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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-07
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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-07

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ptrfumes was 80 general sIp9pS both
gentlemen ami. Indies that til Eu.
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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-07

Every fnrmer bis
landlord, n o tnsuu
branccs,his bank n,.cou
iil;rspsin- year by :
I fnU valsie incfsu
STAG insrcasipg, IA
did c 4 VI ate, exc
school. and churca
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-07

! Born before United SAFES was
formed.
5 Saw 22 Presidents elected.
Z Pe-ru-na has pr fected him
from all sudden changes.
Veteran of four wars.
: Shed a horse vic. 90 years
old.
s Always conquered tic gr!p with
Pe.ru.na.
: witness In a lanJ suit at age OF
ITO years.
Believes Ps-ru-ra the gre test
re nedy of tic agc for ca. arrIiaI
diseases.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-07

con A WEEK Straight SALARY ana ex-
OGU pcnses to men with rig to Introduce
onr Poultry Mixture IL country; Yrar,s COM
Monarch MFG. Co... Boxl.32 Springfield. I'd.
The Canton times., 1902-10-10

Brass work can be kept beau
tifnlly bright by occasionally
rubbing with salt and vinegar.
The Canton times., 1902-10-10
Arkansas Lynchings.

a report comes from Arkansas
that a negro was quietly lynched
in that state the other day. Now
Arkansas could not, spoil every
thing by doing such work on the
quiet. It,should remember that
at Corinth in this state last Sum
day evening a negro was burned
and there was nothing quiet about
it. 1t was a public burning,
which made it a kind of burning
shame, and all the people in the
surrounding country were in
vited and ladies who desired to
see it were provided for with
comfortable seats. The press
dispatches sent out word early
in the morning that there was
going to be fun in the Old town
that day and every body who
could to attend, even the COVER
nor of the state, would be well
come; and would witness a sight
they did not witness every day.
That way Arkansas has of doing
it's lynching on the quiet is not in
conformity with the other SOU
thern states and in this respect it
should change the program
Hattiesburg Progress.
The Canton times., 1902-10-10
Cocoa Grass.

ibid you Louisiana people
from New Orleans ever hear of
the cocoa grass which infests
the cotton region Of your state on
the upper river coast, :" the youth
from the country smiled ruefully
as he spoke. 1.-The planters up
In Mississippi look on that abomi-
nable grass as the chief produc-
ton of Louisiana. We know that
man in the Bible spoke of il when
he mentioned the plant which
could be cut down in the evening
and in the morning would flourish
as before. Cocoa takes every
thing it touches, chokeS every.
thing it takes aud is the plague,
harassment and ruin of every
man coutending with it. The
grass comes from a bulb and
grows forever. The blades are
six inches or a foot long, the
roots spread ten, fifteen or twenty
feet, growing fresh bulbs every
two inches and each fresh bulb
developing a new plant You
can cut off the grass. it will be d
finger length above the earth the
next evening. Split the bulb
and each part becomes d whole.
Dose it with salt and it thrives.
Kerosene is to it as the morning
dew. Flowing cultivates it; hoe
ing produces new life. Build a
house over it, let it stay fifty
years and then burn it down.
The grass will come up through
the smoking ashes. Plant a
potato crop, every tuber will be
pierced through and through.
Last year nearly every mule on
my place went blind from the
grass. The weather was rainy
The stuff grew fast. The mules
lay down on the ground, stretch
ed out to rest before the morn
ing bell called them to the plow.
Before they we're aware the grass
had pierced the lids, entered the
ball and destroyed the sight of
the first eye: The next night
the mules lay on the other side to
rest the afflicted spot. The grass
put out the one eye remaining. Of
forty one mules thirty-seven and
one half lost their sight before
the rainy spell ended. Times
Democrat.
1t is now up to Dudley Watts.
Ed.
The Canton times., 1902-10-10
Stick to Her.

