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benefit By 1880 the soldiers and marines have been given homes-oXer Ved oo6 61 ,oOo ooo for schools, seminarieS and agricultural colleges, about S0000.000 acres; for rail- roads, wagon roads, canals and telegraph lines, 500O0 900 acres, and so on one might go with statement Of numbers or acres which grow meaningless because of their immenSity.
 The Government has sought to lay out and settle up it's lands by townships. Actual occupation and use of the land has fer of ownership to the individual. The title conveyed Is an absolute one; no reservation of an annual rent; no per formance annually of an act or homage to an overlord no right of entry retained. The actual tiler of the soil may become the landlord in every sense. lie IS ms own overlord. He is a free man.
 What wonder, then, that as fast as the Government has acquired lands actual and potential citizen-settlers have pushed the surveyor forward with his compass and chain. Why should not population rise from 5000 900 to seventy odd million! Why marvel that thirteen little States have erected Union Of hfty-one repuD- lican States and Territories.
 Why should not the task and reward that follows bringing forth the riches Of billion acres of land that range through all forms of base and precious metals. all vegetable wealth from the tropics to the Arctic. suffice to keep a people too busy, too happy for anarchy. When in one year the yield of gold alone in single State of the newly purchased territory almost equaled the total cost to the Gov ernment of the billion acres acquired, why should the increase in national wealth seem so incredible. When one re- gards the generous aid given to educa- ton from the lands of the public domain, why should the high average of enlight- enment and culture of the American peo- pie seem so exceptional. Considering the aid given railroads and other roads. why should not our mileage and equipment of roads lead all other nations.
 A little reflection, 1t is plain, must lead to the conclusion that the material and political growth of the United States Is due largely to the character of its terri torial acquisitions and it's policy of dispo- sition of newly acquired lands. The Gov
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the aid of the interpreter, to find out how much wine the man had been in the habit of drinking. He would go out in his boat with the other fisher men, he admitted, and of course they had a jar of wine with them and drank whenever they wished, using no measures.
 So it came to pass that one day Pietro saw strange lights dancing be- fore his eyes, and then, while down on the wharf, he had a vision of a man struggling in the water and drowning for want of aid. Therefore Pietro jumped in to save him.
 The support of the insane costs the State somewhere in the neighborhood of $600000 a year. And the burden IS constantly growing.
 Since the last census was taken the number of insane persons supported by the State has increased by 1400 In 1890 there were 3594 patients in the various asylums; to-day there are 4927 They are distributed as follows: Mendocino, 460; Napa, 1451; Southern California, 573; Agnews, 91S; Stockton, 1925.
 Each patient costs the State on an average Of $40 per annum, so that, for mere financial reasons, it is not desir- able to increase their number too rap idly. On social and sanitary grounds the objection of course is much strong CT, but still there is no reason to be Se- riously alarmed at the increase.
 Tt is not the native-born Californians who are going insane" said the Com missioner it is the foreigners who in- fate our totals. They number more than 70 per cent"
 A glance at the contribution made by San Francisco to the insane population of the State will illustrate this point. During the past year 499 presumably insane persons were brought up for ex- animation, and out of these 357 were sent to the asylums, and 142 were dis charged. It is noticeable that the male
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MHKING HIGH EXPLOSIVES
 FOR THE TRMY DND NHVY.

