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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30

had slept more than one short sum-
'ssler night in the tent beside Philip
when rowing stripping. More than
cue race had I won along some country
rond against all the other boys in the
camp when mounted upon trusty King
Dams bare back.
But that was six years gone by.
had put away boyish things. Hooked
curioUsly over man and beast for some
signs of increasing age. 1 could find
them in neither.
You are both just the same. You
are unchanged, I said, still fondling
the horse and smiling at the man.
"Only you has changed. Had you
staid by us, as we asked you, should
not see the change in you had it come, :"
answered the gypsy, reproachfully.
But don't you fool me now 'bont
comm out to the camp. sayin' you will
an' not dom it," he added, with sus-
pieion which is part of the eastern ma
ture, that generations of roaming in the
western world has not wholly eradi-
Gated.
Il will come" I promised.
We bes all there. Leastways all
that's left bes," he added with sign.
who's gomez"
"Why, mother. She went when we
YVES down SOU las winter. We laid
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Soda Water Has Changed.

"It is great mistake, my dear
nephew, this thinking it necessary for q
young fellow to take intoxicants to be
merry" said fond uncle to o young
fellow as they were walking up Park
Row. The old man had come in from
his farm to see the city. well, let's
take soda water. and I'll swear Of,
replied the young man Us they turned
intoa drug store.
The nephew gave the order.
"Here's to the drink of the moral, the
sober, and the industrious; it imparts
GOODNESS to the blood, sensibility to the
palate, and calmness to the mind it in
vigorates without depressing, and sus.
tains without eShausting," exclaimed
the elder man, waxing eloquent.
"It's a go; drink hearty, unk," said
the young man, as he winked at the
clerk, and they emptied their glasses
Ten minutes later Junk was seen try.
ing with difficulty to scull himself
around o lamp-post with an umbrella
"Unk' thinks city soda water has gained
o wonderful potency since he was young.
--Ne1v York Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Polysa,ny is Not Dead.

Despite the proclamation of President
Woodruff, Of the Mormon Church, 30.
lygamy is still practiced in Utah. PEG.
pie returning from ranches in the south.
western part of Utah have entered more
than one Mormon household containing
two wives and sixteen children. In
that section Of country, dotted thickiy
with cattle and sheep ranches, there
are Mormon elders who one week since
never heard Of President Woodrutfs
manifesto against polygamy. A gentle.
man engaged in mining, While on q
visit to Salt Lake City within the last
month, stated that not only was polvg.
amy praoticed in that region, but thai
several plural marriages were consum
ated there within the last two months
But one need not travel that far il
search Of proof.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30

her fur spell in Louisanny till we can
fix steady layin'-down spot. We
don't want to lay down side o the Stan
legs in Ohio, where our Ian is. They
owes as an we ant no frien's nohow,
you knows"
Well did ] know the bitter feud that
bad ragged for years between the great
gypsy family that calls itself Stanley
and numbers several hundred souls, the
great Butler clan of several hundred
more and two or three other branches
OF the Romapy tribe who had adopted
distinguished English names genera
lions before they left the soil OF Great
Britain. I knew they We're all banded
together by common feeling OF re-
sentiment against the domineering Stan
leys who laid false claims to supremacy
over their race in this country.
"Then Richard-his wife she-she
was buried early this spring" continued
the Rom in the soft half sing-song
tones characteristic of his peculiar,
clannish people who began their wan
behring's in India centuries before history
existed. "You didn't know he was
married! NO, pose you olou IT, Aou
amt knowed but precious little bout us
sence the fall you left us. He merried
one them Reynoldses girls what was
campin' long O. us the summer you
camped with us. You member her
Sallie?"
Distinctly, indeed, did I remembe,
the gypsy lass, Sallie Reynolds. She
still had, when I saw her, more than
the average of the marvellous beauty
which is the endowment of the youne
Romany females and which road and
camp life so soon destroys. No othe,
gypsy maiden sang like handsome Sal
lie, and none played the guitar and
tambourine like she. I recollect vel
how the foolish young men from the
near town had swarmed to the camp te
get glimpse of the beauty. And 1 re
membered, too, the face of one at once
sillier and bolder than the rest, who one
twilight had offered an atfront to the
girl.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
sPretty suddiny," answered the

