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Springfield, South Dakota. a-i: num Time offer- : 4 I w fee. t. Ne. MMImii .II, Goto. I ., North TIIETAILE MOTTO. BAM LUC Liaitod. 1225 p. m ........ 8:55 b. B dOmaBEi 7:90 n. a m limited 2:36 p. m ........ 41)8 p. b, lUiOBs. m ........ 11:25a. m. iHOrn. a THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Alt' 1U1 . 't.Oii1iii' Limited." He. .tlmiHngxpw. Ms. Hmfltsts CDf8iiw.i Me. aTf HfwlwiLimited... V. . iH AMHKA...... .... ... m. lSvCUcMpSpeoial Kb. MTBartaTffctte Lecal MawMLLmmllMfM OSVOLK BBAKOB. ... 533 D. a .. . 6 dOO . m. .. 225 p. m. ,.. 838p.m. ... 28 p. m. ... 525 a. m. ... 120 p. m. . .. 64X) p. m. Depart . 7:35 p.m. .71 a. m. Arrive l30Op.SU .7:06 p. r. a!l7. Mixed !, wT a iwwitJmwm aW Hi XlavaHHBJaaS M..M, Mbed . aSl IIIUHTM maaaaaalaamV Danart Arriv liW P ami THE TULE Ma.2Z,Fmm(dmVu8a&)leaTa ... 725 a. m Na.St Frt Aa (aaflyaSaa.) lemvea 40 a. m. Ma. a. laaa, CiaJfcax. 8aaJairivas....&S0 p. m. .Ma.aLntAc(iaarzSaa.) ar....l20 p. m. Monday, January 21. : . The Dramatic Event of tks StMon Wilson Barrett's Is: : ml - ' ' tt Z vrri mM jriyi IP ) OmT aad clergy of vsrfiv -v ICamMTky . . --,l.-zl- Tke jiaoat iatf hiyly of the kind Prioes$l, 76c, and 25c. What Tfeli Great Britlsa Iantltattoa Repreneata. At first sight there is not much like ness between the comfortable country gentlemen, retired lawyers, blase men of fashion "and liberal subscribers to party funds, who now drop .into rath er than frequent their magnificent hall, and "the mail covered barons, who proudly to battle led their vassals from Europe to Palestine's plain" in the days of the Henrys and Edwards, but in .one point the house has always maintained its character through cen turies it is an aristocracy of birth, but it is still more emphatically one of wealth. The law of entail and primo geniture has kept the landed estates to gether as far as the law can. Many have passed by heiresses to new names or been sold by spendthrift lords, many holders of ancient titles have lost the wealth that gilded their ancestors cor onets, but, new peers are almost' al ways rich, and a title is still an at traction to an heiress. We sometimes hear that the bouse of lords represents nothing. This is false. It represents property. Tennyson's new Lincolnshire farmer, whose horse's hoofs trotted "proputty, proputty, proputty," is the type of a vast number of Englishmen. Such men are not only content, but proud, to be represented by the house of lords. They know that as long as the lords have their say "proputty" will have a stanch body of organized champions. William Eerett In Atlantic. tomibts have lot tlntr lives as the re suit of such carelessness. Maori, serv ants boil coffee and egg? in this way. Xew York Tribune. NATURAL KITCHENS. Plaeea Where Ceekiatr Is Done In BelUna- Spring. .There are one or two countries Ice land, for example where washday is not dreaded, because nature provides the hot water at one's very door in the shape of steaming springs of spouting geysers.. But there is only one country where the native women do prnctically all their cooking by unaided nature, and that Is the North island of New Zealand. Here Is a wonderland of -a thousand square miles so volcanic that a 1e may be lighted by .inserting 'a few sticks in the earth, and wherever one makes a hole he speedily has a pool fof bailing water. Into -which a pudding may be lowered Incased in a cloth and A Vile Performance. On the occasion of his urother's bene fit Edwin Doolh was standing behind ,the scenes when a character actor who had been giving imitations of noted actors was about to respond to an en core. "Whom do you imitate next?'' in quired Booth. , "Well," was the reply, "I was going to represent yon in Hamlet's soliloquy, but if you look on --Tin afraid 1 shall make a mess of it." "Suppose I imitate myself?" remark ed the tragedian, and, hastily putting on the other actor's wig and buttoning up his coat, he went on and delivered "the well known lines. -Next morning the newspapers stated that the imitations ruined the perform ance, "the personation of Edwin Iioofh being simply vile enough to make that actor shudder had he seen it.'' -Toledo Blade. CosI- Windsor Cnstle. No royal castle has cost Great Britain more in hard' cash than that of Windsor, says the London Chron icle. When Geonre IV. announced his intention of making it a family resi dence parliament granted him :I00.00Q toward its reconstruction. For four years the work went merrily on under fresh grants, and the king then took possession of the private apartments. That did not end the expenditure how ever. By the time William IV. had satisfied himself that there was noth ing more to he done the castle had swallowed up close to a million pounds. Frequently in perfectly cold streams a boning hot.current may--be seen and felt running' along the edge of the river, and here. the ilaotl women do their own and .the white man's wash ing. Naturally the volcanic region of New Zealand is a dangerous country to .wander in wlthouta guide, andmany Pope's Skull. The skull of Alexander Pope, the poet and satirist, is in the private collection of a phrenologist. During some alter ations in the churchyard where Pope was buried it- was necessary to move -his coffin, which was opened at the time to ascertain the state ,of his re mains. By bribing the" sexton of the church possession of the poet's skull was obtained for the night, and in the morning a different skull was returned Instead. The cost of the skull, includ ing the bribe, was 30. II h Stnliliornncsie. "Haven't you and your friend got through that' argumentyet ?"- asked a parent of his youngest sdn. "It Isn't any argument" answered the boy. "I am merely telling Jimm'ie the facts in the case, and he is so beastly stubborn that, he won't under stand." Chums. A SOURCE OF DISEASE. Beware the Man Who Blewa Smoke Through Hie Nostril. A popular practice of many smokers cvnqists in discharging the smoke in haled, especially from cigarettes, through the nostrils. This is even considered by some to be essential to the full enjoyment of the flavor of the tobaceo:- The London Lancet, while acknowl edging that perhaps under ordinary circumstances no harm is done to the smoker save" to his sense of smell, has sounded a note of warning against the habit as a possible disseminator of dis ease. nay fever and other annoying complaints have been spread through unsuspecting households by the un thinking visitor who habitually blew smoke through his nose. The surface traversed by the tobacco smoke before issuing-from the nose, it is remarked by the Lancet, is mois tened with the natural secretion of the mucous membrane lining it, and this secretion is mingled with the fluid dis charged from the conjunctival sac pro tecting the eyes. It therefore contains numerous micro organisms, which, floating in the air, have become attach ed to the moist and stick surface of the conjunctiva, as well as those which pass over the surface of the' nasal mcmbrmie. As Tyudall long ago show ed, germs are completely fdtered off from the air inhaled by the extensive nud ii regular surfaces presented by the turbinal bones. These germs are carried into the air by the man who blows smoke through his nostrils. A SENSE OF DIRECTION. The Prime Itcqnfsitc For Makins a , True WoodMuiati. A sense of direction I should name as the prime requisite for him who would become a true woodsman, de pending on himself rather than on guides. The fnoulty is largely devel oped of course by much practice, but it must be' Inborn. Some men possess it; others do not just as some men have a mathematical bent, while to others figures are always a despair. It is a sort of extra, having nothing to do with criterious of intelligence or mental development, like therepeatcr movement in a watch. A highly edu cated, cultured man may lack it; the roughest possess it. Some who have never been in the woods or mountains acquire in the space of a vacation a fair facility at picking a way. and I have met a few who have spent their lives on the prospect trail and who were still and always would be as helpless as the newest city dweller. It is a gift, a talent. If you have its tiniest germ you can become a trav eler of the wide and lonely places. If you have it not you may as well resign your.