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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20
Eow the Democrats are Looking Ahead.

Eow the Democrats are Looking Ahead.
The claim is new made that the Dem
ocratlc party, if it will only do this o,
that thing, has q certainty of success,
The only trouble is that these advisers
cannot agree about the thing necessary
to make success certain. The New York
Times says, if the silver bill is dead
there is nothing now in sight that can
prevent tariff reform from becoming
thu issue and Mr.. Cleveland the cabdi.
date, and under those circumstances vic.
tory is almost absolutely sure" But
the New York Herald declares: s'There
10 no one in New York whom it will be
entirely safe to tie to. Il X The
present political condition of New York
state, cut up into political factions as ii
Dug in the extreme. On the other
hand, a man from the West, with Hill
to look alter the interests Of the vice.
presidency, would make a victory next
to certain" These two journals both
consider tariff reform the necessary and
only issue, but one holds MI. Cleve.
land essential, and the other holds the
nomination of somebody else essential.
Then come the free silver men of the
West and South, declaring that party
can win with absolute certainty if ii
makes silver the one issue and nomi-
mates q candidate pledged to that policy,
but can win in no other. way.
Predictions 80 contradictory have q
tendency to create the impression that
success is not certain under any condi-
tons. It always happens that men
enamored OF q theory see with mar
yelo9us clearness, it not with glasses Of
high magnitying power, all its advant-
dangers and objections. The silver men
are stone-blind to the certain loss of
votes at the East. But the tariff re.
formers are %stone-blind to the certain
loss of Democratic votes at the West
and South. The Democratic party q n
not win without New York. according
to one sci. of prophets. The other set,
with equal truth, shows that the party
cannot win without Indiana and q Solid
South.
1t has become plain to many Demo-
cratic leaders that the Alliance will cut
their party all to pieces in some South.
ern and Western states If il defeats the
free coinage bill and dominates Mr..
Cleveland. Already some of the best
informed Democrats in Georgia declare
that the Alliance vii! sweep that state.
defeating most Of the present Demo-
Speaker Crisp among them, and giving
the ELECTORAL votes to Q third party
candidate. Similar predictions are
made % to other Southern
states by mon who have the best
opportunity TO know the situation
there. II only one of these states
should be lost, New York would not
save the Democratic ticket, and several
will be unless influential Democrats
are mistaken. They show also that the
Alliance tickets in West Virginia, Viz.
gtnia, North Carolina. Tennessee, and
In Indiana and the Western States
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20
American Genius ABROAD.

An American insurance agent has
made . brilliant failure in London, with
liabilities amounting to about $780, UI
and assets of $40. He 10 said to have
arrived in England in 1880 without
capital, and the money of his creditors
SSges. sass by his OWN IN s s.ss.S.a.n to ,! have
and gambling. He must have had eenius
for business, however, or he could not
have succeeded in accumulatinv such
heavy debts without capital.-Philaie,,.
phia Ledger.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20
le following table:

Inc prOtectlOnlst does not advocate
restricted "importa' 10 generally. He
believes in restri,~ importations of
articles which compete with oux own
productions, and thus take away en-
pioyment from our w%orkingmen; but
importations of non-competing articles
should not be restricted. Thus, under
the Mckinley tariff our importe have
greatly increased. but this increase has
been almost entirely in articles which
we do not ourselves produce.
Question No.. 81 What advantage is Q tariff
wool and other raw material:
The me advantage as a tariff on
manufactures. 1t protects the pro.
ducers Of the raw materials from foreign
competition. Raw materials, as that
term is usually employed, are about the
only kind of products farmers produce.
They are more directly interested in
their protection than any other class of
our people.
why?
A. B. Cohu, of the A. b. Cohu Com
pany, manufacturers of agricultural inn
plements, 1917 Water Street, New York.
V5have been twenty years in the BUSH
ness. and our experience mas been that
SOUoo nlS oolu III tiliS country as low IL not
lower than they are sold for export, with
this exceptions: Export buyers pay cash
or give q letter of credit on London. which
We sci! here on the day. the goods are de-
iivcrcd on board, and get cash for it.
This gives them a slight discount. but do
: iisestic buyers at all times can obtain the
same discount by buying on the same
terms-that is, by paying spot cash.
This allusiun to the slight discount
given for spo, cash, as against sales on
thirty, sixty or ninety days time, which
is generally demanded by the domestic
buyer, probably explains the apparent
discount said to be given to the for
eigner. But it should be remembered
that it is given, not because he is a for
etl9gner, but because he pays spot cash.
IN 81. AM 1s VINO Will pay spot cash
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20
A Wise Warming.

