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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17
DEPARTMENT. OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION,
STATE OF SOUTH DAKo1

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
To SUPERINTENDENTs AND DISTRICT
OFFICERS:
The last legislature passed an en-.
tirely.new school law and this is now
being prepared for the press and an
authorized edition of 1t will appear and
be placed in your hands as soon us the
work can be completed In the mean
time it Unnecessary that you have some
idea OF what the law is that You may
lntelligently perform your duties. For
this reason have purchased sufficient
copies of the popular Edition OF the
School Law" printed by the Free Press
Of Pierre, to supply the school officers
OF the various counties with such in
formation as is necessary at this time.
Under the provisions of this law
it is possible for townships. in town
ship counties, to sub divide in to small
er districts and the districts, in district
counties, to combine and make the
township the district. 1t IS especially
recommended that in the matter Of
changes from smaller TO larger or from
larger to smaller districts due consid-
Grafton ahouldb given to all questions
relating thereto. | would advise that
for at least one year no changes should
| be mace and that the law be tried I'M
der existing conditions as regards the
| size of the district. 1t would be I'm.
wise with all the confusion that VIII
necessarily result in adopting q new
school law to increase the difficulties
| by such changes. County superin
tendents and district school officers
Will have their hands quite full enough
to get the machinery of the new law
in operation without the additional
embarrassment that would be thus oc
casloned There would he endles,
trouble in adjusting of accounts. pro
viding for equitable division Of tn
bonded indebtedness, arranging o
1 boundaries, etc, etc, if changes O
this character are made this year. LIE
the system he put in operation a
things now stands, study the details O
the law and observe carefully its work
ings, then, when all are familiar wit
it's provisions, iAtelllgent action can b
taken and school officers VIII be abl
to perform their duties with create
precision and an endless amount G
trouble Will be saved
1t is hoped that the new law Wi
do away with the strife between tn
advocates OF the district and the tow1
ship system and that future Legislation
Will be mainly directed to snpplyin
COMMISSIONS and correcting errors il
minor points Of the law.
CORTEZ SALM0N.
Superintendent Of Public lnstruc
ton.
Pierre, s. D., March 30th, 1891.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

we received official notice Yesterday
OF thesnspension Of the "1ndependent''
u radical Independent sheet published
at Huron by j. II. Lowe. From one of
cur exchanges we gather that Mr.. Lowe
is not willing to publish newspaper
Tor the glory there is in the business;
since it has stated that the Independ-
en- has suspended ON account of the
lack of support.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

1he republican mayoralty candidate
in Chicago has small plurality thus
far
A Russian warship was stopped by
the Turks from passing through lhe
Darlanelles
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17
BUSINESS CARDS.
~ MATTHIAS, N. o.

me University of aeunsylvania-
u''t" .', n,,crs his professional services.
0 i'V'" full line of
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10 SUPERINTENDENT AND DIsTHIC
OFFICERS:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

One million dollars disappeared in
plaZe and smoke last Sunday in the
neaft OF Chicago. 1t was the most
disastrous fire since the famous one of
1871.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

Some of the stock holders and cash
subscribers of the new Independent
paper are owing the Herald two or
three years back subscriptions. And
BY the way, some Of them are reported
as"gettlns all they can and keeping
all they can get OF the goods donated
to poor suffering, starving Dakot y
Perhaps though, after all it was il new
paper they We're starving for.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

The Sioux City journal of the 18th
inst. contains an extract from speech
by d 5 Nc Caslin. formerly Of Huron,
now pastor OF Bethlehem Presbyterian
church of Minneapolis, The lecture
was delivered before the Academy of
Science Of Minneapolis, and the sub
ject was. The Geology of the .Artesian
Basin of South Dakota" 1t showed
close scientific observation and was a
good advertisement for the advantages
and prospects OF South Dakota.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