-elf to guides. Stewart Ed waul White in Outing Magazine. THE PARIS CLUBS. Election to the Most Exclusive Oncf Is n Serious lluslnoss. Election to the exclusive clubs of Paris is a very serious business. The proposer and seconder must not only know all about their candidates, but l)e able to bear witness to their ante cedents and even to their forefathers. They must write to all their friends and ask them to support their candi dates. When the election takes place, they must not only be in the room, but approach each member individually as he comes up to the ballot box and ask him forhis support. When the member has been elected, he arrives the first daj as a kind of stranger and with his hat in hand. He is then formally introduced by one of his proposers to each member sepa rately who happens to be In 'the room at the time. On the second occasion lie has ceased to be a stranger and may leave his hat in the hall, but he is still expected to go round the room with one of his proposers and be formally introduced. This lasts for a week," by which time he is assumed to know all his colleagues though a foreigner who is extra punctilious and insists on be ing introduced to every member of the club gains -considerably in popularity. r-London Saturday Review. When money does not talk tro much it may properly be termed a modest turn. NashvlUe Democrat The Chiuese. Conservative historians among the Chinese claim for their race an an tiquity of at least 100.C00 years, wiiile those whose estimates are a little "wild" a"ssert that the Chinese were the original inhabitants of the earth and tlfat Chinese history goes back at least 200,000,000 years. The govern ment records of China place the foun dation of the empire at 2500 B. C. and claim tiat it was established by Tohl, who, they assert, is the Xoah men tioned in the book of Genesis, B. C. 2240. Hovr It Struck Her. "You seemed greatly impressed," said the minister, "with my description .of how tlfey brought the' head of John the Baptist before the king on a salver." "Ves." sighed Irs. De Style; "I was thinking how much better they train ed servants in those days. Xow. mine, when they bring me things, are forever forgetting the silver." Louisville Courier-Journal. A Snre Way. . First Author Oh, the unutterable monotony of existence! I am thor oughly disgusted with it all. Would that I might completely disappear for awhile. Second Author Then why don't you marry a famous woman? Judge. . ,,, m j---,- A-ea !! eiiaeai ' aw y HaKfl laaae VH v lafll ' ' ' -aB' ' III fyHi. IHI 'aaa-' III aB- W Soda Crackers ! i : awal aakeaaav aa iaj&fi'i - awawal- HI SBMalafai"","" JaMk !"&. "' f- II ' "' " aai VDf At CfClJf aKal Off lot ft aCal WtWCCB aMalaV UMal m, II coner. im the aMniag wkem yov wake aungiy, t at ' ' M': II light halt hefoce foiaf to hed. Soda crackers arc at H'- II lifht art earily dlgeiled that tte Mmh jHf tiscswlaeM yoc6tddaMtlria&o - am MH ItrtM lata, ether thiai,tlrc V H exewken, the aaftdathrc hdag M aaU -BBBBB I Uneeda Biscuit I y a aoda cracker ao adeatiticalljr baked that H the Btri- JS II tire qualities of the wheat are retaiaed aad developed m II a soda cracker ia which all the oiigiaal joodaesf it H wkaT aaaaaaf 8991 aaaaaaaaal Baaail BBBBBaal BBBhkV .aVBaaaal White Lead Paint The best painters still use pure white . lead and pure linseed oil, and they secure results, both in ap pearance and in wearing qualities, which can be had in no other way. If your paint has peeled off1 the house, it was not Collier, Red Seal or Southern Pure White Lead (Made y tba Old Dutch Braces) and Poie Linseed Oil. Paint made of these ingre dients wears smoothly and does not peel omces oc eacn spring, wheel and cog. explain their movements and then show him the result. Now he jierceives that It is all one design; that, notwith standing the number of parts, their di verse forms and various offices and the agents concerned, the whole piece is of one idea. He now rightly concludes that when the mainspring was fashion ed and tempered its relation to all the other parts must have been considered: that the cogs on this wheel are cut and regulated adapted to the ratchets on that, etc., and his final conclusion wjll be that such a piece 'of mechanism could not have been produced byl chance, for the adaptation of the parts is such as to show It to be according to design and obedient to the will of one intelligence. OLD VIOLINS. T f NATIONAL LEAD C0MPAN7 Clark Aveane and loch Street Stf.caa,Ma '; For safe by first-class deaex l Fifty Mile f Market. It Is not an uncommon thing in France to see a farmer forty or fifty miles from home In wet weather with a load. If he sees a prospect of a three days' rain, he puts his tarpaulin over his load, a cover over his horses and a waterproof coat on and starts off-to market. He may go fifty miles before be finds a market that suits him. or he may know in advance just where he is going. Yon do not often see any body driving fifty miles through a