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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
New swindle on the Farmer.

A new kind of swindle has excited
the attention of the Department of
Agriculture. Certain ingenious per.
sons are manufacturing for sale to
farmers a product which they call
'Tilt-edge butter compound" or by
other words equally attractive. 1t is
alleged that by the use of this sub.
stance the agriculturist can double
the quantity of butter obtained from
a single COW or from any number of
animals. The process, as described
by the Washington Star, is very sim.
pie. You take a pint of fresh milk
and as much of the compound" as
you can heap on a silver dime. These
you put into a churn, together with
one pound of soft butter, and you agi-
tate the mixture for a short time, ut
the end of which it is found to be
transformed into two pounds of good
butter. AT the same time it is
pretty evident that the amount OF
butter fat is not increased by this
method, and in the resulting two
! pounds there a only he as much of
it as was contained in the original
one pound, plus the small quantity
derived from the pint of milk. The
fact is quite WILDLY shown by .hemi.
cal analysis. Whereas good butter
usually holds only is per cent of
water, the stuff produced BIZ this
'.gilt.edge compound" contains so
per cent of water. Nevertheless the
latter looks very much like genuine
butter, though considerably softer.
The gilt dye compound" is simpy
pepsin. Mixed with butter it pro.
ducas an emulsion which enables tho
butter to take up an equal weight
of milk without altering its appear.
ance materially. Any other digest,
i've fcrmcnt, such as rennct, will &C,
complish the same result. Thu
s'compound' is sold at the rate Of
S2.5 SO for a two-ouncc box, the actual
value being about 3 cents. One dis.
advantage of it's use is that butter
manufactured in the way d. scribcu
quickly spoils 1t is an adultereJ
food product and should he prohibited
by law.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
She Took the Parting Hard.

The scenes which are enacted Incl.
dent to the departure of q transat-
lantic steamer are varied, some touch
ing and others ludicrous. Despite her
very evident grief at being separated
from her husband a woman made
herself the object of many a smile on
Washington street wharf a few
mornings ago. She stood the racket
well enough until the last prepare.
tions for sailing were being made.
The gangplank was being hauled
down and the officers were directing
the taking in of the ropes when the
woman was seized with a remarkable
spasm of frenzy. Attired in a black
lace dress she lay down on the wharf
and rolled around the ground, giving
all the time vent to her pent-ur
emotions. AS che rolled her lace
dress gathered UP hundreds of those
pinlike chips that are found on all
wharves, and which are made by the
passage over the boards of heavy
wagons. When she was induced to
get up the dress was literally covered
with the little splinters, which hung
like tiny %icicles, and covered her en-
tire body. She was taken home in a
carriage Philadelphia Record,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
Future of the Horse Breeder.

The future of the horse. breeder
Gems to be a matter of moment at
this time. The advent of electricity
as Il motor for surface cars is displac-
ing large bodies OF horses that were
formerly used for such purposes To
this We must add roads that are us
ing ard are about to adopt cables.
These throw on the market a large
contingent of animals. The presence
of such a volume of horses, far in ex-
cess of the needs of buyers, ruins
prices The bicycle is another factor
that is replacing the horse in some
degree. Its extended use in the near
future will enlarge this very matcri-
ally. Yet with this decreased de-
mand the supply does not indicate
diminution. The breeder seems to
be intent on the production of that
class of horse in largest quantity for
which there is least inquiry. The
demand which the surface railroads
created for horses while they de-
pended on them for motive power is
rapidly passing away in every section
OF the country. The class of animals
suited for that work will gradually
disappear. Under these changed
conditions we believe the breeders
would do wisely ii they paused long
enough to learn the demands of the
horse market of the immediate fl-
ture. That these will be circum-
scribed is evident when the causes we
have mentioned are recalled. OF
course, the farmer will breed the
horse that best meets his require
ments, but the breeder must await
the settling of the market that it
may formulate the classes of horses
that are most profitable for him to
breed and sell. American Dairyman.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

