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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
IN TENTS AND CELLARS.
Herman's Homeless Citizens Ped and
Housed by Charity.

Five hundred homeless citizens of Her
man, Neb, are leading u very primitive
existence in the devastated place. At
night they crawl into tents provided by
the good people Of the State, or burruw
into the cellars of their wretched homes
like So many rats, The picture is a most
distressing one. AT meal times they crowd
around the church, the only remaining
structure, which is used as u morgue, hos
pital. relief depot and telegraph and reID-
torial office for the correspondents. The
property damage is 100000. with pruc-
ucally no insurance. A special police
force of thirty men WAS necessary to dis
courage vandalism. The place was being
denuded even of the broken and dilapidat-
ed household goods. No one pretends to
Ike able TO pick out his property. 1t is oil
thrown into one great pile. which overs
several acres. But it is practically value
less. The twister formed from u mass of
tiesNy clouds in Dane valley, half a mile
from Herman. The vaInr-like mass sud
denly seemed to turn black as ink. and
with u roar like u thousand railroad en-
sines travelling up a grade started down
the valley. beating into splinters every
thing it touched. 1t seemed to churn the
very earth.
The freuks of the great black ball were
numerous. Anderson Hopkins was blown
through the side of his barn, and the
kitchen stove. in which a fire was burning,
followed him. The debris was ignited and
the farmer burned to death. Farmer Len
nox saw 1t coming and got his family into
a storm cellar, but he was carried high in
the air and hung up in the branches of q
tree. Later a horse passed through thu
air like u cannon ball and %dislodged thu
farmer. A party Of travelling men took
refuge in the cellar Of the hotel at the vii
lage. The hotel was swept away and q
struggling horse was suddenly deposited
in the midst Of the frightened commercial
men. The animal began to rear a1i
plunge, and the drummers, as a matter o.
self-preservation, threw the animal to the
ground by main force and sat upon hin
until the cyclone had passed.
Maj. Burdick, being asked what the re
lief committee should send in, as indicat
ing the extent OF the devastation, remark
ed: I'VE need anything and everythin,
required by a well-regulated family, ex
cept kindling wood" Had 1t not been fo
the farmers of the surrounding country
who came into the village with supplies
the people would have starved. VISITOR
crowded the village by the thousands, an,
what little had been sent in they helps
eat. The people have not only to be fe'
but clothed. Relief is being furnished b.
all Nebraska and Iowa.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
.CURHEDT.@
@'G0E1E7ENps

The election of a Western man for
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives
is regarded in New York as a serious blow
to the East. By thoughtful politicians it
is looked upon as the beginning of the end
Of Eastern control in national affairs. MI
merically the East is stronger at the pres.
ent time i'll Congress than it will ever be
again, in all probability. The next cell
sus, which will be taken a year from now,
will increase the Western representation
in the lower branch Of Congress at the ex.
pense OF the East and South and will give
the Middle and Western States more pow
or than was ever before conferred in that
part of the country. The fo~reshadowcd
election of Gen. Henderson is therefore
looked upon US something Of a calamity
by those whose line of vision focuses about
New York and Boston.
One argument which should appeal
strongly to the conference ut The Hague
is the fact that almost every nation, with
the exception of Great Britain and the
United States, is overtaxed to meet the
expenses Of maintaining its army and
navy. France runs behind TO the amount
of S1OO.0OO,OOO; Austria has ar annual de-
ticit of $S0,O0O,0OO: Russia of SiO,OOO,OOO,
and Italy of $33O,OO0.OOO. The smaller
powers are. many of them, in a state Dor
dering on bankruptcy.
The School Board of Lynn, Mass, has
stirred up a hornets nest by ordering that
hereafter no teacher. male or female, shall
appear before a class in bicycle costume.
The teachers will get up a memorial pray
ing that dur .lg the h 1t months of the year
short skirts and golf trousers may be per-
mittel.
1t is ten years since Johnstown, Pa,
was swept by IL flood from a broken lam.
The town is now a fourth larger than it
was then, although the disaster killed one-
eighth of its inhabitants, destroying Il
third Of it's homes and nearly all of its
workshops.
A cargo of shells, originally intended
for the use of Spanish guns in the war
with the United States, recently arrived
at Glasgow, Scotland. The charges had
been extracted from them and needy
Spain took advantage of the recent rise
in the price of metnl to get hold of an
honest penny by SELF. & them for old iron,
.:-:-
Ten years ago the city Of Johnstown
Pa, was entirely destroyed by a great
flood. Six Thousand lives were lost, 1900
houses were swept away, and property
valued at $15.OOO.000 was destroyed.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
HERE'S A FLYER.
"rorpedo" Bicycle Which, 1t Is Claim
ed. Will Go Over a Mile a Minute.

