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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-24
pistrust Irotsssions of Mormons.

DfStruSt PrOteSSiUMS of MOrmOns.
At Salt Lake City the liberal county con-
vention ADOPTED resolutions against state
hood and distressing professions Of Il change
Of heart in the Mormons.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-24
MOI Such Big CROPS Attor Al

President Frank McGrath, of tho
Kansas Farmers Alliance. says the es-
Inmates of Secretary Mohlcr of the " heat
crop OF Kansas are altogether too high
From reports received by him fran
nearly every county in the State he es-
Inmates that the yield will not exceed
$4,000, coo bushels, and possibly not more
than 55,OOO,OOo. Mr.. McGrath's rcuo:t,
Indicate that the corn crop will be an-
usually large
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-24
Work $50 Men,

The New Castle coal mines in the Blac,
Hills are working $50 men.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-24
County Officers round Short.

An expert who has been going over the
accounts of the county officers at Aims
worth, Neb., has found the following short
ages: Clerk Boyd, S3.4lO; Commissioners
Banghart. s77.3O; Hughes. S266.7O: Brinkcr.
hotf. s29l.G5: Wood. s340.1O; Moore, So. 70:
Richmond. $500. The officers have been
given until July 20 to make the amounts
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-24
rHE NATIONAL GAME.

Games Won and Lost-How the Clubs
Now stand.
Following is a showing of the standing of
each of the teams of the different associ;-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-24

Nebraska Democratic Convention Called.
The Nebraska democratic state central
committee have called the state convention
to meet at Grand Island September II. The
ratio OF apportionment will be one delegate
from each county and one for each $50 votes
| or major fraction thereof cast for secretary
OF state in $780, This will make the con-
vcntion number SIG delegates,
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-18
PROFIT.SHARTNG.

Perhaps the proft.sharing system will not solve the labor problem. The big Bourne mills at Fall River, Massachusetts, have been trying the system for the last two years. Treasurer Chace has just is- sued circular to the employees in which he tells them that the directors are still in favor of the system, believe in it, and are 'well satisfied" with it, but experience has shown that its chief value is in the inducements it gives all hands to take an increased interest in and give greater care to the general business. "A great many of you have undoubtedly taken such interest,"" writes Treasurer Chace, s'else the results would have been different, but some have not and do not, and you will all admit that only those who do ought to share" Therefore if it is de- cided to continue the system after next July, only those owning a savings fund account book will be permitted to share in the profits. It is explained that the own ership of the book is all that is insisted upon. 'It will not be necessary to deposit at all (you can do as you like about that') says the treasurer, ''but simply to own a book is to be qualified to share"
 What this means does not appear. But it is evident that there cannot be much profit sharing without work and thrift.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-18
The Water Question Settled.


 The opinion of Corporation Counsel Driscoll as to the legality of the proposi- ton for the city to purchase the New Ha- ven Water company, and the action of the board of aldermen in acting in accordance with it, disposes of the whole question. It has been indefinitely postponed, and with it the broader question of the munic- ipal control of public works.
 The failure of this movement only shows that nothing is to be gained by going to work in the wrong way. As we remarked in a recent issue there is much to be commended in the propo- sition for the city to own and control the water supply, and to distribute it. Water is universal necessity, and we have no doubt if controlled by municipal authori- ty, it would be advantageous for the city and for the consumers. But even so, no warrant existed for the confscation of the New Haven Water company on the terms prescribed in the Sargent resolution. Sc far as we are informed, it was condemned even by those who are in sympathy with the object it sought to attain.
 As Mr. Driscoll has clearly pointed out there are several insurmountable objec, tions to the scheme as presented. They not only defeat the present movement, but by postponing it for another period oi years makes it doubtful if the city evel owns it's own water works.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-18
ELECTRIC.

