up and dust.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

MISS HATTIE BLAINE, whose engage
ment to a member of a foreign legation is
rumored, is the youngest and prettiest
daughter of the secretary.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04
IF About to Tr.v.l or Em,erat..

The voyager cannot be provided with q safer
remedy and protective medicine than Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. Abundant testimony exists to
prove that 1t nulli6es hurtful climatic inAu.
ences and the effects Of exposure, that it recon-
ciles the stomach to unaccustomed food, and
prevents injurious results from impure water.
Mariners, tourists, e%migrants, and miners have
all contributed their quota of testimony in it's
behalf, and its protective influence has been
most efectually demonstrated in regions and
under conditions where, if not really effective,
that feet would long since have been exposed.
In no class Of disorders have its remedial
and preventive properties been more conspicu-
ously shown than in cases Of mnlarial fevers,
maladies for which it is the most popular specific
in existence, both here and in the tropics, whers
it's reputation is scarcely second to that which
it enjoys on this continent. 1t is, moreover, a
most agreeable appetizer and nervine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04
A Lady In South CaroIina writes:

My labor was shorter and less painfulthan
on two former occasions; physicians aston
ished; I thank you for Mothers Friend"
It is worth its weight in gold. Address the
Bradfleld Reg. Co., Atlanta, Co., for partic-
ulars. Sold by druggists.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

IT is much safer to walk in the path
of a cyclone before it is made than
while it is being made.-Kentucky
State Journal. =
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

DRUGGISTS, you should always have a
good supply of DR.. Bulls Worm Destroyers
on hand. Mothers wan these candies for
their children and won't take any other.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

SIR JAMES MILLER, owner of Sanfoln,
the winner OF the Derby, is but 26 years
Of age. He paid $500 guineas for his
deet-footea horse.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

DELAYS are d~angerous.' Clean house at
once with SAPOLIO. 1t is a solid cake Of
Securing Soap used for all cleaning pur-
pose except the laundry.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

A bombshell has just been thrown into
the camp of the Irvine Trust by the we'll
known house of Montgomery Ward & Co.,
OF Chicago, in the way of a startling offer to
sell half manila and half sisal binder Irvine
at 10 cents per pound. nearly S cents less
than the trust Irvine car be sold for. Mont
gomery Ward & Co. will lose a fortune by
this move, but they say that they have re-
solved to break the Irvine trust price if such
a thing is possible. The fact that they deal
directly with the farmers, and that they
number their customers by the million.
makes their influence very powerful. If
they should succeed in breaking the mar
ket, the saving to the American farmers will
amount to almost 5000. 900. proving con-
clusivcly hat the farmers have no better
friends than the house Of Montgomery
Ward e. Co,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

TIE ring of true patriotism must not be
COMPOUNDED with any of the New York po-
liticHl rings.-6IfNngs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

THERE is great excitement in and near
Truro, N. S., over a rich find of gold IN the
olluvial mud Of al DID river bed near
Rrookfe1d-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

SIX. c0BURN, Mgr, Clarie Scott, writes: Il
find Halls Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy"
Druggists cell it, Use.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

AaHIcKEE With four legs, four wings and
two heads has just been Matched at Del
mar. De-.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

ACCORDING to the official reports, the
number Of abandoned farms in N
now PEACHES $1,000.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

The gold mining craze in Maine contin-
ues undated, according to this dispatch
from Augusta: 'Gum Corner, in the
town Of Byron, is the center CT operations,
and miners are aocking there by hundreds.
The pioneer and discoverer of the field is
G. A. Norcross, of Augusta. Nearly all
the land in the vicinity has been bought
up by prospectors."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

A GIRL down in Maine regularly shaves
her grown-u BROTHER.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

Ex.PKEsDENT CLEVELAND has bought
an orange epve down in Florida.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

The sweating system is described by an
English Humanitarian as penal serVltude
on q small slary."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