The New York Staats-Z eitung Dem.).
the leading German American organ in
the country, tells the Democrats that "a
century OF Mckinley could not hurt the
country SO badly as one year of Bland"
and that, while '"the Bland bill will rev.
er become a law, it will, nevertheless,
ruin the Democratic party" 1t further
admolishes the Democracy that ii it
passes the Bland bill sit must elect its
candidate for the presidency without
the German vote."'
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20
Stopping with H.,f the Story.

senator Hill in his Birmingham
speech said of the city's growth: "Your
triumphs here in every department are
the wonders of the world. There is no
example like it afforded in the country.
The place where this city stands only a
few years ago was an open plain, and
now 10 IL of the most thriving cities in
the whole South" The Senator spoke
the truth as far as he went, but he
should have told the whole truth, and
said that all that wonderful growth was
the direct result of the Republican pol
icy of protection to home industries.
B~lrmingham's chief industry is the
manufacture Of iron, and without pro-
lection the place would yet be as the
speaker said it was u few wears ago
ian open plain.' The coal and iron
mines in Alabama would have slum-
bered eternally had it not been for pro-
lection. The South has made greater
advancement in material prosperity
during. the past fifteen years under the
Republican system of protection than it
did in fifty years under the Democrat c
system of free trade.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20
Ten Little pigs.

Ken xlICl0 lS1ESe
Ida and Jennie we're two little
girls who lived near the city. The
electric cars passed by their home,
and they often rode in them.
The little girls papa was a farmer,
and Ida and Jennie used to think it
lots of fun to go to the big barn and
feed the horses, cows and pigs. In
the back part of the barn there was
a pen of ten little pigs about three
months old.
One day, when their papa had
gone to Boston, Ida and Jennie ran
out to the barn and opened the door
of the piggies' pen.
Oh! what a %squealing and jumping
about those little pigs had.
The girls thought it was great
fun. But when they tried to get the
pigs back into their pen, the piggies
would not go. Then Ida and Jennie
began to cry. They knew that their
papa would be angry, for he told
them never to open the door of the
pig-pcn.
All at once the pigs ran out of the
barn into the road as fast as their
legs could carry them. An electric
car was coming up the street, and
the pigs were frolicking on the track
in from. of 1t.
sThcy will get killed." cried Ida.
@What shall we do?" said little
Jennie.
And then the little girl STOPPED
crying and began to laugh. For
there, in front Of them, was the fun.
niest sight they had ever seen.
The pigs had formed in a line, in
double file, in front of the car, and
were running ahead Of it. Such an.
tics as those pigs cut up. Everybody
In the car was laughing.
Ida says she thinks the pigs were
playing horse" and thought they
were drawing the car.
By and by the conductor Of the car
tired Of the fun. So he rang the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20
A Boys Composition.