ONE or the most interesting things
about dime novels and summer liter
allure is the way they are made.
There is an establishment. IN New
York which prints 5000 novels an
hour. They have a machine consist
ing of two cylinders. on each of which
144 pages may be screwed, and as the
long strip of paper goes through, first
onc side is printed and then the
other, making it possible to print
2SS pages at every revolution. The
strip of paper, after being carried
over rollers which dry the ink. iscut.
folded, and brought together in the
shape of a small volume, with the
edges all trimmed. Every time the
great cylinder goes around a novel
is printed folded. and trimmed, and
5000 of these are turned out every
hour. while, if it were necessary,
1000 or 5000 might be the quota.
The covering does not take long, fifty
being the average for a minute. The
paper costs nearly five times as much
as the printing, and amounts as high
as 3 cents II novel. The whole cost
for the mechanical construction of
these books is not more than 3 cents
apiece. The most laborious part is
in the writing and reading of them.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
Flowing Under Dew.

We knew a farmer once, says the
American C%ultivat0r, who claimed
great benefit from blowing and culti-
waiting land while its foliage was wet
with dew. His theory was that the
dew had much more ammonia and
carhonic acid gas than had rain water,
and that these il turned under the
surface, could not fail to enrich the
soil. We think there is something in
that practical farmers theory. There
is at least disadvantage that the man
who tries that plan must needs be
up bright and early, and ii he works
till IL o'clock can we'll afford to take
two or three hours incoming during
the hottest part of the day. This is
better for both men and teams than
beginning late and taking no rest ex-
cept a hurriedly-eaten dinner until
work stops. 1t is the continuous
work without rest that is most ex-
haustive, and if getting the dew I'M
der the soil adds fertility the days
work ought to Gegin early, and the
rest come an hour or two before noon.
But dew, even If not plowcd under,
helps the soil that it drops on. Every
mi has noticed that when heavy
dews fall on clover, grass or corn,
then drops of dew fall from the leaves
upon the ground. The soil absorbs
the carbonic acid and ammonia when
the dew touches 1t. The effect of
plaster of paris to increase the dew
fall may be one of the reasons why it
Ia alec. ~~ IT, ----
markedly as it often does 1t has
little or no fertiiizing properties in
itself, but when it is placed on any
kind of vegetation it enormously in
creases the dew-fall upon it, and that
helps both the plant and the fertility
O.. the soil.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

AS A rule criminals are imitators.
When some bold law-brcaKer makes
a departure from the worn ruts of
crime there are always those who
follow in his course. Since the mystcri.
GUS Norden tragcdyat Fall Riverthcre
have been two murders committed
which are clouded in the same mys-
terry and are almost identical in de-
tail. Indiana, which is having run
of heavy crimes. furnishes one of
these murders. A man who works at
night and vas sleeping at home in Il
good-sizcd village during the day
time, was fatally hacked with a
Ratchet. and, although there we're
scores Of people within a stones throw
of his residence, not Il clue to the
perpctrator OF the terrible deed has
yet been obtained.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
A Mountain of Hornstonc.

Mount Kinseo, which rises precipi-
tously 700 feet out of Moosehead
Lake, in Maine, is wholly composed
of hornstone and is the largest mass
of that mineral in the known world.
There is no true flint in the United
States, but hornstone so closely re-
scmbles it that it takes an expert to
tell the difference. This rock sup
piled arrow heads to Indians hundreds
and thousands of miles away. The
discovery of these arrow heads in the
Mississippi Valley has led to the be-
lief that a system of commercial ex-
change must have existed among the
red men in former centuries. Accord
ing to an Indian tradition the noun
tain is the body of a monster moose
that was slain by a giant--New
York Times
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

who had been upset by q blcyclist q
wheel going at the rate of twenty
miles an hour struck the policeman
and knocked him within a few inches
Of half a block. Ten minutes later
the rider who had bowled the blue
coated guardian over was looking
through the bars, while the fellow
who had ccllided with the fat man
was cavortiDg about the streets at \
Nancy Hanks clip. 1t makes a vast
difference in a large city whether
you run over a common citizen or .
policeman.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
WESTERN CITIES N rAe Lean.
Hhe Metropolitan Spirit Lacking % the
Atlantic Seaboard.

