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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

THIS eternal question, whether the
"United States arc," or the Omitted
States is," has come up again, and
Boston papers are taking a hand in
the discussion. In a letter to the
Transcript the other day, Charles
Dudley Wa.ner wrote: zinc United
States of America is a nation, and
that is its name. If l were speaking
Of it as a nation, / should say is-no
matter about the grammar. Speak
ing otherwise, I might say: The
United States are distinguished by
great variety of productions l should.
then be thinking of the several
States, rather than of the political
nation" But. on the other hand, in
a letter to the Journa', Mr.. S. c. ID.
Tillinghast, of Mcdford. has the fol-
lowing patriotic communication:
Concerning the United States is
and the United States are the late
Jefferson Davis held that the latter
is the only correct form. 1t cost the
rebellion to demonstrate that the
Uniicd States is. The whole doc.
trinc of State rights is in 'thc Uni
ted States arc.' Let us insist that
IL children be taught that the
United States is"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

BETTER late than never is u maxim
in which the Columbian Roller Chair
Company has at last seen wisdom,
and a sweeping reduction in rates has
been the result. Under the new tar
If persons of moderate means al
afford to patronizc the gospel char
lots" and q marked increase in the
business Of the chair company is sure
to result. The reduction ranges from
33 to SO per cent. Trip tickets have
also been placed on sale, and the
whole plan indicates that the COM
pany means to recover, as far as pos
sible. the loses sustained by the cX-
cessive charges in the past. Under
the acw order of things visitors to
the Fair will find it alike pleasant
and profitable to use the chairs in
stead of wearing themselves out by
making the tour of the buildings on
foot. The change comes late, but is
none the less gratifying, and its wis
dom is already apparent.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

THE New York Sun has been max
ing Il STUDY of the debts of the vari-
GUS States, and finds that in the last
ten years there has been a total de-
crease of $40. 600, 900, the forty-four
States owing collectively 1921, OOO,-
600. upon which they are paying s1O,-
000. 200 Il year in interest. Ten
States, Massachusetts, Indiana, Min
nesota, New Jersey, Virginia, Mary.
land, Georgia, North Carolina, Flori-
da and South Carolina, have in
creased their Indebtedness. Seven
States, Vermont, Iowa, Michigan,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Oregon and Mon
tana. are out of debt. The other
twcnty-sevcn States have reduced
their debts during the t~en-year peri
cd. Ten years ago five States had
more than $50, OoO, 900 each in out
standing obligations, as follows: Vir-
ginia, 500, 900, 900: Tennessee, s27,-
00o, 900: Louisiana, s23, 900, OOc; Mas
sachusetts, $50, DOC, OCO, and Pennsyl-
vania, $50, 900, 900. The debts Of
these five States now stand as fol-
lows: Virginia, s31, 600, 900: Tenncs-
see, $40, 900, 900; Louisiana, sll, OO0,-
600; Massachusetts,, s2s, 900, 900: and
Pennsylvania. sll, 900, 900. The out
come in general shows that good
tlnanciering is the rule in the ma
jority of States.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29
His Makeup Effective.

A famous English actor once under
took to take part in a certain amateur
performance at Richmond; but as he
had to act the same evening in the
first piece at the Haymarkct, as Lord
Fopling, he had not much time to
lose. Hc accordingly stepped from
the theater into q cab in his stage
attire and used the vehicle, on his
way to Waterloo Station, as a dress
ing-room, taking out of his carpet
bag the smock-frock and CATERS in
which he was to play his role later
on. He had not a minute to spare,
and, throwing his fare to the cabman.
was about to rush into the booking
office, when he found himself pinioned
from behind; the driver had got him
fast. aLet me go, you fool; 1 have
paid you sixpence more than your
fare already" Hang your sixpence.
You are a murderer! Police, pclice!.
The actor was soon in custody, and
this was his accuser's story: aThis
countryman has murdered a noble.
man who engaged my keb in the
Haymarkct." 1t took some time to
explain matters, and. in the mean
time the actor lost his train.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29
pERELlcTs OF THE OCEAN.
Abandoned Vessels that Are = Grave rersi
to Vessels.

