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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
$1,000 E FAILS.
Tremendous Increase in Drunkenness an
Crime in Lowell.

Tremendous Increase in Drunkenness and
Crime in Lowell.
The city of Lowell, Mass, has now
tried both low license and high license as
methods of dealing with the saloon. In
1887 we had 419 saloons paying an annual
fee of $3.50 each, and 2,5Ol arrests for
drunkenness. In 1883 the license fee was
raised to $500, and the number of saloons
dropped to 2l7; still arrests for drunken
ness increased to 1890. Beginning May
l. 1889, the license fee was again in
creased and we started the year with
twenty hotels paying $1,40U annual Ii
censes each, thirty-nine saloons charged
an annual license fee of 81, 800 each, and
five more places paying from 81, 900 to
81, 200 each, yet the year ending Nov. 80,
1889, again showed an increase in arrests
for drunkenness to 3, 1907. In fact, the at
tempted regulation Of the liquor traffic in
Lowell, even under a 81 300 lioa .se sys-
tenn, with the number of saloons re-
strictedt to one for every l 200 population,
has proved n most dismal failure, as the
following brief exhibit of the city's ex-
p%terience during the past five years clearly
shows:
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
Domino Whist,

Do you ever play domino whist? It is
the latest game Of cards e1tant, and is
rapidly superceding poker, hearts and
other games involving q minimum of
science with q maximum of luck in tho
home circle and quiet, and decorous social
gatherings. -Four people play the game,
and one who is familiar with the technical
names of cards informs US that the person
who sits at the left of the dealer-whatever
that is-begins by playing what is called a
seven spot of some suit-spades, hearts,
clubs or diamonds. If the player
cannot show up a seven spot he
is elected to put a check In the
pot, though our informant says a nickel,
a dime, or a two-bit piece is jdst as good as
a check and costs more. Then the next
person takes up the game and plays a
seven-spot-if he can-and after a seven
spot is placed on the table, the other cards
in sequence are placed, eight-spots are
placed on the right and SIX spots on the
left of the seven spot. Every time a per-
son can not play a card on one of the four
piles in the center Of the table, down goes
a check to the bottom of the pot. When
some one plays his last card the game IS at
an end, and he takes a check fer each card
held by the other three players when the
game ceased.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
A DisagreeabIe Month,

How has it happened that March has
come to be counted a spring month? Was
it for the benefit of the newspaper para
graphers; to give them an opportunity to
write about the vernal zephyrs, the bloom
ing crocuses and ~yiolets, while snow is Oh
the ground and the biting north wind
chilling our marrow? March certsinly has
no place in spring e1cep: from a %satirical
point of view, and its s~atirical possibilities
have long been exhausted. Winter, as
everybody knows, begins ~astronomically
Dec. % and ends with the YER
nal equinox March 81. March has
lately been, in this latitude, one of
the coolest months, and is almost
invariably the most disagreeabls month of
the year. 1t is universally detested. Even
those most enamoured of life, who would
ordinarily grudge losing the smallest part
of it, would be willing, 1 imagine, to re-
duce their year to eleven months in order
to rid themselves of odicus March. No
body in the northern states has, or can
have, q good word for this, from a meteor
illogical point of view, totally depraved
absolutely diabolic month. To speak of ii
even jestingly as in any way connected
with spring is an afront to the magma
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
Wild March Music,

Gentle and sweet melodies. sacred and secular
songs, and all other kinds OF music are In
our thousands OF books and millions OF
sheet music piecesi
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
SENATE.
How that OF To-day Differs from Psrora.
lions of Fifty Years Aso.

lions of Fifty Years AgO. 4
The eloquence Of the grand old senator
ial trio, CLAY, Webster and Calhoun, !" is
famous as a tradition, and only as a tradi-
ton, for one such would be tolerated
nowadays, when hurried folks have no
leisure or fancy for listening to long
winded speeches over many solid days
without a break, barring sudden indispo-
Bitions' of the speakers at the hands Of
providence. Yet these, as many others of
the senate's galaxy, were undoubtedly
men OF greater Intellectual calibre
than their successors; no one could say
that Mr.. Hoar fills Mr.. Websteris
seat, that Mr.. Blackburn fills k1r. Clay's,
or that Mr.. Butler fills Mr.. Calhoun's.
The style, form and method have altered
for the better, but the difference in char
acter and intellect between senators of the
past and those Of the present leans not to
the side Of the latter. Yet, though with
out such eminent qualifications Of leader
ship as the olden senators had, the sena-
tors of today are very skillful debaters
and diligent workers especially in the
committee rooms, where most Of the legis-
lative business is prepared. Not so strictly
OF narrowly partisan as their predecessors,
they appeal in this improved age to q far
larger audience, one that has grown to be
very highly enlightened and developed, and
they may really be said to be compelled
10 speak to and act for popularity" repre-
sented by the universal press, rather than
by the old time clappire spectators who
ruled from the galleries.. The leveling en-
denotes of this much more highly de-
veloped era afford less opportunity
for the rise of towering takers" and 30
congressional leadership is imposed by the
nation itself, by a guiding public opinion,
by the many on broad lines rather than by
the few on narrow lines, though truly
enough, however developed may be any
age, there must be room, in theory, if not
in practice, for marking men on top, pre-
cisely in the position Of its highest expo
nents.-Frdnk Leste's Monthlu.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Giving Shape to Feet.