Hhe Metropolitan Spirit Lacking % the
Atlant Seaboard.
The great trouble with American
municipal government, says q writer
in the Engineering Magazine, is tho
lack of homogeneity in the great
cities. Each city starts out inde-
pendently and on o better plan than
any other, and yet with very little
thought sof profiting by the expert.
ences of older ones American poll
ticians are apt to plume themselves
on the advances they have made in
their own departments. and some
even go SO far as to point with pride
to the growth of their particular
city. Yet with all their b0asted
progress, the fact remains that the
best governed cities, the most ably
developed. and thoroughly broadened
municipalities, are the old cities of
the world, in which the necessity for
new growth and complete change
from the old have been so wholly rec
ognized as to compel the introduction
of a new order of. affairs.
Nothing of the sort is to be seen in.
even the most active communities in
America. New York cannot annex
other districts because local politi-
clans interpose objections which have
no foundation say their own SELFISH
ness. Boston is hemmed in with 80
called rival municipalities that hug
their civil privileges and imagined
independence with absurd preten-
siOns of might and poWer. philadel.
phia has, in truth, added vastly to
her territory, and stands quite dis
tinct among seaboard cities in this
respect, but she is wanting in tho
metropolitan spirit and capability Of
developement which alone would
make this increase of territory valu.
able. In the West, a different feel
ing may be noted, and this. as we'll
as their more rapid rate of increase,
tends to make our Western cities
more prosperous as well as moro mod.
ern than Dur Eastern.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
Willing to Trade.

One day, shortly after the late
Adam Black, founder of the we'll.
know publishing house, began bust.
ness as q BOOKSELLER, a suspicious.
looking man came stealthily into the
shop, and. leaning over the counter,
whispered into his ear:
give got some fine Struggled whis.
ky, which I'll let you have at a great
bargain"
aNo. no." said Mr.. Black, indig.
nantly,. II want nothing of the kind;
20 away" :
The man. evidently not believing
in the sincerity of this righteous out.
burst leaned over the counter again
and whispered:
"lll TAX Bibles for'tn
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

TIE glass dress has come to stay.
The charming actress, Georgia Cay.
van, has cven decided to make her
first appearance in Il new piece robed
in n of those singular but fascinat-
ing dresses. 1t will not break; the
laundry woman cannot spoil it. and
when you are weary of it you can
have it melted up and get a new one
made out of the material of the old.
Surely the glass dress, possessing all
these advantages, is a thing of utility
as well as beauty.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
MODERN HYGIENE
sssnIaeiy wholesome Foods Row said q
he Dangerous.

OOO0Ak0Xky vvhV1OOOhAAO SOV&A &SOW 0WA -
Be Dangerous.
Hardly a day passes that we do not
receive some shock. that we are not
asked to give up some fav0rite dish
around which clusters a host of ten
der memories, and after eating of
which we have. for twenty years on
end, felt ourselves grow fat and child
like and undyspeptic. But the mod
ern hygiene says 1t mustg0. and IL we
retain it on our list we do it in an
anxious and guilty mood sure of itself
to beget internal trouble.
Seemingly simple things like dry
toast. oatmeal, and apes we have
heard forbidden of late as hard to
take care of, and bananas, or. tOr.ex-
ample the delicious, but as we sup
posed deadly, fried bacon cried up q,
food for babes and sucklings This
is puzzling; it, goes against personal
experience, it upsets all our dietary
plans and pleasures and it awakens
the shrewd suspicion. that mere fash
ion is at the bottom of the change.
One interested in the subject, hav-
ing an TX to grind, could without
much difficulty prove that everv
known edible has at some time or
other been declared digestible and
healthful; let the experimenter eat
with his Tor her) eyes shut, and he
Tor she) will be backed up in what is
chosen by some respectable authority.
This being so, the wisest plan is to
select food according TO. the private
palate utterly without regard to DIR.
A., b, or G. (sincc DIR. N, Y,
and z. will infailibly dispute them,)
and with the eye of faith fixed on
that good day when all digestion will
he carried on by artificial means, and
the whole world may he in that
lovely state attributed to George
Meredith's gourmet who is pictured
in after-dinner ease as .languidly
twinkling. stomachic contentmcnt"
Hartford Courant.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
SMASHED THE CRYSTAL
Curious to Know whether an Oft-r,epeated
Tale Was True.