This nv
publishers and to mposse
offered by together with publishers
the John Salzer Co.
and dealers Seeds
tllfImen, eA'oo 10
Sample copies of THE NORTHWESTERN AGK1ouruEr sent on
application to publishers, 654 Temple Court Minneapolis
For Sazer Catalogue $780, (now re.y) write John
Sazer Seed Co., Lacrosse: Wis -
:: HERALD and Agicuurist without Seeds only 81, is -:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

close scientific observation and was Il
good advertisement for the advantages
and prospects OF South Dakota.
Last June the wool growers of South
Dakota called Il convention to meet at
Huron on the dag before the alliance
convention. They carried out an in
terestlng program and very hopeful
discussions Were carried ON and belief
expressed on every hand that sheep
would pay Off the mortgages. This did
not SUIT the alliance leaders who were
present, E.oucks, Wardali, Harden and
Co, rs their PRIME object was to create
dissatisfaction and form new political
party. So it WGultl never do to let them
hear such talk and the alliance was
Immediately called to order and fur
ther attendance prevented. The pow
erty racket is what keeps the Indepead-
ent party alive. Prosperity would be
the death OF it. Therefore any means
used to pay Gil mortgages except by
legislation, which means boosting u
few ambitious sicmagogues int the
Senate and state Legislature, is ScofTe,
1T 10y the would DE senators and legls-
lators. Arteslan wells, creameries and
the shceR industry will nrip the farm
ers Of South Dakota more than the In
dependent party ever has Or ever Will.
The Iowa Homestead (Farmers Or
gam contains indisputable proof CT
the fact that the Southern Alliance is
committed TO the biggest monopoly
ever known. Being nothing less than
the prime motive from the start to
form gigantic cotton trust, which,
by controlling the product of America
would virtually control the world. 1t
should be thoroughly understood by
our farmers that the southern Alliance
is at variance with them in this prime
object of the organization. The al
lance men OF the north are opposed to
monopolies yet through some OF the
Dakota y lliance has affiliated with the
Southern Alliance. The Iowa Alliance
refuses to do SO, and but few OF the
members in this state are aware OF
their consignment to the Southern Al
lance by Loucks, and other delegates to
the National convention with like dem
ocratic tendencies. The facts are also
brought out concerning the selling out
of the officers Of the Southern Alliance
To-Day Gould-who once said it was
easier to buy thar to elect II leg
islature. The story is tcld by Pres. T..
$. Hall Of the Missouri Alliance,
whose testimony is unimpeachable. DO
our South Dakota Alliance men sane
Cion snch corruption? We think not;
and the sooner they get thelr eyes
omen md Sever their connection with
the Southern Alliance, the better ii
kill De for tn elm and the northwest.
We are fortunate in having Only the
| better class Of foreigners settle amons
| us here in the west. The eastern cltles
are over run with the very lowest Eag-
abond off-scourings Of creation, 1t
is enough to make American Dlood
boil to think Of the "Polish vagabond,
German socialist, Russian anarchlst
and nihilist, Irish pauper, English con-
yict. Italian brigand and other scum
rushing to our country and IN a re"
months. if they wear coats anG brrech-
es, casting ballots and controlling the
nation. Where will it all end.
1'he republican mavoralty candidate
in Chicago has asDall plurality thus
far.
|,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

.,,,cs AND MEDICINES.
NJ Toilet Articles. Garden Seeds
|S'', n,,r,, Oils, Glass, Putty &c.
a." SPRINGS. DAKOTA.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01
German
Syrup

Here is an incident from the South
Mississippi, written in April, 1890,
just after the Grippe had visited that
country. II am a farmer, one Of
those who have to rise early and
work late. At the beginning oflast
Winter l was on a trip to the City
of Vicksburg, Miss. where I got
drenched in shower of rain. ]
went home and was soon after seized
with a dry, hacking cough. This
grew worse every day, until / had
to seek relief. consulted DR.. Dixon
who has since died, and he told me
to geta bottle of Boschee's German
Syrup. Meantime my cough grew
worse and worse and then the Grippe
came along and I caught that also
very severely. My condition then
compelled me to do something. I
got two bottlesof German Syrup. /
began using them, and before taking
much of the second bottle, I was
entirely clear of the Cough that had
hung to me so long, the Grippe, and
all its bad effects. Ifelt tip-top and
have felt that way ever since"
PETER ]. BRIALs, Jr., Cayuga, Hines
Co.. Miss. Q
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New York Times on the Land Tax.

