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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
He Wanted Big Money.

Representative OF the Call interviewed
Mr.. William Edward Eastlake last Thurs
day at the extensive stove works Of Messrs.
Cutter g. Proctor in reference to a prize
that he had drawn in the Louisiana State
Lottery. Mr.. Eastlake said: Il held one
twentieth OF ticket No. 643O1, that drew the
Third Capital prize Of $50. 900. and collected
the amount due me. $4,000, very promptly
through the American Express Com
pany. 1 have bought tickets for the
last thirteen months, investing during
that time a total of SIS. I sold one Of two
tichets 1 had for the October drawing to a
friend and the one sold drew $50. but Ididn't
kick-I was after bigger money. Ihave al
ways thought that the drawings were fair
and square and intend to continue to pur-
chase tickets as long as I have a dollar to
spare. Ihave invested my money in the
preferred stock OF a building and loan as.
ISOLATION where it will double itself in eight
years." Mr.. Eastlake is n well-informeG
and intelligent gentleman. g molder by
trade. and has been Il widower for a number
OF years. One OF his mates says that he il
contemplating matrimony again.-Peorio
NM Sof,t,.5nu Erenino /foH HeIJ1fnyf
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
The New Slavery.

The brewing business, wherever car
1icd on to any considerable extent. has
made its power felt in our legislative
halls. Wisconsin will serve as an ex-
ample of those States which are, so far
as laws affecting the liquor traffic are
concerned, wholly within the control of
the beer power. While this fact is
plainly apparent to every man who
doesn't refuse to look at it, it may be
we'll to glance briefly at the causes
which have led to such a state of dis
graceful submission on the part of our
legislators: and at the methods by
which their masters, the Milwaukee
brewers, are enabled to retain and ex-
ert such a powerful influence on those
who are popularity supposed to be the
servants of the whole people.
So long as the manufacture and sale
of beer was free, nntrammeled and I'M
taxed, so long was the traffic in beer
carried on without any attempt on the
part of those engaged in it to influence
our lawmakers. The first attempt of
our Legislature to tax or control the
liquor traffic aroused the opposition of
those interested in it. 1t could not fail
to do otherwise. The brewers and re-
tailers saw their interests ~assailed and
organized for their defense. Into pol
tiles the brewers must go to defend
their business. $40 tax liquor is inev-
itably to call a rum power into poll
tics" Henry George never said a truer
thing. To legislate against the inter
ests of any one line of business is inev-
itably to call-those interested in that
business into politics. Totlis rule there
is but one exception. The farmers sub
NIT to all sorts of oppressive laws, and
have not spirit or intelligence enough
to rouse themselves to the defense of
their own interests. With this one i'm
portant exception the above rule holds
| good.
The moment we began to make laws
to tax, to check, OF in any way control
the liquor traffic, that moment a rum
power sprang into being. Had the
brewers and the distillers tamely sub
mitted to all laws which sought to con-
troll their business it would soon have
been legislated out of existence, and
they would have been compelled to
seek new fields for the investment of
their ill-gotten gums. That this weuld
have been a decided benefit to the
country, cannot be denied. But the
brewers and dis,illers We're not at that
time seeking the goodof their country,
and so they didn't submit to any great
extent. Instead they took a control
ling hand in the shaping of liquor
laws. But it was not until the last
few years that the rum power was able
to get everything connected with its
0 g%anization into fine running order
then, acting in conjunction with q
great political party, the two combined
have been able, so far, to arrange
things to suit themselves.
Every candidate for the Wisconsin
Legislature is questioned by the Wis.
consin beer power as to his opinions in
regard to soscalled temperance legis,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
ENORMOUS

Frequent shipments of carload lots
of DR.. Pierce's Medicines, to all the
principal commercial centers of this
country, are necessary to supply the
unprecedented demand for these world
famed remedies. No other medicines
ever attained anything like the popu-
larity which they enjoy. No other
medicines possess such superior and
positive curative properties as to war;
rant their manufacturers in selling
them, as the proprietors of DR.. Pierce;s
Medicines are doing, through druggists.
under a positive guarantee Of benefit
or cure IN epery case, on fair trial, or
money refunded.
There are cores of sarsaparillas and
other blood medicines advertised, but
the "Golden Medical Discovery" Of DIR
Pierce is the only one ever backed up b,
a positive guarantee from well-knowl
and thoroughly responsible house. TIL
conditions are, that, given Il fair trial,
will do all that is claimed Tor it, {
money paid for it will be promptly r
funded. A Certificate of Guarantt
wraps every bottle.
To attempt the sale of an inferior, {
even a fairly good, blood-purifier unds
such trying conditions as these, woul
mean bankruptcy to its proprietor
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
Acquisitions of Importance.

