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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
She Could Learn.

1t is hard for certain class of peo-
pie to understand that the successes of
art are not the result of clever dexterity
alone. The idea of anything like unu-
sual and original power is entirely be-
yond their comprehension, and they
imagine that works of genius are pro-
duced by rule, as cook makes a cake
or pudding.
A person OF this kind recently called
upon one of the best-known of American
portrait-painters and insisted upon see.
ing him upon important business, al
though at the time he was engaged with
a sitter. When he appeared the woman
said:
Il want you to give me some les
sons"
Il am sorry" he said, looking ut her
in some surprise, "but have not the
time"
"Oh, I won't take up any time to
speak Of" the caller said; Il can learn
real quick. and you'll only have to tell
me- how to do it."
But I never take pupils" the artist
said. with unmistakable decision. Il
could not think of taking you"
The stranger regarded him with a
look which was hardly less than VEN
Omous.
son." she said, jeeringly, Il see how
it is! You don't dare to give away your
secret for fear it would spoil your bust
nessi"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
I'm PopOca,apeil,

G. 81. Webb has just returned from q
four months outing IN the wilds of
Mexico and the Central American
States. He visited the city of Monte
zumas and pointed for the lofty peak
above.
"The train drops one at the station
of Popocatapetl" said he to a Fcrt
Worth Gazette reporter, swhere you
get guide and burros, blankets and
provisions. Then you trail to the base
of the volcano and up its steep zig
gags, where the timber and vegetation
are thick, and cool, bubbling springs
numerous, until the timber line is
passed. You travel miles to advance
one. When we reached that line the
snow came down to meet the stunted
trees. Then we camped and the guide
shot mountain goat and we heard the
| Mexicans lions in the dark. Next
morning the burros were left behind,
and with blankets and provisions we
packed on. A binding snowstorm
obliged another camp and the next
morning we pointed for the great crater.
"At midday the yawnirg bowl was
reached. It is probably $50 feet across
and 500 feet deep, with bottom
piarced with tunnels like gigantic
sponge. Outside was all snow and ice.
Ten steps inside and all frost vanishes ;
! the thermometer leaps 70 degrees. At
the ragged lips If this Chimney Of hell
the guide is on his knees imploring the
protection of Santa Maria.
"Across the crater and 500 feet above
rises the lone spur. 1t is covered with
snow and ice. It took us an hour and
a half to make the perlious ascent but.
we made the trip and stood on the high.
est icy spur.
"Then for the descent, which we
found more hazardous than the ascent.
Darkness and fearful snowstorm
caught us 1900 feet below. We had to
camp in the snow, but the next morn
ing made a quick trip to the timber
line, where we found our burros, and
soon reached the base, where we could
look back and see that icy peak reach
ing into naked skv."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
Cost Of Great Steamships.

The gross cost of carrying such
vessel az the Majestic across the Allan
tic does not fall short OF $4,000. As any
Of the old-fashioned steamers of the
petty measurement of 5000 tons cost
$4,000 for the voyage, or double pas
sage out and home, 1 am probably not
very wide off the mark in making this
estimate for vessel measuring more
than three times as much, as the money
needed will not increase in a direct
ratio with the increased size. But if
we are tempted to believe that the
profits made in this ocean trade are ex-
ceptionally large, we must remember
the vast capitol embarked even in one
| vessel of 10000 tons. A first.class
merchant steamer of the ordinary trade
type costs at least eos per ton weight
Of the hull and 913 per indicated horse
power Of engines. Thus the cost of the
Teutonic's engines should make quar-
ter of million look very small. The
Guion steamer Alaska, of about 1000
tons, is worth about G350,000, Prob
ably the Teutonic could not be bough
for half million. And it does not taxi
professional accountant to reckon tina
it needs great deal of money to pay 9
reasonable devidend on so much.
In this connection can give some
statistics about a frst-class passenger
steamer. the length of which was 45(
feet, whereas the Majestic measures
$50. The displacement of this vessel
at load-draught amounts to $3.50 tons
aud the weight Of her hull to $500.
given for her hull was 9121,G 600. Or
the whole, am inclined to think thai
these figures give certain fnancia
amplitude and magnificence to oul
notions concerning the steamship traffic
to the West, without saying anything
about our vessels which carry freight
and passengers to all points of the com
pass. -Mat1vay's Magazine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
Flowers In England.

