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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
The c.n.d. Line.

Speaking Of the line, it is a funny
thing. The two countries have no
middle ground between them, such
as I have read there once was between
England and Scotland, a strip they
called @the Marches" and where
there was continual fighting and tur.
motl. The line here is an invisible
thing. The two countries touch. A
daisy may grow in Canada and lean
over and bloom in the United States,
and Of the four little eggs In a blue
birds nest two maybe in either land.
What q vacillating thing the line Is,
too. As it leaves the Pacific Ocean,
1t seems to have resolute intentions,
but it changes Its mind. It follows
the straight sea, Superior, and then
1t slips into the water, like a beaver,
and does not seek the land again for
hundreds Of weary miles. 1t follows
the lake center and threads st. Mary's
River and buries itself again in Lake
Huron and the beautiful St. Clair
River, and goes through Lake Erie
and down the Niagara, over the falls,
and seeks, through Lake Ontario, the
head waters Of the big st. Lawrence.
1t has then had bath enough and the
water is deserted, and away it goes
across broad meadow-lands and wan
ders to the east and north. and SO to
the Atlantic. That is the line. Il
has no Enthusiastically Waterloo,
In Good Form.
-lZs -HaFf .r1aHH. ~ TNr-NH"aEM -
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
Dirty Flower G,rl..

If one goesto to the Covent Garden
market early enough one can see the
street flower vendors laying in theil
stock in trade for the day. Girls OF
Ii or 16 as blase and depraved, beg.
ging a copper here and there from
some well-to-do visitor in the market,
and then bargaining sharply to get
its worth from a gardener. There
are old women, doddering, blear-eyed
old things, who have been standing
at the same corner year in and year
out for so long they've forgotten when
they began; there are crippled men and
tlippant boys, and the choice of flow
ers they make is a pretty sure guide
to the locality they sell in. They all
bargain we'll, and get a bit of green
thrown in ii they can. watch like
hawks to see a blossom drop from
some ones basket, and snap it up
eagerly as so much clear profit.
Slovenly wretches they are for the
most part, with flower trays under
their arms and occasionally a toddleR
at their heels Or in their arms-a
little, dirty bundle from which a
faint, %querulous, hopeless cry comes
now and then to let one know there
is a human being in it. One of these
little bundles was in the girl-mother's
way when buying, SO she pumped it
down upon the damp brick floor, and
some careless foot knocked the con-
tents of a watering pot over it. Did
she mind it? Not a bit, but she let
it lie there, drenched, till she got
through with the business in hand,
then caught it up and carried it away
swung under her arm. All around
the market these flower vendors
squat on the curbstone and arrange
the loose flowers into little bouquets
with a skill that is wonderful when
n looks at their filthy unkcmpt
selves. -Pittsburg Despatch.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
The King of slams wives.

~The Chinese do all the mental la.
Dor in Siam. They also keep all the
pawnshops and gambling houses, and
teach the Siamese how to GAMBLE
said Lieut. T.. N. Rasmussen at the
Grand Pacific yesterday. He is a
young Danish officer. who went to
Siam six years ago at the solicitation
of the king, to assist in drilling the
royal troops in European fashion.
~The king has not a very large
army-only 1900 or 1000 men-al,
though the name of every male sub.
ject is on either the army or naval
roll. But they are never called into
service, as the king cannot stand the
expense of feeding a large army.
Moreover, it is not needed. as there
are few outbreaks or disturbances.
"The kings army is larger than his
family, but the latter is of pretty fair
size. Nobody dares to give the exact
figures, but at last accounts he had
100 wives and 1O5 children. The
present king is a man about IS years
old, 1 think, and he is popular. He
is the highest power. owns the whole
country, and does about as he pleases,
but he is we'll liked. His eldest son
is the crown prince. Just now that
youth is a member of the Buddhist
priesthood. All the princes and no
bles have to go through the priest
hood before they are fully ledged."
"How does the king get all his
wives?"
They are presents to him from the
mobiles. They offer him their daugh.
tiers. OF course. no one would dare
to offer him one that was not fairly
good-looking, and he seldom refuses
to accept them. Should he refuse;
the parents might as well move out
Of Siam, as the refusal would simply
mean THAT the parents were in royal
disfavor."
@How do the other people get their
wives owe there?"
sOh, buy them. Many of the no
bles have numerous wives. If a girl
strikes their fancy they negotiate for
her purchase, but not generally until
they have paid her proper suit. Some
of them buy their wives from the
ranks of the actresses in the Siamese
theaters. Prices vary from 1000 to
$50. 1t costs more to marry into a
rich family. Sometimes young couples
elope, just as they do in other coun-
tries. But the groom has to settle
just the same. There is a rate fixed
for elopements-4OO ticals, or about
S240."-San Franciso Chronicle.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
which, if it proves practicable, win

