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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
Tn. Critic An.~er.a.

An acute crirlc calls attention tc
what he styles an inelegance in lead.
ing article of The Pilot. It ia that in
which the following sentence occurs:
"And Paul said, But / was born 80. ("
We are sorry it is inelegant, but it must
stand as it is. for it happens to be the
exact words Of the New Testament,
chapter xii, verse 2S, of the Acts of the
Apostles. The Pilot never tries to i'm.
prove upon the language Of holy writ.
Some afternoon when we have reformed
all the wrongs i'll the world and point
ed out all the faults of all our neighbour
for their reformation we may sit down
and revise the New Testament, but il
will not be this year nor next year.
Somewhere along about 1898 we shall
inaugurate these important reforms
Boston Pilot.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
Eattles,,ip and Cruiser.

The difference between battlcship
and an armorcd cruiser is technical, and
experts have stumbled over the matter
A battleship is supposed to have heavier
guns and armor and to be better fitted
to withstand hard knocks from an o;,-
posing force. But this does not always
hold good, as may be seen i'll the c;.ss of
the Maine as compared with the Brook
lyn. The Maine was IL battlcship. but
she was not so large nor so heavily ar
mored us the arinored cruiser Brooklyn.
On one point there seems to be no dis
pute, and that is tho fact that tl.e
cruisers are faster than the battlesllips.
and it is conceded also that in most in
stances the battleships are better pro-
tected.-New York Tribune
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
To Harney's Peak.

The writer enjoyed couple of days
at Sylvan Lake and Harney's Peak
ehrly last week. The moro one
views the beauty of that charming To-
cality the feebler seem words in at
tempting anything like description,
which we shall not attempt to give
for the STAR has upon several occas-
ions attempted to describe what may
be seen there. Mr.. Spencer, the pres
ent owner, has spent several thousand
dollars in improvements and now has
magnificently improved place, with
all modern facilities that go to make
comfort and pleasure. T. b. Coles as
manager and his interesting wife, are
especially qualified to entertain guests
andmakelife pleasant forthem. Asun-
set and sunrise scene from Harney's
peak is somethingnoone should miss.
The colorings of sky and landscape just
as old Sol sinks beneath the horizon as
viewed from g - -'ovation is in.
deea awe ms .srcring 'he sunrise
scene is none the iIss grand. When
an electric or narrow guage railroad
is built from Hot Springs to Sylvan
Lake via Wind Cave it will give the
tourists of this city most delightful
side trip, and one which can be made
in comfort. But even now for camp
ing-out journey there's nothing to
surpass ride through the Hills to
Sylvan Lake.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
A Visit to Crystal Cave.

Although for three years a resident
of the Hills and a frequent visitor to
the Wind Cave, have just returned to
the Springs from my first trip to the
wonderful series of rooms and passage
ways known rs Crystal Cave. The
fact is, the people of Hot Springs have
SO much of natures weird handiwork
at home, they are apt to think that
the rest of the Hills are hardly worth
going to see. The scenery at Crystal
Cave is unlike the Wind Cave in SO
many particulars that visit to one
should be followed by visit to the
other. Thus the effect OF each is
heightened.
Situated in the Elk Creek canon, the
cave may be reached via the b. H. L.
Ft. P. r. r., or by wagon from Pied
mont which is at the junction of the
narrow guage and the North Western.
There is cluster of houses around
the entrance, and good meals and beds
are furnished ut very reasonable rates.
There is SO much to be seen that one
should plan staying a day or two at
least.
Crystal cave was first discovered
about eleven years ago by the two
brothers A. G. and G. II. Mcbride, the
present owners. They we're prospect
ing and it was while examining one the
tunnels in an abandoned mine that
they found the opening in the cliff
that led to the discovery of the cave.
For a time they were troubled by
claim jumpers who dug tunnel 400
feet long, farther down the canon, tap.
ping the cave in the first chamber of
any size. The suit was decided in
favor of the McBrides, however, and
thus they came into possession of a
valuable improvement that makes the
entrance to Crystal Cave much easier.
have only time to enumerate a few
of the many places of interest: 'Tat
Mans Misery "The Mold Chamber"
"The Menagerie," poverty Flat
''Notre Dame," where is seen box
work similar to the heavier form found
in Wind Gave. Then down Rip Van
Wrinkles stairway, G5 feet, to the sIce
Maids Spring" where is seen a beauti-
full water deposit, like translucent al
abaster, called the "Drip Stone." Low
er still we enter the "Red Flats" a
room about 95 feet across. The walls
and ceiling are covered with crystals
having red tinge, and the effect here,
as elsewhere, of the magnesium light
is brilliantly beautiful. "The Abode Of
the Fairies" is we'll named. One can
imagine that this must be one of the
treasures from which tho fairies get
costly gems and rare Jewels to bestow
on the favorites of fortunes. "The
Klondike" is white with the peculiar
"snow" crystal, and 1.-THE Ribbon ROOM
contains hundreds of samples of the
delicate stalactite and stalagmite.
The large size of the rooms, the length
of the pas sageways, and the profusion
of the crystals make Crystal Cave q
star attraction of the first magnitude.
TOURIST.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
From I'ar-oM Klondike.

