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his goods, he makes a profit, which is set.
tied by paying the difference in money. If
the price declines the seller will be the
gamer. Thus the transaction is only a
wager as to the fluctuations of the ar
ticle within q given time.
Margins are certain sums. SO much per
bushel of corn or tierce of lard, depos.
tied by the parties to cover losses by
reason of possible advances o. declines.
When the original margin has been swept
away by fluctuations the fortunate party
may call for an increase, which the other
must put up if he wishes to maintain his
credit.
Tho first day of each month, unless it
chances to fall OH Sunday or a holiday,
is the day for settling the Transactions Of
the preceding month which have not
been before closed up. The ruling prices
at the close of the preceding session
form the basis Of adjustment. These set
Elements are made on the board. Young
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

ONE of the most remarkable wOmen
in England is Mrs. Meredith, who has
created and directed the career of that
complicated organism known as Mrs.
Meredith's Institutions" with a degree
of mcrring good Judgment and Won
derfnl executive ability. Her father
during her childhood held an official
position connected with the prisons in
Ireland. and was early impressed with
n desire to do something to mitigate
the desolate lives OF the women con-
victs. Some time in 1850 she began
speaking at the Social Science Con-
crosses" and elsewhere of the evils
which resulted from the incarceration
OF mt BriXton. shut off from
all beneficial outside influences, and
of the imperative need to make decent
citizens of the discharged convicts.
In 1866 she obtained leave to visit the
inmates of the prison, and many years
she made it her daily duty to go to the
woman prisoners with words of coun-
sci and sympathy. Feeling that o
helping hand must be stretched out to
the discharged prisoners if their prom
Uses of reform were to he fulfilled, Mrs.
Meredith established a refuge for them
in houses adjoining her own home, and
later OOenel n mission on Chap1nin
road. where they are employed at laun-
dry work or needlework, and no female
prisoner is allowed to pass from out
the prison gates without some attempt
being made to reclaim herto the ranks
of honest citizens. These women,
though hardened by crime, possess
one instinct of womanhood hard to kill
love for their children and q desire
to save them from corrupting intlu-
ences.
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contrasted with their dusky complex
ions. Besides, she smiled and appeared
quite at her ease with the Sultan, and
such conduct was to them simply in
comprehensive. There was no prece-
dent for it in all Turkey.
The Empress tells with delight of
her visit to the harem and her explo-
ration of the beautiful gardens in the
Sultan's grounds, which are justly
claimed to be the loveliest in all Eu-
rope. For a week before she saw them
hundreds of servants were busy clean
ing the place and assisting the garden
ers in putting the grounds in condition.
Like everything else in Turkey, they
suffer terribly from neglect. Although
they are visited daily by the ladies Of
the harem, the Sultan himself takes
very little interest in them, and the
menials are allowed to do about as
they please. All the streets leading
to the palace were cleaned 80 that the
royal guests might not carry away a
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

peating his visit, he may come to distin.
guish words such as buy" and sell. but
what is being done, and how, remains as
great q mystery as ever.
But it is with the business and not the
building that We have to do.
On the floor Of thelhigh- ceilinged hall,
whore the business Of the Board is trans.
acted, are a number of circular depres.
sions furnished with steps, upon which
traders can stand without obstructinR
each others view. These are the pits
and veritable pitfalls they have proved
to thousands. This is the open market.
whore produce and provisions are bought
and sold.
This is not done after the manner Of
an auction. with competing bids. One
man is shouting, Sell lO-s7s;" another,
buy $685." which, in the phroseology Of
the pit means, that the one offers for sale
$1,000 bushels Of wheat, or corn, accord.
ing to which pit 1t is in, at S7A cents per
bushel, and that the other offers one.
eighth Of q cent less for 5000 bushels Of
the same staple commodity.
Az scores. sometimes hundreds, are
shouting at once, it 10 often Impossible
for the sharpest ears to distinguish the
words Of any one in particular. To make
offers Ineligible, . sort Of deaf and.
dumb alphabet has BEEN adopted. When
S hand il thrust up with the palm ont
ward II signifies sell; with the back q.
posedtt means buy. Each 6ngsr allowed
to remain upright stands for 5000 bush.
pls. 4 trader new 70 the business hag. oe
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bad impression of the Padishah's do
mestic establishment and its surround