Abandoned Vessels that Arc . Grave rersi
to Vessels.
There are to-day some lfty ai.ar-
doned Observation-Disclosures ON
the Atlantic ocean. While most OF
them are on the sailing route to and
from the equator, many are foMnd
drifting along the passenger steamer
lines to Europe, where they are a di-
rect menace to navigation. The
danger involved in striking one O.!
these derelicts is apparent. Water.
soaked and often floating kc.l up
such a craft might infiict an injury
fatal as that from running on a ledge.
or from receiving the blow of a ram
On a dark night or in a fog a t ans
atlantic liner might not be able to
make out such an object until actu-
ally upon it. Perhaps it was in co..
lision with q derclict that the NarOn-
'ic, the recent mystery Of the ocean,
persisted, and the same may have
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

relations. There was a great deal OF
speculation and a pointing out Of the
tremendous possibilities in the case,
but the correspondents did not VEN
ture into the probabilities. Even
Mr.. Blowitz, who is supposed to know
more than any one else of the inner
most intentions OF financiers and
Kings, came e a being s'scooped"
when the French minister at Bang
kok called for his passports and his
umbrella. The European CORE
spondents are less unreliable but
also less interesting than they once
were.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29
An Uncertain Groon,.

Many characteristics of the Scotch
are amusingly displayed in q series
of stories published in Edinburgh
some years ago under the title of
Scotch Folk"
"Have you brought any Witnesses"
asked the Rev. Mr.. Wood, of Bath
gate, of Il middle-aged couple who
had come to be married.
mo, we meier thocht o. that. Is it.
necessary"
"Oh, certainly, said the minister.
you should have a groomsman and
bridesmaid as witnesses"
"Wha can we get, Jcn, do We
think?:"
The bride, thus addressed, sug-
gested a female cousin whom the
bridegroom had never seen, and,
after consultation. "a man also was
thought of.
Step We AVA alang, Jen, an ask
them. am I'll walk ABBOTT till We come
back" -
Jen set out as desired. and after
some time returned with the two
friends, the cousin being a blooming
AdSS CouSlueIdDly Culn the
bride.
When the parties had been proper
ly arranged and the minister was
about to proceed with the ceremony,
the bridegroom suddenly said:
"Wad We bfde a wee, sir?:"
What is it now?:" asked the minis
ter.
"Weel, 1 was just gaun to say that
if it wad be the same to you. 1 wad
rather hae that ane," pointing to the
bridesmaid.
"That's a most extraordinary state.
ment to make at this stage!!" ex.
claimed the minister. sI'm afraid
it's too late to talk OF such a thing
now"
us it?" asked the bridegroom, in "A
tone of resignation to the inevitable.
"Weel, then, We maun just hang on
1t is not recorded that there was
any feeling of elation on the part of
the bridesmaid, or of jealousy n the
part of the bride, and the ceremony
proceeded.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

IT seems a little curious that with
all the cry about hard times and the
starving masses it is almost impossi-
BILE for city people to obtain a good
servant in the kitchen for less than
exorbitant wages, and farmers are
complaining that they cannot find
men to work for them for love or
money. If they are starving, why
not work at whatever comes to them?
If they are in a position where they
can afford to lie idle, why cry about
short rations? The two things don't
1T, some way.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29
Driving a Horse to Drink.

