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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
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book, he suggests that the little people
now and then write, ut the d~ictation of
the teacher, the first letter of each note,
and when the tune is thus completed,
sing it from their papers. This is n drill
in scale sounds, is an exercise in letter
formation, allows one book to serve a
room. and adds the spice of chance to a
general sameness."
He further adds: THE trouble has
been hitherto hat the ability to write
down musical thought has been consid-
cred almost an impossibility, except by
the musical genius. The writing of mu-
sic should begin with the writing of
words, then the ability to sing from
notes would advance side by side with
the ability to read words. For instance,
n child could easily be made to UNDER
stand that the lowest line in Aey E or E
flat represents the first sound of the
scale, and that all notes upon that line
are called DO in either of those keys,
and all notes in the lowest space repre-
sent RE, the second sound of the scale,
and all notes close under the lowest line
represent I'll, the seventh sound of the
scale. Thus:
"Then, if two other notes be added to
those already used, the tune may be fur
Their continued:
with these five notes learned, an al
most endless number of little tunes and
exercises could be written. / will give
one familiar example:
A recent visit to a representative
school revealed crcditable work then
going On in music as in other things. In
the second primary u bright teacher
greeted the visitor with this apology:
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

AN excellent idea has been recently
put into practice 10y a drug firm in
Birmingham, England. On every
bottle or package of poison sold by
the firm a label is pasted, ON which
are printed directions as to the anti
dote which should be employed in
case the poison is taken by human
beings accidentally. This is perhaps
an even better plan than that said to
have been adopted in a newly opened
Western drug store of giving a dog
with every prescription filled.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
DESIGNS on Glass.

So-called diamond ink for writing
on glass is a compound of f1uoric acid
and barium; the latter has no effect,
it being simply a white powder to
give body to the acid. The ink can
be used with a rubber hand-stamp,
and it should be allowed to remain
fifteen minutes, when the barium
will brush off, leaving the design on
the glass.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
He Was Frugal

A man bought a loaf of bread of a
Lewiston baker, says the Journal,
and finding he could not eat it all up
he brought back part of it the second
day and asked to have it exchanged
for hot biscuits. "If that don't beat
ALL" remarked the baker, land the
man has much of this worlds goods,
too" The baker wasn't soft enough
to exchange.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Snakcs.

~ novel use of electricity has been
made in India for the prevention of
the intrusion of snakes into dwell
ings. Before all the doors and around
the house two wires are laid, con-
nected with an induction apparatus.
Should a snake attempt to crawl over
the wires he receives a shock of cleo
tricity which either kills him or
frightcns him into a hasty retreat.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
The bamboo Tree.

The bamboo tree does not blossom
until it attains its thirtieth year,
when it produces seed profusely, and
then dies. 1t is said that a famine
was prevented in India in 1912 by the
sudden Towering of the bamboo trees,
fifty thousand people resorting to the
jungles to gather the seed for food.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
butterfly Bath.

Australian butterflies bathe. One
will alight close to the water, into.
which it backs until the whole Of the
body is submerged, the fore legs alone
retaining their hold on dry land. In
a moment it will fly away, apparently
refreshed.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Missing Birds.

Ten species of North American
birds are put down by the ornitholo-
gists as missing" OF these, two
the great aux and the Labrador duck
are believed to have become extinct
within the memory Of living men.
Perhaps representatives of the other
eight will yet be found. Most of
them are very diminutive.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Deem Buried Relics.

AStockton we'll borer recently found
the tooth of an animal at a depth of
1,124 feet. 1t resembles the tooth of
a monkey. Another tooth, apparent
ly that of a herbaceous animal, was
found at a depth of 900 feet.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

AN ~east-end school in London re-
ports that 200 pupils come there
without breakfast and without any
prospect OF dinner or supper. In the
name Of the distinguished DIR. Tan
ncr, we would like to know how long
this thing has been going on.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
The Pesky Thing.

\ A dime fell down behind one of the
bolts in the big safety vaults Of the
City National Bank of Plainfleld,
N. j.. the other night, when it was
locked, and the vault could not be
opened the next morning. Two ex-
pert safe-openers from New York
worked twelve hours before the doors
could be opened. and had to cut a big
hole in one of them.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Nature's ~Photography.

A young man at Warren, Ohio.
took refuge under a tree during :
thunderstorm. The tree was struck
by lightning, and he. was killed.
When his clothes were removed exact
images of the branches and leaves
of the tree were found pictured on
his breast and other parts of his
body with the minuteness of the pho
tOgraph.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

KEEN observers are now stating
their belief that Belgium will be the
future battle-ground between France
and Germany: and that England is so
convinced of this that she will not
much longer guarantee Belgium's
neutrality. Germany's influence is
visible everywhere in the little king
dom, and it looks as if the Germans
meant to continue their usual tactics
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

The far West will furnish the
golden nail with which to complete
the Woman's Building, and Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer has agreed to let the
women of Nebraska furnish the ham
mer. But she yields nothing of her
heroic purpose to supply herself the
tinger-nail to be sacrificed.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Queer Things the Jan. Believe.

