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Evening journal., 1890-01-17
CRANOR & CO.,
JANUARY SALE.

WeSho VIC dI6 SOlllS
to make some very.
decided reductions in.
all kinds Of Winter
Goods. Realizing the
great advantage Of
having nothing but
new goods to sell we.
are going to adopt the
policy Of closing out
all kinds Of goods in.
their season.
$1,000 Seal Cloth Coats reduced to
$1,000.
s25 90 Seal Cloth Coats reduced to
$500.
$2s.OO Seal Cloth Coats reduced to
$1,000.
$4,000 Seal Cloth Coats reduced to
$500.
$500 Seal Cloth Wraps reduced to
$1,000. 1s
$1,000 Beaver Newmarkets reduced
to $500.
$500 Beaver Newmarkets reduced
to $1,000.
5000 Striped Newmarkets reduced
to $3.50. 3s
$1,000 Beaver Jackets, vest front,
reduced to IS. 90.
5000 three quarter Beaver Goats
reduced to $500.
Children's Coats from $7.0O to
$3.50; all sizes.
Children's Goats from $3.50 to
$50; all sizes.
Children's Coats drown and green
stripe from 5000 to $4.00;
all sizes.
Children's Coats (brown stripe) from
"a 90 to SO. 90; all sizes.
Children's Plaid Goats from $500
to $3.50; all sizes.
The best all-vool Double Blanket
Shawls from 81. so to $500.
The best all-wool Double Blanket
Shawls from Sc. 90 to $500.
The best Single Blanket Shawls
from $500 to 1925.
Heavy Shaker Flannel, 2s inches
wide, reduced from 25c to zoe.
Heavy Shaker Flannel, 81 inches
wide, nearly all wool, reduced
from $50 to 33c.
Heavy all-wool Shaker Flannel, SO
inches wide, reduced from 624c to
soc.
ia Grey Blankets reduced from
$2.5 to $500.
la Grey Blankets reduced from
$500 to $3.50.
'11-4 White Blankets reduced from
5000 to $500; weight, 6 pounds.
A large, thick Comfortable with
white cotton, reduced from $1.25
to $l.1O.
A large, thick Comfortable, with
white cotton, reduced from 81. so
to $1.25.
Mems Camels' Hair Shirts and
Drawers reduced from $3.50 to
81 rs.
Mems Grey Shirts reduced from
soc to 25c.
Red Twilled Flannel reduced from
25c to zoe.
Blue Twilled Flannel reduced from
Sic to 25c,
Ten dozen Misses Cotton Hose,
ribbed, black makofeet extra
long, never sold for less than 374c;
these viii go in this sale at 25c
per pair; greatest bargain ever
offered in Hosiery in Wilmington.
Buyers will find
this no sensational
advertisement but re-
ductions as stated in
every case. Only
until stock taking, the
First of February,
will these prices be
maintained.
Evening journal., 1890-01-17

Pair to partly cloudy; variable winds, be
coming sou.herly.
Evening journal., 1890-01-17

We have a new invoice of
Screens in natural cherry, an
tique oak and ash, plain sides
with grilled top, centre finished
with China silk or the new
cretonnes. They make a
pretty and useful article of
furniture. S. in the wood.
Evening journal., 1890-01-17
HELP WANTED.
ZOE sALE.

HUhsEs, CAhRIAGEs, HARNESS, Etcs
HANDSOME TURNOUT FOR SALE.
IL Large Bay Horse, Il yearscold, fearless
OF steam, electric cars or bicycles. tret in bet
ter than 2.45 a
Large Double Seat Top Wagon, finely uphol-
stered, built to order, brand new, suitable for
light delivery wagon and family use.
, Niekel Mounted Harness, new Elegant
Robes, Blankets, Whip, etc.
Can be seen at the Club Stables. corner
Madison and Twelfth streets s-f
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Bathers Usually to Blame.

