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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-15

here's my list, and the first name is Aunty
Woods. Where is her valentine? All.
ycs!-ngly old woman. We will 20 there
firs:."
II say UNCLE" said Alfred. plucking
his sleeve, "you are not going to give
Aunty Woods that ugly picture, and tell.
her l sent ity"
"Hey-what! said Uncle Peter, sharp
~. "You amt ashamed of it, are you?'
well. yes," admitted Alfred, with a
very red face. "Come to think of it, I
wish l hadn't sent it,"
We'll. them" said Uncle Peter. with
something like n chuckle, Suppose 1 give
her my valentine instead?"
Your valentine. %uncle?"
"Yes. Here we are, 1 declare. .Jump
nut, Alfred. and put these bundles on her
doorstep. This one contains sugar, this
tea, this is Il roll of flannel, and this is Il
shawl. Now. knock at the door real hard
and then jump in"
Alfred did as he was directed. and away
went the sleigh.
they looked back md saw the old woman
ut the door. holding M her hands i'm evil
denl surprise.
"s Hos SOou JokSs IluKuCu Uncle
Peter. NOW, Fanny, where does Nellie
Baker livc?"
"Just down this street, uncle,'' replied
Fanny; but, oh, uncle, please don't give
her,
Keep quiet, miss. Here we are. Now,
Il this bundle and do as Alfred did.
lou can't break tits only II cloak and
II hood, and material for w nice dress
es."
"Oh, uncle"
"There, there! See the card on ito
my dear scloolmate.' How that will
make her laugh! Won't it, Fanny"
Mrs. Baker caught a glimpse of the re-
treating sleigh, and 1 think she suspected
Who sent that valentine to Nellie.
Then Bert hung on Johnny Rice's door
Knob IL package containing u pair of
skates, and got away unobscrved.
The horses dashed OIL. stopping here
and there. as indicated on Uncle Peters
list, mostly ut the doors of poor people,
and such n distribution of caps, hoods.
gloves. shnwls, c%omforters. blankets, and
v shoes. was never seen before.
When the people visited were pretty
we'll off. they got handsome cards CON
tanning pretty verses. whereas the other
package only had oil them something like:
when this o see, remember me-"
Good luck and good Wishes" ITO nv
Valentine" and so forth.
The children had never had such n iolly
time in all their lives, and Uncle Peter got
so uproarious that he nearly went off in
Il tit of laughter on several occasions.
But all things must come to an end. and
in this case the end came when the sleigh
was empty of bundles. Then Uncle Peter
tumbled out the children at their own
door and took the sleigh to it's owner.
When the boys and girls gathered
around the table that night as usual, I'm
Gle Peter laid down all their valentines
before them and asked:
What shall 1 do with these?"
Put them into the fire." said Fanny.
And into the fire they went.
And what do you think of my new
fashioned valentines? 2" was the next ones.
ton.
Beats the old-fashioncd Valentine's
Day all out of sight," cried Alfred.
And all the others agreed with him.
Golden Days.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-15
An Old Man,s Valentine.

The young birds are a-mating, deary.
And old birds own the selfsame
feather.
Why should we pine that skies bedreary?
Hearts are not thrall to sunny weather:
Wen face the Autumn's cold together.
l love thee. dear, 1 care not whether
The skies be dark or clear above us
Our sunshine lies with those who love nc
When Ages SHOWS come down in show
And thicken all the bitter air,
We'll call them, dear, our last white flow
crS-
The final blooms that we shall wear;
And L will deem them passing fair
When time hath twined them in thine
hair.
Come. be my love as 1 am thine,
And take me for n valentine.
Southern Magazine.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-15

wick. IL village situated no matter where,
n number of jolly young people who We're
very fond of playing sportive tricks, and
who never let Valentines Day go by
without making merry ut their neighbors'
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-15

it must form a contrast with the heart
shaped cut, which must be tined with
vivid red silk. When the frame is open
it suggests two abnormally large aces Of
hearts. A silver-franed heart pin cushion
could be used for a prize. Indeed, n
need not seek far through the shops to
find many q pretty arrangement of hearts
in jewelry or fancy articles.
BOBBY prizes are usually a source Of
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-15
A o PRIZE.

