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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22

gone over with tho utmost care. reports
received from the different districts and
counties, and public speakers assigned
to the several localities where it was
supposed they would do the most good.
Mr.. Douglas placed himself wholly at
the disposal OF the Democratic commit
tee, and no amount of physical tension
was too great for his massive. t~ireless
constitution. The home talent engaged
OH the Democratic side embraced the
eleven candidates for electors, among
whom were A. NJ. Harrington, Charles
H. Constable, Samuel NJ. Moulton, Or
lando B. Ficklin, VIM. A. j. Sparks, and
the then rising young orator, John A.
Logan, together with a host of speak
ers, many OF whom h,sse since reached
more or less distinction. The Repub-
lican electoral ticket was made up Of
names like John NJ. Palmer, Leonard
ewot;, Villa: =. Eo.o3ss, Henry p. II.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22
are slow and uncertain it leads to mobs

eHO AO tAA Az 2A W 1klODO
and riots.
The world has been free from
these as it has never been free from this
spirit in man to regulate things himself,
without waiting for somebody else to do
1t, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. There
have been riots in France and in En-.
gland as well as in America, but in
America there have been more regula-
tors and vigilance committe es than in
the old world, because We have had no
parish priest to whom we carry all the
petty grievances that are beneath the
dignity Of the courts. The regulator has
his place in almost every country COM
munity. He usually belongs to the
best and most law-abiding part of
the community. He obeys the law
himself and proposes that others shall
do likewise. The most common
subject Of the regulator is immortality,
which he prefers to deal with rather
than give it an airing in the courts. II
one man in the community is unfaithful
to his wife, if he is cruel and unjust to
her, If he beats his children. or treats
them like cattle, his neighbors in the
country do not call in the constable or
go to the Justice of the Peace and swear
out q warrant for his arrest. They give
him warning to correct his habits. Hhe
heeds the warning the regulators will 60
no further, but II he does not they will
treat him to q ride on q rail, or dip him
in the mill pond, or hold him under the
pump spout, or roll him in a snow drift,
or test his qualities as q Splinter and
strip him Of all clothing that his action
may be freer. If ii Is an aggravated
case, or II he has repeated the .ofense
after these attentions, he may be paint
ed with tar and given a coat Of feathers
to keep him warm, or he may have to
run the gantlet while every regulator
spurs him on with a whip. Those are
barbarous customs, but man will never
get rid Of all his barbarous nature. He
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22

Among the Central European He.
brews the married women all wear
wigs, no matter whether they be
bald -headed Or not. Indeed, the
more beautiful the woman's hair the
more necessary the wig, for it is worn
upon the theory that a married
woman should make herself unat.
tractive to every man save her hus.
band. The wigs are ugly, brown,
ard Cheap.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22

was in no sense as brutal as the act Of a
number Of church deacons in New Jer-
sey, who tarred and feathered two wom-
en- like her who established themselves
in the neighborhood for q like purpose.
But sensational newspaper correspond
ents made it an outrage that would
make all Indiana shamefaced. It may
be said in justification Of the white caps
OF Indiana that the Chic River towns
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22
WHO ARE WHITE CAPS?
THEY ARE NOT PECULIAR TO
THE WILD WEST.
sad-style Regulators Fence Rails and
MIL Ponds ~ Moral P~ersuxders- In En-.
gland They Used the stocks and the
OuckinR STOOL.
vir,lancs s~ociet,es,

Arecent church trial in New Jersey
was the outgrowth Of a white cap OUT
rage. A young pastor is on trial charged
with all sorts Of improprieties, simply
because he would not mcekly submit to
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22
Names of Plants.