The great advantage of tax upon
land is that it can be equitably adjusted
and economically collected, that there
can be no escape or evasion, and that it
win bear upon value that is absolute
~ proportional to the profitableness Of
its occupation and use. In other words,
it will be proportional to the wealth
that is employed in the use of the land,
which, directly and indirectly consid-
cred, is the entire wealth of the COM
munity. The tax will necessarily be
paid out of the surplus of production
When the tax is levied anywhere be-
tween the land and the wealth accumu-
lated from its use, it falls upon the az
tive agencies of production, and inter
feres with their activity and fruitful
ness. This induces inequality Ct bur
dens and efforts to escape, and when
ever the pressure is greater in one place
than another, there will be shifting Of
ground as inevitably as air or water
moves in the direction of the least re-
sistance. In our efforts at tax reform
we are driven more and more back to
the land, or to what is called real prop.
erty, as the true basis of public reve-
enues.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01
A Detroit Paper See. the Light.

A local assembly of the Knights of
Labor in Boston has passed set of res
olutions which demand:
That bill be drafted by the state
legislature providing that the state gov
eminent seize, under the rights of emf
nent domain, all vacant lands held for
speculative purposes, adjacent to all
steam or electric surface and elevated
railroads, at present erected or to be
erected; that such lands be cut mp into
houselots and decided to, at SUM not to
exceed 5000 per lot, worlingmen, under
q mortgage by the state; that21S per
cent be charged as interest; that the
land be appraised by state appraiser;
that each holder Of deed be advanced
enough money to build a house of rea-
sonable dimensions thereon; that when
the sum advanced by the state be re-
funded clear conveyance of the title
should be made to the holder of the
title.
The Detroit Evening Journal thinks
that people will laugh at this
proposition. and that perhaps that is
the best way to treat it. Nevertheless
it goes on to say:
To the thoughtful mind there is some
thing suggestive in this resolution by
the Boston Knights Why is it that in
this young country, with its natural re-
sources hardly touched, wages are so
low that men find it hard to get homes
of their own? Is it because our land is
taken up in advance of actual need?
The speculator always goes ahead of
enterprise, and the land takes on not
only fair rental value, but it takes on
prospective value, and every increase
in productive power simply gives the
landowner chance to shove up the
price of his land Wages, therefore, do
not rise materially; for the value of
the land tends to increase faster than
the production of wealth, and the land
owner gets what ought to go to labor
as wages Horace Greeley saw all this
more or less clearly forty or fifty years
ago, and he advocated q law limiting
the area of land which one man might
own. It would have been well had his
warning been needed; for even now
workingmen are looking greedily at
The land which belongs to those who
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01

In the air. Fur cent the whole derued
pack of 'em nd go on stampede"
I informed old Ike, who was tho
leader among the boys" of what Mer-
rill had said, and the whole force gath
cred around to listen. / also told of
nv interview with the squatter. Old
Ike scratched his head for a moment,
and then slowly said:
oval, here's q nice mess, shore. I'm
agin runnin' them settlers off in any
SIGH way, but reckon we'll haft to do
it. Orders is orders an we've got to
obey or else hunt another job"
"That's fact" replied JADE Morgan.
s'The Teller has got to go, or else we've
got to CO."
"Yep," agreed Ike. "That's the size
an shape of it. But, by gum, it mayn't
be no easy matter to trot that chap off.
He pears sorter game, and like enough
he'll pump some of us full of lead"
The ssboys" were still discussing the
matter when, before we were hardly
aware of it, the whole herd broke into
stampede and went crashing away,
hugging close to the timber and making
the very earth tremble beneath their
feet Directly toward the squatter's
wagon they went, and it was a sight to
sicken one when he looked upon that
vast sea of cattle and realized how ire.
sistible was the mad rush, and how de-
fenseless was anyone who stood in the
way. knew that the old wagon and
it's contents would be literally blotted
out of existence, and knew no means
of escape for the poor squatter.
Merrill saw the stampede and came
riding down toward us, but all at once
he stopped as if rooted to the ground
He was near me, and saw deathly
Wilderness come to his face while hi
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01


