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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06

aswhen We bought an orr rails abroad
and paid el60 . ton for them.
VIII some free trader attack my DO.
sition just ~ I define It? Il 10 an easy
matter to Get up ma Of straw and
then kick It over. It ID quite another
affair to state an opponents position
fairly. and quarely, and then reply to
Just the proposition he does make. I
believe I have stated my position 20
clearly that no clear-minded man can
misundeystand me. Will some free
trader answer the proposition I do
make: Do not, ]. beg, ask me what il
the use OF protection on any article If
We can produce 1t cheaper than they
can abroad? Why, bless you, We levy
a!l duties for protection, because, other
things being equal, the low wages Of the
Old World may enable them always to
produce articles more cheaply thant they
can be produced by our high wages.
And yet we may drive the price down,
down, for years. II the foreign pro-
ducers keep also cheapening the cost Of
production and continue to pay low
wages, their advantage still remains. I
have yet to find man who will meet
this position squarely.-R. G. Horr, in
New York Tribune.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06
Spends One Day In bed.

A famous English beauty. Lady
Londonderry, has a peculiar and sue
cessful system for keeping her youth
ful freshness. Although she is per-
fectly we'll she lies in bed one day in
ten, sleeping in the morning of this
day of rest until she wakens natur-
ally. After a hot bath and a light
breakfast she goes back to bed and
rests quietly in a darkened room un-
til 6 o'clock, when she dresses in a
pefgnoir, dimes in her room, and sits
about idly until 10 o'clock, when she
goes to bed again. No social event is
considered of sufficient Importance to
cause the lady to give up this periodi-
cal retirement from the hurry and
excitement of modern living.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06

The Home R.o.ra "a, 1sa,

The year just closed has been, per.
haps, the most prosperous in the his
tory of this country. So far from being
plunged into all the commercial and
financial disasters which the opponents
of the Mckinley bill predicted all
branches of business have been in q
fii%ourishing condition, and everybody
has had plenty to eat, plenty to wear,
and sufficient for other purposes. OF
course much Of this prosperity was due
I o the very abundant harvests which
which there was an active demand from
Europe. Bcsh our exports and our i'm
ports were greatly increased, and there
was q greater demand for labor in con-
sequence of the increased demand for
products of mills, which demand was in
turn due to increased tariff rates on
these products.-The Ldependent.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06
The First Locomotixe.

II is 'eighty-seven years, according
to the Manufacturer and Builder,
since the construction Of the first
practical locomotive to run ON rails.
1t was built in 1904 for a railroad at
Merthyr-Tydvil, in Wales; was of the
high-pressure, n0n-condensing type.
exhausting into the chimney, and on
Its trial trip drew a load Of ten tons
five miles an hour.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06
RUGGED

Glorious Views In the sierras, the Aips a
America.
The long ridges of the Sierras,
stretching through California SOUTH
east from Mount Shasta to the Table
Mountains, have been called the
American Alps ON account of their
grandeur and beauty. The whole
range is sharply indented, forming
numerous passes, all lofty, the aver
age height being not less than IL, 600
feet. The scenery Of all these passes
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06

for large decorated buttons has been
reduced to $50 per gross
for an equally desirable domestic butt
ton: What a tax the tariff has proved
itself in this case to be sure!
General Francis A. Walker, free trade
ton gradually increases wages in the
protected industries, but Gays that the
farmer pays the increase. How do the
facts bear out that assertion? Here are
two facts that do not:
The English laborer consumes only
worth Of our agricultural produces pef
capita annually; the American laborer
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06
The Champion Grapevine.

Portugal is said to have the honor
of possessing the largest grapevine in
the world. 1t is growing at Oys in
that kingdom, and must be a prolific
old patriarch IL it be true as repre-
sented that it has been bearing since
1902, a period of nearly ninety years.
Its largest yield was in 1884, when
1876 gallons Of wine was made from its
product.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06
Cansds's Trade Comiag Our Way.

