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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
u.,,,u.. r,zs,4e-reot skin.

Eonsas CITY has the distinction OF
possessing, through one OF her clt'zens'
Tho largest bear skin in the country
and presumably, the largest IN the
world. Although not two years o!d as
a detached skin, it has an interesting
history. as related in the Kansas Guy
Stnr. The immense rug is owned by
s NJ. Jarvis, and occupies q place OF
honor in the center OF his drawing
room. II is twelve feet long by ten
feet ., not counting the head, Toll,
Or legs, ii of which arc attached, ana
~, 4, as natural, almost, as life. -,
{. . bear, black grizzly, was lsi ,aea
some ne during the winter OF 1898
and IL. , on Bear Lake, in Utah. lis
mate ..ad two cubs were killed OF the
same time. The bear when Killed
weighed $3.50 pounds. The bear skin
was bought by Mr.. Jarvis, who was
about that time in the neighborho"d OF
Bear Lake looking up some property
interests. While it was being prepared
for use as rug, the fame OF the big
bear skin got abroad through the local
newspapers. end among others who
tried to buy it was a representative OF
the University of Pennsylvania. This
gentleman offered $1,000 for it, but, a.
though the original purchaser had Sc
cured it for a much smaller sum, he re-
fused to sell it any price. The rug was
shipped to Mr.. Jarvis last Christmas.
Now comes the part in the history o.
the big bear skin of which the OLD
grizzly's posterity i'll tho mountains OF
Utah may we'll be proud. Just before
the famous Stanley dinner given in
London in honor of the great explorer
May 80, 1890, Henry S. Welcome,
chairman of the committee on the big
entertainment, who had been in Kansas
City and been particularly struck With
the handsome trophy of the forest
asked for it to use ON the occasion. A
rare collection of such things decorated
the banquet hall, and the bear Skin
occupied prominent place on the wall
Some time after the big dinner Miss
Dorothy Tenant, then Staniey's fiancee
and the present Mrs. Stanley, wrote te
MIR. Welcome asking for the use OF the
rug for short time. Her wish wa'
gratified, and when few days ago Mr.
Jarvis received the rug from London il
was accompanied by a letter from Mis-
Tenant thanking Mr.. Welcome ant
describing a luncheon which she haf
served on it to William f.. Gladstone
and Mr.. Stanley.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
One Phase OF CITY Life.

In tracing girls who mysteriously dis
appear from their homes, private de.
tectives find the most and more profit
able of their work. In New York, it is
assumed that at least five thousand
girls disappear from their homes Ieverv
year. Some of them are recovered and
some are not. The causes leading to
the disappearances are as numerous as
the cases themselves. Disappointment
in love, fancied wrong, severity of
treatment by parents, desire to see
the world, tho evil influences of i'm
proper association, the oily-tongued
roue and temporary insanity are some
of the excuses made. Then there is an
other class of disappearances which
properly come under the head of kid
mapping, and still another, where the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
phrcnology of Umbrellas.

The precise umbrella has an erect
rigidness of poise that turns neither to
the right nor to the left.
The cautious umbrella has covert,
misunderstanding snugness that keeps
close to the sheltered side of the way.
The calculating umbrella has weigh
and-measure preoccupation, dipping
down slowly to the right or left, like
the reckoning squirt of an eye.
The irascible umbrella jerks through
the moving mass of its kind, with a
rampant air of general unsteadiness that
people pause to ruffle their brows at.
The good-naturcd umbrella has an
ambling slowness of movement, a rest
on-oars look, that seems to contemplate
its fellows as subjects for laughter.
The neutrality-suspicious. umbrella has
a steady, determinate movement, that
brushes and colliiles and knocks off hats
on ali "alls fair in war" principle.
The going-to-the. party umbrella hobs
and slHps in air, with certain buoyant
elevation that seems borne on the wings
of glee.
The take-it-casy umbrella hangs off
with an oh-fuss, what's-the hurry loll.
The shy umbrella has o forward dip.
like hat pulled over the eyes.
The absent-minded umbrella pro.
trudes comfortably from under the
arm, while its owners head acts sub
stitute.
The sweet 16 umbrella has snug.
"chummy," equipose, that suggests a
web and wool of Isn't he just lovely
confabs. with acid drop intermissions.
The forlorn woman umbrella has .
vigorless, broken poise, first one side
then another, like shifted burden.
The ohivalric umbrella has come
and be-sheltered hospitality of poise,
he'd upward. outward, with strong
right-hand grip, neither in ostentation
nor selfshness, but with glorious ring
round brace of protection.
The needless umbrella is kleptoma-
MAC. 1t gets into trouble with fringes
and laces, obviously carries off some
body's veil, and mover even halts for
the injured spirit who gazes after it
with scathing well, I never!"-B os.
ton Globe
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
A Can't. u,..