sPretty suddint," answered the
gypsy. I wondered why his mouth
seemed to grow stern instead Of sorrow
full.
sYou know how Sallie used to be an
awful straight girl-wouldn't low no
one, Gorgois nur Rom neither, to fool
around her disrespectful? He paused,
locking at me closely. I nodded COM
prahensively.
well. Dick, he allus waz talkin'
about his blamed books, an he want no
great at the horse.tradin'. He kind o
tired her with his book talk, an he kind
O. tired hernot gettin' forehanded faster.
But Oh, Lordy! he would "a died fur
her. Last summer some O. them Stan
leys they wuz campin' longside o us
out heyant Englewood spell. Most o
EN- drinks too much. you knows. Sallie
got to runnin' with them altogether too
free Sn' drinkin' bit. talked to her,
an Dick he begun to fin fault, too.
Wouldn't low her to go from camp fur
q long spell even to tell dukkerin',
There WIZ Teller, bout quarter
blood gypsy, come long, He knowed
the Stanleys an they run on i'm in town
an fetched in to the camp. Had a
liyry. stable out in Frisco an wuz JUS
travelin, he was. He had plenty O
money an you knows COW Sallie she
wuz good-lookin good-lookin'-an
her pretty ways O. singin' an playin'.
Well, she met i'm over there. He
coomed round our camp, too. till l
ordered i'm off. Sallie started out one
night an Dick he spoke up short an
told her to bide by the fire. They went
at words an finally she struck i'm 'ard
on the cheek. He stood up straight an
white with his anger.
"'No Romany wife may answer back
her husband, much less strike him, he
said.
NO true Rom sits in the tent an
reads when he should be hakkaworring
with horses she answered, haunting
like.
1.-The boy. he JUS bent his head an
answered her:
s'You are right; have made mis-.
take Then he went one way in the
dark among the brush and she another.
Long late they both coomed back, diff
ferent ways. But in the mornin' there
want no trace of Sallie.
sDick, he lost his 'ead. Well, we
follered. They didn't leave no hatteran,
you can juss know, but we caught ny
with 'em at Omaha. When the fellel
saw us lie was scared. We met then
on the street. She was logged out ii
clothes he bought 'er. She made {
move to her pocket, but I caught Eel
wrist.
s'You'll coome back with us, juss as
you be, my lass,' I said. Dick ht
sprang for that cursed white 'alf-an-alf
throat an shook i'm helpless AN threw
i'm aside limp, when some O. the Grove
that gathered caught Dick.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
influence of Example.

There are always new illustrations
the influence Of example" and lierel
one of them. The proprietor Of larS
mercantile establishment in this eli!
strides lcftily across its floors a ~
through its various departments da:
looking after things. His stride !
strong and impressive, and it is call
GUS fact that, in the course of year,
this stride has come to be UNCONSCIOUS
copied by all the employees OF the e,
tablisement. The heads of the depa'',
nents initiate his example by strla ny
rapidly across the floor; SO do the e ..aa
on every story; SO do the boys in tls ~
ing for clerkships. Some OF I a';1
formerly walked 'about in a shull Il
way or i'll other dubious ways; but n. h
ter while, all of them stride ~
proprietor's style. Even q COUPLE p1;;t !
feminine typewriters in the estaO ~,
ment show by their movements ii n
they have felt the influence OF his s"'
ent example.-Ne,p York Sun.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
How "a Pig suddenly Became Pork.

