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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
Cigar BUYERS.

"Give me three good cigars" he
said, throwing down a dollar. The
cigar man handed out three cigars
and IS cents in change, which the
customer pocketed and then walked
away. "How did you know he want
ed threc-for-a-quarter cigars?" l ask.
ed. why, answered the dealer, The
said good cigars didn't he?:" "Yes
but those arc not the best you have"
"Course not, but fellows always say
good cigars when they want three for
Il quarter. If they want higher.
prices cigars they walk up to the
counter and call out the name of the
brand or the price they want to pay,
SOS everybody can hear them. They'll
say: Some of your %perfectos,' or Are
these Garcias fresh?' or Your best
imported brand or Three of my
usual kind or something like that.
If they want scent cigars they walk
in quietly and tap the case over the
box containing the kind they want
without saying a word, and if they
want two-fers or stogas they come in
slyly when there's no ore else around.
But when a fellow wants plain three
for-a-Quarter he just steps up and
says: Three good ones,' and every
cigar man knows what he means."-
Buffalo Express.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
What Ailc,l Him.

In the "reminiscences of Mr.. C. w.
Cope, the painter, the author relates
what seemed at the time IL pretty
sever ill-turn which overlook him
suddenly in Florence.
/ was sitting at a table reading
after supper, when / observed that
the pendent lamp-tweezers and ex-
tinguisher were vibrating. Presently
1 got sleepy, and then all at once my
chair was drawn from under mt. I
held fast to the table, and thinking a
trick had been played on me, I called
out, 'Boxall, that's not fair;" but no
one was in the room.
I felt giddy; I must be i'll; and I
struggled to bed without undressing.
In the morning I was quite well, and
supposed that I had been faint; but
when 1 got out I found every one
talking about the earthquake. It
was a severe shock, and was felt as
far as Rome. Many houses fell for
ward, and had to be propped up to
prevent their falling into the street.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
SNAPSHOTS AT GHOSTS"

Pictures OF Indians In the Weird Dance
That They Affect.
Among the latest work of the Bu-
reau of Ethnology which is being pre-
pared for the Chicago exhibition is a
set of six large transparencies,s en-.
larged from kodak pictures of the
ghost dance.
There have been many accounts Of.
the dance given OF late in the papers,
and some spirited Illustrations, said
to have been taken from life, but. it,,
can be safely said that they are,a all
the work of a vivid imagination, and
that these pictures are the only opes.
that have yet been taken from life. =,
They are the work of MIR. James
Mooney. of the bureau, who has for
two years past made a careful study
of the dance in all its phases, and
has seen it enacted Il hundred times
or more, says the Washington Post.
The ghost dance is a purely re-
ligious performance, and being par
ticularly s%ecretive in all matters con-
nceted with his religious beliefs and
| ~ObscrvanceS, the Indian vas natural-
ly loath to admit outsiders to Il view
OF this important ceremony: but by
discreet and diplomatic approaches
this opposition was overcome, and
the result is an invaluable collectlon
of snapshot negatives, taken directly
in the dance circle, with hundreds o
Indians in all stages of dress and n
dress leaping and shouting around.
Some of the pictures show the
dancers in the state of mesmeric
catalepsy into which they are thrown
by the nervous excitement Of the
dance. Both the messiah himself
and two of the dance leaders, Sitting
Bull (Arapahoe) and Cedar Tree, are
expert %hypnotizers, and five minutes
work with Il black handkerchief or an
eagles feather can throw almost any
of their followers into a trance, leav-
ing them standing motionless, with
arms outstretched, for half an hour
at IL time, until they fall unconscious.
Others of the transparencies show
the dancers in the state of collapse
that follows their eXcrtions, and
others again Illustrate the attitudes
of prayer and supplication.
The pictures are altogether a most
unique collection. With them will
be sem to Chicago many casts
of the Indians in costumes and va
rious utensils and ornaments con.
nected with the ghost-dance cere.
mony. There is in the possession OF
the bureau an original letter from
the messiah, explaining the methods
and object of the dance to a delega-
tion of Arapahoes and Cheyennes.
who carried back the information
and spread the dance among all the
prairie tribes.
The messiah, or Jack Wilson, as he
is called by the whites who know
him, is Il full blooded Piute and
speaks no English. The credit Of
preparing the transparencies FROM
the kodak negatives belongs to Mr..
j. X. Killers, the photographer Of
the bureau.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22