The japanese believe in more
mythical creatures than any other
people on the globe, civilized or saw
age. Among them arc mythical ami
mails "ithout any remarkable pecul-
iarities of conformation, but gifted
with supernatural attributes: such
as a tiger which is said to live to be
1000 years old and to turn as white
q; a polar bear.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

of attacking first, By walks. INTO
Belgium some fine morning and leav-
ing to France the d~isagYeeable and
arduoas task of getting them out
again. And it is the universal belief
that something of this sort will hap
pen this year. The field of Waterloo
may yet see new battles.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

MANY men have known what it is
to be responsible for the acts of wife
and children, but it is carrying the
law to the extreme when a man is
held responsible for his dog, as has
been a Philadelphia. The dog stole
a pair of boots and a sled. CARRYING
them home, and now his owner is to
be held responsible for the theft.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

A CONVICT in Nebraska, whose
term of service has just expired, has
just received notice from the court
that 81 new trial" will be granted
him. The Nebraska courts are nearly
as brisk as the courts of Chill.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

THE Virginia house of delegates is
considering Il measure ITO tax dogs at
their true value, non to be assessed
at less than So" The true value of
dogs in Virginia seems to be pretty
tolerably high.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

THERE is one American who has
discovered a system which will in
fallibly enable him 10 beat the Monte
Carlo game. He Won 1910. 600 there
the other day by pure luck, and his
system was manifested when he took
the first steamer for home.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

A RECENT musical criticism states
that the composer "made an effort to
portray nature in Il chrysalis state"
This attempt to open the dark secret
with a tuning fork might lie consid-
cred Il daring innovation in melodic
realism,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

SocKLEss Jerry Simpson has dem
onstratcd the fact that his flow of
language is as natural as the tum-
bling waters of Niagara and as pictur-
csque as the widest stretches of Al
pine scenery.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

To FIND fault, someone may say, is
easy, and i'm every man'S power: but
to point out the proper course ia be
pursued i'm the present circumstances.
that is the proof of Il wise counselor.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

OMN11oTENcE alone can weigh in
the balance the thousands of circum-
stances which induce an average jury
to err in a vast majority of cases. To
err lis human, but with twelve hui
mans together to err approXimates Il
sure thing.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

WHEN a man begins to spell Truth
with Il big II it is one Indication that
he is developing into an agnostic, a
faith doctor, Il misogynist, or some
thing else foolish.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

TIE people not only eat too much
but they eat too fast. Limit the
amount you usually eat to one-half.
and then take twice as long to eat it,
and you will notice a very marked
Improvement in your health.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

JAMES MCDONALD is a name sug-
gcstive of good Scotch common-sense,
and the record made by it's possessor
in the accumulation of this worlds
goods would seem part proof, at
least, that he had his share of intel
ligence in some lines. But the eau
tion of the immortal Weller, ST., to
@bevarc of the vidders" had for james
no wholesome restraint, and he is
now squirming under the smart of
paying 81, 800 to repair the lacerated
feelings of a couple of buXom relicts.
MI. Mcdonald is a well-to-do farmer
near Logansport, Ind, and after
thirteen months of sincere mourning
for his wife, began to spruce up
again. He was a jolly old fellow
naturally, and Mrs. Briggs
consented to sail the remainder
of lifc's voyage with him, and
share the comforts of his substan-
tial home. But the fclicitous dream
of the lady was dispelled by the in
terfcrcnce of Mrs. johnson. who also
"a by nature made a widow, and
who vas the posscssor of a comely
figure, Il facilc pen, an incumbrance
in the person of a %14-year-old boy
and a modest millinery store in Peru.
She had heard of james, his broad
acres. his snug bank account, and his
dissatisfaction with his lonely condi-
tion, and she wrote a very ingenious
ly enticing anonymous note to him.
Then the trouble began. A latent
spirit of vanity was aroused. and from
a staid old widower of 63, with a
respectable alliance nearly formed,
Mr.. Mcdonald became as frisky as
any youngster. He SO tri1ed with the
affection of Mrs. Briggs, and at the
same time so aroused that lady's
rather peppery temper, that
the engagement was broken off
and $500 was transferred from
the faithless swain's plethoric
purse to that of the hcart-broken
widow. Then all seemed clear sail
ing. The suit with Mrs. johnson
Don arrived at a point where MOTH
ing remained but the words of a min
lister to again restore to the CON-
munity a Mr.. and Mrs. James Nc
Donald. But Notwithstanding the
fact that a former experience should
have given each all the f1nesse neces-
sary to the successful contamination
of their plans, the course of true
love did not run smoothly. James
conceived the idea that Mrs. johnson
wanted him only for his money. She
became convinced that he was trifling
with her. And as a result an amused
and interested public was entertained
for a week by a racy breach of prom
Use suit at Logansport. Love letters
galore were read in open court, and
they proved that James was not only
an ardent wooer but a master of the
art of polite correspondence as we'll.
He set up in his defense that his
crstwhile charmcr had a temper in
compatible with his own: but a
sympathetic jury, influenced perhaps
by the pitiful spectacle of the help
lessness of the aforesaid ~14-year-old
incumbrance, concluded that $1,000
was about the right compensation,
and so awarded. Thus was again
portrayed the experience of Mr.. Pick.
wick and Mrs. Bardell.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

