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The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

drop Of paint used in its construction,
The bird, if bird it was. was cut or CHS
eled or picked into the solid rock of the
bluff, but how or by whom I know not.
Its body was that OF q lion, its head and
horns that of o deer, and its wings that of
n bird. Is there anything about this that
looks like a horrible man-eater? lido not
believe that such an animal ever existed.
I deny that its existence is compatible
piasa bird was made by some race we'll.
acquainted with sculpture to commence
rate the noble deeds Of some great per.
sonage of ancient times"
humanity is indebted to Father Mar
quette FORTS first knowledge of the man.
enter of the Mississippi, and he wrote q
description Of it in 1868, from which an
engraving was made in Paris. Mr.. Miles
made his drawing ON the spot, but the
French picture which is here presented
was ushered into the world under condi-
tions that made it dubious. The good
father described it from memory, having
learned all the Indian traditions about it,
and being influenced very much by those
traditions. The engraver made It as
frightful as he could in order to be in
teresting. Thus between the two was
evolved an object which, as any one can
Se C00A 1SuAPsuAoUs
which perhaps accounts for the persist
ence of the belief that it was a painted
image. Marquette's idea Of it was that
it had the head Of a bear, the horns Of an
elk, the body of a fish or a dragon, or
something with scales, and o bears legs,
with g ,gle's claws. The tail was Atty
feet long, cooled several times round the
body, and terminated in q spesrhead.
The parallelism to the chimera is
marked, and perhaps Mr.. Miles may have
boon mistaken in supposing that the tail
was the bona fide tail Of . lion. The
error is into which almost every one
fel! who saw the painting of the chfmera
on the famous Hamilton vase, which was
found near Naples during the Napoleonic
wal. 1t is here given according 70 an &C.
curate copy made for the Museo Borbon-
leo before Sir William Hamilton, the
English Ambassador at Naples. sent it to
England. It never reached It's destina-
ton. for the vessel foundcred, and the
famous vase reposes in some dark, un.
fathomed cave of the Mediterranean. At
first it was supposed that the lion's tail
was simply drawn with . N exaggeration Of
its sihuousness, but some one who mis-.
trusted this view carefully examined
what was thought to be the knot Of the
lions tail and found that Q scale of dirt
covered the eye Of the snake. Very
dainty washing revealed the mouth also.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

Lydia and Cyprus, the sphinx of Etruria,
Greece, and Egypt, the winged man
headed bull of Assyria, the human-headed
harp of old Ireland, the grifins Of
Europe, Asia, and northern Africa. the
centaurs of the Greeks and the ancient
Picts. and the wyverns of the heraldry
of northern Europe. 1T was" the arch.
biologist exclaims with bitter grief, @our
only polyform monster, our only one; it
was in q perfect state of preservation,
and . laundering brute of o naval officer
Oh, inexplicable folly! oh, irremediable
loss"
Fortunately it has been thoroughly
described by a gentleman who seems to
have been perfectly competent for the
task, and who understood its real charac.
ter. j. II. Miles, of Miles Station, ILL.,,
made a drawing Of it, which is presented
here, and accompanied this with a written
description. obviously Of the most au-
thentic kind. He wrote: Il first saw it in
1888, and since that date have seen it many
hundreds of times before it was destroyed
during the late civil war. / must say that
it is o mistake for any one to say that it
was painted on the rocks. 1t was not
painted on the rocks, nor was there q
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07
Life on a Cuban Plantation.

In Dakota and Manitoba the en-
ployment on single wheat estates of q
hundred reapers and an aggregate of
three hundred laborers for q season
has been regarded as something IN
precedented in agricultural industry:
but on one sugar estate in Cuba-aIl
Balboa"-from fifteen hundred to two
thousand hands. invariably negroes,
are employed, who work under severe
discipline. in watches or relays, during
the grinding season, by day and night,
the same as in the large iron-mills and
furnaces Of the United States and
Europe. At the same time there are
few village communities where a like
number Of people experience the same
care and surveillance. The male
workers occupy quarters walled and
barricaded from the women. and the
women from tine men.
There are in every village an in.
Urinary. q lying-in hospital, q ply
stefan, an apothecary, q chapel, md
priest. At night and morning mass Il
said in the chapel, and the crowds are
always large. There is Of q Sunday
less restraint, though ~ceaseless espion-
age Is never RENTED. On these days
and in parts Of holidays there are rude
mirth, ruder music and much dancing.
This picture is given somewhat in do.
tail, because it illustrates how all-pcr.
veding and tremendous are the forces
that are modifying society everywhere.
In civilized, partially civilized and
even barbarous countries, c~onioiIffy
with the now conditions Of prcduczaoS
and consumption. ssIIs6e. ss
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07


