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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
bRck.
How to Fail.

HOW TO E01Is
If the Republicans lie down and take
it easy because of the victories in local
elections in Rhode Island and Jersey
City, it they begin to indulge in wran-
giles for precedence and battles for the
the spOils they are going to win, they
will only make the same ridiculous
!blunder the Democrats have been MAX
ing ever since November, 1890. 1t does
not become Republicans to follow Dem
ocrat!c example in anything. When
the victories of 1880 appeared to insure
Democratic success in a presidential
election, all the factions of that
party at once began Q Kill
kenny cat fight for the nomination
and the control of the party ~oreaniza.
ton. They are at it yet, and mean
while the prospects of the party have
sunk so far that they are hard to zee.
When Republicans all realized that
they had q fierce and doubtful struggle
before them, there was general willing
ness to look out for the party first, and
to let individual ambitions and appe-
ttites wait. But since recent victories
have brought great encouragement,
wrangle about place and rank and the
distribution of the spoils. The thing
for good Republicans to do in every
part Of the country 10 to set foot on this
disposition.
True. Rhode Island mesns nm.
broken and irresistible Republican
ranks in New England. Local electons
in New York and New Jersey mean
that the Democratic party is more
broken and weakened by it's own crimes
than is has been before for many years.
Elections ct the West mean that the
Republicans are stronger there than
they have been ct any time since 1883.
All these things offer . grand oppor.
tunity. There will be needed . pstten,
and exceedingly earnest effort to edu-
cate the people, not to . miyation
OF this or that candidated, but to
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17

weighing $50 tons, are let down by
counter-balancc weights to the level
of the bridge, thirty feet above high
water. A hundred feet above the
bridge level is another roadway for
foot passengers, who will be
taken up by elevators in
the towers whenever the bridge
is open and travel below is
impeded. The side spans are go feet
wide with a Roadway above high
water of from 90 to % feet; the foun-
dations are 60 feet below high water
mark and q feet below the bed of
the river. and the bridge has a Sec
tional area Of waterway of 2O,aAO
square feet as compared with the 49,
300 square feet Of London bridge.
The total length of the bridge and
abutments is $40 feet, and of the
bridge and approaches 2,64O feet,
while the steepcst gradient of ap-
proach is only l in 40. That of Lon
don bridge is l in %. 1t will thus be
seen that the bridge. when completed,
will be one of the most remarkable in
the world, spanning as it does what
is perhaps the busiest waterway on
earth.
Some 81, 900, 900 brick, 7o,5co cubic
yards of concrete, 10, 500 tons of CO.
mcnt, 235,0OO cubic feet of granite
and other stone, and $4,000 tons of
iron and steel are to be used in it's
construction. Attached to the bridge
will also he two steam pumping en-
gincs for hydraulic machinery, each
300 horse power: eight large hydrau-
lie engines and six accumulators, and
four hydraulic elevators for passen-
gers. 1t win cost So, 500, 900.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
An obliging Waiter.

The guests at an uptown family
hotel have been annoyed recently by
the consequences of a litigation be-
tween the owners of the building and
the manager, says the New York
Times. The hotel is run about as
usual. but the litigation precludes
the purchase of any additional furni-
ture and fixtures. When the plates,
and cups, and sauccrs are Clipped or
broken there is no provision for their
replacement while the lawsuits are
pending. One of the guests, an
ardent lover of Mocha, strenuously.
objected to drinking his coffee from
a broken cup. The waiter who at
tended his table CHANGED to be one
OF the obligirg kind, and he brought
from his private cabinet Il new coffee
cup edged with a broad band of gold
and with the words love the Giyer'
interviewed with flowers. He cx-
plain&a that the cup had been pre-
sented to him years ago, but he had
never used it. The favored guest,
not desiring to hurt the walters feel
ings. made use of the gaudy cup. A.
few days thereafter, however, the,
waiter dropped it and broke it. The.
next morning coffee was served to
the favored guest in Il plain white
mug labeled in blue letters on the
front, IA Nice Shaver"
"What is this?" asked the guest
suspiciously.
"1'hat's my shaving mug" respond
ed the waiter affably. II haven't
another whole cup"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
Game Girl.

