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rA-rrnk STAR

Hot Springs Chapter No. So. o. E. g., Masonic Temple third Monday at ', MISS MAUD SPIVEY. w. M.
 Mrs. J. R. Demby, Secretary.
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sumpter Lodge No. 4i9. F. & A. Mo so1,th Hot Springs near end of Ouachita avenue car iine second and fourth Frl- days at 7:30 D. m. x, .
 JOHN R. SEARCY, w. M.
 Robt. Cartney. Secretary
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FOR RENT--Nicely furnished three. four
 and fiTe-room cottages; all modern conycniences best residence part of the city; reasonable rent. Apply 207 Cedar street. or phone 299. 3@f2-tf
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FOR SALE-India Runner duck eggs.
 Also Toulese geese eggs. Hiram Whit tington, phone G35. 2-23-lm
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I1NIt''I|a'aa
 WANTED.

WE PAY the highest prices for mems
 and women's second-h hand clothes, shoes. hAts. etc. trunks and suit cases 3gG Ouaehita avenue. Phone 2l7l. 2-l-C
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AMERICAN ASSN. At Indianalopis-In 2, Minneapolis 6.
 At Toledo-Toledo 2. Kansas City G. At Louisyille-LoulsyiIle 1. St Paul 7.
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LADIEs AND GENTLEMEN

can give you the lowest club rate prices on most any magazine h print If you want to figure With me call me over Phone number 1895 Respectfully,
 Jne c Breckenridge.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
A Theory and q Fact.

The late Senator Frye attributed his
robust health to correct habits and
fondness for sport and the world out
doors. Two months each year he en-
joyed at his camp by the Rangeley
lakes the keen delights Of the rod and
gun. IL there was II achievement
of his life Of which he was inclined to
boast it was that of having caught the
largest square tailed trout ever taken
with a fly. But some time ago at a
dinner this boast was challenged by
no less an authority than Professor
Agassiz. That great naturalist assert
ed that the Maine senator was In err
ror. for it was a scientific fact that no
true trout eve attained the weight
mentioned-Seven pounds. The follow
ing season the senator was fortunate
enough to catch an eight pound speci.
men of the same species. which be
packed in ice and SEN to Professor
Agassiz. The professor acknowledged
his defeat in the following laconic line:
1.-THE theory of a lifetime kicked to
death by a fact!'' "That," commented
Senator Frye, lis the only case l have
Eel heard Of in which a theorist ever
paid the slightest attention to a stub
born fact."-Boston Transcript.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
A Great Snectacla.

"In the Andes, half a thousand feet
higher than Pixies peak, is to be found
the Peruvian Garden Of the Gods, ad.
mired by every traveller fortunate
enough to visit It," writes William V.
Afford, F. r. G. S., I'm the Century.
1T is locally called the Rock forest,
though in no sense Of the word Is 1t a
forest. 1t simply resembles one when
viewed at a distance of ten miles.
The traveller may be forgiven the err
o of thinking it a forest as he sees
it for the first time and forgets that
he is no longer where trees grow, but
within half an hours ride of the high
est city in the world, Cerro de Pasco,
perched, like a condor, on the high
peaks Of the Andes.
1.-THE Garden of the Gods in Colora-
do boasts of q few spectacular rocks.
But they are few in number. and the
area which they cover is not large,
The AnGean garden covers nearly 10C
times the ground and in beauty and
interest surpasses its northern coun'
terpart in the anne ratio"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
Tyranny of the Tip.