and well dressed, rightly judged that
he was Mr.. Merrill Just as we met
he happened to notice the old wagon,
and refining in His horse, he said:
What is that over there by the
timber?''
"a home-seeAer, Ireplied.
'Oh, a squatter, Ell? Well, go over
and tell him to move on"
'I've already warned him." l an
swered.
as he going away, then?"
II don't know. He is very poor, and
is very sick, but think he'll go to-mor-
row."
Mr.. Merrill sdw at once that was at
tempting to SCREEN the man, and with a
fash of anger He said:
"You 60 down and tell the boys that
! said that squdtter must not be there
at shutdown. 10 you understand me?''
II do" said II as turned away.
rode leisurely down in the direction
of the herd and found the boys work
ing the cattle bhck toward the ranch
There's goiH to be storm, old Ike
Sampson announced ss / rode up.
seThese blamedlcattle air the most rest
lees an oneasyl critters ever sec, an
thats . shore sign somethin' y brewin'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01
Tax Commissioner Coleman on Taxa
ton.

Recently. before New York legisla-
tive committee, Tax Commissioner Cole
man gave it as his opinion that the eff.
feet of the taxation of personal proper
ty in this state had been to drive out of
this city, in one year, over $500, 600, 900
in capital represented in corporations
alone. At least Is to 20 per cent. OF
that amount represented the capital OF
companies which had been doing busi-
ness in this city. They had found it
more profitable, however, to wind up
their affairs in New York and reorgan-
ize in New Jersey. Excessive taxation
had driven them across the river. AL
though organized in New Jersey, many
of these firms did business only in New
York city. This Information was the
result of special investigation on the
part of Mr.. Coleman. Among those
firms the witness named the Thurber-
Whyland Co., Park & Tilford, the Gel
luloid Co., the United States Book Con-
Germ, Devoe & Co. and the Hoffman
Cafe. The Hoffman cafe was capital
lied at 81, $50, 900 in New Jersey. This
fact greatly surprised the senator's.
These concerns all received the same
protection from the fire and police
departments as those incorporated in
this state. They contributed in return
practically nothing to the government
of New York. They depend upon New
Jersey for nothing except exemption. 1t
was true that they were obliged to pay
some money to the state of New Jersey.
The amounts, however, were compare
lively small. New Jersey did not COM
pei her corporations to make returns of
their property. Much of the other tes-
timony given by the commissioner has
been printed in the Standard heretofore;
but he made one new point against the
personal property tax. He said that il
was sapping at the roots of home life
in this city, ''for," said he, 1.-The rates Of
personal taxation are SO obnoxious that
people instead of building fine resi-
dences engage suite of rooms in some
hotel and live at some club. A few
years ago hotels were but seven stories
high, now they are seventeen stories
high" The commissioner said that the
virtual abolition of the tax on personal
property would be of the greatest bene'
fit to the city of New York.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01
Learning to walk.

People sometimes ask at what age
can we seat child in chair, when put
him on his legs, how old must he be be-
fore we teach him to walk? The an
swers are easy. He must not be made
to sit till he has spontaneously sat up
in his bed and has been able to hold his
seat This sometimes happens in the
sixth or seventh month, sometimes
later. The sitting posture is not with
out danger, even when he takes it him
self. Imposed prematurely upon him
it tires the backbone and may interfere
with the growth, SO the child should
never be taught to stand or to walk.
That is his affair, not ours. Place him
on carpet in healthy room or in the
open air and let him play in freedom,
roll, try to go ahead on his hands or
feet, or go backward. which he will do
more successfully at first. 1t all grad
ually strengthens and hardens him.
Some day he will manage to get upon
his knees, another day to go forward
upon them and then to raise himself up
against the chairs. He thus learns to
do all he can as fast as he can and no
more.-Popular Science Monthly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01