One of the little incidents which
tend to explain why life insurance
companies will not accept a risk upon
the life Of a circus performer occurred
at the Madison Square Garden yes
terday afternoon.
One of the features of the show is.
a race between six thoroughbreds rid7
den by lady jockeys, which calls for a
large and imposing amount of first.
'clYss;; grit, 80 ;
The short turns of the garden track
are extremely difficult to negotiate,
and when the girls fly around them
they exhibit a fixedness of counte-
nance which shows that they appre-
ciate the danger. -
Yesterday afternoon the racers
struck n Of the corners in a bunch.
There was a thump, an eruption of
ing horseflesh was d%isentanglcd the
rider of the leader was found beneath
her stccd. %
The sigh which arose from the
audience showed that a tragedy was
expected, but it failed to materialize.
The plucky little rider was cxtri-
Gated from her perilous position and
borne away for repairs.
This would have satisfied the aver
age person for n day, but last night
she turned up again in highly be-
plastcred and arnicacd condition and
won the race of the evening hands
down.-Ncw York Commercials Ad-
vcrtiscr.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
Monkey Play.

The monkeys of India have a game
like the English boys cock of the
dunghill or king of the castle, hut,
instead of pushing each other from
the top of a knoll or dust heap, the
castle is a pendant branch of a tree.
The game is to keep a place on the
Dough, which swings with their
weight as with a cluster of fruit,
while the players struggle to d:slodge
n another, each, as he drops, run
ming round and climbing up again to
begin anew.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
Escaped from Justice.

Prof. Lloyd Morgan says that his
first experience of South African
death-dealing snakes was rather dis
turbing. One of his pupils brought
him, in a lasge cigar-boN, a "ring-
hals-slang," a deadly and courageous
snake not uncommon at the Cane.
and turned it out on the veranda for
the Professors delcctation. 1t was IL
spiteful little fellow, with an omin-
u hood, dark, glossy skin, and
%glistening brown eyes.
1t struck viciously at the cigar-box
held up before it, indcnting the wood
and moistening it with venom and
saliva. l was anxious to dissect out
the poison-gland and examine the
fang of the snake, and my friend
kindly presented the reptile to me,
after first tying it up securely in the
cigar-box.
After examining the fastenings /
placed the box on the window-sill of
my bedroom, which looked into the
veranda, and left it there for the
night. Next morning I procured IL
pan big enough to drown a small
python, placed the cigar-box therein.
loaded it with bricks, and poured in
water to the brim.
gave the "ring-halsr three hours
to get thoroughly drowned, removed
the bricks, took out the box, gently
cut the string, lifted the lid--and
found that l had been soaking. with
the utmost care, an empty cigar-box.
1t had been securely tied. and how a
creature more than thrice the girth
of my thumb had managed to cscape
is still a mystery to me.
1 leave the reader to imagine the
detailed search of every Granny of
our bedroom, on which my wife in
sisted. For several days every boot
had to be hammered with a stick be-
fore it was put on. 1 stood on chairs
and shook all varieties of garments
lest they should be occupied. No
was forthcoming. A week
afterward, however, he appeared in
the kitchen, and I dispatched him in
a more etfcctual manner than by
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
A BRIDGE OF SIZE.

Ono Of the Greatest Structures OF Modern
Times to span the Thames.
London Bridge will be relieved Of
q large part Of its burden of traffic.
when the slightly new structure
shown on this page is completed.
Already work on the towers is we'll
advanced, and thousands of work.
men are hurrying it to completion.
The great structure will cross the
Thames near the Tower of London,
and is, therefore, to be known as the
Tower Bridge.
The illustration shows the bridge
open. When it is closed the two
leaves of the opening span, each
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
Those Rags from Begsars' Backs.
Representative Dingley, of Maine, in