The sale of flowers by auction is one
OF the sights of Covent Garden. The
stands in the wholesale market are fur
nished over night, and the building is
open for private buyers at four o'clock
next morning, but all their business is
over at nine o'clock. The visitor who
attends these purely trade functions
has the advantage of very charming
flower show, covering something like
three-quarters of an acre of space, upon
which are arranged tier above tier of
Dlossoming plants, sometimes extend
ing up and down, in and out, to total
frontage of 700 yards.
The auctioneer, who takes his ros-
trum at 10 o'clock, addresses himself
to the men, who are called "higglers,"
a kind of middlemen, who purchase the
flowers in lots and sell them to the
small retailers. The flower girls can
not afford to trade until the general
customers have had their pick of the
choicest wares, but, taught by sharp
experience, they are able to drive very
smart bargains, and know precisely
what to purchase.
The pale-faced children of the alleys
and by-streets Of this densely populated
west central district diligently haunt
the purlieus in the spring. They have
heard OF green fields and buttercups
and daisies. perhaps have been told
that the swallow and cuckoo hasten over
sea to spend merry summer in Eng
lish meadows and copses; but the
lunches and baskets of flowers which
here fill them with delight and wonder
meut are the only evidence of such
pleasant things hitherto vouchsafed to
them.
They are to them tokens of an I'm.
known world. The datfodils. being
brightly golden and OF respectable size,
strike them most, as they very likely
strike all classes oil visitors. When
March goes out like caring lion, and
the London streets ura swept by hail
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
Anectode Of the Wilderness.

In the battles of the Wilderness the
Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment was
in the thick OF the fight, and one color
bearer after another was shot down al
most as fast as the men could be re-
placed. But such was the eagerness
to keep the flag a.oft that at one time
twomen-Irishmen-caught hold OF
the standard at once, as it was about
to fall, and struggled for it. Just then
shot struck the staff, cutting it in
two, and leaving one man with the flag
and the other with the broken stick.
"Bedad!" said the man with the short
end of the staff, "the rebels have de-
cided for us this time!" and Went on
loading and firing aga n as coolly as ii
nothing had happened.-Am
POETRY and Incidents of the War.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31

"Ihis is q small case, gentlemen"
said Judge Wing to the jury Tuesday
morning, in the case of the dogs and the
COWS. 1T reminds me Of the case that
was tried before colored friend and
brother, way down Souf. years ago.
1t was his first case as trial justice, and
he felt his dignity. He heard the law
and the evidence and the argu-
ments, and it camc time for
him to charge the jury.
At his apparent hesitation one of the
attorneys nudged him and said, Now
charge the jury and the Judge arose
and said, 'Bredren, dis am small case,
an shall charge but a dollar an q
half,'" Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31

there is floor to his spare chamber n
u ~ ; not have the mail inspected, and
no ]ewelry IS ever withheld. His camp
Is Kept scrupulously neat, and he
never has to go with the garbage
wagon. He never eats rats or dogs.
ana IS never durked head foremost in
tne hospital swill barrel. LOOKING
y aP %9h these sleek animals, I said !:
What a contrast between the WV
these dumb animals are housed J fad
ana petted and the way the Union
soldlers lived 1t was a cruel war.
an we all Jared we'll for army life, and
me prisoners at Camp Morton Jared
in4urlously for prisoners of war
heu. a. E. Wimship, IN Boston
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
NAV Kiss Your Wife.