which, If 1t proves practicable, will
be magnificent when worn by a line
Of marching men. Two men stand
side by side, eight feet apart. They
wear tin helmets, carefully fastened
under the chin by straps. To the
top Of each helmet is fastened one
end of a wire arch, from which lam
terms are suspended. Another scheme
Is to have the torch handles fastened
diagonally across the chest on a tin
breast-plate.
Another novelty is the helmet flash
torch. A tiny lamp is concealed in
the spear point at the top of the he'll
met. BY putting at. a rubber tube the
wearer blows a tritle of magnesium
powder into the lamps flame, and the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
70 THE LAMp-posr.

6evieworo must live, ono supposes.
For they most tncontestably do.
They thrust out the thorns on our rosoA,
Ghoy teach ~ to turn up our noses.
They prove that far older than Moses
Are b things We thought charmtngly new.
Perhaps Z 10 all In their vocation,
Perhaps they would etarve, did they NIT;
8ut 3 thing demands le9islation,
One criminal, exter1nination,-
%. ct the least. expatriation,- /.
. s2he reviewer who tells us the plot
when Life. though We patiently take It.
e often 80 bitter 3 pill;
% ecad . draught, though We shake It,
And strive oMervoscent to make Il,
LAY We not, for Q ihoment, fotsake II
8y losing ourselves in . thrillf
~ mystery veil tho last pages,
Ne can live In tina heroiles0 ltfe.-
Or the hof0'e,-can rage when he RACES,
Can night In b battle he waS0s,
n come, by his var. ous stages,
T~fiumphantly out Of the strife.
But when, before sven beginning,
We know what b end is, how tame
Becomes b amusement-the spinning
And weaving employed for our WANING
Seem vtsfbly. shfinking and thinning;
And for this 10 the author to blame?
MOI Perish the heartless reviewer
Who mars that which make he could notl
Let him give, for the old, something newer;
Let him give, for the false. something trues;
Lot each reader become his pursuer-
This wretch who betrayeth ID plotl
Century.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
swepEN Az rHE FAIR.
spscisf Historic and Agricultural Display
BY the Scandinavian Kingdom.

Special Historic and Agricultural Display
by the Scandinavian Kingdom.
The Swedish Worlds Fair building
will be located on a most eligible site
opposite the Fisheries Department,
on a triangular plat comprising 17,-
900 square feet. The building itself
'gill cover ~, 900 square feet, and be
triangular in form to fit the space
allotted. 1t will consist of a main
floor and gallery, have a south front
of 1874 feet, and additionally
be patterned after the Swedish Ca.
thedral style. Rising above the cen-
ter Of the front elevation will be a
characteristic tower 200 feet in
height. The structure will be Of
wood, made entirely in Sweden, and
be shipped from Stockholm to Chi.
cago in sections. The dwellings, fur.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
Risks of R%ailroadlng.

Inc committee report accompany.
ing the bill gives some statistics
which make an impressive showing
of the great injury to life and limb in
railway train service. Wellington
VOL Waterloo and Meade Gettysburg
with a loss of 23, 1856 and %, 22O3, while
the total loss on both sides at Shiloh
in two days murderous fighting was
$4,000. In the three years war of
the Crimea England lost in killed and
wounded 21,O35 men. None of these
terrible battles furnished a list OF
losses equal to the loss in a single
year of our railroad men, a loss equal,
in fact, to the entire present force Of
the United States army.
In the Johnstown flood $3.50 per.
sons persisted, while during the year
1890 casualties on our railways re-
suited in railway employees Killed,
2,451, and injured, %, 1874. The
Johnstown disaster filled the imagi.
nation with horror and sent a thrill
of sympathy throughout the civilized.
world, but that calamity came in one
fell swoop, while fatalities on tho
railways, Involving in the aggregate
a far greater sacrifice of human life,
have scarcely attracted public atten-
tion. Nightly several poor fellows
are picked of-in the freight yard,
on the rail-often the only vestige
that morning reveals being a pool Of
blood and the dismembered remains
Of the unfortunate victim. Two lines
Of a newspaper headed Brakeman
Killed" tells the whole story.-Pitts.
burg Chronicle TIE ;egraph.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
result is a binding flash of white
light. The possibilities of a drill
with these iash-torchcs may be easily
imagined.
Power of