ItNue C0mtuG Jul Woys
OTTAWA. Feb. l9.-The exports of the
United States to Canada for the year
1891 are shown in the trade tables Just
issued by the minister of customs.
Perhaps no better way of showing how
the United States is pushing Great Brit
found than by giving the Official table Of
the value of goods imported by Canada
from Great Britain and the United
States during the last eighteen years,
aa follows.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06

INDIA ink is made from burned
camphor. The Chinese are the only
manufacturers of this ink, and they
will not reveal the secret Of its
manufacture. i.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06

GUN arabic, which was once uni
yersally used, has become very scarce
Ind dear, and a substitute for it II
aeing made from starch.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06

I~Mprovsnsnt In Fraaee.
The ship canal from Paris to Rooen
Is to be about l1l4 miles In length a. 4
q feet insdepth. and the estin,a
ebst is 10000, 900.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06
Tarin illustrations.

Since the Mckinley tariff passed
Henry Graham,a manufacturer of pearl
buttons, Newark, n. j., has invented q
process OF decorating, in consequence
of which the former price of
Sl25 mar oroaa
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06
RsMeious work.

The British Foreign Bible Society
has distributed l24,O00,OOO copies OF
religious writings In eighty-seven
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06
Imports of Il

If one wishes to see a practical illus
tration of the effect of an increased
duty on shoddy imports, let him glance
over these fiuures.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06
. MRS. LlvlNcsroNE.s GRAVE.
Body of the Explorers Wife Buried In an
Afrlcan Wilderness.

English people want the body of
Mrs. Livingstone, wife of the ex-
plorer, brought back to their coun-
try. For more than thirty years it
has lain in a lonely grave in the Az
rican wilderness. The body of the
Doctor rests among the greatest of
the great in old Westminster Abbey.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06

The Burmese, ,Karens, / Hangere,
and Ghans use lead and silver 10
bullion for currency.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06
THE ISSUES OF THE DAY.
GOODS WHICH HAVE BEEN
cHEAPENED BY PROTECTION.
ne Manner IN witch tie rasiR Levers

40 THE EDI1oR OF THE TRIBUNE. Str:
In the Weekly Tribune Of. December q,
1891, r. G.. HOrr says: Tie also knows
tn IN n = little it,..s while American can ingenuity,
the final consumers than had the industry
never been established In this country.
He knows that these things will follow be-
cause exactly such things have followed.
70 many hundred OF instances" Will MI.
Horn please name twenty or thirty Of these
instances in which the consumers are now
getting products cheaper than they could
Getthem from abroad, il we had free trade /?
And also say. why such products should
not now be admitted free, if we ans now
cost Of production abroad? l am a strong
prOtectionist and hope your answer may
silence some carplng fools. Yours re-
spseetfully, EDWIN S. CoLLAMER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. %, 1891.
Mr.. Collamer calls upon me to name
twenty or thirty articles which consum-
ers are buying ut a cheaper price than
they can buy them abroad, and asks if
we are now underselling the foreigners,
why should not all such articles be put
on the free list. That, again, is precisely
the manner in which a free trader al
ways states the case. am surprised
that a good protectionist conld have
been deceived by free trade Juggling of
words and induced to ask the question
in that form.
Let me repeat once more u am glad
to do III. jvst what protectionists do
claim. We claim that when we have
the materials in this country out of
WHICH to produce. any given article
economically, OF when we can get such
materials as cheaply as the foreign
manufacturers can, and when, owing to
the cheap labor of the Old World,
which gives the foreign manufacturer
an advantage IN cheap production, that
duced in this country, in such q case,
understand, we claim that by placing q
duty on the imported article, at such a
rate as will make up for the difference
in the cost of labor and give our home
producers an advantage in our home
markets, then, by the 'levying of such a
duty, the industry will be built up in
the United States; and this protection
always results in the production
and sale of the article at a
price lower than 1t was selling
at when we levied the duty, and in all
probability lower than it would then be
selling at had we produced none of that
article in this country. Is not that a
definite proposition? Is it in any way
hard to comprehend? Is it true? That
proposition does not for a moment claim
that the foreign producers will not also
cheaper their price for the same article.
IL we cheaper the goods for our own
consumers, the result Is that the price
is cheapened all over the world. That
fact is not to be urged against the pro.
tective system, but should be named to
Its credit.
Now then, can 1 name twenty or
thirty articles which are selling at a
(lower price than they we're when the
duty was levied, and which have been
constantly growing cheaper and
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The two should be together, and it is
very probable that the ashes of aPoor
Mary" will be brought from the Afri-
can jungles and placed beside those
of her husband.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-12-18