There have always been those who
have revolted against the tyranny OF
the tip. So long ago as October, 1906.
we find that ubiquitous parsonage.
Constant Reader" venting his griev-
anccs in the columns Of the London
Times. IF a man who has a horse
puts up at an inn." he complains, "be-
sides the usual bill he must at least
give Is. to the waiter, Cd. TO the cham.
bermaid. Cd. to the hostler and Cd. To
the jaCkboot, making together 2s. Cd
At breakfast you must give at least Cd.
between the waiter and hostler. lf
the traveller only puts up TO have a
refreshment, besides paying for his
horses standing he must give Sd. to the
hostler; at dinner Cd. to the waiter and
Sd. to the hostler; at tea Cd. between
them; so that he gives away in the day
IS. Cd, which. added to the IS. Cd.
for the night. makes 5s. per day on an
average to the servants" They did
the thing pretty thoroughly In those
days.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11

Many common words have once had
a meaning very different from the
one we now give them. SILLY" once
meant blessed. Thou silly babe" the
poet writes. Fond meant foolish.
A fond father" was a foolish father.
Milton writes.
Doth God exact day labor. light denied?
] fondly ask,
meaning II foolishly ask" A pas
senger' was one who was passing
along the highways-a foot traveller.
Now it means one carried by public
conveyance. A journey meant a days
travel.
You'd think twas a journey to
Twickenham town." Now a journey
may mean a trip across continents or
around the world.
Rather" is the comparative form OF
an old word, ''rathe," meaning early,
THE rathe primrose"
Now we have made it mean some
what" and we have lost the first mean.
ing entirely when we say. You are
rather late."-McCall's Magazine.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
Married Women,s Names.

In England and in the United States
q woman loSes her identity In mar
riage. In Belgium and Spain the hus-
band adds the name Of his wife to
his own. In the United States women
sometimes retain the family name, as
Mrs. Harriet (Beecher, Stowe. In the
Channel islands the woman never
loses her maiden name. ln Spain the
children write the names of botn
parents, as Llarena y Monteverde. In
"Don Quixote" is the following.
"Casajo was my fathers name, and l.,
for being the wife of Sancho Panza.
am called Teresa PanZa, but by good
right they ought TO call me Teresa
Casajo." In Scotland both names are
preserved, and the woman is always
known by her maiden name. In Wales
II Is the custom to describe the woman
by her maiden name. The fact that
a woman on becoming the wife of a
man loses her identity is apparent
In many portions of the bible, when
under the ancient custom man, OF,
taking a wife, declared that she be
came flesh of my flesh and blood Of
my blood" thereby establishing the
old time saying that man and wife are
one.-Richmond Tfmes-D Dispatch.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
The Three Pics.

There were three pigs in a poke.
The overcoming was scandalous.
Each accounted for the evil in a diff.
ferent name
The first pig said. The overcrowdins
is terrible; it is because we are in II
poke"
The second pig said, This over,
crowding is disastrous; it is because
we are pigs"
The third pig spoke rs follows: The
Overcrowding is undoubtedly appalling,
but you are both mistaken as to the
conditions that have caused it. 1t is
not due to our being in a poke; neither
is 1t due to our being pigs. The evil
Is the direct and inevitable outcome of
certain spasmodic variations in the
law of economic utility"
The other two pigs were much i'm,
pressed and without more ado elected
the third pig leader among them
Still the overcrowding remained as
bad as ever.-Life.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
CapitaIs We Have Had,

1t is asserted sometimes that the
United States has had five capitals,
but the statement is not correct. The
United States has had but three cap
itals-New York, Philadelphia and
Washington. In the period preceding
the adoption Of the constitution no
place was legally constituted a capital.
In u loose and unofficial sense 1t Is pos.
sible to describe as n capital any city
which was the seat Of government.
Taking the sessions of the Continental
congress as establishing a seat Of gov.
eminent in the Revolution and the
confederation. the following cities
may loosely rank as capitals: Phila
delphia. Baltimore, Lancaster, York,
Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton and
New York. The articles Of confedera'
ton were passed by congress in Phil
adelphia, and the federal convention
charged to prepare a constitution con-
vened at the same place.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
The Arqan Tree.

Among the most remarkable trees Of
the world is the argan. which abounds
In southern Morocco, but is seldom
seen elsewhere. A forest of argans
has a curious scattered appearance be
cause the trees grow singly and far
apart. They are very leafy, but sci
dom exceed twenty feet In height.
The branches put out horizontally and
begin a yard above the ground. Sheep.
cattle and camels feed on the leaves,
and goats will stand on their hind
legs to reach them, but horses and
mules refuse to touch them. The wood
is very hard and extremely useful to
the natives. who make charcoal from
1t. The fruit. resembling a large olive.
Is used to feed cattle and to manufac-
ture q valuable oil. 1t also furnishes
the principal s%ustenance Of many OF
the poorer natives.-Scientifc Ameri-
can.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
DueIinq.