bad impression of the Padishah's do
nestle establishment and its surround
ings.
The party arrived ut the harem in
carriages. There they were saluted
by a guard of soldiers, all smart and.
neat-looking, in shining new uniforms
although, poor fellows, it is quite
probable that. like many others in the
service of the Sultan, their salaries
were unpaid. All the servants of the
harem were decked out in white gar.
ments, beautifully embroidered. Be-
ing but little accustomed to such ele-
gance (clean linen is a luxury to them),
they hardly dared move lest they
should spoil their finery. The visiting
party consisted of the Empress, two of
her ladies of honor, and the Sultan.
As they entered the gates they found.
the odalisques-beautiful young girls
from C~ircsssia, Armenia. and the Can
casus, with a fair sprinkling of Greeks,
drawn up in q row on both sides of the
arched passage way, and all attired in
the most elaborate toilets.
Their dresses had been made ex-
pressly for the occasion, and showed O
remarkable variety of styles, some of
them being of the latest Partisan order
and others a compromise between the
robes Of the Turkish lady Of rank and
those Of the Western European. Such
a sight in any capital in Europe except
Constantinople would have been an
impossibility. 1t vas homogeneous in
the last degree, and the Empress, Ill
though she had come resolved to show
surprise at nothing, could not repress
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21
A Proposition In Physics.

The husband of a professor of phys
les at o "young ladies'" advanced
school was putting on his clothes the
other morning, and his wife was lectur-
ing on her favorite subject.
THE whole is always greater than a
part" she remarked with confidence.
"Always?" he inquired, sticking his
foot into his sock.
always" she answered with en-
phasis.
II think not" he rejoined ina quietly
%aggravating tone.
"But 1 say it u.s." she asseverated.
"For example, my dear"-and he.
held up his foot-"my foot is a part of
my body, but the hole in the sock is
not larger than the part. You will OBJ
serve that the part cannot get quite.
thorough it at this moment. But, my
love-" and his voice softened, "by to-
night I think your proposition will be
correct"
Then he put on his shoes and COM
pleted his toilet in the midst of o 81
1ence that could be bent double before
1t could be broken. Irap-
e1eT.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

A PHILADELPHIA paper, in telling
that Henry M. Stanley, when lie lived
in Omaha in 1867. fell in love with an
actress, who Tilted him. remarks that
now Stanley is a woman-hater. This
statement the great explorers friends
Indignantly deny. Although Stanley
is not a married man. he gives no evil
dence of hatred for the other sex. In
fact, n of the hest friends he has is q
Philadelphia woman, toward whom he
entertains feelings of the greatest re-
spect, ii not of positive affection.
just before he plunged into the Jungle
in his search for Emin hey the last
message he sent to any one in the civ
ilizcd world was to this loyal friend,
and she was among the first to receive
word from him when, not long ago, lie
reappeared. with his knowledge of the
mysteries of the great African CONT
nent augmented by his recent discov-
cries.
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short human life. has far surpassed the

short human life, has far surpassed the
highest commercial glory ever attained
by the mighty city of the Doges.
Chicago was founded on trade. 1t had
It's beginning as Il post where goods were
bartered with Indinns, at many times
their value, for the furs and pelts of ami
malls. As the red man began to recede
before the advance of civilization, it be-
came n distributing point for the l.
ries of white settlers. The West, SEEM
ingly ms "exhaustless" as the East, from
which Venice drew her splendor, contin-
ued her support. Thus trade increased,
and with it came population, push, en-
ergy-and a great city was the result.
OF the institutions which have made
the Chicago of the past, and are prcpar-
ing for the building of q still more glori-
Gus Chicago for the future, the Board of
Trade is entitled, perhaps, to the very
foremost mention
This is theme of which, though much
has been written. very littlo is probably
understood. This is not because the
probably, that SO much is taken for
granted, and passed by without explana-
ton.
To write tho history of the Board Of
Trade would be to write the commercial
history of tho Garden City. Suffice it to
say that it had a beginning as small, in
comparison, as the "acorns" from which
the tall oaks, in the old defamation,
grew. A membership. which costs now
several thousand dollars, was issued to
the charter members at the very modest
charge of 50. From insignificant quar-
ters it has risen by g%radations until it oc-
cupies a veritable palace.
The Board of Trade building stands on
jackson street, and occupies half ablock.
1t is n majestic structure, rising to q vast
height, its vane being 335 feet above the
pavement, making the ten and twelve
story buildings in the neighborhood look
dwarfed in comparison. In connection
with the lower part of La Sale street,
which terminates at its granite front, this
building presents an appearance certain
ly as fine as any similar structure in
America.
A stranger to the modus operandi, n
tering one of the galleries. looks down
upon what seems . second Babel. Re-
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21
BY Telephone.

The Fremont street station wa,,
called up by a female voice the other
day which inquired:
'Can my hired girl be taken out Of
the house by an officer for striking
me?"
mo, ma'am."
"The officer must see her in the act,
mustn't he?"
"Yes'm."
II thought SO. He would also have
to see me, wouldn't he?"
HE would."
AN right You. needn't
And before the line was cut off q
child's voice was heard saying: @Now,
ma, go in end make her tired in one
roundW-Detr0n Free Press.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21
Pooling the Butcher.

