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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
MARSHAL M'MAHoN's. STORY.

1t Is About the Late Emperor Frederick
and Is Curious.
Some time ago Col. Stoffel, an authority
in the military affairs of France and Ger
many, published in Paris q pamphlet ION.
corning the possibility and Feasibility of q
Franco. German alliance against Russian
pan slavism, and Russian barbarism gen.
orally. The sine qua o of such an alli-
ance, Col. Stoffel said, was that Germany
should return to France her lost provinces.
The general discussion of Col. Stoffel's
novel ideas was interrupted by events of
greater Importance at Berlin and Paris,
but, according to the New York San, 1t has
been revived by some rather sensational
comments on it by the venerable Marshal
MacMahon. Since the accession of the
present German emperor to the throne,
Marshal MacMahon thinks, there is no
hope that France may get back her prov
.inces peaceably in the near future. Had
young Williams father, however, lived to
execute the foreign policy he had in his
mind, France would have recovered AL
SAGE and Lorraine without the firing of a
shot or the splitting of a drop of blood.
On the day after the BATTLE of Sedan"
unique opinions, the Crown Prince Fred
erick called on me. I could not . receive
him on account of my wounds, but Dab
FAC, my adjutant, saw him and talked with
him, and on the following day related the
conversation to me. The Prussian gen.
aral staff expected tine war to end very
soon, and had no idea that Paris could
offer much resistance. The Crown Prince
Frederick said: Herr Won Moltke is, in
my opinion, about to make a grave mis-
take. He wishes to compel you to cede to
us part of your territory l gave my
views on the matter. and declared l held
such a proposal to be a bad error. 1 think
l know the French. and that they could
forgive everything except just such a Grip
ping Of their country. AS soon as they
regained their strength after thus losing
their territory they would try to get back
all they had lost. They would, therefore,
always be threatening the peace and
safety of Prussia These words OF
The crown prince. reported to
me by D'Abzac. impressed me deeply. ]
have never forgotten them. / I'M sure that
Frederick, as emperor, would not have al
tered his views, but would have been true
TO his former conviction that the annexa-
ton of Alsace and Lorraine was a perma-
nent obstacle to any reconciliation of
France and Germany. Under him Stonels
proposal for a Franco-German alliance
could have been considered seriously. Now
it is out of the question"
All of the German dailies, which are not
entirely occupied with The recent develop
ments of imperial politics at Berlin, are
trying to prove that the old French sol.
der is attempting to manufacture history,
and that Unser Fritz never made any sucl
u%tterances as those attributed to him by
| D'AbZac,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
KISSES.
IA la Romeo and Juliet.)

A prominent physician calls the kiss an
elegant dissemination of disease" He says,
"fever is spread by it, SO are lung Diseases
He maintains that if the kissing custom were
driven out of the land Sit would save one
tenth of one per cent. of human lives" which
are now sacrificed. Out upon the gnarled
and sapless %vagabond! Evidently kisses are
not for such as he, and the old fox says the
grapes are sour. Let him devote himself to
that kisses may be kisses. This can surely
be done by the use of DR.. Pierce's Favor
lite Prescription which is simply magical
in curing diseases peculiar to females.
After taking it for a reasonable length of
time there will be no more irregularity,
~backache, be~aring-down sensations, nervous
prostration, general debility and kindred
ailments. "Favorite Prescription is an
invigorating, restorative tonic and as a
regulator and promoter of functional &C.
ton at that critical period of change
from girlhood to ~womanhood, it is a
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
Labor's Demonstration in Chicago.
. Chicago report says:

"A
May day, with its demonstration by Or
eanized labor in behalf of the eightshour
work day, has come and gone, and the pre-
Hctions of riot and ~bloodshed and an
almost universal strike have not been real
lied. Labor. indeed, was in q great
measure suspended; but those who
dropped their tools for the day did not do
so f6r the purpose of taking up sticks and
paving stones and indulging in riotous
demonstrations. Thousands Of them quit,
work for the day to march in the great
parade, and many more thousands made il
q holiday. It was an orderly, good
natured crowd aud an orderly parade. -,
Z, The marching line wa about four miles
long. It occupied two hours in passing a
given point and the number of men in line
Is estimated at about 10000. The car
penters, who have been placed by the
American Federation of Labor IN the van
of the eight-hour demonstration, led the
parade. They hal about 6, o00. men, includ-
ing three assemblies Of Knights Of Labor.
fhey we're followed by 5000 atonemasons
and bricklayers. Then came delegations
from the unions of printers, metal work
ers and moulders. These we've followed
by o dozen German Turner societies, form
ing the second division. Next marched
the furniture workers, cabinetmakers, car
eiage and wagon builders, cigarmakers,
ploakmakers, boilermakers, rattan workers
and harnessmakers.
Continuing the account Gays: In view
Of the fact that the working people Of the
city turned out very generally to-day,
either to take part in or witness the eight
hour workdsy. parade. it is impossible to
accurately measure the extent of the prom
issd strikes. As, however, the carpenters
have arranged to arbitsate their dlfferencef
With the masters, as the stock yards
employees last night decided. not to. make
sny united demand, and as the represent
atives OF, the. Federation Of Labor have
been at work the past week among all
classes, endesvoring to allay the strike
fever. with the view Of concentrating all
their influence in favor Of the carpenters,
IL is probable that the number involved
will be very much smaller than was sntici'
gated q week ago.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
Testing Wells by Spectroscope.

The present paper has been prepared
wiS view Of describing q simple and
Inexpensive method of . determining
whether stables, cesspools, or any other
deposits of filth which may lie in the i'm
mediate neighborhood of a we'll drain into
it. The eye and the sense of taste form
no reliable testing instruments, for the
clearest, most tasteless, or most sparkling
we'll waters may yet be solutions of the
contents of neighboring cesspools and
outhouses, and thus contain the germs of
dreaded diseases. 1t occurred to the
writer to make use of the spectroscope in
search for sources of pollution in various
wells scattered about the city of Law
renee, Kan, was developed:
A solution of carbonate or chloride of
llthlum, an ounce to a quart of water,
was poured into the suspected sources of
pollution in the neighborhood OF a we'll,
and after a week or SO some of the we'll
water was examined in the spectroscope.
Lithium gives on bright red band toward
the remote red end Of the spectrum. 1t
is impossible to mistake it, even if the
solution holds less than one part in one
million. The sensitiveness Of the test is
!
water to be examined, say q quart to hall
an ounce. A platinum wire is dipped into
the water thus prepared, and then held in
the flame of a Bunsen burner.
Nine wells were examined, situated
back of the blocks on the principal street
in Lawrence. These wells are located,
as regards stables, %outhouses, etc., about
as is customary in small cities, and THEN
waters are used quite generally for drink
ing purposes blythe families in the blocks.
The test showed direct communication
with a vault thirty feet distant into one
of the wells. Other wells are now being
tested more thoroughly, as the method
was devised too recently to allow sufficient
time in a four months absence of rain fo1
the Initiated water to permeate through
the dry soil to the wells. But sufficient
has been done, it seems, to show the re-
liability of the method aud the ease Of
making it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
Lowell, Maaas

perfectly safe remedial agent apd Can
produce only good results. It Is &rehnN
compounded, by ar experienced and skilHn1
physician and adapted to. woman,s delicate
organization. It is purely vegetable In its
condition Of the system. Il imparts strength
to the whole system. For overyorked,
"worn-out, +" rundown, !" deblttated teach
ers, milliners, dressmakers, ~seamstresses
"shop-girls," housekeepers, nursing mothers,
and feeble women generally, D j. Pieroets
Favorite Prescription is the greatest, earthly
boon, being ~unequaled as an appealing CO...
dial and restorative tonic. It is the Only
medicine for women, sold by druggist,
under a positive guarantee from the
manufacturers, that it will give satisfaction
in every case, or money will be refunded.
This guarantee has been faithfully carried
out for many years.
A Book Of 100 pages, on "Woman and
Diseases" and their Self cure, sent,
postpaid, to any address, securely sealed IN
a plain envelope, o receipt Of ten Cents,
in stamps. Address, WoaLDs D1sPENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 663 Main Street,
Buffalo, N, y,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
.A CouNrRx IpYL.
.Hsye you dug your sras.2, asksd IL. d

