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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04

had the courage Of their cony1c-
lions, by which they profited. Believ-
ing McKinley'sel election meankprotection
and consequently high prices for wool,
last November they invested $1,S40 in
a band Of sheep. A protective tariff
law was enacted, prices of wool ad-
vanced, and the girls proited by their
faith and good business Judgment, SELL
ing 1926 worth Of wool this year, and
receiving 1920 for their sheep, o net
profit Of $500 on an investment Of
$3.50 a year ago. This is only a small
illustration Of the benefits Of the tariff
law to the farmers Of this county, but
1t is plain and near at home, therefore
more observation-disclosures Ledger.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
dust in the double walls Of the builo,-
and the layers Of hay that cover the

dust In the double walls Of the buildr%
and the layers Of hay that cover the
whole.
The pay is all the way from 81 to
$1.75 a day, depending on the class Of
work done. Most Of the men in the
houses and on the field, laborers, work
for 81 a day to $1.25. In former years
the wages were not SO much of a temp
tation, but this winter there have been
very few other means Of income in the
country, and then there are q good
many men about toe towns out Of work
and willing to get a bit Of spending
money from a little odd work. In the
large Ice fields the men live in q big
boarding-house which stands a few
hundred feet from the icehouse, a long.
yellow. barnlike structure, maintained
by the company, in which the 800 or 400
employees are housca and fed. For the
long, toilsome hours in which they labor
on the ice fields or along the chutes the
men get IL and 1917 cents an hour, all
except the men working with the tongs
In .Ae cara, who get 10 cents an hour.
Out Of this money they are obliged to
pay their board in the big roomy str,lct.
ure. In the evening the day shift lie
about in the smoking-room an hour or
so before turning In, but as their day
begins again at Z o'clock in the MORN
ing and they must Ike through breakfast
and ready to work by that hour they
spend little time running around at
night.
Sixteen inches Of ice is considered a
little too thick by the ice men. Twelve
or fourteen is thick enough for them.
The average buyer considers a cake to
weigh. roughly, 200 pounds. And when
he gets a cake lie expects 200 pounds.
But he makes no allowance for the ex-
cess where the thickness is greater than
is required for that weight. Besides
that, the larger blocks are much more
difficult to handle.
Ice IA inches thick will overrun 200
pounds a little. And every added inch
Of thickness, when the blocks IRE %
inches square, means the addition Of
Is pounds to the cake. Much Of the ice
cut this winter is 1S inches thick. That
means, with this size of cake, go
pounds. Which is more than the ice
man likes to sell for 200.
There are some blocks Of ice SO clear
that a person can read through Them"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
separate blocks, a slight blow Of tho
needle bar or ''spud" being suficient
to senarafc them

separate blocks, a slight blow Of tho
needle bar or ''spud" being suficient
to separate them.
An icehouse is simply a great, barn
like structure with declining arms
reaching down into the edge of the
water. This is the same wherever you
see them. These arms are the chutes
up which the Ice blocks are conveyed
for storing in the houses. In smaller
affairs the ice Is hoisted by horse pow
er. In the larger, great engines drive
endless chains which pass down under
the water aud rise at the foot of the
wooden incline. The ice blocks, now
separated, IN driven forward upon
them. and the links Of the chain, as
they rise, catch the blocks and carry
them up to the levels where they are
wanted.
1t takes a good deal Of judgment to
feed the chain properly. The blocks
must come forward fast enough to keep
the elevator In constant business. And
1t must not come SO swiftly as to clog
1t. 1t must be two cakes wide all the
time, and the cakes must be advanced
singly at the last. When the links of
the endless chain catch the cakes Of
ice and carry them up the incline, it
drops them v e a little ridge and they
at once start down a slower slope to
the doors of the icehouse. This latter
Incline, a very gentle declivity, is sup
piled with tracks on which the blocks
can u smoothly. Half way down to
the house there is a divide, and the
two men ut the place where the endless
chain delivers the blocks. direct the
course of the ice, as to the right or the
left. Each is armed with a pike. with
a beard to it like the beard Of a boat
sock. And when n bad piece comes
along-one broken or otherwise unde-
sirable-the men snatch it from the
track, If they have time, and shoot it
over the ends of the scaffolding and
down to the ground.
Along the extensive side Of the house
are built platforms at different eleva-
tons, with doors opening upon them
from the houses. The tracks on which
the ice blocks travel are laid on these
platforms, and ut each of the doors a
man is stationed with a short boat
hook or pike pole. which he uses in
capturing a block here and there from
the screaming stream that hurtles past
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
Brl0CeA