Butcher-Dot Mr.. Wiseman is Won
WOOL. He gone to me and he give me
dose handsome new steel yards, vor
dose rusty old vons 1 use so many
years. He says he collect bricky-
brack.
customer-How long had lyou used
the old steel yards?
II sell meat init dose steel yards
twenty-five years."
"Mr. Wiseman is a customer of yours,
1 SUPPOSED"
"Yah."
"Don't You know that the older steel
yards get, the weaker the springs be.
come and the less meat they give to the
pound"
Mel gracious! Dot MI. Wiseman
is o scoundrel !"-NeW York Weeklu.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

inspired by forty miles of sleigh-rid-
ing to do Justice to my subject. A
few weeks later I met Gen. Kiipatrick.'
whose lecture, sSherman's March to
the Sea- was to follow mine. He was
in Chicago then, and said the reason!
he failed to fill his engagement IL
Iowa vas that travel in that Stata
during the rigors of such q winter was
impossible. / then told him Of INV
trip, and asked him how he expected
to g i've sSherman's March to the Sea j
If he could not even take q march
across Iowa.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21
Wanted to Compromise.

Lawyer-But you made a statement
exactly contrary to the one you now
make, only o moment ago.
Witness-No, sir; I did not.
Lawyer-What do you mean?
Witness-I mean that you are tell.
ing a falsehood.
a liar?
Witness-Yes, sir! That's it, ex-
actly.
can't have this.
Witness-But, your Honor
Judge-We can't have it, I say. 1
shall fine you five dollars for contempt
of court.
Witness-Al right, Judge. just
make it twenty-five and I'll give him
a licking right here.-American Com
mercial TTavesleT,
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extended conrtesies such as had never
before been received by any visitor to
Constantinople. With his own hand.
he assisted the Empress to her car
liage, after which he stepped in and
chatted with her all the way during
the drive to the Yildiz Kiosk. This
shocked the Mussulmans, of course,
and they were dreadfully jealous OF the
Empress. Her Majesty was. of course.
unveiled, and they could see how hand
some she was and how her fair skin
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

rats-psying, received from the hands
of his dying wife the gift of her stays.
Afterher death he cut them up and dis.
covered over 5000 secreted in them.
He gave his wifethe most elegant wake
ever seen in the neighborhood, and
while he was under its influence a man
named Fryer stole the balance of the
money from him. He had Fryer al.
rested, and in the police court the story
Of the hidden treasure came out.
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poured in her lap all gems in sparkling
showers'-the greatest trading mart Of
all the world.
But in the dnys when Antonio the NOR.
chant paced up mud dow n the costly mosaic
pavement, and looked in ain forthe white
sails of his returning ships, the business
there transacted was but tri6inR in com.
parison with that to be dispatched st q
far distant time in the exchanges Of our
then undiscovered America.
While the palaces of Venice are "crum-
bling to The shore" and she is sinking
back to the morass from which she rose.
Chicago, within the narrow span Of one
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

AT Kumamoto, Japan, the scene of
the recent disastrous earthquake.
while a well-diggcr was cxcavating for
water at n depth of about eighteen
fathoms, the base fell through and he
was only saved from adesccit, how far
it is not known, by II rope which on
nected him with the top of the pit.
Examination has shown that IL very
large cavity, depth and width M
nayn, exists, and this was probably
by recent earthquake.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

DIR. KING, an American lady, who is
physician to the family of Count Lii, at
Shanghai, has greatly increased her
reputation there by the successful per-
Torrance of a delicate surgical opera
tion.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21
M TIE WHEAT PIT.

larry II hs DO . @plunger" Or heavy oper-
ator, contempfuously Ignores. The
scalpes q OF . cowardly nature. pos
sesssd Of but . small amount Of "einps
Tbs term .cornsr- Il pretty generally
Board of Trade transactions. Il means
the controlling q the visible supply n
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21
> smile. Some Of the dresses, as she
learned afterward, cost rs high as 5000

The sultanas received the Empress
in their palace. where . splendid re-
ception had been prepared for her.
She expressed surprise, no less at the
wonderful richness Of their dresses
than ct the priceless jewels Of great
size and purity which they wore ON
neck, arms and fingers. In the harem
% we'll IS in the Sultanss' palace the
orthodox Ottoman garments are worn,
although when:t the ladies' eoont, which
they always do in carriages under e..
eost, mos0 nodssn styles ars sfiectsd.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21
Chicago viii be Safe.