A Boston Judge has decided that it is
quite lawful for man to kiss his wife
very affectionately on q public street.
The case is peculiar, and has its funny
as we'll as serious aspect. According to
the testimony in court, it appeared that
Mr.. Hall, o respectable young man en-
gagged in the boot and shoe business in
East Boston, was seen by an austere and
sensitively virtuous policeman named
Mcguire, standing in doorway on
Hanover street late at night, engaged
in the delightful occupation of kissing
Mrs. Hall. A few curious people nss,a1
gathered on the sidewalk at the same
moment, and were enjoying the unusual
spectacle. Patrolman Mcguire, in
vigorous Celto-Saxon, interrupted the
osculatory proceedings, and insisted
that the couple should move on. They
demurred, whereupon the austere
policeman took them to the station
house, and next morning brought them
into court. Mr.. Halls counsel vigor-
ously denounced the conduct of the
policeman as an outrage on the rights
Of honest virtuous citizens. The officer
persisted that the couple smelled of
AAI. 44aAA SdAu 0udu A6 AuO las
wife had been making call that even
ing on some friends in Concord street
and that he had drank little beer, and
that on the way down town they had
stopped in Hills and opened pint
bottle of champagne. From Hills they
proceeded down town to take car fo>
home, when they had misunderstand-
ing with Patrolman Mcguire. Mrs.
Hall corroborated her husbands testi-
mony. Judge Burke said that he did
not think the arrest an outrage, as the
fact of their kissing each other on the
street was certainly an unusual action
to the officer, who did not know the
couples relations to each other. He
thought it would have been better fog
them to have deferred their marital af-
fections until they had reach their
home. but that it certainly was not
criminal act for them to kiss on the
street. In view Of the fact that the
arrested parties were highly respecta-
BILE. and that conviction would injure
their character, he ordered their dis
charge, and they left the courtroom
happier and wiser.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
determined to DESTROY his antagonist

determined to destroy his antagonist.
Now they rear up and strike viciously
at each other.
Now they wheel as one and kick and
utter shrill screams.
Now they bear off to the left-now
to the right--now crash together and
strike and bite as il possessed of the
spirit of furies.
OF sudden I realize that they are
close upon me. In their mad fury
they see neither dead nor wounded
hear not the shot and shout of bat
tie. The gray kicks dead man aside
as he backs up for fresh effort; the
chestnut tramples the life out of o
wounded man as he dances about.
They will be over me if I do not stop
them! The heels Of the gray are
throwing dirt into my face as I unsling
my carbine and rest it across my dead
horse for shot. fire at the gray, as
he is nearest and the greatest menace,
but the bullet misses the target. At
that moment they begin to work to
the left, and in the next they are past
me, leaping over dead horses and
trampling on dead men Us they scream
! and bite and kick.
Above the roar of battle I hear q
rife-shell coming. 1t gives ont a
growing, complaining sound which nc
man hears without chill. The sound
grows louder-nearer-cr The
horses We're fifty feet away, and il
must have struck one of them. There
was cloud of smoke-a whizzing Of
ragged fragments, and when I could
see again both horses were down--torn
and mangled and almost blotted off the
face of the earth by the awful force o.
the explosion. York World.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
A Relic.

.,e wall above the mantel
tH r MORE an ancient weapon hung,
l'i.hed, dusty, old, and rusty,
l"n.,rinrtieId pattern, stxty-one;
"a tho spiders, all unconscious
'A. ~: its power. upon it crawl,
Va 1--we wcbbcd it. breach and muzzl,
~ where it hangs upon the wall.
.,,,d If speak 'twould tell a story
'o m,,a, would startle young and old,
,r,r,s Of long and weary marches
Goui,l that weapon true unfold,
~. ;,s of battle. tales of carnage
,,;,,, would blanch the bravest check,
rr,m Bull Run to Appomattox.
Gn,,ld that ancient weapon speak.
,,,or indeed is that Old muskct,
+, had sure voice long ago.
a., friend so true and trusty
ON the field to meet the foe.
rScn it spoke and to purpose,
Fiery was the tale it told,
1n,dcn WAS the fearful message
From that weapon grim and old.
And love it-who can blame me?
I, and were closest chums,
o,d and rusty, tried and trusty,
brSt OIL ili yum ilihS VA > uiio'
Comrades dead and comrades living,
|, reminds me of you all;
r,lows touch whene'er l view 1t
A, it hangs upon the wall
Brings again your kindly faces
From that distant long ago
When we faced tho storm OF battle
On the field to meet the foe.
ON the wall above the mantel
There's an ancient weapon hung,
Tarnished. dusty. worn. and rusty,
Springfield pattern, sixty-one.
IT. Wilson Kenyon.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31

"WF1L, Rastus," said Mr.. Fresh6eld
to the waiter, handing him q tive-dollar
bill to pay fifty cent check, Il under
stand you have discovered the differ
ence between a gentlemen and gent.
"Yassir. returned Rastus. de gennle-
man nebber waits for no change, sab"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31

That JOnn A. 1O-
gan, who was a
member of Con-
gross at the time
the war began,
left Washington
when he saw there
was going to be a
fight, and, Selling
a musket, walked
all the way to Bull
P,p 1phoro ho ar.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31

and rain, it is pleasant to turn into
Covent Garden and pass these flowers
in review. The wonder is how such
quantities of violets, primroses and
dafIodils can be collected.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
Rrhels Troated Fairly.

r o NJ luxurious
apartments on Madi-
son avenue a profess
sional gentleman, q
confederate soldier,
q prisoner at Indian
apolis in 1864, writes
q work Of fiction for
the April Century.
under the title "Cold
Cho1n ~ Co~ Mt"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
N BOOMING CANNON.
,s OF STIRRING INCIDENTS
Sh' IN CAMP AND IN BATTLE.