three years ago. There was as much
written about this little imp as about
any other member of the teams, and,
like Artemus Wards coon, he was an
"amoosin' little cuss," dressed up like
Il drum-major.
When Arson got back to Chicago
his mascot vanished.
One of the u%nluckiest things for a
baseball team to meet is a cross-eyed
man. Many a one of these with a
squint has passed fearlessly by a
nine, little knowing that his life was
in danger, for a ball-player has such
an antipathy to a IA so afflicted
that he would think nothing of giving
the man a rap over the head with
his bat.
1t is unlucky to pass a wagon-load
Of empty barrels, and no player will
let anybody touch his favorite bat.
All the home-runs in it are supposed
to vanish, and the player has one
more narrowing thought to make his
life miserable.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
until all the quarreling was over that
he r%eappearcd upon the diamond.

until all the quarreling was ver that
he reappearcd upon the diamond.
The boy is hardly three feet high,
has an intelligent face, and is a
wonderful mimic. The admirable
way in which he initiates the pitching
of Mickey Wclch, Tim kcefe, and
Others often causes oars of laughter.
When matters n beginning to
look serious. the mascot will carry out
the bats of the players for good luck,
and when things are indeed critical,
and a IL must be got, the mascot
will eXpectOrate on the bat. This, it
is said by the players, has often saved
the game.
The Brooklyn mascot is smaller
than he of the Giants. He first put
in an appearance at the opening game
of the season at Eastern Park, and
what with his comical get-up, his red
cap and his strange antics, soon be-
came a favoritc.
Baseball Players SupcrstitiOus.
Like sailors, ball-players are super
stitious about playing on Friday, and
always expect to lose. In this case
one side comes out right, the other
wrong.
Arson, of Chicago, who is one OF
the brainiest ball-players alive, and
who could have made a fortune at
any business he might have cared to
have taken up, is strangely super
stitious. 1t is said of Arson that il
he was given time and nine China
man he would soon turn them into a
respectable team.
For two years he Travelled every
where with a small negro boy called
Clarence Duval, and took him round
the world with him when the Ameri-
can teams made their famous tour
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
GROWTH OF THE CIRCUS
AN INSTITUTION OF CoNsip.
ERABLE IMPORTANCE.

From Insignificance 1t Has Attained Inn
mense Experimentation Invested to
Form an Exhibition, Amusing. INSTRUCT
ing and Entertaining.
Advancement marks the growth of the
United States in every trade and in
every profession, and in this a of
progress the circus has kept pace. That
popular amusement of the people, says
the Chicago Times, illustrates by its
growth h development Of this greet
country. From the one-ring show with
n dozen performers, IL score of horses,
under a small, dingy canvas, it has
grown into a vast commercial enter
prise, which is thoroughly American in
it's character. In no other country can
such organizations be found conducted
upon such an extensive plan. They move
from town to town. from State to State,
giving pleasure to thousands each day.
In he smaller cities circus day ranks
with the Fourth of July and Christmas
as a holiday. Each railway deposits it's
carloads of eNcursienists, every road.
becomes Il thorouyilfarc for the farmers
leans. Circus day rings in the air for
months before it arrives. Then when it
comcs what JOY it brings!
Its Vast Details.
i'lNlucu lhtO various departments,
each OF which is governed and controlled
by men of experience, army discipline
is maintained in zach section. A cam
paign and policy, the route and the fca-
lures arr determined upon IL year in adj
vance. No rest comes To these who
head the organization. Even now be-
o this season has passed half of it's
existence the minds of the leaders are
studying new forms of entertainment
for the public. The chief of the foreign
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22

