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The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-04-03

WV HsSS0 ~pAvSsSesAsy
liked and hisn,any kind Offices ap.
preciated.
Our ente.prising neighbor up the
creek, yclspt the N~innekahta Herald,
last week issued q special edition.
The got up vas unusally tasty and the
illustrations Of the more prominent
features Of Hot Spring, as we'll as the
excellent articles on the various enter.
prises and Improvements are q credit
both to that Office and to the city in
general. May the Herald prosper in
the future as in the past, and may
brother Jones grow fat and wealthy
from the proceeds Of his will appointed
Office.
The Baptist people have secured The
use Of one Of the rooms on the ground
floor Of the College building, and will
hold services there until their new
meeting house is ready for occupancy
Faster E. H. Sweet will preach Sun.
day, April 5th, at II o'clock A. N.
and 7:S0 T. NJ. Morning subject
1.-THE Greatest Thing in the World
evening. "Jehoyahjireh. or the LORI
will Provide" All arc invited, an,
especially those who have no othe
/ church home.
J The contract for surveying and r.
surveying the boundary line betwee'
North and South Dakoti will 10 let
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
La gest Farm in The World.

In the extreme southwest corner of
Louisiana lies the largest producing
farm in the world. measuring 100 miles
north and south and twenty-five miles
east and west. 1t is owned and oper-
ated by a syndicate of northern cap
italists. The 1,500, 600 acres of the tract
were purchased in 1888 from the state
ofLouisiana and from the United States
government.
At that time it was a vast grazing
land for the cattle of the few dealers of
the neighborhood, over thirty thousand
head of half-wild horses and cattle
being thereon. Now this immense
tract is divided into convenient pasture
stations or ranches. existing every six
miles. The fencing alone cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000. The land is
best adapted for rice. sugar, corn and
cotton. All cultivating. ditching. ETC.,
is done by steam power. A tract, say
half mile wide, is taken, and an
engine is placed on each side. The
engines are portable, and. operate a
cable attached to four plows, and under
this arrangement thirty acres day are
gone over with only the labor of three
men. Narrowing, planting and other
cultivation is done in a like manner.
There is not single draft horse on the
entire place.
Of course horses are used for the
| herders of cattle, of which there are
10000 head. The Southern Pacific
Railway runs for thirty-six miles though
the farm. The company have three
steamboats, operating on the waters OF
their estates, of which there are 300
miles navigable. They have also an
ice house, bank, ship yard and a
rice mill.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
ADMINISTRATORS SALE
REAL ESTATE
OPP. PATENT OFFICE. WASHINGTON. D. c.

PY virtue of an order Of the Proh.spe,caa ,,t
40 of Portage county, Ohio the un 8ersigy "a a.
a administrator of the estate OF Danig CD ID
Brode, Ill offer for sale at public auctio On q
The premises, about two miles south Il tn 80 m
ter of Charlestown, Portage county. Ohjr om eh
SATURDAY. MARCH z, 1897 '0N
between the hours of one and four e'Golr ol - -,
the following described real estate: III
Situated in tSe township OF Oh, ,,as+
county CT Portage. and State of Ohio and
known as part OF lot No. Is; boun led on the
north by lands OF 9. j. Canfield; ast bv thC
hlghwey: south by lands of George Rrown and
the T. Z & y IL. Il 4; and west by ands of the
acres of land 'e'9n'5 NV
Also, tract of Ian d in lot No. 4 of said TOWN
SNIP. county and state; boas6 ed north by
lands above described; east By Ia nds of George
Brown; south by lands az t LoN grie: and wesf
Dy lanus nrst ABOVE described; uG ,ntainipp abOut
six acres of land. - . ''0ou'
Sald Two tracts appraised OF : 3O4O.
Al also tne undlyldeT. one-hatf of the following
ieai estate, sltsate in the towE ship county and
ind iands 3i Mpnys a and Cnrtfs ; on the east by
an9s ian9 Hl4t ap We describeds on the south by
iands Of os SoEy II Lowries an on the west by
of land. - w. . '''0'' Ai'S AL %
Apsrat ed at s625.
ssnna new house on the premises. worth
Ss"oS S good bank barn, with shed; the lands
Sa9,S II improved and O. good quality. No
90 aosR opportunity can be afforded to purchas e
Xcellent home and farm.
-erms one-third cash, one third in one year,
Le third in two years: deferred payments to
Jear interest and be secured by mortgage on
, the premises sold.
THOMAS H. CLARK,
ITO Administrator of Dan'l P. Brode's estate.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
The Kitchen of the Church.