1t is generally agreed that dueling
took it's rise from the judicial combats
Of the Celtic nations. The first formal
duel in England was that between Will
liam Count of Eu and Godfrey Bay
nard about the year 1906. Dueling
was at it's height in France about
1900, though it was pretty popular as
late as 1923, in which year Francis
/. sent a challenge to Charles V. In
England dueling was checked in the
army in 1892 and gradually disappear.
ed from civil life with the coming of a
more enlightened public opinion. Duel,
ing was never as popular in this coun-
try as it was in Europe, but never.
theless many famous duels have been
fought here. The code may be said
to have received its death sentence
when Burr killed Hamilton. The de,
cline after that was steady until ii
practically died out.-New York Amer
lean.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
An AGED Iceberg.

when | was in the arctic" once
said General A. w. Greedy, II found
an aged foe berg in which the yearly
qualifications of growth could be
traced with great accuracy. l meas
ured them and by careful calculation
was able to discover that the oldest
layers of that ice probably dated back
to the years when Solomon was build
ing his temple. That temple, massive
as it was. has utterly persisted. and
men differ as to its exact site. But
that ice was still in existence when !
was in the polar seas, and it may be
there yet. You see, a bit Of fresh water
ice, once immersed in a salt sea that
has a constant temperature Of about
twenty-eight degrees, cannot very well
perish. 1t is in a sort Of perpetual
cold storage plant, colder than its own
melting point. And that accounts for
the long endurance of what in our
climate would have lasted perhaps but
a few brief seconds"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
An Unforeseen Calamity.

In his own mind Abel Saunders was
a man marked out by destiny for mis-
fortune; In the minds of his neighbors
1t was a wonder that such a shiftless
man got on as well as Abel did.
When he appeared at the door Of the
resident who had ordered a dozen eggs
the night before he unfolded a much
rumpled paper and took from 1t four
eggs.
That's all there is left O. what |
started WITH" he said lugubriously.
"If t had been anybody but me they'd
We got here all right. But the four
little holes that was in the bottom o
the bag-I saw 'em, but there want
any one of 'em half big enough for an
egg to come through-if they didn't
all Join together when 1 was most over
herei II I hadn't We been as spry as
q man like me has to learn to be !
couldn't have saved We a single eggr'-
Youths Companion.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
STORIES OF R0SSINl.
His Dread of Thirteen and Friday and
a Coincidence.


a Coincidence.
Rossini had scant patience with
amateur composers. One such once
accompanied the manuscript OF his
latest composition with a Stilton
cheese, of which he knew Rossini to
be fond. He hoped of course to have
a letter praising his work. A letter
came. but all it said was: Thanks. l
like the cheese very much"
When Rossini was rehearsing one of
his operas in a small theater in Italy
he noticed that the horn was out or
tune
WHO is that playing the horn in
such an unholy wayT' he demanded.
1T is l." said a tremulous voice.
"Ah, it is you, is it? Well, go right
home" 1t was his own father.
Rossini's whimsicality extended even
to his birthday. Having been born on
Feb. 20, in leap year, he had of course
a birthday only once in four years,
and when he was seyenty-two he face
tiously invited his friends to celebrate
his eighteenth birthday.
All his life he had a dread of the
number thirteen, as well as of Fri
days. He never would invite more
than twelve to dinner, and once when
he had fourteen he made ure Of an
understudy who would, at a moments
notice, have been ready to come should
one guest have missed. And, though
this was a double superstition, he died
on Friday, Nov. 13.-New York Sun,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
A Millionaire.