The department of Greek and Roman
antiquities at the British museum has re-.
Gently received several acquisitions of i'm
portance. Among them is a fine seal Of
banded agate in the form of a scarab set in
gold, with a silver hoop fitting it for a
ring. 1T is described rs a very choice
specimen and was found in Cyprus. Its
date is about $40 B. c. 1t represents,
nearly in profile and at full length, with
the characteristic disproportions of the
period to which it belongs, Athene, clad
in semi-transparent robes, both wings,
of an extremely early type, being ex-
tended behind the figure. The goddess,
who holds a spear, wears a helmet with a
prodigious crest. Apart from its technical
merits the extreme historical interest of
this relic will be manifest to students of
Euripides who remember that the turning
point of the plot of the Ion is concerned
with the blood of the slain Gorgon. Over
the shoulder of the goddess the head of
Medusa is seen dropping blood, clots of
which fall from it behind the figure and
close to her feet. This is supposed to be
the only known representation of the sub
innt -
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14

A CERTAIN representative Republi-
can Congressman, when asked not long
ago what was to be done about tariff
reform, said: ooh, well talk about
the tariff. and that will do for the
present." During the campaign Of 1888
they talked about the tariff, and that
sufficed for the time being. In the
campaign Of 1892 they will probably
talk some more about the tariff, ard if
they get elected, chat will do again for
the time being. If their words are
warm enough to fry the fat out of the
protected manufacturers, and foggy
enough to blind the eyes of the farmers,
that will do for all practical purposes.
Northwestern Mail.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
me Bses....r. s. Old.


fl&untsd the skull and crossbOnee, their on.
sign. dehantly ct masthead. Your modern
pirate. not on the high 500, but upon the high
reputation OF stsndsrd rsmsdies, skulls under
various disguises. His hole and corner trafhe
has never to any degree affected Hoststtsr'a
Stomach Bitters, although that standard invtg.
GRANT and corrective has long been the shinina
mark ut which his shafts have been directed
Cheap local bitters, composed Of fiery unrecti
fed stimulants, with an infusion, OF. extract
possibly, of some tonic bark, are still some
times recommended as Identical with, or sim
liar to, or possessing virtues kindred to these
of Americas chosen family medicine. Thest
perish speedily, while the great subduer ans
career, overcoming malaria, dyspepsia, nervous
ness, kidney troubles, constipation, and rheun N
attic ailments, not only ON this but on man,
continents.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
Peculiar to Itself

That Hoods Sarsaparilla does possess curative
power Peculiar to Itself is conciusiyely shown by
the wonderful cures it has effected. unsurpassed
in the history of medicine. This absolute merit it
possesses by reason of the fact that it is prepared by
a Combination, Proportion and Process Pecu-
liar to Hoods sarsaparilla, known to no other medi-
cine. and by which the full medicinal power of all
the ingredients used is retained. Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla is q highly concentrated extract of Sarsaparilln.
Dandelion. Mandrake. Dock, Juniper Berries and
other well known vegetable remedies. 1t has won
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
Increased Fee, More Licenses,

Middletown Conn correspondence:
For the present license year, commence
ing Nov. l, 1889, the fee for q liquor
license has been raised from $500 to
$500. and for a beer license from 5000
to $3.50. The number of licenses al
ready granted in Middletown for the
present year is 81 liquor, l beer, and 7
druggists'-in all 40. The number last
year up to the same date was 81 liquor,
2 beer, and e druggists. or A in all.
Notwithstanding the increase in the
fee the number of saloons has actually
increased. According to the last city
report the number Of complaints
brought before the City Court during
the past year was BOB. of which 2O6, or
more than two-thirds Of all, were for
drunkenness. Fifty-one others were
for assault and breach Of peace, and
four were for resisting officers. Tor
the offenses mentioned the number of
complaints was sc per cent. of the
whole number.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
Hoods