the formation Of whose character he
might have an influence for good. He
boarded az the Grand Occidental hotel.
bis position being t1at of mine superln-
tsndent for the company working the
property he had discovered. and this
gave him an excellent opportunity 10
see much of the child, and 70 direct her
studies IN his spare hours.
These relations between Frank Ho-
bart and Ella continued for two years.
she proving herself 10 be bright and
grateful pupil. and he manfally hiding
from her and the world the new and
powerful feeling that sueh association
had developed in his big, generous
heart BY the time she was seventeen,
Ella Lanston had become the toast Of
every mining camp for rfty milss
about, and mere than one rich gallant
had laid his heart and his fortune ct
her feet
Mrs Lanston. Who had been q wife
since her sixteenth year, would have
insisted on her daughters marriage at
this time, had not Frank Hobart in
duced the parents to send her for two
years TO the best young ladies' semi
nary at Denver.
Frank Hobart mout a-married that
gal. il he'd Jest had the cheek 10 tell
her that he loved her. - he most sar'
tinly does; but. like blamed eejet, he
gets the Cao'n and MrA Lanston tel
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nad welcomed Ella ara bsde her "a
merry Christmas" eight hours ia adj
vance of the day; but this did not deter
hin from going over 10 where she sal
beside Howard Ford. and shaking hands
again, while he said:
Miss Ella. me and the rest of yer
friends has been a-notiein' that you
and Frank Hobars's kinder geein' OF
from aieh other. and that you amt
danced together tonight Now the
superb be ready in half an hour, and
before that time. If you'd go up and AK
Frank = be yer pard for one round,
it'd please as very much.
Howard Ford looked shocked at this
proposition. and an expression OF
doubt, then of pleasure, came into the
fine gray eyes OF the sage brush
belle Bowling. by way of apology,
10 the young man who had monopolized
he that evening. she took Sam Brit
tons strong arm, and he led her 10
where Frank stood.
Mr.. Hobart" she said. and her love.
ly face flushed and her eyes were
downcast, IF you viii not ask me 70
dance with you. our friends think
should ask you To dance with me-"
$50 we do" said Sam Britton. before
Frank could recover his confusion.
snow haul him out to the head of tn.
kortillion. and evervonell allow Won
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HARD ON THE STOMACH.

Instances Showing Its Powers with STAR
walton and Plenty.
The human stomach possesses most
wonderful powers of adaptation to cir.
cumstancesA When Lieut. Bligh and
his eighteen men were cast off from the
Bounty by the mutineers in an open
boat they subsisted forty-one days on .
daily allowance of one-twenty-fifth of .
pound of biscuit per man and . quarter
Of pint of water. DR.. Tanner in 1880
tasted for forty days, subsisting, It is
said, on water alone, and Succi and
other fasting men have since excelled
this
Kafirs, North American Indians, and
the ''fat boy" in ''Pickwiclk' may well
be quoted as fearful examples of vorac.
ity, but even their gastronomic feats
are exceeded by the full-grown Esqui.
mau, who will eat daily twenty pounds
Of flesh and oil II he has a chance, while
on the authority of Admiral Saritchef
Yakut of Siberia has been known to
consume in twenty-four hours the hind.
quarter of large OK, twenty pounds of
fat, and quantity Of melted butter for
his drink.
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its eternal youth. 1t mellows the sun in
its midday twilight to moon Of days,
and. bowed with snow, holds in its mys-
FERROUS spell the leafy shut OF summer.
II is the ululant tree.
What weird reflection of sounds
plays in its mufled harp!-the low sigh
IS the dream breath of the zephyr stirs
In It: the pathetic moan as the swell of
the breeze phrases Its rising and falling
cadences; the long drawn vail of tho
wind as It blows down the echoing can
yon; the howl Of the red savage as the
fury Of the blast smites its wry head
and seams its twisted trunk! 1t Is fur
tive. stealthy, secluded It listens 1t
points with tassclled finger tips &c the
wizardry of its black sandals on the
snowy turf. There is whisper, cry,
a step in its strewn shadowA 1t is the
silhouette Of old night The dusk face
came out Of its dark. But there Is =
burial trait of the pine tree which has
been strangely overlooked even by dem
biological writer's II is the secret
process Of embalming, particularly m a
dry, rainless air. which, preserving .
corpse, makes 1t q true mummy cave.
To this melancholy tree the Navajo
mother goes on only one crrand-to
bury q stillborn child.
The twilight Of . winter day tinged
the deep ravine as rode down the
steep trail along tho dizzy precipice
into the canyon below. was superbly
mounted on Q little trained horse. who.
pricking his ears and putting his nose
toward the ground, smelled out the dim
trail in the evening of the forest like a
keen pointer. A little behind me rode
the gallant young guide, Hunt. fully
armed and fearless alike by day or
night in the wide detour we were maxi
ing through the Indian country. Sud-
denly my horse stopped. pricked for
ward his fine ears and shifted suspi-
ciously.
''Hc scents something" said the
guide. l was about to give him his
head and bid him go on when, raising
my eyes on seeing the ssgacious animal
lift lis muzzle and sniff the air again,
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-12-18

