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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19

completion in n short time. The monu-
mcnt cost 100000. The architect was
Louis Mulguard of st. Louis. and the
sculptor Robert Br%inghurst of st. Louis.
The first speaker on the program at the
dedication was Thomas Dimmock of st.
Louis. Lieut.. Gov. Dimmock is better
acquainted with the story of Lovejoy
than amy other living man, having been a
resident of Alton ut the time and an in
innate friend of the family.
DIR. Wilkerson, a colorcd divine Of Up
per Alton. representing the colored peo-
pie. made Il speech. Lieut.. Gov. North
colt delivered an address and IL choir con-
sisting of the different singing societies
of the city furnished music for the occa-
sion. accompanied by the White Husslr
band. John w. Harmed of G~reenville,
ILL.,. who WAS an eyewitness of the death
OF LovcJoy, was present ut the d%edicatory
exercises.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19

Il. p. LoVEJol. Nov. Z, 1887, that Il
mob, angered by the abolition editorials
appearing in Lovejoy's weekly paper, the
Alton Observer, came across the river
from Missouri and bcsieged the editor and
his friends in Godfrey Il Gilman's ware
house, where they had taken refuge. The
doors and shutters were strong and the
mob was unable to gain admission. The
Infatuated men sought to dlslodgc the
Lovejoy party by throwing burning
brands upon the roof. Lovcjoy climbed
from the window twice and ~snatclled the
brands, receiving a bullet wound the Sec
ond time from which he died shortly after
rejoining his friends.
Through the efforts of tie late Senator
Q. A. Herb of Alton ar appropriation Of
$4,000 was made by the State Senate,
but Gov. Altgcld refused to sign the bill
till the citizens of Alton had raised 49,
0OO by popular subscription. The Love
joy Monument Association was then or.
ganized. and succeeded in raising about
half that mount. The Governor then
allowed the appropriation to pass into the
hands of the association. Plans and spc-
%citications We're Immediately drawn up,
the work was started and was pushed to
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19
TO AID MEN.
Movement to Send the Cutter Bear to
Point Barrow.

There was a conference ut the White
House i'll Washington Monday, attended
by Secretaries Gage. Long and Alger,
Commodore Melville and Commander
Dickens of the navy and Capt. Shoemak-
Ell. commander of the revenue marine SER
vice. to consider measures for the relief
of the American whaling fleet said to be
iccbound in Boring sea. 1t was decided
to send the revenue cutter Bear to the
relief of the whalcrs. She is now ut Sc
attic. Wash. having just arrived from
Alaska. Orders have been issued to put
her i'll commission for the voyage at once,
and Capt. Shoemaker says she will he
ready to sail as soon as she can be pro-
risioncd, which will take but a short time.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19
THE GIRLS.

The mans name is Jacob Rurkhart. the
daughters being Lolita, Emma, Ella and
Laura. The family lives at 4511 North
Twentieth street, at least Mr.. Burkhart
does, for all his daughters have now left
him. The girls are good-looking, domcsti-
Gated and accomplished. Each would
make an excellent wife. One of them,
ELLA, might have been married before
Dec. I, but that her fathers ultimatrm
has caused her to defer her plans rather
than yield to his insistcnce. She has fed
from her home, not waiting for the ides
of November to pass.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19
sAwoUsT AS MERCHANDISE.