There is remarkable unanimity Of
opinion among American life savers and
the masters of the bathing houses It
the different beaches about the dangers
of surf bathing. This opinion is that
the bathers in nine cases out of ten arc
responsible for their own death, and
that the undertow and strong tide have
nothing whatever to do with it. The
sensation of fear when it overcomes .
swimmer is nearly always fatal. Whea
. man is swept out beyond the life lines
he is nearly always among easy, regular
swells. Floating in such water should
be as simple to q swimmer as lying in .
hammock, and no more danger is riskaA
than in q bathtub at home if the bathers
keeps cool head, and does not try .
reach the shore in the space Of . fev
minutes. The sensation of being woa
out at sea to novice is undoubtedly N
alarming one, and it is naturally fraught
with some anxiety, but it is absolutely
safe to q swimmer, no matter how fieeeo
the breakers may be on shore. Ths
trouble is that once we'll out Of reaehrof
the lines the swimmer begins to shriok
aud toss about with such violence that
he pumps all the air out of his lungs
and renders his muscles practically uso-
less before assistance arrives. IL 10
remains quiet the work will be done by
the rescuers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
The Best Flowers for Children.

Among the best sorts for children are
balsams, nasturtiums, portulaca, phlox,
pinks and sweet peas. These good old
fashioned flowers grow easily, last long
in bloom: and are among our brightest
and best flowers.
As rule, these bright, easily grown
flowers please the children we'll; some
times children whose parents pay much
attention to flowers, and have many rare
sorts, with the keen sense of justice all
children possess, grow dissatisfied with
annuals alone and long for a share of
the rarer flowers that their elders have.
II don't like my bed at ALL" con-
fidentially said little girl to me once.
1T is Just full of petunias and lark
spurs that no one else will have.
Mamma has beds and beds full of gera-
NUNS and gladiolus, lilies and roses,
and haven't one. just hate my old
bed" Don't be afraid to give the
children few gladiolus or geraniums.
they often take more pains than grown
ups with some plant they think is extra
choice, as have reason to know. One
child, now nine years old, has for two
years raised the best dahlias and gladio-
lus grown on the place. Her little hoe
is forever stirring tie soil around them,
and she is always ready to supply
needed water or mulch. Divide with
the children-they ought to have Q
share Of the good things, I am sure
Vick's Magazine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Faie,,ce Ware.

The Oldest as we'll as one of the most
honored Of the various sorts of art work
is that of ceramics. or the art Of pottery.
The turning of the potter's wheel to
fashion rounded vessels dates back to O
very remote period of history.
From making shapes suited to practi-
cal, daily uses, beauty of form aud fine
finish came also to be considered i'm
portant, as the idea Of making vases and
jugs for ornament as we'll as use, grew
in favor. -
Next came the desire to find ma
terial which should be so strong that
vessels made Of it would not break
easily, and which would be capable of
taking on glaze or polish which would
add to the beauty of the vessels, and
make it easy to keep them clean and
bright. Also it was desirable to pre-
vent, if, possible, the breaking of or
crumbling of fine particles when the
vessels were filled with water, as that
was defect of the soft and porous terra
Gotta.
The eager search after such ma
terial resulted in the vessels of glazed
clay in the manufacture of which the
Italian city of Faenza acquired great
fame, insomuch that the name on
Faience ware is at the present day gent
orally applied to many kinds of earthe :
ware and porcelain vessels.
It is probable that the skilled artisans
of the Asiatic tribes knew and practiced
this art of manufacturing glazed clay
many centuries before the Florentine
workman and artist, Luca Robbia, at
the end Of the fifteenth century, manu-
featured the superior white enamel,
with which he overlaid his beautiful
vases. Through his improvements it
came about that the large factories in
Faenza for the making of pottery
learned to glaze or enamel their vases
in o similar way.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Where Women are Unknown.

