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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

A NATIVE gentleman of Bombay has
been Investigating the ancient history
OF the game of ball-bat Cor chowganguD
as given in the epic of the Persian poet
Firdus. A game something, but not
very much like cricket appears to have
been played centuries ago in Persia.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

X Ireland, before st. Patrick intro
,od Christianity, there was temple
"4r lava where fire burned ever, and
~ IN no account suffered to go out.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

AFTER a man has been loafng few
days, one of the signs that he is getting
used to it is that his hair begins to look
rougher, his boots are not so we'll
BACKED, and his clothes make you think
of a whisk broom. He has more time
to devote to his appearance than before,
but care OF appearance means work, and
ms taste of loating is killing all of that
in his makeup.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

Ir is said that the health of the
operatives improves where electric
lights are used. Their appetites and
their ability to sleep increase. This re-
suit is quite marked in some cases in
London. The light is also said to be
better for the eyesight.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

THE richest American President was
George Washington. He was worth,
when inaugurated, s35O,O0O, which for
those days was fabulous wealth. He
uas the richest man in the colonies
for the time. Van Buren, was the next
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09
A METHODIST minister giving his re

A METHODIST minister giving his rea-
son to the editor of The People for not
voting the Prohibition ticket, said
that it was because they were so
few in number and with such lit
tie prospects of success. The same
minister the Sunday before pointed to
the grand success of the progress of
Christianity in China-3s, 900 Christians
out of 34s, 100000 of Chinese! This
same minister would not have united
with the Christian party in the time of
Christ because they were so few in num-
Der and with so little prospects "of sue
cess" Oh, that We had more preachers
With Christian courage!-Ihc People
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

THE Philadelphia Times is authority
tor the statement that the average cost
of obtaining IL license in Philadelphia
for the present year "was not less than
So. 0OO." The license fee was $500.
Where did the rest go? That is quite an
important inquiry, when it is considered
that 1000 licenses at $1,000 each would
amount to $1,soo,cOO. Enormous fees
were paid in some cases." says the
Times, "and 200 was not an uncom-
mon compensation to lawyers selected
! because OF their presumed political or
other special influence with Judges,
who were vested with discretionary
power in the granting of licenses. II
! isn't much wonder the politicians were
so active in defeating Prohibition, when
| the law Quay had enacted as buffer
poured 81 5000 cO to S2,OOO,000 a year
/ into the pockets OF those politicians. =
| The Voice
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

If men will engage in this destructive
traffic, if they will stoop to degrade their
reason and reap the wages of iniquity,
let them no longer have a law-book a
pillow, nor quiet conscience with the OPT
ate of a court liccnse.-Scnator Frelirg-
huljsen.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

IF Adam and his wife had possessed
as much wealth as We spend each year
in the United States for liquor, and could
they have lived from the time when they
"hid from the presence of the Lord God
as He was walking through the garden
in the cool of the day" until now, and,
had they not earned one cent nor placed
one cent of the money at interest, they
could have spent q thousand q day for
each working day, and yet not be bank
rupt; or, if by rigid economy they had
cked out a miserable existence upon $500
Il day, they would now be worth more
than four times as much as the Wander
bits. TO save this expense is the size of
the "one idea" of the Prohibition party.
The PATROL
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

IHE death Of a broker in the New
York Stock Exchange from the bursting
OF blood vessel in the brain in the
Superseded hours of the panic, will
afford preachers and moralists On adj
mlrable instance which they are sure to
utilize. 1t is to be remembered, how
ever, that the same man might have
lost his life in the same way in the ex-
element of a baseball match or re-
ylval meeting. It was q question Of
physical weakness quite as much as of
excitement. Yet it must be admitted
that the spectacle OF mob fury which
the Stock Exchange presents on such
an occasion is not one to edify either the
moralits or the political economist, and
that the incident was striking COM
ment upon the wildness of the struggle
which goes on under the name of bust
ness.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

SO EFFEcTUAL has been the trans
mission of the fearful poison, and so
wholly does the disease still mock at
mans efforts to counteract it, that of
twenty-six patients who were bitten by
mad wolf and afterwa1d inoculated
by NJ. Pasteur, five died in Paris, and
four more who had been treated with
apparent success died of hydrophobia
Immediately after their return to
Russia.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

THERE is reaction in New York
among some of the men who have been
in the habit of submitting to tho i'm
ported imposition of the clipping" sys-
tenn. They are not the least liberal
men in the metropolis, either, but
they recognize the fact that, when
everybody tips, no one gains any I'D.
vantage, and the result is that the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

