The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-08
Down ON the Cheyenne.
AUGUST 4. 1890,

uViSoNs S@Ao1SS AAAsAus ouS WAuo
spreading and thinly populated coun-
try may seem tame, monotonous and
without interest, still to the thought
ful mind and deep, inqairing soul that
is seeking to know nor of, and get
to its author, there is not a bet
ter place on earth. To the soul, whose
honest, earnest cry is, Nearer my God
to Thee" this is the place Of Bethel"
Not in the temples made with hands
where pride and fashion linked with
priestly greed and ostentatlon, mar
rowcd and contracted by sectarian
p~rejudices, but alone with God, in Ma
lures temple, where He speaks to his
creature man face to face, as it were.
But, in town or country, | am aware
that every individual is governed by
the spirit that is in him; that thieves
and robbers lurk i'll desert places as
we'll as in the ~populous centres and
haunts of fashion, d fraud.
Amos Tabor starts to-day, August
.4th, for the coal mines at Newcastle,
Wyoming. Amos has thoroughly cul-
tlvated twenty acres on his clam this
season and no one about here has had
a better prospect Cor a crop until now.
The showers that have reached this To-
cality of late have failed to reach his
place and he says his promising crop is
a failure. He is obliged to leave for a
while and pursue another occupation
to live. He will return when he has
secured the necessary funds and con-
tinuc his efforts to make a home.
Choke cherries are ripe but not so
plentiful as last season. Buffalo her,
ries are also ripe, and good, an excel
lent substitute for the red currant.
Indeed, jelly made from the juice of
these berries is superior to currant
jelly.
We hear that "Uncle Me- while
his mind was a little unbalanced by
fever, talked rather plain TO some of
his neiglbors. This shows that he
was a good deal unhinged, for when
his mind is in its normal state, lie is
really as courteous and polite as a
well-bred son of the Emerald isle need
ITO be.
According to the ordinary course of
human life, things are mostly quiet
down here. Occasionally a neighbor
is seen coursing over the hills and val.
leys looking for a stray horse or steer
Although a free range is still the most
popular in this country. it OCCASIONS
some severe riding and anxieties that
a herd law might obviatc. Looking
north and east from the high river
hank on the south side, we have an ex
tensive view of the foot hills ant
Duties, and often catch slimpses of fos
Y sill hunters and pleasure seekers, goin,
n TO and from the bad lands" Indeed
:. Il few hours spent among the ''ge-odes,
~ believe that is the nalnc), is no
without interest of IL peculiar and fas
cinating character to any one that ad
mires the beautiful and wonderful ii
nature. And taken in connection wit!
agreeable company and a good picni
outfit and spread beneath the shade
and inhaling at every respiration tn
healing, aromatic flavor of the red &C
' dar. it is an event to be remembers
:. and thought of by almost anyone.
When we get IL school to runnin
= then spelling school, lyceum, and, per
;. haps, meeting, will draw our populs
!. ton oftener together, and persona
. mention, neighborhood news and item
y Of interest, will he easier to obtain.
We hear that Mr.. Sands has reco,
3 cred sufficiently to be moved, and
now at the county seat being cared fe
by DIR. Jennings. We are pleased t
learn that lie has such good frient
!, and care.
# Last Friday, while on my way HON
from the Springs. | had a little CONVEX
d sation with a man who lives on Hors
Head creek about eight miles this sid
Of Oelrichs. He saidi i, was very har
times with many Of the settlers IN ths
section; they had raised nothing an
were obliged 10 leave their claims {
0. %starve; that there were many wi
Ne went hungry and were almost make
ID Although he might be able to squee;
j. through another winter himself, /
r. certainly had very little to spare, an
n. the situation was a most dark and tn,
ing one. Who and where are IL
10 proper officials to care for these suffe
III ers?
THE CYCLONE.
In the beginning q triling affair;
Only u whirlpool OF dust in the air,
A breatt, Of hot ,apor whirling o paper,
Of That causes u horse to plunge and caper.
r. Soon 1t becomes a great whirling funnel
he Hiding tho sun as it swirls up and down,
-, Onward it goes, faster and faster,
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