Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-06-07
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to be made murder in the 9th Degree
Detroit News.
The trusts have more to fear from their
own work than anything else.-Brockton
Mass.) Times.
Strange that riotous strikers never
profit by the sud experience of others
who tried the same game and failed
Detroit Free Press.
A new Indiana law makes it life i'm
%prisonment for kidnapers. But what
good is such a law if the k%idnapers are
all of the Pat Grove variety?-Tolelo
Blade.
The next time we get one Of those
Albany dispatches from st. Petersburg,
let us not feel obliged to be Mortified at
the cruelty of the Cars government
Detroit News.
George Washington never held a rank
higher than that of lieutenant general in
the army of the United States. Lieut..
Gen. Miles has a right to feel his hon.
ors.-Omaha Bee.
Returns from the national banks in Ne
bras&a. outside of Omaha and Lincoln,
show that the deposits are steadily on
the increase. The State banks show a
similar condition.-Omuha Bee.
Divorces are becoming so common that
it is suggested that it may soon be nee
essary for the applicant for IL lady's hand
to bring letters of recommendation from
his last wife.-Topeka journal.
Three terrible Turks nave successfully
come to this country and walked off with
the wrestling honors. If sitting cross
legged on a cushion develops this type of
physique it is time for the professors of
gymnastics to eXplain.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
1T is stated that Kansas will need
10000 laborers from outside the State
TO get i'll the wheat crop. 1t will be a
Dusy time out there and fantastic politi-
cams ana reformers of various sorts will
nave to take a back seat until it is all
over.-New York Evening Sun.
The Niles bank wrecker, who left some
$4,000. more or less, to be provided by
the stockholders, is released on $1,000
bail, n will spend the warm months at
a summer resort. while his dupes apply
their noses to the grindstones to meet his
Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
Regarding his appointment as briga-
der general in the regular army it will
be observed that Br'er Funston .'ain't
sayin nothin'." If he continues to hold
MS tongue as hard as he is holding it now
he may yet be President of the United
Statcs.-Ncw York Mail and Express.
The surgeons think nothing nowadays
of taking out a mans stomach. At Santa
Ana, CAL. they have relieved a sufferer
of one lung, much to his benefit. They
will soon take peoples heads off and
lepve them more intelligent and more
beautiful than they were before.-New
York Evening Sun.
Gen. Claffee is a positive man and
when he said that American and British
sololers would never again face each 9th
Ell on the battlefield he only said i'm a
positive manner what he thought. But
It's ten to one he had in his mind a pro-
vlso that if they ever did the Yankee
soldiers would always be "face-on."-Mil-
waukee Journal.
If Mr.. +. Hopkinson Smith be right
when he says that Uncle Toms Cabin
Is responsible for John Browns raid and
the Civil War, then it is responsible for
Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses s. Grant,
and w. Il. Sherman. and a lot of other
prominent Notwithstanding a good deal
OF free advertising for Mr.. Smith.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The fact that Benjamin Harrison was
once President of the United States does
not interfere in the least with the other
fact that he had n right to dispose of his
property by will in such manner as seem
ed to him just n eXpedient. Newspa-
per comment on his action in this matter
Is not only superauous, but impertinent.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
In the action Of the Illinois Central
Railroad Company providing for a pen
sion to old employees may be seen an
other development Of the spirit that has
recently started among moneyed men.
The act is further evidence that the in.
terests OF employer and employee. are
bound together on something more than a
d~ollar-and-cents basis.-St. Louis Repub-
lican.
The German reichstag appears to have
realized that China is a rotten orange,
and that far too much money has already
been wasted upon the German Asiatic
expedition. The Russian plan could be
executed il the concert of the powers
should consist Of absolute monarchies,
but not in Il world of representative, con-
%stitutional governments. Philadelphia
Record.
1t is n of the great advantages con-
nected with the public school system of
the United States that it has a powerful
influence toward preventing the erection
Of barriers between different sections Of
the people and toward promoting among
them all n sentiment of community. Here,
by fur the greater number of parents
send their children to the public schools,
and attendance there carries with it no
social disabilities whatevcr.-Philadel.
phia Inquirer.
Capital punishment has been restored
to the statute books by the Colorado Leg
islature, in the hope that the deplorable
lynching record Of the Centennial State
may be interrnitted and redeemed by OBJ.
servance of the laws. Among the forty.
five States of the Union Rhode Island,
Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin are now
the only communities in which the pen.
atty of a life for q life is not exacted
under terms of statutory enactment
Philadelphia Record.