The financial straits Of Italy are grow
ing worse from day to day. Coin Is de-
creasing 1T a rate as rapid as TO cause
universal conservation and inconveni-
encc in trade. Storckeepers are issuing
notes payable at sight in their stores
These notes vary JIM amounts from a
quarter dollar to few cents. some he-
ing ss low as two cents. Instead Of al
lowing this natural means for tiding
over the caIsmisous period to proceed
unnoticcd. tho police have at some
places arrested tradesmen for infring-
ing upon the privilege Of tho crown by
making money. Public opinion IS IN
favor 81 allowing tradcsncn % continue
IA tho course. bat no one con say what
,he end az the police prosecutions viii
be. me- how ard when the calamity ~ill
~-s1
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-12-18

tsins about thirty miles, as the crow
flies. or is supposed TO fly. from Salt
Lake City, the famous capital of the
Mormons-
Six years ago the residents OF Lam
pton's Glen were. without exception,
sGentiles." as the non-members of the
sChurch Of Lstter-Day Saints" are
called. and they retain their skeptieism
ss 10 things Mormon up TO the present
dsv. ssThe Glen" as the residents call
Il among themselves. is . small mining
town on the edge of canyon. far be-
meath the depths of which q rich silver
lode was discovered in 1881 by . young
mining engineer named Frank Hobart,
who had been educated at the Uni-
vsrsisy of Pennsylvania In his native
city Of Philadelphia and who came
west % seek his fortune.
Lanstons Glen was by no means an
inviting place. Huts of stone and
adobe. in comparison with which the
irrcgularly set and ragged army tents
we're paiatiaI. constituted The principal
abod-s Of the inhabitants. THE Grand
Occidental hotel owned and run" by
Capt Lsnston, was the most preteu-
tious building in the place That IL had
grown. rather than been built from
any original design. was evident in the
many little additions and wings of
stone and adobe. and even Of canvas.
that had been added 70 il from time to
time.
A plain covered with dazzling ex-
panses OF sn0w-white alkah- inter
sperscd here and there with patches Of
scrid crsosote. and brittle. olive-col-
orrd saxe- brush. stretched away for
six niles on either hand 20 the mighty
mountain wall that appeared 20 shut
the strange place in from the outer
world
Although Frank Hobart. who was a
tail. handsome. modest fellow. had dis
covered the nine that gave the place
an excuse for being. vet he declined -
have Il named after him. preferriny
he na,ae which was 6nally adopted
because Cart. f.snsson's wife was the
f~St shise woman who had ever set
foot there. though. encouraged by her
Boianess. many % ire miners snbse-
qaentiv brought their wives from the
states
F3lr I.an<tsn Wa ffeeen when she
as.,auspaniesf her father and mother -
th. tiea. and from The very first her
fresh heaatv and graceful ways not 70
rscntlon a xoice ~ phenomenal sweet
re<s. won - her side even tse rough
est 81 me niusre and AT the China
men. who hal been Brought IN as srrv'
ants
C,ot. fanzton had beea soldier
sna tllonrh. 80 d.,nht. z1et one, -
VS. . Fo,irh. hariig man. naorr suited
=, sAinc q the cemp than 10 80 par
to~ and hia staerTiss rxrriisnt ~tfr
wss nnch thc same so-f - aeaaFaetrf 7.
Frans Hessrs waa - yeas etder
shan Ella. 49, eresf fi.earstf. - pr
ss,re nat - fi..saE "a hts lftl,st<ss spi =
i.sr - ur..s.l a.ie IA thfnaine - the
...sre .hrasA saiie ~ ssRz hF''ss
uiRhNngsie - essse - ~ Hssf~ -
n.anf1e ssiolsefs sstied SEE - ssf
s,kssss.NE1tla 49, -
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through With IL peeped out st me was
partially dragged apart. probably by
some persistent bird OF prey, but the
case boards. with their holes. throne a
which the cords were passed that held
them together. still pressed the tiny
stranger. whose little form had met the