Henry was a bashful Iowa,
scarcely dared touch his ladv,s
He loved her we'll and she waa a
of his affection, for she was moa NO
telligent, sweet, and honoraha1sess
like all good women she yearpea :.
respectful caresses that are tb IVY
dences of a pure affection. Sba |
ever, yearned in vain. Henrn
shipped her-he might kiss thu III
her garment, but to kiss he, ~ y
cheek-the very audacity Of the ,ha
made him tremble. u09
They sat together by the sea ,o,I
ont on the track of tho moons /
which white-winged yachts vera y
ing now and then. It was a Mn
hour. A scene for love and cals s!
light.
Suddenly she moved slightly ,
from him.
"Please, Henry, don't do thas ).
said.
"What?" he asked in genuine
prise.
ooh, you needn't tell NO." shs
piled. "You were just going to
your arm around my waist-and
were going to try to kiss me-"
"Dear Lille"
ooh, you needn't tell me diff.
you were going to do it. Well,
all, I suppose you are not to blanc
is just what a lover would do L
sweetheart, and 1 suppose I must n
offended if you do it.
Henry grasped the situation an
exactly what Lille supposed be '
do, and the moon grinned and the
winked, and the wavelets laughed
q mosquito that was about to alig
the maiden's cheek flew away and
tied on the nose Of q grass widow
was sitting near the band stand.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
CruShal.


-Four or five of US entered the hotel
together, but the man with the sealskin-
trimmed overcoat pushed his way right
up to the desk, registered as J. N.
Powell Jones, Boston, and loudly re-
marked:
"Best parlor bedroom you have in
sae caravansary, aud it must be on the
front, too"
Eyes, sir" obseauiously replied the
clerk, and he ran him into the elevator
before he assigned any OF the rest of us
to back room four floors up
At dinner the Baron had his bottle Of
wine. aud he had two walters jumping
at his command. When through he
strolled into the office with gold tooth
pick in his mouth, sat down in promi-
nent place, and, stretching out his legs,
he remarked in a loud voice: IF had
time I'd like to give the Mayor Of this
town a few hints on how to run it.
Here, you! If the Governor calls TO,
me say that I am out. don't want tc
be bothered with him."
who is he?" L asked Of one of the
group.
"A drummer from Boston," he re-.
Piled.
why, I thought him sone great
man."
well, you were right, They don't
grow any bigger in this country"
The Baron snapped his fingers for 9
boy, sent for newspaper and cigar,
and was asking if any of us had ever
seen thousand-dollar bill, when Jow
drummer for a tobacco house entered
with an open telegram in his hand and
handed it to the owner of the earth.
It read:
Firm of Blank g. Blank, Boston, gone
under for 5000, OOO."
That was the firm the Baron trav.
eled for. He read the dispatch twice
over, gasped three or four times. and
then fell on the floor. The news he.
came public property in five minutes,
and the clerk of the hotel looked coldl7
upon the unconscious man, and then
said to the oolored porter:
take him up the freight elevator to
q cheap back room, Sam, and don't
waste any more water than you can help
in bringing him to. As soon as he can
walk, get him out"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
No Wonder She Wa. Fr,gh.ene,1


