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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06

xoiourning in the swamps of Virginia.
Our condition had been somewhat i'm
proved as far as clothing and camp
egnipage was concerned, for we had
stocked up some at Goldsboro, and we
were lolling around in our new clothes
and pup tents on the borders OF the
swamps, waiting patiently for the
next move on the military checker
hoard, which we hoped and expected
would be an order to muster out. The
tents were pitched along the edge OF a
clearing, and Immediately back OF them
arose the dark Southern pines.
Snakes were plentiful in the vicinity.
You could find any number of them
near the swamps, and it was risky sit
ting on rotten log or stump without
mxst examining it to see if there wasn't
black snakcd coiled up in it some
where.
About dusk one night strolled back
10 camp completely tuckered out by a
tramp through the woods. and sought
nay tent for rest. My bunkmate was
away at the time, and so pulled Off
nay army brogans to ease my feet, and
stretched myself at full length in the
tent. 1ny feet being at the end nearest
sie trees.
Everything was quiet about camp
soz most of the boys were gathered TO-
gether at the cooks quarters in the
rear OF camp, spinning yarns aud smoll
ang their pipes, aud ere long must
Nave fallen off into doze or hal
sleep.
! was awakened by something grasp
ing me by the foot and gently pulling
ME backward out of the tent.
Stop that racket" l exclaimed, as
I imagined that my bunl=ey was dis
sarbing me for appropriating the whole
tant 10 myself
The pulling process was discontinued
fos s. moment, but the grip about my
ankle was not relaxed. Then agar
the pulling commenced. and slowl,
but surely | was being dragged back
ward in spite of my efforts to hold my
self in place.
stop, l tell youi Can't you let {
fellow rest in peace!" and with thi.
I gave vigorous kick with the othe1
xrot, calculating to hit bunkey in the
ssoulach; but my foot came in contac
with nothing. and, in moment more
4 fels the slow pulling act commence
again. "Aha!" said I, "thats your
aaSne, is it % believing that rope hat
a'aan slipped around my foot. and tina
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06

minedly on; but there is peculiar
excitement about it that makes old
, veterans rise in their saddles and
cheer.
We have been fighting at the edge
of the woods. Every cartridge box has
been emptied once or more, and one
fourth of the brigade has melted away
! in dead and wounded aud missing.
Not cheer is heard in the whole brig
! ade. We know that we are being
driven foot by foot: and that when We
break once more the line will go to
pieces, and the enemy will POUR
through the gap.
! Here comes help!
Down the crowded highway gallops
a battery. Withdrawn from some other
position to save ours. The field fence
is scattered while you could count
| thirty, and the guns rush for the hill
! behind us. Six horses to piece
three riders to each gun. Over dry
bitches where farmer would not drive
wagon, through clumps of bushes,
over logs foot thick, every horse on
the gallop, every rider lashing his
team and yelling-the sight behind us
making lis forget the foe in front. The
guns Jump two feet high as the heavy
wheels strike rock or log, but not q
horse slackens his pace, nor can.
noneer loses his seat Six guns, sis
caissons, sixty horses, eighty men race
for the brow Of the hill as if he who
reached it first would be knighted.
A moment ago the battery was {
confused mob. We look again and the
six guns are in position, the detached
horses hurryiug away, the ammunition
chests open, aud along our line runs
Che command: Give them one NOR.
Ho!ley and fall back to support the
guns" We have scarcely obeyei
when boom! boom! opens the battery
and jets of fire jump down and scorcl
the green trees under which we fough,
and despaired.
The shattered old brigade has
chance to breathe for the first time ii
three hours as we form q line and liz
down. What grim, cool fellows those
cannoneers are. Every man is per
feet machine. Bullets splash dust il
their faces, but they do not vince
Bullets sing over and around; they dc
not dodge. There goes one to til.
earth, shot through the head as he
sponged his gun. That machinery
loses just one beat, misses just one coz
in the whoel, and then works away
again as before.
Every gun is using short fuse shell
The ground shakes and trembles, the
roar shuts out all sounds from line
three miles long, and the shells &c
shrielling into the swamp to cut tree.
short off, to NOV great gaps in the
i bushes, to hunt out and shatter an6
mangle men until their corpses cannot
be recognized as human. You would
think a tornado was bowling through
the forest, followed by pillows of fire
and yet mel live through it-aye
press forward to capture the battery
We can hear their shouts as they form
for the rush.
Now the shells are changed for grape
and canister, and guns are fired sc
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06
The Soldiers Dream.
BY THOMAS CAMBpBELr,

