davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03
A Good Listener.

"Yes," said the voluble man to his
neighbor in an u" car, II always'like to
talk with you, because I learn some
thing. You have something to say.
You don't sit like bump on log and
let another man do all The talking. YOU
have ideas, and you express them"
II tlatter myself" began the other,
but he was Immediately interferred
with.
"That's the way it is, you see. I can
sit and hear you talk all day, while
there are men men [ wouldn't listen to
a minute"
Il was going to say.
L told my wife only last night that I
could get more solid information in
hearing you talk ten minutes than I
could in listening to some men week."
MAY I Remark
''rhere's that Smith. I get up and
leave the car at once whenever I see him
enter Good enough fellow, too, but he
wants to talk all the time, and there's
nothing in it. Tin not much of talker
myself, but I Go like to get a word in
edgewise occasionally"
ST yon will allow me-"
u don't see how yon manage to pick
mp so much information on all kinds of
subjects. l don't want to fiatter Won.
bu; yon seem to be posted on almost
everything"
III you would give me a mo-
ment-"
Il would talk all the time if I was
MS good rs you are ut it. Folks often saw
to me. Jones, why don't you talkY but
land ! know enough to keep still when
men are around who know a placuev
sight more than do"
ITO talk we'll one must have.
"That's just it, you see. One must
have a good listener. Now what 7 I'd.
m.re myself for more than anything elsa
Is, I'm good listener, I can ride ali
the way from Harlem down to the Bat
terry listening to you az am doing now
and hardly open my mouth to saw
word. Cause why? I,know . FOOD
talker when hear one."
But you DON'T ~.
.oh, yes, l do. understand eyery-
ching you say on the subject, but Of
course | can't dress my ideas up in
such language as you use. You are a
natural talker I am not. You omen
your mouth and words run ont clear A. a
BROOK and can: lelp but isteA."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03
Several Different ways.

S0SoAoA AlAcASAG w
"Do you hear how she pronou
the word 'girl?' Isn't that deliciq
gushing?"
IN, you bet. /"
They we're the remarks. says the
adelphia Inquirer, OF two young
at the Walnut Street Theater
Miss Bell Rose, who plays the rol
the ingenious maid, gushed forth
word girl"
Then the comments ran on:
hear some people and players say
rul at the extreme of broadness,
others say gayrl at the other extre1
fiatness. Then you hear all tones
infections between these extremes
as gerl, gaerl, gaeirl. ghaeirl, but
of these for Miss Rose. When she
it there comes a gush Of the tinc1
Of all these vowels mingling in one \
whose musical richness sends Jo1
tremor through the marrow OF my
bones"
mp chimes the other fellow,
Makes girl more delightful cres|
altogether, don't it.
"Ghaeirl! There she goes "a
Why, it is as much fun as swallow
juicy oyster, isn't it?" Il
"Ghaeirl! Glory. It's the mln1
spirits of all the wines at once 81
ling with all the fire of all the leI
of the earth. Bless ne if I ever 8
see girl again. I'll 90 to see gn'I
See? Te he!"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03
Good Manners at Homo.

The presence of good manners is
nowhere more needed or effective than
in the household, and perhaps nowhere
more rare. Whenever Familiarity exists,
there is tendency to loosen the check
upon selfish conduct which the pres
ence OF strangers involuntarily pro-
duces. Many persons who are kind and
courteous in company, are rude and
careless with those whom they love best.
Emerson says: Good manners are
made up of petty Sacrifices" and GER
tainly nothing can more thoroughly
secure the harmony and peace Of the
family circle than the habit of making
small sacrifices, one for another. Chill
dren thus learn good manners in the
best and most natural way, and habits
thus acquired will never leave them.
Courtesy and kindness will never loso
their power or their charm, while all
spurious limitations of them are to be-
despised.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

On the LIST of May at least 100000
miners and mechanics will strike for
eight hours per day. Either success
or failure will mean months idleness
to most of them, and it is estimated
that the direct damage to the United
States, no matter who wins, will be
$75,OOO,0O0. Strikes come high, but
we must have 'em.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

The first passenger cars for this
country were merely stage coaches on
the rail, and in other countries they
still keep something of this form. In
America, large, airy cars for passen-
gers were early introduced, and the
parlor car. the sleeping car, the hotel
car, and the dining car are all of Amer
lean origin, and are little used else
where. The street tramway, or horse
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