The mission chapel has become a
kitchen where the church does its
sloppy work. Hundreds and thou
sands of churches in this country
gorgeously built and supported-that
even on bright and sunshiny DAYS are
half full of worshippers. and yet they
are building mission chapels. because
by some expressed or implied regula-
ton the great masses of the people are
kept out of the main audience room.
Now. 1 say that any place of worship
which is appropriate for one class is
appropriate for all classes. Let the
rich and the poor meet together the
Lord. the Maker of them ALL Mind
you, l say that mission chapels are
necessity. the way churches are now
conducted; but may God speed the
time when they shall cease to be a
necessity. God will rise up and break
down the gates of the churches that
have kept back the masses. And woe
be to those who stand in the way!
They will be trampled under foot by
the vast populations making a stam-
pede for Heaven.-T. De Witt Tai
mage, d. d., in The Ladies Home
Journal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
WEDDING sUPERsTITIoNs.
As Held in Different Ages and Among
Various Nations.

The Romans deemed it an i'll omen
to meet certain animals while on the
way to have the ceremony pronounced.
A hare, dog. cat, lizard, or serpent was
an extremely unlucky animal to meet
upon such occasions. A wolf, toad, OK.
or horse was lucky. In Greece the
groom is sprinkled with water on leav-
ing home to meet his future bride. The
bride must visit the oven in company
with her father and mother if she
would have happy married life.
In France, during the middle ages,
ring woven from straw, or one made of
horseshoe nails, was placed on the
brides finger at the conclusion of the
marriage rite. The couple also stood
in a ring five or six feet in diameter,
made of mistletoe or straw.
In China girl who is partaking of
the last meal she is to eat in her faith
er's house previous to her marriage sits
at the table with her father and broth
ers only; but she must not eat over one
half of the bowl of rice set before her,
otherwise her departure will be followed
by continued scarcity in the domicile
she is leaving.
In Scotland it was formerly particu-
larly om1nouS to meet funeral Wn1le
on the way to be joined in wedlock.
The bride or groom was certain to die
soon, as the sex of the person being
taken to the graveyard was male or
female. The Swedish bride seeks to
catch glimpse of the groom before he
sees her, hoping thereby to gain the
future mastery. She also places her
foot before his while the ceremony is
being performed and sits down first.
While the words are being said she
stands near the groom, so that in the
future no one will come between them.
In Brittany if the wife hopes to rule
she must take care that the ring when
placed upon her finger shall slip at
once to its place without stopping at
the large second joint.
In Russia the bride must not eat of
the wedding cake unless she wishes to
lose her husbands love. If dog be-
longing to the family of the bride
should howl on the day of the wedding
or the day previous to the event he
must be shot by the father of the bride,
and no one else, and, besides that, with
bullet made from silver rupee.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
Fishes Strangely Killed.