S0A ~ AhAO w bACCblCI Ah DkC-kkVltt3tlcu
Tale Was True.
To say what you mean and mean
what you say is a good rule to follow
always, says Harper'S Young People.
An amusing story which illustrates
the value of this course wa, told some
years ago by an old gentleman who
was visiting a rolling mill for the
first time. He had heard wonderful
stories of the machinery in the mill,
and he was DESTROYS of putting some
of them to test.
81 have been told," said he to the
Zimmerman. as he watched the great
steam hammer rising and falling,
THAT Il god Zimmerman car break
the crystal of a watch with that
thirty ton hammer"
"Yes, SIR" said the Zimmerman;
tit IA be done"
II should like to see It," said the
old gentleman, eagerly feeling in his
watch pocket
81 can do it, sir"
"And will you?:" said the visitor,
drawing out his watch. sCome, l
am anxious to see it tried"
He laid his watchon the great anvil
plate, the hammer rose to its height,
and the next instant all its ponderous
weight, with a crushing force that
shook the ground for an acre round,
came down on the watch.
'sThere, SIR" said the Zimmerman.
quietly, 'if you don't believe that
cystal is broken. just stoop down and
you can see it sticking to the ham
mer."
The curious old gentleman swal-
lowed a whole procession of Jumps
and gasps before he could speak.
"ButIforgot to say, he exclaimed.
that it vas to break the crystal
without tnjuring the watch"
"Oh, yes" said the Zimmerman
Eyes, I know: 1 have heard that rub
bish myself, but it's all CANNON. 1
don't believe it. But you can break
the crystal every time"
If the visitor had said what he
meant he would undoubtedly have
saved his watch, but it must be con-
tessed that IL the Zimmerman had
not been one o. the meanest men in
the world he would have saved it any,
how,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
Tina Enough to Beller.

One day Billy, that's my brother,
he and Sammy Doppy was plsyin' bY
q mud-hole. ana Billy he said, "Now.
Sammy, les play we was a barnyard;
you be the pig and lie down and vol.
ler, and I'll be the bull and heller
like everything" So they got down
on their hands andknees, and Sammy
he went in the dirtand wollered, while
Billy bellered like distant thunder.
Bimeby Sammy he cum out muddy
you never seen such q muddy little
feller-and he said, "Now, you be the
pig, an let me beller." But Billy he
said. II amt a very good pig except
for dinner, and title be time 'nuf for
you to bellcr when your mother sees
yer close"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

TRAIN robbing will not fall into
dis1dyor till some of the robbers fall
into eternity. 1t would pay express
companies which are made frequent
victims of these outlaws to supply
their cars witt! Winchestcrs and a
few nervy men who could be de-
pended upon 10 use them. AS it is,
train robbing is nothing more than a
skylarSing picnic for the robbers.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

"A CONVENTION of colOrcd editors
was recently held in the South, and
among other things they decided
that they would rather be called ne
grocs than Afro-Amcricans. In this
they displayed their good sense. The
latter designation sounds as though
it had been originated by some dude
who parted his hair in the middle,
wore patent-leather shoes to break
fast and posed as a modern states
man in some ward where the quality
Of the true article was a thing un-
known.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

THE rivalry in athletics between
Yale and Harvard is giving the
country a good many strong, healthy
men who will have physical backing
for their mental work, and who will
leave the next generation a richer
heritage than would a lot of dyspep.
tic bookworms who never enjoyed
the hcalthful pleasures of the college
athlete. The education which neg
lects the body is 4 very questionable
possession.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
improving the Kings speech.