There was an old woman living nd
the American frontier who had an ips
table desire to learn tho latest new
On one occasion she called to a pedd,1
whom she had frequently saluted
fore, what's the news?" @Why," Sc
he. "the Indians have fixed crowD
under Lake Erie, aud arc going to to ~
it over and drown the world. ~
mercy! what shall I do? she exc!alne
and away she ran to tell her neigEee!
OF the danger. and inquire of the MINI !
ter how such calamity could
averted.
Why" said he, you need not !
alarmed; We have our Makers prom,
that He will not again destroy the v0''
by water" :,
Il know that" returned the old lse
but this time He's nothing to do WI VI
tits them plaguey Indians!'~f''
Me- UD.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
Good I.anpliara.

As soon as child begins to lisp its
first broken sentences its education
should begin. Habits are formed
which will exist to greater or less de.
gree throughout life. Such being the
case, the conversation of the older
members of the family should be care.
fully guarded, lest the little ones hear
and learn ungramatical expressions and
slang, which, sad to ss7, is so rife
among our young people OF the present
day. The servants, with whom chill.
dren spend much of their time. should
be chosen with reference to this mat.
ter. A mother should feol it her duty
to point out any gramseical mistakes
made by them, and insist upon their
Language being correct. respectful and
devoid of slang at all tiraes. It is ex.
ceedingly difficult to break children Of
habits once formed, and care in this di.
rection will save much trouble and an.
noyance. One way to cultivate the use
OF language, and at the same time to
learn OF the occupations and compan.
ions OF her children, is for the mothe,
to encourage the daily narration Of
what they have seen, heard, and en-.
joyed, and the telling Of their little ex.
periences. The study of pictures, more.
over. in which every child delights,
may be used as great provocation 81
language: Children always love to
look at pictures. and can almost ALWAYS
be induced to talk about them. This
study teaches them observation, and
how to accurately describe what thew
see. When stories are read to children
they should be obliged to reproduce
them, using as far as possible the Ian.
guage OF the book. The memory Is
strengthened in this way, . habit of at.
tention is formed, and the power Of ax.
preston increased. If such plans n,
these are systematically car
ried out. they will nrov.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
A woman,s Inyentaon,

The man with fifteen pockets
it hard to understand how vol
ever manages to go shopping with
pocket at most, and often with
pocket at all. He wants his hands
while the Christmas shopper must
paraphernalia, but only for moeni
work, but for protection from the
ments as we'll.
One who has suffered this inccaj
fence herself, writes the Hla.strI
american, has produced o pedest|
umbrella-holder, which certainly p}
ises we'll:
This is intended especially for
woman who must carry muff, pd
and numberless ct ceterns, beside
slim, slippery umbrella, with q tend@
70 slide out of her grasp.
This simple invention leaves
hands free to cope with the obsta,
for the umbrella slips into sheat
few inches deep, attached to ste,
nickel chain with spring hooks.
top of the sheath just reaches the ell,
and button usually carried around
umbrella cover, the safety chain is
passed around the handle and ho
into the main chain, which has 81
laine hook to fasten TO the "
When this is hung to the dress-bel
gives no more weight or discon
than that indispensable side-bag W
Ayorv woman waara
In case of rain, the umbrell,
whipped out in trice, while the c
! and hooks are twisted into q BIZ
a bundle that can easily drop
q coat pocket, or they may he left
pended from the belt, ready for fur
duty.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
Scattered Pensions Of Uncle Sam.