you dug your srassas asked the city
chap
OF the staring farmer man.
he thought he would not crush the swain.
Beneath his social ban.
aHow was your crop when you dug your grass?
Did the weevils hurt your peas2
And did the canker worm destroy
Your young cucumber trees?
Il love. good sir, the country air,
From the town I fam would fiee
And lose myself in ruraldreams
Meath the potato tee
I would pluck the t7Inip from its vine.
sThro' the parsnip meadow push,
Andrest beneath the grateful shade
o the bending cabbage bush.
~Oh, I fain would be a simple swain
And drive my yoke of COWS, -
And rest at noon beneath the shade
OF the rutabaga boughs.
Oh, I'd hunt the woods for the cocoanut bush
The whole of the livelong day,
Or start at morn with the rustic hoe
To dig the hills for hay.
and II at noonday l grow faint
With my labor's strain and rush.
would mix the milkweed's luscious milk
With the mt shroom's lusciousmufh.
would pluck the pineapple from the pine
But why has your color fled 2"
But the farmer fell with q sickenig thud-
The farmer man was dead.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09

Brewers' Association for $22, 800 adj
yanced by them@toshelp make up ode
Eiciency in the anti-amendment fund.
The total deficiency, according to the
Philadelphis Press, was $3s, 900. OF
this amount $4,000 was owing to the
newspapers for Advertising; $13, 900 to
window book men, engaged to work ct
the polls; and $4,000 cash retainer to.
Louis G. Cassidy on account Of the
$4,000 promised him for his work in the
campaign. These are the words Of the
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
Ten Thousand Went Out.
A Chicago dispatch saws:

"A CAAchSo udoPasCu says 49,.
Ten thousand employees in the sash,
door and blind factories, planning mills and
other such lines of business, went out on o
strike on the End, for an eight-hour work
day. There are about rs, 900 of them all
told in the City, and it is understood that
the remaining $4,000 will strike before
night unless their demands are complied
with.
The iron moulders in most of the large
establishments of Chicago went out on
strike or rather they de-
clined to go to work at the old rates. At
the Mccormick Harvesting works the
strike threatens to spread to the balance Of
The employees of the works, which number
rs, 900. Should the meulders stay out for
Sfy considerable time the entire plants will
be Compelled to shut down. The demands
ere for an eight hour day and a uniform
Fate Of wages.
A thousand men employed at the Wells
d French Gar Company shops have gone
aAt. They made no formal demand on the
Office, but bundled up their tools and left.
: Two hundred blacksmiths waited long
enough to say they would not return to
work unless granted eight hours.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
RObespierre in his Youth.

A curious work on Robespierre has
lately been published in Paris. 1t gives
an interesting anecdote of his youth, rep
resenting him at the college Louis ls
Grand as q boy of II or -, reciting the
address of welcome on the occasion of the
visit of Louis XVI. Young Robespierre
was so modest and timid that his voice
trembled and he chucked the boy under the
chin to give him courage. Had he known
what that boy was to do for him in the fr-
ture perhaps he would have chucked a lit
tie harder.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
Eli Perkins, Grief for Iowa.

