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The San Francisco call., 1909-01-03
a The Quest EterHsI :.
By wnl LiIIibridge.

By Wnl Lillibridge. author 81 Where tbs
1raH Divides etc. Published isy Dodd.
Mead Co.. New York. Price 81 20.
1t is an extraordinary thing that 4
book absolutely devoid of hHnor or
even sense of humor can so hold the
interest that it is read quite through
Yet this book. The Quest Eternal" by
VIII Lirfibridge. is such book and il
is not short story. 1t is 32S pages In
length and not always easy reading
The iurid paper cover and frontispiece
is by the Kinneys and II is hoped tina
they will be changed or omitted in any
later edition OF the book, for they sug-
gest melodramatic sort of love max
ing not in accord with the text ani
viii DO much to prevent the sale OF the
book.
The story has no light at all until
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-03
Sun and Shadow in Spain %

q Maud Howe. author of Roma Beats." etc.
Published by Little. Brown & Co. Boston.
Price So
Maud Howe has written all too few
hooks. She is known already b.
'-Rosia Beatar and Two IN Italy" and
readers who have seen those two
charming books OF travel and impres-
sions VIII seize Sun and Shadow In
Spain" with glad anticipation And
they viii not be disappointed. either
for. not only S the authors sty.o a
deliglt. but her impressions OF things
Spanish are given with a 7iv5dness and
understanding that Is al most photo
grspli.c.
Tie author accompanied her husband
john Elliott. the painter. when be vent
70 Spain many months azo 10 stud
with Jose di Nillegas. court painter to
the king and director Of the famous
Prado museum During the winter ths
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-03
New Books Briefly Motel

The attention OF the critic has been
again called 10 Literary By-Paths in
Old England" by Henry C. Shelley. It
was published two years ago. but his
new book dealing with the same sub
ject has again called for a remem-
brance of the old one. The book Is
very beautiful with hundreds OF Illus
trations from photographs OF parts
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-03
cNOTTAGES ~ GELbCRKF
fFomL Ga4s4aaA Ra -R6s
~ Old ENGLAND
HENRY c gKELLRY .

the very end. An accidental murder
opens 1t. followed by Imprisonment,
then poverty, a hopeiessly crippled
hero, death, suffering, nothing but
trouble. Love is the quest eternal, and
after book full OF suffering the hero
finds his quest
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-03

danger OF becoming the seventh wife OF
Strang, and she proves TO be the only
girl for Captain Plum.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-03
BOOKS REVIEWED

Camp Fires on Desert and Lapa." By VII
liam T. HOrnados.
Sun and ShadODs N Spain. BY M0ude Hone.
The Suldinl." By Fred M. White
The Courage Of Captain Plum" BY James
Oiips CuDoOd
The Quest Eternal" bp VII LaEbridge
III Lgge.' bu Arthur Christopher Benson.
The american Stage of Today" bp Walter
Priehard Eaton.
The Men Life Theology" By John Far
Hungary and the HunggiHls." by w. B.
Forster Bowl
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-03

The Macmillan company has Just Ia
sued its tenth large edition OF Robert
Hsrricks Together" which continues
to be one OF the most talked OF bookf
OF the day.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-03

The autobiography OF the late II
Hung Chang is TO be published IN
China IN 100 volumes. one volume per
year. and sold by subscription on ths
installment plan
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-03

Since II has become known that Eliza
r Scidmore IL the author OF AS Tna
Hague Ordains" the sales OF that book
have been phenomenal. II has gons
through its eighth printing.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-03
" CAMP fires On Desert s0d Lava

p William T. Horna6sy. author ae Camp Fires
p ne Canadian Rockies,f' etc:. Published
rs clkrIes scrlbaers sons, New YORK. PRICE
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12
New Board for Soldiers Home.

