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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-21
For Menard County Soaps.

Correspondence OF the Gazette
MENARDvILLE, MESARD COUNT, TEX,
Aug. 1I.-At the last meeting OF the COM
missioners' court they paid the scalpers
$500 out of the county treasury.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-21
A NOTED CASE.
Mrs. William P Gaines Suing for Posses
sion of Her Child.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, Aug. 19.-Mrs. Viii
liam P. Gaines, wife of the ex-proprietor OF
the Austin Statesman, has begun suit for
the recovery of their little child, which is now
in the husbands possession. The case is
one of the most celebrated in Texas annals.
Mrs. Gaines. since the separation, has been
residing in ST. Louis, but is now in Austin.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-21

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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
An Hotel Cl.rk's Troubles.

The summer resort hotel clerk is be-
ginning to find his speech after the past
seasons campaign. And if you will let
him tell the story he is much abused
individual "For instance" saws one
Of them, the clerk schedules on get
ting up at o'clock. Well, at 6 a bow
hammers On his door and says a lady
wants to see him at once down in the
Office; can't wait q minute, and nobody
else will do. Up jumps the clerk
and falls down to tao ground floor to
find the occupant OF Suite A, for ex-
ample, laying for him. Good morn
ing, madam says tina clerk. Dear!
how you have kept me waitingv she
'ep!les. Very sorry,' saws the clerk.
wishing in his soul that he had Kent
ler half an hour. Then she begins
'.galn: I intend to spend the day in
town, and got uio early to see if YOU
thought the 10 o'clock train was bet
ter than the 0:20 What do you think q
He's just got to grit his teeth and
smile, and say that the 10 train is
faster by two minutes, but that he
links she would find less cinders in
and better views from the 1920. Then
she'll thank him and take the II 80
train ~"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
"A Norman LO(iv.

We behold her, then, well-propor-
toned. slender figure Of graceful bear
ing. the features aluiline, complexion
clear. eyes hazel. and hair of chestnut
nue. worn in smooth plaits that fall over
the shoulders to the waist. On her
bridal day, those shining locks bound
only by a chapter of Jewels, flowed
freely about her form, lying lightly
against robe "of good and delicate
scarlet"--for white was with the Nor
mans an emblem of mourning-but the
matron confines the tresses which the
pride suffered to fall loose. Yet her
dress is still gay in color, q hooded
robe OF green OF Client, the dropping
sleeves knotted up lest they should trail
upon the ground. Even as it is, the
ample cuffs hang from wrist to heel.
Inc embroidered kerchief, too, is gath
cred in loose knot to protect from soil
Its silver fringes, yet should sooth be
spoken, the DANES over-zealous cham
Derers have ventured to hint that the
kerchlef might we'll be discarded, as
garment savoring more of fashions past
than present, but their mistress makes
steadfast answer that she was taught in
early youth to dress rather for warmth
IMAM appearance, nor he the first to
shit apparel with the shifting humor
Of the day.-Kattarine Lee Bates IN
1he EAautd1t4tGn.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
Characteristics of Hands.

Hands are divided into three different
kinds: those with round-pointed fingers.
those with square tips, and those that
are spade shaped, with pods of flesh at
each side Of the nail. The first type
with round-pointed fngers-belong to
characters with perceptions extra sensi-
tive, to very pious people, to contem-
plative minds, to the impulsive, and to
oil poets aud artists who have ideality
as prominent trait. The SQUARE
shaped belong to scientific people, sensi-
bic, self-contained characters, and to
the class OF professional men who are
neither visionary nor altogether sordid.
The spade-shapped type, with pods of
flesh at the side of the nail, indicates
people whose interests and instincts are
mostly material. Each finger, no mat
ter what kind Of hand it is Joined to.
has joint representing each of those
types. The division of the finger that
Is nearest the palm stands for the body,
the middle division represents mind,
and the highest joint spirit or soul. II
the top joint is longer than the others it
denotes character weakened with
TOO abundant imagination. great idealitv
and a leaning towards the theoretical
rather than the practical. When the
middle Joint OF the finger is long. it
promises logical mind, and when the
lowest joint is longest, it indicates
nature that clings more to the luxuries
than to the retinements Of life. If they
are nearly alike, it indicates we'll
mind, especially if the length
OF the fingers equals the length of the
palm.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

railways, TO everything in fact. e~..
the young man at her side, whom rAcep
piled with questions at an indns,.;s She
rate. The car in which she was saa9
stopped opposite train from . s,a:
hundreds of large cans were Ih. n;
taken. OF course she had never D "a
anything of the kind and must learn ne sm
about it. A milk train was sometb; al
new to her. Just then her car rea .la'ls :
point opposite the locomotive Of 4s
milk train. Aud what Is that part t ~
the engine called that projects sartho '"
forward?' she asked. On beino enc; -
formed that it is The cow~catcber ~,
great light seemed TO dawn upon bos
mind. "Oh! Now [ understand Il . an
very clearly said she. I've alwau,
wondered why they called it the Cow
atsber. but L sec now that it catch,
che COWS and from them the men on tss
milk train get all of their cans of Of
milk. Chicago Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
A Professional y,s,,.