Tho number of countries which
lave contributed their quota to the
nomenclature of English plants is
legion. Beginning with France we
have the dent de lion-lion's tooth
whence we derive our dandelion.
The tlower-de-fucc, again, which MI.
Dyer thinks was a name applied to
the iris, comes to us through the
French flcur de Louis-tradition as
sorting that this plant was worn as IL
device by King Louis VII. of France.
BucNwheat is derived from the Dutch
word bockweit. and adder's tongue
from a word in the same language.
addc stong. In like manncr the
name tulip is traccabic to the word
thonlyban in the Persian language
sigMilying q turban. So. too, our
English word lilac is nothing more
than IN anglicized form of another
word in the Persian tongue, namely.
lilag.
A large number of plants owe their
names to those by whom they We're
first discovered and introduced into
other chimes. The fuchsia stands i'm
dcbted for its name to Leonard Fuchs.
ar eminent German botanist, and the
dahlia was so named in honor of
Swedish botanist named Dahl. =.
long list of plant names might be
formed which bear what might he
termed animal and bird pretiXes-as,
for example. horse beans. horse chest
nuts, dog violets and dog roses: cats
faces, a name applied to the plant
known to botanical students as the
viola tricolor; cats eyes, veronica
chamndrys; cats tails and catkins.
The goose grass is known to the
country people in Northamptonshire
as pig tail, and in Yorkshire a name
given to the fruit of tho oratagus
%oXyacantha. is bull horns.
Many plant names have been sug-
gested by the feathered race, particu-
larly goose tongue, cuckoo buds (men-
toned by Shakspearc). cuckoo flow
ers, stork's bill and cranes bill. One
of the popular names of the arum is
"parson in the pulpit" and a Devon
shire term for the sweet schbriosis is
"mournful widow" The .cAfmpion is
not infrequently called sSskSm pud.
ding" and in the neighNs Sod of
Torquay it is not unusual to hear fir
cones spoken of as oysters"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22
Bromwell, Ebenezsr Peck and Richard

Yates.
In their nominations for county
officers, members Of the Legislature,
Circuit Judges and Congress both par
ties put up the very best material that
could be brought in the field. Many Of
these were pleasing and earnest speak
ers. The members Of Congress elected
that year were E. B. Washburne, John
F. Farnsworth, Owen Lovejoy, William
p. Kellogg, Republicans, and Isaac N.
Morris, Thomas L. Harris, Aaron Shaw,
Robert Smith and Samuel S. Marshall,
Democrats.
Among the distinguished Democratic
campaigners were John A. McClcrnand,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22

LAUGHTER is the language. O,
merriment," says a philosopher.
Then . smile is the speech Of con.
VITALITY.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22
ILLINOIS POLITICS.
REcoLLEcTloNs OF THE BIG
CAMPAIGN OF 1850.

Opening of The Grcas Prelude tn the War
-i;isscil and Richardson Tho Leaders
OH Roth Sides-lsissel's Controversy
with jeff Davis.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22
A %NIetho.iical Man.

Once a old Englishman, James
Scott by name, Travelled about on
business until nearly so years of age.
He became celebrated for his punctu-
ality and his. methodical habits.
Upon one occasion a gentleman
stopped at an inn much frequented
by Mr.. Scott and saw Il fine fowl
cooking.
THAT is very good" said the hum
CRY guest. you may serve that for
my dinner"
"You can not have that, SIR" re-
piled the landlord. "That is being
cooked for Mr.. Scott, the traveller"
II know Mr.. Scott very WE'LL" said
the gentleman. "Is he stopping
hcre?:"
ooh, no, SIR" answered the land
lord. But six months ago he or
dcred a fowl to be ready for him at
precisely 2 o'clock to-day, and we are
expecting him every minute "-Har-
pcr's Young People.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22

against the young pastor because h.
showed the spirit Of manhood and
taught the hoodlums that a minister Of.
the gospel was not necessarily less D
man because of his calling.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-22

campaigners were John A. McClcrnand
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12
WARD Lannon's LETTER.

lCopy-
1920 nth n. W, WASHINGTON. d. ca
April Sd, 1888.
Geo. r. Dunno, ESQ, New York:
DEAR SIR-Your letter of the 27th ult
is at hand, and in reply TO y'r inquiry az
to whether Mr. Lincoln and party, en-
route from Philada 70 Washington City
on the memorable occasion Of his trip to
the Capitol to assume the reins of gov
eminent, rode in the rear of the hind
most car of the train that night, my
recollection is very distinct on thar sub
ject. You are undoubtedly correct i'll
your statements in relation thereto.
/ shall never forget the hurried and
cautions manner in which We were nus
tied into the rear end Of the rear car,
where berths had been secured by Mr.
Pinkerton and his assistants.
Mr.. Lincoln wearing a soft white felt
hat and an old pepper and salt shawl
(which had done much service as a wrap
on the Illinois pralrlest-these were the
only parts Of his clothing he pretended
to take off. Throwing these back in the
perrin, Ht TOiiEn liltB lllt itBNi Hiitt tt iiir
lower sleeper; took off nothing Of my
clothing and lay in on the outside, nezt
TO the aisle.
Pinkerton ard one Of his assistants &C
cupied the corresponding sleeper on the
other side of the car, and so We proceed
ed to Washington-and acknowledge TO
a sleepless journey by the whole party
not entirely free from apprehension
Yours truly, WARD II. LAhoS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12
FLOWER AND TREE.