Those Rags from Begsars' Backs.
Representative Dingley, of Maine, in
the House:
The gentleman from Tennessee (Mr.
McNlillin) further said:
"They"-the wooden manufacturers
'shave been forced to use shoddy as u
substitute for WOODEN goods; the rags
that had already fallen from the backs
of beRgars in other countries have been
used q q substitute for WOOL"
And he has presented a bill which he
advocates as a remedy. What is the
remedy? The difficulty, according to
Wells asserts, laden with disease and
fraud, are imported and put by Ameri-
can manufacturers into wooden cloth.
Now, what is the provision of the gem
tleman's bill respecting shoddy and
wooden rags? Shoddy is simply woolen
rags passed through a machine fed by q
boy at a nominal expense, whereby the
rag tibers are torn apart and converted
into what is known as rag wool or shOd-
dy.
Now, the gentleman proposes to ex-
clude the importation of shoddy in a
free-wool bill by imposing a duty of 25
per cent. upon it. But wins. does he
DO with rags, woolen rags. "disease-
laden rags" rags permeateC with
fraud all through % He puts them on
the free list. Rags that can be con-
verted for less than l cent a pound into
shoddy are placedon the free list, while
shoddy is placed at 25 pei cent. ad
valorem. That may be good for the
purposes of electioneering talk upon
the platform, but for a scientific adjust
ment of duties in a tariff bill. what shall
De said of it?
The shoddy which has been passed
through the machine, mingled with oils,
has been disinfected, ifthere was anydis.
ease lurking in it; but the rags, the ids
ease laden rags" according to David A.
Wells. if either shoddy or wooden rags
ever do bring disease, are placed on the
free list. In the Mckinley tariff act
the duty is absolutely prc.;bitory on
these rags.
Mr.. Simpson-Wil the gcz.leman be
kind enough to state what the duty on
rags in the Mckinley act is.
Mr.. Dingley-Thirty cents q pound;
practically %prohibitory. The sdisease.
laden rags" which gentlemen com
plain may come into this country
under the Mckinley law and be con
verified into clothing are practically pro.
hibited by that law by a duty of 50 cen
a pound, and almost none we're import.
ed last year. The gentleman from Ten
nessee, to cure the evil that he coniures
up in the Mckinley tariff, brings in j
s.taritf-reform" bill that puts "disease-
laden" rags on the free list.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
Good to Chow at Church,

There exists in some parts of South
Dakota, Colorado, and Texas a singu-
lar variety of grass called the sleepy
grass" When in a fresh, green state
this plant is strongly charged with
narcotic propensities, so much so that
horses and cattle grazing on it are
thrown into profound sleep.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
Novel Device.

A Utica, N. Y, church has placed.
in its Sunday-school room what is
known as a Sunday-sch0ol thermome-
ter. 1t is a novel device for register
ing the attendance of the Sunday
school every Sunday as announced by
the secretary. 1t runs from zero to
$50 and changes every Sunday.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17

. feet in breadth, has a crank stroke
bf 10 feet and develops $50 horse
power. 1t operates IL system of
pumps raising $50 gallons of water
per minute, the lift being 1000 feet.
The water used in turning the wheel
is brought in an underground conduit,
and is carried up the tower by pres.
sure. The wheel has been in cons
tinued operation for forty years.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
History Coming Back ON the Democratic
Party.
rarin Oucstions solvca.

History Coming Back on the Democratic
The other day the Hon. Robert E.
Doan, Of Ohio, created no end of merri-
ment on the Republican side of Con-
fee-trade "reformers," by quoting
from Q Democratic pamphlet circulated
In his state during the campaign Of 1883.
The tariff act of that year, wherein the
duties on wool were slightly reduced,
had just become Q law, and the Demo.
cratic leaders called upon the people to
resent the injury thus inflicted upon
their great industry Of wool growing,
and place the Democrats in power who
promised to restore the old higher rates
ON wool.
II Wa assuredly IN appropriate time
for Mr. Doan to produce the document
ombodying these sentiments Ut q time
when he himself was in the act Of dis
: charging the duty of protesting In the
lame Of Ohio wool growers against the
passage of Q bill. introduced by Demo.
Gratis, championed by Democrats, and
since become . law by Democratic
votes. which meant not merelys reduc-
ton In wool duties, but absolute free
trade in wool.
After . long dissertation embracing
many figures on the importance Of
Ohio wool growing, the Democratic
pamphlet of 1883 continues:
The Republican President, tariff COM
mission and Congress, ct the bidding Of
the monopoltsts OF New England, wan
tonly and wickedly reduced the duty on
wool s0.as to enable foreign producers to
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17