A sculptor in town has had the
horses of several fashionable private
stables st his disposal for models this
summer. One day some of the sculp-
tors friends had some whisky to
drink in his studio They gave the
horse a little. The next day the
groom wondered why that horse tug
ged at his halter SO when he was be-
ing led to the studio. He seemed to
be very anxious to get there. He
was restless and whinnied coaxingly,
and was entirely useless as a model,
until the sculptor thought of the
whisky. The horse got another
drink, aad thereupon became a mod
ell model. Now he demands a drink
every day before he will pose, and &C.
casionally he demand- a drink be.
tween drnk1.-New Ye'k Sun.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

SAYS the Chicago Herald: Among
the list of nuisanccs with which
downtown Chicago is cursed the
otherwise amiable bicycle enthusiast
is assuming IA prominent place. Not
satisfied with the freedom of the
boulevards, where the wheeling is su.
perb and where he will be in no'one's
way, this person has taken to spin.
ming along through the business dis
trict where the crowds are thickest.
An exasperating feature of the down.
town bicycler is his whistle. APP.
preaching a thronged crossing he
sounds a shrill note, and without
slackening speed dashes onward, ex.
pecting people to get out of the way.
This whistling business is going to
get the lordly whcelman into trouble
one of these days. Chicagoans have
long ago resigned the right of way in
their own streets to cable cars, cabs,
and other deadly vehicles, but when
it comes to being whistled aside like
refractory ours by a spindle-shanked
person bestriding a bicycle the public
rebels. A good stout cane thrust be.
tween the spokes of a wheel has a re.
pressing effect on the autocratic
bicycler, and it is to be hoped that
this method will be adopted unless
the nuisance is abatcd. Only a frag.
ment of our boosted liberties remains
and we can't afford to surrender the
last shred at the behest of any long
legged, stoop-shouldered victim of
Kiphoris bicyclistanum, even IL it is
the Worlds Fair year.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

A HORRIBLE story comes from Aus
tria of the discovery by the police of
a gang of men who made it a bust.
ness to cripple young children in Or
der to make them objects of charity
as beggars. When arrested several
children were found in tine house suf-
fering from broken limbs and other
mutilations. 1t is hard to conceive
an adequate punishment for such
crimes.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29
AN OCEAN DERElrcr.

been the fate of other vessels which
persisted mysteriously at sea, leaving
not a record to tell how they dis
appeared. -
1t is quite apparent that some in
ternat;onal action should be taken
to rid the ocean Of these derelicts.
The subject has been agitated for
several years and recently the Mari
time Exchange of New York passed
a resolution favoring international
action for destroying these and SINH
lar perils to commerce. With an adj
cquate police supervision of the ocean
for the locating and destroying of
derclicts there would be fewer N.Y..
terfes of the deep.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

FILLED with a righteous indigna-
tion at the defiant gamblers of Sac
ramcnto a deputy sheriff sailed
among them to the interruption of a
game. Before he could sally out he
had his pockets picked. Save that
virtue is its own reward the deputy
might be considered the victim Of
ill-luck.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

AN Oakland, Cal, man having re-
appeared after a mysterious absence
explains that he remembers having
taken three drinks of local whisky,
and that the succeeding four days
were a blank. However, he deserves
fclicitation upon his mental strength.
There seems to be no doubt that he
did remember the three drinks.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

A BRAZILIAN recently saved his
life by carrying a roll of .el0O notes
insideshis vest when a bullet came
that way. Yet there are people who
neglect so simple a p~recaution.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

WHEN John L. Sullivan is loaded
he always jumps upon somebody
whose gun isn't. Luck favors fools
and drunken men, but the Boston
bruiscr is tempting fate too often.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

MILE. RHEA denies that she has
married her leading man. Perhaps
her information on this point is at
fault; the young man himself ought
to know. however.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

THE closed season for seals includes
May, June and July. The closed seal
son for sealskins this year also in
cludcs nine other months.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

The brain is always clearest in the
morning.-Katc Field. How little
some folks know about such things.
The bromo-seltzer industry is a refu-
tation of Rates statement.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

EUROPEAN correspondents, who
used to be capable of making a war
cloud out of every fog, have learned
by experience to become conserva-
tive. Not even the extreme tension
Of the situation in Siam led to a
declaration Of war among them, or
even to a suspension Of diplomatic
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

SEYMOUR. the mind reader, has not
yet succeeded in burying himself
alive. Has he tried u store that does
not advertise?
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

A New YORK man is in Jail
charged with stealing cannon balls.
He probably vas about half shot
when he did it.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