If tho Rebellion Relate Amus-
sur'' and Startling Incidents Of Weary
NE mes, Camp Life, Foraging Experi-
" Nos. and Battle Scenes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31

THERE is one lucky thing about
spoiled children-we never have them
in our own family.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31

ed back, July 3, 1868. The monument
will consist of an open book upon on
elevated platform. The volume will
partly rest upon cannon balls, and will
be five feet by six; the two pages will
be inscribed as follows:
HIGH WATER MARX OF THE REBELLION.
This copse of trees is LoNGsrREETs ASSAULT
the landmark Was repulsed by
Toward which Long. Halls and HarroW's
streets assault was brigades OF
directed. GIBBONS DIVISION,
JULY Sd, 1853. Smyths and Wizards
TEE AsSAULTING COL brlgades,
UMN WAS and
Composed Of Portions Of carroll's
Kemper's .Garnet's and brigade Of
Armi steads brig HAYS DIVISION,
aides Of HANCoCK's CORPS,
p1cKErr's DIVISION, Portions Of Rowl ,y's
Aroher's Davis, Petit and
crews, and Broken Doubeday's division,
brough's brigades NEwroN's CORPS,
OF HETHs DIVISION, HAZARDS ARTILLERY
And Scales and Lanes BRIGADE,
0ris 81 RG nas' A hroTas. e spd
PENDEH's DIVISION Rortys.
Supported on the right Assisted on the right
by W WI STs snS FER Hills. Edg eH Ealins
OF BancrofJ's, DilgeSs,
ANDERsoNs DIVISION, and Taft's
On the left by Thoma g PATTERNS ON GENE.
and McGowan s third Terry HILLS,
brigade of And OH the left by
PENpERs DIVISION Cowar's. Fltzhughs.
And in the rear by Parsons, Wheeler's.
Wrights, Posey's and Thomas, Daniels, anc
Holiness brigades Sterlings batteries by
of M'GILfERYs ARrIL-
ANDERsoNs DIVISION. LERY BRIGADE.
Other inscriptions give the names Of
the States whose troops fought at the
"bloody angle" and the list Of the Con
federate forces engaged in the attack
These We're the divisions of Pickett
Heth, Fender, and Lane, all under
command of Longstreet. The assault
is popularity known as Pickett's charge
because Pickett's division was in adj
vance, but Gen. Lcngstreet was il
command of the movement and will
receive the credit due him, so far as
the inscription on the monument at the
"bloody angle" can confer it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
The Bloody Ansl, at Gettxs,urr.
EXT autumn

EXT autumn
a noble mon
u m 9 n t will
be erected to
IN q TX t h 9
bloody a n
gle' at Get
tysburg, the
point where
ongstreet's
charge W a $
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31

MASCULINE dwa,fs should travel by
the limited mail"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
A rat.lc within a n.tt,..

\ UR battery had
been doing splen-
= did service.
From our position
on the right we could
see the shells drop
into the woods and
break up the for
nation of the Con
federata covo1rv
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31
ANpERsoN's DIVISION.
The Bull Hun Races.