vided. The meeting place was to he at
a certain point i'll the Coquillard Woods
near the Clay Township line. and where
the French picnics used 10 he held.
Heap big lniu,
Monday afternoon the parties met
there. The lone Indian,' glum and
stoical. had the two bricks in a stout
canvas bag. Mr.. Taylor. the alleged
mint assayer, had a bottle of acid and n
boring tool. AT the request of the
nephew the Indian dumped the bricks
out Of the bag with as little
as Swygart would throw a couple Of
bricks from his yard at a yellow dog.
The assayer bored into the bricks, made
a test. and pronounced it the finest and
purest gold he had ever seen in all his
years OF experience at the mints. The
nephew showed n card from Frank
Mayr, a jewelcr in South Bend, on tie
back of which was an indorsement pur-
porting To be from Mayr% attesting to the
oenuineness OF n. tricks. The Aephew
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
straw and feed are weighed ard placed
upon the lot at daNlight in the morning.

straw and fccd are weighed ard placed
upon the lot at daylight in the morning.
Water must be secured also. each on
tract must he investigated, hotel rooms
arranged when required, and IL multi
tude of little things fixed so that no
hitch may mar the opening of the show.
No easy job, this of the layer-out. Two
stewards purchase the supplies for the
colnmissary department, alternating the
stands with each other, So0 loavcs of,
bread, several bushels of Vegetables,
l.5Oo to 2,50o pounds of meat, and other
articles in like proportion being required
to fccd this army of nearly a thousand
employees each day. The animals also
must lie fed. Elephants alone consume
each in n year $50 worth of food.
The details of such an organization as
amy II of the great shows are SD vast,
that only "a passing glance can be given
Ia them. This bird's-eye view. as it,
We're. may show thai to- be Il su .cessful
Snowman requires intelligence. business
capacity and courage. IL is not so easy
to run IL show as it looks, and the man
who imayines that it is all luck can
judge from the above that it is IL busi-
ness that can not trust to fortune.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22

service is i'm weekly receipt of letters
from his subordinatcs. From all parts
of the world comes the news of such
attractions as nrc To he seer at work.
Cables from the great European centers,
like London, Paris. Hamburg, Berlin,
Vienna, and Rome, post those inter-
ested with news of every performers
debut, OF each fresh animal placed upon
the market and of every wonder that
may make its appearance.
ProSpectOrS are overlooking the terri
tory OF the coming season. This is one
of the most essential points of the BUSH
hess. The quict-looking gentlemen,
who, between this time and next Janu-
AIRY, will visit nearly all points of the
Union, are those whose verdict will, to
u great extent, determine what cities
shall be honored with Il visit. The rail-
way must have sufficient side track to
accommodate the ears that are required
to transport the show. The point Sc
lccted must BE- IL central n to which
railways or steamers can convey eXcur-
sionists. Its financial affairs must be
looked into, the banks report as to the
money market, and it must be
known if great fires have taken place
or if cpidcmics have made too many
houses of mourning. Farmers must
have good crops and manufacturers run
on full time to warrant such an eNhibi-
ton as m of the big travelling shows
to devote IL days time to the place.
With daily expenses of from $1,000 to
$1,000 all this care is requisite. The
route once having been selected, the
contractors spring into their harness.
Railways are negotiated with to handle
the specially constructed ears from
point to point. The excursion agent be-
gins his campaign by securing II reduce
ton of rates and round-trip tickets to
the show. Bill-boards are secured,
licenses ARE negotiated for, and the eA-
hibition grounds are often selected
when covered with snow. Thus months
ahead the preliminary work progresses.
by the time the show reaches its winter
quarters the manager is at work upon
his programme for the coming eason
Artists are engaged, novelties secured,
and once more the general agent pre-
parcs the groundwork of the gorgeous
posters, Autographs and bills.
At the winter quarters renovation has
alrraG. begun. Painters. carpenters,
siliers, biacksmiths, w~heelwrights, all
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22

skirmishers to advance. Tentmakers
submit their models. Costumers r
hard at work. Time is limited. Only q
few have knowledge OF this part of the
business, and a new outfit is necessary,
each year. Even up to the hour of OPEN
ing the show the rush goes on.
Six weeks in advance OF the opening
the first of the avant-couriers shakes
the dust of the city from his feet and
rides into the towns that are to be
visited. Listless as he has been for q
few weeks, now that the time has come.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
MIDGET
Baseball Players Believe They Bring
Good Luck.