If Fay Templeton could manage to
separate from Howell Osborne out
side of the newspaper Offices the gem
eral public would feel better about it.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

cholera and pncu-
mOnia are caused
by micro-o organ.
islns, small beings
Invisible to the
naked eye. Still,
bactcriology as a
science has been in
existence only q
--. f- vuNN
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

IDLE money is useless money, and
useless money is no better than no
money at all.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

JUDGING from the newspaper re-
ports Roby, Ind. is just the riot
sort of a place for a fight.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

In many instances the man who
spends his life waiting for his ship to
come in wastes his time, because he
originally omitted to send any ship
inf
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

TIE next time that yacht Nayahoc
goes Swimming around England she
ought To do it as the representative
of Philadelphia, not the United
States.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29
Value Of Vaccination.

1t is almost a sfad" nowadays to
speak of microbes and bacteria. The
most uneducated layman knows that
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

THE closed season for sealskin
pocketbooks will probably last during
the winter.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

hA tE
science has shown that the world of
micro.organisms is composed of spa-
cics like the rest OF living nature.
Thus the microbe of cholera and tie
microbe of pneumonia have PROPER
ties essentially different. 1t is in
tercsting to know how the microbe
acts after it enters the system. Its
objects are to multiply and feed, and
its methods of propagation are sim
pie and rapid. After it has grown to
a certain length it divides in the
middle. The two thus created soon
form four, and so on. Suppose a mi
crobe divides into two during the
course of an hour. These divide into
four after two hours, into eight after
three hours, etc. When twcnty-fou
hours have passed the number OF
microbes attains the formidable sun
Of 62, SOC. 1000. In two days there are
2S7, 500, 600, 900. After a week their
number could only be expressed by a
figure of t%ifty-one periods.
Microbes feed on tissues and blood,
but their power does not lie in this.
They poison. Each microbc has the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

ACCORDING to a contemporary gold
is now a drug in Chicago" 1t has
been a drug in Dwight for some time.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

10 impossible to give q chicken pneu.
monia, although q mouse will readily
take 1t. Pasteur's first discovery In
this direction was this: He had
found that chickens, which are sus.
ceptible to q disease called Chicken
CHOLERA" aud which, without excep-
tion, die II a chickcn-cholera mi
cr0be is injected under their skin,
only have a slight and rapidly pass
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29
The ragman's business is picking

To STEAL a child you must catch
the kidnapping.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29
Newspapers as Necessities of Life

vi AAnAC
The newspaper has become a neces.
sity to Americans, and to be shut out
from a knowledge of what is going
on in the world would be as great a
hardship to them as any other ex.
cept lack of food, clothing, or shell
ter. The life is more than meat, and
the body more than raiment, and the
satisfaction of the mind is as legiti-
mate as the satisfaction Of the bodily
wants, and of a higher order. Tho
newspaper is the university and the
library of the people. the common
school Of manhood. 1t is the great
debating club of politics, the ex-
change of business, the record of
each day of human experience. 1t
is necessary to the proper discharge
of the political duties of the citizen.
But a newspaper, at least a good
newspaper, is more than a necessity.
1t brings into the narrowest life
some sense of the vast life of the
world. 1t is full of tragedy and
comedy. wit and passion, the heroic
and the humble, the crime and the
merriment of nations. 1t is a great
realist history. 1t is a daily com.
mentary upon human nature.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

The unemployed who want work
will never find it around anarchistic
meetings.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29
Speed of Electricity.