Once I was young, but now
am old, and I have never seen a
girl unfaithful to her mother who
ever came to be worth one eyed
button to her husband. 1t is the
law ofJGod. Tt is not exactly in
the Bible, but it is written large
and awful in the lives of many
misfit homes. If one of you
chaps ever run across such girl
with her face full of roses who
says to you as you come TO the
door: ST cannot go for thirty
minutes yet for the dishes are not
washed, you wait for that girl.
Sit right down on the doorstep
and wait for her, because some
other fellow may come along and
carry her off and then you lose
an angel Wait and stick TO her
like a burr TO a mules Bill
Arp.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

| has spoken the part many times and
knows his lines Well:
"Ye see, went to Californy afore the
| gold excitement. Sailed round the Horn
afore the mast. 'Cept fer Injuns they
| warn't no people thar then but some Span
| fards and MeX1cans and now and then a
white man. but they was miles apart and
never seen each other, scarcely. 1 was
young man then and likely un-nOt big
| but powerful wiry and all thar, what they
was of me-without no bad habits 'cept
the one of abstainin' from all the others.
Directly got to where Frisco is now
which was only the puniest kind Of a set
tlement then, meets an old Spaniard
named H'wan Somethin' or -other Calees-
tr-r-a, and he says to me did I want q
| job, which / says did, so he hires me fer
man. all work on his ranch. I'd been
| workin' fer him a couple of months when
| one mornin' mule Of ourn was missin'
and I set out to look fer him. It had
rained the night afore and I found his
| tracks In the mud. leadin' towards the
foothills. AFTER bit lost 'em in the
grass but purity soon come on 'ern ag'in
in the sandy bottom Of a canyon that
wound away into the hills. Up this here
| canyon I tracked the mule fer three or
four mile, then I see where he'd clumh
the side whar it warn't very steep, so I
went up thar myself. It was nice, open
trees here and thar, say couple Of hun
derd foot high or so, some Of 'em. I'd "a
found the mule quick in that kind of coun->
try eff the derned fog hadn't got so thick.
I knoWed it was ticklish business goin'
into strange, wild country in a fog, but
as the wind was BLOWN from the ocean
and directly at my back I figgered I'd
Jest so right ag'in' the wind when I
wanted to go back. I Well, I wandered
round fer hours without gettin' no track
Of the mule. Bymeby got into thicker
and bigger timber. 1t was dretful. solemn
and still in thar and I was gittin' tired,
so decided to quit huntin, fer that day,
and go home. 49," n
Il faced around towards the wind and
started. 1t was all up hill that I went
but I thought it was jest one of them big
foothills or little mountains betwixt the
big ones and the little, grassy foothills
next to the valley and that I'd git to the
top of it purity soon. But I walked on
and on, up and yet ever up and bymeby
1 begun to git scarf The trees round me,
what could see of 'em fer the fog, was
powerful big and thick together-reg'l lar
mountain timber. I went ahead slower
Purity soon I come to a crick runnin'
down the mountain towards the way I'd
come from. Suddenly a thought struck
me: the wind had changed from whar it
was in the mornin' and was BLOWN off
the mountains. T was lost in the
Sierrys!
well, I didn't know what to do. r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