Artichokes are immature flower heads
and caulifowers are a sort of flowers.
One of the big redwood trees in Sequois
park, in California, is 34557 feet in diameter
and $40 feet high
A party OF explorers has recently dis
covered an immense forest Of india rubber
trees in the valley OF the OrinccO.
farmer in Delaware claims to be able
TO preserve watermelons for winter use by
coating the rind thickly with varnish-
A South American proverb says: "A
cocoanut tree Is brides dowry." and
really the many uses TO which the palm and
its products are put are wonderful They
provide family with food, shelter, fuel.
house, utensils and if need be, clothes.
A remarkable story Is told about an apple
tree that grows in - Georges cemetery II
Middletown. Del Il i said to yield fine.
round apples in great abundance But no
one can eat them, As they have d grave
yard taste" Even the hogs, when the
apples are offered TO them refuse 70 touch
them When put By the fire 70 roast, the
apples, il Is said. simmer 20 oil and emit
disagreeabIe odor strongly suggestive Of
ZraveyarC.s
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12

explanations; as the moment / sirI,fSa
of that rear platform the train moved
forward into the outer darkness of a
stormy winter night.
Other descriptions to the contrary,
must say here that Mr.. Lincoln was
dressed with exceeding plainness; an old
felt hat somewhat the worse for wea-
and an ordinary sackcoat of some dark
color, with a dark gray shawl thrown
very carelessly about his neck and
shoulders. completed his attire; there
was neither Scotch cap" nor military
cloak" on any of the party, but they all
looked like tired travellers.
That this memorable party arrived
safely at their journeys end is well
known fact, but nevertheless this re-
markable trip must have been one that
caused each and all of them manv mis-
givings and very anxious moments
In a letter received some time since
from Mr. Ward g. Lamon, Mr.. Lincoln's
special friend and companion on that
journey, he writes that "he has a very dis
tinct recollection of the hurried and eau
tious manner in which they were hus-
tied into the rear end of the rear car"
give his letter in full as an appendix to
this. Mr.. Lamon and myself, / fully
believe, are the only men now living
who were actively engaged in carrying
this remarkable event to a successful
ending.
Some weeks after this journey-and
after Mr.. Lincoln's inauguration-Mr
Pinkerton called on me in person, as he
himself said, ''to give me his best thanks
for the practical and successful manner
in which this affair of the sleeping car
had been arranged and carried out, and
the great good 10 the whole country that
had come of it, for with that collection
of unknown men in the front end of the
sleeper lie did not dare 10 think of the
possible results to his little party had
they been compelled to use the door az
the front end of the car"
GEORGE r. DUNE.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12

SoereaUed), as storeKeeper, postmaster,
surveyor and law student, he was al
ways growing. The future philosopher
will find rich materials for mental sci
ence in contrasting his utterances year
by year after 1882. His experience in
the reckless legislation of the wild cat"
era of 1834-7 may be proftably con-
trasted with his conservatism in later
life, but his votes on the Mexican war
and his casual utterances on slavery
show that the germ of the future Liber-
ator was there.
His intimate associates have by COM
mon consent set the year 1910 as the date
when he entered his fourth stage, as a
party leader, yet that year was the first
of an era in which Lincoln appears at
his very worst. He was ambitious, yet
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12
LINCOLN AS A HUMOROUS SPEAKER.


