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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18
! LIKE a BOY AGAIN.
A weary Rank Presldcns who Found .
Friend I'm q Yale Graduate.

Erleu0 IN q yale Graduate,
A stout gentleman, well on to 60.
years, was in the thron0 of visitors.
ut the Produce Exchange baths in
New York the other afternoon. He
told everybody that he'd had a hard
week. He said he was a bank presi-
dent All the attendants seemed to.
know him. He knew all the attend
ants, too. They were Tom, and Jim,
and Pete to him. He wanted every
body to understand that he'd had a.
hard week. Every newcomer was
corralled and impressed with the fact.
Then he said that he wanted some one
to take his hand and wade through
the pool with him. The pool is thirty
feet long and fifteen feet wide, with.
five feet of salt water. He wanted
to wade in, new summer suit and all.
1t would rest him and make him for
get his hard week, he said, ii some
body would take his hand and wade /.
in with him.
"ltIl make me feel like a boy
again." SAID the alleged bank presi--
dent to a Sun man who stood near.
.'We used to wade in clothes and
all when l was a boy" he added when
his appeal was not needed.
While he was looking for some one
to take his hand and wade, in walked
a young man also in q new summer
suit. The young man wore silver
bowed spectacles. He is a graduate
of Yale. He peercd over his spec
taclcs at the old fellow, who returned
the peer, and then made his appeal to
the young nan
Swell, old man," said he of the
silver-bowed spsctacles, II was out
pretty late myself last night. Ill go
you"
Solemnly the old man and the
younger man clasped hands and
walked to the edge of the pool. They
%zigzagged a little, but they stood
upon the brink of the pool steady
enough, and, banging their hats down
upon their heads, they stepped off.
The water was nearly up to their
shoulders But hand in hand they
waded the length of the pool, the
bank president smiling and contcnted
and the younger man peering over his
silver-bowed spectacles as If in q con-
templative mood. Not u word did
they say to each other. The old mans
face wore the expansive smile of child
ish delight. The younger man was
solemnly content. They clambered.
out of the pool hand in hand, soaked
from shoulders to heels. The old
man shook the hand Of his younger
comrade and said: e
81 thank you, sir. You have af-
forded me much pleasure" !
SAN right, old man" said the Yale
graduate: 'tany time you want to
wade send for me-"
He gave the old man his card, and
as the old man jabbed the limp paste
board into the puddle in his waist
coatrocket he remembered his watch.
He pulled out the massive gold time
piece. The salt water had stopped it
and probably ruined it. AS he came
to this conclusion the old man said:
swell never mind, we had fun
didn't WEI"
Then the two men we're tackled off
to the steamroom and stripped, and
for two hours they nodded slecpily at.
each other while their clothes and
shoes were drying.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18
Two Warchouses Burned.

AT Carthage a fire broke out in the
warehouse of Patten, jackson s. Co.,
and in q short time the building was
entirely afire and all efforts were
turned to save adjoining property. A
strong south wind was blowing and the
fire caught the office and warehouse of
the Carthage Warehouse Company,
completely destroying it, with its con
tents. The loss on both buildings is
about $1,000: insurance. $4,000. The
fires origin is unknown.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18
South Dakota,s wealth.

The assessment of the various coun-
ties has been returned to the state au-
ditor, and the estimate Of that officer
as made last winter is verified. The
prediction that the state would show
an increase of 10 per cent. in valuation
al be better shown to be right by
stating that the valuation as re-
turned last year to the state board was
Sll2,000,00O, and when equalized $ll8,-
0O0,O COS. The returns this year show q
valuation Of $l23, 000,0 00. and will no
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18
Her Boiler Burst.

CoLrAN, WASH, special: The
Union Pacific steamer, AMMO FaXon,
plying on the Snake River. blew up
her boiler. Thomas and John Nc
Intosh, passengers: Mrs. Toppan, wife
of the purser; George Farewell, waiter;
Joseph Bush, deck hand: VIM. Kidd,
deck hand. and Fireman Paul were
killed. Other people on the steamer
were painfully injured.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18
Spain Is n Isorrowcr.