Gov. Vessey on Monday appointed
the following gentlemen as members
of the new board for the Soldiers
Home: I. B. Fitzpatrick, of Rapid
City, succeeds Col. j. f. Baker, OF Her.
mosa; Col. Arthur Linn, of Canton,
succeeds Col. Ludlow, of Sioux Falls;
and Col. A. b. Nelson, of Pierre, was
re-appointed to succeed himself The
new board will be composed of the
above named gentlemen with Col. C. b,
Geddes, of Huron. and Capt. Pratt, of
Spearfish, who hold over as members
of the board.
Col. Linn will be remembered by
many as former commandant of the
Home. The new members OF the
board as we'll as those retiring are
among the best and most favorably
known men in the state. The first
and principal appointment will be that
of commandant for the Home, that
vacancy being caused by the recent
death Of Col. B. D. l.. Dudley. Col.
Geddes is acting rommAndant at pres.
cut aud will hold that position until
after tie first meeting.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12
Getting Lively Around Ardmore

Doc Middleton, the pioneer from
tiersmen, clack shot and western Gel.
ebrity, who has spent the past week in
Deadwood aud Belle Fourcne, visiting
his friends, returned to his home at
Ardmore, $. D., last evening on the
Burlington. Doc has enjoyed his
visit greatly rs 1t is one OF his favorite
pastimes to get up here among the
old timers and recall the early days OF
the Black Hills when everything was
wide open aud money was spent
freely.
Doc is taking layoff from business
affairs at present, rs Ardmore has re.
GENTLY been incorporated into town
aud they have not yet had an oppor-
tnnity to vote on the dry and wet
question. ln the meantime, ne has
beeD Obliged tn close up his saloon,
ont there is All election coming in
April AT which tim. they will settle
the question Things, however, are
are mot duh about Ardmore, As they
are experiencing Au inflnx ui settlers
who ara taking ny AMI i'm that vicin
lty. Within the past three weeks
there have been sevantytive home
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12
Death of Mrs. Flick.

Mrs j. =. Bradley returned Wed :
nesday evening from Rapid City,
where she had been called by the
death Of her sister, Mrs. Flick. Tho
latter had been visiting her son at
Dallas for few weeks and had seemed
to be improved in health, having been
out walking only the day before her
death. She was suddenly stricken
with heart failure aud passed away
without warning, even though she hes
been an invalid for several years. The
remains we're brought to Rapid City,
where DR.. aud Mrs. Flick resided -
number OF years.. Ths, funeral ssr-
vices were Of u prisste nature, het
we're largely attended. Mrs. Bradley
has the sympatby Of a large circle Of
friends III her bereavement.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12
The Profits Of Water.

Los Angeles originally owned it's own
water system, which years ago was
leased to private interests. In Feb.
ruary, 1902, the city resumed control
OF its water system under the terms of
the lease. Since 1902, in addition to
paying out of its water rents the ac.
cruing principal and interest of the
bonds issued for the repurchase of wa
terworks, the city has rebuilt the en-.
tire system, has purchased additional
sources Of water supply, and has ex-
tended its water mains to meet the
demands Of 200 per cent growth In
population. While It was accom-.
plishing these results IL reduced tho
wster rates to consumers one half, and
placed the cost Of water to it's inhsb
itants ct q figure only q little moro
than ne.third Of what the residents
Of San Francisco psy-and It still has
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12
Operetic Artists of Superior Ability.

Operetic Artists of Superior Ability.
1t was thoroughly pleased and
appreciative audience that witnessed
the presentation OF Offenback's "The
Grand Duchess" at the Deadwood
theatre last night. 1t is comic oper,
of decidedly superior Quality, full
OF tunefnl music, ample opportunity
for chorus work and nvnerous chances
for the display OF individual ability.
The prlma donna, Miss Ethel Balch,
is an artist Of versatile talent. She
has not only q beautifully clear and
sweet soprano voice of excellent quail.
ty, but she is gifted with unusual
dramatic ability. She has evidently
been trained under the most exactinQ
conditions and has acquired tinish
that gives her work q classic smooth
ness.
No less worthy of especial notice is
the work of Mr.. Huntington, whose
profound and rich bass voice would
be valuable acquisition to an opera
company of any standing MIR. Vaughn
il tenor who knows how to take ad
vantage of all the possibilities of the
role in which he is cast and is
possessed of pleasing and graceful
stage presence. These we're most ac-
ceptably supported by Miss Lynette
Ford. William Ormsby, Chas. Nelson,
Samuel Lovette, Jessie Mayhew and
others, whose voices combined to make
the Offering one of the most enjoyable
ever witnessed in this city.-Dead-
wood Pioneer Times.
At the New Opera House, Monday
and Tuesday evenings, Feb. 1915.
Tickets now on Sale at Hargens Drug
Store.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12
Women Can Vote on Bond Issue.