Its way to the leading place among medicines by
Its own intrinsic, undisputed merit, and has now a
larger sale than any other similar preparation in
the country. Ifyou have never taken Hoods Sarsa-
parilla, a fair trial will convince you of its excel
lence and rRerits. Take it this season.
II have for a long time been using Hoods Sarsa
parllla, and believe me. l would not be without it
AS d spring medicine 1t is invaluable" E. A
RHODES. 1870 Ontario Street. Chicago. III.
Hoods Sarsaparilla gave me new life. and re
stored me to my wonted health and strength. ;
WILLIAM I. CLouoa, Hlton. N. h.
NIB. Bs sure to get Hoods sarsaparina.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
Excitement In New Jersey.

There is considerable excitement al
North Plainfeld, N. j., over the discovery
Of copper and silver ores in the mountains
back Of the town. The discovery was made
in excavating for water works, and it is
said that Investigation has been made to
warrant the assertion that, underlying the
outer layers of trap rock and red sandstone
in the mountain, are mines from which
fortunes may be developed. Capitalists
are negotiating for the control of the
minea.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
ROckefeiier's Live Stock.

William Rockefeller, of the STANDARD
Oil company. kept a fine herd of deer at
his former home, near Greenwich, Conn,
for a number of years until this winter.
His new home at Tarrytown is now CON-
pleted, and one of his preparations for re-
mo7al was the sale Of his herd of deer.
Two of the finest of the herd, q pair Of red
deer, as large as Ameri an elk, he has
given to the city of New York for the Cen
trail park %menagerie. They are the genu'
inc European red deer, not the misnamet
Virginia variety.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
A Patriotic Consul,

The old Garibaldi homestead at Clifton,
L.. l., which was presented to the Italian
government in 1882 by Mr.. Bachmann, is
likely to revert to the latter. The Italian
consul in New York and the trustees ap-
pointed to look after the property refuse to
pay a bill of 1922 for taxesfand repairs, the
latter saying that the Italian government
should pay the bill and the consul insist
ing that the trustees must meet the debt.
Mr.. Bachmann says he will take the house
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14

vTfs vanished. It's lost, and I very much fssr
That It's ravishfng voice 1 shall mover moro
That ] never asain shah zee fasn Of t.s wing,
Nor get any trace Of the beauiful thing
Did you ever, dear f.iend, en- Q sad, dismal day,
BY your winaoS sit idling tue moments away,
Impasst.ve. un! linking, yea, only apart
OF the gloom That enwrapped you, invaded ycur
All, how sweet ct such moments to suddenly
Some blithe littls songster dart out Of the sky,
just q dun, tiny bundle of feathers, mayhap,
just q trembling, e~cstatic and crazy madcap?
AS ne lights near you and fiirts off
Az he shouts a wild yodel of hope and Of glee.
All the chill seems to vani.h, the darkness to
feei
And my beautiful thought like a bird huttered
From the gray, misty space of dimnes and
But It paused but a trice my souls window be.
Then it darted away and 1 saw it no morel
Oh, this bird Of my fancy was timid, I weet,
FOR IL stayed not to sing me its song new and
sweet,
And # vanished SO quick in the skies of no.
where,
That ! knew nothing more than it is, and is
fair.
For tbs now in the midst of an infinite throng
OF fancies forgotten, fai t echoes of song,
Dim melodies oft by the ear almost caught,
And thoughts of which poets have never yet
thought
But If ever again I see fash of its wing,
On get any trace of the beautiful thing,
I will pause not q moment, but quick as 9 wink
l Will letter 1t fast with o drop Of ink!
I will rise, If need be, in the midst Of the night,
To CAPTURE this thought by the dim candle
light,
And long ere the waters Of darkness shall ebb,
be safe in a fine chirographical web!
George Horton.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
Xnus-Hensrt6sI3si s6slfas

deem shattered namber of times tbNHE
certaipJy on no OCCASION more excessively
than " this story from o H~opkinA1iils.
KY, paper: Taking Of quail, Col. 81 d.
Stating, Of this vicinity, nov in his S4th
year, has broken into countless fragments
the ancient and hoary superstition that
to eat quail, however dnintiIy
cooked, for thirty days successfully,
will produce nausea worse than seasick-
ness. On the LIST day of last October, be-
ing in rather delicate health, he began TO
diet IN quail flesh exclusively. eating one
bird and sometimes two every day. He has
not missed q bird for 1876 days, and has not
the slightest inclination to change his diet,
which rather imnroYes In favor
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
Drunk and PiOus.