Every one, but especially children,
should wear properly fitting shoes, no
matter how Common their material.
They should be neither too large nortoo
small, and should have low, fat heels
that must be promptly "righted' IS soon
as they begin to wear to one side. If
the toes of the foot show a tendency to
overlap they should be rubbed with the
hands once or twice each cay; and if
this care be given when the curving
commences, it will, as a rule, prove
sufficient to correct any Irregularities of
this nature. If q nail is hayward in its
growth, trim it only lightly at the ailing
corner, but fully at the opposite corner.
If both corners grow too deeply into the
flesh, clip them carefully and lightly.
and then scrape the center of the Fail
from the tip to near the root until it is
thin and flexible. This process seldom
fails to correct refractory nails-pro-
vided, of course, they are not neglected
too long,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
Wastcful

Many a young wife" said a motherly
woman the other day, would find the
wheels of her household moving much
more smoothly if she would spend q lit
tie less money OF the furnishing of her
drawing-room, and devote it instead to
appliances and plenty of utensils.
Economy in kitchen utensils may easily
be pushed too far, and if there is an-
other place where q woman may be more
readily excused than another for ~extrav-
agance, it is just here.
To have to stop in the middle OF
making q dessert, in order to clean a
saucepan or a kettlein which the soup
had been prepared, because you have
not another, is folly, when soup kettles
can be had for % cents each. To have
your kitchen knives of such Door metal
that they will not stay sharp, or to let n
good knife remain dull, because you
think you cannot afford to spend 10 cents
to have it sharpened. is q real waste of
strength, out Of all proportion to the
saving.
To shave nothing by which you can
measure your ingredients accurately,
because it costs more to buy q set of
weights of a graduated glass measure
than to trust to g~uess-work and an old
tea cup, has spoiled many q good dish
that cost just as much, and has brought
humiliation on many a good cook. To
scrape your porridge pot with a spoon
because you will not buy a patent pot
scraper for II cents wears QUIT ten spoons
to QUE pot-scraper, and the hired girl
invariably selects your best spoon for
that purpose. Sitting the coal ashes is
such a dirty business as it Is usually per-
formed, and the servant kicks against it
SO vigorously, that the most economical
h~ousekeeper soon abandons it in des-
pair. A patient ash-sifter that allows
no dust to escape, and preserves all the
half-burned coal, will pay for itself in
one winter and last five. A cheap re-
frigerator can be had for one-third the
cost of q good one of the same size, but
if you buy it your ice-bill will be twice
as large.
There is hardly anything in the
kitchen Of which there are not two
varieties, the cheap and the dear, and
the result of the use of either is gener-
ally its exact opposite in actual cash.
But in comfort TO ones self md to ones
husband and children, and a saving of
time, temper, brain worry and backache,
they repay their own cost many times
over every weekly. Y. Tribune.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
How the Liquor Traffic "Helps" the
Farmer.

Why should afarmer be a P%rohibition-
list, when the liquor business helps him
by buying his grain?" asks a Western
farmer. Helps him" does it? See how
it helps.
A farmer sells q bushel of corr for II
cents. A distiller buys it and makes
from it $50 gallons Of whisky. The
Government taxes this 1872 to begin
notwithstanding that amount from cir
culation and piling it up in the Treasury
vaults. The Wholesale and retail dealers
get their phenomenal profits, and then
the consumer pays $40 for it, and makes
his wife and children go without anything
to eat or wear in order to keep up the
market for that farmers one bushel of
corn at II cents!
This may be good political economy,
but it is difficult to see how the farmer
is going to get rich at it.-The Voice,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18

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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
A Necessity Of Health.

tits . prime necessity Of health that the &C
ton of the bowels should be kept regular. But
the way to overcome a temporary fit of consti-
patton. or to remedy chronic ~cosuiveness, is not
to deluge the stomach and drench the bowels
with purgatives Of violent and painful action.
The happy medium between an imperative and
violent cathartio is Hostteter's Stomach Bit
tors, which acts just sufficiently upon the bowels
to relax them, without pain, and which being a
wholesome tonic. as we'll as aperient, has the
effect Of Strengthening both them and the stom-
ach, and promoting the we'll being OF the whole
internal economy. The removal Of bile from the
blood, increased activity OF the liver, usually
dormant In cases of c~ostiveness, and sound d.
gestion follow the use OF this benehcent medi-
cine, as thorough and genial in its effects as it
Is safe and pure in composition. Rheumatism.
fever and ague, kidney troubles and debility are
also remedied by it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
H STOCK RANCH.
Handling