The Women of the state have won
another victory in an opinion by At
torney General Clark in a case which
came to him from Lake county, in
which he holds that women have the
right to vote in an election called for
the purpose of voting upon the issu.
ance Of school bonds when that ques-
tten is presented without any other
Pierre Free Press.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12
MISUNDERSTANDING.

The above is the name of a German
chemical, which is ON. of the many
valuable ingredients of Foley's Kid
.ney ReMedy. Hexamethy ylenetetra
mine is recognized by medidal text
books and ant1orsEies as II urio acid
solvent aud antiseptic for the urine
E1 Foiey's Kidney Remedy ns soon
MS you notice any Irregularities. and
avoid a serious malauy. Sold " an
druggists.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12
For Sale.

Have sold one OF tho leading phys
i;ians OF Hot Springs Grand Piano
and taken In exchange an upright
piano, which has only been used
short time. will offer this piano for
sale at about one half it's value. Will
sell for part cash and balance month
" ,avmeuls. Address, JONES, the Pia-
no Man, care nf this paper.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12
$1,000 Reward.

For information leading 10 the re-
covery OF one box cutlery lost about
OCT. Goth, 1908 Cattaraugns brand.
Fargo Mercantile Company on tn,
large blades. 42-tf
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12
HOT SPRINGS SOUTH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY H. 1909

left profit of over 100000, which it is
applying TO the cost of the new Owens
river water supply. 1t has expended
since 1902 nearly 100000 out Of its
legitimate profits, re.investipg these
profits for the benefit of the people
Such figures give some idea of the
profits in water. They explain the
inner consciousness of the organized
campaign against municipal owner
ship In several cities. The results in
Los Angeles have been achieved large.
ly by guarding the. administration of
the water system against the intrusion
OF the political spokesman Golfers
Weekly.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12

steads recorded and they are still COM
ine. There is some prospect Of an
irrigation project being put through
in that section of the state and In view
of this possibility. the land in tho dis
trict is being rapidly taken up. At
present there are number of email
individual irrigation schemes In oper-
alton which have demonstrated that
the land there when under water is -
good as any in the country. The
sheep and cattle OF that section have
had q good winter and on tho whole,
the district is booked for q prosper
GUS year.--Deadwood Pioneer Times.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12
Library Notes.

Crowded out Of last weeks issue.)
Saturday OF last week was the bus
lest day that we have had for over .
gear. Nearly forty books were bor-
rowed and the register shows over sixty
visitors
The following magazines have besn
placed upon the table for 1909:
Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday
Evening Post, Scientific American,
Munsey, Everybody's, McClures,
American Boy and Youths Compan.
ion.
Librarians report for the year end
ing Dec 81, 1908:
Number of books purchased during
the year, PIG; number of magazines, IL;
number of papers, II; total number of
visitors, Iaverage per day, 45l 1926;
total number of books loaned, leverage
per day, 20l 1900; number OF member
ships purchased, 1856.
MABEL OsMoTHERLEY.
Iibroviav
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1909-02-12
Nursery Stock.

Before sending off for nursery stock
drop postal to your home nursery
man, Fred Norenberg, at Casca de
Springs. He will I'LL your wants in
trees, shrubbery, ornamentals etc.
4l.4Q
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01

at the same school. The new agricultural
academy has as its director Mr.. c.. S.
Chan, a young Chinese graduate Of the
University Of California, who speaks Eng
fish as well as any reader Of this news
paper, and the text books he uses are
based upon the work OF our agricultural
department in Washington.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01

lat Omaha may have a new
theater for the first produc-
ton OF the Merry Widow" In
this city on Monday, December
q, $40 men. employed in two
shifts Of eleven hours each, are
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01