painfully sensitive as TO his personal
deficiencies, ardent in his admiration of
female loneliness and extravagantly anx-
ious to form matrimonial alliance fav-
orable at once TO happiness and worldly
success, and yet so wildly cratic in his
pursuit of these objects that his best
friends then feared for his sanity, and
at this day his course is beyond explana-
ton. Suffice it that he married. became
member OF congress, returned to the
practice Of the law and sank into con-
GIuon wafcn. as 10 parrr1cM marJerS
seems to have been one Of comparative
apathy, till the repeal of the Missouri
compromise in 1884 reused him like a
trumpet call 70 his last and most glori-
Gus struggle.
In 1854 the fifth and last stage began;
the Abraham Lincoln of history was
! born. All his biographers agree that il
was n new man who took the stump"
that summer. He had long been pop
ular speaker; his speeches were ''racy Of
the soil" But now. say Messrs. Nieolay
and Hay: Men were surprised TO find
him imbled with new and unwonted
seriousness. They heard fewer anecdotes
and more history. Careless listeners
who came to iaugn at els jokes sat spell
bound by the strong current OF MS rea-
soning and the flashes Of MS earnest elo-
quence. AMI were lifted by the range and
tone OF MS arguments into a fresher and
purer atmosphere. The question touched
the very bedrock Of primary human
nights. Such subject furnished ma
terial for the Unborn gifts OF the speaker,
MS intuitIye logic, his impulsive patriot
ism, his pure and poetical conception Of
legal and moral justice"
And here this attempt 70 forecast the
verdict OF the Twentieth century philos-
opher appropriately ends. Il Is the
glory Of Abraham Lincoln that he went
on growing 70 the last. Nothing co1ld
be more idle than 70 pronounce positive
ly SIS 70 what his position would have
/ been On reconstruction or subsequent
issues from what he had previously said
IBIS euloElsts nave often proclaimed that
III the dark winter Of 1851 ne fore
saw the bloody DAYS az hand and men
| tally nTepayed.- fer tasm- ~ Euc2 Q
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12

colnesque tone which insures popular
acceptance. The senhmentaist draws
Inspiration from those passages in which
the Liberator fairly rivaled the Hebrew
prophets, while the imaginative writer
finds in that progress from the cabin to
the White House a series of incidents
with all the charms Of romance and all
the convenience Of reality.
The Jurist and statesman, the orator,
the philanthropist and the enthusiastic
social reformer find in Lincoln's state
papers and speeches passages Of strange
portent, weighTy prophecies of the issues
which were to come. hints at the solu-
ZION of the problems of capital and labor
and taxation. The student of mind de-
Seiopment has not vet been heard from,
vet ! venture 10 predict that the Herbert
Spencer or Bacon Of the next generation
Will find in Lincolns advance splendid
and luminous illustration Of the laws of
intellectual growth. He viii have this
tremendous advantage, he can admit
many charges now denied and proceed
with confidence on this axiom: One
may fall into many errors, yet rise above
and profit by them all If his primary aim
be correct and his moral nature sound.
Just now we look at the Liberator
through the blaze and smoke of the he
Toic age. For Jweuty-ssyen years an
army Of poets and orators have been in
dustriously engaged in stripping away
the human hneaInentS and spreading q
golden halo about the martyrs homely
features. He hooks down upon Us oul
of cloud and enveloped by an aureole.
The apotheosis is at last complete; the
Abraham Lincoln Of Kentucky, Indiana
and Illinois Is barished from history
snd the Abraham Lincoln of panio.ic
song and euio~y Is scarcely more p res.
historical parsonage than Romulus o.
Agamemnon. The reaction has, how
ever, set IN. Herndon'S book marks the
beginning Of new era. the coming
generation VIII not be satisfied with "a
steel portrait and a fight of ealogistic
oratory. 1t viii insist upon having the
real man.
The philosopher viii then find that the
career OF Abraham Lincoln naturally
divides itself into FIVE clearly defined
stages. Sprung from the very rudest
and noorest class in the border south
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12

statement the philosopher OF 1901 will
smile. Such foreknowledge would have
been more than human.
There is not particle of evidence that
the Abraham Lincoln of January, 1861,
had formed any conception of the great
struggle at hand, and there is conclusive
evidence that after mis- inauguration he
still INDUCED the hope of reconciliation
without war Abraham Lincoln was
not a god, but man. His greatness
consisted in the fact that he made many
mistakes and rose above them. The in
spiration of his example consists in the
proof it furnishes that the true. manly
man rises to the occasion. and that, as
he expressed it, the great heart of the
nation is sound j. Z. BEADLE.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12
Like a Thief in the Night.

