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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18
Cremation In America.

The advocates of cremation have
In their favor some strong arguments.
They shy the mandate that "dust
shall return to dust" is irrevOcable,
and its fulfilment is inevitable; that
we can in no way prevent it; we may
Ohstruct or we may assist, and reason
dictates the latter course. Since the
longer the process is delayed the
greater is the danger to the health of
the living, cremation is a heneflcent
institution. Its growth in Europe
has been surprising, and in Italy
there are large numbers of crema-
tories, and in this country the preju-
dice against the movement is de-
creasing. 1t is only eleven years
since the formation OF the New York
Cremation Society, the first institu-
tion of the kind in the United States,
and not until the year 1886 was the
first operative crcmatory inaugu-
rated, yet there are now in various
parts of the States nearly Il score OF
these incineratOrs in more or less
continuous service. The number of
cremations which have been con-
Quoted each year in one of these
temples in Buffalo gives fair idea of
the progress which the sentiment i'm
favor of this method is making.
During 1856 eight bodies were incin-
Grated, and in each successive year to
the end of 1891 the numbers were re-
spectively, Ia, l6, 23, 80 and 81. In
this temple everything possible has
been done to mitigate the sadness of
the last ritual. The temple is built
of dark-brown sandstone. and it's
square tower and deep slanting roof
are covered with ivy and surrounded
by sloping lawns. The chancel and
nave are artistically carved and dec
Grated and the windows are of rich-
stained glass. The incineration takes
place privately after the funeral SER
vice, and the ashes are delivered to
the undertaken to be disposed of as
the family may direct, or they may
he left at the crematory. A society
formed after the organization of the
pioneer society has reduced to ashes
since the year 1885 upward of $50
bodies. The process as carried out at
one of their principal temples is as
follows: The furnace is of fire brick
throughout and separated into two
distinct but similar compartments.
The body is placed in a chamber di-
rectly above that in which the fuel
is consumed. The bottoms of the
retorts are solid, but the sides and
ends are pierced with holes, through
which the heated air of the furnace
has direct access to the body, while
the flames are not permitted to APP
proach it. The heat of the retort
soon libertcs everything volatile i'm
the body and these emanations are
conducted through another highly
heated chamber, and thus rendered
odorlcss and absolutely innocuous be-
fore they pass through the chimney
which forms their means of egrcss
to the air The time taken up in re-
ducins IL body to ashes depends some-
what upon the size and condition of
the person when alive. In this fur
/, mace it is about two hours: i'm many
Others it is Il little over an hour.
The fuel used is coal, and in five OF
six hours from the starving of the:
j fires a temperature of from 1000 de-
grces to $500 degrees Fahrenheit can
he obtained.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18


TIE increase in our exports OF
pork and hog products, for the ten
months ending June 80, is seen by
the following table which gives tho
figures of our exports to the three
countries in which the resembling od
the prohibition had been operative for
ten months, for that period of this
year as compared with the same
period of the previous year:
penm.rss ssSs,s sssi 1s,ss, 1ss,; In0rssss ,s,;s.
Germany. s.3s2o9O 6siS.ase 2,o2s.os
Italy......... lsl.a0s iosSeS 24,Sii
In Austria Hungary the decree re-
scinding the prohibition of the inn
portation of American pork had been
in operation for seven months, in
France but six months and in Spain
one month. While the figures show
a goodly increase, it is also plainly to
be seen that the prejudices of the
people against American pork must
be overcome by time. As they see
that no harm comes from using our
pork, the demand will increase.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

THERE is also news from Minne-
sofa which is likely to till the Demo-
cratic heart with sorrow, though it
comes from Republican source.
Labor Commissioner Powers has just
sent out his official report for the
year, and it shows that the farmers
of that State are prospering as they
have never done before. This is sthe
most unkindcst cut of all, for upon
the ruin of the farmers, and especial
ly of those of the West. has the
Democratic party stalSed its last hope
of success.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