Camille Jenatzsy, a Belgian, has in
vented ii torpedo bicycle which, it is
said, will do better than a mile IL min
ute. The machine is pointed fore and
aft like a cigar, with polished sides and
apertures at the top through which the
heads of the crew poke up as ii rising
out of II coffin. The steel zone is for
the purpose of protecting the men who
guide the machine from the rush of
air, which Mt the pace the machine is
capable of is o only terrifying. but
dangerous. The pointed front pierces
the atmosphere as Il projectile impelled
by a t~1irtecn-inch bore mo the
gradual broadening of its width con-
siderably %lessening the enormous wind
resistance as we'll.
The motors are entirely concealed in
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30

in an operation. but his condition would
not admit of an anestlletic being used.
His leg was taken off while he vas
fully conscious. He stood the shock
we'll, but died Il few days later. by
ing, he repeated his request that his
anvil should be his tombstone. In ac-
cordancc with his wish the old anvil
was coated with enamel, topped with
n large horseshoe and set in "A base OF
solid granite. a few Sundays after his
death the monument was raised with
ceremony and j. Nick Perrin deliver
ed an eulogy. The odd monument is
one of the sights of the cemetery, and
to every stranger who pauses before 1t
the story Of the village blacksmith is
told.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
ANVIL FoR a M

lueer Tombstone at the Grave of q
Belleville, Ill, Blacksmith.
yolrath Moehle sleeps under his old
anvil at Walnut Hill cemetery in Bell
VILE, Ill. Moehle was a village black
smith. For owe thirty years he had
toiled ut the same anvil, which had
been given to him by the old black
smith to whom he was "bound out" ut
Pilot Knob. Mo. He became attached
to the old anvil and many times OK
pressed IL wish that he should not he
separated from 1t in death. but that 1t
should be his monument.
The blacksmith was never sick until
his blood was poisoned by the use of
an unclean instrument by n chiropo-
dist. The only hope for his life was
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30

side of the cigar. only the lower part
projecting on the under side. The
riders have pedals with which to start
the machine in motion. The motors
are electric, but what contrivance is
employed to secure the necessary pow
er for the fearful speed at which the
bicycle travels is not made public. 1t
has gone Mt II gait of over sixty-tive
miles an hour. The test was made on
a straitaway, level highway from st.
German to ConstanS.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
(ONp7M1zRS !
IS eA4lI@|

A New Yorker died from excessive tea
Thinking the other day at the age of 50.
! DR.. George w. Chittenden. who died at
GAINESVILLE, Wis. at the age of 20, was the
oldest practicing physician in Wisconsin,
and was widely known throughout the
State.
Mrs. Mary p. Coats of Philadelphia cell
ebrated her 1920 birthday on Thursday.
Her family was represented in every war
from that of the revolution to the civil
war, and it vas a great source of grief to
her that her sons were too old to enlist in
.xhesSpanish war.
Thepallbearers ut the funeral of Miss
MasS Baterman. who died last week at
the aee of 20, were. in compliance with
her particular request. all young bachel-
ors. Miss Baterman was n resident for
Fa long time previous to her death OF the
town Of Sparkill, n. Y.
The death Of Mrs. Julia A. Hedges, 9s
years old. of senile decay, at Indianapolis,
developed that her husband, who is still
living, is 1O6 years old. Mr.. Hedges still
hears and talks readily, and he is physical
ly quite active, but his memory is treach,
erous. Their only support is a pension OF
account of a son killed in the civil war
| MI. and Mrs. Hedges had lived togethe,
seventy years. Several Of their children
are still living.
Harrison Reed, whose death at Jack
sonville. Fla. at the age Of 81 years, Il
announced, was the first editor Of the Mil
waukee Sentinel, and was a member o
the constitutional convention of Wiscon
sin. During the civil war he held an ofic,
- A.. 6N.onc.,., nooo.k,no~A .- - -
close he moved to Jacksonville. In Nav
1868. he was elected Governor of Florida
and served two terms. until January
1873. In 1878 he was elected to the Stat
Assembly for two years. Since then b
had lived in retirement at his home Il
South Jacksonville.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
AMERICAN GIFT 70 oReveu
Hebrew Dime Subscription to Pu
chase Testimonials. M