The term millionaire" Is Of inter
national use, but 1t does not mean the
same thing in the mouths of different
nations. TO every one 1t means the
possession of a million, but not neces-
sarily Il million dollars. In Great
Britain a millionaire has a million
pounds, or nearly S5,O00,000, while
in France they count francs, so
that there a millionaire Is q compare
lively poor individual with but $780,
900 to bless himself with. Million
aires are quite common in Prussia,
but a million marks don't mean
much these days, amounting to a trife
Of $250,O00 in our money. For mil
lionaires of real class 1t is necessary
to go back to old Babylon. The Baby
lonian millionaire had 100000 talents
and would not be regarded as a poor
man even by a Wall street Office boy.
A talent was about $1,000, and a mil
lion of them would be $1,000. OO0. 900.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
SEE THE FUNNY SIDE.
Use Your Sense of Humor When Dis.
tressing Situations Arise.

Humor proves to be the saving
clause Of many a distressing situation.
The trouble with most Of us is that
we take our troubles altogether too
seriously. We fail to see the funny
side Of things that for the moment
concern us, even though we are quick
to grasp it when we are mere on
lockers.
In the face of gathered clouds that
seem to shut out the sunshine forever
1t is not a bad idea to remind ourselves
that this old mother earth has been
revolving on her axis for countless
ages. that generations of men have
come and gone for thousands Of years
and that the march Of human progress
has gone right along In the forward
direction despite what seemed to be
occasional setbacks.
Laugh and the world laughs with
you" There is humor in nearly every
situation If we can only see 1t from
the right angle. Those Of us who try
to smile in adversely and think how
much more laughable 1t would be il
conditions were reversed at least feel
less uncomfortable over it and take
pleasure in looking forward to the
time when the shoe will be on the
other foot.-Omaha Bee.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
The Road TO Thrones.

In the year 1716 a girl called Marie
d'Abbadie was hired as a servant In
IN inn at Pierreftte, France. She was
the daughter of peasants named Dom
Unique Habas and Marie d'Abbadie.
A Bearnais from the village Of Boeilh.
whose name was Jean de Saint-Jean.
stayed in this inn, saw the pretty
maid. fell in love with her and on
May 80, 1719, welded her in the
church at Assat. They had several
daughters, the eldest of whom on
Feb. 20, 1854, was married at Boeilh
to Henri Bernadotte, physician, son
Of Jean ~Bernadotte, master tailor.
Their son was Napoleon's Marshal
Bernadotte. who became king Of Swe-
den and whose great-grandsons and
great-granddaughter are respectively
King Gustave V. of Sweden, King
Haakon VII. of Norway and the
Queen Of Denmark.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
New York,s Famous Library.

The New York Public library is the
most complete institution of the kind
In the world. Besides the usual circu-
lating library and children's library
there are: Lecture room and class
room Of the library school, exhibition
room, eighty feet square, for the dis
play of photographed treasures; read
ing rooms for current periodicals, hav-
ing a capacity of 1000 periodicals;
technology rooms, in which 10000 vol
umes are shelved; two rooms for the
science collection, in which are shelved
$4,000 volumes relating to mathemat-
ical and natural sciences; a library for
the use Of the blind, six study rooms
for special students and Investigators,
special reading rooms for the consul,
tation of the Slavonic, Jewish and
similar collections, a reading room for
economics and sociology. shelving
about 10000 volumes; public docu-
ment room, which contains about So
900 volumes, etc.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
A GLIMPSE OF YOURSELF.
Get II by Reading Q Cosby Letter
You Wrote Years Ago.

You wrote years Ago.
There is nothing more interesting
than t come across Unexpectedly an
intimate and gossipy letter that one
wrote oneself ten or fifteen years ago.
In reading such a letter n Is looking
at oneself from the outside. The proc
ess Is a good deal like looking out Of
the window and seeing oneself so past
In the crowd. The strange part of the
matter is that in reading such a docu-
ment one is generally filed with a sort
Of pity for the fellow who wrot II.
He seems to have been rather uncer-
tain Of himself. He CROPPED for his
facts and his ideas. Evidently he did
not know much. He was merely an
imperfect adumbration Of the admira-
BILE person who Is now overlooking his
correspondence, eh? That is the first
impression. But presently one feels
differently about 1t. Those half baked
opinions may now have hardened into
dogmas. We may now be cocksure
Of what once we only surmised. But
who is SO hopelessly wrong as the
cocksure man? IL the person one
was fifteen years ago could contem.
plate effectively the person one is
now perhaps he would pity the pur-
blind dogmatist more than we pity the
cropping experfmentalist. New York
Mail.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
A Berlin ROUGH House.