Several years ago published the
ory to account for the occasional de-
struction of fish on the Gulf coast of
Florida. The theory was founded up
on the existence of vast underground
reservoirs OF water, which in contact
with iron pyrites containing sulphur.
arsenic and phosphorus, became i'm
pregnated with poisonous gases, which,
when this poisoned water was fors~,d n
out into the bays by excessive p'oods
and into the Gulf itseh. rend- aS tho
air which is dissolved in y 'natar of
the bays and the Gulf p "a nvor as eTtan- ~
sive areas fatal to the he fish which.
breathe it,
There have r. >aen No excessive floods,
this year aud No f;sb I;IieJ that 7 have,
hea'o ot' But the great drought of
snS 4Iyakka lakes and left the vast
!" re which exists on one side of it ac-
cessible, and more accurate observa-
tions were made concerning it than
ever before. The hole is by estima-
ton fifty yards in diameter, and by
actual measurement 1876 feet deep.
The lead which was attached to the
sounding line was blackened while in
the bottom. as sulphurated hydrogen
would blacken it. And there is no
reason to doubt that there is sulphur
In it. for the artesian well at Sarasota.
twelve or fourteen miles off, is very
highly impregnated with that gas.
As the lake dried up all the fish nat
urallv went to the hole, and in JAN
uary 1t was full of them, the lake still
existing on one side. As the water
dried up, confning the fish more
closely in the hole, all the higher
orders of fish died. But the garfish
still remained. At last they also died.
and in April the sole denizens of the
place were leather-back turtles-ani--
mails, need not say, which breathe.
air.
This hole is about ten miles from the
Gulf, and the ordinary surface of the.
lake. when full. about seven feet above
the Gulf at mean tide. But when !
saw the hole in April it is probable
that its surface was only foot or two
above the level of the Gulf
If so, and if it communicates with
the Gulf, there should be tide. Men
who are often there tell me there is no
doubt but that there is; that they dis
cover sometimes, in walking around it,
just those signs of a tide that one sees
on the shore of a bay, COW tracks
partly filled with water. which after
ward become dry.-Flortda Times
Union.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
Georgia's Largest Woman.

Comparatively few people know that
the largest woman in Georgia lives in
Houston county, yet such is a doubtless
fact. That is, we haven't heard of a
larger one.
She is negress, is AZ years old, the
mother of eight children, and lives on
the Dick johnson plantation, near
Grovania. Her name is Anroe Brown,
From actual test of weights and meag
ures the following figures were Z h
tanned by party of gentlemen. III,
saw her recently:
Her weight is 500 pounds. Sht g
feet 8 inches in height; feet 3 ;nnbo'
is her circumference around II q bIlnt
feet inches around the, ya;s+ onJ
80 inches around the :4rm nas1. ~ 'e tbe
shoulder. "dA 'ue
One man was unequal to The t.sk nj
measuring her. She came rem arpa h1n y,
near being as broad as She is lon@ ~ +
is said she fills completely the f,odv Of Of
a a one-horse wagon. and is a fr'll % iosd ID
TOR one horse to pull. Within the last
Twelve months she has gained s,hont
l0o pounds in weight. Ho,s,c
Journal. -10'"''
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
His First Experience.

He loved her-very much. He
thought he had never loved half so
much before. And she? Well. she
may have loved him; that he didn't
know-he hadn't asked her.
She was 20. She was the most beau
tiful creature he had seen. Her hair
was black-as ink; her skin was white
as milk; and her eyes-how brilliant
they werei They seemed to look into
his soul. And he wondered if she
knew it.
He had never seen anybody so raw
ishing to look at--not even in fancy.
He had never before left his food half
tasted on his plate-not even at coun-
try hotel. He had never before found
it task to close his eyes at night-not
even when he had been sick with fever.
As for her, she looked upon him
with favor; she would take his hand
as they walked along the beach, and
when the water spread farther than
she expected on the sand she would
cry: ',Look out, Harry, dear!" or the
like.
He presumed he ought to be happy
there was no reason why he should
not be-others in his position would
have been.
All, yes; it was well enough-until
the o'clock express from New York
came in. Then she would be dressed
in something wonderful in blue and
gold, or in gray and black, or in pink
and white; and she would sit upon the
broad piazzas of the hotel and chat
and gossip with the men. Of course
when he came up she treated him civ
lily. decently, and he had no fault to
find-no fault, that is, in order. Yet
he asked himself sometimes if she was
treating him as one individual or as a
species.
Eh bien! One day fourteen Saratoga
trunks were loaded on the blue ex-
press wagon at the side door. A good
many of the trunks belonged to her.
She was going away.
He sat idly in an L of the piazza
with his patent-leathered feet on the
railing.
She came to him. She was dressed
for travel in tailor-cut gown with
plaitings of Indian cloth on the front
of the waist, and with black veil that
could not haze the sparkle of her eyes,
She held out her hand. and then in'
pulSlVely Sne TOOK MS neaQ IN uer
hands and. kissed him.
What thrill went through linn,
He looked up-she was gone. Short
ly he heard the rumble of the STAGE.
Then he heard nothing-except he i'm
agined that he heard his heart beat.
He was all alone, and he let his head
drop forward on his breast, and he
cried as though his heart would break.
For. after all, he was only years
old.-hate Fields Rashinqton.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
Mrs. Stanley to American Eyes.

