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The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-10-24
Newspaper Training.

Edward Everett Hale, in the
course Of an article in the Septem-
Der Forum on Formative Influ-
ences, writes as follows:
81 have said that my father was
an editor. He had, also, a book
printing Office under his direction,
and at an early age we boys taught
ourselves to set type, and l was
initiated by the foreman into all
the mysteries of a good printing
office. For amusement we learned
short hand, by a very inferior sys-
TEN, text books of which had been
sent to the Advertiser for notice.
AS we grew older, we were assign
ed, as occasion might require, to
one bit of duty or another in the
newspaper Office; and l believe l
have done everything which an
editor OF a publisher ever has to do,
from directing wrappers up to writ
ing the biography of a President
within an hour after his death.
This means, if the training be con-
tinued through many years of life,
and if one be under a good chief,
as l was, that one gains of neces-
sity, the ready use, at least of his
own language. We newspaper
men may write English very ILL.,,
but we write it easily and quickly.
So that to US, who have been in
this business, it is something amaz-
ing to hear a clergyman say that
he occupied a week in composing a
sermon, which was, at the outside,
thirty-fve hundred words, in
length. One can understand abso-
lutte inability to do it at all; but no
newspaper man understands how
a man, who can do it, can spend
thirty-six hours in doing it. And
I should like to recommend as a
formative influence, to those who
have education to direct, any exer-
cises which will make people
prompt and accurate in the first
draft of what they write. If you
have to send copy upstairs, hour
after hour, with a boy taking the
slips from you, one by one, as they
are written, and you know that
you are never to see what you
write until you read it the next day
in the paper, your copy will be
punctuated carefully, written care
fully, and it will be easily read.
That is one thing. Another thing
goes with it. You will form the
habit of determining what you mean
to say before you say it, how far
you want to go,and where you
want to stop. And this will bring
you to a valuable habit Of life,
which the lawyers expressed when
they advertised people stare de-
cisis'-to stand by what has been
decided. Napoleon gave the same
advice when he said: sIf you set
out to take Vienna, take Vienna
"For these reasons, l am apt to
recommend young men to write for
the press early in life, being we'll
aware that the habit of doing this
has been of use to me. And we
will take the habit of doing this as
one Of our formative influences"
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-10-24
NOTICE FOR

Land Ohdce at Rapid City, s. D., Oct. g., iegO.
Notice 4 hereby given that tbe following
named settler has dled notice Of HE intention 70
said proof will be made before the Jujce or
Clerk Of the circuit court Of Fall River COUNTY
q hts once In hot Springs. s. D.. on Nov. 81,
srkrHEs VIRTUE, H. 3O53,
for ths NJ swH Sec s. n,i seh Sec q. TIP Q 8,
He names the following witnesses to prove
bic continuous rcsidencs upon. and cultivation OF
said land, Wig: william u. Mood, ira i. TIL
litson. Frank E. Black, Newton Z Miller. Ali Of
c; Se' Is !; D.9 J.r. Lusr' Register.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-05
SHOT AT A sWINDLER.
A Kentucky Postmaster Duped L
a Green Goods Shark.

A Kentucky Postmaster Duped by
Green Goods Shark.
JERSEY CITY. n. j.. Feb. 4.-John E..
Holcombe, who claims to be postmaster
of Maiden, Jackson county, Kentucky,
was arrested in Jersey City this even
ing for attempting to shoot ''green
goods swindler who had defrauded
him. The sWindler was not wounded,
and succeeded in escaping arrest. Hol-
combe and his brother, Lewis S. HOl-
combe, visited New York to-day in re-
Spouse to letters sent to the latter by
the swindlers. They were escorted to
an Office, where, after the usual prelim-
inaries, the brothers handed over $3.50
for $4,000 of alleged conterfeits.
One of the swindlers offered to carry
the box containing the purchase to Jer-
sey City for So. His offer was accepted,
and the trio started for the Pennsyi-
yania station. After crossing the river
Lewis Holcombe took the box into the
toilet room at the ferry house to
examine il. The swindler at once
darted for the street. He was
followed by the postmaster, who fired
shot from a 32-caliber revolver at the
fugitive. The bullet failed to hit the
mark, and upon second attempt the
weapon missed nre. Inc Terry mouse
was thronged with people and in
tense excitement was caused by the
shooting. The irate postmaster was
arrested as he was aiming the third
time at the swindler. He is held upon
a charge of carrying concealed Weap-
ON. A more serious charge will be
preferred in case the police succeed in
capturing the man Holcombe tried
to shoot. The postmaster's brother
accompanied him to police headquarters
and will await his release. The box
contained nothing but newspaper clip
pings.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-05