MADRID special: Tho Government
has abandoned its purpose to collect
the duties in gold on account of the
general protest throughout the
try. A new loan OF SG,000,0C secured
by Cuban bonds will be issued in lieu
thereof.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18
Religious Riots Ended.

BOMBAY special: The religious riots
which have prevailed in this city havo
ended, the Mohamlncdans and Hindoos
Having been ovcrawcd by the display
ff force by the authorities and business
has resumed it's usual channels.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18
Investing In Gold Mines,

The present tendency of mining cap
ital to seek investment in gold prop
erty finds illustration in the sale of u
controlling interest in the Omega gold
group, i'll the unknown district near
d kapid av Gity. to a New lev. York FORK and and Lon Lon:
pleted and purchase money paid. Tho
Omega contains an immense body of
low grade free gold ore, and it is said
that the purchasers have arranged to
work it on an extensive scale. The
present active mining development in
the southern Black Hills justities the
Pre- R%real fYniaad 5hs s.a ,he a M.i11 NJ product !
several millions from that region
nlnnn
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18
Caught in His Tran.

GREENvlLLE, Miss, special: G.
Smith, head blacksmith in the shops
of the Georgia Pacific Railroad here,
and q man of some property. had a pc
culiar but terrible death. Thieves had
been robbing Mr.. Smiths hen roost, SO
he loaded his shot gun with slugs, pre-
paring it SO that when the door to tho
chicken house vas opened tho gun
would fire and the load enter the body
OF the thief. Mr.. Smith heard u noise
in the chicken house and, forgetting
tho terrible death trap fixed for an
other, opened the door. The gun fired
ilnd the entire load of slugs and shot
entered the body just below the ribs.
Death followed almost instantly.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18
!, RECORD.
OF A e HAP.
PENlNGs.
Latest News a. Flashed Over tho Wire.
I'M All Parts of the Neutrality-suspicious.
Politics. Religion, Casualties, Commerce,
4 and Industry.
WIN he u Conpromlsc.

VII . u compromise
New York special: L. j. Phelps of
the counsel for the United States in the
Bchring Sea conference at Paris, has
reached home. He was seer ut his no.
tel. 81 am glad to get homo again" he
said. II went away in March, and
spent considerable time in travelling
about before the conference took place
and aftcrward. Tho interests Of the
United States were looked after care
fully at the conference, and there is no
reason to suppose the result will not be
in accordance with the facts presented.
The matter is now in the hands of the
arbitrators. 1t is uncertain when they,
will make public their decision, but 1
think they will do so in about a week
or ten days. OF course, the matter be-
ing such an important one, nothing has
been done in u hurried manner. OF
course l do not care to attempt any
prognostication of the result of the
conference, but l will say this, that
from the nature of the case, the deci-
sion of the a%rbitrators will be in the
nature of a comnromfse3
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18
DAKOTA RAILROADS.
TOTAL MILEAGE AND ASSESS.
MENT OF THE LINES.
The State Board of Equalization Has Corn
pleted the Work of Assessing the Rail-
roads Doing Business in This State for
the Present Year.
The South Dakota Railroads.

THE State Board of Equalization has
completed its work of assessing the
Railroads doing business in the state
for the present year. There is prac-
tically no change in the valuation
placed upon the roads this year and
last. Tho Northwestern and Mil
waukce railroads are assessed at the
same total amount upon their total
mileage. The following is the total
mileage and assessment of the various
railroads doing business in this state:
rotal Total
Mileage. .AsS'ment.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18
Dakota Weather.

THE following is the crop bulletin
issued by the Government Weather
Bureau in Huron, showing crop condi-
tions in South Dakota for the week
ending Aug. 8:
The temperature during. the week
was about the average, possiblya little
below, while the amount of sunshine
was about the average. The amount
of rainfall was considerably below the
average; showers being reported from
only three counties, Hughes, Lawrence
and Pennington.
Over most of the state the harvest of
wheat and oats has progressed under
favorable conditions, and reports indi-
ate that the wheat berry. although
the heads in many counties ere short,
is much better than was expected and
will rate high.
Rain is much needed for flax, late
grain, corn, potatoes and grasses.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18
Warned to Leave the Country.