The cat lives in the house what
time she does MOTIVE over to Jones'
barn. She is real handy to throw
stones at and to pull her tail and
make her snuawk. / make our cat
sluawk ten or six times every day,
and the backs of my hands is drawcd
out in lines like a map, where her
toa-nails has got hitched.
If had invented Il cat I should
have made her without them nails.
Cats is full of music. They have con-
ccrts every night in our woodshed,
and no ticket to pay for. The rich
and the poor alike are welcome to
hear 'em.
Cats live on mice and what cream
and beefsteak they can steal out of
the pantry. Sometimes they catch
chickens, and that makes the old hen
mad, and the old woman that owns
the chickens madden. And she goes
for the cat with a broom, and the cat
climbs Il tree and sits there and lafs
at her, and goes to sleep and dreams
she is in Il Kitchen again, till it comes
night, and then she climbs down
back end fust and goes off to Il con-
cert to see the other cats. Thomas
cats has the hest voices and a sing
bass and tenor both at once. 1t is
nice to hear .'em, but when you sleep
alone and wake up suddenly by hear
ing of 'cm there is something Or
ruther about it that makes IL feller's
flesh creep and the cold shivers rnu
down his backbone.
Cats can climb on telcgraph-poles
and sit on the ridge-poles of four
story houses without being dizzy
headed. and they can sleep with one
eye open and lay awake with both
eyes shut, and they can walk us soft
as a feather and they can u like
chain lightning. They don't like to
swim, and they never do except it's
an old cat that you want to get rid
of, and you do her up in IA bag with
some bricks and throw her into the
mill-pond off the bridge. and then
She'll burst the bag and swim ashore
and kite for home, SOS to be there to
welcome you when you git there, SOS
you WON'T feel lonesome.
Cats like to get on the spare bed,
among the shams and things, aud
paw 'em all down into a nest, and
they like to go to sleep in your best
coat. l expect they enjoy the fun of
hearing you swear the next day when
you brush it. l should if / was a cat.
Kittens IS cats when they are first
born, and there is an awful sight of
'em. They keep coming right along
without regard to wind or weather.
They are dreadful cats and can UNI
wind more thread and zeal uI more
fancy gimcracks that the girls make
than any other known animal.
1t ant lucky to kill a cat. 1 don't
know why. 1t is good luck to have
one come to you if you keep her.
You get rich right away, or poor, 1
forget which. Every cat has nine
lives, and they don't never die if let
alone unless they have fits, which
most of 'em have. a cat in a fit will
beat a whole circus all to nothing,
and the first thing you know she'll
come right out of it and go to eating
milk just rs if nothing had hap
pened.-New York Weekly.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20

FAITH in dreams is still a~ctivein Geor.
gle, where . few nights ago q woman
dreamed that o Indian angel appeared
and. lowering over her couch, impaired
to her the spot where golden treasure
lies hidden.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20

The esteemed Chicago Post avs
that Sir George Stephens slogan life
al a barefooted lad" which would.
seem TO indicate that Sir George had
too good taste to he born with russell
shoes and white CATERS on his feet.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20
Facts That Prove Agricultural P~rospe.it,
In the month nf Dacemhar 1901 Al

FACTS THAT PrOv6 Agricultural ProRpeStty.
In the month of December, 1891. the
farmers OF this country exported barley
to the value of ss3S557,22s as against the
exported corn to the value of 81, 500, ST.,
as against the value of s96l, 773s; thev ex-
ported oats to the value OF 81, lis, 5i9, as
against the value of Sl6,9SO; they OK
ported oatmeal to the value OF Ss::ii, 22GG,
as against the value OF $500; they ex-
ported rye to the value of $500, S3l, as
AGAINST the value 81 $3.50; they exported
wheat to the value of $l6,6S6, 30l, as
against the value of 81, 155 ,22S; they ex-
ported wheat flour to the value OF
s 1920, 49,, IS against the value OF
81 .S53, ~. Their total Gales of bread
stntfs in December, 1891, amounted to
SSO.24l, 1913, at against $40, l26, 736: and
taking the whole calendar year OF 1891
their sales of breadstutfs amounted to
S2o4.3l9, 800, as against $l3i, S45, S96 in
1850. This enormous addition to the
earnings OF the farmers. amounting to
SsS.OOO, 600, was accomplished under the
operation of a tariff which they were
told by, Democratic free traders would
bring about their utter ruin. 1t has
been accomplished under the policies
OF u party which the Farmers Alliance
has painted to them as wholly lnimical
to their interest. Itmay be assumed that
with these $sS,00O,OO0 in their pockets
they will now listen to free traders and
Alliance lecturers with a degree of
amusement only equaled by their CON
tempt.
Another illustration of u foreign
trade during December. 1891. In that
month we bought of other nations goods
valued at S69,444,G55. We sold to other
nations products worth $l19. 9322 So.
Thus we sold far more goods than we
bought, and the excess Of our sales over
purchases was $5O,4S7,S77. It is no
wonder that the calamity howlers are
dumb when they see the nation doing
business at a profit of fifty millions OF
dollars q month.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20
MORE TARIFF QUESTIONS,
AND SOME STRAIGHTFORWARD
ANSWERS.