WHEN people get married, their
troubles do not arise from the fact
that they do not get along we'll to-
gether. In nine cases out of ten,
their kin comes to live with them.
and that makes the trouble. Half
the divorces in the world are caused
by too much kin.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

SPAIN has no money to pay for an
exhibit at the Columbian Exposition.
Has the present Queen Isabella no
jewels to pawn?
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
always begin ct the beginning. It's

always begin ct the beginning. It's
safe, you know"
One can but reject row undermining
It would be to tho public school system
ii shs and ether teachers OF grammar
grades were to begin at the beginning
with all the branches of their work. The
pleasantly guarded statement seemed 10
go to prove what some strongly assert
that music is not graded and not taught
In schools as systematically as are ether
studies, AMI as it will te-must be-
sooner o. later. 1t is not conte nded
that, even with superlative training,
every child Il learn to soar like q
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

The doctrine of infant damnation
has been eliminated from the West
minister confession, but still fingers
in the sleeping-car with a crying baby
lhnarl.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
B%ridgeport's spook.

Bridgeport, Conn.,, has a ghost in
the shape of a dark man of gigantic
stature in shirt sleeves who carries q
pistol.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
But We Don't Get Any.

The best isinglass dissolyes COM
pletely in hot water, leaving no visiS
BILE residuum.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

THE tongue is an unruly member.
and there are three thousand lan-
guages in the world to sass back in.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
A Wise Precautio

"A Wise ~PrecautiOn.
Never set coal oil near butter or
lard.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

ROUGH ON rats-A walking dele
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

Paragraphs by the Commentator.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21

There lives, or did quite recently, near
Columbia, S. c., woman afflicted in a
manner that makes ones flesh creep to
think of it. For more than the third of
century she has carried live snake
under the skin of one of her arms. How
the reptile first found lodgment in its
queer situation is as much of puzzle TO
the old lady rs it is to the hundreds who
have visited her for the purpose of view
ing the long welt where the unwelcome
creature lies encysted
When the lady first noticed the bow
shaped ridge on her arm it was of about
the diameter of pin, and less than two
inches in length. During the many
years that it has safely nestled in her
flesh it has grown from q mere thread to
a snake foot long and ms large as a
lead pencil. The eyes of the creature
are plainly visible through the skin, and
the scales can be felt by rubbing the
finger along the welt formed by its body.
Physicians pronounce it most re-
markable freak, and have endeavored,
without success, to prevail upon the old
lady to have it removed. philadelphia
Press
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21
The Localities of <he Birds.

All our permanent residents among
the birds, both large and small, are COM
paratively limited in their ranges. The
crow is nearly as local as the wood
chuck. He goes farther from home in
quest of food, but his territory is well
defined, both winter and summer. His
place of roosting remains the same year
after year. Once, while spending few
days at mountain lake nearly sur
rounded by deep woods, my attention
was attracted each night, just at sun
down, by an osprey that always came
from the same direction, dipped into the
lake as he passed over it for sip of its
pure water and disappeared in the woods
beyond.
The routine of his life was probably
as marked as that Of any of ours, He
fished the waters of the Delaware all
day, probably never going beyond Ger.
tain limit, and returned each night al
sundown, as punctual as day laborer,
to his retreat in the forest. The sip OF
water, too, from the lake he never failed
to take.
All the facts we possess in regard tc
the habits Of the song birds in this re
spect point to the conclusion that the
same individuals return to the same To-
calities year after year to nest and tC
rear their young.-John Burroughs in
Century.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21
suocesfu, conr.,nr Amid plmcu,,,e..


For the past two years life has been
unpleasant for DR.. William Aestis.
George Thorpe and the doctors Gaugh-
ter.
Thorpe persisted in calling ON the girl
he loved, and every time he and the
irate father met fight ensued, and each
has spent $l00 or more in the courts.
For some time past Thorpe and Aestis
threatened to shoot each other, and the
community expected duel. 1t has just
now developed that Georges is the victor.
and two weeks since Mt Marion Miss
Aestis became Mrs. Thorpe. That part
seemed not so hard as breaking the news
to papa.
When the pleading daughter related
the circumstance she was made happy
by the father insuiing his blessing in
the future to both, and he now prides
himself in having son-in-law who
could WOO his daughter under such try
ing circumstances indianapolis
Sentinel.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21
The Mcnninr of EIunders.