A primitive notion existed among the
Romans and other that a bridge
was an offence and injury to the river
god, as it saved people from being
drowned while fording or swimming
across, and robbed the deity of a Ger.
tain number Of victims which We're his
due. For many centuries in Rome pro.
pitiatory offerings Of human victims
We're made every year to the Tiber:
men and women were drowned by be-
ing bound and flung from the wooden
Sublidan bridge, which, till nearly the
end Of the Republican period, was the
one and only bridge across the Tiber in
Rome.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
WAS THE SUCCESSFUL su,roR.
His Kindness to Children Won the
Widows Heart.

II don't say as how we've went back
on yer word,'' he said, as he sat down
IN the stump in front of the Jog house.
but the fack STAINS tibet we've gone
an married another man"
The woman took off her sun bonnet
and handed 1t to one of the barefoot
children who were hanging about.
take that into the house," she said;
''an' The rest of you all run an play"
Then turning to her visitor she az
claimed d%efiantly: ''Thar amt nobody,
man or woman, as kin say that oncet
l gin my word l ever went back onto
1t. l told you long ago, when fust they
was any prospeck of my gittin' ter be
q wilder, tibet thar want no use of yer
hintin' around about what 1 might do
in ease anythin' happened.'
I'VE said, though, tibet 1 stood as good
q show as anybody else"
can so ye did-then."
"Whut We was skeered about was
tibet you'd git somebody as wouldn't
be good to the Children
THAT was jist the pint"
"Ain't 1 allus been ez p'lite an agree
able to 'em cz anybody could!'
"Sure."
"Ain't 1 bought 'em candy an GIN
gerbread bosses an tin wagons?'
Most liberals"
"An' OH the Fourth of July didn't I
buy 'em shootin' crackers an sky rock
cts an roaming candles an n lot Of
other things"
ssVo,, dana oil %bot p,,f va, I;flust
stay ter see 'em touched off"
"'Cause l halter go ter town right
back ter town, that same afternoon"
ut was that day I made up my mind
ter marry Jake Spicer."
"And him Il man weth a wooden leg!"
the other murmured Indignantly.
Eyes, an you'll be surprised ter know
how much them fireworks an that
wooden limb had ter do weth it. I
knew how much store Jake sot by it.
He took jist as much pride in that
wooden leg ez 1 do in my marble-top
bureau. l give you credit fur bein'
good natured most of the time, but
children is pesterin' an there amt no
tellin' how long a mans temper is
goin' ter hold out weth them ez amt
his own. When l seen the patient an
accommodatin' way Jake Spicer rolled
up his pant leg an helt out that wood
en- limb for the boys ter tack PIN
wheels onto. l said to myself: There's
a man cz kin take sass an disobejince
an not git riled; eff any body'l make
a second father ter them young 'uns,
It's him. ''-Wasllington Star.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
AN ICE CROP.
HOW THE FROZEN BLOCKS ARE
HARVESTED.
storchou.e. Are Great Barn-like
structures-How the Ice L. Cut, Raft
ed from the "Field" and. Hoisted Into
It's Cold Quarters.
A Winter Iudustrx.


