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The largest structure ON the earth whei
compared with the size of the builders, i.
the ant hill of Africa. Some Of thcs,
mounds have been observed Is feet hiel
and feet in diameter.
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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30
All for a Cent.

Some free silver fatists think they are
asking a poser when they ask: "What
makes cent worth n cent?" They take
it for granted that the answer must be:
''The government makes cent worth a
cent therefore it is the government
stamp that makes money worth what it
is stamped.
Which shows that little learning is
really a dangerous thing sometimes. The
Office of cent is a very small one. 1t is
n minor coin created for convenience in
small transactions. But if our wise fat
lists will inform themselves regarding its
function and it's limitations. they will
learn that the cent is legal tender in
sums not to exceed 25 cents.
Do they appreciate the full significance
of that limitation? If they do they will
see how ridiculous they are when they
make the cent an argument in favor of
a full legal tender. irredeemable fiat dol
lar-whether all fiat or so per cent. fat.
The subsidiary silver coins are legal
tender in sums not exceeding $40, while
the standard silver dollar. held at par
with gold under the limitations of the ex-
listing gold standard, is full legal ten
der, without limit, unless otherwise
specified in the contract. Take away
these restrictions and change the stand
aru, and the silver dollar would simply
be worth it's bullion value; no more, no
less.-DetrOit journal.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30
Behold the Man.

In one of his harangues last Saturday
the Boy Orator was asked to say some
thing about the tariff and replied: "Our
opponents tell us that the tari9 is the
great issue: Until they put prohibitory
tariff on foreign financial policies they
cannot talk tariff to me-" And yet only
four years ago the tariff was the only
thing that Bryan did talk about. He
was sweeping in his statements. He said
that tariff of 10 per cent. was just as
indefensible as tariff of 100 per cent.
He did not then attribute low prices to
the "crime of 1S73." He said: "You
must attribute it to the inventive genius
that has multiplied thousand times,
In many instances the strength of a
singe arm, and enables us to do today
with one man what fifty men could not
do fifty years ago. That is what has
brought down prices in this country and
everywhere" These words Of Mr.. Bry-
an were right then and they are right
now. But he hasn't the honesty to re-
peat them now. Rather than admit that
the medicine he induced the country to
take then was drastic in its effect he
bObs up serenely with another nostrum
far wrose than the othef. He is a politi-
cal guack of the worst kind.-Cedar Rap-
ids 0a.) Republican,.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30
PRINcEToN's GREAT oAv.
Cleveland Participates in the cele.
bration of a Gniversitx,s Birth.

Cleveland Participates In the Cele>
bration of Gniversity's Birth.
President Cleveland's. address was the
principal feature of the Princeton COL
lege celebration Mt Princeton, n. J. 1t
was delivered in Alexander Hall. whence
he had been escorted on foot through the
college grounds from President Patton's
house by the Philadelphia City Troop,
Mrs. Cleveland riding in an open carriage
with Mrs. Patton.
The exercises opened with prayer by
Rev. DIR. Theodore l.. Cuyler, Of Brook
lyn. After Dr.. CuYlers prayer. President
Patton made the formal announcement
that what was, formerly the College of
New Jersey will henceforth and forever
be known as. Princeton University. A
scene of wonderful enthusiasm greeted
DIR. Pattonis, remarks. He then an
nounced the endowment fund received.
amounting to- nearly u million and half
dollars, not including the amounts con-
tributed for Blair Hall by John I. Blair.
of Blairst09n, n. j., and the new library.
The ceremony of conferring the degrees
on the siAty-fve mep elected for that
honor was next on the program. It was
learned tliat President Patton desired to
confer the degree of doctor of laws upon
Mr.. Cleveland. but the President modest
ly declined the honor. The degree of
doctor of laws was conferred upon large
number of European college professors
and scholars After the comforting of de-
grees, the President address sel the great
assemblage.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30