The Hebrews of America are planni
testimonial to celebrate the. release
Dreyfus from DEVILS Island. and I
tardy Measure of justice to him mei
.ou by the French nation. Funds Z
being raised in Chicago, New York
all the large cities Of the country. u
intended to present to Captain Dreyfu
gold-mounted and d~iamond-set and rtc
engraved sword. To Emile lola. WI
defense Of the army officer led to his e,
from his native country, will be give
solid gold pen, neatly engraved. Tod
Picquart, who always stood by AesH
.,oner, will be presented a gold loving
with a richly engraved inscriptions
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
Cyclone Not the Act of God,

In nine pulpits at Eau Claire, Wis.
Sunday the cyclone at New Richmond
was the subject Of m The general
sentiment expressed was that it was a
mysterious dispensation of Providence.
but the Rev. Joseph Moran of the Epis-
copal Church said it was the devilish work
of an unknown power and not the act of
God.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30

which nearly caused u
rupture between Eng
land and this country
four years ago. Great
Britain and Venezuela
both claim the same
territory along the Dor
der between Venezuela
and British Guiana.
Mr.. Harrison is Vene
zuelu's chief counsel.
Having made a thor
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
Thousand. Going to Europe,

More than 10000 first cabin passengers
have already sailed from New York and
It is estimated that about 100000 Ameri-
cans will visit Europe for pleasure during
the summer. A conservative estimate of
the amount expended in fares and travel
ing expenses Is $500 per individual, max
ing a total Of $~150.OOO,OOO that will be
carried away from this country.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
.scHLeY TO ASK FOR INQUIRY
Admirable Conduct at Santiago VIII
Re Looked Into.

BE looked Into.
Naval officers believe that a court of
inquiry should be appointed to ascertain
definitely Rear Admiral Schley's conduct
In the naval battle of Santiago. The
statements Of Lieutenant Commanders
Hodgson and Heilner have reopened the
controversy, and in the opinion Of many
naval officers brings the case ''up ia
Schley." Secretary Long may order an
inquiry, but the rear admiral's friends be,
Neve be will ask for one.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30

John Smith, 80, attempted to kill him
self by jumping from Brooklyn bridge.
Policeman prevented and he wal locked
up.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30

Wv The inveution. Of tie sscydione annihilk-
tor is announced by E. ID. HettAy . chi
cage man. The device has; bsen oAersdto
the United States Government ~ TIE n
ventor. The annihilator 10 snan en-
non with a weather vaAe and % air tsig-
ger. The weather vanss y 1or TIE pur-
pose Of aiming the cannon, which rests
upon a vertical piveE WAensa cyclone
approaches. the vane turns the mo SO
1t points directly atstae fun%nel-shaped
cloud. When the wind reaches a velocity
Of sixty-fve miles an hour it will spring
the trigger and fire the cannon. The pro.
jectile fred into the revolving cloud will
throw it off its balance and it will scatter
into q harmless zephyr.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
STANDARD on QUITS OHIO.
Great Trust Will Establish Offices In
New York.

The Standard Oil Company will remove
its headquarters from Cleveland, which
will hereafter become a branch distribute
ing point. When the dispatches %announc-
ed recently that the Standard Oil Com
.pany had become a New Jersey corpora
ton, with a capital Of $10,OO0.OO0. 1t was
said that the headquarters would be re.
moved to New York, but it was not
thought that the company would with
draw from Ohio entirely.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
Canyons of the Great West.
a sure

Mrs. Gotrox-Mabel, dear. are you
sure MIR. Woodby loves you for yourself
alone?
Mabel-Yes. I'm sure he does. NAM
ma. He is always so restless when
you are in the room.-London Tit-Bits.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
Univereity students.