There is, or was, In Berlin a certain
cafe where rudeness is the keynote Of
the waiting staf. Every patron who
enters the restaurant Is hustled
roughly into a seat, abruptly interro-
gated as to his wants and finally has
to submit to seeing his food thrust
before him with as little ceremony as
one might show to a stray dog. This
cafe is. Of course, n Of the maj y
freak" restaurants which abound IN
the continent, and the entire scheme
of rudeness is simply a device to at
tract customers I'm search OF a new
sensation. which undoubtedly they Sc
cure.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
A Tr;nle plav.


It was at the end Of the ninth in
ming. Yet. though the home team
was two runs to the good. things
looked black for them.
The visitors were at bat. There
were no outs. and three men were on
bases; also Terrible Terry Tomkins
was up. and Terry's batting average
reached the clouds.
Terry hunched his shoulders n
waited confidently, and a groan went
up from the bleachers.
The ball few in three pieces, and the
pieces few in three directions. One
was caught by the pitcher. N was
pulled out Of the air by the sbortstop.
and one landed In the first baseman's
mitt. A triple play. The game was
the home teams.
The bleachers went wild.-Philadel-
phia Times.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
BIRTH OF A HYMN.
How Or. Bennett Came to Write 1.-THE
Sweet BY and BY"

Tow Ors benneIt Nanc 10 "Tltc ms
Sweet BY and BY"
The popular hymn. 'The Sweet BY
and By" was written by DR.. s. Fill
more Bennett at Elkhorn, Wis.,, in
1867, especially for 1.-The Signet Ring"
a book Of hymns Of which he Is said
to have written more than a hundred.
At that time Bennett was associated
with j. Z. Webster, the composer.
who had an exceedingly melancholy
disposition. One day Bennett remark
ed to Webster, well what's the mat
ter now?" Its no matter" dolefully
replied Webster. 1T will be all right
by and by"
Bennett at once seized his pen and
wrote the Immortal words Of the song.
| Webster. his gloom vanished, wrote
out a few notes and played them on
his violin, and these two, with N. III.
ing the hymn within half an hour
from the time Bennett began writing.
X. r. Crosby, who entered at the mo-
ment, exclaimed. THAT hymn is i'm.
mortal!'
Bennett was born at Eden, n. Y, In
1886. He resigned his position as edi-
tor of the Independent at Elkhorn to
enter the war between the states and
Mt the end of his service studied medi-
cine and engaged I'm the drug business
at Elkhorn till he became associated
with Webster in song writing. He
died at Richmond, ILL.,, I'm 1S9S.-New
York Tribune.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
BedIam.

How many people use the expression
"a regular bedlam" without knowing
bedlam's where or what" Bedlam
was the popular corruption Of Bethle-
hem, the name of an insane asylum in
London. first established In 1923.
Owing to the prevalent Ignorance of
that age, 1t was a place of chains and
manacles and stocks and finally be-
came SO filthy and loathsome that no
man could enter 1t. 1t was rebuilt
several times. but even as late as 1872
the institution was marked by its
cruelty to inmates. The poor lunatics
were chained and logged at certain
stages Of the moons age. Preacher.
GUS floors were arranged that, slipping
suddenly. precipitated the unsuspect-
ing ones into baths Of surprise"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-01-11
First Veterinary School.

As nearly as the facts can be got at
the first veterinary school was found
ed in the city Of Lyons, France, about
the middle OF May Of the year 1761.
Since 1851 veterinary schools have
spread all over the civilized world,
especially In Germany, France, Eng
land and the United States of Amer
ica, in which advanced countries the
horse has the benefit of as fine a sci
ence as that which exists for his mas
ter, man.-New York American.