Common as ice is Of one kind and
another, not all the persons who use 1t
In summer have seen It cut in winter.
In a cold day the ice man gets rich. and
nothing can be more to his liking than
the chilly blasts Of December, the zero
efforts Of January. An about the
great cities and trade distributing GEN.
tiers are located favorable spots for cut
ding ice. and a sight Of a great store
house with a capacity Of 10000 tons,
average blocks Of go pounds, the ma
chinery, the large number Of men en-
ployed to cut this immense harvest, in
terests and startles the person taking
1t for the first time.
: Usually some small luke is selected as
the harvesting spot, and here, as soon us
q cold snap gives a steely surface to the
Ice. the superintendent of the Ice
houses takes all the men he can find
work for, and apportions them their
tasks. The average with gangs about
such fields as those contiguous to Chi
cago, is, say, 100 men, and they cut
about 100000 tons Of ice in three weeks.
First in the force are the scrapers.
These men have an appliance about the
size of an ordinary express wagon box.
1t proceeds sidewise, and tipped up in
such manner rs to carry the snow along
with 1t. Its neither edge is provided
with a steel plate, so that the ice is
scraped perfectly clear of snow. The
snow is banked up in great ridges, as
nearly out of the way as possible. Then
come the markers. A la with an
eye for a line stretches a rope from one
ITO two furlongs in length, and pushes a
hand-marker along beside 1t, till there
Us a distinct line scratched across the
surface of the ice. Then a man with n
"plow" comes along, a boy leading his
horse, and he follows the line scratched
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04

A Return tp Normal Prosperity.
In the showing Of business failures
for 1897 there Is made plain a marked
reduction in the percentage Of the COM
mercial death rate as compared with
every year since and including 1893.
Comment to this effect is made by
Bradstreefs in Its review Of the rec
ord Of financial disasters for the year
just closed. There is a heavy falling
off, alike in number and in liabilities,
of those individuals, firms or corpora
lions succumbing to the pressure Of un-
favorable circumstances, primarily in
dicating q return Of prosperous condi.
tons in general business.
The returns show for the year 1897
a total Of 1900 failures, against 1919
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04

him and turns in the door, where It
shoots down another incline to the
workmen who are placing the ice in po-
sition.
The speed of the ice blocks as they
approach the door is amazing. The
force Of one would be something like
the blow Of q cable car. The man at
the door does not try to handle the
cakes with anything like an arbitrary
force. He whacks his pike beard into
the block near a corner, and, yielding
slightly, manages to turn it till the
force Of its own momentum swings 1T
around, and it leaves the platform
track, plunges through the door and de.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
New Railroad policy.

There was a collision on the Danish
state railroad near Copenhagen some
time ago in which forty persons were
killed and seventy wounded. The rail-
road ut once admitted that 1t was to
blame, and instead of fighting claims
for damages, has appointed a commit
tee to settle with the claimants what
will be fair compensation, SO as to
avoid having the claims brought into
the courts.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04

in 1896 and $500 in 1893. This was q
decrease of more than 1000, or 1873 per
cent, from 1896. The comparison is
also made with the panic year, 1893,
and with 1891, a year when business
WIS generally very prosperous. By
comparison with 1893, the failures this
year We're less by Is per cent. and with
1891 by 2.3 per cent. The statement is
also made that the liabilities of the
firms that failed this year were less
than they have been in four years.
No more conclusive demonstration Is
possible Of a return TO the normal con-
dition Of prosperity which prevailed up
to 1893, when the advent to national
power Of the party Of free trade was
followed by the most prolonged and Sc
ere industrial and financial depression
YER known in the history of the Uni.
ted States.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04

dn the ice. sending the steel of his
plowshares as deeply into the ice as he
can.
Turning about at the farther end, he
comes back, cutting deeper. and a third
time deeper still, till he has cut per-
lhaps half way through the ice. While
he is deepening his first incision an
other man follows with a marker. set
ting it's guide in the initial groove, and
marking a second groove twenty-five
inches from the first.
The first ice is cut nearest the Ice
houses. After that the men cut farther
and farther away. But the distance is
never SO great that one man cannot
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
PULLED DOWN PILLARS.