The Meydoum Pyramid stands in
the burying-ground of Oldest Egypt,
and there, day by day, are conducted
most careful explorations under the
management of Mr.. Flinders Petrie.
Thus does the tomb yield up its Sc
crets, but these are not more inter-
esting than the fact demonstrated
throughout these operations. that
even the idle temperament of Egyp-
tian workmen is more powerfully in
fluenced by love than by fear.
At Luxor, says a writer in the
Gentleman's Magazine. a swearing
bully of an overseer hustled the chill
dren with their palm baskets of mold
from pit to bank, flashing them mer-
cilessly at times, and Ticking his ele-
phantrhide whip for pure cruelty at
the h~alf-naked bodies of the poor lit
tie boys and girls who, in the name
of science, were working like slaves.
through heat and dust, to bring back
the colossi Of Ramses the Great, or
the temple of his father Seti, from
the grave of centuries.
1t was a sight to make ones blood
boil to e the lash curl with a crack
round the leg of a lad or the naked
ankle of a girl, as they toiled up the
steep bank with the heavy palm bas-
ket on the head. Sometimesit would
bring the poor creatures to their
knees, but when 1 demonstrated, /
was told:
1t matters not! No whip, NO work."
Now Mr.. Petrie gets twice as much
work out of his men and boys as does
this bully at Luxor, and yet his inter-
course with them is uniformly gentle
and serene. 1t was refreshing to sit
there in the shadow of those vast
mounds, at the building of which the
land had groaned and the lash had
been busy, and to see how men to-day
labored with the same tools, dressed
in the same way, had much the same
simple wants to satisfy, and the
same home to return to at eventide,
A light was in their faces, and q
smile on their lips, for they toiled for
honest bread at honest prices, and
their master was a friend.
That evening I heard a boys voice,
and saw a boys hand thrust through
the tent where we sat. Mr.. Petrie
cut a piece of soap in two, and gave
the lad halt, saying, quietly:
II find there's nothing like soap for
sore heads"
Soon another voice piped in the
darkness, and the same knife now
dived into a pot Of ointment, and
spread some carefully on q bruised
face.
Presently, with a low salaam, a
dusky man with an ache in his dusky
stomach applied for cure. The paraf-
fine lamp was kindled, a cup Of cof-
fee was made, and a spoonful of pep
per stirred therein. The poor fellow
swallowedit with a gurgle, and turned
to go.
MAY God increase your goods ex-
ceedingly!" were the words Of thanks.
And the grateful ones went back to
their reed huts, their bournouses and
sandy beds for the night.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
A summer Drink for workers,

Withthe advent of the hot summer
days the old discussion as to the best
drink for sustaining the energies of
laborcrs under prolonged effort in the
open air has been revived. Farmers
and other employees have for a long
time pinned their faith to beer as q
beverage for their workmen, but oat-
meal has for the last few years been
rapidly growing in favor, and appar-
emily with Just cause.
A strong support to the advocates
of oatmeal has beengiven by a recent
experience on the occasion of the on
version Of the broad guage which has
been retained so doegedly by the
Great Western Railway Company in
England to the narrow gauge now
adopted universally in that country.
The conversion had to be effected
with the utmost dispatch, and the
length of line to be transformed was
over 200 miles. Five thousand men
worked two successive days of seven.
teen hours each, with only short in
tervals for meals Throughout this
exceptional strain nothing but pat
meal water was imbibed by the la.
borers, and its refreshing, thirst
quenching and sustaining power was
~unreservedly admitted.
Another valuable piece of testi.
mony to the merit Of this modern
rival Of beer is the fact that many
cricket clubs have adopted oatmeal
water as the regulation tipple Of their
active members while a match is be.
ing played. It is found that men
play better cricket and an infinitely
better game than where beer was
thought to be the only thing that q
cricketer ought to drink, with the
advantage of no undesirable reaction.
The method of manufacture is sim.
pie. Put a liberal lump Of ice into q
pail with a few handfuls of oatmeal;
all up with water, add the Juice of q
lemon and q little sugar, only just
enough to give interest to the decoc-
tion, and the result lie q drink that
any man will be grateful for on q
sweltering dog day.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23