warned to Leave the country.
FROM cowboys just in off the range
it is ascertained that q large mob of
unknown persons gathered atthe ranch
of Stevenson brothers, we'll known
stockmen on Indian Creek, north of
Belle Fourche about thirty miles few
nights ago and Threatened to hang
them unless they left the country.
Several weeks ago the Stevensons
were waited on and ordered out of the
country and they promised to leave.
They were too slow, however, and the
mob was the result. 1t is stated by the
cowboys that the firm is now packing
up and making ready to pull out inn
mediately. The cause OF the trouble
is not known, although it is supposed
to be monkey work on the range.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18

The reports submitted by the rail-
roads show the earnings and operating
expenses for the past year. The prin-
cipal lines mako the following snow
ing:
Chicago and Observation-Disclosures
earnings. sl.36s. 494. ~; operating ex-
penses, ST. s $50. ~.
Chicago. Milwaukee and ST. Paul
Gross earnings. So 424 ALA; operating
expenses, 81 ,622 4GI .2S.
Grand Island and Wyoming Central
Gross earnings, $l95, 1853 S: operating
expenses S22522. 81 6.S5.
Chicago. st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha-Gross earnings, $l46, 5S1. 76:
operating expenses, 500, 040. so.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls and North
western-Gross earnings, $l45, SAG. 66;
operating expenses, Sill, 1864 S.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-18

Chicago, Milwaukee s. S..
Faui 80. ....1
Chicago Il Southwestern. 80.
Grand Island y MyoEing
Central.
Cedar itapids. Iowa Falls -
Northwestern.
Black Hills q Fort Pierre.
th;cagr, st. Paul, Minneap-
oils Il Omaha.
Dubuque " Sioux C.ty......
Wilm;lr & Sioux Falls ......
Duluth. Natertown Il Pacific
Great Northern.
Wisconsin, Minnesota Is Pa
Cl.!C.
Sioux Falls Termiual. .......
Sioux City Il Nurthern......
South Dako.a RAPID TRANSIT
Madison Motor Line. -.
Forest city Is S.oIX CITY,.
Natertown Il Lake KAN
eStH
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
The Yihrnmeter.

The vibrometer, which is claimed to make
the deaf hear, is in shape and size very
much like an ordinary banjo, with circular
sounding board and extended string board.
A small electric motor transmits by suit
able mechanism a series of rapid taps or
vibrations to the sounding board, and these
are conveyed to the ear by tubes, the same
as in the photograph. The attachment by
which the vibration is produced can be adj
justed to different beverages, so as to vary
its intensity, and can be regulated at from
l to 25 vibratory movements per second, a
speed which is only used in very bad cases.
A special treatment is involved in the
use of the strings of the instrument, which
are vibrated by the revolution of wheel
studded with metallic picks. In applying
these musical vibrations to the ear of the
patient the tone selected must correspond
in pitch to that caused by the diseased con-
ditions of the ear. In other words, there is
always a special note, the vibrations of
which are more beneficial than others to
the abnormal ear, and a primary consid-
Grafton is to determine this note. 1t is a
question of responsive vibration, illustra-
tions of which all instrumentalists are fa-
miliar with. If there is no tinuitus or ring
ing noise to guide the practitioner, he finds
whether the patient can hear high or low
sound, and high rate of vibration is used
in treatment and vice versa.
The class of patients who are Immediately
benefited by the vibratory treatment are
those in whom the mucous membrane lining
the tympanic cavity and eustachian tubes
is in a hypertrophic or morbidly enlarged
condition.-New York Telegram.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
Speech and the -or,r Of work.

Any one who observes the movements Of
his tongue in speaking will find that there
occur no cases in which the adjustments
must have an exactness corresponding to
the extreme power of discrimination which
the tip possesses. For speech this endow-
ment is useless. Even were it useful it
could not be shown that it has been devel-
oped by survival of the fittest, for though
perfect articulation is useful yet imperfect
articulation has rarely such an effect as to
impede man in the maintenance of his
life If he is good workman, Germans
interchanges Of BIS and p's do not disad-
vantage him.
A Frenchman who in place of the sound
tn always makes the sound of succeeds
as teacher of music and dancing no less
than If he achieved the English pronuncia-
ton. Nay, even such an imperfection of
speech as that which arises from cleft pal
ate does not prevent man from getting
on if he is capable. True, it may go against
him as candidate for parliament or as an
"orator" of the unemployed. But in the
struggle for life he is not hindered by the
effect to the extent of being less able than
others to maintain himself and his off
spring.-Herbert Spencer in Contemporary
Review
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
Hung Mt the GIrdle.