THE Emperor Of Austria has dis
covered that Hungary exports yearly to
this country butsl00,000 worth Of wine.
while the annual sales of Hungarian
vine here amount to some millions, and
the Emperor is greatly astonished. His
imperial majesty is evidently one OF
those supplemented persons who
imagine that the United States will go
clear to France and Germany for grapes
when she has large surplus Of goose
berries on hand.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

TIE indications are growing rapidly
that the liquor-dealers and the od-party
politicians have issued orders for gen
eral assault on Prohibition all along the
line. Vermont, Iowa and the Dakotas
arc the scenes of the most aggressive
work; but, if successful there, Kansas
and Maine will follow. We warn the
Prohibitionists in every one of these
States that eternal vigilance alone will
insure the continued outlawry of the
liquor traffic. We know what we are
talking about. The policy of the liquor
trade which we revealed i'll 1885, and
again and again since, is being followed
to the letter. The politicians are only
too willing to become the tools for Grad
icating the last vestige of prohibitory
legislation. Both parties are playing
into each others hands in this game.
| Nothing less will assure the safety of the
/ traffic anywhere, and the power which
it holds in doubtful States, enabling it to
decide Presidential elections, is being
held over the national leaders of both
parties to compel the repeal of all pro
hibitory laws.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09
This Wonderful Century.

The first year of the last decade of
the nineteenth century is drawing to a
close, and the remaining nine will
quickly follow, closing this remarkable
volume of time. Within the one hun
dred years greater progress has been
made in providing man with material
comforts. and doing the worlds work
by machinery instead of wearying hand
labor, than in all the centuries of his
toric time. Within the lifetime of men
who are still actively engaged in bust
ness or professional life we have had
the invention of the cotton gin, power
looms, spinning machinery, knit
ting and sewing machines, lucifer
matches, the locomotive. the
railroad, the ocean steamer, the
reaper, the telegraph and telephone,
and the power and perfecting printing
presses and typewriters, all Of which
seem to have annihilated time and
space, and, with innumerable other
mechanical devices, have increased
mans productive industrial capacity
q hundredfold. Nations have become
like family, the interests of one being
closely interviewer with the interests
of all. Competition is no longer local,
but worldwide. We sensibly feel the
wheat crops of India and Russia, and
it cannot be many years before the
cotton and sugars of Africa will be
large factors in the worlds products
and commerce. Though q wonderful
century in which to have lived, the
first half of 1900 will be still more
wonderful for the races of men on this
4 planet.-Pullma,o (Iu.) Jovr7aal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

~ ioll, an English gentleman travel
ing In Italy made this entry in his
journal: Il observe custom not used
IN !. any other country. They use little
fork when they cut their meat" He
purchased one and carried it to En-
gland, but when he used it he was so
.iolculed by his friends that he wrote
~ MS diary: Master Lawrence Whit
aSer' my familiar friend, called me
nuclfer for using fork at feeding"
mat little twotine article of table furni-
lure brought about fierce discussion.
IL was regarded as an innovation, I'M
warranted by the custom of society.
ministers preached against its use. One
minister maintained that, as the Creator
mad given thumbs and fingers, it was an
insult to the Almighty to use fork.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

ONLY Is per cent of the total popu-
1ation of Portugal can read or write,
and it is no wonder that when the wind
blows from the southwest every house.
wife locks the front door to keep out the
spirits Of the dead. Let farmer
dream that he saw black pig on the
highway and no one within ten miles OF
him will change his shirt for q month,
believing that by so doing he will start
m epidemic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

and Criticisms BASED Upon
'' 'no happenings of tho D.y-his'orica'
and News Notes'
r,vrrES prominent and influential
..a,s. were arrested while shooting
cue s" in o Columbus (Ind.) gambling
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

DEsEET1oNs from the army are de-
cyeasing slowly, but as the benefits of
the new law become more evident, the
evil of running away from Uncle Sans
care will diminish. About nine men in
every hundred deserted last year,
which was much larger proportion
than doged when the civil war made
doing ones duty more dangerous. There
is noglory in doing meLial work in gar
risons, and this demoralizes the men
who do not see the true nobility of the
slightest true service.
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09

THE tax on land values is the only
tax of any Importance that does not dis
tribute itself. 1t falls upon the owners
of land, and there is no way in which
they can shift the burden upon any ono
else.-Progress and Poverty.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-10-07
RoOTsTowN.