anmr bngles sang truce, for the night-cloud
had lower'd,
And the sentinel stars set their watch in
the sky,
And thousands had sunk on the ground
Dverpowered,
Ihs weary to sleep and the wounded to
die.
@slen yeposing that night on my pallet OF
straw
NV the wolf-scaring fayot that guarded
the slain,
at the dead of the night a sweet vision
And thrce ere the morning l dreamt il
again.
Ksihought from the battle-felds dreadful
array
Far. far l had roamcd on a desolate track;
"Tssas autumn, and sunshine arose on the
way,
10 the home of my father that welcomed
me back.
q few to the pleasant fields ira ersed so OFT
Asa life's morning march, when my bosom
was young;
4 heard my own mountain goats beating
aloft,
And knew the sweet strain that the corn
lcapers sung
T1sea pledged we the wine-cup and fondly
swore
Fram my home and my weeping friends
never to part;
Ely lit4le ones kissed me a Thousand times
DER,
Aad my wife sobbed aloud i'll her fulness
OF heart:
astay, ay with us. rest; thou art weary
and worm"
AId fain was the war broken soldier to
stay.
Knit sorrow returned with the dawning of
morn,
AID the voice in my dreaming ear melted
3Way,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06

t'unkey was tugging at the other end
zrnnl behind tree.
Ely this time I was halfway out of
abe tent, and J. now gave another kick
close to the imprisoned ankle, in the
hopes of pushing off the rope
Heavens and earth! There was the
rope all right enough but it felt leath-
cry and pliable, and slippery, and. a
Sudden consciousness of what it really
was dawning upon me, l engaged in a
series of gymnastics which upset the
Bent and eventually ended in my break
mig loose from the death grip that held
my foot prisonce. / regained my feet
nj the rear Il the PROSTATE tent,
lslst in time 10 see monster black
SNAKE uncoil himself from q tree and
glide away III the darkness. He had
evidently taken a coil OF two around
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06
SHlLoH'S
C0NSU N PTIoI
CURE.

The success of this Great Cough Cu
without parallel in the history Of medl
All druggists are authorized to sell it on q
tive guarantee, a test that no other cure can
cessfully stand. That it may become kn1
the Projectors, at an enormous expense
placing Sample Bottle Free into every
in the United States and Canada. lfyoa]
a Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use \
it will cure you. If your child has the y
or Whooping Cough. use it promptly, and
is sure. If you dread that insidious o1
Consumption. use it. Ask your Drugs
SH1LOH'S CURE, Price 10 Cts. 50 cl]
$500. If your Lungs are sore or Back
use Shiloh's Porous Plaster, Price IS cA|
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06
BELOIr, Kan

The Greek scholar Schliemann died,
it is reported, while eight doctors, all
leading authorities, were considering
the question Of what to do with his
case" This was very considerate of
Schliemann, for the profession" need
not now be accused OF killing him, and
is spared the awkward predicament in
which so many eminent medical ex-
perts" found themselves in the cases
of Garfield, Grant, and the Emperor
Frederick.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06
Taken I'd

xUEGU q
sick headache, bilious heads|
dizziness, constipation, indigest
bilious attacks, and all deral
ments of the liver, stomach
bowels. It's a large contract,
the smallest things in the world
the business-Dr. Pierce's Plea
Pellets. They're the smallest,
the most effective. They go|
work in the right way.
cleanse and renovate the sys
thoroughly-but they do it mi
and gently. You feel the 8
they Debut you don't
them doing it. As a Liver |
they're unequalcd. Sugar coal
easy to take, and put up in VI
and Theoretically sealed, and I
always fresh and reliable. A
feet vest pocket remedy, in 81
walls, and only one necessary fl
laxative or three for q cathartic|
They're the cheapest pill you
buy, because they're guaranteed
give satisfaction, or your none
returned.
You only pay for the good
get.
That's the peculiar plan all
Pierce's medicines are sold
through druggists.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06
A S ip OF theron:u,.
BY AaTEMUs.