EVANSTON, Ills, is now a city.
All it needs to complete the sum Of
its Civic grandeur is q few boodlers
In its common council, and they, no
doubt, will come in due time.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
ayes in a fine frenzy rolling,n

answered, Hopping mad, SIR" has
its parallel in an anecdote related of
Master Barnes, of the old Hacker
School in Salem.
The teacher one daynoticed an idle
pupil staring out Of the window, and
asked him what he saw there.
"Houses, SIR" was the reply.
@Very we'll, said the master, stern
ly. @Look here and you'll see Barnes"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17

AAo AAASA1Cuu OO6
and Cotton Reporter,
q free wool paper, In
Its issue of March IL:
Taking the bulk of
textile goods which go
Ito the masses. 1t is with.
I'm bounds to say that
this country IS the
cheapest retail country
in the world. and this,
too. in spite of the
heavy import duties.
In mems wear a similar
condition 10 also noted,
there being no other
country where a dollar
will go as far in pro-
viding clothing as In
this country. There is
no h country with
which to compare this
III the matter Of ready.
made clothing MS to
quality of cloth. finish
tnd style of garment
tnd cost to the con.
sumer.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
Paragraphs and illustrations.

Yhere is no objection to the decision
of the Indiana Democrats, giving their
best blue ribbon to Cleveland. and a
very highly commended to Gray.
These April awards are pleasant and
proper. but the electoral stakes will go
November race, all the same.
William G. Lowering illustrated very
forcibly the debtor and creditor view Of
the free silver coinage question, in his
speech to the Republican State Conven-
ton, held in Boston. He said:
81 employ 1900 workmen. They are
my creditors. l am always in debt to,
them; they never owe me q dollar.
Wherever a person works for wages. on
the farm, on the railroad, in the mill or
in the mine, there is a creditor who will.
be asked, nay, compelled, to take SO
cents on the dollar for his wages. He
will go to the savings bank, where he
has deposited in this commonwealth
alone 1925 100000 in gold or its equiva-;
lent, and will receive 81 cents less on
gent workingmen of Massachusetts don't
believe that legislation ever put any
money into their. pockets, and they
don't want legislation to take it out Of
their pockets.
The Catholic Citizen says ofthe Dem
ocratic party: "Its voting population
do not discriminate against bad morals
in politics. All the wide OPEN elements
flock to it's standard in the cities.
What is true of New York City and.
Tammany Hall is measurably true of
every other city in the Union ruled by
the Democracy"
Bill Nye, describing his sensations
when he got complicated with a West,
sdn s%ysloas' s ss,d be felt a1 as = I If ne Il had adm in
der. This is offered a. a friendly y 2
gestion to q. Cleveland, who has not
yet found language in which to describe
his sensations in his Rhode Island e..
perience.
II, as Grover Cleveland alleges, the
tariff is a tax, how is it that you can buy
in New York . flannel shirt ON which.
the duty would be so cents
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17

compete advantageously with native
growers. The average reduction of the
only only. 'sA "-- -'-'sN''S' "'' 10 fs' s'1~
And again:
With the reduction Of IS per cent. the
abandonment. to q great extent, of sheep
raising must inevitably follow, II the per
nicious course designed by the Republican
party Is allowed to be carried out.
We are curious to know what the
Democrats who industriously circulated
the Springer free-wool bill. And what
consequences they think "must newt
ably follow" the total abolition of wool
duties? But the Ohio campaigners did
not confne themselves to general state.
ments merely, but assumed tospeak for
the Democratic party. Said they:
The Democratic party, as the facts show,
have been steadily and earnestly opposed
to the preparation of this great wrong
against the people.
So it seems that the Mckinley prices
lies, and the snap judgment wrenched
from the people by them in 1890, were
not a new dodge of the Democrats. II
is not without interest to also note that
the campaign of lying of 1883 was sue.
cessful, too, q Democratic governor
having been elected by agood plurality.
But then, as now, tho triumph was
brief. Ohio went for Blaine with a
whoop the next year, just as it VENT for
Protectionist candidate this fall. And
the other states whose people were lied
To- in 1880 will follow Ohio's example,
The day of wrath for the Mckinley
prices liars is drawing near. 1t rarely
pays to lie.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17

AA
speech in favor o
lee wool. March .:
The laborer
been forced to
pay
more for the
clothing
that covers his
bncS.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17
THE LARGEST WATER WHEEL,