The weather is cooler, the wheat all sown. the
corn nearly all cut up.
The Republicans have organized Club with
which they hope to deal some telling tlows on
the Alliance. but the Alliance fellows are jubi-
liant, and boldly claim one hundred and forty
straight votes for the Peoples Party in this
town, and they claim, too, that about half of
them are to come from the Democratic ranks
Ought not the Democrats to wake up little
and see if this is so?
Rev. I. e Cotton, who has been pastor of the
Congregations ii Church for about eight wears
past. has rendered his resignation and the
Church have accepted the same, and he will
move within a week or two to Hudson, mich
Mr. Colten is very much respected by all the
people of the place, and it is with regret that he
thus leaves tn place. but the health of his fam
ily seemed to require change. and the move is
made for this reason. A farewell party was
held for him at b. A Deming's last evening,
which was quite largely attended and was a
pleasant social occasion, We are not informed
of any arrangement to supply the pulpit. but it
is presu umed that some one will preach regular
ly as usual Mr., Cotton will preach his last SER
mon here Sunday evening. Oct. 18th.
Rev. j. s, Koho. of the M. Church. attended
the annual Conference and then went for a
further visit among his wite's relatives. and has
not yet returned, but expects to return to this
charge for another year.
The big telephone line runs through the north
part of this town, and about hundred men are
at work along its line. The poles and other
supplies are unloaded at Rootstown Station and
from there are scsttered aroug the line, add are
being put up as fast as possible,
Mr., Collins and wife. of Eureka, Kansas ARE
visiting friends here for few days.
Rootstown, Oct, 9th, 1891.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-10-07
Why Is Wool Low3

It is more than funny to hear repub-
ican leaders comforting farmers on the
low price of wool. When the McKin-
ley bill became law they said to the
farmers: ''Now you will get the out
side price for your wool. The McKin-
ley bill will do the work. It did do
the work, but in an inverse direction.
To-day they say to the farmers who are
squealing at the non-fulfllment of the
promises: ''You should not grum BILE; on
the contrary, you ought to be thankful
that the price is as good as it is. Think
what it would be if it were not for the
Mckinley bill.' That is just what the
farmer is thinking about. All intelli-
gent men know that the reason FOR the
low price of wool is the excessive tariff
tax on imported wooden goods. The
heretofore market for foreign manu-
factures of woolens has been largely
cut off by the heavy import taxes. The
foreign manufacturers only buy wool
when they can find a market for the
goods they manufacture. Take the
market away and they cease. to buy
wool, and the supply being greater
than the demand, the price falls. From
the professions made by the manufact-
urers of the United States it would be
supposed that they were too philan-
thropic to take advantage of the fall in
prices on the raw material This in
ference is not safe one. Hon. VIM.
Lawrence, of Bellefontaine, says that
the manufacturers of this country "are
as arrant set of knaves as ever scut-
tied a ship" There is no fact more
easily demonstrated than that the Nc
Kinley bill was intended for the benefit
of the manufacturers. It is honestly
answering it's purposes, and the farmers
may as well conclude that so far as
their interests are concerned the pro-
tectionists do not care one penny.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-10-07
A Simple Fact.

Glessner, of the Hancock Courier,
tells truth pointedly:
Those who complain about the un-
equal distribution of wealth should re-
member that in 1861, after the demo-
cratic party had administered the gov
ernment almost continuously for sixty
years, there was only five millionaires
in the United States; now after thirty
years of republican dominition there
are 81, 600 millionaires in this country.
The difference in the politics of the
two parties is well demonstrated here
in. The republican policy of ''protec-
tion" builds up great wealth in the
hands of the protected manufacturers
and makes the rich richer and the poor
poorer. The democratic party is in the
interest of the whole people.
Gear Reed has views Perhaps there is
no subject on which has not views At
present his principal views relate to
the hybrid known as reciprocity. On
this subject his views are intense, true
and valuable. Were it not for his love
for Mr.. Blaine, it is more than probable
that he would be offensive in the prom
inence with which he would express
them. But then the czar is wise as well
as learned, and possesses the quality of
modesty to an eminent degree. This
tempers his expressions. He says:
'Blaine's Pan-American reciprocity is
an attempt to carry on commerce by
diplomacy. The commercial world can
only do business on great commercial
principles, and not on correspondence
between state departments. Thomas,
your head is dead level on that subject.
''John Sherman entered public life in
1854 He was then a poor man. He
has received in salaries total of $780,
900. He has supported his family in
fashionable style.-H He is now a multi
millionaire" How did he get it? When
he was secretary of the treasury, 1877
to 1881, he was stockholder and director
of the First National bank of New
York, and he kept on deposit in that
bank from $1OO, 900, 600 to $125, 600, 900,
on which the bank did not pay the gov
ernment cent of interest, but on
which the bank probably made S., 00O,-
600 year, or $40, oOO, 900 for the four
years.-Hon. T. A. Bland.
Republican platform just now: Dodge
the tariff issue. Even Mckinley has
left his bill
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-10-07