AJOR NJ. was
a Methodist minis
ter before he Sc
cured. through in
huential frie nds,
probably, the posi-
ton of Major Of
the Second ba.-
talon of our regi-
Sment.
He knew just as
much about mill
tar.y tactics as a
Government mule
knew of proper de-
pertinent; an d ,
like most Of our
volunteer officers
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06

HEN land increases in value it does
MOI mean that it's owner has added to
oh' general wealth. The owner may
ne CT nave seen the land on done aught
&c improve it. He may, and often does,
Inc IN distant city OF in another
CO ntry.-Social Problems.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06

SCENE, Central Africa Carnival Of
express train at the chief town)-T
dispatcher to the engineer-What {
this mean? don't see any conduc
Engineer-No, the tirst-class passeD
have eaten him up since we started.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
1sEAyE MEN WHO MET UPON THt
FIELD OF BATTLE.

1lasillfng Stories of the Rebellion-Old
Soldiers and Sailors Recite Interesting
"Reminiscences of LILO in Camp and on
The Field.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06

"You have such ridiculous names
in Observation-Disclosures and Xii
tat, for instance" "Ah! Where
you FROM" From Segadahoc cou
Maine. sir. What of it?"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06

ment were obliged to unite in efforts
to prevent liquor from being brought
into camp. Search was made for the
parties by whom it was sold and they
wee driven away, but that did not
stop il. The sutler was not allowed to
sell drop, and yet drunkenness pre-
vailed, just the same. Half u dozen
women were in the habit of coming
into camp to sell pies and cakes. The
Colonel mistrusted that these women
were in the habit OF bringing liquor for
the boys. One day he had them ar
rested and they were examined by the
daughter Of the regiment. She found
on their persons. out Of sight, large
number of canteens. all full OF Risky.
These were prohibited from coming
near the camp, and yet the boys got
whisky, and got drunk. Then
we were puzzled to know what
to do Mind you, this was in the
dead Of winter, and it was rather
cold Southern winter, too, if you re-
member. One day L was walking
along the river and saw large squad
OF the regiment wading the Potomac,
whose waters we're almost as cold as
ice, every man carrying his gun at q
right shoulder" or holding it up over
his head, for in some Places the water
came clear up to their necks. told
the otficer of the guard when those
men came back to arrest them, for [
believed they were there on mischief.
Upon their return they We're arrested
and taken to headquarters, and it was
discovered that they had waded the
river, got whisky and filled the barrels
OF their guns with it. Each company
had it's daily detail to wade the river
and get whisky. Of course that prac-
tice was broken up. After that there
was not so much drunkenness, but
there was still moro or less right along.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06

OFTEN do the spirits
OF great events stride on before the events.
And in today already walks tomorrow.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06
A Snake Story.

AM going to tell you
a snake story, boys,
just for a change,
and a true one. 1t
occurred at the close
of the war.
j. We had sw IL IL g
around til TO Il g h
Georgia and the Car
olinas with Sher-
man. aud had taken
>Joe Johnston iuto
, cArnn and were then
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06
A Eattery in Action.

Did you ever
see q battery
take position?
1t hasn't the
thrill of a caval-
',y charge, nor
the grimness of
q line OF bayou
cts moving slow
n ~
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06
young tree. and tl,on had reached
his tail into the tent and Attemnted
to drag me out where he could make Il
supper of me at his leisure
Where They Got tho Whisky.
by ONE OF THE BOYS.

UR regiment was ia
camp in Virginia,
near the Potomac
River, the winter of
1862, doing guard
duty on the Balti-
more and Ohio Rail
way. We had been
in camp but Il short
time when large
numbers of the men
showed up drunk.
The practice be-
came SO common
that all of the Of
Goor, of tbo nor;
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06

BRADFORD McGnEaoR, of Covingt
KY, has succeeded in welding alu
MUM with glass; and tho manufact
OF flexible glass, he thinks, is involve,
his discovery.
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COTTON HARVEST
Points to be Observed in Gathering and
Marketing the Crop.