The number Of students at the larx-
est ten universities in the world Is as
follows: Paris, 1904; Berlin, 10.306;
Madrid, GAS; Vienna. $40: Naples,
6,103; Moscow, 4.481; Buda-Pesth.
1907; Munich, 1897; Harvard, 3,674:
st. Petersburg, 3,615.-Pittsbury Dia,
patch.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
NORTHUMBERLAND DISPUTE.

difficulty that Nearly Caused a Rup-
turc with England.
EX-Prcsident Harrison is in Paris repre-
Venezuela at an international tri-
Aunal of arbitration TO settle the question
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30

Members Of the American academy Of
medicine met In Chicago.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
Few Die in Tasmania.

Ii the statement of Harry Benjatied,
q henlth officer in Tasmania, is exact,
that country must be conducive to long
life and its cities healthy to live in. He
says that the population of Hobart and
its suburbs is 10000. and that in 1898
the total number of deaths was SCI, or
about IA in every 1000. He says,
further, that Of the 5G1 persons who
died $50 We're more than 65 years old,
representing 49, per 1000 of the deaths
of children and all others under IS
years old. He believes he is justified in
challenging any other city in the world
to produce equally favorable figures.
particularly the small figures for
deaths under IS years of age. Tas-
mania has been under British control
for about one century, and IL large pro-
portion of it's population is %native-born
of British parentage.-New York Press.
Canyons of the Great West.
The grand canyon Of the Yellow
stone River, with its magnificent and
gorgeous colorong, is only from 1000
to 1900 feet deep. The grand canyon
of the Arkansas River, in Colorado,
is 1000 feet deep ana very narrow, but
neither compares in size or grandeur
with the grand canyon Of Arizona,
which is about 200 miles long. upward
of 1000 feet deep. and at some points,
from rim to rim. measures ten to twelve
miles i'll hreadth.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30

Patronise those Who advertise.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30

Ten years ago the city Of Johnstown,
Pa, was entirely destroyed by a great
Hood. Six thousand lives were lost, 1900
houses were swept away, and property
valued at $15,OOO.O00 was destroyed.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-12-14
From Other "Pens'

A dentist at Liberty, Mo-, was
run out of town for kissing another
mans wife while filling her teeth.
The lady was very much surprised
and enraged. 1t was her first visit
to a dentists shop and she was not
familiar with the rules of the office.
st. Louis { Mo. Humorist.
Dewey's dog died the day the
admiral was married, and it is a
question whether it was from a
broken heart or indigestion
When the dog heard the news of
the admirafs marriage he was
never the same dog again. Well,
Dewey will never be the same sad
seadog that he was before this
thing happened.-Peck's Sun,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Girls should never throw kisses;
it's almost impossible for a girl to
hit the object she throws at
Madelia Messenger.
Women are not allowed to be
photographed in China. But they
are allowed mirrors and a liberal
supply of facial paint and seem to
be quite happy.-Denver (Colo. }
Post.
A young lady who refuses to
kiss her beau is very ungrateful;
she forgets how much she was
kissed herself when she was a
baby.-The IN. W Tammany
Times.
Pleasures soon pail in Kentucky
With an election contest still in
good working order, it was found
necessary to burn a negro at the
stake to prevent popular interest
flagging.-St. Paul Globe.
The man who has nothing to
boast Of but his illustrious ances-
try is like potato-the only good
belonging to him is underground
Austin Transcript.
He who waits to do a great deal
of good at once will never do any
thing. It is but once in an age
that occasion is offered for great
deed.-The Jefferson Ind. Re.
fector.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-12-14
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I'll THE DRUMMER WRITES A STORY. If,
Written for The Prison Mirror.