for he has had only one death on his
work since he has been in the business,
and he spoke to the young fellow in the
following language:
Hang around here If you want to, but
yours will probably be the only death II
you do. We don't have any accidents on
this job worth mentioning, and I'll bet
100 to l that there is not a life lost here.
I'VE take special precautlon to prevent
accidents, and you can count all hat we
do have on the fingers of one hand. In
making the foundations we shore up the
dirt walls; that is, we put up strong
braces of planks and pillars to keep the
dirt from falling in OH the men. If we
didn't shore we might have one or two
deaths before we got through with the
foundation work,
No, sir, young fellow; there are going
to be no serious doings around this job.
So far, i'm over a months work, we nave
had but one accident, and that was not
a serious one. A negro accidentally struck
one of his fellow workmen in the leg with
a pick and forced him to quit the job
for a few days, That, though, is the only
accident so far"
For the foundation Of this new theater
building 1t was necessary 70 go but twenty
80 ANbN ''AN" NV y Va NHN 49,
Nearly every man who has watched the
work Of excavation has declared the foun-
dalton was not being laid deep enough for
an eight-story building. superintendent
Burnham says such talk is foolish and
declares the foundation to be deep enough
to hold up a thirty-story sky ecraper.
I'VE put this foundation down but
twenty-six feet, - explained Mr.. Burnham,
because the ground here in Omaha is
solid and gives a firm base for a building.
The Brandeis store building was allowed
to go down sixty feet below the street
level. but that was done in order to give
the store a large basement. In this build
ing we have just gone down far enough
to get below the basement, which, in this
c4se. is not TO be nearly so deep as in
the first structure.
Il have been on Jobs in several cities
in the United States and ! know what
depth is needed for a substantial building.
In Omaha It is not necessary TO go deeper
than twenty-five feet for a firm founda-
ton. This one we have in the theater
would hold thirty stories or more.
In New Orleans there is a soft clay,
and It is necessary TO go down many feet
and then TO drive piling down about sixty
feet more 10 get a firm bottom. In Gin
clnuati there is gravel in the earth, and
you can stop anywhere in the work. For
a foundation in Chicago a depth between
ninety-five and l5 feet Is needed"
The actual work Of getting ready for
laying the foundation for the theater
building was begun July l, and by August
II the building viii be as high as the first
story. This does not mean that the floor
Of the basement will be laid, but all tho
foundation work will be done and the
walls Of brick will stand completed up 10
the beginning OF the first story.
After that time Philip E. Ward, the fore
Continued on Page Three)
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01

lltdltI LOT inc IlISI pICuuC-
ton OF the Merry Widow" In
- this city on Monday, December
tlENNNNH p, $40 men, employed in two
- shifts of eleven hours each, are
working night and day in a big hole az
the corner of Seventeenth and Douglas
streets under the supervision of f. W.
Burnham, superintendent for Thompson *
Starrett, contractors with offices in New
York and Chicago.
Since last Thursday when the night force
was permanently installed not an hour
has been lost on the work, and until the
theater proper Is ready for occupancy in
December the contractors will continue to
rush the job, permitting not a single hour
to be wasted.
To insure good men for the work The
firm is paying from 20 to 80 GEMS an
hour for common labor, and is giving
men with teams $3.50 per day. For a
while, at the beginning Of the work, The
contractors had a hard time getting hands,
but within me last two weeks they nave
secured as many as tney can use. With
the completion Of the basement and found,
alton work the present force viii proDa-
bly, be increased.
Fol this Brandeis theater building S75
carloads Of brick will be required. In the
walls up to the first story alone, $500 OOJ
brick will be used. Two hundred thous-
and cubic feet OF REINFORCED concrete
will be placed in the structure. 1t viii
take forty carloads of steel for the frame
work and other parts of the building. The
cement placed in the building will amount
to l25 carloads, or over $500 barrels. IN
the basement and other parts there will
be lG5 columns or piers,
At night, for lighting every nook Of the
structure, twenty solar electric arc lights
will be distributed over the entire place.
One man gives his time to keeping these
lights in order and removing them to
various places as the work demands. Al
night the same number of teams, twenty,
as are used in the day will be kept busy
hauling lumber, brick, steel and otner
material needed in putting up the best
theater building west OF Chicago.
With such u large force OF men working
in this small space the law Of accidents
would probably cali for one or more
deaths before the building is finished A
writer in Chicago, in fact, has figured il
out that for every story OF a sky scraper
one life is taken as toll. In all cities
where great steel glrders are placed IN the
structures and where considerable machin-
cry is employed IN the work no contractor
starts out with a Job without expecting 10
lose some ef his workmen by accidents
before the work is finished.
But In the Brandeis Theater bunding
superintendent Burnham declares there
Will not be one life lost, A smart looking
young fellow, who evidently HAD heard
about the accidents on Chicago's skyscrap-
ers' approached the superintendent the
other day and asked whether il would
pay him TO hang around the building in
hopes OF seeing some one killed. The
query affected the sup-erintendent's pride,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01