Commodity Not Commonly Regarded
az of Much Account.
Sawdust as m article of merchandise
Is not calculated to excite the CONNER.
cial cupidity of ambitious merchants,
yet, prosaic and commonplace as is the
commodity itself, 1t affords a distinctive
branch Of trade and ranks as q thriving
though limited offshoot of the larger in
dustries. In this city there are per-
baps half a dozen dealers in sawdust,
and they have as much as they can do
oil the year round to supply the de-
mand.
These dealers obtain their supply
mainly from the lumber mills and
packing box manufacturers of the city,
but as these sources are not always sp2-
lcient they import quite a quantity df
sawdust from the Southern lumber
mills, n firm alone getting as much
as three carloads a month in this civr.
Sawdust reaches the consumer In
bags, which contain three bushels and
weigh forty-five to fifty pounds each.
The dealers wagon goes over a reg,l-
lar route every day, serving it's regular
customers, and at the end of the week
collecting the empty bags. The largest
users Of sawdust are the cold storage
warehouses, each of which will take
from fifty to sixty bags per week, and
the large meat houses, which use from
fifteen to twenty-five bags q week. Next
in order as consumers come hotels, dry
goods stores, Office buildings, butchers.
and grocery stores, fish and oyster mas.
kets, ice houses and saloons.
Ordinarily, there are two grades Of
sawdust, fine and coarse. The former
is mostly used for smoking meats, suca
as hams, shoulders and dried beef, aru
is obtained from walnut, briar root, cot
tonwood, red cedar, oak, hickory and
pine. The coarse grade comes from
white and yellow pine and poplar. and
is used for cleaning purposes and pacn.
ing.
Sawdust is sold at retail from Is 10
20 cents per bag, according to weight,
and the price is the same for all kinds
except one. The exception is lockwood
sawdust, which is very hard to get, and
brings as high as $3.50 a bag, wken Sc.
lectcd for packing purposes by jewel.
ers.
Common sawdust is used for packing
some kinds Of bottle goods, such as
ink, cologne, pickles, shoe backing, BIZ
cycle cements and oils. 1t is used for
packing eggs and also for some pol
fishing purposes, but the chief use Of
large quantities of this material is in
sweeping floors. Great quantities are
thus utilized, and much is also spread
upon floors, where 1t lies for several
days at a time before it is renewed.
Sawdust for sweeping is usually damp
cned a little, and 1t is not unusual to
clean carpets in this way. Hotels and
large department stores use great guam
titles for such purposes, and expend
perhaps $500 a year or this commodity.
Philadelphia Times.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19
WE'D OR A HOME.
Four st. I.ouis Girls Must Hustle for
Husbands,

In st. Louis is 81 father who has grown,
tired of seeing young mon call on his
daughters with Ito apparent intention of
marrying them. TO prevent any more
dilly-dallying. he has issued to his four
girls IN ultimatum which compels them
to either marry before Dec. 1 or leave the
parental roof and shift for themselves.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19

The steamer Diana, which went to the
Hudson Bay coast last spring with IL par
ty of Canadian Government surveyors
and scientists to determine the feasibility
Of Hudson Bay out for ocean steamers,
passed through the Straits of Canso OH
| her WAY back TO Halifax.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19

A wolf was killed ON one of the principal
residence streets Of Little Rock, Ark, iust
10 It was about to attack a party Of chill.
dren playing on Arch street. The animal.
emboldened BY hunger, had come out Of
the swsmps south Of the city.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19

day. The dedication
was first to C in
June, hut an acci-
dent to the monu-
,nent while in course
of construction ne
cessitated a post
ponemcnt, and it
was decided by the
committee in charge
10 dedicate the struc-
ture OH the %anniver-
sary of the killing of
%IAoyejoy. 1t was on
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19

Louis Below, his sister Susan. both Of
whom were to have bccn married soon,
and Bruno Kline. their hired man, were
mysteriously poisoned ut Dixon, Cal, and
the two former died in u few hours, while
the iGtter Is not expected to live.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19

Hiram l.. Holden, 20 years old, cashier
of the Central National Bank of Pueblo,
Colo, killed himself during n fit of tenn
pornry insanity. He had a severe attack
Of fever Il year ago, from which he never
fully recovered. Examination of his books
shows them correct to q penny.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19

The list of forgcrics that have turned
up Mt Toledo as the work of the suicide,
Prof. Martin Friedberg. is growing. Up
to the present time about 100 names have
been discovered. One firm is out $4,000.
1t is believed his forgcries will reach $780,
600.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19
GOOD Cement for Hard Rubber.

NOO0 O0AICtHC HOI 11WC0 1EUUUOEe
Dissolve some bleached gutta-percha
in carbon bisulphide. Make the join,
and, when dry, brush over with car
bon bisulphide in which sulphur has
been dissolved, OF take equal parts Of
pitch ana gutta-percha melted together,
add some linseed oil, which contains
litharge. Melt until all are well mixed.
Use no more Of the linseed oil than
necessary. Apply warm.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19

Read. Parsons & Co., stock brokers In
New York. have suspended. It is said
that they have no outstanding contracts
on the exchange. The firm was composed
until a few weeks ago of W. G.. Read Jr,
and George b. Parsons. Mr.. Read GO
mitted suicide.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19

Ailsa will not even honor me by allowing
me to lend her some money"
Peter Lennox's stern face did not soften
as lie listened. He would not yield an
inch now. He believed that no one i'll the
wide world had ever been so hardly used,
SO badly treated.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19

The Staniland, Merkle & Staniland
Marble Works Company Of Dayton, O.,
has made an assignment. Assets, $23,.
GOO; liabilities, $4,000. Health Oficer
G. A. Bonner, who is a stakeholder. de-
manded n financial statement and receiv.
ed instead the presidents resignation. An
assignment followed.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19
ouRRANT.s FATE is SEALED.
California Murderer Must Suffer thu
Death Penalty.