@My name is Smith; you NAV mo-
sibly have heard the name before, 10
said with smile AS he held out b;s
hand to the editor and prepared to Sea,
himself. I'm from Smiths Hummock
Malbridge Q. Smith," he added in
tone intended to jog the editors mem.
DRY.
chow d DO" said the editor
81 haven't seen thai article in print
yet said Smith, pleasantly, shut !
suppose You havs q lot Of stuff ahead
all the time. and maybe it will ha
sometime yet before mine is published
yes" said the editor, sit will prob
ably be long time"
| write all the comical pieces for the
Smith, Hammock Post" but suppose
YOU don't have to depend on any one
man to write all Of yours?"
We do not. !" said tho editor glaneinr
wearii, at s pile of manuscript on the
desk.
I'm going to send you quite good
deal of my work now said Smith,
and thought Pd ask you one of two
shings first. Would you object to. my
uSiti}5 llh
Certainly not-'
III the things are written in red ink
they'll lie red. Ell? But that's not
business" sai,: Smith, checking him
self. "Ihe article l sent you was writ.
ten in back hand. Will that bother
the printers any, do you Think"
Not in the least" replied the editor,
with part OF q yawn.
In sending you short jokes" said
Smith. shall I put each on q separate
sheet, or how? Will they ell go in ut
one time?"
They'll all 60 in together said the
editor. taking up his shears end run
ming his eye over anewspaper.
Speaking of short jokes" said
Smith, II must tell YOU of a rather
clever one wrote. for the Post. 1t was
sort of good-natured fling at the
editor who had recently become the
father Of q ten pound boy. 1t went
this way: why is the editor of this
paper like young Pastepott?' and the
answer was, Because he makes people
set up nights See the point. The
Post Is often set up at night, you
know"
4 see." said the editor, rising, but
if the connnudrun had been: Why is
the editor of this paper like young
Pastepott? the answer"-ho advanced
toward Swith-"would be: Because
he's bouncer. DO you see the point Or
The editor was pointing to the door.
Walbridge q. Smith saw the point and
followed it and the sidewalk echoed To
his tread. Detroit Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
English art ~ lo-,ia,,

In future years, when we walk
through the rooms devoted to the Eng
llsh painters in the National Gallery.
we shall sum up the history OF the art
OF the century in few broad sentences,
writes Theodore Child in Huype,,s
Magoziaee. We shall find that the
mass Of the English painters have re-
he'd simply upon nature, and persist
emily consented themselves portraiture.
the sentimental drama Of daily life, and
the patient transcription of the phe-
nomena OF sea, sky and lanpscape. At
the beginning Of the century we shall
notice that some painters named Barry.
Fueseli, West and Hayden were
haunted by poetic ambition, and i'm
agined that it was possible to begin
where Raphael and Michaelaugo had
left of, and SO continue to interest
mankind by the Encouragement of life
less formuln and worn out conventions.
The productions Of these men, re-
main, however. mere historical curiosi-
ties.
Then we shall observe change in
the current ideals of art and the appro-
prlation Of new stores of poetry and ro-
nance, OF National legend and universal
myth. But amidst the leading expo
nents of the new ideals we shall not
distinguish common qualities other
than evidences of wide literary culture,
tendency to dreaminess, symbolism,
and detiniteness OF sensible imagery, and
q parti pris of initiative admiration OF the
works of the intense and complicated
artists Of the fifteenth century, like
Botticelli, Mautegua and Memling.
Among the artists Of this category
two will be found to stand out with all
the force of their poetical aud ultra-re.
fined personalities. Dante Gabriel Ros-
setti and Edward Burned zones. the
former the more original of the two.
and the latter the more assimilative.
being content in much of his work with
variations upon or studies from the
masters OF the fifteenth century above
mentioned
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
TAN. NC gY ELECTRICITY.
4. ouccr Iudu strinl Trinil" H'?"t'e"
rrur,, France.