The Progress Of Beet sugar-rarms In.
crossing In valus--stopping with Halt
the story-An Interesting Letter from
. Mckinley Democrat.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20
Some Important Truth. About pr,cc..

aeSsbA = bNsNH
When the Democratic representative
in Congress from Tennessee, Mr.. Me-
Millin, made speech last month on the
tariff question, he saw tit to make this
statement:
The labOrer has been forced to pay more
for the roof that shelters him, for tine hat
that covers his head and the woolens that
cover his back. He has had to pay more
for the linen he wears, the hammer and
the hoe With which he works. Yet his
wages nave not gone up one cent. What
benefit has increased protection been 10
him?
This ls b demagogic way of discuss
ing thu question of the tariff. To show
how near Mr.. McMillin tells the truth,
let us take some reliable figures from
the Dry Goods Economist, which is not
a partisan paper, but is rather of free
trade tendencies. In quoting prices of
standard cotton fabrics in April, 1870,
and in February, 1892, it gives the fol-
lowing:
Prints. Marcn. 20. teb'v. W.
american indigo blue .oS5Iss .o5M
Passatc fancy.... CO ,OlIs
Victoria solid blacks. .O53i rs
Domestic ginghams.
Bates Warwick Dress. .0sls ,Os
Gnmberlanl staple. .o6@.oe14 .o5@.o5ia
WestbrOOk dress style. .DSLs ,O73I
Crown shtrttngs and sheetiMgs.
Atlas k.............. .Uis4 @.0sX .o6
Atlantic A..".-.-.. 900 VA .06aI
Pacific extra....-..- .06AD.N .O6L
Cotton tlannels DROWN. "
Amoxkeag ...... rs 49,
Elief!on o;;;....-..-... . .llI4 III
hamilton M.... ...... .ubI3 .06
Massachu sets Recon-. OIL .O7
If any farmer, or mechanic, or any,
one else. doubt1the figures of the Dry
Goods Economist, let him take this
price statement to any home dealer in
these goods, and then he can learn
whether the laborer, or anyone else,
has to pay more for his clothing, or
anything else he buys, under the present
tariff laws, than he did before.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20
Ar Island of the p.a,l.

The captain of a coasting vessel
that lately put into Guaymas, Mex
leo. tells Il story of a strange discovery
made by him when his vessel had
been driven off her course some time
ago. He sighted an island not down
on any of the charts. He sent a boat
ashore and the men returned and said
that no n lived there, but there
were many houses and evidences that
at one time the island had been ill.,
habited. The captain himself then
went ashore and foundthat the island
had undoubtedly been swept by Il
scourage of some kind. which had
carried off every living being. There
were numerous huts showing that at,
n time the place had been thickly
inhabited, but not a living thing
could be found.
An investigation showed that the
former residents had died i'm such
numbers that they had not been
buried; and the skeletons were lying
around the island whereverth the people
had been when death had oyertaken
them. In one hut were the remains
of seventeen people, while in many
Others skeletons were found in great
numbers. They had been dead for
such a time that the bones we're be-
ginning to decay. There was little
to show what kind of people they
were. but it is supposed that they be-
long to some of the numerous island
tribes which were so abundant ON
this part of the coast fifty years ago.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20
The Old Lady Fooi.d .Em.

The Boston Journal tells a story
illustrating the power of IA strong
will. Some forty years ago a Massa.
chusetts good wife lay in her bed ap-
parently dying with consumption. As
the family lived four miles from the
undertaken and pastor, the husband
when called to the village on business
on Tuesday Observation-Disclosures
TO save an extra journey in that
bitter weather by engaging the min
lister and undertaken at once, and
appointing the funeral for Friday.
In some way on Wednesday the sick
woman heard of this, and arousing
herself from her supposed dying con-
dition declared: "Therel be no
funeral in this house this week!v
The funeral was accordingly post.
poned. 1t took place last Friday,
forty years after it was originally set.
The husband is still living at the
- 70.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-20

Ihave been in NOR: I than twenty coun-
ties IN Iowa. In no place do the people
, ut the rise in land ut less than $40 per
acre..
In Wisconsin the rise is just as pro-
nounccd but the increase is not SO great
per accr
In illinois the statements all agree that
land has advanced IN. price within two
years between $40 and $2O per acre. In
the neighbcrhO0d of Paris, Sterling, Alton
and Decatur the advance IN tho price is nd.
mitted by all with whom I have con-
versed.
In Michigan the advance is marked, but
not SO large as In Illinois.
In Ohio, after visiting thirty of her
counties, | am able to state that farming
lands in that state have risen in value be-
tween S. and SIS per acre within two
years. Tho tone of the Ohio farmers has
entirely changed within that period. They
have ceased to be desponGc nt and are now
full of courage and hope.
In Now York ana Pennsylvania the i'm.
prOvement is not as great as in the West,
yet there is a decided change for the better
IN these two states also. From my per-
sonal observation, 1 am able to state that
times are more promising, and that there
is prosperity III store for men who ti.l the
cOJl
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
Origin of the Lone Star.