The speed of electricity is SO great,
that its passage from point to point
along a conducting wire may be re-
gafdcd as instantaneous. Various
attempts have been made to measure
the rate at which it travels, and OBJ
servers, with delicate Instruments.
have affirmed that it was not less
than ia. 600 miles per second, and
In one OF two places its speed was as
high as 24O, 900 miles.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

faculty of secret
ing a certain poi
son in the system
at the place where
itvegctates. These
parasites by their
process of life
bring about a de-
composition of the
substance they
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

strength and normal condition he
made a second injccti IN with ordi-
nary microbes that had not been in
contact with the air long. He found
the chicken had acquired perfect i'm.
munity against the disease. large
quantities Of very active microbes
exercising M effects whatever. Pas
teur ut once saw the close analogy
between this case and the cas-. Of Il
person who after Passing through
one attack of scarlet fever is pro-
tectcd against a second one, and
basing his work ON this first funda-
mental observation built up his
whole system. Fly long contact with
the air the microbes, which had.
given immunity to the chicken. had
lost Il great deal of their virulencc.
They had been weakened.
The next thing to he done was to
weaken the v~irulcnce of the different
kinds of microbes. to inject them,
cause Il slight affection. and thus
bling about an artificial immunity.
This has been tried for almost every
known disease and in almost every
case with satisfactory results, cspcci-
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

temperature a few degrees, so killing
the germ and preventing the disease?
Some Of the methods have been sat-
isfactorily tried. AT present, how
ever, there is a better means that
has already given splendid results
and is destined to astonish the world.
Vaccination against cholera, pneu-
mon1a, typhoid fever, etc. is now
only a question of time. 1t may be a
few years only before a child can be
vaccinated against every infectious
disease and be thus protected for life
against the greatest danger that
constantly threatens humanity.
One of the chief difficulties in all
these examinations is that man can.
not be experimental on. Now and
then a courageous scientist, thor
oughly convinced of the correctness
of his ideas, will experiment. on him.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29
THEY IN DEATH.
BITS OF ORGANIC MATTER DAN.
GERoUs TO LIFE.

How Diphthorla. Malaria. Pneumonia. ry,
phoid Fever and Asiatic Cholera Microbes
Look and Act-Methods of Checking md
Controlling Diseases.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29


ally in animal dis
eases, where extern
sivc experimenting
is possible. Tnou-
sands of sheep and
horses and. cows
are va ccinat d
yearly against q
great number of
n
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

ing attack, ii mi
crobes that have
bee in contact
with the air Tor
some months are
injected. Afte r
the c h / c X G n on
which Pasteur ex-
E%erilncntcd had re-
gained its natural
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

AsiAric CHOLERA. fOOthOld in our
system. A long and patient course
of experimenting will undoubted-
ly bring to light a number of
substances, each capable of de-
stroying a certain species of microbc,
without, at the same time, harming
the system. AT present only a few
such substances are known, and these
were found by chance. For instance,
everybody knows that corrosive sub
Innate and jovoforme are capable of
destroying the germs of suppuration
and of wound fever. These are, in
consequence. extensively used in sur
gerry as aseptics, and a%ntiseptics. A
simple suggestion forkilling microbes
inthe systemcould be basedonthe fact
that certain micro-organisms perish at
q temperature only Il few degrees 81 hove
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

He wAc travels by short nts is
always getting into scrapes.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

the normal temper
allure of our body.
Why not, therefore,
when the first symp-
toms of a disease
brought about by
such microbes ap-
pear artifcially,
raise the patients
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

have fastened upon and these decom-
positions have specific poisoning
effects on u system. The symptoms
of this poisoning are identical with
the symptoms of the disease of which
the microbc is the generator. 1t can
easily be proved that it is by the
action of these poisons exclusively
that the disease is caused. If, for
instance, one c%ultivates the isolated
microbe of cholera, under conditions
favorable to its growth in some NIL
tritive liquid at the right temper
AZURE for a cc.tain length of time, it
will decompose the nutritivc liquid.
which thus takes the place of tissues,
and thus form IL certain quantity of
its specific poison.
How can this mysterious and invis-
iblc foe be successfully grappled with?
Tho Ynpcf cir,,1o .1,r.,cx:o- 900. :.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

TALK little and well, and you will
he taken for somebody.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29

ou66SoOAOus SdyS d
writer i'm the Chi
cago Tribu ne,
e to look for
S thing that
willdestroy the mi
'crobe, the direct
cause of the dis
ease, even after it
had taken strong