In book published by Mr.. Phi
Robinson he gives the following graphic
description OF how pig suddenly be
came pork at apig-killing establishment
in Chicago: A lively piebald porke,
was one of the number granting AND
quarreling in pen, and was asked ic
keep my eye on him. What happened to
that porker was this: He was suddenly
seized by hind leg and jerked up to a
small crane. This swung him safely to
the fatal door through which no pig
ever returns. On the other side stooda
man. That two-handed engine at the
door stands ready to smite once, and
smite no more, and the dead pig shot
through trough and through another
doorway, and then there was a splash
He had fallen head first into q vat Of
boiling water. Some unseen MACHINERY
passed him along swiftly to the Other
end of the terrific bath, and there o.
waterwheel picked him up and flung
him onto sloping counter. Hers
another machine seized him and with
one revolution scraped him as bald asia
nut. And down the counter he went
AooAAS 144o ucdAl Us uO Stu U0Sb D uaa
with Ratchet, and then, presto! he was
up again by the heels. In one dread.
full handful man emptied MIN, and,
while another squirted him with fresh
water, the pig registered himself as lie
passed the teller's box, shot down the
steel bar from which he hung and
whisked round the corner into the|
ice house. One cut with the knife made
two "sides of pork" out of the piebald
pig. Two hacks of Ratchet brought
away his backbone. And there, in
thirty-five second from his last grunt-|
dirty, hot-headed, noisy-the pig wa
hanging up i'll two pieces, clean, tran
quill, iced! The very rapidity of ths|
whole process robbed it OF its horrors
Here one moment was an opinionatN
piebald pig, making prodigious fus
about having his hind leg taken hold Of
and 10! before he had made up his mind
to squeal, he was hanging up in an ice
house split in two. He had resented tn
first trifing liberty that was taken viii
him, and in thirty-fve seconds he wa
ready for the cook.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
NIGHT WORKS.
Great Disadvantages of Being an I'm.

in w
The fact that chicken goes TO bos
at shutdown, says the Kansas CITY Stns
would be proof positive that it .ias w.
sense at all, if there were any rea.n Az
in the world why chicken should stoA
up. On the other hand, owls stay nm ;.
night, and if the chicken has the ~
.antage of the owl in the way of healtS
recreation or longevity the fact has o.
capped the scientists. However. to -
turn to human beings, it is not d;s
puted that there are d great many hen.
pie in this world who are much bettes
off in bed at 8 o'clock than out of i
Their retirement to the sheets is d;s'
tinctly to the advantage of SOCIETY
Among such people may be classed ii,
invalids and small children, men wha
yawn, AID women who object to Tobacco
smoke, the i]l-condilioned Cassius who
cloves no plays" aud "hea,s no music
aud the peevish jacques, who sucks
melancholy out of q song as weasel
sucks eggs" and who will sleep if ha
can, and if he cannot, "will raj. arainst
all the first-born Of E gypt." Commend
such subjects to the chickens.
But there are men, and women, too
who could no more miss the fascina
ton of "sittiug up" than Toby Beleb
could resist the Establishments of Mrs
Maria's punch or forswear a cup Of
canary. They grant you, if you will
that they ore shortening their lives
couple of years more or less, but thu
price is cheap, and they never miss it
They know that the charming hours Of
oil the twenty-four have come when
the lights are dim and half the world
is snoring, when the city has settled
down like . graveyard, aud when pipe
takes on that rich, rank flavor which
would not be tolerated. in the polite cir.
cles of the business day. The very
stiffness of the night seems to lend &C.
tivity to the brain. It is OF midnight or
thereabout that the best stories arc
told, the wittiest epigrams are thrown
off, and the brightest thoughts are
flashed into expression. It is at mid
night that the two old cronies find
their happiest time for conversation,
just as two young girls will chatter over
the pleasures of the ball room after re.
firing. And it is at night. and late at
night, that the student loves his book
and the good fellow his cigar, or what
ever else may be tolerated by sumptuary
Legislation. This is not the rule of lite
found in medical works, but it is as.
sumed for the moment that men are not
chickens.
Leigh Hunt wrote page after page ir
enthusiastic admiration of bed, but i
TRANSFERRED that the admiration wa
particularly deepseated after z o'clocl
in the morning. Picture the rare spirit
of Miltre Tun going off to bed at
o'clock in the evening. OF think of tn
good fellows who went around to chez
up Goldsmith, preaching the hygieni
example of poultry. Let those VIII
will dwell on the health and wealt
which follow the example of the bird
and the beasts, but do not deny to th
enthusiasts who have tested the plea
ures of the night hours their tribute t
the delights OF Sitting up"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30