The following letter from Geo Har-
mon son of G. l.. Harmon of the Sol
diers Home, and formerly we'll known
in the Southern Hills, will be of inter-
est. 1t is dated Mastodon Gulch
Northwest Territory, June 10th. 1898,
and says: "Dear Home Folks-I re-
ceived three letters from you today,
one of October 18th and two of Jan.
uary 18th, so you see how regular our
mail system is. l wintered i'll Dawson
City; my partner and self had lease
on a piece of drifting ground. We
worked ten men all winter, wages sl.50
per hour. l thought we had rich
ground here. but say never saw any
thing like Ell Dorado gu!ch at Dawson.
Chris, my partner, stayed at Dawson to
wash up the dirt we drifted. l came
down on the ice with q dog team to
open up our claims on Mastodon gulch.
am working fourteen men running
four strings of boxes. l cleaned up
one string yesterday and it yielded
1905 ounces. will clean up another
tomorrow. think it will be better,
the other two, in about a week. but my
expenses will be about s45OO so you
see it is very expensive to work ground
here. think there will be taken out,
as near as l can estimate, between sew
en- and eight million dollars at Dawson
this spring. 1 think there will be
about ten thousand people come into
this country this summer. There will
be alot ofdissappointed ones when they
get here. 1t is safe to say four ffths
of them will go out again this summer
if they can make enough to get out
on. The companies have raised the
fare to $500 to Frisco. My advice to
friends is to stay out Of this country
but if they do come, bring at least a
thousand pounds of provisions. This
is no place for married or an old
man. GEORGE HARMON.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
Saint Marx.s Church.

The old school house has been Ell
tirely renovated, and will be opened
for services next Sunday at 1890 a. m.
We are cordially thankful to the
board of education for having kindly
given us the use of such location for
church purposes, showing their kind
ness towards every creed and church.
The festival given under the auspices
of Saint Mary's church was an entire
success, and we thank all who patron
lied it. COMMITTEE.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
Twelfth Monthly Dividend.

The Holy Terror, of Keystone, has
just paid its twelfth monthly dividend
of three cents per share. This is at the
rate of three per cent per month on the
par value of the stock. The total
amount of dividends paid since last
September is slOs,OOO. Besides this
the company has made many valuable
improvements. 1t is indeed wonder
full mine, and gives a most encourag-
ing prospect for southern hills mines.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
A Weak Brother.

Penn had very strong aversion to
tobacco. Once he came unexpectedly
upon some of the Friends who were en-
joying the fragrant weed, but out of
respect for their great leader they hid
their pipes. which. however. still ccn-
tinued to emit smoke. Pcrceiving this.
the governor said pleasantly. "Wcll.
friends, l am glad to sec that you arc at
last ashamed Of your old practice.
"Not entirely so." replied one Of the
brethren. "but we preferred laying
down cur pipes to the danger Of offend
ing weaker brother. "-London Tit
Rita
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
A Change Of Opinion,

"There' good deal of human nature
in a puppy. remarked the philosopher.
calmly watching Fido tearing his best
hat to pieces. almost as destructive as
one of my little nephews
Mrs. Bouncer-Why. professor. don't
you 500 he's got your HAITI
The Professor-Thunder, 30 he has! I
thought it YVES one Of the boarders' hats.
Take that. you whclpl-Bostou Tran
script
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05