The ladies are gossiping about Mrs.
Henry M. Stanley and her mother. Mrs.
Tenant. in a way that must make their
ears tingle. So much was said about
the beauty of the younger lady at the
time of her engagement to the great
explorer. and American ideas of beauty
are so different from those which pre-
vail in England, that disappointment
is expressed on finding Mrs. Stanley
what 1 heard her described by Muir
ray Hill society leader, "a solid-look-
ing Englishwoman, with too much of
the color of good health" But that is
the Englishmaa'" special type of beau
ty. The woman that is strong, robust,
and healthy. who sets her foot squarely
down on the ground and walks with
athletic instead of mincing manner. is
Just what suits him. Besides, cannot
imagine that after his experience in
Africa Mr.. Stanley would have selected
any pale, ethereal beauty as his wife,
or any woman who was not strong and
solid, after the English type.
The criticism that she wears her
gloves half buttoned at the theater is
important if true" and so shockingly
awful that wonder some of our Muir
ray Hill danes do not rush down to
the Everett House and tell Mr.. Stan
ley that he has made serious mistake
in his marriage. If Mrs. Tenant,
with English taste, chooses to wear a
many-colored scarf to the theater it is
offset by the fact that she has bred her
daughter with such noble qualities of
mind and heart as to win the most dis
tinguished traveller of his age, and that
is all there is of it. By the way, while
the London correspondents were ex-
tolling Miss Dorothy Tenants beauty.
they seem to have entirely overlooked
her sister, who, now that she is seen on
this side of the water, is pronounced
the handsome member of the Tenant
family.-M 7. Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
The Spectators Wealth.

His. wealth is Imaginary, and no.
where. He contracts debts, and cal
culates on miracles to pay them. He
trusts everybody, and verybody trusts
him, while the ball can be kept up;
and when it falls to the ground they
all roll away and perish together. The
idea of owing more than he can ever
reasonably expect to pay does not rob
him of wink of sleep or disturb his
repose for a moment, says the N. Y.
Ledger. '.Eat, drink and be merry,
for tomorrow we die" is his maxim;
he lives as if the world were at his
command; he despises the sordid
maxim of cutting his coat according to
his cloth, for the cloth belongs to
others; he goes the way of all flesh.
and when his books are examined by
the assignees it is found that, though
he has lived like prince and spent his
hundreds of thousands. there never
was time when he would have dol
lar left after his debts were paid.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
The Real Cowboy.

THE genuine cowboy isn't at all
proud of his Clothes" says Texas
man." They are necessary part of
his outfit, and he is not aware that he
is at all picturesque Those strong
leggings and jacket protect him from
the thorns and brush through which he
sometimes has to run at full speed to
head off a wild steer. Those large
spurs are to make his pony go quick
when he goes to rope an animal. That
wide-brimmed hat is to protect his face
from the burning sun in this southern
climate. That cowboy belongs to the
church, and next Sunday you may see
him in the congregation, dressed up as
neat as pin, and likely teaching a
class in the Sunday-school."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.
The Secret of Social SUCCESS. At The
Capital.