A. correspondent Of the Christian Adj
vocate (Methodist) asks: "What shall
be done with q member of our church
who will get under the influence Of
liquor, but always seems under the in
iuence of the Holy Spirit when at
church," The Advocate replies: "a
man who gets drunk is not under the in
fluence of the Holy Spirit. The prob.
ability is he gets drunk and seems full
of the Holy Spirit, and has the grand
sensibility,' and takes on the character
of the place he is in. Put him under
discipline. That will test him. Solong
as his case is overlooked he will be
drunk and ptous."
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14

Tfeel very much indebted to Hoods Sarsaparilla
for 1 believe 1t is to the use of this medicine that I
owe my present health. In the spring l got SO COM
pletely run down that I could not eat or sleep, and
all the dreaded diseases of life seemed to have q
mortgage on my system. Twas obliged to abandon
my work. and after seeking medical treatment and
spending over $50 for different preparations, found
myself no better. Then my wife persuaded me to
try a bottle of Hoods Sarsaparila. Before the first
bottle was gone 1 begant to amend. I have now used
two bottles and have gained 2a pounds. Can eat any.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14

RoNcoN1, the we'll known singer, who
died recently, had but one fault-he song
false, and he knew it. The first time he
appeared in opera in London with the
great basso, Carl Formes, he took Forpes
aside after the performance and said: I'm.
til this evening Ihave never been jealous
of anyone, but I am jealous of you
"Why?" Because you sing still more GU
of tune than I do"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14

A SENSATION wat caused in London on
Tuesday by the finding Of the Countess
Carlotty. the English widow of a deceased
French nobleman, dead in her chair. The
unfortunate woman was hugging in her
arms a bag containing $16,0U0 in gold at
the very moment when she was dying of
insufficient nutrition, being too misery to
purchase the food that she needed to keep
her alive.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14

A NEW swindle has appeared In Europe.
Prominent persons receive letters dated al
the military prison in Madrid purportine
to come from the late secretary of the
Egyptian mahdi, who knows where 4,000,-
900 of francs are concealed. He asks 8
small sum to satisfy the creditors who
keep him in prison, in return for which he
will tell where the treasure is. This trans.
parent trick makes many dupes.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14

A MICHIGAN paper tells of a farmer
catching q fellow going out of his pasture
one night with a sheep on his back and
blazing away at him with a shotgun. The
paper naively adds that the fellow dropped
the sheep, went to u Arbor the next
day, and when he returned he had a glass
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14

The directors Of the De Beers company
in the Kimberly, South Africa, mines, gave
a Christmas picnic to their 5000 employees,
at which were eaten 1900 fowls, 400 tur-
keys, $50 geese, 100 hams, 1000 pounds
spiced, roast and boiled beef, and 1900
pigeon, veal and ham, and chicken and
ham pies, washed down with 5000 bottles
of English and German beer, 100 cases of
champagne, 200 cases Of %claret, and loo
cases Of Burgundy, besides brandy and
whisky
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14

A CANTON, China, paper estimates that
1900 600 people die every year in China by
fire and food, but it is not satisfied. The
fact is" it remarks with cold blooded Gym.
icism, "the great need of Cinnamon is the
sudden removal of 1900, 5000 or 5000, 600
inhabitants to make elbow room for those
who are left"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
Attacked by Wolves.