TIE Canadian press seem to think
President Harrison's retaliation proc
lamation was a snub to Mr.. Glad
stone, and they are rather disgusted
because the British lion doesn't growl.
The royal beast would probably wave
its name and growl a little, but it
remembers the Bcring Sea modus
vivendi incident and knows that
growing will not frighten our present
chief executive.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

NEW JERSEY is about the only
Northern State that the Cleveland
ties can now really hope to carry.
And even that hope is based on the
fact that in the darkest days of the
civil war New Jersey kept voting the
Democratic ticket, while sending the
bravest troops the world ever saw to
the front. But New Jersey is grc W.
ing more and more enlightened, and
she will probably cast her vote for
Harrison this year. "A good many of
her ablest ballot-box suffers arc now
in prison.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

TIE Chicago organ of prohibition
publishes in its last issue, without
dissent and with apparent approval,
what the New York Wine and Spirit
Gazette says about Bidwell's candi-
dacy, namely, that it @has but one
object-the defeat of the Republican
nominee" That was also true of
ST. Johns and Fisk's candidates. in
1884 and 1888. Fortunately Mr.. Bid
we'll is not likely to be more success
full herein than General Fisk was
four years ago.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18
Demanded to l.e vaccinatcd.

A good story is going the rounds q,
Constantinoplc that the annual vac
cination of the inmates of the harem
of the Sultan during the fast of Ram
adam was omitted this year from mo-
tives of economy, as each victim was
usually paid 1000 or 1000 francs for
going through the ordeal. The re-
suit was a row of such tremendous
prol Ortions that the Sultan had to
surrender.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18
Hot as satan's Home.

The residents of Cartersvillc, Mo-,
became somewhat alarmed and unus-
ually pious Il few days ago OH discov.
aring that the ore i'm Il zinc mine
thercabouts, at a depth of eighty-ti
feet, proved so hot that it could not
be handled without thick gloves.
They thought that Satan had sud
denly changed his abode and moved
his heating apparatus unplcasantly
near Cartcrsyille.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

I'VE killed great many Yankees
during the war, and wish we had
killed twice as many more. Elk
tract from 1880 campaign speech of
Gen. Field, Peoples party candidate
for Vice President
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18
COMMERCIAL : GAZETTE:

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE: General
Field, the Vice Presidential candi-
date of the "Populites," says he does
not remember having. said he was
sorry he had not killed more
Yankees, but them's his sentiments.
His sentiments do not seem to have
been very antagonistic to the tail
end of the Democratic ticket.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

Candidate Stevenson in Indiana havs
failed dismally. Stevenson's plan to
make a spectacular campaign by ex-
hibiting not only Mr.. Gray's scalp,
but also the finc old gentleman from
whose head he lifted it, was we'll
conceived, but it is fatally defective
In execution,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

The Democrats cannot colonize
Indiana this year from the South, as
they did in 1884 and 1888. The
Bourbons have all they can do at
home to hold their States out of the
hands of the Populists and Republi-
cans. Thus the Democratic vote in
the Hoosier State will not be as large
as some Democrats have expected.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

Mr.. CLEVELAND has made a bad
break in beginning to explain his ve-
toes. If he tries that he will find
time for nothing else between this
and November. Worse still. the
more he xplains the workings of his
veto machine the less the people are
likely to care to experiment with it
AGAIN.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