o,c,r ,udu striml TrnAlr Reported
| rro,s. France.
For son. + time past reports haze been
currept a, to the perfection in France OF
!, method Of tanning by electricity ana
the matter las excited great rutaoSl's
throughone the co:untry. tins co"a'Fy
| is. as America is. one of the largest
ieuther producing countries In the
world. and has no fewer than 3.oOo or
4 600 tanning establishments. Within
he present month the process has ae-
trallv been experimental with IN
America. and the results are now eXclt-
ing no small amount OF discussion amt
controversy in leather circles. The pro
.css, which is thc inventions OF Worms
& Bale, of Paris. has been under tmal
abroad since 1857. in q taunery in Paris
md another large tannery has been
atarted for the same purpose at Long
Juneau \ third plaut has been os-
tablished in Bcrmondsey. the great
leather district in London. In this
method the tanning is expedited in two
ways; first. by the agitation of the skins
in contact with the tanning liquor, and
secondly by the passage of the electric
current through the body of the liquid.
To attain these two ends :. circular
drum is employed and as the drum ro-
tates current is passed through it by
means OF a Wire brought to contacts at
It's side. The skins to undergo TINS
process ere prepared in the ordinary
way, the hair beng taken OIL by lime,
and they are then put into the drum
with the tanning solution. The current
TO which they arc subjected averaged
about 10 to 100 volts. aud the direction
Of the current is changed every twelve
hours, so as to act equally on the skins,
which constitute the electrodes. During
the operation the liberation of gas 10 in
significant, so that the hides may be
considered to act in the same way as
the plates OF an accumulation Goat and
theep skins require forty-eight hours.
Cow, steer and horse hides require from
seventy-two to ninety-siX hours, accord
ing to their texture The leather pro-
duced in this way has been examined by
experts and is said to be OF excellent
quality. Nine hundred and nineteen
pounds OF hide treated in this electrical
manner at Newark gave 1878 pounds of
leather in four days, while 1,o42 pounds
Of hides. subjected to the action of the
revolving drum, but without the current
tarned Oh. gave only 1,2lO pounds of
poorly tanned hides, Hence there ap-
pear to be economics ada,tionaito those
involved in the saving OF time. As far
RS the electrical process goes. IL may be
said that 1T is based upon thoroughly
sound theoretical considerations, which
have been tested aud proved by some of
the best known electricians in France
and England,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
What the Cow-Catcl,.r IL rou

She was one of those innocent ipno.
rant young women who seem to have
Just emerged from celestial chrysalis
and who possess no knowledge Of the
names and uses of the commonest oh.
lects OF this workaday world. Accom-
panied by patient and evidently adj
mirihg young gentleman, she was com.
ing to the city on one Of the many su-
burban trains that run between the civ
proper and its outlying portions. She
seemed to be stranger to the city. the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

A coLoRED couple called on we'll
known clergyman in Boston recently to
be married. They were accompanied by
another couple, who came to "stand.
up" with the bridegroom and bride.
The quartet stood in line. and by queer
misunderstanding of the requirements
OF the occasion the contracting parties"
got separated, the man standing at one
end of the line and the woman at the
other. The clergyman, surprising they
We're properly stationed, sIid: "You
take this woman to be your lawful and
welded wife, "Say, hold on boss |!
de woman dat I'm goin' to marry am
at de oder end OBJ de line; I'm not
goin' to marry dis yer gall" The OK.
tremes met and the ceremony was be.
gun again and finished without inter.
ruption.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

The monopoly Of the land gone, there
need he no fear of large fortunes. For
then the riches Of any Individual must
consist OF wealth, properly so-callcd-o
wealth, which is the product of labor,
and which constantly tends to dissipa
ton, Tor irrational debts. imagine. would
not long survive the abolition of the
system from which taaey spring. All
lear OF great fortunes might be dis
missed, for when every one gets what
he fairly earns, no one can get more
than he fairly earns. How many men
are there who fairly earn a million dol
lars?-Progress and Poverty
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
What is necessary for the use Of Ian

What is necessary for the use of land
is not it's private ownership. but the Sc
curity of improvements. 1t is not nee
essary to SAY to a man, this land is
yours in order to induce him to cult
vate or improve it. 1t is only nee
essary to say to him, whatever your
labor or capital produces on this land
shall be yours" Give man security
that he may reap and he will SOW: as.
sure him of the possession OF the house
he wants to build, and he will build it.
These are the natural rewards of labor.
1T is for the sake of the reaping that
men SOW; it is for the sake of possess
ing houses that men build. The own
ership of land has nothing to do with it,
Progress and Poverty.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

Our of nine hundred foreign mission
aries at present in India it is said that
the oldest is an American Rev. John
Newton, Of thePresbyterian Church the
veteran missionary at Lahore. who, at
the age of seventy eight years, is still
a worker ia his chosen field.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

The masses of men, who in the midst
or abundance suffer want; who, clothed
with political freedom. are condemned
to the wages of slavery; to whose toll
inventions bring no relief.
out rather seem to rob them of privi-
Iege' instinctively feel that there ia
wrong" And they are right,
-Progress and P1yerty.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

REMARK by the Kansas City Star:
"A Green County farmer who decided
all his property to his children is haul
ing rails for living. A father can sup
port twelve children, but twelve chill
dren sometimes find it difficult to sup
port one father"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