The thread of the silkworm is so
small that an average of forty-two of
them are twisted together to form a
thread of common sewing silk; that of
the spider is many diameters smaller.
Two drachms of spider-web by weight
would, if stretched into a straight
line, reach from London, England, to
Edinburgh, Scotland, a distance of
over 400 miles.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

DR.. H. S. TANNER, who tasted forty
days. now lives near Clinton, Mo. He
now challenges Signor Succi to sit
down with him in Chicago during the
Worlds Fair to test the matter in a
ninety-days' fast on water only; or, if
Succi prefers, let the fast continue
from day to day until one or the other
yields the contest.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

THN Prince de Rohan, in bet with
Prince Torlonia, has lately driven a
trap and four down the stone steps Of
the town Of Monaco. The descent
was rather steep, but it was done with
out stumble.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

A PREHISTORIC smelling furnace has
been discovered near Albuquerque,
New Mexico. Near by bar of pure
silver was found. The furnace had
been filled with ore and never fired.
It is not larger than common bakers
ova0
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

ABox alleged to contain books, aud
addressed to minister of the gospel
in Montana, was inspected by customs
inspectors, and found to contain
ninety-six pounds of opium, valued at
over 81, 400. The reverend smuggler
has not claimed his goods.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

A FARMLAND at Lower Merton, Pa,
killed with stone fox that had been
chased for two hours by forty horsemen
and twenty-six dogs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

BARON H1RscH has already given
about $l4, 600, 900 to the Hebrew poor,
in addition to his recent gift Of So, $780,
600, and is still worth $780, 100000.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

The Arab ponies which the Sultan
recently presented to the three elder
of the German Emperor's six sons are
said to have a pedigree which dates
back to the Sacred mare" on which the
prophet fled from Mecca to Medina.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

F. A SPECIAL kind of paper has been
invented, which, it is alleged, is abso-
lutely impervious to water, and will
even stand boiling. The waterproof
ing can be carried out either after the
paper is made OF during the operation
of making it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

A Mrs. ZooK, of Kansas City, who
died recently, left 100000 to distant
relatives, and cut off her husband
with SIS legacy and request that he
wouldn't make fool of himself by
spending it recklesslv.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

The City Council Of San Antonio,
Tex, is said to be seriously contem-
plating the creation of the Office of
city aeronaut and the selection of a
competent balloonist for the place.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, has large
surplus of unmarried young men, and
an influx of New England girls would
be gladly welcomed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

ABOUT one million and half men
work in the coal mines of the world.
OF these England has 535, 600; United
States, 100000; Germany, 100000;
Belgium, 100000: France, 100000; Aus
tria. 100000; Russia, $4,000. The
worlds miners of metal number 4 ,OOO,-
600.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

The deposits in the savings banks of
the Dominion of Canada declined 49,,
100000 last year.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

The King of Italy has decided to
hold no great army maneuvers this
year, in order to spare the heavy ex-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

house dressing
can not be over
estimated. The
matron who APP
pears before the
members of her
ia mily in q
shabby soiled
wrapper, an d
makes the ex-
cuse-if, indeed,
she takes the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

THERE lisa great scarcity of stenog-
raphers in Savannah, and a constant
demand for them.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

A BILL has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania Senate which imposes a
fine of $1,000 on any person in that
State who manufactures or has on sale
a cigarette, and further penalty Of
800 fine on any person found smoking
one. If that doesn't stop the traffic
hanging won't,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

AFTER New Orleans, Bombay is the
greatest cotton port in the world.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03
would you indulge me- I

well, I get off here (risine and .
ing hands,. You don't know b @nas
I have enjoyed listening to Wv Wv,
morning. Instructive as eves VI !,
Wish ] might happen to fan l
you every morning in going dow N -.
Goodbye" EXIT. l-Tcras S;fg a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

An English company is working a
silver mine in Bolivia which yields
more than $50 ounces to the ton, while
specimens of almost pure silver are
met with.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

IT is reported that white servants
are rapidly replacing colored help in
the towns of Southwestern Georgia.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

An electrician who has made spe-
cialty of spectacular electricity says the
day is not far off when electrical fire.
works will supersede those now used.
He declares that for comparatively
moderate outlay he could arrange an
electrical display that would last for
many years, and could be repeated as
often as desired. It would comprise
rockets, roman candles, wheels. Niagara
Falls, and all the modern pyrotechnical
effects.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

railroad, and the elevated railways for
rapid travel in cities We're first used in
this country.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

THERE is trade which consists in
the destruction of echoes. These in
churches, meeting-halls, and even large
rooms are so powerful at times as to
prevent all enjoyment. They are de-
stroyed by spinning wires not far from
the ceiling at points and lines where
the waves of soand are most easily
shattered.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

Pearl fishing is still carried on in
the River Tay, in Scotland.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03
Good Do,nestics.