Ignorant Pcrsians Thought They We're
the Cause of the Drought.
They do strange things in Persia.
This is the latest. For some years a
tidal observatory has been established
at Bushire, on the Persian gulf, and it
has performed it's functions without
let or %hindrance. This year, however.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
for the corresponding months of 1896
under the Wilson law are as follows:

*Exclusive of $31, 600, 600 received from
the sale of the Union Pacific Railroad.
The fact of enormous advance impor-
tations Of merchandise under the no
duties or the low duties Of the Wilson
law and their effect in diminishing
customs revenues until these large an
ticipatory stocks should be exhausted
is too well known to need r%ecapitula-
ton at this time. The heavy falling
off Of revenues for August, September,
October and November, 1897, tells its
own story in that regard. During De-
cember imports Of sugar and wool be-
gan to resume something like their nat
ural proportions, though still below the
volume they will reach when the antici-
patory stocks shall be wholly used up.
AS will be seen by the statement of
Chairman Dingley in another column,
the evenu for December shows q posi-
tive surplus without counting the
money received from the Union Pacific
Railroad sale.
For the present month the Economist
confidently expects that the Wilson law
figures Of January, 1897, will be exceed
ed by more than 100000 in customs
receipts alone, while the excess from
nll sources will not fall below $780,
600 as compared with last January.
Owing to the heavy demands upon the
treasury in the shape Of interest pay
ments a surplus for January is not an
ticipated, but it is safe to look for an
actual surplus in February and March.
One thing is certain: The danger Pc
Rod has passed, and the problem of
future revenue under the Dingley tariff
may be set down as definitely solved.
The law of 1897 is indicated alike in
the matter Of revenue and of protection.
1t has already stopped the mouths of
the deficit shouters and calamity croak-
crs, none Of whom has had a word to
say since the treasury record for De-
cember was made public.
1t has kept ut home in the past five
months many millions of American
money hitherto sent abroad for foreign
goods, and ut the same time it has
shown that under conditions of aug
mented prosperity America will buy
in the worlds markets enough to keep
the peace commercially with the rest of
mankind, besides furnishing abundant
revenue for the needs of the Govern
ment.
This is what the Dingley law is do
ing, and will do. It is q good law.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
Merely a Feeler.

The Baron-Did her father acquire
his money honestly?
Penelope-Oh, yes. (sarcastically.)
If he did not l suppose you would not
marry her?
The Baron-Not at all. If he ac.
quircd it dishonesty he would prob
ably be too clever to give any of it up.
Judge.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
Moro Room for the Fla, w,rtc

More Room for the Flag Wanted.
We want this money Mt home. We
want u own ships. We want more
shipyards. We want more Stars and
Stripes on the seas This is the time
for a revival. Congress should face
the figures and act-Jackson (Mich.)
Patriot.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
Practice ya. Precenf.

j. N. Gaffin, late Pop Speaker of the
House. took advantage of the passage
of the Dingley bill and bought a large
flock of sheep. He has just sold 1000
head, making a profit Of an even dollar
a head. And Gaffn, with his usual by
pocrisy, will take part of that money,
with some more Of the same kind, and
Isl 1t In his anti-tarif campaign for
Governor next year.-Linc0ln (Neb.)
Journal.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
SWEDEN Adakes Butter

During last year over 23,5O0 tons OF
butter were exported from Sweden.
nearly al OF which went to Britain.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04

A soft, gentle, pleading voice soon
becomes more tiresome than q raspine
one.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
An Effective Ilrustrat;

An Effective Illustration.
There are two Washington girls who
were not only ardent believers In pro-
hacuon-int the shape Of the Dineley hl
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1898-02-01
NEUROSlNE PRl4NiER
RSE VEN De

Una csja de hierro pru'sba ds .inegc;
alto miro; aDcho1 mile en- $50 Pesos'
mna bicicieta medic uso en- $e0; uEa vloI,sl
70 mostrador de cedio y pichipen &c mloO
uo ,a.S sasss fa,,aysdores Is $50. Dos moetrado-
VIZ VIZ alersnfes de- cedro piehipkn adorna-
Lee -. 2$sE. nm slanr biuTe cabez6te con to-
Sos dos s,s r,iezes con cabida lie OF cuartlro-
las sn $3.50.
Julio IA de 1877.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1898-02-01