sands OF other Democrats the Demo-
cratic candidates believe the average
soldier shouldered his musket for the
money there was in it," and that hav
ing once been paid the nations debt to
its soldiers has been cancelled
The mastering of this vast host, the
marches to the battlefields, the fierce
engagements, the frightful calm that
falls like pail upon the scenes of
bloody carnage, the widespread sorrow
and ai1iiction that followed never seem
to have commanded their attention, oc-
cupied their minds nor thrilled their
souls. No utterance, public or private,
has ever been preserved to Indicate
that either Cleveland or Stevenson ever
thought of those dead heroes SO sympa-
thetically referred to by the great Re-
publican orator.
There Is growing undercurrent Of
belief that il Grover Cleveland is elect
ed he will recommend and succeed in
securing legislation that will repeal
some OF the present pension laws, and
prevent all further legislation favora BILE
to the Union soldier. All Democrats,
when not talking for publication, talk
this way. All Democratic statesmen
give grudgingly and quibble over the
annual expenditures for pensions. And
yet, ignoring entirely the sentimental
side of this question, the present pension
rolls. when all facts are considered, are
of comparatively small moment to u ma
ton as rich and prosperous as the United
States.
The pull lie debt has been almost wiped
out and the interest on our bonds has
been faithfully paid. That was legal
and righteous debt to those who loaned
freely their money in the dark and
doubtful days of civil war and its at
iendant uncertainties. From nearly
$l4l, 900 in 1861, the annual amol MT
paid to those who held the bonds of the
United States has dwindled to S37, $780,
600 in 1891. No soldier, no patriot, has
ever raised his voice against the dis
charge of this debt.
But is the debt to those who lost their
lives or who We're wounded or MANNED,
or who contracted disease by which
their usefulness has been impaired and
their days shortened, any less sacred,
less binding or less important to MAIN
tain the integrity of the Government?
In twenty years we have pad nearly
5000, ,O0O. 600 of the principal of our ma
tional debt and So, ,5OO, 900. 900 in inter-
est. During tho same time we have
paid out only 81 ,3CO. .OOO, 900 in pensions,
or trifle more than half the amount
paid In interest on the public debt.
Here are some facts:
PENSIONS AND INTEREST ON THE PUBLIC pEDr.
Year. Amount. CAPITA.
1b1O. ...S1b7, 7,t7j,TW S4.Os
1880. Observation-Disclosures. 152,6N,T49 3y<
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

Tie Michigan Democrats have
nominated one-armed veteran of
the Union army for Governor, and
the party will run the campaign upon
his record instead of it's own. 1t is
misfit nomination of the worst sort.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

The attention of Messrs. whitney.
Harrity and Dickinson, purveyors of
harmony to the Prince of Gray
Gables, is urgently directed to the
fact that neither Peck nor Peck's
figures have as yet been placated.
There is task that will test their
genius.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

The Chicago Herald is trying hard
to make its readers, and possibly it,
self, believe that Grover Cleveland
can in some phenomenal or mysteri-
GUS or supernatural way be elected
President without the vote of New
York
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

The National Executive Commit
tee chosen to manage the Republican
campaign this year is composed of
men who know all about politics, and
who will be quick to tlkc advantage
of every blunder on the part of the
pnamv
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

HISTORY has SO far failed to say
who it was that ordered the first por-
tion of crow at Candidate Cleveland's
dinner, but it is agreed that the big
man himself ate an entire bird dur
ing the meal.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

Tie fusion schemes of the Demo-
Gratis will take more votes away from
their party in the East than it can
possibly gain in the West, and so the
Republicans have nothing to fear
from that source.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

THE short and very effective
speeches made by Mr.. Whitclaw Reid
in his trip to Illinois will cause him
TO be greatly in demand during the
next two months.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

In the opinion of Mr.. Cleveland
the fifteenth amendment to the Con-
stitution sis menace to the pros
pcrity of the South" Then he must
be in favor of its repeal.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

TIE Democrats would be glad to
get the Presidency, even if they have
to throw tho election into the House
to secure it. The Democrats are not
proud this year.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

TIE Bourbon cause in Ohio is hope
less, indeed. Even Ex-Governor
Campbell confesscs the State is to go
for Harrison.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

ThE demand for harvest hands has
been SO imperative in the Western
States as to drive the tramps into
other parts. For time the Ameri-
can nObleman was in imminent
danger of impressment into service.
He made good his escape, however.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

In must he Cleveland realizes he
put his foot i'm it when he wrote that
letter of sympathy for the unhung
Tennessee murderer. King. Else,
why this unaccountable epistolary
dearth2
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

IT is said that Mr.. August Bel,
mont's tomb in Newport is to cost
$50, 900. We do not object: but spg-'
gest that under the item of perpetual
care, some provision be made for rolf
Ing away the stone from the donr
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