baseball Players Believe They Bring
Good Luck.
A class of men who have their own
peculiar superstitions are those who
take part in athletic games of all
sorts, but the baseball player is king
among supcrstitious players, says the
New York Journal.
First of all, the team must have u
mascot, without which there is little
chance Of winning the pennant. The
mascot is usually a small boy, of what
color is immaterial, got up fantastic
ally, and is Il relic of the fools of past
centuries.
The mascot of the New York club
is a small white boy, who can always
be seen somewhere close to Buck"
Ewing. This is his fourth year with
the club, he having been with them
in 1883 and 1889, the two years when
the Giants captured the worlds
championship. Last year the little
fellow disappeared. and it was not
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22

advance can be made without a record
being kept. No one is allowed to mis-
represent or make promises. A system,
of check marks the organizations which.
prevents fraud upon the part of the,
agents and protects the agents as Well
as the management from others taking
unjust advantage of them.
What are termed route riders make
the advance more careful, for they in
spect and report upon all the work in,
advance. Then the l%ayer-out,
who sees that everything is ready for
the arrival. He is Il day in advance
and remains with the exhibition on show
day, while his associate takes the next
stand. Roads and bridges are investi-
gated, to see If they will sustain the
weight of the wagons and elephants.
The point of unloading is selected. Hay,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22

bad. But thai anybody should be caught
on the gold brick game III This ate day
in the century is considered IL reflection
OF the intelligence of tho community
whore it occurs. S"ygart is 40 years
old, is worth about >'op.,0p. and lives
alone oycr ON the same Fashionable
thorougltare as The Stiiclakcrs. and in
the atmosphere in which nee moved the
ColfaNcs. Swy-ar, came here with his
partner, lsockatellcr. in 1850. They
We're ston"masons. Together they be-
gan To aintss a fortune. SwyScrt was
particularly f:ir-sighted in his real-cstate
deals and is now he owner of farms,
town lots, Observation-Disclosures. and resi-
denccs. by his first wife there were
four children. allof whom are bright and
prosperous. Nonco of them live with him.
Their mother lives in Rockford, III. His
second wife was a domestic i'm his family.
a young woman who secured a divorce
and made Sl0.0n0 by the operation.
Swysart makes no display in his appear
ance or mannc of living. He dresses
and lives in the plainest manner. and
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22

This man, from all descriptions and
from comparison with a photograph, is
none other than George w. Post, the
bunko man, whose partner, O'Brien,
was brought to cover in Havrc by the
French police but escaped. A young
man had been here getting points on
Swygart's characteristics. The same
sort of a game was attempted at LII
Porto. Swygart refuses to show the
bricks, and all he has TO say is that he
has enough money left TO live on.
1t is related as ii singular thing that
bunlo men are always more numerous
in Indiana during II Presidential year
tina at amy other time. The actual
value of the bricks for which Swysart
gave" up $1,000 good money is S4.2O
npirrp.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22

in the ear nearest to the source. says
the Philadelphia Press. This being
the case, Il person who has totally
lost the sense of hearing in one car,
although he may imagine that the
defect is of little consequence, cannot
locate the direction of a sound to
save his life, even when the center Of
disturbance is quite near him.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22

classes of artisans are at work. Animals
and horses are being trained for their
summers tour. There is no income
now. All is outlay, and the money
seems to melt away, SO rapidly do the
expenses grow. Gables from far-Off
lands send the treasurer flying for for
cign exchange to supply the wants of
the cstravagant European agent. The
agents congregate in masses at the Of
fees waiting for he graf when the
proprietor o. Z. u order the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
Cutting Ills second Teeth.