Points to be Observed in Gathering and
Marketing the Crop.
The main point to be observed in
harvesting a crop of cotton is to gather
1T into the gin house or cotton house as
last as 1t opens. Start the pickers so
soon as enough is open to enable them
to pick forty or fifty pounds day. and
press the work from the start. letting
nothing of less Importance Interfere
Every day that an open boil of cotton
remains on the stalk it loses in weight.
color and cleanness, and consequently Y
In marked value. Trash should be
avoided as far as practicable, without
materially affecting the speed of the
pickers; but don't make the mistake of
being over-particular at this point.
Farmers A and B, each with an eouaI
force of pickers, have each ten bales of
cotton open in the fields. A aims to ge+
the tip-top of the market for his cot
ton. In week he gathers five bales of
cotton which will command the highest
price, leaving five bales in the field r
rushes things and gathers ten bales in
the same time and leaves very little n
the field. Between Saturday night and
Monday morning the winds blow and
the rains descend and beat upon, the
five bales left in AS fields. Result: A
sells five bales at eight cents, and the
live bales left in the field, if the cotton
could be gathered to itself, would not
command more than six or seven cents.
b sells his ten bales for seven and three
quarter cents, one-quarter of a cent less
than the top, because of more trash
Inc unfavorable comparison is obvious;
3 was wiser than A.
in regard to marketing cotton we
nave no confident advice to offer. Az .
fa'st the farmer should sell enough cot,
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ton at once to meet curra,.
The truth is, farmer has no aess
to be in debt. 1t embarr..OSs OSsaes
entangles him, and utterlv ~
independence. The alliano. SSs''ol
to make it cardinal nrir,;.a oas
the order to avoid debt as If t'ps 9,
deadly Upas. Increased fas;li., ~ se''a
borrowing money by farmers .'ss ! a
ful policy. Borrowed money r..' : 1e9s.
repaid; increased circulation nv ,s y
may enhance the market valna i %ule 9
will also increase the prices q 4. " y
which the farmer must buv NJ Tepa
old-fashioned enough to believe : { 9 g
cash system-especially for f,a Y
mechanics and all wage-woyLo. z
wealth producers of the count Y
mand cash-pay cash. He can ~. y
when it suits him to sell, and bne W. ~ \
lowest prices. Southern Culfivs,s' ! y
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HERE AND THERE.

There is too much idleness on oasl
farms, and it is not always the husbanil
man that is idle. There is land idlea anl
paying no interest. Stock and toolsmI
employed and useless.
The man who raises one hundfal
bales of cotton on three hundred aaFa
is not cotton king. He who raises 9
the crops necessary to support hinslI
and stock, and three bales Of cotton g
ten acres is the true monarch.
By no means should boar be 9
lected to head heard that is faulty .
his legs or feet. Excellence Of tqa1
will not overbalance this deficiency q
the body is no value with no legs unaa
it.-Rural World
The common land turtle and a
toad are good friends Of gardelan
Not one of them should be disturOeI
They will quickly rid green-housa
cellars and pits of all manner Of insa
pests. Do not let the children NOES
them in the garden. Rural Word
Many men make a mistake ID I
lecting large boned swine for breeasl'
Too often the bones are sctt and Wsls
which is very noticeable when tne "
mails are fatted, and these deheleas'
will be reproduced in the offspring "
probably in magnified degree, small
bones are often stronger than tns ~
ones. Rural World.
The United States within toe 8
year has imported more than nVe 'al.'
the amount of sheep than were e4e..
ed for food purposes. The ilnpesI +
principally from Canada, were ~. Nv
head, while the exports were only ~.
head. Our markets probably inlh.
the Canadian fockmasters the pes. j
portunity for profit they nave "'''
available reach. Rural World.
We can not raise too many =
Every farmer in the south, whem
sible, ought to raise enough to suas
his own farm, and have small sulp.
for sale. We hear that there IS aun.
sition to shorten the oat crop ln
cuse being that the cotton is sun !
field. The farmers will be INV
they let anything stand between
and their oat crop.-Dixie Fafih'i 81
Much of the cotton raising o
day seems based on the idea aasssI
by a clothing merchant, in Aus
He always sold his goods below ~.
''How do you make anything Z. -.
was question propounded TO nm ,.sss
than once. His invariable r. s5
was: because l sell SO much ~
ton is sold for a price below hs ~
production, and the farmer lnl. 81
can only make by selling a gle'
of it Southern Cultivator. 4,
Americans can learn from =.
anese a thing or tw9 about ". 3
stalls for horses. In Japan hO'5 ~
backed into their stalls, then ~ S..
closed at the head, which has -.
and hay rack conveniently cons" Tei
to shich the nag is hitchea Is Il
needed the door is swung back ~ ,a.s +
horse led forth. No one gets sis-;s
refuse matter is visible 70 ~ ..ssg
and it seems to be a ssnsi"s
construct place for aRT Roise
(! Farmer
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HOW MOUNTAINS WE'RE MADE,
A Scientific Description of the Peculiar
Process.