New orker-Just think of Chicago's
criminal record. How could people
attend q Worlds Fair in Chicago with.
out running the risk Of being robbed
and murdered?
Chicago Man (confdentially)-O oh,
there won't be any danger at all then,
not q particle. just as quick as the
fair opens all the robbers will stop
burglarizing and 60 to keeping hotels.
-NeW York Weekly.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21
The Closest Man on Record.
Gregory is awful close" said a man

Eyes, but he is not nearly SO close a.
hls father was. The old man was pref
ty we'll off, and he did have q warm
affection for q dollar. He was taken
~ once aud his physician told him thai
II ne did not go off to the springs Ia
would die: The old man replied: Let
me see, I'd have to stay there about
two months at an expense Of ct least
two dollars and o half per day. Ioanx
stand the cost, Doctor. It would ha
cheaper to de- He didn't 20. and
after the funeral the leading people a.
the neighborhood expressed s~atisfection
at the result
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

THE feat of lowering a large house
intact from an undesirable location on
n hill fifty feet high to the street was
accomplished in San Francisco lately,
the cost being 500.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

The wealth of John ID. Rockefeller is
estimated at $3.50, OO0, 600. He devotes
two hours daily-from seven until nine
in the morning-to the examination of
the pile of letters addressed to him,
soliciting money for various purposes.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

ONE of the keepers in Bushey Park,
England, lately discovered two fine
bucks lying dead in a ditch, with their
horns locked together. Both animals
had received severe body wounds.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

IT is said hat Henry NJ. Stanley
does not greatly care for America any
more, but the Americans in London do
not intend to give him up. They will
wine and dine him and give him a silk
flag and a silver shield.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

AN Indian squaw picked up $500
worth of gold nuggets in the Franklin
County hills in Maine, and sold it in
Portland. Several bands of prospect
ors will set out in the spring for the
site of the reported finds.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

HYDRAULIC power at a pressure of
$50 pounds to the square inch is now
being conveyed about beneath the
streets of London as steam is conveyed
in this country.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

The London Times will lie about
$4,000 out of pocket for accepting as
genuine a batch of manuscript that not
one Yankee editor in a thousand
would have given a second look at
without smelling mice.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

HE EmpressV Vic
tolia Augusta Of
Germany relates
interesting
in con-
nection with her
late visit to Con-
stantinople. The
s ult q n showed
himself q pleas
a n d agreeable
host. For t h
Em,,resss sake he
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21
Wise by Experience.

Mr.. Case (who has married his type
writer)--Well my dear, I suppose !
must he looking around for somebody
to take your place in the office.
Mrs. Case-Yes; I have been think
ing Of that. My cousin is Just out Of
school.
Mr.. Case-What's her name?
Mrs. Case (sweetly)-John Henry
Briggs.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

THE French Academy of Science has
discovered, by experiment, that each
human body is in itself an electric bat
terry, n electrodc being represented
by the head and the other by the feet.
Therefore it is the proper thing to
sleep with ones head to the nortl, and
feet to the south.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

A FRENCH lieutenant. who was under
the influence of liquor. got up in a
Paris cafe and declared that the French
would have a war with Germany with
in three months. and he has been court
martialed and suspended from duty for
q year for his remarks. He was too
previous in giving the snap away.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

WHEN the Omaha tribe of Indians
was broken up by their own consent,
to take land in severalty, Miss Alice
Fletcher was presented with the "sa-
cred tent" which was the very embodi-
ment of all that they revered under
the old order of things, and this is now
deposited in the Peabody Museum,
Cambridge, Mass. Quite as significant
a relic has now been presented to Miss
Fletcher by the Nez Perces. The pipe
of war and council, which has been
used in all the tribal deliberations for
over thirty years, the one which was
gravely passed around when the tribe
made their last outbreak. has now been
given to Miss Fletcher, with due cere-
monial and impressive statement that
she had destroyed its significance, be-
cause they were no longer a tribe, but
citizens of the United States.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21
sEARcHEH among old deeds and

Brds in London recently came across
statement that Samuel Wilson he
queathed a sun of $40. GOO. which has
considerably increased. ito he lent to
men who have been set up IL year,
and not more than two years, in some
trade or manufacture in the city of
London or within three miles thereof,
and who can give satisfactory security
for the repayment of same.' 1t has
not been claimed for many years.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

A KANSAS CRY family consists of six
brothers whose names are as follows:
Jack Frost, Winter Frost, White Frost,
Cold Frost. Early Frost, and Snow
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

BARON Rornscnll.n. the Paris hank
er, lives in the fear of the commune.
His cellars are almost imprcgnable.
and his pictures and jewels are pro-
tected in such II way that the most
grasping mob could not reach them.
He lives in a state of constant fear.