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mentado los pasaes de 1: GOO tenendo ademas
marotes dstinguidos 81 prei pasaes de estos de
100 frances
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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1898-02-01
Y. MANESCAU & co.
-COMERCIANTES IMpORTADORES
JOYEROS Al PoR MAYOR I Al DETAIL .5s
IS Place de Ias DelGiaa &c
oecemos al pabloo nnesto grandioso spdo de oya De
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SuRIDO COMPLETE

FIGURAS bronces
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Albums ujoaisos
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vaias ds poTceana aa gaeh servico paea
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Camseta csloenes ss hlo de- Geooia aazr4
Guanes de cabrla bnoos de abaaros
Cochas daasso sds aecos uegos de borias
Sorabrinas luJo pa1aguas de sedssana
Optica especial
negatives Id peec6picos
JEMELOS PARA TEATRO
PRECIoS EUY LiHi7ADOS Sin COlPETEhClA
Asxas Dc 8 3v.ns
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1898-02-01
lnseresantisimo

VIM tinto de mesa, de la "Vipfcola- espa-
6olan on eaias de l3 botellas de "a me
dias boteiIas aiambradas, y en- barricas, c.
lidsd tan buena mejor cue el vino HancSs
detallan Boysen s. Ga. Playa de fonoe.
Julio LIZ de 1897 f INA
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1898-02-01
Scott y BOVINE, Qasaicos. Nueva York.


E vapor Sud Anea de exvsentes condolences para pasa
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife G5S1 Napoles Barcelona
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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-10-27
STAND UPON MERIT ALONE.

The self-respectirg merchant
don't complain because every one
in town don't trade exclusively
with him. He tries to carry
class of articles that will please
the public and that will sell on
merit alone. So with the compe-
tent and well equipped profess
sional mao; he don't get ugly
when his neighbors don't all see
fit to employ him professionally.
The minister don't fall out with
people when they don't join his
church. And so on all the way
around, in every calling, the same
ethics, and common sense govern.
1t is even SO with newspapers,
Every one should have their
choice. People know perfectly
well how to discriminate, and are
able to judge of the article wanted,
and will take that which they
think is the most meritorious, and
don't need any one to go round
and tell them how to select. The
man who desires to succeed in the
newspaper business must know
! what kind of an article is needed
in his particular field, and then
go to work and produce it. Il
some one else makes a better one
then be has no kick coming. In
these days of sharp competition IN
all lines of business, the only way
to meet competitors is to excel
An intelligent public will criticis'
and select that which it consider
the best, and discard that which il
not wanted.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-10-27
THU RSDAY.

Charles Langley, larceny and
concealing stolen property. Jury
trial and verdict of guilty.
Eugene Maxey, liquor; plead
guilty to selling. Sentenced. to
one year and one day at Fort
Leaveworth penitentiary.
Charles B. Moore, larceny; plead
guilty, sentenced to two years and
six months in the penitentiary at
Fort Leavenworth.
Joseph Bough, larceny; plea
not guilty, on call.
Silas Tilders, liquor; plea not
guilty.
The larceny case against the
Wyckliffs was continued gener-
ally.
Read vann, larceny; plea guilty.
Sentenced to five years in the pen
itentiary at Fort LeavenwOrth.
Ed Ballard, aggravated assault;
certified TO the United States COM
missioner at VInita for trial.
Judge Thomas announced that
he would fine attorneys who neg
lected to appear for their clients
when called. A number of cases
were called in which the attorneys
employed were not present.
Isaac Nolen. murder; on trial.
Bob Selby and Dan Moore, lar
ceny and concealing stolen prop
erty; dismissed.
The case of Isaac Nolen, charged
with the murder of Andrew Ater-
son, was taken up this afternoon.
The killing occurred sometime last