classes of work. The higher grades have extraordinary .disruptive power. It is decidedly plastic. This, with its density, renders it particularly suitable for submarine work, where the flow or water is strong, because it will adhere firmly together even should the cov- erings of the charges get damaged or removed, and it is not diSintegrated by water.
 Another high explosive in our mar ket is forcite. It closely resembles eX- plosive gelatine cellulose, being used ln- stead of nitro -cellulose. Some forcite contains 95 per cent of nitro -giycerine, and other grades less, incorporated with a mixture of nitrate of soda, sul- phur and wood tar, with little wood pulp added. It burns in the open air, eXplodes in confined places, and water has no action on it.
 There are many other explosives suit able for submarine use, some of them of a greater explosive strength than dynamite, others less. Some years ago General Abbot of the United States army, carefully investigated the prop critics of several kinds of high ex- plosives and gave as the result of his experiments the following relative strengths under water of certain ones of them per pound, assuming dyna- mite No. 1, that described above. as 100: Blasting gelatine, 142; forcite gelatine, 133; gun cotton. wet, ST; nitro glycerine. 81; gunpowder, 20 to 50. There was some other interesting data reported by General Abbot concerning high ex- plosives. His experiments led him to believe that in order to wound the bot tom of a man-of-war of 5000 tons. ar mored with nine inches of iron. an ex- plosive must produce pressure of 550O pounds per square inch; that $500 would be fatal to an ordinary double bottomed ironclad. However, all scien- tific investigators in this direction, as well as in other theoretical matters pertaining to the force which high ex- plosives exert, are not by any means in agreement. Referring to some of the results of the researches of Colonel Bucknill of England, into the relative strengths of high explosives, it is mo- ticed that he gives the following rela- tive horizontal distances and charges necessary to infiict fatal blow on a modern ironclad:
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ernment has consistently adhered to its original guarantee to hold the vast public domain in trust for the common benefit and the settlement and formation of sov- ereign States, always leaving the circum- stance of the future to determine what ability of the soil to support population to fix the time and place of a new common wealth. ELENOR D. PRATT.
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N one of the coldest and bareSt
 rooms of that very dreary build
 ing, the City Hall, there is a little
 gathering every morning, and pa
 tient, or it may be perhaps two or three. is added to the melancholy assemblage of human wrecks which populates our State Asylums for the Insane.
 In this enlightened age, when indi- vidual liberty is safeguarded by every possible precaution, it takes great deal of writing and great deal of offi- cial questioning to make a man luna tic There are four examining doctors, who act in pairs each alternate month, and it is their duty to ascertain wheth- CT the patients brought before them from the Receiving Hospital CT the po- lice station are really sound or un- sound in their minds.
 "Whatever people may say" re- marked the doctor, i've take every pos sible precaution against any sane per- son being railroaded into an asylum. Wait and see for yourself"
 The examination was certainly elab- crate enough. Presently the patient, a haggard- locking, griZzly-haired Italian, was brought in. He was clad in the traditional rough blue garb of his class, and his tangled locks had failed to re- cover from the effect of submersion in the bay. But two or three days ago he demonstrated his insanity, from the police point of view, by jumping over board from one of the docks. AS sui eide in this State is not a crime. he was promptly fished out, and hung up in the Receiving Hospital to dry.
 To complicate matters the patient could not read or write, neither could he speak a word of English. His sis
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About mid-afternoon is the best time for gentle outdoor exercise. Early morn ing exercise is as much to be avoided as early mental or physical labor, because at that time vitality is at it's lowest ebb, and it needs stimulation rather than fur ther taxing; none but the gentlest eXer- else should be taken until the exhausted system has been supplied with abundant nouriShment
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It requires just little bit of manage ment to get over billion acres of land into shape for disposition: some little financial skill to turn the revenues of the Government to make this land to pay it's price: many persons to spread out over these vast tracts of land, to form new States.
 Let us see what disposition has been made of all these lands for the common
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equivalent of the Civil War debt, owed mainly for food. clothing and ammuni- ous settlements of the thirteen original States did not extend farther back from
 the Atlantic seaboard than to the Ale, and from the Great Lakes on the north
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lands can be best utilized for the benefit of the people is engaging the earnest at- tention of those publicly charged With their management. The policy most fa- vored seems that of ceding the arid lands to the several States in which they may lie and of reserYing under national con-
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i" HAT Uncle Sam" Is rich enough to give all farm has been true from the earliest history or the
 Government but his landed pos sessions have grown comparatively
 small, and that which is left IS mostly arid or mountainous. How these
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trol the mountainous regions as water sheds.
 The United States has disposed of a vast domain. It had none to start with The United States began life with a debt of about seventy-five millions, which, es- timated by the ability to pay, is the
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THE STATE IS GOING TO COLLECT FEES
 FOR MAINTAINING THE WELLT0-D0 INSANE.