The people of this state are fortu-
nate in that the most direct route by
which they can reach the great expo.
sition is one justly famed for the ex-
cellence of its equipment and service,
the courtesy of it's officials and en-
ployes, and the attractiveness of the
country through which it passes. We
refer to the Burlington Route.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
Bucklin's Arnica Salye.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions. and posi-.
lively cures piles, or no pay required
Il is guaranteed to give perfect salts.
faction or money refunded. Price 25c
per box. For sale by Emil Hargans.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
THINGS STARTED RIGHT

THINGS STARTED RIGHT
First Republican County Convention of
the Year IL AN Enthusiastic and
Harmonious One.
The republican county convention
held in Hot Springs last Saturday was
largely attended even though. there
was no competition or strife. They
met to elect nine delegates and alter
mates to attend the state convention to
be held ut Mitchell on August oath.
d. X. Snively was made temporary
chairman and c. l.. Conger temporary
secretary. A committee on credentials
was appointed, which, after delibera-
ton, reported delegates present from
all precincts excepting Cascade, Union,
Sand Creek, and Duck Creek
The temporary organization was
then made permanent.
In a few very appropriate remarks
w. +. Wyatt announced that in view
of the fact that Fall River county had
a candidate for state treasurer in the
person of John l.. Burke, and the SEN
timent of the county being unanimous
in his favor, he moved that Mr.. Burke
be allowed to name the delegates to
the Mitchell convention, which motion
prevailed unanimously.
Mr.. Burke very gracefully thanked
the convention for their kindness in
this matter and the party for many
previous expressions of good will, and
after retiring for few moments re-
turned the following:
DELEGATES. ALTERNATES.
j. A. STEWART ID. X. SNlvELY
r. ID. BOND H. d. CLARK
w, II. WYATT j. u. CLEGuoRN
IS. E. WILSON III. G. ALLEN
A. II. ANDERSON Il. L. FRAwLEY
ID, G. GRIPrEN ED LAKE
A. S. STEWART Il. S. KELLEY
A. B. CoNNoR q. W. DENNIS
Il. II. JucKETT G. l.. JENSEN
Upon motion the list handed in by
Mr.. Burke was declared the duly
elected delegates and alternates of the
convention and Mr.. Burke's candidacy
for state treasurer was unanimously
and enthusiastically endorsed.
The convention then adjourned.
NOTES
While the list of delegates was being
made up Hon. s. E. Wilson was called
upon and the convention was deligh.
ed with short, bright, and patriotic
speech from him.
The central committee held meet
ing following the convention, ane
the committeeman reported that the
republican sentiment in their respec
tive localities was strengthening da.
by day and there seemed to be nc
doubt about the party winning at tn
polls this fall. The time for holding
the county convention for nominating
the county ticket has not yet been de
cided upon.
Among the names mentioned for of
flee that of w. R Morgan for count,
treasurer seems to meet with genera
and unanimous favor.
Candidates for sheriff are likely tc
be plenty. Among those spoken of arr
Capt. ID. G. Grippen, G. L. Jensen, ane
--Strouse, of Oelrichs.
Mr.. Osmotherly is spoken of for clerk
of courts and he has an announcement
elsewhere in this issue.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
For Clerk of the Courts.

To the Voters of Fall River County:
1t is my intention to be candidate
for the nomination of clerk of the
courts for Fall River county at the
coming republican county convention,
and respectfully solicit the support
of friends throughout the county.
+. e. OsMoTHERLY,
Cheyenne Falls, s. D.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
For Sale OF. Rent.

The large house af Z. w. Martin on
the hill is for rent. There is a good
barn, also cistern, window screenf and
storm windows. Enquire Of g. N.
Miner.
Good rooms for rent in the Mime
kahta block. Inquire of g. N. Miner.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05

silas A. Strickland w. II. G. No. 81
meets Mt w. r. G. hall the second and
fourth Saturdays of the month. CAR
RTE NJ. CLEVELAND, President. LOUISE
V. BUTLER. Secretary.
Regular meetings OF Silas A. Strick-
land Post. No. 112, G. A r., on the
first and third dSaturdaysof each month
at . p. III. in q. A. r. hall in the Philips
block. All G. A. r members cordially
invited to meet with MS.
u. G. GR1prEN,
w. w. SM1rHsoN, Commander.
Adjutant.
The times., 1898-05-16

