Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

, it is Of the greatest Importance
i the means of eliminating them with
out injury to the medicine has bee
found.
| JoHNsTowN, ia, is reported tt
have gained 100 per cent. in popula
tion since 1880, and more than mad
up the loss by the flood since tina
fearful catastrophe. The city is nov
rebuilt and few marks of the foo,
remain. Johnstown is an eXcellen
object lesson in American pluck ant
energy.
| SAXONY has made drunkenness
crime. 1t was Sore on the advice o
the best physicians in the kingdom
who scout the idea of dipsomania ant
declare that men get drunk not be
cause they are crazy but simply be
cause they will. To give liberty ant
punish it's abuse is the perfection O
statecraft.
The New York World is disguised
with this rccordbreaking business or
| the Atlantic. 1t wants the steamers
to run slower in order that the pas
senger may get more for bis money.
The idea is not bad one. 1t would
save board on the other side, and also
increase the probability Of ones reach.
ing the other side.
SMART San francisco policemen the
other day brought in "a dead drunk"
and tumbled him into corner.
After he was dead they discovered
that his skull was crushed. Similar
cases of mistaken diagnosis have oc-
CURED in other quarters, and they
emphasize the demand for greater
care on the part Of policemen.
THERE is man in San Francisco
who can hold conversation with
monkeys. In view of the prevalence
of such signs as "Herein list Deutsch
sprechen," "Voici parle Francois, {"
''Hablamos Espanol" and the like in
this polyglot country, why wouldn't
it be good scheme for some fashion,
able tailor to hire this man and put
up a sign, ''Monkey Talked Here.;'
MOST mothers do not know the
young men who call on their daugh-
tiers. They would not trust their
daughters Judgment in selecting a
dress, but they trust it in the more
important matter of selecting the
kind Of men to call on them. YOU
occasionally hear of a carelessness
and negligence that is as criminal as
intended and planned-out wickedness.
THE crimes recently committed in
the East by imported Italian labores
were fairly startling both in character
and number. It's a great misfort!
une that there has yet been found nc
successful way of keeping the Grim!
inal class of other countries from
flooding our own, and endangering
our lives and property and adding tc
the expenses of our prisons and poor:
houses.
CHiLE's territory is about as large
as that of the combined States OF
New York, New Jersey. Pennsyl.
vania, Maryland, Ohio and Indiana,
with the whole of New England
thrown in, and it has population OF
only a little over 100000 1t is a
good place for the restless cnigrant
who is seeking roomy country h
grow up in and isn't afraid of a revo.
luton occasionally.
ACCORDING to the compilations oil
a Philadelphia paper, at the present
rate Of consumption the pine lumber
in Minnesota and Wisconsin will be
exhausted in six years. In fifteen
years there will be no considerable
areas Of commercial lumber nearer
than Washington and Alaska. That
means lumber famine, according to
the Philadelphia authority. 1t is
worth while to look over the field.
THE course Of events in all the
South American republics seems to
afford constant object lesson, teach.
Ing that republicanism can not be
successfully made to order on paper.
The slow process Of education and the
enlightened self-interest begotten OF
commerce and industry are necessary
to develop that intelligent and moral
force in the people which disposes OF
wOuld.he (1ictatnrS without reSnrt tn