A good Householder makes a
servant. Now. don't think that
going to "let loose" on the fri
ragged. utterly worn out servan
question. I am not. 1 just want
hush! It acknowledges enoug
call q bluah to the cheek to hear .
man say there are no good servant
hear her bemoan the fate that SCI
cyclone sweeping through dom
felicity, just because one forlorn HI
being has come to attend the thu
lever that only moves the regull
valve of good housekeeping. II
knowledges more than to see q nj
woman, eaten up by the green
monster-jealousy. Jealousy of AMI
person is self depreciation and I'D
of argument, says the Chicago He
When q woman confesses that she
not procure good servant it is
conclusive that the throttle lever
noe do it's work, because the engi
self is all out of order. The LOGON
that runs the household, must be id
feet running order before any OUT
can come in and turn on and tut
the steam with satisfactory RESULT
good, systematic housekeeper. one
has the complications down to a sci
will at once convince the worst kid
fend that there is one, and but
way to run the machinery OF that HI
hold. The "fend" may be without
vious experience, or she may be a
waif from Vanderbilt mansion
perience will go for naught. Tho
tricacies OF the new machinery muI
mastered and the power of the str|
locomotive must be respected.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

ELECTRICITY has found use in the
stable in a new idea for grooming
horses. The power furnished by an
electric motor is taken by flexible
tube to brush that revolves rapidly.
With this brush man can groom a
horse better in five minutes than in
much longer time bv hand,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

THOUGH man may not like bust
uess he should act business-like.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

HOWELL COUNTY, Missouri, had until
recently, when death took him, an &C.
centric genius named Henry Crone.
He Owned two fine farms, never
divulged his secrets to living soul.
allowed no one to make his clothes, do
his washing or make up his bed. Ifhe
had any relatives he never spoke of
them.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

A COUNTRY social club invented a
"hammer and needle party" for enter
tainment the other day. Each lady
was requested to bring needle, a
spool Of thread and several buttons,
and each gentleman q hammer. When
all the materials were on the table,
each lady picked out hammer and
was given block and some nails. Each
gentleman chose sewing materials and
buttons, and the contest began. The
ladies drove as many nails in their
blocks as they could in five minutes,
and the gentlemen sewed on as many
buttons as possible in ten minutes.
Prizes were given and much laughter
nroyoked
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

For long time the tomato was re-
garded as little better than a poison.
Then followed reaction, and virtues
were attributed to it which it did not
possess. And now certain Philadel-
phia physicians declare that it is in
furious to the system. This recalls
the theory OF an old lady who lived in
Boston few years ago. After many
years of study and Investigation she
came to the conclusion that the use of
the tomato as an article of food invari-
ably resulted in a moral decadence.
Her explanation was that it affected
the brain in such way as to obliterate
the distinction between right and
wrong
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03
Measure for a Housewife.


A certain wise old lady said to the
writer recently: Il always Judge a
woman by the hearth she keeps. Show
me the fire she sits by, and I'll tell you
her character" She was right, as you
will know if you think minute, says a
writer in the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat. From time immemorial the
CHEEKY hearth has been symbol of
home and its comforts, but when it is
disorderly, unswept or choked with
ashes, it ceases to be a joy or a luxury.
The room may be poor, and the fire a
tiny one, but if the dog-irons are bright
and erect, the poker, tongs, and shovel
marshalled side by side in military
order, the hearth swept clean, the
bricks as red as scrubbing brush can
make them, and the fire blazing cheer
lily, the scantiness of the furniture will
not matter, and home will seem the
dearest thing on earth. By the way.
will anything ever take the place Of the
old open fire place? Beside it the
furnace in the cellar is an abomination.
and the CRATE is new-fangled make
believe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03
FOR THE GENTLER sen.
A COLUMN DEVOTED TO THEIR
AMUSEMENT.
Neatness in Dress at Home-Brought
Back Days of Long Ago-Measure tor a
'Housewife-whyW Women Marry.
Neatness in Dress at Home.