Examining into the matter of blum
ders, particularly in tracing the course
of the mistakes, well meant" in our
own lives. when we look back upon
them with the cooler understanding of
later years we are constrained to con-
fess that the mistake" must have been
intended to be there. as well as the cor
rect action. because the plan of our de-
velopment has included both. Continu-
ing to study clearly and deeply we must
acknowledge that the mistakes and er-
rors-nay, the very sins-when forsaken
and forgiven, have helped the soul up
ward; that all have worked together to
accomplish the result sought; that they
must have been put there and meant so
to be, and so that our "blunders" We're
not blunders at all, but although we
sowed and watered often amiss there
was always some increase given which
achieved the good we aimed at, but
failed to reach.
And deepest of all we see that the
divine love, which saw the end from the
beginning, bore with tender compass
sion to look upon our struggles. our
weeping, our disheartened sighs All,
infinitely greater it is, but like to the
love we bear our own children, which is
so deep and true that we endure to treat
them harshly, and with seeming cruelty
behold their tears, knowing surely that
one day they will comprehend all the
kindness. Bazar.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21

One of our swell coach owners sits on
his box seat, with tan cloth robe
buckled across his aristocratic waist and
tucked carefully about his high bred
loins. A Spanish gentleman says, HE
looks as If he were a-and had on a
what is it you would say?" do you
mean shoemaber's leather upronT' |
queried. "Yes, yes: | could not think
the name. but could see it so plain. !"
II is hideously English in effect, but
yet when one carries the lines Of q four
INLAND. one has no leisure to keep lap
robes well tucked in. Cor. Boston
Transcript
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21

Very few people get IL life insurance
as quickly rs the late Jabez A. Bost-
wick. He left large fortune and had
so great an interest in speculation that
he purchased seat on the New York
stock exchange in order 20 save COM
missions. He was the very first man
out of the LOO members to die after
joining, and is probably the only MEM
Der of the exchange who died holding a
seat upon which he had not paid IA sim
gle death assessment. His purchase
paid the estate $40 600 in a single week
New York Letter
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21

No stronger evidence of the safety of
electric lighting installations can be
afforded than the fact that great many
explosives factories are now being lit by
electricity. 1t is obvious that in building
where the preparation of inflammable
or highly explosive substances is carried
on very special care should be taken in
,rder TO avoid even the smallest risk,
and powder manufacturers now find
that the electric light adds u consider
able percentage over gas to the chances
of safe operation. While electricity in
creases the safety of this branch of in
dustry in one way 1t lessons it in an
other. There is a great deal of free cleo
tricity thrown off in various stages Of
manufacture, and the disposition of this,
so far rs 1t can be removed out of harms
way, is serious question
The charge Of n powder cake press
with ebonite plates may practically be
considered as an electric pile, and a
large amount of friction or electric in
fluence from outside may cause suffi-
cient electric charge to give off sparks
Several undisputed cases Of this kind
have been known. Another source of
danger from friction occurs during the
glazing, rounding and sieving of gun
powder. The powder is subjected to a
constant rubbing of its particles against
each other and during the glazing es-
pecially there is danger of electricity ac-
cumulating.
Therefore precautions should be taken
in order to convey away any charge that
may accumulate in the glazing barrels.
New York Telegram.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21

A good many old housewives still re-
main their own weather prophets, and
as a consequence one Of the most popular
of familiar weather sayings is, "When
rheumatic people complain Of more than
ordinary pains in their joints, it will
rain" Another homemade barometer
is the tender corn OF sensitive TOOTH
Philadelphia Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21

Before taking your next outing on the
Jhore or in the woods provide yourself
with bottle of pennyroyal extract. Do
not hesitate to rub it plentifully over
the face, neck, hands and any exposed
part of the body. Even the most de-
termined mosquito will avoid the neigh
borhood abundantly scented with penny
royal,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21

tits singular fact that although last
year enormous fields of ice had begun
10 invade the so called steamer lanes"
Of the Atlantic at the ol,ning Of spring,
there has been comparatively little ice
his year.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21

A Pittsburg justice decides that it is
legal for any householder, from his own
premises, tc throw water upon IN organ
grinder who refuses 40 move on.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21

4 FULL STOCK Of goods In our
line dlCdys on hand. Highest
market price pdid for country
produce.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-21
nlur Enough There.

do you want to see the Artists
blufr asked the White Mountain guide.
mo; ! 80 to all the art galleries at
home, aaid the matter of fact touriat.--
Donton Ikonscripf.