In the middle ages at the girdle were
hung the thousand and one odds and ends
needed and utilized in everyday affairs
The scrivener had his inkhorn and pen at
tached to it, the scholar his book or books,
the monk his crucifix and rosary, the inn
keeper his tallies, and everybody his knife
So many and so various were the articles
attached to it that the fippant began to
poke fun.
In an old play there is mention of mer-
chant who had hanging at his girdle a
pouch, a spectacle case, "punniard," a
pen and inkhorn and "a Handkerchief, with
many other trinkets besides, which merry
companion seeing said it was like haber-
Sasher's shop of small wares" In another
Barly play a lady says to her maid: "Give
me my girdle and see that all the furniture
be at it. Look that cizers, pincers, the pen
knife, the knife to close letters with, the
bodkin, the ear picker and the scale be in
the case"
Girdles were in some respects like the
chatelaines not long ago so much the rage
among ladies' But they differed there
from in being more useful, more compre-
hensive In regard both to sex and to arti-
cles worn, and when completely furnished
more costly. 1t is partly for this last
reason that we find girdles bequeathed as
precious heirlooms and as valuable pres
ents to keep the giver's memory green after
death. They were not infrequently of great
intrinsic value.-Chambers' Journal
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
rheumatism secondhand.

well, exclaimed Mr.. Queercase, you
can talk as you like about physical affiic-
ton, but the largest that ever struck me
was when | had the rheumatism in my
brother"
Rheumatism in your brotherr exclaim-
ed his auditors in concert. "What are you
telling us?"
Pm just giving you case of stalwart
affection that ought to bring your sympathy
out by the ROOTS" was the reply.
"The kind of rheumatism that he had
was the kind that hangs over the edges and
treads on the adjacent martyrs. Why, the
way he'll yell and keep me awake atnights
and have me tying on bandages and rub
bling joints and smelling all sorts of lotions,
and the way he would kick me out of bed
when his other leg hurt him too much was
energizing. Primary rheumatics is bad
enough, but to have to take it in a second
airy form is petrifying "-London Tit-Bits
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
Early Mention of Niagara Falls.

The first historical notices of Niagara
falls are given in Lescarbots record of the
second voyage of Jacques Cartier, in the
year 1886. On the maps published to illus
trate Champlain's discoveries date of maps
either 1913 or 1914 tie falls are indicated
by cross, but no description Of the won
derful cataract is given, and the best geo
graphical authorities living today doubt il
the explorer mentioned ever saw the falls,
Brinson's work to the contrary notwith-
standing. Father Hennepin is believed to
have written the first description of the
falls that was ever penned by one who had
personally visited the spot. The editor
owns map dated 1867 which does not fig
ure either the great lakes or the falls.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
Microscopic Penmanship.

The subject of microscopic workmanship
readily divides itself into two classes-pen-
manship and mechanical construction. His
tory has handed down to us many exam
pies of this form of caligraphic mania, of
which the chief symptom is a desire to
compress the greatest number of words
into the smallest possible space
Pliny the Younger declares that Cicero
once saw the Iliad written so small that it
could be inclosed in walnut shell. This
affirmation was regarded as improbable
until the seventeenth century, when Huet,
bishop of Avranches, France, an excellent
Greek scholar, proved that it could be nc
complished.
The Gospel of St. John and the Acts of
the Apostles were written within the cir
conference of farthing in the sixth CEN
tury by an Italian monk.-Boston Com
mOnWealth
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
The First Wedding Ring.