Eli Perkins pissed through Sioux City
recently. When asked by a journal re-
porter what ne ~ he gathered, he said:
II wal at Ackley nine years ago when
they had seventeen saloons, and the
banks and farmers sent 1926, 900 to tie
East annually to pay interest on farm
mortgages. I was there yesterday and
there was no saloon or sign Of a saloon,
and q banker told me that they only sent
So, 500 East during the last year to pay
interest on mortgages. This is pretty
good for nine years Of Temperance, isn't
it-three bad crops, too, during that
time"
But some say these seventeen Ackley
saloons gave business activity to the
town" suggested the reporter.
yes, they did. These seventeen
saloonkeepers were busy from morning
till night. Each one had to send out $40
o day to Kentucky and Peoria for whisky.
The seventeen business saloonkeepers
sent $500 out Of Ackley every day to buy
poison from Peoria and Kentucky, or
about $50, 600 a year. Oh, it kept them
busy-to scrape up so much money
among the poor Ackieyites to send out Of
the State. Then the poorhouse, too, was
busy-crowded with business-and the
Jail was fuller than the hotel. Yes, it
did make business lively at Ackley, but it
was the activity of a funeral and with
about the same profit"
But the saloons paid license, sug-
gested an Omaha newspaper correspond
ent who stood by.
Yes; but every dollar received by the
town for license went to pay the extra
police. Not a pc iceman there now, and
not q pauper in the poor-house nor a
criminal in the Jail. The only bankruptcy
there has been in Ackley is the bank
ruptcy of the poor-h house. Poor old
poor-house, it had to give up business,
and the Jail is full of cobwebs!
"Yes," continued Eli mournfully, ITEM
perance has hurt the poor-house and Jail
business in Ackley. 1t has ruined these
institutions. 1t is sad-sad to think Of
it. 1t breaks my hearth" And then the
poor sorrowing man wiped his eyes with
his red bandana handkerchief. After re-
covering himself, he added:
Those wicked temperance men who
stop business activity, bankrupt our poor
houses, empty our jsils and keep those
philanthropic saloon-keepers from send
ing $50, 900 a year out of an Iowa town
ought to be punished" And then he
threw cups of water IN a poor dude from
the Omaha newspapers who had just re-
marked:
They are drinking more whisky owe,
in Iowa than ever before"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
Minnesota's Convention Called,

The Minnesota State Convention for
the nomination of q Prohibition party
ticket has been called to meet at New
market Theater, St. Paul, June "a and %.
Each county is entitled to two delegates,
and in addition thereto to one delegate
for every fifty votes or major fraction
thereof cast for Hugh Harrison for Gov.
ernor. A special programme is being
9nyl RE 0iMSiilRly yL ari tse t daba st@ viii II e tafa
place on the evening of the Oath, and
Mrs. Helen M. Cougar. will speak on the
25th. All the party speakers throughout
the State report larger audiences and a
more unprejudiced hearing than ever be-
fore.-Lettea from Minneapolis, ~
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
A Curiosity to Tenderfeet,

There is a mine Just above Howardsville,
Col, that is a curiosity to the tenderfeet
-aAa q Ss~H~S~4 SA~S AIan WIZ
lives near by. 1t is an ice mine, and the
ice is ac clear and pure as that to be found
in the purest lake. The claim is owned by
the Neigolls, who, in the early days, ran
a tunnel through the frozen ground and
struck a spring beyond. AS the water
flows out Of the tunnel it freezes, and the
tunnel is now nearly filed to the 1oof with
the ice. 1t has long supplied all the sa-
looms of Howardsville with ice, and, as it
never thaws, winter or summer, the place
is an objective point for curiosity seekers.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
They Once Rode Like Men,

Anna @. Bracket, who has been search
ing into the subject, says that previous to
the time of Richard II. Q377-1399) all the
English women who rode at all rode like
men. Richard married Anne Of Bohemia,
the eldest daughter Of Charles w., en-
peror of Germany, and it is to her. that We
owe the introduction of the side-saddle.
It is stated that she was deformed and,
therefore, could not ride with ease on the
usual saddle.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09

The American flag flies over the school
house at Mucklerat, Pa, in spite of the
protests Of foreign coal miners, who
threatened all sorts of things il anybody
attempted to hoist it. A large number of
the Order of American Mechanics marched
into the town and raised the flag without
opposition.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
IN, C,..x,r q 81 Alarm B.li

The C1snger Of Nm Alarm Bsll
Close by, in the stilln3ss Of tho night, could
scarcely startle the ordinary individual moro
than do trining noises the nervous invalid. But
once the nerves are braced and the system invig-
Grated with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, this
abnormal ssnsitiveness 10 succeeded by . tran.
quiliity not to DO distuibed by trivial causes.
Impaired digestion il . fertile cause Of nerve
weakness and unnatural mental gloom, and .
vigorous renewal Of the action Of the stomach il
ono Of the surest meGns Of invigorating and
quisting the nerves. insomnia. or sleeplessness,
form Of nervous disease. is unquestionably
benefited by sedatiyes, when 1t is prolonged, or
Of frequent occurrence, but its permanent 70.
movalis more efectually achieved with the Bit
tsrs. This medicine is also signally enhcacious
for malaria, rheumatism, constipation, liver
complaint. and torpidity Of the kidneys and
bladder.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
Encouraging Signs in Washington.