wall, my son Hank amt here now.
but his wife is. TIL fetch her. Hanks
gone ter town, an / low she kin tell
You more about it. Oh, JinnyW
In answer a young m of about
twenty-five years came to the door.
She said / would be welcome to stay if
] would "rnt up with what the family
had" as they had made no prepara-
tions for company. My husband will
be home soon." she said.
a boy was called. who took my team
to the .lot,' and / went into the house.
1t was one of those great double log
houses. ''chinked' with cement. and
whitcwashcd outside and ceiled within
and papered. 1t was n warm day,
about two hours before sunset. and the
great open fireplace was used to set
flower pots in with native flowers,
which filled the rooms with Il delicate
perfume. In looking over the album
on the table, / came across n girls face
had seen i'll Illinois wears before on n
passed through the front" room, /
asked her if she knew the original of
that little girls picture. She stam-
mcred. and said it was hers when she
was small. / then told her when and
where / was at her fathers house. and
nsccrtained that she had met her hus-
band, Mr.. Hank Adams. IL Texas
planter, %uncnlturcd but ~big-hcartcd,
while he IA up there buying some
fine horses; they fell in love at sight,
and lad been happily married more
than a year. As she said this, her
leaming face told of supreme happi-
ness and contentnent, and in speak
ing of her husband, her voice took on
that soft, low accent and tone which
told OF deepest love and entire conf
dence. ] mention these things be-
cause 1 had them forcibly and pain
fully brought back to me within the
succeeding t%wenty-four hours.
When her husband came in she in
troduced me as an old acquaintance.
whom she had met in her girlhood Mt
her fathers. in Illinois. He gave met
cordial greeting, and L heard him kiss
ing his pretty little wife in the next
room a moment afterwards, and telling
her that nothing was too good for any
one who had known her folks" and
her.
The next morning Hank was called
away early to go to n lower plantation
lie had q few miles from home to attend
to some breaks in the fences made by
cattle which had broken into his corr
and cotton fields during the night.
Mrs. Adams took the family buggy and
went alone to church few miles away,
as her husbands younger brother
l nh01 Tor ~, on1 ,us1o %on o1,,,,,,1,
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

~eerDentine charScter e stks lIoIS IN
ebsolutely uninistakable, - VIII hsse6S1f
by che drawing. The coil! II so1To1kkja
which could mot be found IN 36ino
caudal appsndage Of . lion, and ~
enskiness Of the end II obvious. I1i1
finaing Of . genuine chimefa w. = nd
blow to . school Of. thinkers who have
I Ive r~etersnoes to natursi Objects, ana Who
Claimed that the polyform monster vaS
only an exaggeration Of q special kind Of
i OF that once existed In Asia Miner,
Human beings have a goitre. q horrible
swelling in the neck, and IL . lion had
coitre then the swelling might have beon
taken by the unsophisticaasa shepherds
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07
Left.Levyedness.

A paper under this title has recently
been read before an English scientific
association, by q physician who says
that man, generally characterized asa
right-handed animal, is also popularity
supposed to be right-legged. The the
DRY is, however, MS he maintains, not
standing, and is working with the RICH.
hand, there is q tendency to use the
left leg for balance.
Many persons find it easier to 90
round circles to the right than to the
left. Race-courses are almost always,
made for running in circles to the
right, and it will be noticed that the
majority of movements, like dancing
and running, are more readily per-
formed in that direction.
The general rule in walking is Chat
of keeping to the right, and It appears
to have q foundation in nature. OF q
large number of intelligent people
who We're asked about the existence of
this rule, only 81 per cent. among men
and 53 per cent. among women were
aware of it. This supports the fact
that it is unconsciously obeyed.
All crowds tend to bear toward the
right. The left leg being stronger, it
is more readily brought into action.
and for this reason troops start with
the left foot. It is the foot which is
placed in the stirrup of a saddle. or
the step of a bicycle, in mounting, and
it is that upon which O man rests in
makinga jump.
In a series Of experiments made by
bandaging the eyes Of boys and then
telling them to walk straight" the
right-handed ones diverged to the
right, and the left-handed ones to the
left. In short, all the evidence thus
far obtained by this writer tends to
prove that man, being either naturally
or artiticially right-handed and left
legged, tends unconsciously to bear to
the right, while the lower animals, on
the other hand, appear nearly always
to circle to the left.
These are at present but curious
speculations, and it may be that the
author of the theory is too much occu-
pied in finding facts to support it to
see those which teach the reverse of
his doctrine. Certainly the left legs Of
all right-handed persons! are not the
stronger. Right-handed men and BOYS
kick q football with the right foot. do
they not?
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

it meant till now. A man whut is
jealous oy a wife whut is lovin' an
gentle an bright to him at home is q
villain; that's whut I think. An Il
don't want jimmy ter ever know whut
er blamed fool I wuz fur nothin'."
promised / never would tell, and I
have never done SO. II they see this
they will know who wrote it, perhaps;
but 1 know they will forgive me, and
know that Hank will bear me no ILL
will for thus breaking the spirit of my
promise, as there is a great lesson in.
this experience TO others. I think
most of us can profit by sHank Adams
Bitter Lesson"
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