1T is we'll known
s9N that John A. Lo-
EI Ba oen who was q
The morning call., 1891-02-22

might have been in Europe; the mountain
forns behind modelled in little from the
Alps, and the forest which clustered on
their ramparts growth no more consider
able than eur Scottish heath. Again the
cllft yawned, but now with deeper entry;
and the Casco. hauling her wind, began to
slide INTO the bay of Anaho. The cocoa
palm, that giraffe of vegetables so graceful,
SO ungainly, to the European eye so foreign,
was to be seen crowding on the beach, and
climbing and fringing the steep sides of
mountains; and presently house or two
appeared, standing high OH the ankles of the
bills, and one of these surrounded with
what seemed a garden. These conspicuous
habitaiions, that patch of culture, had we
but known 1t, were mark of the passage
Of whites and we might have approached
hundred islandsand not found their parallel.
twas longer ere We spied the native vii
lage, standing On the universal fashion, close
upon curve of beach, close under grove
of palms, the sea in front growing and
whitening on cOncave arc of reef. For the
cocoa tree and tine island man are both
! lovers and neighborS of the surf.
The coral wakes, the palm grows. but
man departs" says the sad Tahitian
proVerb; but they are all three, SO long as
they endure commuters of the beach. The
mark OF anchorage was a bl0w-hole in the
rocks. near the southeaSterly corner of the
bar. Punctualy to our use, the Dlow-hole
spouted; the schooner turned upon her heel;
the anchor plunged. 1t WAS a small sound,
great event; my soul went down with these
moorlngs, whence no windlass may extract
nor any diver fish it up; and | ard some part
OF my ships company were from that hour
the bnndSlaves of the isles of Vivien.
Before yet the anchor plunged canoe
was already padding from the hamlet. 1t
contained two men-One white. one brown
and tatto0ed across the face with bands of
blue, both IN immaculate white European
The morning call., 1891-02-22
Jananesa PARLIAMENT.

The Parliament of Japan recently assem-
bled under the new Constitution is the first
of its kind in Asiatic countries, and the re-
suits of its deliberations will be awaited
with interest. The traditions of all Oriental
countries are averse 20 Government of this
kind, but japan is more likely to prove an
exception to the rule than any other nation
OF the Eastern hemisphere. Even in Japan,
liberal as 1t is to-day, 1t will require great
deal of holiness for men to array themselves
against the Goyerument and discuss public
policy as freely as is done in the constitutional
m0narchies OF Europe. About eighteen or
twenty years ago Ismail Pasha, Khedive of
Egypt thought it would be good thing to
have parliament, and accordingly sum-
moned an assembly of notables to meet
i'll Cairo. When the assembly met
the Presidency was taken by one of
the kbedvial Ministers. who explained
that 1t was necessary to divide into two sec
tons, one OF which would support the Gov
eminent and the other would be the oppo-
sition. The members were asked to range
themselves on TWO sides of the hall, the OPP
position forming one group and the Govern
bers went TO the Government side and not a
man to the opposition. Nobody was willing
to risk his liberty and his life by saying any
thing III public to criticize the Government,
Whatever he might think in private. In
vain did the President demonstrate that
Parliament was not possible without an OPP
position. Divide they would not, aud COLI
SeQuently the attempt TO form an opposition
was a complete failure. This was several
years before lshmaiI accepted the plan of
constitutional government which was
The morning call., 1891-02-22

journal. the cabin was filed from end 10 end
with Representatives rown-skinned gen
eratlons, squatted cross-legged upon the
floor, aud regarding me in silence with en-
barrassing eyes. The eyes of all P0lyBes-
ians are large, luminous and melting; they
are like the eyes of animals and some Ital-
ianS. The Romans knew that look and had
word for it; oeuli putTes, they sad-eyes
rancid with expression. A kind of despair
cameeover me, to sit there helpless under all
these staring orbs. and be thus blocked in
corner of my cabin by this speechless
crowd; and kind OF rage to think they
were beyond the reach of articulate com
municatlOn, like tuTred animals or folk born
deaf, or the jewellers OF some alien planet.
To cross the channel is, for a boy of II, to
change heavens; to cross the Atlantic, for a
man OF "a, is hardly to modify his diet. But
| was now escaped out Of the shadow of the
Roman empire, under whose topping mon
uments We were all Graded, whose laws
and letters are on every hand of us, con-
straiuing and preventing. / was now to
see what men might be whose fathers never
studied Virgil, had never been conquered
by Cesar and never been ruled by the wis
dom of GaiuS or Papinian. By the same
step had journeyed forth out of that COM
Portable zone of kindred languages, where
the curse of Babel is so easy to be reme-
died; and my fellow-creatures sat before
me dumb, like images. .Methought, in my
travels, all human relation was to be ex-
cluGed; and when / returned home (for
III those days still projected my RETURN
should have but dipped into picture book
without text. Nay, and even questioned
if my travels should be much prolonged;
perhaps they were destined to speedy end;