!: s. T.. HERSHEY says in recent
article: "Wonan lives longer than
man, goes insane less numerously. COM
mits; suicide one-tllird as often, makes
one-tenth the demand on the public
purse for support liz jail. prisons and
alMs-houses.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

MAINE men do some strange things.
The owners OF an unsuccessful pants
factory" are converting it into maple
syrup factory.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

THIs country is reported to have 800
colleges and universities, against nine
ty-four in Europe, but the latter are
far higher in rank, have 1,723 more
professors than over three times as
many institutions here, and Asia
more students than our 50, 400.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

THE bachelor cookers at Scott,iale are
going to marry i'll order to secure steady
employment. They are sure TO have it
once they are married.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

DuEh1Ne continues very frequent in
Italy. During the last twelve months
$3.50 duels were fought and fifty of the
comlatan is succumbed. Some of the
duclists were wounded several times
in tho same conflict, for 1901 wounds
were inflicted and over 1000 of these
were serious.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

A rUsK seven feet long and tooth
weighing over seven pounds, supposed
10 been part of mastodou, have been
nnearthed at Manson, Iowa
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

Bull HEAD. who shot Sitting Bull,
is dead. Luckily there are no sca'ping
Knives or tomahawks in I'll, happy
hunting grounds.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

Two WOMEN in Philadelphia cracked
a safe and stole $1,000 Women have
thus invaded another line of industry
heretofore exclusively held by men.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

UnuGuAY has healthy climst e,
end. according to its tables OF mortal
ity for 1852, out Of total Of 9,64O
deaths, forty-fiye were Of persons over
one hundred years OF age. Its death
rate ds only 16.510 per 1000.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

ACCORDING to Chinese Legend, the
virtues OF tea were discovered by the
mythical Emperor Chinung 2737 b. c.,
70 whom all agricultural and mechani-
pal knowledge is traced.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

LORD WoLsEhEy has stated before a
parliamentary committee that if only
100000 could be landed in Any part of
England he would not be able To pre-
vent their capturing London.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

Ef counting The Indians. tho popu-
]ation Of the country Is brought up to
$4,000, QUO: and certainly we have a
right to count them. considering how
much they have cost us.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

Tng big nations are recognizing Bra
iii. Brazil recognized the United
States by taking the constitution of
this country as a model.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

GeLuwBIA COLLEGE has /. landed cs-
tate OF about twenty acres in the best
part Of New York City, worth uow $lO,-
100000, aad likely to double in value
in the next decade.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

THE production os metal aluminium
by clectrolysis at a cost of a little above
that of tin is what some French chem
lists are sanguine of being able ta ac-
complisl
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

The custom of throwing a slipper
after bride is said to come down from
ancient times. Long before the Chris
tian era Il defeated chief would take off
his shoes and hand them to the victor to
show that the loser of the shoes yielded
up all authority over his subjects.
Therefore, when the family of the
bride throw slippers after her they
mean that they renounce all authority
oynr her.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

PIERRE owns wooded island of 2 900
acres just below the city and will con-
vert il into d park. The young capital
begins business with proper spirit.
Wise provision for the wants of q me-
tropolia will go great way towards
making a metropolis of the thriving
town;
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

In Two Of the london clubs, where
the chief butlers have been in Office for
forty years, all gold and silver change is
washed before being given to the mem,
1,ars
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

The daughter of a naval officer in
Baltimore bestowed her affections on a
maa whom her father did not approve.
He offered her a pleasure trip to China
if she would discard her lover. She re-
fused, as any other American girl
would have done. and eloped with che
man of her choice. Love laughs al
other things than lochsmiths.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

Ii is nearly twenty years since John
". Keely announced to the world that
he had discovered new force which
was destined to revolutionize the whole
system of locomotion. The inventor is
now fifty -four years old, and it seems
probable that his secret, whatever its
value, will die with him. The original
capital of the company formed to de-
velop the discovery was half million
dollars, and after this had become OK.
hausted Mrs. Bloomfield Moore sup
piled the inventor with funds to pro-
coed. Now she proposes to retire from
the concern, and its finances will suf.
fer accordingly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

MISS SARAH OHNE JEwErr, the ma
gazine writer, is the daughter of a
country doctor. She was born and
brought up GU the sea-coast of Massa-
chnsetts, and the impressions of her
childhood, obtained by contact with
a-faring persons, are the great store
house from which she draws her stories.
She is not exactly pretty woman, but
her manner is most attractive, and
Boston worships her.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

ties Only short time since rich
widow was forcibly removed from a
funeral pyrc after she had been badly
bSrned, in her desire to join her hus-
hand in the next world.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

S'TnmRE is no foundation for the re-
port" says Mr.. l4aI,oncheTe, shat
Buckingham Palace aud Marlborough
,Hossehave baen hired by an American
millionaire"