The United States Supreme Court has
affirmed the decision of the Circuit Court
for the California district, refusing a
writ of habeas corpus to William Henry
Theodore Durrant, under sentence of
death for the murder of Miss Blanche
Lamont in San Francisco in April, 1895.
The cast has attracted attention
throughout the whole of the United
States and this decision permits the law
to take its course with the condemned
man. Chief Justice Fuller announced tho
courts conclusion, but made no remarks
in doing so. saw to cite a few authorities
on which the court based it's decision.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-11-19
IN HONOR OF LOVEJOY
HANDSOME MONUMENT TO THE
FREE Speech MARTYR.
Formal Dedication in Alton, ILL.,, To
Witnessed by Many Visitors Story
of the killing of the Great Aboli.
tionist-Durrant Ii Doomed.
Shaft to Hero.

The Elijah P. Lovcjoy monument, re-
Gently built ut Grand View Cemetery, in
The advocate., 1897-10-27

The Pygmies of Africa,

Four years ago Doctor Stuhlmann,
one of the most scientific Of African eX-
plOrers, brought to Germany two dwarf
young women, about II and 20 years old
They had been captured by Arab slave
raiders in the great forests northwest Of
Victoria Nyanza. A man about 25 years
old and four feet six inches in height,
who was captured with them, was in
Doctor Stuhmann's care for several
months, but died on the coast just be-
fore he was to go to Europe. He was
so very shy that he was never seen to
look white man In the face, and though
he would talk little Ki-Suaheli, the
language of the Zanzibar natives, he
was never heard to speak a word of his
own language. The girls were taken
back to Africa in few months, as it
was feared they would not survive a
German winter. In all the time they
were with Doctor Stuhlmann he was
able to get from them only sixteen words
of their own language. Perhaps this is
not very surprising. 1t was enough to
make persons Of low type of culture
shy and suspicious to be shut up for
hours at a time with inQuisitive savants
who were continually looking at and
questioning and measuring them, turn
ing them this way and that, and photo
graphing them; and though the little
women were well cared for and much
was done to amuse them, they could not
get over the idea that the whites had
some sinister purpose. They feared they
would be poisoned, and never touched
any dish before their Italian servant
had first tasted it. They were carried
around from one scientific society to
another, all over Germany and Belgium,
and it is safe to say that in their private
opinion anthrOpOlogy was great bore,
and they were very glad to get back to
Africa. a.-Harper's Round Table.
The advocate., 1897-10-27
The Oldest PloW.Maksr.

Chicago has the oldest plow-maker in
the United States. His name is David
Bradley, and he is at the head of big
manufacturing company on the west
side. Mr. Bradley first worked at the
business in Syracuse, N. Y, in 1882. In
1885 he came to Chicago, which then
numbered about $500 inhabitants and
a camp Of several thousand Indians, to
help erect the first iron foundry estab-
llshed there. Mr.. Bradley was the first
man to bring pig-iron into Chicago In
connection with the foundry which he
helped build was a machine shop, and
the establishment soon began along with
its other business the manufacture Of
plOws. Mr. Bradley, by the growth OF
his business, was finally forced to build
a little town Of his own, which is known
as Bradley, Ill. Mr.. Bradley has passed
his eighty-flfth birthday, but is still hale
and hearty, and thoroughly enjoys the
prosperity which hard work has brought
him. The active business has been sur
rendered to his sons-Chicago Tribune.
The advocate., 1897-10-27
Great Dams in Snain,