chicken patties whose shells had under
gone the same process previous to bak-
ing. Little heart-shaped cakes can be
served with ices and biscuit glaces in the
heart forms.
Hearts galore!. A veritable st. valen.
tines party.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-15
Tell me. dear one, as l pray you,
Would you be some warrior brave,
Crowned. %pcrchancc, with leaves of lau-

OAANs 90 \ lAuS yOuy
Would you be some warrior brave.
Crowned, pcrchancc, with leaves of 10
rel,
Borne upon fame's highest wave?
Would you be a mighty sovereign,
Empires trembling at your nod.
Life or death held in your chances.
Millions writhing meath your rod?
But the warrior brave. beloved,
Tho his name is heard nfar,
Gives his life in one short battle
And his deeds forgotten are.
And the king of power. beloved.
Meier his scepter can lay down;
Tho the royal head be weary,
Still the king must wear his crown.
Then be neither king nor soldier.
Power and fame so soon depart!
Shrincd i'll perfect love immortal.
Dwell thou here within my heart!
kate n. Bradley.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-15
Her Subscription.

At the time of IL passing rebellion in
Ireland, known rs Smith O'lfrien's,
the region where Frances Power Cobbl
lived and worked among the poor was
transformed. as she says. into IL small
Hecla; not under snow but mud. Clubs
were used for the purpose of buyin.
pixies. to be rscd whenever the leaders
ut Dublin should call for an %insurrec.
ticn. The result was as harmless as
:le bursting of IL bubble. but meantime
there had been real danger for all land.
ed proprietorS. whose downfall had
been determined upon. One incident
related by Miss Cobbc showed her i'll
nocent participation in the rebellion.
She says:
| was v~isitin, the fever patients mt
I;alisk. and was detained in the village
quite late II summer evening. SO
many were i'll that it took IL long time
To- supply them With food and all things
necessary. At me house. where three
persons were i'll. l fingered, question:
ins and prescribing. until about nine
O'Clock. When l went away l left mon.
cy to purchase the articles l had pre-.
| scribcd. Next morning my father said
to ne:
you were in Balisk last night?"
Ives. l was kept there"
"You stayed in Tyrell's house until
| nine o'clocky"
YES; how do you know"
"You gave six and sixpence to the
mother to get provisions!"
"Yes; how do YOU know"
well. very simply. The police were
watching the door, and saw You
through it. AS Dol as you We're gone
tho club assembled there. They were
waiting for your departure. The money
you gave was subscribed to buy pixies,
of course to pike mel!
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-15

The greater part of what we see
when we look at Jupiter is probably u
mass of more OF less heated clouds, sus-
pended around the hot core of the plan
ct within-a cloud ball. S6,5OO miles in
diameter. Above Jupiter's equator the
surface of those clouds is whirling
along Mt the rate Of more than 1900
miles an hour, in consequence of the
planets rapid rotation on its axis.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-15
UNCLE PETERS
VALENTINES.

T is true no doubt
that the custom of
sending valentines
is going out of fash
ion, doubtless to
the great relief of
the postman: but it
is only Il few years
ago that everybody
was obliged to send
a valentine to some
body under penalty
of being considered
nobody.
At that period
there lived in Run-
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-15

Kate Field has been decorated by the
French Government for her literary
earviceA
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02
she Whistled for 1t.

"Willie, do keep your head in
side the car window" pleaded the
small boys mother for the fifth
time. "Your new hat will blow off
and you will lose it."
But Willie thought more of the
scenery than he did of his hat, and
he wouldn't miss the chance of see-
ing truly cow or sure-enough
calf for all the new hats in Christ
endom. His mother tried to close
the window, but he kept his head
out and screamed, so she tried to
look resigned and left it up. Then
she thought she would frighten him,
and when he was watching real
sheep she snatched his hat from his
head and hid it. In moment he
drew his bare head in and bawled
Justify.
whats the matter, Willie2" she
asked.
"Pve lost my hat"
"There, l told you you would;
but don't cry"
He did cry just the same.
"Now, keep still, Willie, and I'll
whistle and it will come back"
She puckered her lips, whistled,
and the hat was clapped on Will
lies head. He was greatly amused,
but whether at his mothers attempt
to whistle or at the unexpected re-
turn of his new hat was not entirely
clear.
She had just settled herself COM
fortably in her seat, satisfied that
she had taught her boy a lesson,
when he flung his hat out of the
window and exclaimed:
'Now, whistle again, ma"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02
How the Chinese Use Bamboo.