and their wealth insured them every ut.
tention. The couple often went out OH
shopping expeditions. One day they vis=
tied furrier's shop, and after examining
the furs left without making u purchase.
After they had gone the shopkcepcr
missed articles and put detectives on the
track. Mr. and Mrs. Castle were fol-
lowed to their hotel and there arrested.
An examination of their trunks, which
had been packed ready for sailing, reveal
ed an amazing amount of stuff, the pos
session of which is beyond any explana-
ton the police can offer, unless it be taken
as evidence that Mrs. Castle has mania
for collecting odd trifies. Among the ar-
ticles were number of watches, all alike;
a plated toast rack that came from the
hotel breakfast table; thirteen umbrella
heads, and pair of sheets bearing the
mark of u big London hotel. The sable
and chinchilla skins missed by the furrier
were also found. i
After their arrest f2,OOO.OOO sterling
was offered as bail, but the authorities re-
fused to release them. The United States
embassy interested itself in their behalf,
but without avail. They remained in
common cells at the Jail seven days, when
they We're arraigned, held for trial and re-
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30
Goods Bought ON Conditions,

There is no doubt that the business
men of the country are counting on a
revival of business in the event of Mr..
McKinley's election. News from all see.
tions of the Union In to the effect that
orders are being placed with manuf:,c.
t!lrers and jobbers. conditioned upon
the result of the election. If Mckinley
wins the goods are to be shipped; if
be countermanded or reduced.
One of the largest furniture houses
in Chicago, Ford, johnson & Co., re-
ceived letter from "A customer in Cali
order for goods. The order was made
conditional in this way: ''If the election
goes for free silver we do not want the
goods; il against free silver we want
them shipped November 6-not later
they are prompted By business prudence
alone to make the order conditional, be.
cause they fear the result Of the I'll.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30
Chapter on Moncy-Makine.

II a man takes a piece of steel worth
Is cents and makes of it watch-springs
worth 500, that is skill.
If he takes piece of paper worth
cents and writes on It poem that sells
for $50, that is genius.
If he takes farm worth SIS an acre
and by his labor and knowledge puts it
in heart again and makes it worth $40
an acre, that is work.
If man takes hammer worth 60
cents and in days use of it earns $1.35,
that's hard work.
If man buys yearling at trotting
sale for $15. that in it's 3-year-Old form
develops ability to make mile at a
2:O6lA gait, that is judgment.
Ii IL man buys silver mine he has
never seen and it makes him million
,irc that's luck.
If man buys an article today for
S1.5O and sells it tomorrow for $3.50,
that's business.
But when government takes So cents
worth of silver and coins it into a cart
wheel. and says lcgisiativcly that it is
100 cents, or IL dollar. and pays it out
as such to its creditors. that is not
finance. hut highway robbery.-From the
New York Sun.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30

leased on $2OO,OOO bail. Charles Mat.
thews,- one of the most noted criminal
lawyers in England, has been retained to.
assist in the defense, and influential
friends have sprung up all over the king
dom to help save the Castles from fur
ther disgrace, but their efforts will hardly
avail. Larceny is felony in English
law, the punishment for which is prac-.
tically unlimited, and the charges against
the Castles are so we'll founded that their.
legal advisers are in despair. They do.
not believe that Magistrate Shell will.
even consent to consider the case under
the ''irst Offenders act, which provides
punishment by fine in lieu of imprison-
ment Their attorneys admit the thefts,.
but will set up kleptomania as defense.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30
Afraid to Discuss 1t.