and her husband was treated to all the
luxuries of the season in the kitchen. On
a subsequent tour he made his wife lie
again for similar reasons TO King Abime-
lech But the heather king rebuked the
friend of God gave him some sheep and
oxen and told him to get out of the
neighboIhood. Isaac followed in his IA
ther's footsteps and got his handsome
wife 10 lie for the same reason and TO
the same king. Rebecca and Jacob both
conspired to lie.
Stealing was as common as lying. In
stance the command of the Israelites on
getting out of Egypt; also Jacobs rob
berry of his brother and his father-in-law.
Rachael also stole.
OF course the Jew and the Christian
alike explain and justify these enormiues
by saying. God is good, therefore, what
ever He does or commands is right: God
is infinitely perfect and cannot do
wrong" They say that God commanded
the slaughter of innocent women and
children. but that was not murder. be-
cause God commanded Ii. He command
ed a man to kill his wife and woman
her husband for a difference of religious
belief. but that was not persecution, for
God can do no wrong. God told the Is
raeltes to take the property of the
Egyptians and make off with it, but that
was not stealing, for God has forbidden
stealing. God commanded men to drink
to stupefaction If they were in trouble.
but that was not intemperance, because
God may do what He will with His own
God commanded the distribution of young
girls TO the soldiers as He would serve out
rations, but that was not wicked. be-
cause God did it, and God can do no
wrong.
Christians defend and excuse these
denominations, said the speaker. by say
ing that God made all men and women
and children, and so acquired the right
to dispose of them when and as He sees
fit. The speaker insisted. on the contra
ry, that if God created them, that is the
very reason why He has not that right.
If He has the power to endow insensate
clay with feeling and deliberately chooses
to exercise that power. He is therby
bound not to infiict upon it wanton pain
If He creates living thing He is under
bonds of good behavior to the thing which
He has thrilled with life and invested
with the power to enjoy and suffer If
a man could make a fly would that
give him the right TO tear off it's wings?
If He could make a horse, would He
have the right to put out its eyes? If He
could make a child would that give Him
the right to kill it Wantonly, or to present
it to soldiers for prostitution because it
happened to think that somebody else
made it? Would not such action toward
a created thing be wicked beyond the
power of words?
The prelude. Protoplasm' was present.
ed by Mr. Hyland c. Kirk, the president
of the league. Discussion of the two pa-
pers was had by Gen. Birney, Major Pc
chin and Messrs. Burr Coleman. Murphy
Roys and others.
The times., 1898-05-16
SPANS KARMA.
The Degenerate of Nations is Reap
Ing What She Soyvcd.

Major James Albert Clark addressed the
TheosophicaI Society last night, the sub
iect being. Spain in the Light of har-
ma =" After touching the early history of
the Iberians and the fusion of Celtic
blood. which promised favorably in due
evolution. the influx of Phoenician colo
nists gave promise of better advantage
The Carthagenians added new tributaries
conducive to a greater development; the
Romans supplemented prior forces with
exact principles of jurisprudence. If Spain
gained nothing by the invasion of the
Goths, she earned, at least, experience
The Jews helped more than they hinder
ed, only TO be repaid by expulsion. The
Arabs later carried streams of ancient
lore and mechanical industry, building
and expanding clear to Cordoya, and in
the middle ages Spain justly boasted of
ten universities, the peers of any in the
world. with that of Salamanca leading
all, yet today this is the lowest on the
list The nation has dwindled with its de-
cline in obedience to the law of Karma
which is that of cause and effect. The
logical partisanS attribute all decay to
the inquisition, and the inevitable results
students concur in such reasoning, but
go deeper and look for joint causes to
match the joint results. In 1888 Charles
III attempted to develop agriculture. and
as an incident broke the power of the
inquisition and expelled the Jesuits. In
1872 the JesuitS were expelled again, but
the Spanish character has been full of Sc
rious defects. making it unique among
civilizations. Selfshness in its manasic
(aS theoSODhiStS express it, aspect has
dominated the entire septennary man.
One principle of the fundamental seven
has ruled and ruined. There could be but
one outcome in an evolutionary sense,
and that is now plainly developed.
AS Spain has sown, so must she reap.
She has made her Karma. Spain is har-
vesting with Il vengeance exactly adjust
ed TO the tillage.
By this the slayer's knife did stab himself:
The unjust judge hath lost his Gwn defender;
The false tongue dooms its lie; the creeping
thief
And spoiler rob, to render.
'The mills of the gods grind slowly
says the cultured Greek; the wrongdoer
will get his ''come-uppins." says the un-
cultured slave on the plantation; both ex-
press aspects of the great law of Karma,
whether in cosmic or human evolution.
The theosophist observes the unerring
certainty of both and the inevitable re-
turn of effects due from causes previous
~ set up and this without shock or vio-
lation of the law of persistence of force,
the conservation of energy and the inde-
structibiiity of anything that ever exist
ed, matter or spirit. Every groan at the
forty thousand and more stakes by order
of the inquisition viii seek it's adiustmenr
toward harmony under cyclic law always
a concomitant of the broader generaliza-
The times., 1898-05-16
CAN GOD DO WRONG?
Discussion of the Character end
Acts Of jehovah.