Never kick an electric light wire when it is down.-Buffalo Express
 The self-made man is always an opti- mist. His friends are usually pessimists. Cape Cod Item.
 The centipede don't know what ruin is he has never yet been on his last legs Binghamton Republican.
 ''Don't you think Kicks is bound to rise in the world?" "He ought to rise. He's light enough. Boston Transcript.
 The average man would sooner pay dues at gymnasium than saw his own wood for exercise.-New Orleans Picayune.
 The principle that cold contracts is well understood by every man who tries to keep coal bin flled.-Buffalo Express.
 Littleshort: ''Ah, MT. Cutaway, how'd do! Whats the condition of trade this sea- son!" Cutaway (briefy): Cash. ."-Boston Gazette.
 Experience is more valuable than intui- tion." "How do you prove itt" "Well, it costs more, any how."-Smith, Gray & Co.'s Monthly.
 Passenger why don't you call out the stations plainer: Conductor. Say, this road don't hire me for no elo cutionistl See!-Puck.
 Mrs Smythe-My husband is quite q composer Mrs. Tompkins-Indeed! Verse or music? Mrs. Smythe-Neither. the baby!-New York Sun.
 Before we were married" said she, ''his displays of affection were positively over. done" And now!' "They are very rare."- e."-Indianapolis Journal.
 ''Man was made of the dust of the ground" remarked the minister. "That is the reason his name is so often mud, replied Satts.-Munsey's Weekly.
 Jones-We must make this banquet { success. Have you got some good cigars to give away Brown-Oh, yes; they're excellent ones to give away.-Life.
 ''We are going to have Bibles given out in school tomorrow" "Have what, Tom my." "Bibles. The teacher said that ht had ordered some textbooks Lowell Cit izen.
 A Chicago landlord shot one of hi. boarders for joking about the butter. Hi. interference was unnecessary. It is said the butter was strong enough to take it: own part.-Texas Siftings. A Division Called For.-Mrs. R E. Form I'm going to read paper before Sorosii tonight advocating the divided skirt fol horse-women. MT. R. E. Form-Won't you be so kind as to insert a few para graphs favoring the divided hat for theater goers?-Puck.
 All Lost on Her.-Tom-Didn't you fine that Miss Roseleaf rather lacking in sense of humora Jack-Well, should say so Why, told her Travers' famous story o how he stuttered more in New York thar in Baltimore because New York was big ger place, and she said she didn't see wh. that should make any difference.-Har yard Lampoon.
 A little girl went shopping the other da. with her mother, who, making purchase at various stores, gave as the parting word, ''Please charge them to my hus band, 26 - street." At night the lit tie girl, half sleeping and tired out, sait in conclusion: ''I pray God to bless m. mother and my father and my little broth CT, and send bill to papa, 26 - street. Boston Journal.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-18

was passed to reimburse Captain Smith for several vessels that the United States government had seized and used in the war. The claim was for $75, ,000, and it passed the senate and received the sigma ture of President Harrison on the last day of the session. Captain Smith and his wife went to Washington to look after the claim. On Saturday week ago Captain Smith signed the papers for the 5000 and the same day he was taken down with typhoid pneumonia, and despite the best of attention from his wife, son and daugh- ter he died on Friday last. Captain Smith was still in his prime, and the circum- stances of his death were about as sad as could be imagined, meeting his fate at the very moment that fortune for which he had been waiting and working quarter of century was placed in his hands.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-18
No. 66

terpischorean art than another, but aesltb IS required in every one As general rule thin women never look well on inc stage.
 'But the slender women always make the best dancers. It is impossible for a danseuse to become stout, because their labors always keep down the accumulation of avoirdupois. Especially is this true in the United States, where the managers re- quire premiere to dance every night and at two matinees. It is also very important for premiere to be very careful about her diet. She must eat more meat than anything else to keep her muscles in the best condition, and she must have plenty of sleep and rest. The labor is so hard that after every performance feel it ne cessary to sleep at least two hours Where do the best dancers come front Well, I do not want to seem preiudiced in behalf of my own country, but I am forced to de- clare that they come from Italy. The methods there are more thorough, and dan cing is made more of an art than in any other country. The American dancers I find to be very intelligent, and nearly all have good figures But the Italians have the school and the constancy to master their art, and that counts for everything in the pursuit after success"
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-18
Photography and Truth.

lfFoln tne SSW lork ETenlng Sun.
 Photography plays queer pranks with its subjects somstimes- A photograph often flashes out family resemblance that had never been noticed in a face until then. photograph has way also of telling on some people. The hidden cruelty or sen suality, or vanity, or deception comes to light under the searching of the sun, however successfully the mans will or craft may conceal it ordinarily. A rascal is running risk when he has his photo graph taken His friends may see what he is trying 10 hide. Ii WAS James who wrote that remarkable story, "The Liar. !" There was an artist who painted portrait of the husband of the woman he had once loved himself. When the portrait was finished the husband and wife, and not only they, but all the world, saw on the canvas the face of a consummate liar What the artist did on that occasion is what the sun often does. Ii tells the truth that the man has hidden so sncoess- fully
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-18
At Least one scrviceabIe Dress.