have TO fences, and their boundaries are
marked only by stones, The roads which
cut their way right through the farms
look more like bitches than roads, and
turn this way and that across country.
Now our droschky was tilted at an angle
of forty-five degrees, and now we bounced
high as we went over the drains crossing
the roadway. We frequently passed be-
tween great bitches, and I was told that
the farmers dug them to keep the traffic
out the fields and destroying their crops.
I asked where were the houses and barns,
and was pointed to a farm village which
stood on a little hill off by itself. The
Manchus do not live on their farms, They
herd together in villages Of mud houses
and go out to the fields. There are no
barns. in our sense of the word; and neither
hay nor straw stacks. About some of the
settlements one sees ricks of sorghum cane
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01

1903, by Frank Q. Carpenter.J
Manchuria, 19O9.-(Spe-
cial Correspondence of The
BeeD-Within two miles of this
city, surrounded by lands as
ricl, A. the Red River valley.
amid rnrmlnR methods as old
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01

great punches Of what I at first thought
were crows nests. Every tree We saw was
full of such nests; and l asked Director
Chan as to the birds which made them
He replied:
Those are not nests; they are punches
of mistletoe, an air plant which grows all
over Manchuria, You will find thousands
OF such punches in every part of the
They are very destructive, and
are even worse for the trees than are
the orchids OF tropical climes. Indeed,
they are the orchids Of Manchufia."
Coming closer l had a chance to ex-
mime these trees. The mistletoe punches
are scattered all over them, and their
yellow and red berries may be seen shin
ing out of the green. No rosy-cheeked
American belle would dare to wander
about Manchuria. She would be under the
mistletoe half the time. and her lips would
surely wear out.
AT another place we stopped at a grain
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01

Copyright, 1903, by Frank q. Carpenter
- UKDEN, Manchuria, 19O9.-(Spe-
AZ cial Correspondence Of The
IVh BeeD-Within two miles Of this
[w---vrl city, surrounded by lands as
VSXLxN ricl, a. the Red River valley.
SsSs@@S amid r~rming methods as old
as those Of the scJta Of Egypt, a modern
agricultural aca@emy has been started by
tine government. officials Of this back
woods Of China They nave appropriated
$4,000 a year for its support and have a
live experimental farm of 300 acres con-
neited with It
This agrlcultlt raj station was founded
by Tang Shao Il, the former governor OF
Mukdon, who 'scently went to America
to thank us for the return Of the Boxer
indemnity. I understand that a part Of
MS mission was to look up educational
talent for his agricultural academy, and
that he Will bring a dozen or 80 young
americans bach with him. He has al
ready induced two of our we'll known agri-
cultural experts to come here. These are
Mr.. h. G. Parker and Mr.. w. II. Tom
have, who have both been connected with
the University of Minnesota. Both have
performed good experimental farm work
In the United States. Prof. Parker has
written several books and has also done
excellent work for the government at
Washington.
These young men are now on the ground.
They arrived some months ago and since
then have been travelling over Manchuria
on horseback and in carts, studying the
country and its agricultural possibilities.
They nave covered a large part of south
ern Manchuria and have gone through
some Of the sparsely settled northern por-
lions. which they tell me promise to be-
come one of the great bread baskets OF
Asia and possibly its meat basket as well.
Indeed, this new Agricultural movement
is one of the most encouraging evidences
OF the awakening of Asia, and that 1t
should be so far advanced In Manchuria,
beyond the frontier OF China. Is remark
able. 1t is also to be noted that the move
ment has its origin in America, and that
It is being backed with the American
education Of Chinese brains. His excel
lency TanG Shao vi, who is the prime
mover and head, is a graduate Of Yale
university, and NJ. T. LANG, who is the
chief counselor of the viceroy, and also
Tank shao Yrs assistant. was educated
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
Among the Farms.

We drove about a mile from the hotel
before we reached the city wall. This is
thirty feet high. 1t has a great gate on
the side of the town near which the farm
lies. We wound our way out through
this, and then went perhaps two miles fur
ther, passing many new tiled houses. until
we reached the mud wall which ~incloses
the suburbs, We were soon in the country
end In the midst of such farming as is
common in central Manchuria. The fields