In the Secular League yesterday after
sloon DR.. W. A. Croffut read paper on
The Crimes of Jehovah" in which he
charged that the God of the Jews had
committed almost every offense forbid
den in the Decalogue. To prove him
guilty of murder he quoted from Joshua,
where God commanded his generals TO
kill all in the captured cities, including
the helpless women and innocent chill
dren. the command being to "slay all that
breathed. So in Exodus xiii we are told
that the Lord slew every first born in the
land of Egypt so that there was not a
house wherein there was not dead
child The speaker quoted Deut. xiii,
6-16, to prove that Jehovah favored perse-
cution. commanding every man to kill
his wife, his parent or his child if they
favored any other God than himself He
quoted Exodus xxi, where a man is Of
fered his freedom only on condition that
he win desert his wife and child, which
he characterized as an Infamous propo-
sition He declared that lying was no.
where forbidden in the Decalogue, unless
it was against ones neighbor, and said
IL was dpoul dS common as conversation.
JaePs exhibition of treaehery in killing
Sisera was instanced, with the benedic-
ton, BLESSED among. women be Jael,'
Jehovah had not time enough to tell men
that lying was wrong or slaveholding un-
just, but he had time to tell the people
that they should not cook a kid In its
mothers milk, to inform a priest how
he should cut his apron and trim his
whiskers, and to give directions about
making hair oil and about cleaning the
inte5tines of bird. The lecturer said
that the most perncious and picturesque
liar in the Old Testament was Abraham.
whom the Lord adopted as his own. Abra-
ham, while travelling. passed off his hand
some wife as his sister, so that he might
thrive by her prostitution-'s that
may be we'll used for thee" So she
was taken into the boudoir of Pharaoh
The times., 1898-05-16

ton of Karma. Every theosophic phiios-
opher who caught the light under the
teachings of Averroas and was tortured
reincarnates TO meet Spain. Without
haste and without rest. the ineXorable
Karmic effects are rending the arrogant
ensoulment of Spain which can at sunrise
raise imploring eyes to the queen ot
heaven" in alteration Of the most tender
impulse of maternity in nature, and al
sunset gloat over the torture of a bull IN
a ring to feed the real craving the domi-
nant attribute of Spanish organisms, an
intensified manasic evolution so well un-
derstood by the theosophist.
Spain is coming TO book, the Judgment
book" as taught by the sages. the ult-
mate law of laws. Each mans life the
outcome of his former living is The
warp and woof of Spanish life was made
by Spanish thought Every thread and
thrum of its texture was hemmed by
treachery and its shCttles and looms hum
med fitting accompaniment. The pairs
of opposites," never out of law from an
atom to plant, from man TO a solar sys-
TEN, are yet doing their work for SPAN,
and in her extremity she Will learn that
justice and mercy are the opposite poles,
neither to be trusted alone for normal
equilibrium in the casting of accounts.
The times., 1898-05-16

had decided to speak on the subject OF
reforms generally.
Race prejudice. said Senator Allen, had
wrought great havoc in the past as well
as in this age.
Another hindranee to the advance Of
reform is in the great and ever present
religious and political prejudices. He de-
clared that we all needed TO develop char
ity along these lines.
There are some good things in the
Republican party. some good things in
the Democratic party and a great many
good things in the PopuEst party"
There are other reforms of a social
character that the people of this country
and of all other countries must change
speedily or grave danger lies ahead"
Senator Allen called attention 10 the un-
cared for little children which throng our
city streets. The result is. our great army
of tramps and criminals.
We have great granaries all over our
country loaded with food enough for all
but proper distribution is lacking What
can be done? We must dig down deep in
to these social evils and find the means OF
reform. No true man or true woman