Every woman who commands gener- ous wardrobe should assuredly provide herself with trim tailor gown of cloth, tweed or homespun, while those of more limited means will do well to make one of the strong, wear defying utility fabrics their choice for general uses. 4 good English serge is an excellent "stand by, ' or plain Scotch cheviot, and as some thing of the kind is indispensable as ont hears the spring season golden browr serge is suggested, or one of Princess oi Wales blue if proving more becoming Shot mohairs are deservedly fashionable. The finer makes are silky and resist wear as only mohairs can. There are scorei of dark shades among these goods, and for dre.sy uses are old rose mohairs sho with white, green with silver, silver witt violet, etc. To be used in conjunction with strawberry mohair shot with cream color is number of yards of the sam, fabric striped with darker tone of straw berry, the stripes narrow and arranged 1T groups of three.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-18
THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY.
How John A. Morris Makes a Large Fortune-His Patent Leased to the Company for One Thousand Dol lars n naV

How John A. Morris Makes a Large
 Fortune-Ris Patent Leased 10 the
 Company for One Thousand Dol
 lars a Day.
 New Orleans Letter to the New York Times
 In politics as we'll as in other schemes in life there is Ca wheel within wheel" and so there is wheel within wheel in the Louisiana lottery combination. The daily drawing is local institution, and compar- atively few persons outside of this city know of its e1istence-and in this city they are fortunate. It is the small wheel of the big lottery, and while it is appa- rently separate swindle, it is not. The scheme of the daily drawing was invented by John A. Morris, the principal owner of shares in the big lottery. Mir. Morris is master of figures and combinations. His long experience in lotteries has enabled him to figure out scheme which it is i'm possible to beat, and yet is so apparently clear and seductive as to attract people day after day and year after year. As the inventor of this scheme he leases it to the company, of which he is the principal stockholder, for one thousand dollars a day. AS this has been going on for twen- ty years, MT. Morris has received a very handsome royalty on his patent.
 The receipts of the daily drawings aver age about ten thousand dollars. The drawing takes place every day Excepting l Sundays) at four oclock-three hundred and thirteen drawings a year-three mil lion one hundred and thirty thousand dol lars yearly taken from the pockets of the poorer class, principally those living in New Orleans. Is it strange that the streets of this sleepy city are unpaved, taxes un- collected, and the public schools dismissed for the lack of teachers3 Morris peculiar scheme is based on the combination of the numbers from one to seventy-eight, and some days from one to seventy-fve, giving in the one case seventy-six thousand and seveuty-six, and in the other sixty thousand five hundred and twenty-five different combinations of three numbers each. He holds the key to this combina- ton in his scheming brain, and it is this which brings him in a royalty of one thousand dollars day. The prizes paid are out of all honest proportion to the cost of the tickets or to the chances of winning. For instance, the tickets in the daily drawing are sold at one dollar each, or can be bought in fractional quarters SC as to be within the reach of the poorest washerwoman or small -salaried office boy. There are three numbers on ticket; Il the ticket contains one of the numbers drawn out of the wheel the holder wins eighty-five cents. But the chances O! winning that eighty-fve cents for his dol
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

New Haven's credit is good, judging from the bids made for the new bonds yes terday.
 It cost the people of Great Britain about S7,O00,000 for the ''rum' they drank last year. What remains Ion the slate' is not set forth.
 Oscar Wilde is more practical than he used to be. He says that the chief advan- tage of socialism is that it would relieve us from the sordid necessity of living for others. which in the recent condition of things presses so hardly upon everybody.
 Here's your chance A trousers-button manufacturer at Barmen advertises his readiness to pay $250 to the heirs of any man who may be killed in a railroad acci- dent. provided he is found to have been wearing at least six of the manufacturer 8 buttons.
 It needs discretion to manage a news paper in Russia. A Russian press censor permitted the following item to appear in Moscow paper: 'sIt is our opinion that Russia needs new railroads and will have them'' For this the censor was suspended for three months and the editor fined $500.
 Man proposes. "If I am ever killed, y said northern Michigander as he should cred his gun the other day, Git will prob ably be by a falling tree. No gun has ever been made to kill me-" In climbing 8 fence ten rods further on he shot himself through the heart.
 | Congressional funerals are costly and not very useful. The funeral of the late Senator Beck is said to have cost the United States government over $5O,OOO and Representative Oates of Alabama as- serts that the government will be called upon to pay s1OO,000 at least on account of the late George Hearst, the millionaire senator from California.
 The Rothschilds are "quite we'll off, but nobody knows how well off They ar' believed to have s50,0O0,0O0 invested il American securities. Some idea of thei financial strength can be had from the fac that since 1915 they have raised for Grea Britain alone more than $1 ,000, ,0O0 for Austria s25O, ,OOO, 900. for Prussia ssOO, OO0,OOO, for France $40O, ,0O0, 900, for. .Ital nearly $500, 100000 for Russia $125, ,000, 900, for Brazil from s60, ,O00, 900 to $70, 900 1000, and for smaller States certainl between s2oO, O,OOO,OOO and s3OO,oOo, ,OO more, perhaps s, 900, ,OO0,O ,OOO.
 Claimants against the government al proverbially luckless. No exception to th rule is found in the sad case of Captai W. J. Smith, of New Bedford, Massacht
 setts. In the last days of congress bi
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-18
AFTER THE SPARROws.