Foremost in their geographic import
ance, and in the intricacy and signifi-
cance of their geologic structure and
origin, are the mountain belts which
consist of folded rock formations. The
strata forming the upper part of the
earth's crust are bent up and down in
long, nearly straight or curving, wave
like ridges and troughs, and where
their disturbance was greatest the sue
cessive ridged folds are closely pressed
together. The waves of the rock struc-
ture are then pushed to such steepness
that their sides become parallel with
each other, and the entire fold is driven
forward into an inclined position. The
order of the strata on the lower side of
the oppressed fold is thus inverted; the
originally highest and last formed de-
posits there lie beneath older beds. in
an overturned series. Subaerial erosion
then wears down the undulations and
the crests of the closely folded strata,
often planning them off until a LONG
section, crossing mountain ranges. passes
from older to newer beds, and onward
from newer to older, in several alter
nations, having throughout the whole a
nearly constant steep dip. Owing to
the interbedding of hard and enduring
sandstone, quartzite, gneiss, and other
rock formations, with more easily
eroded limestones, sbales, incoherent
sandstones, or schists, the erosion COM
monty PRODUCES r new topography,
making hollows and long valleys where
the most erosible beds have been re-
moved, and leaving ridges and noun
tain ranges of the harder rocks. More
than this when erosion has been con-
tinued through very long periods, it
tends toward the ultimate result of re-.
moving the upward curved or anticlinal
portions of the great folds and sparinp
the originally lower downward curved
or synclinal portions, until valleys take
the places which were originally occu-
pied by the highest upheavals, while
the original troughs, where the rocks
were most compacted by pressure, re-
main now as the principal mountain
ridges. Under denudation, the folded
mountainous belt fulfills the prophecy
Every valley shall be exalted. and
every mountain and hill shall DO made
loT, ,"s~Warrea Upham, ia Popular SCH
egee Monthly,
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Spare the Lash.

Few mares and geldings should d
subjected to the cutting lash. Nowm
then the naturally dull and fagginga
ergies of a stallion must be reused /
action by the whip, but its continua
application is unwise. A sharp cut non
and then, with the dread of more vii
bring fortb the best efforts of the duH
horse. The voice and rein are gresta
inspirers of increased efforts than ID
whip. AS a last resort, when all seem
to fail, a sharp cut and lifting at ihi
same time, with a letting go Of ii
horses head, not too sudden, willie
able you to win by neck, head Ga
eyelaSh. Dixie Farmer.
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THE MEAT SUPPLY
Push the Hogs Intended for Po..
Cember. ~

Push the Hogs Intended for po.,
cember. n
This is the time to commence NJ, p
ing the hogs intended for pork nal. sge !,
cember. Field peas, peanuts, new u n,
sweet potatoes are now ready q,
Mild weather is the time for f,tt... !,
1t has often been said that non.s IN
any fattening food fed in Septemts
October is equal to two pounds ~. "
December or January; and we MI. =
it is true.
A very large portion of food an n n
sumed in cold weather, especiallv ii N 7
the animal is not well protectoa NJ
proper shelter, is devoted to tba os
of keeping up the animal 4. y
Hence the process of fattening eoe,s
very slowly, or at least, more evr..
sively. 1t is, therefore, sound polisg a.
this account as well as for other =
to have the hogs fat enough to l,illa,s' Al
in December. We are conscious q n "
fact Qamentable it isl that manv f,,r
ers who will read these lines have
hogs to butcher. They have almost /.
gotten the old-time 'hog-killinra ,,i
yet they eat bacon and lard al 4,
same. With them raising their on,
bacon" is about as foreign to theiri5sa q
and their practice as the making Of d,
tracechains and axes necessary in n,
work. We trust, however, that 4,
number of these is growing snaur
year by year, and that the day vii !
come again when every farmer viii 9
realize that it is cheaper and in-sysr I
way better to provide such necesssr I
supplies by home efforts, instead Of n
lying on the western farmers, the aE !,
roads and the merchants.-Hzs a
Farmer,
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Learn that between body and pody
there is an infinite difference. The
senses of one mans body are porches
to fair or market, within which one
lives who desires to make gain and
crafty the flesh. The senses of another
mans body are porehes to a temple;
within there lives one who is face to
face with God.-John Pulsford.