With the possible exception of the
ancient dam in CeylOn, the oldest ma
sonry dams in existence are in Spain,
where irrigation is as necessary to sue
cessfuI agriculture as in India The
Oldest of the Spanish dams is that Of
Almanac, 6S feet high. The date Of its
erection is uncertain, but it is known to
have been in use in 1886. The great dam
at Alicante was finished in 1894. The
name Of its builder Is not known with
certainty, but it has been attributed to
Herreras, the famous architect Of the
Escurial palace. 1t Is the largest Of the
ancient dams, being no less than 1345
feet in height. Other Spanish dams
which are large enough to deserve spe-
cial mention are, with their heights, as
follows: Elche, rs feet; Nijar, 1915;
LozOya, 1O5; Val de inferno, 116.5; the
two dams at Hijar, each 141, and the
great dam at Villar, which is ITO feet
high. The latter is built on modern
lines, and is one Of four which OvertOp
all other dams now In existence These
are the Periar dam, in India, 49,. the
Furens dam, in France, 1905; the San
Mateo dam, in California, which is the
same height, 40 feet, as the one at Viii
lar. The builders of the ancient Span
ish dams seem to have proceeded mainly
upon the idea of piling in plenty of ma
terial, and while some of their work has
stood secure for centuries, some is said
to have failed because the foundations
were crushed by the sheer weight of the
enormous masses Of masonry piled above
them.
To the French belongs the honor Of
first making a scientific investigation of
the best forms Of profile for masonry
dams, and the dam at Furens was the
first to be constructed in accordance with
the results of these studies. 1t was built
to protect the village of st. Etienne from
the disastrous floods to which the Fu-
rens river is subject, the discharge some-
times rising as high as $4,000 gallons
per second, while the average flow is
but 130. This dam, which was COM
pleted in 1866, was not only much higher
than any which had been built up to
that time Q70.6 feet), but with It's grace
full, slender outlines constituted a daring
The advocate., 1897-10-27

This is the cost Of firing the main bat
teries alone. A ships main battery con-
sists of all guns over three-inch caliber
The main battery is supplemented by
battery of machine and small caliber
rapid-tire guns.
The estimate in the table as to the
cost Of shot is based on the cost of COM
mon shell for the 13-inch, S-inch, 5-inch
and 4-iHch guns and of armOr-piercing
projectiles for the II, 10 and 6-inch guns
In actual battle a greater percentage
of armor-piercing prOjeCtiles would be
used and the cost for the main batteries
much augmented. With this and the
expenditures of the light guns (the ma
chine and small rapid-fre) it can be
seen at a glance that million dollars
Of Uncle Sans money and over would
disappear in the course of an hour.
1t might be argued that a ship would
not put all her guns in action at the
same time, but in modern naval tactics
the ships circle about and 'yaw' from
one side to the other, so as to keep as
many guns bearing as possible, and are
so constructed that at all times the
uGdNlCI 6uuD Gttll DC hCpl bVtl AAAE OlA lllS
enemy. All things considered, million
dollars is not a large estimate for the
cost of powder and shot expended in one
hours hard fighting.
Some idea of the cost of firing a big
gun may be gathered from the fact that
an armOr-pierclng prOjectile from 12-
inch gun costs $37762, and it takes 4SO
pounds of powder to send it on its mis-
sion of destruction. A 12-inch gun can
be fired once every three minutes.
A common shell for 13-inch gun costs
$116.63, and the armOr-piercing prOjec-
tiles for the same gun at least $500 each.
One charge of powder for a 13-inCh gun
is $50 pounds. An 8-inch gun can be
fired once a minute. 4-inch gun 42O
times an hour. But it is the total cost
of powder and shot fired away in one
hours engagement which is most i'm
pressive as illustrating the immense
strides which the cOstliness of naval
warfare has made of late years. One
single naval engagement of any dura-
ton would cost more in the value Of
powder and shot expended by the Op-
posing fleets than it would have cost to
conduct an entire naval war at the be-
ginning of the century.-SyndiCate Let
ter.
The advocate., 1897-10-27
Average Height of Men.

During the war measurements were
made of over 100000 men in the United
States army, and it was found that the
average height OF men born in the United
States was 678 inches. According to
TOpinard the average height of Eng
lishmen, ScOtchmen and SWedes is 67.4
inches; Irishmen. 81; Germans, 662;
Frenchmen, 65; Danes 662; Russians,
65.4; Chinese, 64; Bushmen, 81; Lap
landers, 607; American Indians, 682;
Patagonians, 703. Taking these meas
Urements as basis, the average for the
world would be about 65.S. Natives of
the United States, it will be observed,
are taller than any other representa-
tives of the Caucasian race, and 1t is
an interesting fact that residence on
this continent, or, at least, the northern
part Of it, tends to develop all the races
in respect Of height, weight and mus
cular power. Thus, in the army meas
urements referred to the average height
Of fOreign-bOrn citizens was less than
the average of AmeriCan-born, but
greater than the average in their re-
spective countries. The high average
of the Indians is another point in proof.
No statistics of the height of women have
ever been tabulated According to Ger
land, the variation in the height of fe-
males Of the various races is very much
less than Of men. In the shortest and
weakest races the females are physi-
cally equal to the males, and sometimes
surpass them. On the other hand,
where the stature of the males Is con-
siderably above the normal, the female
departs little from it.-GlObe-D Democrat.
The advocate., 1897-10-27
A MILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR.