The Prohibition party outlook is very
in this new State. E. B. SUIT
ton, the State Organizer, is doing excellent
work in the different counties. Scores of
the best elements of the old parties are
fooking to our standard, The first organ
~ization of Prohibitionists in this county
we expect to elect nearly if not all of
our county ticket next fall. Eighteen
months ago we had but one minister with
us in Colfax, now we have at least three
out of fve.-Letter from Colfar, Wash.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09

ONE of the finest collections Of pipes in
the world is to be found in the English
residence of Capt. Bragge. He has clay
pipes from the sixteenth century, when
Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the weed in
Europe, and curious and antique speci-
mems of smoking paraphernalia from every
country in the world. -.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09

y. We have no other purpose in view.
have concentrated on the eight hour
movement first. There il 4 concen-
trated attempt Of the powers
that be to antagonize the movement. Thew
cannot stop it, they can only postpone
it. We center on one thing at
Q time, all other reforms are laid aside q
til this necessary one is obtained. We are
to win, IL it takes a decade ~
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
No Trouble In Berlin.

Quiet prevails throughout the entire city
of Berlin ant the treets bear their normal
appearance. In consequence either of the
notices issued by employers threatening to
discharge employees who absented them
selves from work to take part in the labor
demonstration, or the apathy themselves
to the move, all the large manufacturing
establishments are running with nearly
full forces Of men to-day.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09

ALL these facts tally exactly with the
interview with Crowell, and no one who
knows the evidence now in Prohibition
hands ssil s be io siganti sn s.Ssm to Of sG bTIb the
by which Pennsylvania was saved to the
whisky forces. The Liquor Dealers AS
ISOLATION used $500, 900 in Philadelphia
alone; $50, 900 was used in Allegheny
County. and the New York brewers con-
tributod 800, 900. With these sums the
newspapers were bribed, politicians paid,
the election books secured, the farmers
fooled, and the State carried for high
license and the saloon.-Northrestern
Mil fl s4 ~
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
Further Concerninc Kemm1ep,

Application was made in the United
States supreme court for a writ of habeas
corpus for Kemmler, under sentence Of
death in New York by electricity, pursuant
to the order Of Judge Wallace, of New
York. The court denied the application
for q writ Of habsas corpus, bat stated that
on May 10 the court would hear a motion.
for Q writ Of error in the case.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
Quiet in Brussels.

From Brussels il is reported:
The w~orkingmen Of this city attended to
their various occupations, paying no heed
to the prevailing labor movement. An inn
mense meeting of workingmen was held, at
Chartersi. Thirty thousand men marched
to the meeting, all singing the Marseilles.
They were orderly and there was no trouble.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
A Union Stronghold,

A summary Of the situation at Kansas
City says:
Kansas City is q non-union town. Con.
equently there has been almost no agita-
ton of the eight hour question, and prac-..
tically no prospect of the occurrence of
strikes. No May-day denomination has
been attempted.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09
Meaons Rarly and Plenty.

Two hundred melon growers, represent
ing 5000 acres Of melons, met at ATLANTA
in convention and reported that the aere-
age this year has been largely increased
and the crop will probably be two weeks
earlier. A black list was adopted, and
upon the roll appear the names OF q large
member OF eastern and weateyn h0uses.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-09

EVERY agricultural journal in the land
ought to resent and expose the fraudulent
farm papers which the Liquor Dealers
National Protective Association is send
ing throughout Nebraska. and the facts
concerning which are given on u first
page this week. The liquor dealers have
. right to publish papers, but not to
dress their publication in the respectable
garb Of farm journals. We trust every
farm paper that calculates in Nebraska
will wdrn it's leaders against these coun-
t~erfeits, the Farm Herald and The Rurul
A1e.-The Voice.