smoke was comm up outside now.
looked down. The country was goin' east!
looked up. The tree was slantin' away
out to the west over my. head! My
gosh!' says I, the trees fallin'' 9
my brain seemed to clear then and I
seen the thing to do was to go round to
the other side of the tree. OF course I
didn't think they was any chance fer me-
anyhow, but they sure warn't eft staid
whar I was. So at awful resk I Skinned
round and tuck a seat on the top side.
We was fallin' fast now and comm un-
comfortably near to land, when all at once
the tree gives a chug, like we've noticed
when a freight train shows up. 'Chug!'
she goes agin and then I notice we amt
fallin' SO fast. Well, sir, she chugs a few
times more and then the tops of the little
two-hundred-foot trees goes by me and
smash! we've lit! I goes up into the air
about a hundred foot and lights IN the
soft top of a redwood, nice as you please
and without hardly a scratch.
Nov, you may think it's queer that We
come down so easy, and it was kinder
queer, but you see it was like this: Them
chugs was the tree hittin' the tops Of
hills down nearer its roots than what
was, and it kinder broke the fall; then.
too, the tree was holler and light fer its
size, so the air held it up purity good.
That tree burnt fer five year and more.
OF, course, don't know, fer sure, but I
expect that was the biggest tree that
ever was. '>'.-
He ceased speaking and fell to blowing
smoke rings very artistically: first,
large, wavering ring, then through it a
smaller, fatter, more rigid one, then
through that, with rare failure, a third,
still smaller and more compact, and which
left his lips at great speed. watched
him but said nothing. Presently, after d
triumph of blowing, in which ali fourt
ring had been shot through the third, he
said: .5.$ 80 -s.< IF - 81
"Story's DONE :.
I said had supposed so. ~.gf
Don't We believe what told ye?"
Sure; why shouldn't I?' 80
AL right, sir. I like your style. They
amt no reason why you shouldn't, cause
that all happened jest like told We. Come
round ag'in some time and I'll tell ye
bout how a friend of NINE down to Kan
sas, made. and lost a fortune in grass
hoppers.' ~ :, .rsr -- n
So we parted. When I had gone a little
distance down the street my new friend
shouted after me, Hi, you" NJ
I looked back. .;zsrE::;ss
I'VE never. found the mule" he said.
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Infinite care he made his way painfully
upward. Once he glanced quickly above
him. The goal was miles away, yet it
seemed as if he had been crawling up
those rocks for hours.
Once his foot slipped on round damp
stone, and it was only by superhuman
effort aided by q little larger projec-
ton which happened to be under his
right hand, that he kept himself from fall
ing. But presently. as he fearfully made
the slow ascent, his courage returned to
him. He forgot the danger and began to
feel himself immune from it. England and
her service came back to him, Anne
sprang into his mind She was there, per-
haps, behind that window, from which the
light streamed out into the darkness, wait
ing for him, dreaming of him; he should
see her in a moment
The thought lent him wings, he forgot
the dizzy depths below him, the unscaled
heights above him, he forgot his imminent
deadly peril, he forgot himself, in fact.
ton, as he painfully wormed himself up
the face of the tower. With each step
he was drawing nearer to Anne, that was
the burden of his thoughts. @ IN"
Presently his head struck the projection
at the foot Of the balcony surrounding the
oriel window. Here was the most diff
cult part of the ascent; but he was full
efforts and his hands clasped the coping
Of the balcony. Slowly, painfully, he drew
himself up, swung his feet over the wall
and dropped softly down to the stone floor
He was trembling under the strain he
had undergone; and until that moment he
had not realized what it had been; cold
Precipitation had broken out on his fore
head, his hands were bleeding, but he
had achieved the feat. An undertaking
by the way, had he known it, which the
unfortunate Baron de. Croisic had only
composed because he had been aided by
rope dropped by the hands of the fail
Jehane. Grafton's ascent, therefore. ha6
been unparalleled.
He waited few moments until he haG
recovered himself, and then, although he
was consumed by an eager desire, without
looking at the shattered window, which
happened to have the curtains drawn be.
| fore 1t as well, he rose slowly to his feet
he took the coil of rope from his neck
dropped 1t down to the foot Of the tower
| waited few moments until he felt 8
| slight tug upon it, and then hauled up thu
| rope, to the end Of which was fastened on,
Of the heavy graphing. irons, or grapnels
| from the ship. He hooked it securel,
over the coping, coiled the signal halliard
| up at his feet with sailorlike care ans
thus having secured his retreat turned
! toward the window
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20
SO 1t warn't no trouble fer good climber
to go up BYmebY Il stunned ~ $500 ~, d.

SO 1t warn't no trouble fer q good c,irnher
to go UP. Bymeby Il stopped to rest on a
twig about, as big round as the hind wheel
Of wagon It was high enough I'D so
that the tops of the other trees was lest
dim sladders In the fog. down below.
When ld got my wind good started
ag'in. knoWed eff went on fur enough
I'd come to limb big enough to camp
on. Well, bymeby the fog begun to cit
thin and pinkish and purity soon struck
my head out above it and seen the sun
just disappearin' in its It was a. grand
sight. Nothtn. to be- saw above them
clouds but me and my tree and the deep.
blue heavens! ~ 2 sSss FINN: rs s3S RI $50
"But / couldn't be idlin' thar. looked
up and seen away above me, a big limb
stickin'. out son my side of the tree. I
went fer it my best ticks. When crawled
onto it and laid down. dog tired the stars
was sparklins like they do when you git
UP clost to 'em, like, and the moon was
jest techin' the high places in the fog pa
IT was walked up by somethin' hittin' me
in the face. 4 looked round Ut was com
in daylight and the moon had got whar
it showed on my side of the tree) and seen
some bats turnin' In fer the day into
big hole In the tree eight or ten foot
above my limb and which hadn't noticed
the night afore. made up my mind I'd
explore the cave when the light come
good. crawled out on my limb fifty
yard or SO and got smne leaves and sticks
and cones and made q fire and got warmed
up and had breakfast; but didn't eat
much, hungry as was. because I knowed
I must save my grub. I seen, now, that I
hadn't gained nothin,, mebbe, by climbin'
the tree. The Injuns could wait fer me.
That's the Injun's long sult-waitin'.
when the sun was up went into the
the hole. It opened UP bigger inside, with
two branches, one Of EN- running into
the tree direct. ) and bein' black
dark; tother erookin' 'ound to the left
and light enough to see in. tossed a
piece Of bark into the black hole and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