fiuence with the dangerous anarchists
of this town. He is blowhard, and that
is all. There has never been any reason
for the people to fear him, and there
never will be. The police are always in
position to take hold of him when they
want him, but we have always been
anxious here to avoid making martyrs
of men who pose as iiberators of coun-
try that is already free. When you ar
rest blatant fool of the Most stamp
you make him hero In the minds of
ignorant people, and that is exactly the
end he is striving for. The police have
steadfastly refused thus far to make any
more of hero OF Most than they could
help. That is the real reason of the So
called lenity which has been shown to
this silly and bumptious poser"
The New York Tribune tells this
story about Gen. Sherman: He was in
a North Carolina town just after the
close of the war, and attended church
one Sunday with Andrew Johnson, who
was then vice president. and one or two
other prominent men. The minister
was young Irishman, and. like Peter
Cartwright, he seized the opportunity
to roast the great ones of this earth
oyer the ''coals." His opening PRAYER
was short, fervid. and left not shadow
of a chance for Andrew johnson to en-
JOY an agreeable hereafter unless he re-
pented. The minister hurled broad
sides at Gen. Sherman as we'll, and
when he had finished, the bluff old gen.
eral turned to his companions and whis-
pered i'll voice all could hear:
"By -, that was a good prayer"
IS
SIT Is mistake to suppose" said a
former MisSourian to a New York Sun
reporter, THAT perSlmmons cannot be
had up North here. get them when
ever want them, which is pretty often.
from Broadway fruiterer. They are a
perlshable fruit. and probably lose a
little of their flavor by being picked
somewhat green to ripen In transit, but
they are sufficiently like the real thing
to call up pleasurable associations of
my birthplace. They resemble date,
except that they are more luscious, and
when perfectly ripe are delicious. Con-
trary to the idea which | have
frequently heard expressed, that
this fruit grows on bushes. it is
tree fruit, and tall tree at that. A
cluster of persimmon trees, with their
smooth, shiny bark and their high-grow-
ing branches, looks q good deal like a
small poplar grove. There is a popular
idea down South that Nature wisely
hung perSimmuns at this rather mac
ceSsible altitude to preserve a few of
them from the darky's covetous fin
gers. This gentry have, however, no
very serious difficulty in getting them.
They use long pole, with which they
thresh the trees, and the ripe fruit
drops. 'Possums are fond of persim-
mons, too, and what darby is es-
pecially fond of doing is to let the 'pos-
sum get and eat the perSimmons. and
then he eats the 'possum. This. to his
mind, is an economy of labor which is
rational and effective
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-05
THOSE TO RELY Upon.

NELLIE BLY, was hustled around the
world to make sensation that would
advertise the wares ut her employers.
Journals are apt, in sending out repre-
sentatives, to employ those who will
magnify and color plain facts to attract
the general eye. One of the Chicago
papers sent lady investigator out to
South Dakota. She was one who had
been accustomed to dressing up the
special features of city life for those
who crave highly seasoned newspaper
yiands. Her articles from South Da-
kota were, as reported, written with
high cOloring and small reference to
actualities. a few instances of serious
restitution were expanded over counties
and large part of the state. South
Dakota papers, quoted by the GLOBE
at various times, asserted that she
would find with small effort in
Chicago more cases of misfortune
and need than in all South Dakota. Yet
no one thinks Of parading such in
stances as evidence that the city is not
prosperous, and its people managing TO
get along without calling upon other
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-05
THEY OPPOSE 1T,