The wedding ring, according to Henry
Swinburne of the seventeenth century, was
first designed by Prometheus and fashioned
out of adamant and iron by Tubal Cain
He says that it was ''given by Adam to his
son to this end, that Herewith he should
espouse wife" Men were, as all women
know, deceivers ever, and some of these I'M
scrupulous creatures were wont to wed
with rings made of rushes, imagining them
to be less binding than a strong and valu-
able ring. The bishop of Salisbury, how
ever, stepped in and forbade this practice in
1917.
Silver was more frequently used than
gold for wedding rings, and they were
made in all kinds of shapes, some twisted,
like two joined hands, or a pair of hearts
stuck through with an arrow. Often they
were adorned with precious stones and
had ''posies"-that is, scraps of verse-in-
side, such as;
Fortune doth send you, hap It well or i'll,
This plain gold ring to wed you to your will.
In these days gold ring is considered so
essential to the validity of marriage that
a tradesman in a market town some years
ago materially added to his income by let
ting out rings to the poor people for their
wedding day.-New York Sun.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18

s,,1ondid 90 ,. Inns mnen cur ',I was
bes nassa .tno nriiS soartins, ou1 al T Sn,
,,,.;,,na - yi Pioo"ply tolever' ms
aii 49,, =. voray mno y 70 NC llasniilceIC at
I'd aI,,s" p'ss ""aG money mon az every Iuru
Evervtbinr, go t %t.n III 40
which saonres 0 notnii III; VIC sPeo s .stlin
fror, ,,,.oss,,,o P .I.o auu i It'
bosnitabIe cro,rd;ne, rodn S "u,om al vi
dear p'iON'ii'
~ 10 all vow, ,,,oll 60 .oo,, % .l -,
managan,ont oud of 49, ttn,, SUI $50
tb,ng and f. is ,rortL ,,orha,s o. ~
of o6d;tiono1 ircor,o b,,t ~, atto ~ pc 20 oe
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
Some Dental Advice.

Dental floss, to be procured at any first
class drug store, is recommended by den
fists for regular use after each meal. Moth
ing can so effectually remove any foreign
substance from the teeth. 1t is likewise
advised that the teeth should be brushed
up and down--not sidewise as is the com
mon custom.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
s4NDRo BoT1lceLLls, "zlppoaA4."

Who is this comes in Deaths cere cloth to
earth2
That cash its white mask like cloud COM
panies
Crossing the silver dished moon7 What birth,
Bodeful, forlorn, and hapless chills the mirth
OF Rome? What ghost2 What shuddering
surprise?
What witches shroud Of shrieking mysteries
Unresting, aches like famine and days Of
dearth?
Dead Slmonetta's ash gray face Is this,
Lapp'd in her flame of hair: "ReproachI'
she walls,
"Reproachl For am dead, and born again
To die againl Reproach For utter pain
Laid on me. My pale lips shall cut like fails,
Since all dead ladies' wrongs freeze in my
kissl"
Maurice Hewlett in London Academy.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
Assrrinn RECORDS.

Layard, in his History of Nineveh,"
mentions that the national records of the
Assyrian empire were written on bricks in
characters so minute as to be scarcely leg
ible without the aid of microscope and
that, in fact, variety Of this instrument
was found among the excavations.-Boston
Commonwealth.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18

4 have used DIR. Deane's Dyspepsia
Pills for biliousness and liver troubles,
and found them to work like a charm.
Anyone thus troubled and using them
will give the same testimony.
j. p. KEAToR, Pullman Conductor, Pa,
Railroad.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18

The OK eyed daisy lasts longer when
clipped than do most field flowers, and
massed in rooms of proper tint the blossoms
are highly effective for decoration.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
A Thor,ueh business Man.

Optician TO his new shopman)-When
you send out the price lists, write the adj
dresses as small as possible so that the Gus
toners may see that it is time they began
to wear glasses. Batter
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18

The most expensive legislature in the
world is that Of France, which costs an
nually S3,60O,OOO. The Italian parliament
costs $4,000 year
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
q. CUTLER, DENTIST.
A
Successor to Or. s. B. Pike.

DUUO555OI I
AL operations performed in the most thorough
snd careful manner, and at reasonable prices
My aim will be o give eatire satisfaction to all
cases submitted to my care.
Gas and Ether administered for extracting
teeth without pain, when desired.
ONCE Opposite Free Library Hall. Bennington,
37tf Vermont.
Having sod my dental practice to Oh, "A. Z.Cut-
or, q gentleman of experience and ability, be-
speak for him the same liberal patronage that has
bean accorded me the past eighteen years.
DR.. s. b. PIKE.