AS two merchants were returning lately
in a carriage to Bartfeld from the Hungar-
ian Gal1cian frontier they were attacked by
a pack Of nine wolves, the leader of which
was shot as soon as he leaped on one of
the carriage horses. The remaining eight,
far from being frightened of, f~uriously
pursued the travellers, who managed to
shoot two more of the bowling animals.
Just as the horses began to slacken their
pace through loss of blood and fatigue,
five hunters love in sight from a neighbor-
ing field and quickly dispatched the rest of
the pursuing pack,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14

BELGIAN farmers hnve become alarmed
at the way in which the frogs are being ex-
hausted by French pot hunters, and have
petitioned the king to forbid killing frogs
during certain months Of the year, as is
done with other game. The farmers re-
gard the frogs as valuable slug and insect
destroyers.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
AIadv I'm South Carolina writes.
The Musical Tree,

A foreign traveller tells Of seeing a mu-
steal tres in the West India islands and in
Nubia. 1t has a peculiar shaped leaf and
pods with a split or open edge. The wind
passing through these gives out the sound
which gives the tree its peculiar name. In
Barbados there is q valley filled with these
trees, and when the wind blows across the
island a constant moaning, d]eep.toneo
whistle is heard from it, which in the still
hours of the night has a very weird and
unpleasant effect. A species of acacia,
which grows very abundantly in the Sou
dan is also called the "whistling tree" by
the natives. Its shoots are frequently by
the agency of the larvae of insects distorted
in shape and swollen into a globular blad-
der from one to two inches in diameter.
After the insect has emerged from a circu-
lar hole in the side of this swelling the
opening played upon by the wind becomes
u musical instrument equal in sound TO q
sweet-toned flute.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
Sold by all druggists. price IS cents.
A Palace Fire.

Apropos of the fire at Laekin it is said
tibet King Leopold's furniture and objects
dart were insured for e12O, 900, but that
the actual damage amounted to e2On, 900,
says the Studio. Among the paintings
Van Dyke and o landscape by Hobbema.
This is the third royal castle burned in
Belgium during the last three years, the
two others being the castles of Amerois
and Terveren. King Leopold will now
take up his residence in the so-called Pa
villon des Princes, situated near the late
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
The Spring
Medicine

thing without 1t hurting me; my dyspepsia and
biliousness have gone. I never telt better in my
life. am at work again and consider myself . well
man. Those two bottles were worth 500 to me"
W. v. EULows. Lincoln, III.
Hoods Sarsaparila purified my blood, gave me
strength, and overcame the headache and dizziness.
SO that now I am able to work agstn." LUTHER
MASON, So Church ST., lowell Mass.
my wife suffered from sick headache and neural
gia. After taking Hoods sparsapsrilla che was
much relieYeds" W.R. BABB, Wilmington. Ohio.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is sold by druggists. 81; sig
for IS. Prepared by Oh. HOOP L Co., Lowell. Mas
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
Rig Convention i'll Indiana.

liLulhItpollS 5ptc1dl.l
Between 500 and 600 delegates were
present at the Prohibition State Con-
vention. The following officers were
chosen:
President, T. E. Ballard, Evans
Vile; Vice Presidents, First District,
Miss j. l.. Hazen; Second, Miss NJ.
e. Allen; Third, S. J. Kistier, Fourth,
Mrs. Henry Thompson; Fifth, II. T.
Smith; Sixth, Mrs. Bosom; Seventh,
Mrs. r.. L. Brown; Eighth, Miss Mary
Hatley: Ninth, Mrs. A. l.. Sharp;
Tenth, Mrs. +. o. Fenton; Eleventh.
jesse l.. Hltchins: Twelfth, j. w.
Seaman; Thirteenth, Miss p. J.. Per-
kins; Secretary, J. G.. L. Myers.
The platform embodied sixteen reso-
lutions of the usual description, among
which were demands for the abolition
of trusts, an honest school apportion-
ment, a reduction in salaries Of county
officers, the exemption of food, cloth
ing and other necessaries from taxa
ton, and the passage of a general
service pension bill. The following
State ticket was nominated;
Secretary of State, Augustus Brad
ley, Floyd County; Auditor, Abraham
Huntsinger, st. Joseph: Treasurer,
Jonathan f. Bransoa, Hendricks: Su-
p~erintendent of Public Instruction, L.
NJ. Crist, Boone; Attorney General, J.
L. Haines, jay; Judge of Supreme
Court, S. J. North, Kosciusko; Clerk
OF Supreme Court, Charles L. Jessup
Hendricks.