The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-13

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"and wife" with q great big The
clerk asks hubby" if he'll have a room
with a bath, and that parsonage says
"yes" (f he is not dazed for q time) with
nm emphasis intended to imply hia
ability to buy out the place if he so de,
sired. Then the clerk "soaks him with
the costliest in the house and adds $40
to the bill when he takes payment.
Such is life.-Butalo Express.
PIONEER TIMES.
There are still told in the Western
States some dramatic incidents of early
history which illustrate the rough ele-
ments out of which the finer later civ
i~lzation has grown. =
There was very little form or rever-
ence, for example, observed even in the
pulpit. In the early settlements in
Illinois, meeting was held once a
month. Parson Lindley was q power.
full preacher, and always drew a crowd.
He stood, while preaching, on a stump
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he was observed to keep an anxious eye
on his wolf-trap in the edge of the
Notwithstanding given out the text, he
said, hurriedly:
Mind that text, brethren. Ponde,
on it a few minutes, but don't move
hand nor foot. There's a wolf in the
pen, and [ must kill the gentleman. I'll
preach the sermon as soon as I get
back"
Most Of the brethren, we fear, assisted
in killing the wolf, leaving the sisters tc
ponder on the text.
If there was little reverence in the
pulpit, there was little Difference in the
courtroom.
Judge R., famous in Indiana in
early times for his knowledge, ~eloquence
and extreme ugliness, on one occasion
ruled shat a certain Indictment be
quashed because it was bad on its face
t "Ah, judged" exclaimed the worstei
lawyer. IF everything We're to b.
. quashed in this court that is bad on tn
face, what would become of vou?"'
4 Oliver Hampton Smith was clecte,
senator from Indiana in 1886. Whe
o the election was over, Smith, who was
. good lawyer, and had been in Congress
e eight or ten years before, took a drov
J of hogs down to Cincinnati, going O
foot all the way. On the way he a
rived at a tavern, covered with mu,
q unwashed and unshaven for many day
The crowd surrounded him, eager fc
r news of the election.
?. who's senator? Hendricks? 2"
% "No."
l. "Noble?"
1t $40"
g "Who, them"
e II am"
l There was a dead silence for a nc
ment, and then one aked, "Who are
you?"
A stump speech, delivered with all
the mud still clinging to his face and
clothes, was necessary to convince them
to his right to the title Of Honorable
Senator in the Congress of the United
States.
SIZE PUTS ON THE FULL IDDRES.
NOW.
r A young woman in Washington ha
, been weeping big, bitter tears of brine
She wrote to Jack some weeks ago, an,
Jack never answered her. She waited
2 but in vain, and finally when she passee
, jack on the street she cut him dead
l Then she went home and played wierd
t melancholy minor waItzes on the piano
J and read novels with lots of love an(
suicide in them.
And Jack-poor Jack! He went from
claret soda water to real beer. Instead
of smoking two cigarettes a day he con
sumed a whole pack before dinner. He
went for hours without brushing his
clothes and didn't care whether his neck
tie was up over the top of his collar OF
not.
Recently the postman rang the door,
bell at the young woman's house and
left a letter. There was a note on the
back of it which read:
Miss --: The next time you
write to Dear Jack" put his full name
and address on the envelope.
She grasped the fearful truth at once.
The secrets she had entrusted to those
pages had been exposed to a lot of
heartless, jeering dead-letter clerks;
and all because in a fit Of loving alb.
sent-mindedness she had forgotten to
put anything but Jack" on the en-
velope.
Jack now wears his cravat with all
the grace of former days.-Washington
Capital.
STRANGERS OPPORTUNITY.
The late Judge Walker, of Aurora,