MANNER " WHO" PATIENTS M m AT @ M @ R @ VARIOUS
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WING THE TERRITORY ACQUIRED BY THE UNITED STATES

@ @ ] asA z sF ss sa asss MEX
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r N one of the coldest and barest
 rooms of that very dreary build ing, the City Hall, there is a little gathering every morning, and pa
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N HERE are two kinds of explo-
 sives-low and high. Lieutenant \ Edward Simpson, U. S. N, who is an authority, writes that the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22

"I had catarrh in my head and throat for
twenty-five years. I tried every remedy
Known. None of them did me any good.
When | began using Aerial Medication l was
so deaf 1 could not hear q clock strike, even
when my ear was placed against it. Now !
can hear it strike in the next room, thirty
feet away, and with the door closed: I had
not used Aerial Medication three weeks when
I began to improve. Soon I enjoyed good
health and perfect relief from catarrh.. 1t 10
completely cured by this wonderful treatment.
/ can now hear all conversation, even in very
low tones. will have this statement corrob-
GRATED by my %neighbors who know all about
my cure. They will sign their names SO that
you can write to them. 1 will gratefully do
all I can to urge others to use Aerial Medica-
ton. No money could pay for the good health
it has given me.-EDWIN COLEMAN, Wichita,
Kan"
1--WE have been acquainted with Mr.. Cole
man for a number of years, and can testify to
the truth of the above statement.
"LEwIS RHODES, Postmaster, Maize, Kan.
"FRANK MAHANNAH, Maize, Kan.
an. d. PAPP, Maize, Kan"
We ave reliable assurance that the above
statements are genuine, and that DIR. Moore
is q reputable Observation-Disclosures Herald
To further introduce Aerial Medication and
prove beyond doubt that it will cure deafness,
catarrh, throat and lung diseases, l will, for q
short time, send medicines for three months
treatment, free. For symptom form and par.
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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22
The Rush to- Klondike

and Alaska for 1898 has begun. It will
not be necessary to endure the terri
BILE hardships or pay the excessive
packing rates in making the trip this
year that it was in 1887. A good
rail and tramway is now in operation
across the Chilkoot pass, a wagon road
hewed out of solid rock extends from
Skaguay to the top of White pass and
a tramway is in operation around
White Horse Rapid. The number of
steamers between Puget's Sound and
Dyea and Skaguay and on the Yukon
has been so increased that there is now
a large fleet.
The new routes via Cooks inlet and
Prince William Sound and Valdes Pass
to the headwaters of the Copper and
Tanina rivers opens not only a large
and rich gold and copper country near
the coast, but also gives access to the
Dawson City region AS we'll.
The Northern Pacific has the latest
and best Klondike and Alaska map and
folder published. 1t is up to date in
steamer sailings and also contains the
latest and most authentic information
obtainable. Send Chas. S. Fee, Cen
eral passenger agent, st. Paul, Mimi,
. cents for it.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22
Leslie,s Weekly.

Hu
Another one Of Blues striking car
toms, representing Uncle Sam ashamed
OF the patches on his coat, the patches
representing the Maine disaster and
the Virginius affair, forms the front
cartoon page of Leslie's Weekly. Uncle
Sam exclaims: Better rags with hon
or than patches with dishonor."
The frightful condition of the naked,
starving reconcentrados in Cuba is re-
vealed on the double page, which also
includes a cartoon of remarkable force,
by Kemble, captioned, Spanish War
fare" A sneering Spaniard leans up
against a box full of corn, while in
front of him are the dead bodies of un-
told thousands of wretched, starving
Cubans. The excitement at Washing
ton growing out of the war scare is WV
idly portrayed. The funeral of Lieu
tenant Jenkins, and new wal vessels,
are also pictured, with a variety of
other subjects. Valuable hints to pol
icy holders in life insurance companies
and to investors in Wall Street are
given; also q page of stories by COM
mercial travellers in the competition
forthe prize offered by Leslie's Weekly.
The current number is full of good
things.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22
FIFTEEN YEARS.
Ills Wife had Been a Chronic Invalid
Cured at Last,