HE State Of Illinois
possessed, until
within a few years,
tho sole frail memo
rial in e~xistence that
the famous PhTni.
clans visit d this
land in the most
rem ote antiquity.
There are many OBJ
jects made by the
Peruvians and Mex
leans prior to the
arrival Of the Span.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

Mn. JOSEPH LEE. of Boston. who
visited the great Russian thinker,
Tolstoi. not long ago, found him look
ing older and thinner than he is repre-
sented in his pictures. His long hair
was parted in the middle, and this,
with his unkempt beard and strong.
rugged face, gave him the look of an
animal. He has about forty followers
and disciples.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

The average watch is composed of
75 different pieces, comprising up
ward of 2,4O0 separate and distinct OPP
erations in its manufacture. The bal
ance has 5000 beats OF vibrations per
hour. IL, O6O, Os0 in thirty days, and
l37, 63O, 600 in n year. 1t travels
14a1OO inches with each vibration,
which is equal to nine and one-half
miles in twenty-four hours, 2:394a miles
in thirty days. or 3,55s4 miles in n
year.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07
Starting in Early.

Chicago woman How much will
you take and leave me forever?
Husl,apd-You are not tired of me SO
soon, I hope.
Chicago woman-No, no. ] love you
as much as ever, but Mrs. Lakefront
is bound to take the first gold prize
for the largest number Of divorce de-
crees shown at the Worlds Fair, and.
TIM bodnd that shS shaap't.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

ground, and subsequently, cutting them
at the arch. The experiments were
fairly successful, though not in e
instance, and Kerr Kny intends to con-
tinue them with other plants and
trees, such Us willows, poplars, and
roses.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

A FEARFUL widow at Charleston, W.
Va, obtained an order for 81 worth of
groceries from the Poor Commission
ers. Next day the provisions were
spread as the refreshments DIT her we'd
ding banquet.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

and it bee ,me apparent that the dragon
part Of the chim6ra was not formidable.
anil did not offer sny special danger 10
the hero Bslleroihon upon his prancing
Pegas9,.
The discoveries Of Gen. Dj cesnSls III.
Cyprus gave to th. world another repre-.
eentatl9A IT the chinsrl In. which Tho
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

BoEN and raised in a Chinese tea
drinking establishment, a Chinaman
in Philadelphia says the only way to
make tea is to pour the boiling water
on the leaves, stirring them briskly at
the same time. 1t should be served
after allowing merely time to settle.
The whole operation takes only n
minute.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

THE married man in Newark. n. j..
who proposed to a young lady for u
lark" as he expressed it. has lost his
taste for larks since the young lady's
sister horsewhipped him in the street.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

SENATOR INGA11.s is as fond of litcra-
ture as he is of politics, and is said to
double his Congressional salary by his
magazine and newspaper articles. His
pen is very prolific. and everything he
writes is easily marketable.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

THE Jews in New York have paro-
chial schools which give religious and
industrial teaching to nearly 5000
children; but no child is admitted that
does not also attend a public school.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

TO SHOW the capacity of his stomach.
" visitor Mt the Neversink Fire House
Reading, q few days ago, ate a mix
Iture composed of n pound of figs. fifty
raw oysters, an! a pound Of sugar. and
topped off the mess with a pound Of
lard. lie said OH a wager he would eat
. box of wagon-greasc. but the spec
tators would let him go no further.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

WILLIAM DEAN HowEI.Ls writes
from LOCO to 1000 words daily. and
after his pages have been copied on
the typewriter he goes over them
again and again, adding a line here
and erasing a line there until they are
perfect.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

TwEsrY-sEvEN New York teachers
were docked a days pay for time spent
in attending the funeral of an assist
ant superintendent.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

IT is said that the negroes of Geor.
gia, who twenty-five years ago were
slaves, now possess $4,000, 900 worth
of property.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

GEN. REUBEN DAVIS, o cousin of
Hon. Jefferson Davis, says the latter
was worth very near 5000, 900 when the
war began, and nothing at its close.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

MORTALITY among colorea people in
the South is between 3 and 4 per cent.
higher than among the whites. Ut
seems proved that colored people, as a
class, in all our large cities almost to-
tally Disregard every rule of hygiene
concerning pure air. pure water, and
wholesome food.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