The Illinois State senate is called on to consider bill for an act to provide for the payment of bounties for killing Eng fish sparrows The bill provides that any inhabitant of Illinois who shall kill an English sparrow "during the months of December, January and February shall be entitled to receive bounty of cents for each sparrow thus killed" But it is pro vided in the following section that leach sparrow thus killed," or his head, must be presented to the proper officer Gin lots of not less than ten," or the killer will get no bounty. The bill also provides that if any person applying for the sparrow bounty shall have in his possession the head of any bird other than the English sparrow he shall be deem ed guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined $5 for each head other than that of the English sparrow. The boy would have to present ten heads in order to get bounty of 20 cents, and if one of them should happen to be the head of some other kind of bird he would be liable to @ fine of $5, besides losing his bounty on the nine spar row heads. The bill goes further, and makes it the duty of "the director of the state laboratory of natural history" to prepare "a bulletin for the use of the clerks of counties, townships, villages and cities in this state, to enable them'' (the officers to whom the birds or heads are to be presented by persons claiming bounty, ''to distinguish the heads of the English sparrow from those of other birds.''
 This bill will cause good deal of talk among the sparrows. Whether they have any friends in the legislature remains to be seen.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-18
THE PREMIERE DANSEUSE.
Hard Work for Eight or Ten Years To
 Reach Her Rank.

From the Chicago Evening Post.l
 It is not the work of year or two years, but of eight or ten, to make premiere danseuse The agility that first class dancer displays upon the stage and that strength of bone and muscle necessary to enable her to go through her evolutions, to pirouette on her toes and bend her body into the curve of an arch, are the result of years of earnest work and constant prac- tice
 "In my own case" said Mile Adele Cor nalba to an Evening Post reporter, ''I have been a student of my art from the age of : years. was sent by my parents to the celebrated dancing academy at the La Sea la, Milan, and have ever since applied my self assiduously to my studies. At this academy there are four classes, graded &C., cording to the age and physique of the pu- pills For instance the youngest beginners are put into the first class and one hour a day is given them to practice. Their strength will not stand more. The second class pupils are required to work two hours a day, the third from two to three, and the fourth class three hours as regular as the sun rises.
 'It is impossible for any girl to become good premiere before the age of 16 or F years. She has not the natural strength to stand the strain upon her system. The la bor is difficult and severe because it re- quires such constant application A dan cer must not neglect her practice, because, if she does, she is sure to get heavy and stiff. No one can become pupil at the Italian dancing academy unless she can pass a thorough medical examination, and every year that she continues as pupil she must submit to this inspection. When some physical defect manifests itself the pupil is at once dropped from the list. A dancer must be the possessor of sound constitution because her life IS one or con stant exercise Her work may appear easy | to the public after she has reached the | height of her ambition, but even If the peo- | ple forget the trials and exertion necessary | before she can reach that position they can | moi realize how earnestly she must work after she has attained success. Every bone must be strong and kept strong, and every | muscle must be trained to it's best develop | ment. And this training is not confined to any part of her body. A frst-class dan cer is able to stand upon her toes without shoes upon her feet. Of course all the practice is done ill shoes, but by and by | the bones and muscles of the feet becom, so strong and firm that without any diff culty she can stand upon her toes withou any support But have to practice al the time to keep myself in the proper con dition I cannot say that one particula
 build of woman is better adapted to tn
Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-18
9r1y 6unds.
Howe X StetSOl.
 Look Into Our Window

And see the display of fine Dress Ginghams at 12 1-2 cts per yard; most of the styles are confined to us, and are superior to all others, as one will see at a glance.
 1 New fabrics in fast black Wash Dress Goods, such as Satin de Lyon, Grape finish Mela Nova, Lace Surahs, etc., and the best makes of Fast Black Hen rietta finish Sateens, all of which are proof against precipitation and all acids. Prices range from Is to 37 1-2 cts per yard.
 We wish to call atten- tion to a new article in Ladies' Wool Gauge Vests with high neck, short sleeves, also low neck, which are offered at soc each. Please look at them as they may be just the garment you have always desired.
 Handsome Cream Dam ask F'ringed Cloths with red borders, 2 1-2 yards long, at $1.5O each; three yards long, at $1.85.
 Ladies', Misses and Chil- dren's Spring Garments. Most desirable styles are Reefers and Blazers. We show them in Ladies' at $3.48, 3.98, 4.98, $50, $7.5O, $1O and upwards. Misses at $2. 50, $3. .75, $5, $6.5O and upwards.
 20 pieces Fancy Black and Black and White Dress Goods at soc yard.
 5 pieces all wool Black Surah Twills, 46 inches wide, at Cooper yard. We have never shown better quality at 85c.
 Just received another invoice of those 30 inch China Silks at 75c. You will find all colors in the assOrtme ent. Customers who have been waiting for Black can now have their orders filled.