OF a family of sixteen, near Taylors-
town. Pa. thirteen have died of %diphtheria.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

BEST, easi3st to use and cheapest. Piso's
Remedy FOR Catarrh. By druggists. 5Oc.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

FoR A D1oRDERED Liver try BEEcHAMs
PILLS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

-REEMAN& MONEY, Washington. b. Q.
PATENT. Fusion, CLAIM AND LAND ATTORNEYS
IL Is. Mouy, 10 years member OF Con9Eess'
A. A. Freelsn, 3 years ASST U. :. A'y oeu'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-04

UlCl1 x11C ~ . ClAo oS~"py
feldspar. DO not call such GOODNESS and hard
ness religion The River Of Life nevertheless
over. Icicles never hang on the caves OF
heaven. %Soundness ofintellectual bellefils
q beautiful cloak. we'll woven and wen cut
but in the hour when Goo shall demand our
soul it will not of itself be sufficient to hide
our iniquities.
NV friends, can it be that / have been IN
kind, and torn from you some nope upon
which you were resting for time anu eter-
nifty? Verify, / would be unklnd II. having
taken away vour cloak, / did not offer you
something better. This is a cold world and
you want something to wrap around your
spirit. Christ offers you q robe to-day. ne
wove it Himself, and He will now with HIS
own hand prepare it just to fit your soul.
The righteousness He offers is like me coat
He used to wear about Judea, without seam
from top to bottom. There is a DAY OF
| doom. Coward would l be if ! did not dare
tell YOU this. 1t shall be a day OF unutter-
able disappointment TO those VINO nave
| trusted in their official dignity, IN their
in their soundness of intellectual belief.
But I see a soul standing before Goa VINO
once was thoroughly detlled. Yet look III
Him and YOU cannot find a single transgres-
sion,anywhere about him. How is TINS, you
ask, Was he not once a Sabbath breaker
n hlasnhemer, a robber, a perjurer. a thief,
a murderer? Yes, but Christ mas cleahseu
him. Christ hath lifted him up. CHRIST
hath rent off his rags. Christ hath clotheo
him in a spotless robe OF ighteousnessis IS:
That is the reason why you cannot see ms
Chr;st's name is profrered to-day. Wan
dering and wayward soul, is not TINS saivao
ton Worth coming for, worth striving ;h g; i4e
Do you wonder that SO many with ! o narr
weeping nave besought it. and Win a o very
enthusiasm of sorrow cried for DIVINE on
nassion? Do YOU wonder at the earnest
ness Of those who stand in pulpits beseech-
Ing men to be reconciled to God? Nay 40
O wonder at the Importantly 81 Inc
HOLY Ghost who now s1'Se.n
with thy soul? In many "
Evening journal., 1890-05-12
A YonthfnI Inrestlrntnr.

There Is a family OF homeopaths Of the high
est difution residing on High street, not very
far from Woodward avenue The children
Of this family are taught from their earliest
infancy to abhor and eschew anything in the
shape Of medicine that has the least taste,
smell or color. Curiosity, however, got the
better Of the training OF the youngest mem
Der one day, and, clutching a bright new
penny, tho gift OF a visiting relative in his
hand, the little fellow toddled away to a drug
store on the avenue and surprised the clerk
with demand for penny's worth Of "allo-
paic medicine
After thinking over the matter few min
utes the pharmaceutical handed out a big
lump OF alum to his young customer, who
was soon after found by his mother seated on
the doorstep munching the alum with a face
radiant with delight. If the spirit of inves-
tigatiou does not kill this 5-year-old before he
arrives at the age Of maturity, it seems ex-
tremely probable that be win some day be
heard Of again in other fields Of study and re-
search. Detroit Tribune
Evening journal., 1890-05-12
KEYSTONE STATE POLITICS.