William Jennings Bryan is afraid to
discuss the tariff: In reply to question
recently concerning the tariff. he loftily
said, ooh, we can change our tariff sys-
he replied, %Yon cannot force the tariff
question into this campaign"
Yet the tariff is made an issue by both
the Popocratic and Republican plat
publican threat to restore the Mckinley
law is disturbing business. Moreover,
Gov. Mckinley has placed protection
side by side with sound money as the
issues of supreme Importance and the
masses of the Republican party agree
It is not at all difficult to understand
tion. He dare not undertake a defense
before the American people of the disas-
trous policy for which he is in part re-
denounced the policy OF. protection as
..'the most vicious political principle that
has ever cursed this country" He then
.ascribed all the ills experienced by the
American people wholly to protection.
He had nothing to say about the cur
rency: He had not then discovered
responsible for all the trouble. The
wrong and every i'll suffered by our
Two. years later Mr.. bryan found OPP
portunity to embody his views in legis-
latioa and to command national atten-
tion as one of the most radical of the
foes of protection. He helped to put
wool on the free list with disastrous re-
suits to American sheep husbandry and
corresponding benefit to the wool-grow-
ers OF Australia and other foreign coun-
tries. He voted against protection to
american sugar producers, to the serious
1etrfment of an important industry. He
supported by voice and vote tariff
changes which greatly stimulated the
w0rBted and wool manufactures of Eng
land and struck an almost fatal blow to
those of the United States. He was a
foremost advocate of the policy which
has kept more than a million of the
American people in itlleness or only par
italy employed for the past three years.
reducing the demand for the products
of the farm and the factory to the ex-
tent of hundreds of millions of dollars
annually.
He is in part responsible for tariff
legislation which has caused an enor-
NOUS deficiency in the revenues of the
government and compelled bond issues
to meet expenses. In short, Mr.. Bryan
was assinstrumental as any man in Com
gress In. bringing about the unfortunate
industrial and business conditions from
which labor and capital alike have suf-.
fered immeasurable injury and BY which
H.retarded. .s.......
Now Nr. Bryan IL afraid to attempt
. defense OF his record before the Amer.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30
countr.es.-From a speech by senatse
Only speculatora WouId Gain.

Only Spectators Would Gain.
The wage earners and the salar1ed
men would find very soon that gold
prices remained with little or no change,
and that prices expressed in silver
rose with more or less irrtgularity,
that they were nearly double what
they are now, and that domestic pro.
ducts rose about as much proportion
ately as imported goods. II import
ed cloth. for example, were doubled in
price. domestic cloth would rise in
much the same proportion, though it
might not go SO far. And these same
wage earners and salaried men would
find that their incomes were not rising
nearly SO fast as their outgoes, and
many Of them woilld wait good while
for any increase.
If we stopped here we might con-
clude that whatever was lost by other
classes would at least be made Up by
the farmer, but this would be a mis-
take. The farm mortgage is not so
universal as the silver men pretend.
Less than one farmer in five carries
one; in the South the percentage Of
mortgages is extremely small. and the
mortgaged farmers spend. much more
money in buying supplies and tools
than they do in interest and INSTALL
ments on their mortgages. In the pay
ment of their mortgages the cheap sill
YER dollars would go as fur as any,
but more than four farmers in five
spend all their income, exclusive of
possible investments, and the rest spend
the greater part of it, not in paying
deferred obligations, but in paying
groceries and calico and harness and
implements, and in repairing the house,
and in other forms of current pur-
chases. Now, for all these purposes
the cheap silver dollar would. not be
nearly SO useful as the present dollar.
The farmer who got twice as much Tor
his wheat and corn and cotton would
pay twice us much for his sugar., coffee,
calico, harness, reaper, paint and wag-
on. So that we would be no better OF
than he is now.
But II the farmer made nothing and
the laborer lost who would get the
difference? The speculator would get
great deal of it; such changes as the
cheap-money men threaten open up
great opportunities for speculation.
The legitimate business man would
get some of it; with prices going up.
much faster than wages the margin
for profit would be increased. But the
disturbance of business would be SO.
great that an element of chance, or
gambling, would be introduced into all
business, and success would he largely
matter of luck or skill in spccula-
tion. With prices advancing much
faster than wages, the number of Gus
toners at the stores would fall off.
Men whose wages were unchanged
could not pay double prices for things;
some things they would get of In
ferior quality, and other things they
would go without, and the merchants
would be complaining that trade was
falling off, and they would begin to re-
duce the number of clerks. What with
deterring people who had money from
lending, and raising prices beyond the
means of the masses of the popula-
tion to pay, the change to the silver
standard would check trade and throw
men out of employment as nothing in
our history has ever done vet.-Tle
Iron Age.
r..s- -. . r..-.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30
THE CASTLE CASE.
Wealth, ss. Fr.ncisco Merchsnt and
Hia Wife Accusefl NJ Shon1,Sf1mv.