1t is commonly thought that men by
themselves must grow rude and savage,
that it is to women we owe all the graces
and refnements of social intercourse.
Nothing can be further from the truth.
The writer ventures to say that in all
the world there is not so perfectly polite
and orderly society as chat of Athos,
European Turkey. As regards hospi-
tality and gracious manners, the monks
of Athos and their servants put to
shame the most polished Western PEG.
pie.
There, women are unknown, and dis
order, .tumult, confusion seem i'm.
possible in this land of peace. If they
have differences and squabbles about
the right of property, these things are
referred to law courts and determined
by argument of advocates, not by dis
putting and high words among the
claimants.
While life and property are still I'M
safe on the mainland and on the sister
peninsulas of Cassandra and Longos,
Athos has been for centuries as secure
as ;any country in Europe. So far,
then, all the evidence is in favor of re.
striction.
Many of the monks, being carried to
he peninsular in early youth, have com
pletely forgotten what woman is like,
except for the brown, smokey, religious
pictures, in which the form and features
of women are studiously made unlovely
and far from human.
What strikes the traveller is not the
rudeness. the untidiness, the discomfort
of purely male society; it is. rather
its dizziness and depression. Some OIL
the older monks were, indeed, jolly
enough; they drank their wine and
cracked their jokes freely; but the
novices who attended at the table, the
men and boys who had come from the
mainland to work as servants, mule
teers, and laborers, seemed all suffering
under permanent depression and sad
ness.
The town of Karyes is most sombre
and gloomy place. There are no laugh
ing groups, no singing, no games among
the boys. Every one looked serious,
solemn. listless, vacant, as the case
might be, but devoid Of keenness and
interest in life.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Lydia Maria Child.

The present generation hears little Of
Lydia Maria Child, of whom the poet
Whittier wrote, at is not too much to
say she was the most popular literary
woman in the United States"
In her home life, says Mr.. Hudson
in the NeaD England Magazine, .
large share OF the day was spent in
writing, and at night she would read
what she had written to her husband,
and submit it to his criticism and sug-
gestion. The dependence upon each
other in their home life was mutual,
and each appreciated the other. Her
husband once said to her:
II wish for your sake, dear, was ~
rich as Cresus."
"You are Crpsus," answered Mira
Child, "for you are king of Lydia
Whether at home or abroad, she was
plainly dressed. Her bonnets were al
most alike, and evidently the old was
not exchanged for the new because Of
change in the style. 1t is SAID that
one OF her distinguished literary friendsL
when he saw her one day in Boston
with new bonnet, exclaimed, There
will be change soon, for Maria has =
new bonnet!"
A minister who was spending q day
at Wayland, seeing her 60 by and not
knowing who she was, exclaimed, Il
have seen what never expected to SEQ
again-a woman with bonnet on!'
Her bonnets were large, and geneE-
ally trimmed with green. and at ono
time when New York friends sent her .
bonnet made in the prevailing stvle.
she trimmed it over to suit her own
taste.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Saying Something ana Nothing.

The conversation of the best-bred
people is delightfully."- free from person
alities. "What did she talk about?"
asked one lady of friend who had just
made call upon a newcomer in the
town.
"She talked of people" was the quiet
answer. "She told me news about per
sons had never seen. and unknown to
me, and called them by their Christian
names"
The fact was significant; it indicated
the strangers characteristics, and set
tied the position which she was there
after to occupy in the place.
Sometimes, mere care!essness
prompts such personal gossip, and
again it springs from poverty Of mind.
"I didn't have anything to say" rs-
piled worthy old lady, whose husband
had rebuked her for entertaining som e
guests with personalities, "and I had to
say something
So that something" becomes gossip.
and gossip degenerates into scandal.
One cannot always remember, at such
u moment, that good-breeding as we'll
as the Christian religion, requires him
to consider things and ideas rather than
people.
A gentle and kindly. old minister had
rather an alarming way Of checking the
conversation, when it touched person
ality.
"Of course" he would say when a
parishioner told him, @in confidence"
some tale which detracted from the
reputation of another, "of course, /
shall feel at liberty to tell him exactly
what you say. He ought to know, for
his own good" And after that depress-
ing threat, the talebearer was usually
very willing to hold his peace.
The well-bred man not only refrains
from speaking evil, but scorns to notice
it when it assails his own name. The
daring motto belonging to the Keiths Of
Scotland. "They say. What say they
Let them say!" IS that of gentlemen the
world over.
It should be the resolution of every
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Hospitality in Madaeascar.

If tourist respects the laws of the
people, never overstepping the bound
aries of good breeding, he will be treated
with kindness every friendly expression
of feeling in their power to offer will
be accorded; the best accommodations
q village can furnish will be at the trav-
eler's service; the best food will be
literally provided, and if the stranger
be i'll, bearers will start at any moment
to take him whittier lie will, and if he
be the representative of q far-off nation,
even the chiefs will regard it as an
honor to serve him.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Throwing or the scent.