Many volumes and thousands of arti-
cles have been written to show the new
generation how little the Americans OF
1860 expected a great war, yet the popu-
lar caricatures of that time show it most
clearly. Here are two from Harper
Weekly in the era when secession was
still looked upon as joke and the ma
jority of the people firmly believed that
after short disturbance the states would
soon be as firmly united as ever. How
little did people expect war who could
laugh at such jokes as these:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12
A Prophecy Now Happily Fulfilled.

| am loath to close. We are not enc
mics, but friends. We must not be enc
mics. Though passion may have strained
it must not break our bonds of affection.
the mystic cords of mercy stretching
from the battlefield and patriot grave TO
every loving heart and hearthstone all
over this broad land will yet swell the
chorus of the Union when again touched,
as surely they will be, by the better
angels of our nature.-From Lincoln'g
Inaugural.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12
LINCOLN IN THE FUTURE.
WHAT WILL THE PHILOSOPHlC HIS
TORIANS OF THE FUTURE SAYf

We Cannot Forecast the Verdict of Pos
terity with Certainty, but We May Be
Sure That the View Will BE Different
from Ours-The Growth of Mind.
The career of Abraham Lincoln seems
destined to serve as an unfailing store
house from which certain classes of
writers may draw their material. The
humorist not only retails authentic jokes
and gives them new applications, bat in
vents pew ones and gives them Lin
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12
WAYSIDE GLEASINGS.

The famous Rla-aey some j. about five
miles Wet d 1he eity Of Cora
The actual COS, q raising hoy 70 tTen'
ty-one years ! estimated ~ Si..5A
Sugar made from coaI i so times sweet
er than ordinary cs.le slzssa-. bui L co.'s
ten dollars Js9uGl.
Chinese = said 70 5e the !ieal language
for The Telephone og aecoant q is ~ sl.4l
rising and fsillzZ infections
, Is has been sappo~sd that SWesles we're
the b.. ca-pen.e-s q. rae %ine.eea5a cen
tUry. bat II sser~ .s0sv. sreoF'1ln- o. an al
thorisy. that Itsli08s are pressing th'llz.
sioss for arst place II ezTpeairJ wozk
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12

With public sentiment nothing can
fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Consequently, ne who mOlds public SEN
timent goes deeper than he who enacts
statutes or proncuuces decisions. He
makes statutes and decisions possible or
impossible 10 be executed. il
Joint Debate with Douglas, Ottawa, Ills,
Aug. 81, 1853.
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NOT UP TO THE SPIRIT OF OUR Nsr1rU-

British Tar (who has had some expert
ence in Mexican and other revolutions, on
landing from a long voyage, and. pro-
ceeding to inform himself, encounters a
sensational newspaper and observes to
shipmate)-Hello, Jack, blessed if they
haven't got revolution in Ameriky, and
we've come ashore with nothing but our
iackkniyes,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12

STATION AT LSCDLSb pKATHEtD-
BE was Of course uDooo@c1ous from the
frst moment. bat be breatbed with sioT
and regular respiration throughout the
night AS the dawn came and the
lzmphght grew pale in the frsshsT
beams, MS p1lse began 70 fail: bat he
face even then vas scAroely more haz
gard than those o. the sorrowIn2 gToug
Of Statesmen sod generals ~ru1nd hiEa
HIS automatic EnoazIng. wn5cb rad Con.
timed through TIE night. ceased: looE
Of unpezzz0se peace came upon bic
w0-n features Al twenty-five rninrtss
after be died Slz2;ou brcks the
lsnce by saying. wow be oeIonss t. f,e
azrs-- Dr.. GET.ey kzeeled By tae t@c
Eos and p-ayei feTyeatiy. The usaov
cane IN from - adjoining ncoza.
ported oy ssT soE. an cas-. i.sr4ssf 81
lead outcgy &C To e.z.a b,-y.-ss5e
& BAYS HsFs6ry
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12
0ur First Century.
i. that men WIN are tn. seed

It cannot be that men who are the seed
OF Washington should miss fame's true ap-
plauSe;
Franklin did plan Us; Marshall gave US laws;
And slow the broad scroll grew peoples creed,
One land and free then at our dangerous need,
Times challenge coming. Lincoln gave it
pause,
Upheld the double pillars of the cause;
And, dying, left them whole-the browning
deed.
Such was the fathering race that made all fast,
Who founded us. and spread from sea to sea
A thousand leagues the zone of liberty,
And built for man this refuge from his past,
Unkinged, unchurched, unsoldiered slammed
were we,
Failing the stature that such sires forecast
Anon
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12
The Last Dread seene.

The president had been shot few
minutes past 10. The wound would
have brought instant death to most men,
but his vital tenacity was extraordinary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-12

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feet nssA - i1sliz-zss14.s gs.A--s4l
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tHeen hou Eias Ss@. aunl rsg 81.
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bona Territory.