The spiders appeared bringing elegant lace,
Woven in patterns of beauty and grnoe."
Not often, however, are such exhibits
shown in bulk, yet reliable accounts
furnish instances Of showers of gossa-
mer webs, as seen in different parts of
the world, presenting an appearance Of
wonderful beauty. One such, mentioned
in Whites Selbourne, had webs strong
Of texture, in the meshes of which heavy
dew-drops hung in abundance, making
in sunlight a very brilliant show; one
such fall continued all day. In Wis
consin such showers have fallen in sew
eral towns at once; the aerial tourists
having charge of this singular visitation
of beauty were supposed to have come
from the lake. The webs varied in
length from sixty feet to a mere speck,
and were seen as high up in the air as
the power of the eye could reach. OAR
win observed similar shower of Cos
samer webs from the deck of vessel
when sixty miles from land. --Harper's
Bazaar.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01

Mrs. Fangle-How do you like your
new maid, Mrs Jingle?
Mrs Jingle-O, she'd be all right il
she were not so over-refined.
Mrs. Fangle-In what way?
Mrs. Jingle-She never breaks any
thing but the most costly Dresden china
1T Joseph News
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01

IL. One of the duties v
were charged was that {
range, which was gov
free of settlers.
when you see a co
said our manager, keep
it, and take care that
our grazing lands.
but suppose" duesti'
owner of a wagon sh
move on. Then what al
II guess there's enoui
replied the manager, s.
does move. If any man
hardy enough to sduat h
notified not to id so,
business to route him o
his horses, burn his '
he's very ostrcperous, '
a little. Our instruct
Merrill are to keep this
settlers, and we'vd got
lose our jobs"
During the next mont
ons drove across ohr ran
them halted within oul
one day, late in the al
came an old cahvas-c
dilapidated and shackli
degree, drawn by b span
horses that could scar
creep. l saw the poor
along the edge lof thu
watched it until ! saw il
less than a fourth of a
ranch. I saw a man c
wagon, and after pookin
minute or so, prdceed
team and turn them OF
felt it my duty to warn
on, so l rode down to
that purpose. The hns
thin, siclAy-lookihg pei
roundings proclaimed hi
extreme poverty l w
his appearance, land Z
could, I informed him O
of Immediately vscating
] spoke his pale, sharp +
up with the fire Of indi
reply he said:
i've made my past n
driven by force. I've |
from place to pldce by
till I've got nothing left
of it. This land IS opeI
and l have a right to a {
l propose to haveft.
''But You can't hold
They'll burn yo4r wag
horses"
Just let them try it, ,
ing his hand on a pistol
his side. 1--WE got thil
desperate enough to us
them wouldn't BURN any
l had only gond a shor
/ met a little boy rum
prairie, and as he stops
gaudy cowboy" attire
I spoke to him ard aske
I'm Johnnie Merrill,
Men my pa just come
day, an my pa he's gon'
cattle an I'm goih' dow
wagon. My pa he ov
you know, an hf let !
here with him this time
] had not gonf far, a
boy, when l met "a man
on horseback, anH as he
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01


There's a patent medicine
which is not a patent medicine
paradoxical as that may
sound. It's a discovery! the
qolasn discovery of medical
science It's the medicine for
you-tired, run down, exhaust
ed, nerve wasted men and
women; for you sufferers from
diseases Of skin or scalp, liver
or lungs-it's chance is with
every one, it's season always.
because it aims to purify the
fountain of life-the blood
upon which all such diseases
depend.
The medicine is DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery.
The makers of it have
enough confidence in it to
sell It on trial. /
That is-you can get it from
your druggist, and if it doesn't
do what It's claimed to do, you
can get your money back,
every cent Of 1t. !,
That's what its makers call
taking the risk Of their seO,as.
Tiny, little, sugar. coated
granules, are what DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets are. The best
Liver Pills ever invented; ac-
tive, yet mild in operation;
cure sick and bilious head
aches. One a dose.