Is there really any need for alarm
here? II nation with $4,000, 900 popu-
lation and $40, ,0OO, 900, 900 of wealth was
not bowed down with per capita charge
for pensions and interest on the public
debt OF over 81, is nation Of IS, ,OtIO, 4 LOO
population and $83. 900, 90 COO OF wealth
going headlong into bankruptcy with q
per capita charge for precisely the same
purposes Of trifie over $2.25? The
Press thinks not. All sensible, patri.
otic citizens think not. There should
be no reckless legislation in this direc-
Non. The ordinary safeguards should
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18
Maine Is Republican.

Maine has spoken in no uncertain
tones. The State of Blaine and of Reed
indorses by an emphatic majority the
party of protection, reciprocity, and
honest money, and repudiates the party
OF financial dishonor and free trade.
The introduction of the Austral. an bal
lot for the first time in Maine, and the
fact that in States which are regarded
as safely Republican many thousands
of Republican voters will not 80 TO the
polls except in IL Presidential contest,
have undoubtedly made the Republican
majority much less than it will be in the
Presid, ntial election. The figures,
however. show the utter falsehood of
the Democratic claims that Maine is
wavering in her political allegiance.
The Pine Tree State is Republican, and
will rcmain Republican,. The people of
Maine do not believe in going back to
the Confederate Constitution for their
political principles.
What the M'l<imlcy Bill Has Done.
1t has increased our farm exports by
more than $4,000. 200 through the opcr-
alton of it's reciprocity clauses.
1t has reduced tariff revenues al the
rate of more than $50 900, 900 year.
1t has admitted free goods to the
amount Of $192, 1923, ,143 in excess of the
value Of free goods under the old law.
1t has increased the value Of Ameri.
can exports by S265, 142, ,533 in excess of
the yearly average of the ten years pre-
ceding it.
1t has stimulated home industries.
It has cheapencd nearly all manu-
factured products.
1t has increased wages.
And all this during the past ten
months Of its operation.
A Tariff Picture.
The new fiscal year of 1928 has
started out well for reciprocity. Our
exports to Cuba for July were
- $1,624, ,229
as against $ss4, 1851
for July. ls9l.--New York Press. Z,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18
LETTER, letter, let 'er go, Grover.

SrEvENsoNs speeches in Indiana
will assist Gray's silence in rolling up
hig Republican vote.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

This shows, as the d.rcat result of the
higher duties imposed upon farm prod
ucts lly the Mckinley law, larger mar
ket i'll 1892, measured by $2e, ,l9y,634 on
ley tariff is, above all thing else. a
farmers tariff.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

to look to his reputation in that line.
To show how inpudcnt IL lie it is, the
duties under the old and the Mckinley
law on IL number of articles are quoted
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

ALI efforts to persuade Isaac p.
Gray to.appear on the stump with
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18

not be abolished, but the veterans of
the wax SHOULD be fairly and Justly
treated. The Republican party stands
: uurly OH this issue. and its Presi-
& ns has vetoed no pension for q
wounded soldier or dependent widow.
When in doubt. let tho soldier have the
benefit. A ration with per capt. u
wealth Of Sl,OO0 can afford to pay Sill
per capita Tor pensions to the men who
saved the ln.on. For many years it
paid S3.:i5 per capita to the bondholders
for interest, and now Tor a short time 1T
is tho old soldiers turn.
Halt OF those Who went forth to de-
fend the Union are dead. In June, 1880,
about 1, ,l10,0 . of those wao served dur
ng llle wa o the rebellion were living.
Nearly 500, have died since then. by
the time he last dollar of the national
debt has been paid (19O9) not much
over half IL million of this grand and
patriotic army will be with us. Another
decade VIII cut that number in half,
and m half IL century "a short time in u
nations history, but IL few hundred will
'rnain, and the great army will indeed
slcep in the land they made free. 1t
will matter no. to them whether this
government kept faith or not, but to the
living of to-day and the dependents oi
those already dead it is 81 question Of
! great moment. And for this reason the
vet, rams regard the Republican party as
the soldiers party.-Ncw York Press.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-18
T;lc Farmers TnriH.