below me as the hills. Thar was some
big mountains over east that seen when
went around the tree and they looked to
be purity nigh as high as what was. The
tree stretched away above me yet hundreds
OF feet, don't know how fur. It was
all the grandest sight man ever seen!
THAT night went to bed hungry, in
the same room with the starved Cabriller
I was that hungry I couldn't sleep good
My stummtck seemed to be tryin' to di-
gest itself. Next mornin' they was some
snow on the limb and ct plenty of that
fer drink, then I ketched two bats and ct
EN-. Bats amt good eatin'. Onct, down
to my sons house in Peory, ct somethin
that his wife called salad. It was the
neardest like them bats Of anything I've
ever ct. Why is it people nowadays don't
think they kin cook good less they know
all the ways they is Of spilin' good vege-
tubbles? Did We ever eat any Of them
there putater cinders that they calls
Chips? Honest to gosh, now! I'd as soon
have shavin's.
well, thar's no use tryin' to describe
my sufferin's fer two days and two nights
on that tree. When I'd git so hungry I
couldn't stand fastin' no longer Id go
pick a bat and con- sumo him. 1t warn't
no fun fer the bat but it would a ben eff
he could saw me while arter I'd ct
him. -.~,.s. ....
WHICH, IcAu uOW1l O1l lH6 IIuD, LILO
evenin' of my second day up the tree,
bein' too weak and careless to crawl up
into the cave, I was that near starved
that didn't expect to last till mornin.
But did. I woke arly, coughin' and
sneezin' and with a burnin' feelin' in my
lungs and hazy notions Of things In my
head. When I'd coughed and sneezed
myself into semi conscientiousness, so to
speak, I sensed that was surrounded by
smoke-and filled with it, too. Tt was
rollin' up all round me, but thin COM
pared to what it was comm out of the
cave. Ye see,. the Injuns had set fire to
the tree, and it,5sbein' hol1er, acted jest
like a chirnbly.
My, but was scarf $50 scarf forgot
my hunger. L didn't sense anything
'cept how scarf I was I got up and
stood stock still, not KNOWN what to do.
Jest then the tree trembled so vislent that
I fell down and they was an awful
groanin', grindin' noise that can't de-
scribe. Then the wind seemed to begin
BLOWN hard agin my side of the tree. 1t
blowed harder and harder and it seemed
to me all of a student that the tree was
kinder shudderin' and zdippin', like. No
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heered it go down. down, down. bouncin'
from side to side Of the boiler tree.
guessed I wouldn't explore that hole; but
turned into the light one, went twenty
or thirty foot turned a corner and, by
hockey! what do you 'spose was there?
Well, sir, it. was a human skeleton, up
ag in the end of the cave but leanin'
forrard with his forehead restin on his
knees and his arms acrost his stummick
like he'd died with a pain thar. Onto his
head was a iron hat with ridge runnin'
over the top forrard to aft and he had
a kind Of jacket Of iron round his ribs.
He was q comical sight but a scary one,
too, to come onto in that lonesome place.
We'll, I>soon got over my scare and
went to gettin' acquainted with him.
They was a plate about the size and shape
OF a trunk check on the side of the ridge
on his hat which felt rough, like it
might have printin' onto it. I tried. to get
the hat off but the head come with it and
I took 'em both out to the light. After
consid' able -rubbin' Of the plate made out
the words .'Orivez Ca, Toledo! That
was his hatter's name, not hisn. They
warn't nothin' to show what hisn' was
and was consid able disappointed.
took a good look at his head, noticin'
that what hair he had left was a bleached
out yaller color and that several of his
+ teeth needed fixin'; then I took the head
back and put it onto the rest OF him.
Now I seen a sword in back Of him. I
snaked it out and took it outside. The
scabber and the sword itself was rusted
purity bad but not as bad as you'd think
On one Of the bands round the scabber it
says TO Mr.. Cabriller from his Sunday
school class!' II .c'+..s g.. H.. --s =
Here then,' thinks I, had the great
explorer dfed!' The book says that no one
knows whar he died. Don't you believe
lem. You have this day saw the man that
seen the place Cabriller was a blonde
and not very big. - - .:ss = IT,
"Arter, I'd looked Cabriller over purity
thorough I spent most of my time outside
HetWarn't good company. His position
was too hinrin' at starvation to be cheer
fni. - About noon ct the last food ha6
and Twas both hungry and dry, powerful
I took "a turn around the tree to see Ell
any Injuns was comm up. No Injuns
so I jest set out the rest of the day or
my limb, -lookin' off over miles and miles
Of country and eleanor over the ocean.
could see Caleestr-r-a's ranch, jest a specl
I'm the valley over west. Good, big hills
was jest like little mounds away way
down below, with shadders of little toy
clouds on EN-, which looked to be as full
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