The object of the census work is to
gather information. 1t is specially de-
sired to learn all the economic facts
that may be utilized in legislation or in
a full understanding of the interests
and needs of the productive classes. 1t
is insisted in many quarters that, al
enough not specified in the schedule,
the census men should report the mort
cages on farms and farm property. The
value Of that sort of statistics is, per-
hapS, overestimated by some. In many
cases it may be conceded that the land
owner is acquiring property. and is rea-
sonably prosperous. when not free from
considerable incumbrance in the way of
mortgage. Still, it is generally true
that when times are stringent with
any class, this will be indicated
by the Indebtedness carried by
it. AS rule. the net earnings of the
farmer are a much less percentage
upon his capital than the money lender
will exact in loaning him money. 1t
follows then that, in a business view,
the farmer wants to keep free from
mortgages. They are a burden to
him. That he at times assumes them
to add to his domain or buy machinery
may be accepted as an indication of ell
terprise, and perhaps judicious fore
sight. Still, the general fact is un-
donbted that mortgages on farm prop
erty are prima facie evidence Of hard
times with them. Statements have
been made that the aggregate of the
farm mortgages in the West is an en-
ormOus total, and that rewards for
toll are not as generous as they
should be. These statements are pro-
nounced by the Republicans grossly ex-
aggerated for political purposes. They
point to the great increase of the CAPT.
tai and wealth of the country, and at
tribute it to the protective policy. There
is no question raised as to the fact of
the increase, but it is alleged that the
distribution is not equitable. The few
have piled up capital and taken the
mortgages from the many. Year by
year the property of the country has be-
come more concentrated in the hands
of the wealthy few. More farms are
mortgaged than ever before, and the
number is rapidly growing in percent
age and volume This is attributed in
great measure to the policy of the
government in bestowing advantage to
special classes, and taxing the many
consumers. 1t is not objected to the
gathering of this information that it
will involve much increased expense.
That would be a trifle. The objection
lies to the information itself, apparently.
In taking the census, no question of
partisanship has any proper place. LIE
Ultimate and useful facts should be
gathered, irrespective of theories.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-05
IMMIGRATION.

With all the comp laints against the
railroad companies of the Northwest on
account of their land speculations, it
must be admitted that these same rail-
road companies have rendered valuable
service to this section of the country in
their capacity Of immigration agents.
Every railroad company that is in pos
session of land grant is virtually an
immigration bureau, and more effect
i've one than those bureaus usually es-
tabliShed by the state and maintained
at public expense. 1t was stated In the
chamber of commerce discussion the
other morning, and on good authority,
that the bulk of the land now occupied
and i'm state of cultivation in Mime
sofa and the Dakotas was originally
railroad land, while that which is
held for speculation was govern
steaders, who occupied it just long
enough. il they occupied it at all,
to perfect their titles, and then trans
ferred it to the Syndicates in whose en-
ploy they had been. While this state
ment may have been an exaggeratlon it
is undeniable that this sort of home
Stealing has been too much in vogue,
and that the country is being injured
instead OF benefited by the homestead
and presumption laws. The land specu-
Iators, under the name of homesteaders,
who are now collecting in crowds on
the borders of the Indian reservations
that are soon to be open to settlement,
will not prove valuable acquisition to
the population of states in which the
| reservations lie. Many of them, and q
great many of them, are not going there
with view Of making permanent
homes and aiding in the real develop
ment of the country, but they are there
largely in the interests of land Syndi-
Gates who wish to secure possession
of these lauds andlhOld them for specu-
Iation. 1t is different in the case of
land grant to railroad. LIN that case it
is made the interest of the railroad CON-
panies to populate their lands with
thrifty settlers. The increase in the
business of the roads depends largely
upan the growth Of population along
their lines. In order to gain this ac-
cession of population they are compelled
to offer the lands at reasonable prices;
and, more than that. they are under the
necessity of going out and hunting
up buyers. Thus each railroad COM
pany with land grant on its hands is
forced to the necessity of establishing
an immigration bureau of its own, and
to be maintained at its own ex-
pense. And then, too, it is more
apt to he conducted on sound
business principles than any immigra-
ton system established and supported
by the state, for the railroad immigra-
ton bureau is compelled to have re-
turns on it's expenditures in order to
keep up the system. The railroad i'm
migration scheme is usually conducted
somewhat on the principle of the drum
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-05
GRoMs. NOT MADE.