PRINCE MrRAr, who refused to marry
Miss Caldwell because she would allow
him no more than $4,000 Il year for
pocket money, should start a lottery.
with himself as the capital prize. III
he does that, we pledge our hcartiest
congratulations to every American girl
who buys a ticket and draws Il blank.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07
n is sometimes said that the branches

Iris sometimes said that the branches
OF very old trees are, properly speak
ing, roots, and that il planted upside
down the trees would flourish. Herr
Kny, q German botanist, has recently
investigated the matter by planting
pes and ivy with both enas in the
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

You. want to make money, of course.
Well. go to Oregon and raise apples,
Listen to an Oregon farmer: in my
orchard I have a few trees of green
ings, from which 1 gathered thirty
eight boxes of apples, which Melted me
ut the orchard 30 cents per box, or
$3.50 each for the four trees. Taking
seventy trees to the acre, which is the
usual number planted. this gives a
nice little return of 1928 per acre. Now
to find out what a be accomplished
on ten acres. it is only necessary to
multiply a little, and it will be seen
that apples pay bigger and better re-
turns with less labor than any other
produce, not excepting walnuts or
oranges"
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

A RAILROAD into Central Africa is
the latest project. The ride on the
Congo Flying Dude" through a forest
as large as France, together with the
general makeup and appointments of
an African palace train, offer not a few
novel and pleasing prospects for the
coming traveller.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07
HANKS BITTER LESSON.
LRAvEL1N
AfY -

VI
Through the great
pine regions of
East Texas one,
summer Satur-
day Afternoon
found me OH n
of those deep sand
roads, several
miles from the
nearest town. j
knew that all
business was sus-
pended in those
country towns on
Sunday. and that
the entire popu-
lationi attic IL Il
church in the
~.-s- I'll
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

A NEW substitute for coffee may turn
mp i'm n berry known as 'gaertncra."
The British Consul at Reunion saws
that mt one time he received many let
tiers from merchants in England ask
ing for information respecting IL shrub
then called smussacnda," the discovery
of which. it had been said in some
commercial journals, would deal a Sc
we're blow to the coffee and chicory
trade. About two wears ago IL
was spread that the berry of this
shrub could be advantageously en-
ployed as Il substitute for coffee and
chicory. It grows to about ten feet
high, has very few leaves. and it's
branches are wide apart. The berries
do not grow nil along the branches. as
is the ease with coffee. but in lunches
nj their eNtremities. AT present ii is
only met with in the mountains. where
it grows wild. 1T might be produced
on an extensive scale. hut with its in
feriority i'll fragrance and color it could
hardly compete with coffee.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07
oot a letter f,om cousin r

HE-I got o letter from cousin Tom
to-day. He says he is engaged 20
Mollie Jennings. OF course lie paints
his future bride in glowing colors and
all that SORT of thing. Hhe-So fax a
that is concerned Mollie il pretty a.
pert at painting herself il glowing
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

CHIEF ARTHUR. of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers. is a short.
compactly built man, about 80 years of
age, with gray hair and sh%ort-cropped
beard. He dresses fashionably and in
excellent taste, and looks more like Il
banker than the head of nearly 30. 600
enpineers!
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07
He Fell Into the Tran.

He-Tell me, contidentially, how
much did that bonnet COST you?
She-George, there is but one way
in which you can obtain the right to
inspect my millinery bills.
He popped.-LGlUyence american.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

SOME hrks ale musical and some a-e
not-all-nirlt lsiks dscid2dly not.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07
zhe got Springs Star.
HOT SPRINGS. 9. D.
BENEDICT & HANronD. pun1,surns.

An Albany Cvt.) man has shipped to
Western markets this year 5000 tons
of maple sugar, valued at $97, 200.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

Don CARLOS is the thirteenth ruler
of Portugal since that country became
a separate kingdom. The day he was
crowned the ex-Empress of Brazil died
in his country of u broken heart. Su-
perstitious people consider these facts
ominous.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-07

LEE surrendered on Friday; Moscow
was burned on Friday; Washington
was born on Friday; Shakespeare was
born on Friday; America was discov-
cred on Friday; Richmond was cvac,,-
ated on Friday; the Bastile was de-
stroyed on Friday: the Mayaower was
landed on Friday; Queen Victoria was
married on Friday; King Charles 1.
was beleaded on Friday: Fort Sumter
was bombarded on Friday: Napoleon
Eonaparte was born on Friday; Julius
Caesar was assasinated on Friday: tho
battle of Marengo was fought on Fri.
day the battle of Waterloo was fought
on Friday; the battle of Bunker Hill
was fought on Friday: Joan of Arc
was burned at the stake on Friday:
the battle of New Orleans was fought
on Friday; the Declaration of indie.
pcndcnce was signed on Friday.