His Wife had Been a Chronic Invalid.
Cured at Last.
Mrs. j. 7. Scott, Ceerogee, Texas, in
writing to DIR. Hartm IN, stated: chad
kidney disease for about fifteen years,
and had got SO bad that 1 could hardly
get about and could not perform any
kind of labor. Ihad tried quite a num-
Der of doctors, and had taken nearly q
wagon load of patent medicines, but
continued to gradually grow worse.
Also, my wife had been an invalid for
about sixteen years, and you doubtless
remember when l wrote you about her,
there was hardly ever a day that she
could sit up all day. We tried a great
many remedies, but neither of US was
ever benefited, only temporarily, till
we began taking your Pe.ru-na and
Man-a-lin, as instructed in your letters
to US. It has made q healthy man of
me; I never felt better in my life, and
my wife is almost like q different per-
son, she is 30 much better. The Peru
ma is the most wonderful medicine /
ever saw; for la grippe it is a sure cure.
I know this, and have had my neighbor
try it,"
Hundreds of similar testimonials may
be found ina little book entitled "Facts
and Fancies," which will be sent free to
any address by The Pe-ru-na Drug
Company, Columbus, Ohio.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22
Legal Notices.

MORTGAGE sALE:-Notice of foreclosure.
payment of the interest and principal on the
day OF November, A. d. 1894, executed by Er..
win G.. Dudley, Of the county Of Fall river and
State bank of Hot Springs, Of the count Of
Fall River and state OF South. Dakota, and
which mortgage was recorded In the Office Of
the register s1ste Is Fl so dssd1 b ct the S; &c Hast Of IFai!
November, 1874, at O'Clock p. M; and o'
Whereas, no action or proceedings at law
the debt secured by said mortgage, or any
part thereof, and the amount claimed to be
due upon said mortgage. at the date of this
notice, is the sum of seven. hundred sixty.
1876. SOY, to wit: $651. 80 principal, and SiO6.4O
interest, and $40 statutory attorneys fees.
Now. therefore, notice is hereby given that
by. virtue of the power, OF sale contained In
said aud In pursuance Of the statutes in such
case made and provided, the said mortgage
will be foreclosed by a sale of the mortgaged
At the front door Of the court house in the
and stare of South Dakota, on the eth day Of
May, 1893, at : O'Clock in the afternoon Of that
iai the co COUNTY sy'e 81 Fail Fi RIVE IL at tie s stass ef
South Dakota, and IRE described as follows,
to wit: lot number three 81. In block mum.
her .tifty-six $3.50 in Sulphur Springs addition
to the own of Hot Springs, according to rec.
orded plat thereof.
ed day OF March. A. D.. 1893.
The MERCHANTS STATE BANK,
KELLAR & KELLAR, Attorneys for Mortgages.
GINS. 8. EASTMAN, Sheriff of Fall River
County, South Dakota.
First publication, March %. 1893. "A
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22
Something for Nothing.

That's about what we are enabled to
offer subscribers for a brief period.
We have made arrangements whereby,
for the sum of IS 9. we will send the
STAR and the Dakota Farmer-one of
the best agricultural and stock papers
in the west-for six months; or for a
year for the sum of SLIGO, together with
twenty-one packages of seeds. These
seeds alone + valued at s.. They are
from the well-known John A. Salzer
Seed Co., of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and
include a variety that every gardner
needs. You get more than your mon
ey's worth of reading, and get the seeds
as a premium.
We are enabled to make this offer
for only a short time, and secure the
proposition in order to introduce the
Dakota Farmer and it's wondeafulseed
premium. Give your order early.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22
klOndike.