Colonel j. F. Troutman, of Fort Val.
ley, Ga, courtly gentleman of the old
school, gave this interesting history
About 1885 Captain Mirabeau B. Lamar
organized Georgia company, of which
Justice Lamar, of the supreme court
was member, to go to Texas to fight
for her independence against Mexico
As this company passed through Knox
vile, Ga, Miss Johanna E. Troutman,
sister of the colonel, then beautiful
girl of eighteen, presented the company
with silk flag, embellished only with
the ''Lone Star" the flag and the en-
blem being her own conception. This
Georgia company distinguished itself
for bravery, and was allowed TO retain
two specimens of plate, huge silver
spoon and fork of antique design, cap
tured from Santa Anna.
When the Lone Star was adopted and
placed on the seal of the state of Texas
this company. by unanimous vote, at the
instance of Captain Lamar, presented to
Miss Troutman these articles of silver
plate in honor of being the author of the
Lone Star emblem. Captain Lamar was
afterward one of the presidents of the
Texas republic, and in his honor Lamar
county was named in 1910. Miss Trout
man afterward married Mr.. Pope of
Montgomery, Ga, and died a few years
since, leaving one son, Fl. B. Pope, who
now lives at Rome, Ga, and has in his
possession these two pieces of unique
silver given to his mother.-Dallas
News
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07


There are many phases of selfshness
and perhaps the most trying of the
various manifestations of this fault of
faults is not recognized under this name
at all. What is called sensitiveness,
however, is very often nothing but sell
fshness pure and simple-a morbid,
miserable form, too-making the person
herself and every one around her un-
comfortable. A frank, generous, unset
fish nature is not forever on the lookout
for sights and unkindnesses on the part
of others. What can be more trying
than person who is continually having
her feelings hurt, who magnifes every
hasty, unintentional word into a griev-
ance, brooding thereon until it assumes
exaggerated proportions?
49, What can be more distinctly, morbidly
selfish and self seeking than such dis
position? Yet people of that tempera-
ment seldom if ever properly diagnose
their troubles, but if they are honest
they must acknowledge that they are
continually thinking of themselves and
of the relations of others to them. These
people are generally well meaning and
easy to please, not realizing that they
are not living for others but only for
themselves by thus indulging their
feelings" and hypersensitiveness.-New
York Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
CHEERING NEWS.

Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka Capital, which has fol
months paid very close attention to the
farm mortgage question in Kansas, re
ports that the full statistics it has Sc
cured from seventy counties of the State
show an actual reduction of farm in.
debtedness during the past eight and
one-half months of not less than 81,
100000. No more cheering news could
come from any State than this. II
speaks in no uncertain way of the value
and effects of one good crop upon the
prosperity of the Commonwealth. Evi-
dence has also been secured of a return
of confidence in that the sales of land
are increasing and more lively and
healthy tone is noticed in the real estate
market. This bears out our expecta-
tions. The depression in Kansas was
the legitimate result of over develop
ment and booming followed by bad
crops. National politics had nothing
to do with it. Good crops and the heal
ing touch of times are bringing relief
and as it comes the political crazes OF
the past few years will disappear. The
fate of the Peoples party movement is
already clearly discernible. Kansas will
have no use for it in two years more.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-07
A Philosophic Frenchman.

About half past II one night the con-
cierge. in delivering letter at the door
of M. Meilhac, noticed that the entrance
hall was full of smoke, and that flames
were issuing from a wooden panel. He
Immediately alarmed the other families
in the building and sent for the firemen
stationed at the ministry of marine,
who were quickly on the spot. The
flames were extinguished without great
difficulty.
In the course of the excitement NJ.
Meilhac proved himself to be philos-
Opher as well as talented ibrettist.
On being told of the fire he asked
whether the pompiers had been sum-
moned, and on hearing that this pre-
caution had been taken. replied: "Well,
it is their business to put the fire out.
shall not get out of bed."-Paris Cor.
London Telegraph.