Congress isn't altogether the body one
would look to for pathological reforms,
nor to Chicago as the quarter that would
offer the most advanced suggestions in
the direction of the perfection of the
language. 1t had pot even been under
stood that Mr.. LAwLER, the representa-
tive of the least arist0cratic portions of
the Lake city, had become a pupil of
JOSEPH MEDILL. But he has submit
ted in congress resolution of instruc-
ton to the public printer to omit the
silent letters at the end Of large class
of words. Perhaps he intends the
adoption of the phonetic method in full.
He would leave off two letters from dia-
logue, two from programme, gazette,
quintette, and the last in definite.
Languages are like ToPsY; they
lust grow;" they can't be pro-
duced fuil-blown. When they are
finished they are pronounced dead
and turned over to the schools for
dissection. A resolution of congress,
even if it originated in Boston, would
not at once work any radical change in
the words in popular use. There is no
good reason for writing the silent letters
on the end of such words as mentioned,
but they came into the language that
way. and the efforts of the reformers to
reduce them to rational simplicity have
met very meager success. Programme
is becoming tolerated ill the short way,
but still it has look of incompIeteness.
The tendency is towards brevity and
the discarding of silent letters. but prog
ress in this does not partake of the
rapid spirit of the age.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-05
ODD NEWS.

Michigan has seventy-eight furniture
factories, half Of which are in Grand
Rapids.
A flock of wild swans was seen in a
Pickaway county, Ohio, swamp the
other day.
A six-year-old OK that weighed 2,255
pounds was sold in Parkersburg the
other day.
A number of medical students at Har-
ward are about to take a course of les
sous at the Boston Cooking school.
An enterprising fisherman of Glouces-
ter, Mass. intends making trip to Nor
way in search of cod. which are said to
abound there.
Two years ago it cost the Boston &c
Maine railroad 100000 to keep its
tracks clear. This winter the snow
plow has not made single trip.
A statistician estimates that the total
tonnage of the world, steam and sail. is,
in round numbers, 21,00000O tons, of
which so per cent is British.
A Beaver Falls woman was knocked
down by the explosion of a bottle of
ketchup. 1t burst in her hands while
she was bringing it up from the cellar.
The last run of shad will soon cease
to be figure of speech in Massachusetts:
of 80 per cent in the catch since 1879.
In the Barrow collection, soon to be
sold, there is plan for greenhouse at
Mount Vernon, drawn by Washington,
with instructions in his handwriting.
Those people who have wondered
where A. Blizzard originally came from
are informed that he has been editor of
the Geneva, Ala, Record, and has just
retired.
"A Nebraska farmer says that when
his hogs lose their appetites he takes
them out riding in lumber wagon and
joits them over the toughest places he
can find.
A business man of gainesville, O., is
afflicted with paralysis of very singu-
lar kind His legs are powerless from
dark to daylight, when he RECEIVERS the
use of them.
A frankfort man is training his hens
to lay their eggs in tue kitchen, where
he has placed cradle for their accom-
mediation. This saves the labor of
hunting the eggs.
a student of Dickinson seminary was
so nervous since the preaching of his
first sermon that he got into the wrong
church and entered the pulpit before
discovering hts mistake.
1t is said that almost all of the postal
clerks and carriers who become thieves
began by stealing letters addressed to
Lottery agents, which they know are al
most sure to contain money.
A sensation has been created among
New York astronomers over the al
legged discovery that they have been
eating black squirrel hash, done in old
sherry, at diamond-back terrapin
prices.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-05
BISMARCK AS HOST.
Kaiser William Attends the Chan
celIOr'S Dinner.

