Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-08-23
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Historian Maclay should look up the
generally accepted definition of the word
'boomerang."-Denver Post.
Senator Hanna's son has found some-
thing easy. He has been made president
of a soft coal company.-St. Paul Dis
patch.
Admiral Cervera says he never met
Admiral Sampson. This comes from the
fact that he called when the latter was
out.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t seems after all that the Bocr women
and children are treated fully as we'll
as the British soldiers, except in the
matter of medals.-Detroit News.
The principal occupation just now of a
lot of people with checkered matrimonial
careers is that of Kidnapping their own
childrcn.-New York Evening Sun.
With the unions fixing the price of la
Dor n the trusts fixing the price of
manufactured products where does the
consumer come in?-Topeka Journal.
n Chicago preacher has been compar.
Ing heaven to the average summer resort
most all m with n very slim sprin-
king of men.-Cleveland Plain Dealer,
There are so many big strikes in exist
ence among the workingmcn of the coun-
try at present that it is becoming difficult
TO keep track of them.-Topeka Journal.
If our national prosperity can stand
mistaken against the onslaughts of
strike and drought there ought to be no
question Of it's permanency. - Toledo
News.
One good thing about the drought in
the corn belt is that it brought into line
thousands of people who had been neg
Letting their prayers. - Detroit Free
Press.
The price of coal in Ottawa, Canada,
has been reduced from So to $5.o5. The
ways of Pierpont Morgan as we'll as
Providence are inscrutable. Detroit
News.
Can it be considered another invasion
of American ideas when the stockholders
Of Il London financial institution talk
lbout lynching the promoters !-Cleyeland
Plain Dealer.
Epworth League girls of Illinois have
offered to give part of their skin to re-
store the beauty of two sisters injured in
A railway accident. Christianity grows.
Buffalo News.
Maclay, alleged historian and distortcr
Of facts. says he is not afraid of a suit
against him by Admiral Schlcy. This is
The way in which irresponsible people al
ways talk.-Baltimore News.
The American public will require bet
ter authority than English publications
before it believes that Beers are half
savases." and delight in numbering
wounded men.-Buffalo Times.
The newspapers of this city are pub
fishing earnest appeals to 1.-THE honest
voter" The far more effective dishonest
voter will be approached in another way.
San Francisco Evening Post.
In dry regions there is a great deal of
talk about meeting the drought problem
by irrigation. There is only one drawback
to irrigation. and that is the absence of
water.-St. Louis Globc-D Democrat.
Capt. Strong and May Yohe Hope sail
cd for Japan under the name of Smith.
For those who saw May when she was
here a few weeks ago it is difficult to
understand why Smith left home.-Chi-
cago Journal.
1t appears that the Sultan of Turkey
has determined to buy no more warships
in Germany unless that country will
cease its outrageous practice of asking
to be paid for them.-Philadelph;a Eulie-
tin.
An upright judge. learned in the law,
is respected. whether he is in gown or
shirt sleeves. whether he grows whiskers
or a muStnche, or has Il smooth-shayen
face; whether he wears n wig or goes
bald-headed.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
DR.. Parker. of Detroit, states that men
grow bald because they do not breathe
deeply enough. This accounts for the
short-winded gentlemen who are seen in
the front row at the theater when the
ballet comes to town.-Baltimore Ameri-
IAN.
The nature of the Texas mules is so
poorly understood in England that native
negroes will chaperone the mules here
after. There is a strain of independence
In the American mule that cannot be con-
quered by English drivers. = Buffalo
News.
A resident of Texas devised a shotgun
trap for thieves. The trap worked all
right. but the inventor was a trifle abb
sent-minded, and now the coroner is
searching the dictionary for suitable
words in which to frame the verdict
Omaha News.
The increase in the price Of coal 20
cents per ton on account of drought and
excessively hot weather is certainly
something new under the sun. 1t has
not been generally known that the coal
crop, too. has been injured by the
d~rought.-St. Louis Chronicle.
A New York magistrate allowed a
m to fix the penalty for her hus-
band, who had been arrested for beating
her, and she made it three months on
the rock pile. In a few days she will no
doubt be holding an umbrella over him
while he is at work.-Denver Post.
Admiral Schlcy seems to have a dozen
or so bureau enemies, while the mill
lions Of the country's population firmly
believe him a hero-and yet the little
clique seems able to blight his career if
not his fame. The tail certainly does
wag the dog at times-and a pretty stub
by, scrubby tail at that.-San Francisco
Bulletin.