OI
1t is not generally known that the OPP
Grafton of the pension laws carries
money periodically to mon of all nation
alities, who live in all quarters of the
globe. They are men who were dis
ableG in the service of the United States,
and have not since the war taken the
oath of allegiance to any other govern
ment.
10 begin near home, there is paid out
of the national treasury $4,000 an
nually to residents OF Canada, many of
whom have not seen the United States
since they were mustered out at Wash
ington at the close of the war.
Ireland has $50 pensioners on the
rolls, who draw an average of $12 a
month, and single county in England
Lancaster - has fifty pensioners.
Thousands Of miles away in Australia
are enough pensioners to draw nearly
$4,000 year. The dark continent has
a round dozen pensioners, living prin-
cipally in Cape Town, South Africa,
while Liberia is represented by one lone
widow whose husband was freed by the
emancipation proclamation, and who
died of the injuries he received in fight.
ing the battles Of "Massa Linkum.
Giuseppe Osbcll, away in Southern
Italy, draws the modest little sum of Sc
month for the fighting he did some
twenty odd years ago, and now doubt
less sits in the sun and eats macroni.
while he details the deeds of valor for
which the great United States Govern
ment now pays him so muniicsntly.
Away down in the Mediterranean sea.
on the little island of Malta, lives a
Greek by the name of Amabite Feneck.
who gets SIP month to remind him Of
the time when he smelt powder in the
far-away land of America; and his case
is matched in Russian Finland, almost
on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, where
lives one Alexander Wilson, who served
twenty years in the United States NAVY.
and who now draws pension of $l7. IS
month, which, in that land, is an in.
come worth having.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

a wonderful help in III, :,
education of a child. Tha sAota
careful teaching and kind &C, e0As
of parents will accomplish "sge''
which can never be narfa.
study, and in after years s snaa
home training will show ;."a,
ready command Of Language 'l 4.
easy, graceful power of conyo,.I az y
a1lO1l. .'ell
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
What AN Indian Can stand.

To show what an Indian can stand
when he has to, may tell of an incf-
dent which happened during the winter
was with them, says the Detroit Free
Press. Toward evening, on u very
cold winter day, when it was showing
just little aud drifting great deal, an
Indian came to the Lighthouse with Jug
half full of whisky and with his rifle.
l imagine that the Jug had been entirely
full. of whisky when he started, and by
the time he got to the house he was in
rather jolly condition. The jug and
the rifle were taken away from him and
he was ordered to get to his wigwam as
quick as he could before darkness came
on. He left, and was supposed to have
gone to the camp, but early next morn
ing his squaw appeared at the house
and said that he had not come home
that night, and Us the night was very
cold she had been anxious about him.
Then the search for the lost Indian be-
! gan.
He was found in one of the sheds near
the barn under heap of drifted snow.
and the chances are that the snow that
was above him had helped to save his
life. The searchers for the Indian had
gone in different directions, and it was
his own squaw who, with true Indian
instinct, had tracked him out, and she
was alone when she found him. APP
parently the Indian was frozen corpse.
She tumbled him out of the snow bank
and pulled off his blankets. and
dragged him down to the creek, where
deep hole was cut in the ice for the
purpose of watering the cattle. Laying
the Indian out on the snow, she took
the pan that was beside the ice hole,
and, filling it repeatedly, dashed pail.
| full after pailful of ice water over the
body of the Indian. BY the time the
other unsuccessful searchers had re-
turned she had her old man thawed out
and seated by the fire wrapped up in
in blankets. There is no question that
if he had been found by the others and
had been taken into the house frozen as
he was he would have died.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

parents ars al ioggerheads or have sep
arated, and one slde or the other steals
the child, end in nearly every cast,
strange as it may seem, the child is
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

In the distribution of vocations it is a
strange fact that the man who could
run newspaper to suit every one is al
ways in some other BUSINESS than jour.
nalism.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

MALT liquors may not be genera
condemned, but the concensus OF I'd 81
ION is to the effect that Porter is u''1
dedly unpopular here in New YORK.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06
SACRIFICED IN VAIN.
Ey CUMBERLAND STUART.