Used to Pump Water at I.xey. on tho
Isle of Man.
The largest water wheel ever con-
structed, says the Scientific Amcri-
can, is at Laxcy, on the Isle of Man,
where it is used to pump water in
working a lead and silver mine. The
wheel is - feet s inches in diameter,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-06-17

Mr.. McMillin. In his The American Wool
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-01-28

the cburn desher to enjoy the milk or to
set the table with butter. She must
arise in the morning and go to the co|
pen and stand along side Of the country
girl who thinks nothing of grabbing a
young heifer by the tail and Trailing
thunder outen her with g. board.
There is but few of these country girls
and boys, but what few there is should
thank their stars that it is 30. As cure IS
time rolls on the white population hss
got to return to the country. 1t will bs
mighty hard on them to do it, but it's got
to come and speedily. There are three
men to every town situation in the land.
Of the mechanics the streets are full CT
them, the roads from town to town are
dotted with them, the shops are overrun
and the chronological schools arc still
turning them out. The professions are
crowded and the mercantile business is
overdone, in fact, farming is all that will
be left in few moro years, and l think
that poor man the smartest who gets to
the country and gets over it the quickest.
SARGE PLUNKETT.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-01-28
A Mute in the White House.

WASHINGTON, January l2.-Conspic-
uous among the callers at the White
House on Saturday to attend Mrs. Harri-
sons first afternoon public reception Of
the season was little girl who is deaf,
dumb and blind. She was presented to
Mrs. Harrison and the ladies assisting
her as "lttle Edith Thomas, of Boston" )"
Being deprived of the gifts Of speech,
hearing and sight, Edith has been taught
to receive information through the sense
of touch, and she has cultivated the sys-
tenn to phenomenal degree, although
but - years old.
4 1T was observed that her companion
held OH to her right hand constantly and
by code of signals, telegraphic in their
character, transmitted to her descrip-
ton of what was going on around her,
what vas said about her, and also what
she was thinking of persons and things
about aer. She appeared greatly pleased
When Mrs. HARRISON took her little
hand, pressed it cordially, then placed in
it beautiful rose from the bouquet she
was holding. In return the little girl
expressed, through her interpreter, pro-
found gratitude, and asked permission to
look around the other apartments. Mrs.
Harrison summoned Capt. Disbmore and
requested him to show Miss Edith into
the State dining room ard the conserya.
tory.
She could not hear the beautiful music
of the Marine Band nor could she see the
lovely flowers in the conservatory, but
her face wore al expression Of supreme
Joy when informed of the courtesy ex.
tended to her. In tho State dining room,
which vas used for cloak room for the
ladies who were assisting at the rccep.
ton, it was with delight that Edith was
permitted to feel some of the magnificent
wraps of fur, silk and other fabrics,
spread out upou the dining table. She
examined all The ornaments in the room,
including the statusry on the side table
miniature of tue Jackson statue in La.
fctto Park. She quickly discovered the
peculiarly of that wonderful piece OF
sculpture, which is the equal balance OF
the Lorse on his hind legs, without any
other support. At her homo in Boston
she is regarded as prodigy because of
her remarkable accomplishments and
wonderful memory. She writes huently
and her descriptive powers of what she
has learned and the Impressions formed
of the various places she visits are aston.
isning. Her replies to her companion are
made by the one. hand deaf and dumb
sign language,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-01-28
WANTED.

There's a junior partner wanted
BY Will Succeed q Co.,
Who do a rushing business
Way up in Fortune Row.
I've seen their advertisement
mo capital required"
But boys with pluck and courage
Are just the kind desired.
They want boy who has no fear
Of steady, plodding work;
Who does not wait for luck or fate,
Who scorns task to shirk.
Who slowly, surely digs his way
Through problems hard a score,
And still has grit and courage left
To try as many more.
Who takes each school-time lesson
And makes it all his own;
Thus laying up his future
On good foundation stone.
Who does not wait for help to come
From fairy, witch, or elf,
But laying hold on Fortunes wheel
Turns it around himself.
And if it grinds and will not move
With all his care and toll.
He rubs each shaft and gearing well
With perseverance oil"
Who knows that luck is but myth,
And faith is but name;
That plod and push and patience
At last will win the game.
And lads like this are just the kind,
For Will Succeed & Co.,
Who are wanting junior partners
Way up on Fortune Row.
Selected.