niture and costumes of the Swedish
people 500 years ago and down the
centuries since then will be shown il
proper succession. In order to secure
space for this comprehensive exhibi.
tion the Swedish Commissioners sur
rendered spaces allotted to them in
the Manufacturing, Mining and Lib.
eral Arts Buildings. Sweden will
make no exhibit in the Fisheries De.
partment, but her neighbor. Norway,
will make up for the omission. Swe-
den, will, however, make fine agricul.
tural and dairy exhibits, paying spe.
cial attention to the latter.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23

A PuaIL1sT named Bendoff, who
was recently in San Francisco, ar.
rived in Liverpool, England, recent
ly. Soon after his arrival he had a
quarrel with a sal%oon-keeper and
stabbed the man in the neck. Three
days later he was sentenced to six
years imprisonment. Here, after
several months delay, he would have
been convicted of a simple assault
and fined about 800, had he not been
able to FIX" the case in the mean.
time. But then if we were as speedy
here as they are in England and Aus.
tralia, with the trial Of criminals,
flve-sixths of our lawyers would have
to take a shovel and go to work at
50 a day.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23

THIRTY-FIvE years ago there were.
no colleges for women In the United;
States, and seminaries even were
scarce. To-day there are 40, 900 girls
taking college courses, with studies.
as advanced as those of the most IA.
vored Of the male seq. More than.
that, the girls, as a rule, are carrying
of the class honors in the colleges to
which they have been admitted.
While Uncle Sam has no reason yet
to be ashamed of his boys, he can.
we'll be proud Of the recapdA hts girls
are making.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
..It's Buslness. DON'T You Know.r

It was a patented article, and
seemed to have a fairly good sale, but
the manufacturer was troubled.
Il don't seem to be able to keep
them up to the standa,d.~ he eI-
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
Worry Interetting.

1t is interesting to learn that we
live a distance of only twenty trillion
miles from the nearest of the so-called
ahxed" stars.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23

DOES . man with . plain shirt DO.
0ea present an unrufiNd frontp
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-23
IDEAS FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

Striking Devices In Uniforms 70 ne seen
Between Now and November.
A few novelties in campaign uni
forms and procession devices have al
ready been originated. One of the
most striking is the arch torch,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1892-12-09

Representative Scott wike. Of Illinois
In reply to an inquiry as to the probability
of an extra session Of the house. said:
1T depends upon the work Of this sexiou.
II ii should so ahead and pass a reyanae
bill that would increase the receipts from
imports to meet the deficiency in the treas
ury there would be no need Of an ertrs
session
But am not prepared TO say what ;hii
congress will do know what would dc
II ! had full power / woald pass an in
come iax hill- had such bin in the las:
house, but am not sure that will ozIl il III
again this session. In 1866 this govern.
uaent raised 81. 90. 900 ot revenue from an
income tai, and over half that amount
came from incomes Of over 5000. Nv idea
OF an income tax would practically exempt
the masses. as ! would not tax iucomes
below $500. The great objection 10 the
income tax is that il is inquisitorial. Bu.
to me it seems not more so than the ordi-
nary state tax
Il Ike the income tax system Of England,
which has been in vogue for sfty-ons
years and is a success. In England the
manner Of levying this tax on corporations
is to frs, collect IL from the net earnings Of
the company before any dividends are de-
eiared and let the company. in turn, appor
tion the tax among tho stockholders.
Under an income tax law such as |
would levy, there would Be no multi
millionaires in this country. Under a
graduated income tax I would raise the
levy so high on large incomes thai it would
be practically impossible for a man to
acquire more than million dollars worth
of wealth at the outside
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1892-12-09