Just 60 and look at your long,
slender bamboo fishing pole, and
try to fancy what house would
look like of that sort of thing. Yet,
when a Chinaman wishes to build
a house he doesn't hire an archi-
tect and look up a contractor, and
turn gray over plumbers and dec
orators; he just merely goes and
plants a few bamboo roots. Then
he goes on quietly attending to his
business and let's them grow. In q
few months he has a fine forest of
bamboo from 40 to 80 feet high,
and with stalks ranging from half
an inch to 18 inches in diameter.
He digs a trench the shape and size
he wishes his house, and proceeds
to cut the trees he thinks the proper
size and set them up in this trench,
which he fills up. With the slen-
der stalks he makes the rafters, and
shingles it with bamboo leaves.
The windows are delicate lattice
work of bamboo, and the furniture
is Of slender bamboo, bent and
curled and plated. His water
bucket is a good big stalk, sawed
off just below the joint, and made
as deep as he needs above it. For
bottle he takes a slender piece
and treats it in the same way. II
in the confusion of building he mis-
lays his knife he just takes good
sharp edge of a bamboo and it does
just as well for everything, except
cutting bamboo, as if it were Shef-
field steel. While he is building he
keeps off hunger by cutting the lit
tie tender shoots just as they peel
from the ground and cooking them
like asparagus.-The WatchmGn.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02
Lyon County.
NEWSPAPER LAW.

Subscribers tOhO do not giue cypress notice to
the contrary are considered tcishtfgtO continue
their subscriptions.
If subscribers order the discOntinuGnce of their
periodicals, the publisher may continue to send
them until all arrears are paid.
If subscribers neglect refuse to take their pc
riOdicGls from the Office to a0ich they ore directed
they held responsible till they haze settled their
bill and ordered their paper discontinued
4 If subscribers nl0Ue to other places tOitholtt
in5rnsig the publisher and the paper is sent to the
former direction, they held responsible.
5 The courts haze decided that refusing to take
periodicals from the Office removing and Leaving
them calted for pTi1aG fGcie Evidence Of intea-
tio4sGt fraud.
6. Any person 4ghO receiUes aeacspGper and
makes use Of it, s0heter he has subscribed for 1t
not, is held in LGW a subscriber.
2. The Postmaster a0ho neglects to giue the legal
notice of the neglect Of person to take from the Of
fee the newspaper addressed to him is liable to the
publisher for the subscription price.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02
GreenInn1l,s tsurn mer.

The Summer just past was the
mildest ever known in Greenland,
according to reports brought here
by the bark Silicon, which arrived
on Sunday from Ivigtut. The
mountains for the first time ever
known are bare of ice and snow,
and wild animals accustomed to
extreme cold have been compelled
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02
A ScOreher.

A century" fiend passed the lit
tie grocer's and lifting his feet from
the pedals, prepared to coast down
the hill.
The man with the ginger beard
rubbed some af the CRIME from the
window pane and stood watching
him.
"That dude allows he's some
thing fine," said the man with the
ginger beard, ''but if he knowed
that rode thataway once eighty
miles in eighty minutes, I guess he
wouldn't be so stnck on hisself."
"Git out" said the grocer 'They
amt hill eighty miles long in the
whole world"
II didn't say nothin' about a
hill" said the man with the ginger
beard. "The way it happened was
this: ] wuz out in Californy be-
fore the war and had an old
fashioned velocipede. None OF
these here pneumatic. tires in them
days-jist wood an iron. Wal, ]
wuz rollin' along the perary, when
all of a sudden / feels the earth
hump up behind me-earthquake,
you know; common thing out there
and ] finds myself runnin' down
hill on that hump. It may sound
to any one ignerent of the mighty
processes of nature in the wild
west like a lie, but it is a fact that
the angle Of that there hump was
so even set with the rate the quake
was travlin' that ] jest set there an
rode down hill on the level before
the thing stopped"
A report like that of pistol was
heard. The man from Potato
Greek looked out and saw the
coaster at the bottom of the hill
with an exploded tire.
"By goshP said the man from
Potato Creek. "That feller is a
full hundred yards from here, too
| hadn't no idea them yarns Of
yourn would act that fur"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02