rain storm in the United States to find a market for a load of bay. but it is not uncommon to see fanners' wagons for ty or fifty miles from home in Prance. They choose the wet weather for that purpose. Their roads are just as goou then as at any time. MYTHICAL CREATURES. The General I'eliof la Fabalun Moa Mtcr.t In Olden Dcys. Now that the cold light of science has thrown Vs ray upon the most re mote parts of our globe there is no longer room for legendary creatures save the sea serpent and we are told that the mermaid is nothing more than a dugong. a unicorn either a rhinoceros or a Tibetan nnieloiie. while the cocka trice, the phoenix and the roc appear to be pure imaginations. But in the Elizabethan age an age when the dodo had but necently been discovered these and many other mythical creatures were, if not living, at all events actual realities to the or dinary public, and as such were refer red to in the works of the great drama tist and other conteniponiry writers. We meet, for instance, in the "Win tor's Tale" the line. "Make me not sighted like the basilisk." and in The Tempest." "Now I will believe that there are unicorns." Hut not only was more or less of credulity given to the existence of these and such like faJiu lons monsters, but a web of mystic lore encircled the most common and best known of beasts, birds and fishes. Who, for instance, is forgetful of Jthe popular superstitions connected with the salamander, the newt and the bliudworm, and who fails to rememrber White's account of the "shrewash" at Selborue? And if such superstitions still survive among uneducated peas ants of the present day we may be as sured that two centuries ago they were fully believed by the higher classes. Academy. Geatle Deer Taps. A story of extraordinary deafness was unfolded at a recent meeting of a medical society in Philadelphia. An elderly womau, exceedingly hard c'f hearing, lived near the river. One aft ernoon a warship fired a salute of ten guns. The woman, alone in her little house, waited until the booming ceas ed. Then .she smoothed her dress, brushed her hair back in a quaint man ner and said sweetly, "Come in." Ar gonaut. The Letter I. The name of "I" is in Hebrew Jod or jot, a hand, and the earliest characters representative of the sound closely re semble a band with but three fingers. Little by little one finger after another dropped off until only the little finger was left, and the letter became the smallest in the alphabet, a jot or tittle, that is, the "I" and its dot being sy nonymous of the most insignificant things that could be described. Best Metaea ef Flaales; Taelr Tree Valae. Very often somebody thinks that he or she has a small fortune 'locked up in a fiddle case. The somebody does not know much about violins, but has heard or read that an old violin is a very valuable thing, and because grandfather happened to leave a vio lin, to assume duties upon the ban, somebody immediately believes that grandfather's violin is a treasure. As a matter of fact, ninety-nine times out of a hundred grandpa invested in a ten dollar fiddle and played "Suwa nee liiver" and "Annie Iiurie." When he bought it the violin was worth $10, bur since then it lias been depreciat ing in value at the rate of about 10 cents a j-ear. From the mere fact that most of the varnish is scratched off and there are several cracks in the instrument it does not follow that it is an "old one." If a violin is good to start with it will improve with age and good care, but. on the other baud, a poor fiddle Is not beuetited to an- extent if it sur vives a century or two. Don't judge a violin by the label -inside of it. Anybody can copy an old name and date and paste it in. If all the violins bearing a Stmdivarius. la bel were his. iioor old Antouius would be working yet. More than half of the cheap, worthless violins lear copies of his or some other master's la I Mil. and even some real old aud good instru ments have been passed duT as the work of Amati. Guarneri, Magiui,aud other famous makers. Any one having a violin with the la bel of a comparatively unknown maker is likely to be the owner of a more val uable instrument than the person whose fiddle is marked "Antonius Stmdivarius." There is only one way to find out whether or not a violin is living up to its name, and that is to get the judg ment of a good dealer. If he tells you that your violin is no good, bnt still offers to buy it, you