When Bismarck represented Prussia
in the Diet at frankfort, says writer
in the NeW Revte,0, he strongly sus-
pected that his letters and dispatches
were tempered with in the interest of
Austrian diplomacy. At last he dis
covered remedy, the ingenuity and
perfect detail of which is illustrative of
his way of doing things.
On one occasion, after astormy meet
ing. he and an officer of the Han
novarian embassy walked away to-
gether, and as they walked, spoke of
this grievance from which they had
suffered.
Presently the Hanovarian remarked
that Bismarck led the way out of the
more fashionable quarter Of the town
into dingy and yet more dingy by-ways.
As they entered q particularly dirty
street, Bismarck drew out his gloves,
which usually remained in his pocket,
drew them on and buttoned each care
fully.
This done he entered one of the little
shops where the poor buy cheese,
pickles, dried fish, lamp oil and other
commodities.
"Boy," said Bismarck to q dull look
ing lad behind the counter, edo you
sell soap?"
"Yes, sir"
what soap? What sorts have you
got?"
sThis and this, and here's another, .
said the boy, putting before Bismarck
Q variety of strong-scented cakes.
"Well, and how much is this?" the
diplomatist asked, handling one Of the
cakes; and how much this?" fumbling
with another. "A piece was selected,
when Bismarck, as if suddenly recollect-
ing himself, plunged his hand into a
breast pocket and drew out an unen-
closed letter. Apparently annoyed at
his forgetfulness, he cried, DO you sell
envelopes, boy? bring them out!"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. things-were
produced, the letter was placed in one,
and Bismarck began to address it. But
with thick glove on and tightly but
toned up, this was not easy to do. So
he flung down the pen Indignantly and
said, "Here, boy; you can write, I sup
pose?" and gave the address, which the
boy awkwardly scrawled upon it. Their
Bismarck took the letter and left the
shop.
Now" said he to his friend. wher
they had passed outside, as he put The
letter to his nose, what with the soap
the herring, the candles and the cheese
I don't think they'll smell my dispatch
under that!"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

guest in any house. to carry thit her n
shred or personal gossip. On the great
archway Of an English residence are in
scribed the words:
Bring good news, and knock boldly. :"
There is none living among us who
will not be the better for resolving to
carry his host, not only good news. but
clean speech, and with that upon his
lips, he may, indeed, knock boldly. -
Youths COMPANION.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

Richard. reached the head of the
stairs, put his foot down one step. and
then stood still.
20, do go on!" cried Eyalyn. i'm.
patiently. "Never mind us. wen %
with you; we'd rather 90 than stay
alone here. wouldn't we Netta?"
Il thinkI'd rather stay here said
Meta tremblingly. Richard leaned
ever the banister in o listening attitude.
Not sound from below. If any robbers
mad been in the house, they had heard
the voices above and fled, and our hero
thought he might venture down in
safety. -
Down one fight he went, followed
by Evalyn. Down another, all was
still. Il think the noise came from the
basement" whispered Evalyn.
Down these last stairs he went leaving
her at the top. He turned in to the
basement hall. just then the sound Of
pattering feet reached her listening ears
and the next moment, with an un-
earthly yell, Richard, came flying up
the stairs.
Robbers disguised as goats, with
lanterns on their heads!" he gasped, as
he fairly threw the lamp in to her
hands and rushed on till he had gained
his own room.
Here, what's all this row about?"
said Harry Mills, coming out of his
room followed by Tom. 20 Harry! o
Tom! Evy is down there. I suppose
the robbers have murdered her!" and
Meta tainted. Harry flew down the
stairs, and there stood Evalyn stupifed
with horror, where Richard had left her.
"Evy, my love, what ails you?" and
Harry's arm clasped her.
o Harry, a band of robbers, disguised
as goats!" was all she could saw as she
pointed below.
Nonsense, dear, be brave girl, give
me the lamp and I'll soon see what it
is"
No, no, Harry! Don't go down,
they'll murder you"
"I'll look out for that" said he, start
ing downstairs
Harry could we'll afford to be brave:
for didn't he and Tom arrange all this
to suit themselves.
We'll, what great ado about moth
lng!' he cried, as he came running up
the steps again.
what is it?" cried Evalyn, Harry's
smiling face giving her courage.
why you poor frightened puss, it is
one Of your neighbours goats, got into
tho kitchen some way, and he's doing
his best to get rid of a 'Jack-o'- lantern
some one has tied to his horns. But
where is our friend Richard? L"
Don't mention him to me-" she
cried, bursting into tears.
Don't cry, DEAR" said Harry, put.
ting his arm around her and assisting
her upstairs.
20, Harry! I Thought you and Ton
We're in town."
$50 we we're, but we've been home
about an boar. We were very tirec
and soon fell asleep"
Meta recovered from her fainting fl
and Aunt Peyton was still bathing he
face with lavender water as Harry ant
Evalyn entered.
20, Meta, he is the greatest cowart
that ever ived" cried Evalyn.
please don't mention him, Eva,
and Meta covered her face with hel
hands.
Early next morning, Richard remem
bered that there was important business
in the city that needed his attention al
once.
There was double wedding shortly
after; and Harry and Tom behaved
magnanimously by never abiding to
Richard, the brave, or his queer robber,
in the presence of their pretty wives.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