to go further north. Birds are
plentiful, as well as other kinds of
game, particularly grouse, and a
number were shot by the Silicon's
passengers. Blueberries were plen-
tiful for the first time in many years.
The water about the southern coast
of the island was warm enough to
bathe in, luxury in which the
natives seldom indulge. Those on
the Silicon who took an Arctic bath
for the first time say they have met
with colder water on the Jersey
Coast. philadelphia Record.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02
sagacity OF the Horse.

An old cavalryman says that a
horse will never step on man in
tentionally. 1t is standing order
with cavalry that should man be-
come dismounted he must lie down
and be perfectly still. If he does
SO the entire company will pass
over him and he will not be injured.
A horse notices where he is going,
and he is on the lookout for firm
foundation to put his foot on. 1t is
an instinct with him, therefore, to
step over PROSTATE man. The in
juries caused by runaway horse
are nearly always inflicted by the
animal knocking him, and not by
his stepping on them.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02
Old People.

Old people who require medicine to regulate
the bowels aud kidneys will find true remedy
in Electric Bitters This medicine does not
stimulate and contains no whisky nor other in
toxicant, but acts as tonic and Alternative. 1t
acts mildly on the stomach and bowels adding
strength and giving tone to the organs, there
by aiding Nature in the performance of the
functions. Electric Bitters is an excellent ap-
petizer and aids digestion. Old people find it
Just exactly what they need Price SOC. per
bottle at Fraws.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02
It's the Simple,
Trivial Inventions
That Yield Fortunes

such as De Longs Hook
and Eye, "See that Hump"
Safety Pin," "Pigs in Clo-
ver," "Air Brake" etc.
Almost every one conceives
a bright idea at some time or
other. Why not put it in prac-
tical use? YOUR talents may
lie in this direction. May
make your fortune. Why not
try? :: :: :: :: ::
Write for further information and
mention this D6ner.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02

SUBSCRIBE FOR THE TIMES"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02
when the Chill Winds OF the Morn.
Ing

Hang like pail over the surface of the earth.
it will be well for you before venturing into
the raw vaporous air. charged. perhaps, with
the seeds of malaria or provocation of rheu-
matte twinges. to take wineglassful of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters and thus shield your
self from atmospheric Influences threatening
to the health. If you happen to get showed.
sliced or rained upon, use the same preventive
and avoid the rheumatism or a dangerous
cold. The agreeable warmth infused into the
circulation by this genial stomachic, its invig-
Grating and regulating properties commend 1t
to all appreciative OF the fact that prevention
is better than cure Use the Bitters for dys-
pepsia, biliousness. nervousness and kidney
trouble, sick headache and debility.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02
AN EmpOssibiaity .

Mrs. Pallette-Yes, my husband
is a wonderful artist; but there is
one thing he could never draw, al
though he has attempted it often.
Visitor-What is that?
Mrs. Pallette--A sober breath.
Wave.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02

tences in the article not SO quotable
as these. The tendency of dispas-
sionate scientific study and philo-
sophical and historical analysis
seems to be to take the romance
out of the new woman.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02
$4,000
Given Away
Every Month

to the person submitting the
most aaeritOriots imventiOm
during the preceding month.
WE SECURE PATENTS
FOR INVENTORS, and the
object of this offer Is to en-
courage persons of an invens-
i've turn of mind. AT the
same time we wish to tmpre IS
the fact that J: :: ::
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-02
THE NEW WOMAN.
She RetrOgrades and Harks Back ia
state OF Savagery.