Wealthy San Fraucisco Merchane and
His Wife Accused of shopliftinx.
A case which has attracted internatiou-
al attention is that of Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter n. Castle, Of San Francisco, who
have been admitted to $1,000 bail IN
London to await trial for grand larceny.
The Castles, who are wealthy Americans,
and move in the best society of the Pa
cific comst, are accused Of shopliftn4.
Castle is member of one of the wealth
lest firms in San Francisco and gradu-
ate of London University. His wife 10
one of the society leaders of the Golden
Gate, q woman Of gentle disposition and
highly cultured. They went to Europe
this summer aud in September arrived In
London. They stopped at the Hotel Cecil
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30
An Object Lemon In Silver

There is an American silver dollar.
There are two Mexican dollars. There
is more silver in each of them than in
the American dollar. bought both of
them for that. What Is the reason? The
sole reason is that our dollar is limit
cd coinage, backed by gold. There is
another coin. That is French 5 franc
piece. paid G5 cents for that. 1t car
lies little less silver than the Ameri-
can silver dollar. France and the Uni
ted States are both gold standard coun-
tries. They keep in circulation thou
sand millions of silver, and Mexico and
China and Japan have not got one dol
lar of gold in circulation. The gold
standard country can keep silver in cir
eulation. The silver standard country
can keep no gold. That Is the example
Of every nation to-day. Gold all leaves
the free coinage country. Gold and sil.
yer both circulate In the gold standard
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30

umph of free silver. The same reports
come from Wholesale merchants in New
York and other large cities.
Why should any sensible voter hesi.
which is regarded with so much un.
certainty and doubt by the business
men of the country? Is it not a fact
that the triumph of Bryan and free
coinage, If it has that effect upon the
commercial forces of the country, will
also be disastrous to industry and every
man who depends upon industry for
livelihood ?@Cleveland Leader.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30

lean people. But lie is grossly mistaken
# he imagines the people are not think
Ing about that question. His free silver
theories ana platitudes and fallacies. his
appeals to prejudice and passion have
about lost their force. The cause of
currency debasement and reputation is
escape responsibility for his share in the
tariff legislation, no matter how much
l,o frips
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30
What it Amounts mo-.

The scheme for the unlimited coinage
of 5O-cent silver is wholly opposed to
mathematics. logic and morality.
1t is matlematically absurd to fry to
cannot have a bushel that holds both
eight pecks and four pecks or a yard of
both thirty-siX inches and eighteen inches
long or II pound containing sixteen ounces
and eight ounces. If by law yon could
enforce such double-standard measures,
and sell by the smaller. If YOU triad to
enforce the use of the smaller for the
larger, the men of moderate means and
the working men and women who cannot
resist would get cheated. The only ones
who would make anything BY such a law
on the rapid changes that would come
about, or the actual owners of the prod.
ucts which the law tries to double in
price. In the case of the silver standard
the gamblers and mine owners alone
would gain.
The scheme is opposed to logic because
it is offered as n help to the poor, who
would suffer most by it. 1t is offered as
n relief for debtors. but no class has so
large sum constantly owing to them as
the wage carners, who would be paid so
cents for. a dollar. Even the farmers
who are in debt would suffer, for their
mortgages would be called in and could
only be renewed at a higher interest, if
at all. Every farmer who is clear of
debt would find his expenses increasing
faster than his income. while the ad-
vance in prices, SO fur as it took place,
would check exports and increase i'm,
ports.
1t is opposed to morality, for it would
give big profits to the mine owners at the
cost of the rest of the people. 1t would
rob the many to add to the riches of the
rich. 1t would rob most those who have
che least-the wage earners and the
multitude of widows and orphans with
small incomes from fixed Investments.
would cheat worst the poorer parts of
the country, and no part SO cruelty as the
South. .
These are facts that will become palmer
and more plain as the canvass goes on.
and Bunko, .Sewall and Silver, will be
crushed by the votes of the workingmep
and the farmers.-New York Times.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30
The Tarin in Relation to Revenu,