Il vas lawyer, and coe of the forenos {
in his profession, WIN believed that the world
would be better on II no laws existed 10 CON-
pei people to pay their debts. Nor much
credit la some cases would be given under
such rule; but ir the cases where credi,
would be refused |, probobly does neither the
creditor nor the borrower any good. Indeed,
1t takes an exceedingly smart man to borrow
at legal rates and make anything by It.
Usually men who might make by borro wing
are smart enough not to need ii. On the
other hand, he must be a smart man 10 many
localities who knows how togive credit with
out being the victim of his confidence in hu
man nature. The lending par, is easy enough
Getting money back. let alone interest. is
the trouble. In terest rates are doubtless too
high. It was 4 remark Of shrewd business
man when money vac at seven p>r cent. in
terest that he made more money lending a,
four or at Eve per cent. than at higher rates.
The latter were counterbalsnced by losses
OF the principal, so that IN the end they were
less profitable than the safer loans at the
lower rates Of interest
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1892-12-09

Some people can see farther into the flu
ture than others. Editor Mowion. of the
DAILY San of Attleborn Mas. the leading
Republican newspaper of Bristol County, has
created CONSERVATION in bis party's ranks by
editorially asserting that the G o Is as dead
as door nail. and that all attempts to resur-
rect it will prove futile.
He has been a life long Republican, an ex-
treme partisan. and has always stood high in
the confidence Of the party leaders, who OF
ten sought his counsel.
He protested vigorously against the nomi-
nations of both Harrison and Halle, but af-
forwards supported them loyalty. Now he
Is pouring brine into the wounds of the par
ty leaders by daily reminding them that he
'eold them So"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1892-12-09
RESTRICTING IMHre RATION.

The senate committee on immigration
OF which Senator Chandler, Of New Hamp.
shire, Is chairman, is now in session in
New York for consultation upon the i'm.
portant subject Of restricting immigration
Senator Chandler has declared himself in
favor OF adding to the present restrictions
excluding paupers, criminals and the
defective classes the exclusion Of those who
cannot read and write as well as those who
nave not money enough to support them
selves for reasonable period. He winds
up his interview with an intimation that
an absolute suspension o. all immigration
Tor period of five or more years would be
good thing for all concerned.
whether or MT the public agree with all
or any OF Senator Chandler's specific reg
concentrations it Is apparent to everybody
that some restriction upon immigration i
necessary. The present laws are very
loosely constructed and are far from rigidly
enforced. II new Legislation is to be passed
and there is certainly need for some. its
mot important feature should be that
which relates to its enforcement. Under
existing law paupers and criminals are not
entirely excluded and if the ignorant and
those who are compelled to spend all their
money for passage ara to be added 10 the
list the machinery for enforcing the law
certainly needs reinforcement.
No one will deny that more restriction Is
needed, and while few are ready to follow
Mr. Chandler in bis deGnand for an absolute
suspension OF immigration for a long
period. the subject shoald be given careful
consideration with view to putting no
The bars against large class Of those now
hooking to CUR shores. We are not suffer
ing any longer for somebody TO occupy IN
settled lands; we seem to hare as MANY
'aborers as are necessary TO do our work.
and the time has certainly arrived when
not only can we afford to exercise discrimi-
nation in this matter, but when it aas be-
come essential tina. we do 50 in the interest
II the general welfare. Whatever is done. |
however. should be done from the public |
md not from tae partisan standpoint, and |
ms, II Is TO be feared. will be the most
iifhcuit part Of the undertaking.
The senate committee has very properly
zone to New York. the principal port Of
'ntry for foreign immigrants. to study this
'rohlen- its members can there make
'erAonai observations upon the working Of
'zisting law and its defects. both in what
!. includes as ~ell as in manner os.snforce-
nent- The COMMITTEES should be able 10
ecare information Ia this way that can be
'mbodied in effective additions TO our i'm
migration code.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1892-12-09

Parker Bros, groccrs.
2. M. French keeps railroad tims
Buy yonr groceries OF Parker Bros
Fiae groceries at Conn & Hendricaoas.
LAtes. sheet music =. wnl & Links.
Kew cream cheese just received at Conrad
Meyers.
p ] Smiley job printer, Finn BlocS. doe.
irst class work.
Smoke the celebrated Havana filisd S cen:
cigar st Julias Jossphs.
Dr. NJ II Ellis. physicazn and .arveon
Albany, osexo7. Calls suais n cit, or
country.
With his nav bakery C,arad Msy
able 10 oisr old Il nsw Customers sv
thing firstclass ia baked soodI.