celIor's Dinner.
BERLIN, Feb. 4.-Prince Bismarck
gave grand dinner tonight, which the
emperor honored with his presence.
The emperor gave his arm to Princess
Bismarck in going in to dinner, and sat
upon the left of the princess and oppo-
site the chancellor. The emperor con-
Versed with the chancellor in the most
affable mood and repeatedly took
wine with him. After the dinner, at
the emperor's particular request, Prince
Bismarck smoked his pipe, and the con-
Yersation became general. DR.. Miguel,
the burgOmaster of Frankfort, and one
of the leaders of the National-Liberal
party, was present. The emperor took
special notice of him, and had a long
talk with him, in which Baron Stumm
Joined. Nearly the whole of the
emperor's conversation was upon
the industrial question. With Baron
Stun he talked especially on the condi-
ton of the miners. He finally intimated
his intention to summon the council of
state to discuss the question, and to pre-
side himself Ger its deliberations. EN-
peror William took the opinions of the
guests on the anti-socialist bill, and dis
cussed the possibility In state of re-
training from the enactment of eXcep-
tlonal laws. The guests included
Prince Bismark'S two sons, Count Her
bert's wife, Herren Linburg, Stollberg,
and Won Puttkamer, Count Hatzfeldt
and Bishop Kopp.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-05

elected Democrats. No rules.-Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
What good would it be If the house
had rules. A speaker like Reed would
De higher law unto himself s'as mat
ter OF legislative necessity" -Philadel-
phia Record.
Speaker Reed is neither a Cromwell
nor Bismarck. He is simply prepos-
terousiy inflated and unprincipled poll
tician who is digging with his gavei the
grave Of his party.-New York World.
Bully for Reedl He is the sort of
usurper we rejoice in. His tyranny de-
lights us. His despotism fills US with
joyful emotions. 1t was a proud day
for the speaker Of the Ohio house Of
representatives when Reed adopted
his Sth OF January ruling.-Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
When Speaker Reed refused reeog-
milton to a member of the body when
he rose to question of the highest
priyilege-th of correcting the jour
nal as to his own public action-he was
guilty of the most insolent abuse Of the
privileges of the chair ever witnessed
IN any reputable deliberatiye body
Philadelphia Times.
The speaker of the house of commons
has counted the members to find if
there is quorum present for two cen
turtles. 1t is nonsense to suppose that
there can be any risk in intrusting the
right to count members TO speaker
acting under the watch of the minority
and before the eyes Of the country
Philadelphia Press.
A great outcry has been made about
the Outrageousness of oyerturning a
precedent a century old. The point is
pointless. If a precedent is founded on
error 1T ought to be reversed, and the
fact that no speaker has had the courage
to do so is a reflection on the speakers
of the past, not on the present one
Chicago Mail
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-05
THE STORY OLA DAY.

The senate confirms the Samoan treaty.
The remains of Mrs. COppinger are laid to
sest.
Washburn viii not oppose the reelection of
Davis.
Fleming is declared governor of West vir-
ginia.
There are prospects of breaking the Iowa
deadlock.
Three section men are run down and killed
at st. Cloud.
Consul Lewis swindles a peasant out of his
all at Morocco.
Democrats of the house continue their fill
clustering tactics.
George W. Bags, of Wheeling, W. Va.
dies at the Ryan.
Davis, Independent Republican, is elected
mayor of Duluth.
The centennial of the supreme court is Gel
ebrated in New York.
The first session of the South Dakota
supreme court begins.
Sheldon Frazier will be made receiver of
the Duluth land office.
Two freighters are believed to have per-
iShed on the Canadian prairies.
The Republican senatorial contestants
leave Helena for Washington.
The Kansas City and Milwaukee roads are
to run trains to Chicago in twelve and one
half hours.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-05
PAPER CHANGE.

One of the minor yet important needs
of the people is fractional paper cur
rency. 1t is not wanted to take the
place of the silver coins in the small
transactions of traffic. The silver dimes,
quarters and halves are cleaner and
more durable than paper: but there is
room for the paper, particularly in send
ing money by mail. The postal note
issued by the postofices is an absurdity.
1t costs time aud fee to procure it.
and is no safer than fractional cur
rency. During the war gold and silver
disappeared, and the fractional cur
rency substituted was prin ted on such
flimsy paper that it soon wore out and
involved losses to the holder. 1t is now
proposed to issue it as silver certificates,
which would obviate any objection on
the part of silver producers. If paper
is to represent the silver dollar, no rea-
son appears why it should not the frac-
tionai parts of the dollar.