OEEhrAEADs OC6 oTus 1881
The Twelfth Annual Reunion of the Hubbard
Family occurred at the residence of Michael
Eadler. the old home of uncle Ephriam B Hub
bard and his relict Aunt Jerusia. who resides
with her daughter. Mrs. Alma Eadler. Other
me mbers present: President Wesley Hubbard
and family, Tobias Mowen and family, Andrew
Slack and wife. Jessee Slack and family. includ-
ing the family of s. f. Hanselman, of Ravenna
E. S, Hubbard. wife and daughter. Paris; Ho-
mer Mills. Nelson: VIM. Hubbard. wife, SON
and daughter. Pittsburgh; DR.. Walter Mowen
and family; Mrs. Becky Aultman and family
Alliance. and others.
Ephraipn Beech Hubbard and his wife, Mary,
with their four prattling children. Alexander
Kidd, Ephraim Beech. Sophia W atson and Ste
phen. located in Deerfeld in 1902 then an un-
broken wilderness. The Oldest child was -
years and the youngest an infant in his mothers
arms. AS the years rolled on, Alexander mar
ried Eliza Bourton, and died in 1888, leaving
eight children Ephraim married Mary Nc
Gowan, and raised family of children. sons
and daughters. Aunt Mary died in 1898, and
he married again. Jerusia Reed. by whom he
reared our host Mrs. Alma Eadler, and died in
the Centennial. 1876. Sophia W married Har-
vey Mills and located in Nelson. where she died
in 1865, leaving but one child. Stephen Hub
bard married Dianthia Mills and reared a fam
lily of 9 children. She died in 1874 and he mar
ried Miss Mariet Grail. He Joined the N, E.
Conference in early life, and became an timer
ent, making his home where the Conference sent
him. His years were heightened by more than
a score the allotted time of man. dying in Ed
inburgh. May 8, 1891. aged 81 years and mos
And now, after nearly a century has rolled
into the dim past. we of the fourth, and possibly
the fifth generation meet to greet, and in a
measure keep green the memory of our an
cestors. About fifty at down to the tables
None of Uncle Alexander's family were here,
as all are located in the far West. Cousin Eu-
clid died in Fayette, Fulton Co. June 1. 1891.
Died. in Deerfield. Oct 8, 1891. Jacob Everett
aged s5 years. The clock run down and 1t could
not be wound up. Old age.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-10-07

Every Democrat in Ravenna and vicinity is
urgen tly requested to be present at Riddles
Hall next Friday evening. at 500 O'Clock. to
assist in organizing a Democratic Club. The
issues between the two great parties are being
more clearly defined each year and it behooves
every true Democrat to be alert and active in
opposing the advances of his restless opponents.
To be a Democrat means to be friend of the
laborer and producer. and to belong to party
that asks equality Tor all before the law and
special privileges for noue. A Democrat op-
poses all class legislation. and is in active sym
pathy with every movement directed against
the iniquitous Republican measures that foster
monopolies and trusts by Chinese wall tariff
while at the same time throwing open our ports
to the 'pauper labor'' they are SO anxious to
protect the American mechanic and laborer
against. Evil measures and impending dan
gers, the results of deliberate Vaccinations of
well organized and well drilled political harpies
can only be met by counter organization and
opposition. Let every Democrat lend his
assistance in organizing Club that shall be
sourcr of sire myth and assistance to the party,
Mckinley and McKinleyism must be defeated
in Ohio, and it is only by concentrated effort
that this can be accomplished. There is moth
ing that will so quickly alarm the high tariff
grinders as thorough Democratic organization.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-10-07
SHALERsVILLE.

DIR II. F. Hixson, of Canton. spoke to a large
audience at the Town Hall. on Saturday eve.
ming last. in the interest of the Peoples Party.
His speech as an excellent one and attentive
ly listened to throughout.
Our sick are improving.
Several of our young people attended the
dance at FREEDOM last Friday evening.
c. d. Nichols, of Brooklyn, Mich is visiting
here
Orville Reynolds has moved his family to
Auburn, temporarily. He is at wsrk in cheese
factory there this season.
c. NJ. Streator has been rather indisposed of
late.
beardless young man of diminutive stature
registered at the hotel here Monday evening
He could not tell his name, but as he soomed so
helpless and thinly clad, Oliver has adopted
him and will hereafter provide him with the
comforts and blessings of life. Boys. what will
you take?
Thomas Blanchfeld and Miss Clara Tuttle
embarked in the ship" Matrimony'' of the Life
Line.'' for - Hearts Content" on Wednesday
Sept 80. May long life of happiness and pros
perity attend them
A friend of ours who has passed mis- DIST mile
post. went hunting few days since, for the
first time. and the account he has just given of
killing his first squirrel would make the cheek
of a much older nimrod blush with animation
and astenishment. PHGBE