The material for a salon very, possi-
bly, exists in Washington, but the most
OF it is little raw and unhusked. The
average Congressman is not going to
worry himself into dress suit, and 90
to some clever woman's house merely
to talk, to discuss public questions, and
say bright things. He prefers to do
that at the Capitol, and have it printed
in the Record, or pour it into the inter-
viewers ear, and have it spread broad
cast through his district. His ideas of
sociability include bounteous hospit-
ality, and are inseparably associated
with bodily food. A thin wafer with a
glass of gooseberry syrup and water
will not satisfy, stimulate, nor adequate
ly reward his expectations, founded
upon even verbal invitation. He ap-
preciates terrapin and champagne. and
getting them, seeks for the ulterior
motive. "rve been asked to dinner
twice this session by Smith. What do
you suppose he wants?" queried a
perturbed Congressman. And this is
the all too usual view taken of even
the simplest and most friendly hos
pitalities extended for good-fellowship's
sake.
The family of a certain high official
of means came to Washington intent
upon setting an example of Spartan
simplicity and frugal elegance in the
way of entertainments. They sent out
engraved cards a fortnight beforehand,
and the heated and crowded guests
were regaled with vision of Young
lady. teapot. and plate of waters
when they reached the dining-room,
Society naturally criticised, and a blunt
old soldier wished that the money paid
the engraver had been spent on a
caterer, and that an informal enter
tainment had not succeeded a formal
invitation. A shrewd. rich, and litter
ate woman who came to Washington
determined to get into society, looked
the field over for season, and said:
Il know how to do it. Feed 'emr'
And she did, and conquered, and rose
to that ultra circle which affects to
scorn officials and politicians and
hangs upon the diplomatic corps. The
secret of such social success lies sole-
ly in the pocket-book, the salad-bowl,
and the punch-bowl. and is attained by
any one who will judiciously distribute
their contents. Such circles are the
antipodes of salon, but it is out of the
mass of such material that a salon
must choose its recruits, and people
more or less affected by such social
standards and surroundings must be
educated and raised to higher level.
Because of this general vulgarity, a
salon is all the more needed as a place
of refuge for public men and clever
people with trained and refined social
tastes.-Harper' Bazaar.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18

Rubinstein has been upsetting the
usual authorities as to some points in
his life. They mostly agree in making
November so, 1880, the date of his
birth; he makes it November 16, 1929
He also denies that he was pupil of
Liszt, from whom he says, he never
got anything but dinner and some
advice.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18

G. W. P. sends to the Journal the
shortest letter ever written containing
the entire alphabet. The epistle of
which he is the author has but one let
ter duplicated. the letter Ia" 1t reads
as follows: Quiz Jack: thy frowns vex
G. d. Plumb. b."-BoSton Joatr7sal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
MascOts and Jonabs

A New York gambler will moke.oniv
the worst kind of cigars, because he
thinks havanas go hand in hand with
bad luck. NU "''A
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
The Luck of the Ugly Man.

II have beautiful wife"
you have. indeed"
What! Have you seen her?"
''No; but l never saw an ugly man
married yet who didn't get the pick of
the flock. ."--M Y. Sun.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18

The dome of the state house of To-
peka, Kan. is to be surmounted by
colossal statue of Ceres, which is to
cost $4,000
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18

The number of visitors to New York
city every month is said to be greater
than the total number oftixed residents.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-18
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the actual cost of labor and material required
illustrated Catalogues of Stoves, etc. can be
seen at the Gas Works. Also, some of the stoves
in operation.
Circular setting forth the many advantages
of such Stoves and the use of Gas as Fuel. is in
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All persons interested in the use of Gas for
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