A few days since the Indianapolis
Sentinel made the remarkable slate
ment regarding the reciprocity ature
o. the Mckinley law that THE markets
we have made free TO foreigners are
mostly for farm products which enter
into direct competition with the products
of American farms in the much exalted
home market This is, doubtless, the
most impudent falsehood that the Senti-
mel has. to this time, put in print, and
one which may load Senator Voorhees,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-07
TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
An Appeal to tho Scholars to Celebrate
Columbus Day.

An Appeal to the Scholars to Celebrate
Columbus Day.
A message has been issued by the ex.
ecutive committee of the Columbian
Public School Celebration organization
to the scholars of all the public schools
of America, urging them to agitate and
participate in the general celebration of
the twelfth of October, the four hun
dredth anniversary of the discovery of
America, on which day the Columbian
exposition grounds at Chicago will be
dedicated. 1t is the purpose of this Or
ganization to make the thing one grand
general celebration throughout the
land and measures are being adopted to
make the day gala occasion among
the public schools of America. In ref
erence to the matter the message says:
THE public schools of the republic
will form the most fitting centers for all
these local celebrations. A national
public school observance simultaneous
with the Chicago exercises will awaken
popular interest in the coming exposi-
ton. Far more important is the fact
that the public school has the right to
occupy the most prominent place in the
celebration. The public school is the
one characteristic institution which
links all neighborhoods together, and
can thus furnish common bond for a
national celebration. The public school
is the ripe fruit of the four centuries of
American civilization. The public
school of to-day sways the hundred
years to come.
ga programme of exercises will be
furnished by the executive committee.
1t will be simple and adapted to any
school, yet so arranged thnt more elab-
crate exercises may be added wherever
desired. The aim of this official pro-
gramme will be that certain leading ex-
ercises may be the same in every school
in the republic; and that at least in one
feature the Chicago programme and the
school programme may be identical.
''On October 10 the stars and stripes
should be floating from every school
house in the republic. 1t is the hope OF
the friends of common school education
that not one public school in the United
States will allow itself to be left out in
this most memorable celebration.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-07
STATE ExHIRlTs.
One of the Most interesting Features q
the Worlds Fair.


One of the Most Interesting Features of
the Worlds Fair.
To an American one of the most in
LeresLing features of the worlds fair of
1893, as it was also of the centennial ex-
hibition of 1875, will be the exhibit
made of the respective states of the
union. Every state is likely to make
an appropriation to set forth its own
peculiar products, and most of the
states will be represented by special
buildings or pavilions, each of which
will in its construction and in its con-
tents be characteristic of the state
which erects it.
At the centennial exhibition, says the
Youths Companion, thirty-seven states
were represented in one way or another,
for though Colorado was admitted to
the union in 1875, and is therefore called
the centennial state, it was not admit
ted in season to place it among the
states which were represented at Phila-
delphia.
At the worlds fair of 1898 at Chicago
at least forty-four states will be repre-
sented perhaps the number will be
larger.
There is so much diversity among the
states that no two pavilions and no two
exhibits need be alike if each is thor
oughly characteristics of the state.
Though Massachusetts, and Connecticut,
Indiana and Illinois, Oregon and Wash
ington lie side by side there is in each
case considerable difference in many
respects one from the other-a sufficient
difference to be distinctly reflected in an
exhibit.
In respect to products and outward
features the difference between distant
states, as, for instance, between Califor-
MIA and Vermont or between Florida
and Montana, is as great as the differ
ence between England and Egypt, be-
tween Europe and Africa.
It is this diversity of outward fea-
lures and products, joined with an es-
sential likeness of the people, which
constitutes the peculiar strength of the
American union.
We have, in sense, the world within
our borders. In such a land and with a
people undivided in their allegiance to a
single flag patriotism seems indeed a
sentiment easily acquired.