What does it cost to There? When
and how should one go? Whatshould
netake? Where are the mines? How
much have they produced? Is work
plentiful? What wages are paid? Is
living expensive? What are ones
chances of "making a striker?
Complete and satisfactory replies to
the above questions will be found in
the Burlington Routes "Klondike
Folder" now ready for distribution.
Sixteen pages of practical informa-
ton and an up-to-date map of Alaska
and the Klondike. Free at Burlington
Route ticket offices, or sent on receipt
of four cents in stamps by j. Francis,
Gent Passenger Agent, Burlington
Route, Omaha, Nebr.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22

And SO the Herald is going to read
the STAR out of the republican party
because it permitted the citizens tick
ct committee to use its columns in
behalf of the citizens ticket. The
STAR might make a defense, if it want
ed to, by saying that it permitted Maj.
Anderson to print in its columns all
that he asked for. But then, if the
Herald Can prove by such wise logic
that the STAR is no longer republican
paper, by the same methodical calcula.
tions where would the Herald be polit-
ca1lvp
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22

One of the war developments is like
ly to prove quite embarrassing to the
financial arguments which the silver
men are preparing to trot o%ut7again
when the congressional campaign
opens. a natural inquiry as to the
method likely to be pursued in raising
funds in case of necessity has brought
out the fact that there is more money
in irculation in the United States
than ever before i'll its history. the to-.
tai being Sl,754 ,05S,G45. This shows an
increase of s%246.OOo.OOo in II months
since the Chicago convention declared
shat the money of the country could
not materially increase without the
free coinage of silver, a development
which will be quite embarrassing to
the people who nre expecting to bur-
nish up their arguments of 1896 for
s in 1898. A steady increase of the
money i'll circulation at the rate of
nearly s%12.Ooo,Ooo per month has Il
a somewhat depressing effect upon the
silver arguments of 1896.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22

The course of the new administra-
zion with reference to beet sagar is be-
ing commended by men of all parties
and all sections. Secretary Wilson'S
latest reports on this subject shows
that the experiments of last year were
highly successful aud that he has
reason to expect that the beet sugar
production of the United States i.
1893 will be double that of 1897, ant
that this will shortly become one OF
the we'll recognized and successful ag
%ricultural industries of the country.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22
Ths Critic Answered.

An acut- crirlc calls attention to
what he. styles an i%nelesance in a lead
ing ARTICLE of The Pilot. 1t is that in
which the following sentence OCCURS:
rAnd Paul said. But I was born so.'"
We are sorry it is inelegant, but it must
stand as it is. for it happens to DO the
exact words Of the New Testament,
chapter xii, verse IS. CT 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 in the world and point
ed out all the faults of all our neighbors
for their reformation we may sit down
and revise the New Testament, but it
will not be this year nor next year.
Somewhere along about 1893 VIC shall
inaugurate these important reforms
Boston Pilot.
esa.a4sss.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22


What say the free trade orators now
with reference to the assertion that
the duty on hides and an increased
duty Oh leather would certainly raise
the price OH boots and shoes! The
latest issue of, Dun's Review, in its
summariZation of business conditions
says: .'ln boots aud shoes the un-
preccdentcd purchased between Feb.
10 and March 26. have not prevented
unusually large orders for this season.
with prices Slightly yielding as to
leather" This fact, coupled with fig
ures recently vuoted, showing that all
grades of boots and shoes are selling
at less than thcyiwere at the beginning
of last year. make plain how absolutely
gro undless were the assertions made
by the opponents of the Dingley tariff
bill that the tariff it placed OH hides
and leather..would cause an increase in
the price of boots and shoes.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22
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bond, when for IL smnll payment o can get
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Deadwood, s. d.
UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY
co., OF BALTIMORE, MO.
Capital paid in cash, $i,O0O,OOO.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22

The value of sheep has increased $780,
100000 in round numbers since the in
auguration of Mckinley and is now the
highest since 1899, while the values of
other farm animals and products have
also greatly increased.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-22
Bncklin's Arnica SaIye.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
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sores, letter, chapped hands, chill blains,
corns, and all skin eruptions. and posi-.
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1t is guaranteed to give perfect salts.
faction or money refunded. Price 25c,
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