'Gentlemen,' said 1 as respect
full as I knowed 'ow, the man
you are holdin' is my brother. This
woman is his wife, an the scoun'rel
what he's knocked out there has taken
'er fro i'm. We ave juss foun' i'm. >
Then they loosened Dick, but they car
ried the cadjan out O. is reach. Sallie,
she fought fierce fur minute. I held
her wrists like iron. spoke low to 'er
so the crowd couldn't ear.
You're gypsy lass an its gypsies
as will deal with you accordin' to gypsy
ways I said.
'We met the folks way down in In
diana. an we travelled right on to the
mountings in Tennessee.
"Yes; but Dick forgave Sallie?" /
asked.
sNo."
"Not before she diel?"
mo; nur after, either. He burned
ev'ry book, though, and took to horse
tradin'. He lows to start for frisco
next week an hunt up that whelp an
deal with i'm.
did Sallie stay with you as long as
she lived?"
"she didn't get no chance to stay
ennywhere else. She were KEEP q
prisoner" was the grim reply.
mo wonder that free-bred young
thing pinned an died." I exclaimed,
shocked at the cruelty melted out to the
hayward young gypsy wife.
Where did she die?" I demanded.
The gypsy swung upon King Dams
back before he answered. He scanned
the clouds as if for signs of rain and
held up one hand to catch any chance
premonitory drop.
Il wanted YOU to know bout Dicl
fore you seed i'm, you an i'm was sicl
good chums," he explained, still gazing
upward. "You might hear something
in the camp if you marked his chang
ways an asked. Our folks never made
secrets from you. An we don't So,
nuthin' fur i'm, you see."
He gathered up the bride.
"Where did Sallie die?" I persisted
impelled by some nameless force.
Slowly the gypsy, Philip Butler
brought his eyes to my face. In theil
depths burned savage fire. But the
accents OF his smooth, soft voice were
as musical as ever as he replied
quietly:
"She were buried down in Tennessee
in the country roundabout the Cumber
land Mountings"
Then he smiled gently upon me ant
told me they should expect me at til,
camp supper the next day.
AS he rode away a horror crept upor
me and chilled me.
1 understood why the dishonoret
young Romany wife lay in her I'm
marked grave in the loucly mountai.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30

51atteran. Some O. us goes down to
the city to the thaeyters an it's
dark like when we gets 'ome. That's
Why we put it 'longside the way. JUS
Collier it an you'll see goodish knoll
with strip O trees over it. Under the
Zee O the knoll an in the ridge O the
skinny timber you'll find us. Well be
movin' on shortly. The nights be get
Gin cool like here"
The speaker was tall and stalwart.
lefty black was his waving hair. Shin
ing, blacker still were his steady gaz-
sng, wide-open eyes. His skin had o
>tinge OF oriental olive, and the summer
san had burned hue of swarthy red
upon his cheeks. The lower part Of his
face was covered by q beard of such
silken quality that it needed no second
glance to reveal it the growth from a
cuticle that had never been scraped by
the BARRIERS razor. His clothing was of
good material, and, while whole and
without evidence of much wear, yet bore
not only the marks of dust but the in
tangible something that bespoke the
rough usage OF camp life. His hat, a
1ine soft felt, had the crown pressed out
ward in cone shape and the broad rim
turned down, indicating that its CHIEF
purpose was protection from sun, o.
wind, or rain.
He had slipped from the big gra,
horse ne rode without saddle and stood
with one hand loosely grasring its
snane, while the. halter hung over hi
arm. The animal had. turned so tina
ITS chin rested upon the mans shoulde
and ii regarded me with eyes as stead,
as It's masters.
"Yes. I keeps King Dan," said TIL
gypsy, noting a. glance Of recognition
directed toward his steed. Il neve
ken sell i'm. Me an i'm is close fren'
so kong as we lives. He knows more'l
me He oommenst to Skinny your wa,
an shafts what 'tracted my 'tention. b
feels sort o sighted when he ant nc
ticed proper"
Thus admonished, I rubbed han,
over King Dams nose and social
pulled his forelock. For both he an
Philip Butler, the Romany Rye VIII
stood before me, were old friends.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Anplcs Ms Medicine.