The basic fact to be remembered in
all discussions of the tariff is that we
are now obliged to raise annually, in
round numbers, half billion of dollars
for the support of the government. Apart
from borrowing. which of course nobody
which the great bulk of ii can be derived,
towit: from tariff duties and direct taxa
ton. The difference in these two meth
ods is that the first is indirect and SO
never perceptibly felt. and the second il
direct and always felt. The Democratic
by the consumer. The Republicans con-
tend that If the tariff is tax at all it is
one paid by the foreign producer and not
by the consumer.
Hence they favor as high n tariff on
the foreign product as it will bear, be-
cause tsI they deem it better to collect all
the revenue possible from the foreigner
who pays noe other taxes, rather than
from our own people who must pay in
taxes whatever is needed over and above
the amount realized from tariff duties,
and moreover, because the tariff affords
incidental protection to our manufacture
ers thus enabling them to compete with
the foreign manufacturer, and at the
same time furnishing employment to our
iaboring men, and creating home mark.
ct for the farmers products far more val.
uabie to him than any so-called market
of the world.
That the tariff duties are paid by the
foreign producer is so manifest that the
only wonder is that it should ever be
questioned. The foreign producer pays
it as license fee for entrance to our
market. but when he gets it here he
must sell it for the same price as the
american producer or he cannot sell it
price to the consumer. The case has
never ne been more clearly stated than by
Sir John Macdonald, the premier Of
Canada, who said in speech in the
canadian Parliament shortly after the
passage of the Mckinley tariff, "Sup-
pose man has 100 acres on the Cana.
the American side of the line. Suppose
ne grows 1000 bushels of barley ON each
of his farms. He takes his 1000 Ameri-
can bushels to the American market and
gets 81 bushel for it. He takes his
1000 bushels of Canadian barley to the
American market and gets but IS cents
cents duty for taking it across the line.
How can it. in this age. be said that the
consumer pays the duty? 1t comes out
of the pockets of the Canadian farmers" !"
AT large meeting held in Sheffield,
england. about the same time the lead
ing speaker, who was a manufacturer of
cutlery %are acc9 aecG95ding to report in the New
bered the time when the Americans sup
piled work for the entire city of Shelf
field, and that the Mckinley bill was a
bill to raise American taxes out of the.
rockets of the Sheffield exporters, and
that Sheffield was not going to pay
Such statements from such sources
show that foreigners know who pay our
taxes if Democratic leaders do not
Chippewa Falls (Wis.) Herald.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30

"A petition presented to the Duke Of
Norfolk, as Earl Marshal, in the year
1908 by one Thomas Greenhill, surgeon
(author of a work on "Embalming,' y
ens @ N Of
thirty-ninth child of one father and moth.
er. your grace would be pleased to-sighal.
ize 1t by some particular mct0 and aug
mentati0n % his coat Of arms, to transmit
to postefity % uncommon . thing"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30

Thomas Kidd, aged IA, sor of w. X.
Kidd. of Cleveland, was murdered mt Dal-
ton, Ohio. by Carl Mckinney. aged Z.
The Kidd hoy, who was a cripple, was Wis.,
'ting at the McIlhiney home. The boys
We're last together while the McIlhineys
we're at church. and they quasreled.
young Kidd struck Carl with his erutch.
The latter then went into an adjoining
room. procured his fathers gun and slot
Kidd, blowing off the top of his head.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-30
Sam Jones Makes Il Clear.

"Suppose, says the Rev. Sam Jones
Of Georgia, 'the government owned all
the gristmills in this country and con-
gress should enact a law that all corn
should be ground by the government
mills free and that while corn was
worth bat 18 cents q bushel the govern
ment would stamp the sacks Of meal 20
that it would bring SO cents bushel
and do this for nothing. It is very
hard matter to keep meal above the
price Of corn"