may be quite cer tain that you have a good fiddle. But don't sell it. Take it to some other authority and see what be says, but don't make a bargain. You .will bear from him if your violin is genuine, for the supply of valuable ones is small and great rivalry exists among dealers to secure masterpieces. A great many people have the idea that all the very good Instruments are the output of a half dozen old geniuses when the truth is that there are scores of old as well as quite modern makera whose works bring very high prices. New York Herald. A Jejreaa Meateat. There Is my last poem," said the young but melancholy contributor. "Thank the Lordr replied the dig nified editor as be clung to his chair taat he might not dance a hornpipe. Detroit Free Press. , Her 31onrnIn.tr. Maud Why is that lady over the way always in black? Is she mourn ing for any one? Bc?s 'Yes. a hus band. Maud I didn't know she'd been married. Bess No, but she's mourn ing for a husband all the same. WORKS OF A WATCH. , i v V " j Of GearKe. Professor '(a "'little distracted)- I'm tlad to see you. How's jrpur wife? . ; "I regret it, professor,' but Fm'no't parried." "Ah, yes. Then of course your wife's till sIngle."-Fliegende Blatter. All the IartM Are hat tBe.ExaretfsleB of Oae Idea. To one who has never studied the mechanism of a watch its mainspring or the balance wheel is a mere piece of . metal. He may have looked at the face of the watch, and while he admires ".the motions of its hands and the time it (keeps he may have wondered In idle amazement as to the character of the machinery which is concealed within. ,Take it to pieces and show him each part separately, and he will 'recognise neither design nor adaptation nor rela tion between them, but put thrcm to gether, setthem to .-work, point o-ut the Cesaaiea Sew. Silver forks are to be used at Rock away and West Point hotels during the Coming summer. Volume 1, No. 1, New York Morning Herald, May 0. 1835. A Gallaat HIBwa: A highwayman recently held up a gasoline runalraut on the outskirts of Rome. The highwayman stopped the runabout with a shot in the air. Then be ran forth from the tomb that bad concealed him the holdup happened on the Appiau Way and found to his sur prise only a woman in the little car. "Where, madam, is your husband? he demanded sternly and suspiciously. "He's under the seat," she answered, flushing. "Then." said the highwayman. "I will take nothing. "It's bad enough to have a husband like that without being robbed into the bargain." A FEW WORDS. Evelatlea at. Chemistry. The first chemists were the alchem ists, who for hundreds of years vainly tried to make gold by compounding va rious chemicals. Chemistry was intro duced iato Spain by the Moors in 1150. and the Chinese and Egyptians claimed ah early, acquaintance with It. Howev er, chemistry was mat a science until the seventeenth ceatary. Boerhaave was tiie first to combine the study of chemistry with medicine, and since then Its evolution has been rapid. Don't say almlishment, for abolition is the perfect word. Don't say wonderment when wonder will express your meaning. Don't say "My politics are." Politics is singular in spite of the final s. Don't say people when you mean per sons. People is a collective noun, la the singular number. Don't say flapdoodle words, for even when properly employed your meaning will not be so clear to the reader as when you use simple words. Don't say receipt when you menu recipe. The collector to whom, you pay money gives you a receipt. A formula for the preparation of food Is a recipe. Don't say surprised when you mean astonished. You may be astonished to find Johnny stealing jam, bnt he is sur prised by you. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Caase Far .Thaalts. Charles O'Couor once 'began an aft er dinner speech in Philadelphia In this way: "I must confess that I dread to make after dinner speeches. At the most sumptuous dinners, even at such a din ner as this one, if I know that at the end I must make a speech I am nerv ous, I have no appetite. I find little to admire in the best efforts of the chef. In truth, gentlemen, I can readily im agine Daniel. If be was at all of my mind, heaving a. sigh of relief as the lions drew near to devour him heav ing a sigh Of relief and raarmarlag: "'Well. If there's any after dinner speaking to be done on this eccasloa, at least it won't" be done by me.' " , i ; V, . ) mr ffkk-yf. ' ? fc