strange mystery Of death At the very
portals of life.
Descending from the tree picked mp
the fallen case board with the cord holes
In il, and climbing my horse renewed
my Journey.
Born dead!- Born dead" Those
words kept ringing in my ears - the
horse moved slowly forward.
Scarcely had left the spot when .
loud undnlating sound. hardly les hu-
man than the broken soes of the mother
herself. called loudly over the little
stretcher out Of the top of the pine tree-
'sC-o-o-o-o-o-hg'
1t was certainly = startling coinci-
dental sound. Had an Indiaa heard t.
with that stretched grave before him,
he would have hurried from the spot.
filed as he is with superstitions about
the dead. and. calling IL Dad medi-
cine" refilled his medicine bag with =
new charm secret But an Indian never
revisits the grave of stillborn child.
recognized the sound instantly IS the
familiar voice 10 me Of the screech owl,
who, lingering round the remains OF
the dead. broods like an evil spirit In
such haunted places. repeating in this
instance, however. the death knciling
tirgc that would have been uttered by
the Navajo mother had her soul passed
into the ofninous bird at the death OF
her little one.
The pitch of the terebonthine tree,
as have since learned. Is prime death
. medicine. 1t Is in the medicine bag.
All the mortuary customs of Indian
tribes may be summed up in the tale Of
the pine tree.
The burial of the dead among the Ma
vujos is peculiar TO themselves A re-
semblance only to their mortuary Gus
toms Is to be found among the Round
Valley Indians. of California. the Ka-
gon,as and Billoxis, of Louisiana. and
the Indians of Virginia. The Navajo.
however, is the more unique. The
house is the grave. The body is buried
just where il dies As soon IA death
! takes place shallow grave is scoopcd
in the center of the hogan. In this
grave the body is placed by the nearest
relatives, who previously smear their
bodies with tar from the pinion trce Id
order to protect themselves against the
evil influence of the devils work. This
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aiming tae injuries and easing the
awful pain of the young man. who was
now gate conscious. though ne could
only speak ia whispers
From the instant Of his rescue Ella
had not left his side. and now. when
the doctors had ba,hed him IN lotions
and covered MS poor blistered face
with moistened cloth, she asked:
lis there hope?7
Il think he win pull through said
one of the doctors, '-bnt fear he can
never use these again" aud he pointed
10 his eyes.
20 Frank" she cried. as she kissed
the bandagea hands You brought me
light when | was in darkness. and gave
me love when my heart hungered; and
now. if il be Gods will. my eyes shall
be Your eyes, and nay hands your
hands. and my life your life
And the striking of bcll on the
mantel told that Christmas eve had
gone and Christmas day had come.
Exactly one year afterward there
were again grand preparations for =
fete at Lanston's Glcn- Frank Hobart
and the girl who had married bin
when his future seemed so black were
returning from the east They had been
there for ten months. where the fore
most oculists had charge of the case.
News came that Franks sight was
restored, and that, except for the cruel
sears. that enhanced his beauty to his
wife, he WAS, as Sam Britton put 1t;
better than new"
There never had been such ball and
banquet in those mountains. and never
will be again. Frank and his beautiful
wife led the dance, and When midnight
came the miners and their wives and
daughters placed them in the center OF
joyous. whirling circle, and shouted
from the hearts depths:
"A Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year to the 'sage-brush belle and
Frank, and to all who love brave, hon
est folk!"-Alfred r Calhoun, in Dem
| orekt's Magazine.