Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-12-27

Buffalo News. =
One Ohio legislator has hit the nail ON
the head. He says there is too much
legislation.-Toledo News.
Subject for Miss Stones lecture when
she starts out: GLOW l died, lived and
died again."-Buffalo Times.
The arrogance of these Germans. They
actually presume to organize a sugar
trust themselves.-Detroit Free Press.
The fellow that first penned: What
goes up must come down." never had any
experience with the price of coal.-To-
ledo News.
1t does seem that the Indians were
dying rapidly enough without getting
them interested iii football.-Topeka
Journal.
AS usual the principal business of the
majority in the House of Represent
tives will be to %apportion the jobs.-De-
troit News.
In a few days they will begin charging
admission at the St. Louis fair grounds.
This is a huge endeavor to be previous.
st. Paul Dispatch.
If President Roosevelt really wishes to
escape Office seekers occasionally one Of
those new submarine boats would be Just
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Times.
Those in charge are now inclined to
believe that the ship subsidy baby was
dead when first left on Senator Hanna's
doorstep.-Grand Rapids Press.
The time may wen come when the
courts will rule that legislative employees
are not entitled to salaries that have not
been earned.-Detroit Free Press.
Ii Mr.. Carnegie is looking for a ma
tional board to spend S10.0O0.O00 for him
Congress will be glad to show how easily
it can be done.-Grand Rapids Press.
A baseball catcher's mask might be rec
commended to Servia's queen as the way
of mitigating King A~leXander's face
slapping habit.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The beefeaters in Philadelphia, who
pay from 20 to % cents per pound for
their steaks, are helping to make million
aires out of the packers in western cities.
Philadelphia Record.
According to the Boston Commercial
Bulletin, a promoter is one of those fell
lows who can sell you a colander for a
w%ashbasin. We have yet to hear a bet
ter defnition.-Buffalo Times.
What with beef soaring sSyward and
potatoes and apples already there, we
shall soon have to be content with such
cheap things as turkey, pate de foie gras
and strawberries.-St. Paul Globe.
Experience has effected a great change
in Senator Platt. When he is thrown
down now by a President, he calmly
brushes the dust off his clothes and
claims he slipped.-Dctroit Free Press.
Out in California they have imported
from China a beetle which eats the San
Jose scale, the pest of fruit growers. But
now they are trying to find something
which will eat the bcetle.-Buffalo News.
If it wasn't for Theodore Roosevelt
some of the magazines might be sorely
put to it for interesting matter. They
are making copy for him in a surprising
ly continuous way.-ClevcIand Plain
Dealer.
Harpcr's Weekly refers to the Tam
many leader as "the late Mr.. Croker, an
Irishmap by birth. an Englishman by
choice, and a New Yorker by profession,
whose favorite color is the long green"
Buffalo Times
The sad lesson of the trouble in Hol-
land is that real royal queens,'' like or
binary feminine mortals, are likely to
make a mess of it when they try to re-
form rakes by marrying them.-New
York Evening Sun.
If Sampson is entitled to prize money,
it seems as though the law should be
amended so as to allow a share to the
Secretary of the Navy and the President.
They had as much to do with smashing
Cervera's fleet as Sampson did.-Topeka
Journal.
Senator Hoar has flashes of genius yet.
He advises the nations to all deport their
anarchists to one island where they could
establish their IDEAL community without
any law. After time the survivor could
be brought away to some insane asylum.
Buffalo News.
Prince Henry may be a brute of a
German. and he may not. The
young man seems to have had a very
good reputation among his associates be.
fore he was married, md it seems UNI
likely that he should have so soon fallen
from grace.-Detroit Free Press.
Ii Senator Depew persists in making
his approaching wedding such an open
affair, it would be only right for him to
have the ceremony performed in one of
the public parks of Paris, where all men
might have the pleasure of looking on
and MISUNDERSTANDING Plain Dealer.
1t is easier to define anarchy than to
discover anarchists. The wretch who
hates all forms of government and who
undertakes to subvert them if he have
ordinary gumption will not discover him
self until he shall find murderous oppor-
tunity. The red-mouthed proclaimers of
anarchy are the least dangerous of the
cult.-Philadelphia Record.
= In declaring that the man who deserts
his children should be punished with
death the President of the American HUI
name Society may be going a tribe too
far, but such a person is undoubtedly
guilty of n social crime of great gravity.
A man sometimes has good excuse for
quitting a woman, but he never has any
for deserving his little children. This is
specially true if they are dependent upon
him for their bread.-Kansas City Jour-
nal.
The tendency appears to be in the d.
rootion of fauror a1nof;on, o~l 1,n~.. "a