The new woman has found her
Nprdau in James Wier, who turns
upon her the cold light of science
in an article in the american Nat
ttralist. The new woman, Mr..
Wier discovers, is an old woman,
a reversion to primitive type; not
so much degenerate as a case
Of atavism. Instead of an ad-
vahced type she really is retro
grade development. She. harks
back to a state of savagery.
It is well known that the politi-
cal influence of women in savage
tribes in a certain low state of So
cial development is much greater
than in civilized societies. This is
due to two institutions-matriarchy
and polyandry; that is, the rule of
mothers and plurality of husbands.
Matriarchy is the necessary conse-
quence of the lax sexual relations
of savage tribes. Paternity being
uncertain, inheritance and descent
must follow the female line. A
man knew that his brother was
half, at least, of the same blood as
himself, but he had no such assur-
ance as to his father or son. So
relatives through the mother alone
inherited property and power, and
this gave the mothers great impor
tance in the primitive state.
Polyandry resulted partly from
this Importance and partly from
the capture of women in weaker
tribes by stronger enemies, leaving
few to serve as consorts for large
number of men. This, again, in
creased the political Importance of
women and strengthened the matri-
archaic. Mr.. Weir says: "Polyandry
gives women certain privileges
which monandry denies, and she is
not slow to seize on these preroga-
tives and to use them in the further
ance of her own welfare. Polyandry,
originating from any cause whatso-
ever, will always end in the estab-
lishment of a matriarchate, in which
women are either directly or indi-
rectly at the head of the govern
ment." Among the matriarchates
still extant in the world is the Ma
ton of the Nairs in India, where
the women are allowed seven hus-
bands. Mr.. Weir says again: THE
Nair woman is power in the coun-
cils of the Nation; as a matter Of
course, the greater her lovers the
higher her rank becomes and the
greater her influence. Here is fe-
male suffrage in it's primitive form,
brought about, it is true, by envir-
onment, and not by elective fran
chise."
1t is not only in her political as
pect that Mr.. Weir discovers atavis-
tic features in the new woman. In
her physical peculiarities and emo
tional divagations as well she harks
back to the primitive type. He in
vents new name for the creature
who wants to vote to change hus-
bands frequently, to throw off the
common restraints of fully develop
ed civilization, and to have her
rights generally. She is "viragint," :"
which means a he-woman; that is to
say, "all equal-rights women have
either given evidences of mascplo-
femininity (viraginity) or have
shown conclusively that they are
victims of psychosexual aberrancy,
and "the history of every viragint
of any note in the world shows that
she was either physically or psych-
~ AAL El;noho@b
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1895-09-03
Wetp Yorf.

- S6ube nit pneumatiidem Ibiab
Iino cine Der neueiten ameritaniihen
G%rfinoun9en; ibr SHOPPER lit s.. 3.
%. Sing in SrOotlpn. Ser Nbiab 1T
auBerli6 bon Der geipObnlihen 6Orm,
aber bpbl uno bon einem oilnnen &eDer=
i"treifen sebiloet. 10 oaB er ii6 an uno
fir ii6 fla9 Suiammenoriifen laiien
iuiroe. Gr entbdlt aber einen 8ummi=
beutel, Der ourb Elm Yentilhen nit
Guft aufseblaien neroen tam uno als=
oann ben NbiaB ltraH, absr elaitiit
maht. Ser 3wef Der Griinoung 1T
natlirli6 abuli9 Dem oes pneumatiiden
Jabrraoreifens: einen lei9ten, elalti=
iden Sang gu ermO9lihen.
- Sine alte Srau bon IS Sabren,
6rau Sannab SOfpOOo, itarb sl
y bteepie Sic erblinoete
Dor 5 Sabren, muroe aber bon einem
Sabr iebeno, als fie ben SOB zines 9e=
llebten Gntel6ens beweinte; nod eini=
gen WDhen aber wuroe tie wieoer
blino, %erlan9te aber 2 Sage Dor ibrem
Sob nohmGls ibre Sebtraft uno be-
belt tie bis gum lebten lusenblld.