Nuttl1lk his second Teeth.
Sunday three men and IL woman left
the eastbound Lake Shore train at this
point. The men went in one direction,
the nm in another. Monday MORN
ing one of the men met Swygart as he
was leaving home and called him Uncle
George" He had the Swygart pedigree
down to Il nicely. Swygart took the
young man in and boosted of his pos
sessions, and the two came to the unan-
imous conclusion that the Swygarts
the %ncphcw's turn To tell a story came,
and it was the unrcelins of that ro-
nance which caused the old man to cut
his second set of teeth all ut once. The
nephew said:
II am IA Swygart when it comes TO
making money. /. have struck it rich,
too, Uncle George. On my way from
the West TO Chicago | came across an
Indian on the train who owns II gold
mine SO valuable he will permit no one
to work il hut himself and his sQuaw.
He has an Indians distrustful nature.
j won his confidence and he showed me
two gold bricks which he was taking to
the mint in Philadelphia. He is afraid
he will be robbed. and | so managed to
eNaggeratc his fears that he stopped in
Chicago and finally agreed to sell me
the bricks for 5000. Mother told me
how rich l ncle George MASS so | brought
the Indian over with me from Chicago
to soc If you wanted 10 furnish the
money and go halvers with me in the
profits. Luckily. | me- in Chicago IL
friend of mine. an assayer from the
Philadelphia mint on his way to the San
Francisco mint. and ! paid him 500 TO
come down here and lest the bricks"
An agreement MAS prepared in
writing. Swysart WAS 10 furnish s., QUO
and tine profits We're 10 lie equally di-
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whx nj. Neea INC E.r. E.oh,

Sound travels by waves radiating
from a central point of disturbance,
just as waves radiate when a stone is
dropped into still water. So far as
the hearing Of each individual is con-
cerned, these waves move in a direct
line from the cause of the sound to
his ear, the impact being the greatest
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
Cumming stamp. by Machine.

An apparatus for atfiXing stamps
on envelopes is the invention of an
Australian. The stamp receiver. is
supported by a pair of pivoted arms,
while another pair of arms carry Il
dampiDg roller. BY pressing a handle
the stamps within the holder are
forced by a plunger upon the envel-
ope, the stamps being at the same
moment moistened by the damping
roller.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22

IT is not surprising that England
manifests a dis~inclination to arbitrate
her differences with the government
Of Venezuela. 1t requires q very
broad and charitable statesman to
discover that any such government
exists just at present.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22

to take the warpath he is bright, chccr-
full, full of dash and that self-contidcnce'
so marked in the circus agent. Then
car follows car, carrying its tons of pie.
torial printing that will decorate every
vacant spot upon fence or wall with
literature that will penetrate to every.
household and iniiame the curiosity of,
all their inmates. Not a sheet of printed.
matter. not n movement of the mon i'm
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Where bobby. Memory Failed.

Mother-What does my little boy
mean by telling a lie?:
Bobby didn't mean to tell a lie
but l couldn't think of the truth
Puck.
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the way he was hoodwinked out of
81 900 shows how IL man who has made
money in his dealings with others can
make a fool of himself in less time than
ii takes to tell it.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22

them how Rockefeller had been taken in
and how he (Swygart, got the lots.
Teller caught Swygart. Those who saw.
the nan several years ago identified
him as the same man they say with
Swygart, but no II gave Swygart a
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
a New system ot Paving.

a trial is being made i'm Paris of IL
new system of wood paving. 1t ron
sists of pieces of oak about four
inches long. split up similarly to the
ordinary tlrcwood and laid loosely on
end in fine sand on Il bed of gravel
from four inches to four and Il half
inches in thickness. a layer of fine
sand is then spread over them, and
they are alternately watcred and
beaten several times. In about forty.
eight hours the humidity has CONF
pletely penetrated and caused the
wood to swell, and it is claimed that
the a becomes thus absolutely
compact and homogeneous and capa-
bic Of supporting the heaviest traffic.
Dressed for the Occasion.
First Suburban - Hello, Smith!
You are got up regardless. Going to
a wedding?
Second Suburban-No. I'm going
in town to try to engage a cook and
/ want to create a good impression.
General Manager.
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HOW CIV. swvoART, OF SOUTH
BEND. WAS SWlNDLEp.
The Old, A%niiquated. Undiscovered Gold
Brick TrOtte.i Out for the Publication OF
" HoOsicr Whose Passion for Money Tx
cecsied His Horse. sense.
X In for $1,000.

UTTH BEND, Ind.,
dence:
George w. Swysart
was taken i'm for
SOON here ON the
gold brick game.
III the swindlc had
been of II other
{ li;,ract"r ii would