At Newport on June / the naval Of
ficers assigned to form the class of in
struction for the term assemble at the
War College to study the most expen-
sive problem with which nations have
now to deal in their plans of offense and
defense.
Naval warfare has become so expen-
sive that naval strategy must be under
stood thoroughly by naval officers in
order that the greatest results may be
obtained with the least amount of actual
fighting. For this reason every year a
number Of naval officers are sent to the
War College to study the most effective
employment of sea power. Modern naval
warfare is the most expensive sort of
fighting.
1t would cost $1,OOO,OOO in powder and
shot alone for the North Atlantic feet
to fight one hour.
The cost Of the powder and steel that
one modern battle-ship would fire away
in one hours fighting is as great as
the cost Of building a credtable man
Of-War in the days before the nations
began to build fleets Of iron and steel.
The Indiana, for instance, in an hours
fight would expend powder and shot to
the value of Sill ,654.4O from her main
battery alone, and to that must be added
the cost of the fire from her machine
guns and rapid fires of small caliber.
The United States has five squadrOns
afloat-the North Atlantic, the South
Atlantic, the European, the Asiatic and
the Pacific. OF these the most powerful
is the North Atlantic. To keep that
fleet in action for one hour would cost
at least $1,000, 900 for powder and shot.
One Of the big battle-ships would burn
up about sixty tons of powder, and
powder costs the government q cents a
pound. The whole North Atlantic fleet,
including the Iowa, would burn up over
535 tons from the main batteries alone
And that is powder used to send the
prOjectiles from the guns, and does not
include the bursting charges of explo>
sives in the shells.
This table gives details as to the ex-
pense in powder and shot of fighting
the North Atlantic fleet for one hour:
The advocate., 1897-10-27
The Young People.
LITTLE NUT PEOPLE.

Old Mistress Chestnut once lived In burr
Padded and lined with the sOftest Of fur;
Jack Frost split It wide with his keen silver
And tumbled her out at the risk OF her life.
Here is Don Almond, grandee from Spain,
Some raisins from Malaga came In his train;
He has a twin brother shade or two leaner,
When both come together we shout, "Philo-
penal
This is Sir Walnut; he's English, you know,
A friend OF my Lady and Lord So-and-So;
Whenever you ask old Walnut to dinner,
Be sure you have salt for the gouty old sinner.
Little Miss Peanut from North Carolina,
She's not 'ristocratc, but no nut Is finer;
Sometimes she's roasted and burnt to clnder,
In Georgia they call her Miss Goober or Pinder.
Little Miss Hazlenut in her best bonnet
Is lovely enough to be put In a sonnet;
And young Mr.. Filbert has journeyed from
Kent,
To ask her to marry him soon after Lent.
This is old Hickory; look at him we'll
A general was named for him, so I've heard
tell.
Take care how you hit him-he sometimes hits
backI
This solid old chap is hard nut TO crack.
Old Mr.. Butternut, Just from Brazil,
Is rugged and rough as the side OF hill;
But like many a countenance quite rs ILL
favored,
He covers kernel deliciouSly favored.
Here is a Southerner, graceful and slim,
In flavor no nut is quite equal to him.
Ha! Monsieur Pecan, you know what 1t means
To be served with black coffee in French New
Orleans
Dear little Chinquapin modest and neat,
Isn't she cunning, and isn't she sweet?
Her chin Is as smooth as q little boys chin,
And the squirrels all chatter OF Miss Chinqua-
pin. Progressive Age.
The advocate., 1897-10-27

time to save party of ladies from Sc
riOus injury and perhaps worse. His
master was driving down Portland ave-
nue. last Saturday when he was startled
by cry of Look Outv He turned and
was just in time TO wheel his horse out
of the way Of runaway which came
tearing down the avenue. Just ahead
was party Of ladies in danger Of what
seemed certain death to some of them
when the dog, who had been following,
and who seemed by instinct to compre-
hend the situation, gave leap and
caught the lines Of the runaway between
his teeth, his great weight bringing the
frightened animal to his launches just
as he was about TO strike one of the la
dies, who seemed too terrified to move"