Chemically, the apple 10 composed OF
vegetable fiber, albumen, sugar, gum.
chlorophyll, malic acid, gallo aid, lime,
and much water. Furthermore, the
German analysts say that the apple
containa a larger percentage OF phos-
phorus than any other fruit or vegeta-
BILE. This phosphorus is admirably
adapted for renewing the essential
nervous matter, lethicin, of the brain
and spinal chord. 1t is. perhaps, for
the same reason. rudely understood,
that old Scandinavian traditions repre-
sent the apple as the food OF the gods,
who, when they felt themselves to be
growing feeble and inhrn, resorted to
this fruit for renewing their powers OF
mind and body. Also, the acids of the
apple are of 81 nal use former Of sedeu-
tary habits, whose livers are sluggish IN
action. those acids serving to eliminate
from the body noxious matters, which,
if retained would make the brain heavy
and dull, OF bring about jaundice or
skin eruptions, and other allied trouble.
Some such an experience must have
led to our custom of taking apple sauce
with roast pork, rich goose, and like
dishes. The malic acid Of ripe apples,
either raw or cooked, will neutalize any
excess of chalky matter engendered by
eating too much meat. 1t is also o fact
that such fresh fruits as the apple, the
pear, and the plumb, when taken ripe
and without sugar, diminish acidity in
the stomach rather than provoke it.
Their vegetable sauces and juices are
converted into alkaline carbonates,
which tend to counterfeit acidity.
A good, ripe, raw apple is one of the
easiest Of vegetable substances for the
stomach to deal with, the whole process
Of its digestion being completed in
eighty-fve minutes. Gefrard found
that the "pulpe of roasted apples mixed
in wine quart of faire water, and Ia
bored together until it comes to be as
apples and ale, which we call lambes-
wool, never faileth in certain diseases of
the raines, which myself hath often
proved, and gained thereby both crownes
and credit. The pairing Of an apple,
cut somewhat thick, and the inside
whereof is laid to hot, burning, or run
ming eyes at night, when the party goes
to bed, and is tied or bound to the same,
doth help the trouble very speedily and
contrary to expectation, an excellent Sc
cret. "-LoRdon Hospital.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
bees In y Church.

tsveral years ago swarm of bee:
entered church spire in Western
town. They have passed three winters
there and appear to be doing we'll. The
church stands where it is exposed &c
severe storms from all directions. The
spire is covered with inch lumb Der, which
is most covered with tin. The cavity
occupied equals ten ordinary hives.
Tue large cavity does not prevent
swarming, as quite number of swarms
have been secured by persons LIVING
near.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
The Biggest Texas wheat Field,

A company of capitalists has pur.
chased 10000 acres of land on the rail-
road at Vista, and will convert the en-
tire body into one immense wheat-tield.
Much of the land can be broken this
winter. Twelve gang-plows have been
ordered, and the breaking of the land
will commence as soon as these arrive.
A waeat.tield ten thousand acres in OK.
tent is SO far unknown in Texas.
.4ntGnio Express.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
region of Tennessee apart from all hcr

kin.
And this is the reason I broke my
promise and did not go to supper be-
side the campfire of my whilom gypsy
friends, who. as is their autumnal Gus,
tom, were tarrying in the vicinity OF
the city to trade in horses and tell
fortunes before starting for their Win
ters sojourn in the warm southern
country. Chicago Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
BURIED ALIVE.
Flew Band of Rowing Romanys
Avenged What They Considered
a Deadly Sin.

D STRAIGHT as the
crow flies o ha'-mile
west fro Sixty-sev-
enth street an Cot
tage Grove road, then
turn an GO SOU bout
three-quarters of a
mile. Look sharp to
the right side an'
you'll see the hat
teran. It's q night
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Why Are the Two lsuttonse


The are many details in our scheme
of attire, thu reason whereof is not gen
orally known, says ClotAier and
Furnisher. In many instances they
have filled some essential place in the
construction of the prototype of the
existing garment and are survival or
some bygone regime. There is one
phase OF the modern apparel that not
one man in n thousand knows the mean
ing of, and yet custom has made it an
unquestioned feature Of every modern
masculine skirt coat. Why are the two
buttons placed at the waist line at the
back of the garment? For effect?
Not so originally. These two buttons
were, at their inception, not primarily
for decoration, but for service. 1t was
during the period when the big square
art-embroi2ered and gorgeousjy-l LINED
coats werr worn, two centuries ago,
that the gellants Of the time were wont
to 60 fo,;h on dress parade, ready to
resent any deviation from the rigid
formalities Of the court etiquette with
recourse to the sword. In order that
the sidearm might be readily reached,
the skirts of the coat were turned back
in reyere-shaped manner aud but
toned or looped upon the buttons at the
back, at the same time exploiting seq
ment Of the rich inside of the garment
IN an pnintentionally effective way.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30

ave struck a tender chord at ~, -,
said the tramp, as he began on a pl''
cottonwood tim Der.