Written for The Prison Mirror.
1t was about shutdown. Old mar
Haley had driven into the barn-yarC
and put up his team. This done M
went to the wagon and reaching under
the seat, Began taking out the pack
ages which he had brought from town
First there was dollars worth OF
coffee, A sugar, the light brown damp
kind you know, then couple of pound
plugs of tobacco, several packages OF
Arbuckle's xxx coffee and at last the
mail which consisted of one. or two
letters, the county paper and an agri
cultural paper printed away off in the
city. Going into the house he laid the
whole on the end of the dining table
and seating himself at the other, be-
gan to retail to his family all the stray
bits of news and gossip he had picked
up in town.
"Yep," he said, "Jim Feltner has got
married to that Snow gal, or Bill Shows
darter, m Whale Gaskets house got
sot afire m they had terrible time
agittin' it put out, m there were a
stranger thar at the store t. c'u'd out
talk any body 1 ever seed. He's sellin'
some sorter patent medicine. Cir me
some circ'lars N tol' me t read 'em
endurin' my lesshur."
"What's it good fur?" asked his
wife.
Dunno, he Flowed I'd git uh heap
ali ben'ft outen tn readin' uf EN-"
After supper, when the dishes had
been washed and the "things cleared
away" the children put to bed and the
old folks had settled themselves to
enjoy an hours reading the old man
suddenly thought of the circulars
which the stranger had given him.
Drawing them out of his pocket and
spreading them out on the table he
adjusted his silver bowed "specs" on
his nose and began to read:
"Are you sleepless during the day?
'Do your feet sweat?
"Do you have a feeling of goneness
in your stomach about meal time?
care you tired when you come in
from the field at night?
"Do you hate to get up in the morn
ing at four o'clock? and do you dread
to do the chores before breakfast?
"Do you feel hot waves in summer
and cold ones in winter run up and
down your back?
"Do you feel sleepy at night when
you lay down on your bed?
as your appetite gone Immediately
after eating?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-12-14
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| off You CAN answer these questions
in the affirmative,
THEN YOU HAVE GOT PROLAP-
TOFHAPSUS."
"Good Lordw CALCULATED the old
lady.
Haley continued to read.
"This dread disease slips upon its
victim like boa constructor and the
poor deluded man or woman around
whom it fastens it's Shiny folds never
realizes his or her danger until it is too
late.
eff you have any or all of the above
symptoms you are in the first stages of
the dreadful plague which has caused
thousands to 60 to their graves never
knowing there was anything the mat
ter with them.
"Now is the time to arrest the
ravages of this monster by taking
Quackem's Great Destroyer etc., ETC."
The old man laid the circular down,
and looking steadily at his wife for a
minute, said:
MANDY, believe t. my soul t. I've
got ev'ry one O. them symptoms m if I
have mus git some uh that medicine"
"Oh pshaw, Silep said the old lady,
snow don't you 60 to gittin' scarf"
The old man made no response to
this remark, but began making prepare
lions for bed, and was soon followed
by his wife.
The next morning, as usual, Mrs.
Haley arose by candle light and got
breakfast ready, thinking, if she
thought of it at all, that her husband
was out doing the feeding at the barn.
Breakfast ready she sat down to wait
for him to come in, with the children,
sleepy-eyed and toused- headed, stand
ing around IL wonder what's keepin'
your pa" she remarked as the first
streaks of the coming day began to
show themselves in the east. Another
wait of fifteen minutes and then, "Jlm-
my, you jest run out to the lot m see
what's keepin' YOU pa. so long"
Jimmy was about to start on his
errand when from the room occupied
by the parents came a dismal grOan,
followed by feeble cry.
"Mercy mel" calculated the old lady,
"what on earth is that?" and she
fastened into the bedroom
There she found her husband curled
up in bed, pale as ghost and groan-
ing dismally.
Old man Haley was down with that
dread disease PROLApTOFHAPS
j. S. B.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-12-14
IN THE CITY.

A Boston paper sharply says
that all of the women of that town
do not wear eyeglasses. Perhaps
some Of them have pug noses and
cawn't -Denver (Colo.) Post.
There will be corkscrew
loose some where when the city of
Milwaukee goes prohibition. -
Lakeield Standard.
The British navy has a new tor
pedo boat destroyer called the
E'Viper," which they expect to
make speed Of 40 miles an hour.
What a picnic they would have if
the "Viper" could only navigate
the African veldt. Minneapolis
Tribune.
Every butcher is not a golf
player because he makes links
Lakefeld Standard.
For the benefit of our foreign
readers it may be mentioned that
"the count in Kentucky" so often
spoken Of in the newspapers, is
not a titled foreigner.-Warroad
Plaindealer.
A Hot Springs man is taking
sixteen different remedies for a
trifing complaint. Sixteen differ
ent neighbors brought in sure
cures, and his women folks, rather
than offend any of them, make
him take all that are brought in
The ARK. Thomas Cat.
A Hot Springs man who has
whooped for a war with England
until he hasn't enough voice left
to whistle for dog, made his wife
90 to the door last night when
someone knocked. He was afraid.
The (Ark.) Thomas Cat.