Republican Congressional Primaries in
Five Counties--Mr. McAleer Withdraws.
PITTsBURG, May 12.-Specials TO The
Times gives the revised returns from the
Republican primaries held in Mexican,
Venango, Cameron and Warren counties,
which comprise the Twenty-seyenth con.
gressional district as follows:
Secretary of the Commonwealth Stone
captured the delegates in Warren and Cam
eron counties. Delamater won in We
mango Stone has an apparent majority In
Mckean, which was the real battle ground,
bat this may be turned in Delamater's
favor before the convention meets on Tues
day. Congressman Watson carried three
OF the four counties and will be renomin-
ated for congress-
Republican primaries were also held In
Erie county Saturday Delamater dele
gates were chosen. The result of the day
therefore is five delegates clear for Della
mater, two for Stone and two those of Nc
Kean county, in doubt
EMPORIUM, Pa, May 12-Minnick, anti
Delamater delegate was elected over Nc
Narney, Delamater's man. Minnick's first
choice is Stone and his second Hastings.
There was strong feeling for Hastings
shown during the day.
PHILADELPHIA, May 12-State Senator
William McAleer has withdrawn from the
contest for the Democratic nomination for
congress from the Third district, the dis
trict represented so long by the late Samuel
J. Randall
BRADFORD, Pa, May i2-There are two
decidedly different sets Of tables exhibited
as the result Of the Republican primaries
in Mexican county. In one Of them may
he read decisive victory for Stone and
Emery and in the other exactly contrary
The election was very close and different
districts were won and lost by small figures
OF the sixty-eight delegates elected, Della
mater men claim thirty-two for Watson
and Delamater, with five others that are
counted for Stone and Emery, thus giving
their candidates a majority Of two Mr.
Emery's figures are thirty-eight for himself
and Stone, thirty for Delamater with
twenty-one for Watson and nine for Smith
for congress. The Delamater faction allow
ten votes for Smith and also claim them
for Delamater.
Evening journal., 1890-05-12
House Files in winter Quarters.

I remember once when on a visit in the
country, going to the house Of well TO do
farmer, whore | was put to bed in the "spare
room,n as the guest chamber is generally
called. I had learned from experience TO 60
10 bed ~ these rooms with nearly all my
clothes on, and after having parted with
most Of the warmth Of my body in partially
taking the chill of this particular bed, be-
gan TO doze.
l dreamed after while that ] heard the
kissing sound of a snake, which seemed to
come nearer and nearer. till felt sure it was
in bed with me awoke in a cold perspira-
ton, but still the kissing continued aud GER
tainly proceeded from the bed, though IL now
seemed not so much like the noise made by
snake as that made by humble bees. Rather
alarmed now / leaped from the bed, lighted
my lamp and tore of the quilts. Nothing
out Of the way was visible and yet the buzz
zing continued pulled up the edge of the
big feather bed, which lay upon a straw mat
trass, and there, Go my surprise, | saw hum
dreds OF sluggish flies, which had erawled in
there to hibernate when cold weather csmae,
and had been thawed out by the heat Of my
body and the extra warmth that had crept
into the room by the door being opened into
the hallway of the house. Not wishing TO
wake anybody, | pulled the feather bed out
into the hall and slept on it there for the rest
Of the night ] opened the window Of the
room and closed the door on my strange bed
fellows, and the frosty atmosphere soon made
short work Of them. New York Tribune.
Evening journal., 1890-05-12
The n,ncnlla casn.

WASHINGTON, May 12.-The record Of the
McCalla court martial has been received
at the navy department, and Judge Advo-
cate General Remey is making full syn
opsis Of the case for the consideration Of
the secretary Of the navy, who will have
final jurisdiction in the Matter, uHless the
sentence is dismissal, in which event the
president alone can act. The result Of the
trial viii not be known officially until the
secretary is prepared to promulgate the
action Of the department. The impression
prevails among naval officers, however,
that the court found Commander McCalla
guilty Of several of the charges and SEN
fenced him TO suspension from duty and
TO be reprimanded by the department 1t
will be several days before the case will be
ready for the secretary.