.\HE Importance
of neat tasteful
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

The longest board fence in New
Jersey, and possibly in the country, is
just being completed at Tranquility.
It incloses J. o. Stuyvesant's new deer
park, and will be twelve miles long.
The tract is 1900 acres. The fence is
ten feet high and is made of hemlock
boards an inch and a half thick. The
sawmill at Allamuchy has been run
ming constantly for year cutting lum-
Der for this one fence. It will cost
$4,000.
The battle of Long Island was
fought near Brooklyn on the 9th of Au-
gust, 1916. In this battle the Ameri-
cans were defeated. and Washington
withdrew his troops from Brooklyn,
and left the whole of Long Island in
the hands of the British. The Ameri-
cans were not strong enough to hold
New York, and it was soon evacuated.
Fort Washington, above New York,
with 1000 Americans, was captured by
the British, who soon crossed the Hud-
son. Washington was obliged to re.
treat, step by step, across New Jersey
into pennsylvania.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

A STRANGE story is furnished from
Dubuque, Iowa, the truth OF which is.
vouched for by the city officials. About
ten days ago Michael Conley died soon
after being discovered in an clubhouse
on the Jefferson House premises. His
body was taken to the morgue and the
old clothes he wore when found were
thrown aside. When his daughter in
Chickasaw County heard of his death
she fell into q swoon. In her dreams
she saw the clothes he wore when dy-
ing, and received from him a message
saying he had saved up roll of bills
in his shirt. On recovering she de-
manded that some one 60 to Dubuque
and get the clothes. To quiet her
mind her brother visited the city, re-
ceived the clothes from the Coroner
and found the money sewed on the
shirt with piece of her red dress, e1-
actly as she had described, though she
knew nothing about the patch nor the
money until after her fathers death.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03
WHY Women Marry,

You see, the day has gone by When
man would do anything for woman;
countries need to be either very young
or very old when this sort of thing hap
pens, but after all can't help but re-
member that question, "What do women
marry for?"
Some women marry because they
want home of their own, and these are
my conclusions:
Some women marry because they
haven't the moral courage to remain
single.
Some women marry because they
want little more money in their purses
and little larger credit at the shops.
Some women marry because they
want to put Mrs" on their visiting
cards.
Some women marry because their
mother wants them to.
Some wemen marry because man
asked them to, and they don't like to
say no.
Some women marry for money
money, and nothing else. These women
get the money, and with it great respon-
sibilities they never dreamed of.
Some women marry because they love
the man, because they want to be his
wife, his friend and his helpmate; be-
cause they want to make him feel that
there is one woman in the world whom
he can love and cherish, and from whom
he will receive love and consideration
in return. Because they want him to
feel that if sorrow comes he has sym
pathizing, loving friend close beside
him, and that in the day of Joy there is
one who can give him smile for smile.
These are the women worth marrying.
The others are of little worth, and never
would be missed if they suddenly
dropped out of the matrimonial bonds.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

A FRENcHMAS, who evidently revels
in handling large sums of money, has
compiled some interesting statistics in
regard to the weight of milliard of
the French coin of the realm. Accord
ing to him milliard in silver weighs
100000 pounds; in gold, 645, 100
pounds; in 1,000-franc checks, 1850
pounds; and in 100-franc checks, 20, 600
pounds. Assuming that carrier could
carry 20O-weight, eighteen men would be
required to carry a milliard in 1000
franc checks, lis men the same sum
in 100-franc checks, 1925 men in gold,.
and $4,000 in silver. A milliard in
1,000-franc checks would make zoos
volumes of 500 pages each.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

FINE ARr-that Of the pc''oe 'D''
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-03-27
Grove City College.

TIE spring term of Grove City
College will open March 3lst The
outlook is Unprecedented The
trustees are enlargiDg the facilities
to meet the increased demands. New
College and Normal courses Of study
have been adopted. The Conserva-
tory Of Music is fully equipped.
Lieut. Rowell of the U. S. A is on
the ground organizing the Military
department. Several new depart
ments have within the last year been
added, namely-the Commercial de-
partment, departments in Steno-
graphy and Typewriting, Telegraphy,
etc. Specialists in these departments
have been employed to give instruc-
tioD. Rates of tuition and boarding
are exceedingly low. Students can
board on the cooperative plan, every
thing found, for $2.l0 to 50 25 per
week. For catalogue and circulars,
address the President
ISAAC G. KETLER,