M1NN1E-There have been so many
changes rung on the word @lady" that I
am inclined to think it is better to be
just plain woman. Certainly
dear, that is exactly what you are.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
:, Mi'ATHl.

SYMPATHY.
,.,er. You and I;
o,s.ssrly night in june ne: .
}. ;ls mech meek low glanced the moon.
syOu' Sii'sN
,,,a was mine to hold;
atle III y. BEGAN 10 speak;
|,.s !, II he an moon was on your cheek
,-o,,,d not let me rest,
tl i!;,a %' slept, but ever 10y
fiji tll i mon my breast,
iii los" a. ept themselves away.
.o,oon slow waned the night,
tlta tli' h ,, to hear mo speak;
|iii' y s"amfort If the light
the r:,,b, tears upon your cheek.
se nF ,;te thc burdens fall,
9s ir re- srave through so1Ent Tranquil n11 years
g. y liI'I IN he light of tenrs.
ts'eSI. u pl,,iridCc, IN Harper's Basar.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-22
COMPOUND LARD,
The Conger Eill Favorably Reported
to the House

The Conger Bill Favorably Reported
to the House.
WASHINGTON, March 21.-The committee
on agriculture to-day reported favorably to
the House, with amendments, the Conger
bill defining "lard," and imposing a tax
upon and regulating the manufacture, etc.,
of compound lard. The report accompany
ing the bill says the objects of the proposed
legislation, in addition to obtaining reve-
nue., are: First, to compel the branding of
mixtures compounded of ingredients other
than lard, but made in semblance of and
sold as lard, so that consumers may be ad-
vlsed OF the nature of the article
they purchase; second, to relieve
manufacturers of pure lard of
the unfair competition of an imitation
article made of cheaper ingredients aud
sold at lower price; third, to relieve to
some extent the existing depression in the
farming industry, caused in part by the
displacement of q large and increasing
amount Of pure fat of the hog by spurious
substitute put on the market under the
name and brand of the genuine article.
LIKE THE oLEoMARGARINE LAW.
The bill, in its main features, is similar
to the oleomargarine law, which, the COM
mittee says, has given general satisfaction,
and the wrongs 90 be prevented and the
benefits to be secured are, in their general
character. the same in both cases. One bill
applies TO limitations of butter and the other
TO limitations of lard. The committee be-
lieves that no public interest at this time
presses with such extreme urgency upon
the attention of congress for relief as the
agricultural interests, the foundation of all
our prosperity.
The report concludes with a statement
that the compound lard trade as carried on
is stupeudous commercial fraud, which it
is the duty of congress to suppress.
COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS.
The amendments made to the bill by the
committee except "a substitute for lard"
from compounds falling within its provis-
ion; defining a wholesale dealer as one who
sells in packages Of not less than fifty
pounds; reducing from two years to one
year the term of Imprisonment pre-
scribed for selling the compound in any
except authorized packages or under false
brands; reducing from $1,000 to $500 the
penalty for knowingly buying compound
lard from manufacturers who are without
license, and making the same reduction in
the case of manufacturers willfully violating
the requirements of the bill.