I was midnight. The
lingering moonbeans
were streaming pla-
cidly over the towers
of the old Russian
convent. In the dis.
tance looming forth
like a great dark
mountain was the cas-
tie of Count Groski,
now deep ssin mourn
ing for the death of
st. late ,,,nnA. IN.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

TALK about women laeiug tiiie"
Look at bank cashiers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-06

3MoREl n sorrow than in anger
The letter o.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-04-07
Ayers

" suffered for more than eight months
from q severe cough accompanied with hem.
orrhage OF the lungs and the expectoratlon
Of matter. The physicians gave me up, but
my druggist prevailed on me to try Ayers
Cherry Pectoral. I did so, and soon began
to Improve; my lungs healed, tho cough
ceased, and 1 became stouter and healthier
than i had ever been before. I would cali
Ayers Cherry Pectoral the Elixir OF Life.n-
+. j. Ohden, Salto, Bueros Ayres.
"For years q confirmed sceptic as 30 the
merits Of proprietary medicines, I was Mt
last converted by the use OF Ayers Cherry
Pectoral. For months o bottle of this medi-
cine, OF which I had come into possession
through the kindness Of a friend, remained
unopened In my closet, till one night I was
seized with a violent cold accompanied by n
racking cough. Having non Of my usual
remedies at hand, I thought of the
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-04-07
Tribute Of

Al regular meeting of Beaverton AL
lance, No. 1924, the following resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAs, 1T has pleased our Heaven
ly Father, who doeth all things we'll, to
remove from III midst our late worthy
and deeply-lamented brother, Joel Il.
Smith, who has been cut down in The
evening of his life. We bow in humble
submission to that Divine will which
has severed him from us n taken his
spirit to that bourne from whencel no
traveller ever returns. Therefore, be 1t
RESOLVED, That this Alliance has been
called upon by the demise of our dearly
beloved Brother to mourn for one pos
sessed of many noble qualities, and who
the principles Of he naiiiiac 90, had wen
the respect and esteem of those with
whom he was associated.
Resolved, That we, in with
his afflicted and sorrOw-stricken family,
ed them of a loving husband and father,
faithful member. and that we offer our
coincidence to his bereaved wife and
children, with the comforting consola-
ton that "God taketh care of The father
less and the widow.
Resolved, That a o of these resolu-
tons be forwarded to his family, and
published in the Cotton Plant, and our
County papers; n that n blank page
in ourminute book be dedicated to his
memory.
A. L.. BALENTINE,)
JAMES e. WOOD Com.
w. s. KNIGHT,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-04-07
Another Opening.

One of the notable eventso of the spring
season was the opening at DR.. J. Il.
Poole'SmilineEy and drygoods establish
> lhent onlast Thursday. 1t was "Ladies
nDay" iE Laurens, one of those rare oc-
casipn, which go so far to make up the
quihtescence of terrestrial happiness to
%weet girls and their derlina mamas.
4 In the annals OF bonnets, silks and sat
Inns, II will be a date TO which ladies of
taste and judgment will refer until the
fail stocks commence to arrive.
Mrs. Adams and Miss Elliott of Lau-
rens, and Miss Gale, Of Baltimore, have
charge OF she millinery and ladies de-
partment at Poole's and to their talents
ts due the credit Tor this most exquisite
display OF one Of the largest and best
assortments OF things thet charm the
feminine fancy eyer broughtto Laurens
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-04-07
Sslesday.

The attendance was small. The fol-
lowing Is a summary of the sales.
BY the Sheriff, in the a 8 Of Dunlap
We. Dunlap two tracts o. land containing
in all AL acres for $1050; in the case of
Young VS.. Young 1871 aores for $50.
The clerk sold in the case of Dial Va.
Dial 81 acres near Graycourt for $780,
and In the case Of McCllntoek We. Prior
foreclosure 81 aoros for $50. The Strain
lots I'm Cross Fill brought $296.
The residence of the late }. r. Martin
in this oitp was sold by the Probate
Judge for 1890 to Dr. j. r. Poole.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-04-07

request OF the President, Rev. X. II.
Reid, the eldest minister present made
a briefclosing address touching upon the
conventions work and tho progress OF
the s. s.. y in the state.
After singing "Blest be the Tie that
Binds" and a short prayer the conyen-
ton adjourned.
The convention is generally conceded
TO be the most successful one ever held in
the State. Its proceedings deeply inter.
ested our people and 1t is believed that
much good will grow out Of tile infiu-
ences which 1t left behind.
The convention next year will meet at
Marion.