| her. He must trust some one
and who better than the CIR
| whom he knew to be devoted to- her mis-.
tress and mot unfriendly toward hin
either? .. r. =
She promptly opened her lips to scream
an attempt which Grafton frustrated by
clapping one hand over her mouth anc
forcing her into a chair with the other
sternly bidding her be quiet as he did so
lis it a spirit?" she walled. ooh, mon
sieur, for the love Of heaven III
"Nonsense!' softly answered Grafton
"be silent! Can't you sac and feel that
am alive?" .., - i. a. BE-. - 81 s..
But we left you in Quebec, i'll, wounded
did you think that would stay there
forever? I have recovered, as you see
and have come for mademoiselle. Where
! Is she? Is there not some place where
we can talk? Will any come here?" -
mo one will come here, monsieur, al
least not now, I think. 1 alone have ac-
cess to mademoiselle's apartments
Where is she?" X, .@
'At dinner, monsieur"
"Oh, and is there any one else here?''
Eyes, monsieur, the Marquis de Chabot
gives a dinner to Monsieur le Marchal de
Contains and the officers of his fleet tc
announce the betrothal Of his grand.
daughter to - =. - =.
DE Vitre?'
mo, monsieur, certainly not. He is
much too little for so grand q lady as
mademoiselle.' . rs.<azs5, {,
ITO whom, them s s y
ITO his old friend, Monsieur de Ker-
saint ~
Good heaven!' exclaimed Grafton
1.-THE other mani"
Eyes, monsieur" ~
"And the countess, does she consent?'
| L1nr r,<Nfs1
The marquis announced it when they ar
rived three days ago. Twas settled be-
fore we came"
"And de Vitre?' E @
] "He Is in agony, monsieur. Monsieur
| lie Marquis laughed at her when she tried
to tell him. He said it was nothing. inn
possible, prepcsterous. Oh, you shoulc
see that poor young man, his heart Is
breaking!"
! II care nothing for his heart, Josette
but as to mademoiselle ?''
Her heart is breaking, too, and she
says
The maid hesitated, perhaps fearing she
was betraying her mistress.
! Yes, what does she say?'' he Dues.
toned her, bending on her a compelling
gaze.
"she says she does not care who it is
since-so long as 1t is not--you, mon.
1 sieur.'' Il
80 Josette, bless you for those words
| What does Monsieur de Wire intend tt
do?''
II know not. He speaks Of scarryinf
mademoiselle off, but she will not hear O
it. He appealed to her plighted word, bu
she says she will approach hsf grand
father In time. He must give her time
The French fleet is going on
to capture the English. & they say
i Monsieur de Kersaint and q ndons.eu,
de Wire go with It, Mademcsselle say.
Who knows ?'---but I ought not to tel
you this, monsieur. you are an enemy
Not your enemy, Josette, NOR mad.
i emoiselle 81 NJ ss.I t.,
4 'I ought TOT give monsieur up to thu
marquis remarked the BrefDn cir
doubtfu1y, he would never fdsive m.
II he knew. Z
DO you serve mad emoiselle orthe mar
lduis, u osettee?
Afademosse 2 exclaimed mait
Il fervsnfty 4 sg ss s.