At a certain banquet held in Edin.
burgh in 1922, at which George ".
made a speech, James B%allantyne, the
well.known printer of the Waverly
novels. CHANGED to be Sitting next
to n of the reporters.
After the feasting was 0vcrBallan-
tyne asked the reporter to let him
have a look at his notes of the Kings
speech.
On reading the last sentence he ex.
claimed;
Gay, az, his Majesty did say so; but
it is not good-we will improve It'll"
Hereupon he crossed out; the origi-
nal words and substituted . revised
version Of his own composition, which
was generally accepted as correct, al
though differing from that which ap-
peared in some Of the other papers
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
The Fam,ly,s Ideal Room.

My ideal home room, the room
where all the family love best to
spend their evenings, does not boast
one single tidy, not one scarf drapery,
nor a bow tied to anything. Either
one of those three atrocities ought
to be considered an offense against
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

The germs which produce a phos-
lhoresccnt effect in dccaying matter
arc able to multiply at the freezing
temperature which goes with the
fact that meat preserved in ice cham
hers may acquire Il d%isagreeablc taste
and smell. To preserve it a long
time, the air must be dry as we'll as
Of very low temperature.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

We agree with Mr.. Russell Sage
that $50, 900 is an cxorbitant sum to
demaEd for saying his life from Nor.
cross bomb. Fifty dollars would he
plenty in the opinion of the great
manipulation of puts and calls" ard
he is n of the best Judges of values
in the country.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

MONTANA has a sheriff who feeds
his prisoners mince pies. OF course
n sheriff must be given some discrc.
tionary power in dealing with the
hardened characters placed under his
control, but to inf'ict the mince pic
torture would seem to he a species of
cruelty that calls for prompt legal in
tervention.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

A CURIOUS mumismatic memcnto
of Peter the Great of Russia has been
discovered at Astrakilan. III is Il me-
taliic token. or receipt, granting to
the bearer permission to wear u mus
tachc and beard.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

CHARLES HENRY PEARSON, an
Englishman, has written u hook in
which he claims that the great races
of the world are losing ground. and
that the Chinese, Hindoos. and South
American half -brccds are the coming
leaders of civilization.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
Stains from Tableware,

A little saleratus rubbed on with
the finger or a bit of linen, will re-
move stains from cups and other ar
ticles of tableware. 1t will also re-
move spots from marbleized oilcloths.
and many stains from tin ware.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

TIE citizen OF Illinois who i'm
agincd that he could drink Il half gal.
lon of whisky at one sitting made a
fatal mistake. No man who has not
had u long residence in Kentucky can
safely undertake that feat.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

SOME day the rutlian who throws
bricks at Gladstone will hit him.
That day will be notable as the dark
est in the career of the particular
ruf'ian in question. The only sign of
wisdom is in his present bad aim.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

a WOMAN in New Hampshire is a
street railway magnatc. agood house,
keeper md cook, Il fine shot with
the revolver, a t~lrst.class swimmer,
an cNcc''cnt business woman, and
worker in the church.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

PERHAPS the reason the Chinese
won't have their pictures taken is
that. Knowing their shyncss as to
manly beauty, they haven't the face
to do ii.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

WHEN the troops began to load
their guns with lead bullets the Paris
mob subsidized. Real bullets have u
soothing effect ON mobs.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

A FLORIST says: .Cat tails boiled
for ten minutes will not drop of.
How about the cats?
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

A HOPEFUL minister holds that
when the millennium arrives there
will be no Kicking in church choirs
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
4 CHOICE SELECTION OF IN
TERESTlNG ITEMS,

Comments and Crtuc..m. s...s rs.n
the Happenings of tho Day-Asxturiu.
md Nuws Notsa
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

WHILE a New York policeman was
laughing up%roariously at a fat man
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-22

A BILLIARD ball oft gives a kiss for
a blow.