There are two theories in regard to
handling horses; the first, and most
common one looks upon the horse as a
refractory animal that is to be brought
into subsection, OF broke as the term
is. The other theory regards the horse
as an animal of intelligence and general
good will, ready to do as he is hidden as
soon as he is taught how. The man
who goes to work on the first theory pro-
ceeds with severe bit and severer whip
to punish his subject until he winds up
with IL balkor, kicker, runaway, or a
spiritless, detected thing that crawls
along the road as though life was q
burden. The other man, looking we'll
to the intelligence and temper Of his
animal, proceeds with kindness backed
by frmness, to initiate him in the mys-
teries of refining and driving. Behold
him then i'll due course stepping along
full of spirit and courage, rejoicing in
his strength. So much for the hand
ling of young horses.
The horse in his general makeup,
variableness of temper, intelligence and
all, is very closely allied to the genus
homo. And the same course of treat
ment applied to either will yield sub
at hard labor and keep him at it from
w oN1oSsy eAu A0 l oSOLk
learn to take the slowest gait possible,
and take a few minutes Of rest whenever
possible. Whipping. if continued,
would accelerate his speed only so long
as he felt the lash. The same is per-
fectly true of horses; the more they are
whipped the more will be required to
keep up the same motion, aud the less
whipping the less needed.
All horses have a limit to the amount
of work they can do in one day without
drawing upon the store Of nerve force
needed for the next day. They also
need q certain amount of time in the
stable to masticate a necessary amount Of
food. And if either of these conditions
are encroached upon the temptation is
to make up for lost spirit and vitality by
the use OF the whip.
But what about the horse that is ma
turally slow and lazy or old and infrm,
if We cannot have any whip? Did any
body ever see a horses nature changed
from slow and lazy to fast and spirited,
| or from age and infirmity to youth and
strength by the use of the whip?
There is no horse that has intelligence
and good temper enough to be trained
for general farm and road work but will
respond in spirit and increased action
generous feeding and kind treatment.
And kept in the harness a reasonable
number of hours in a day (say ten) and
kept in steady motion from the time he
is hitched up until unhitched, will do
all in o day that he is we'll able to do.
10 sum up: Ahorse is an animal pos
sessing more intelligence than he is
generally credited with, is prompted to
more bad habits by his driver than by
his own nature, and has to take all the
punishment.
OF course there are exceptions to oil
general rules, and it is general rules
that these remarks have sought to fol-
low. And they are submitted to the
farmers having the best conditioned and
best walking teams for o verdict of their
truth or falsity.-C. s. Beach, in Farm,
Field and StOckman,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
Prohibition Light Dawning Upon Old
England.

No doubt the chief hope for a greater
reduction in the deadly and Improbable
bill for drink is in the growth Of intelli-
gence and information, and in better So
cial legislation. But we by no means
admit that nothing can be done to i'm
prove drink legislation, or to mitigate the
temptations Of the present enormously
overgrown publjc-house system, and the
almost equally bad system of drinking in
confectioners' shops. These are evils that
and legislation, if it were worth the
name, might do much to remov them
London Lancet,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
THE YARD.
The White Guinea.

The guinea fowl is a native of Africa
and is sometimes called African Pin
ado or Gallenia, They have never out
grown their wild nature enough to be
closely confined when bred for domes-
tic use. With propriety the white
guinea may be called the watch dog of
the pou1trys yard. Ever watchfnl and
on the alert it gives the note Of warming
on the first approach Of danger.
They are very profitable on farms as
they are industrious foragers and excel
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
Beware OF Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,

As Mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering it through the mucus surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians. as the
damage they will do is tenfold the good you
can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, O.. contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, and acts directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. In buying Halls
Cetarrh Cure pc sure you get the genuine; 1t ia
taken Internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by
F. J. Cheney h Co.
Sold BY Druggists, price 75c per bottle,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
Seen in a Dream.

Rev. Stephen Colyer, of Mount Vernon,
Tenn, had q dream some three weeks ago,
in which he saw two men commit murder
near his home. He was SO impressed
with the vision that he related ii to his
family and friends. A few days since
the reverend gentleman was visiting
in the neighboring county of Laurel.
In taking a walk he approached a
hill which seemed familiar. On reaching
the brow he wal Mortified to find the
body of a dead man, whom be at moe rec.
ognized as the n seen in his dream. The
man Was tall, with a gray mustache and
hair and was we'll dressed. Not a paper
was found about his clothing. Five dollars
in money was all he had in his pockets.
There is no clue IS to his identity. The
scene where the corpse was found is the
one seen in the preacher'a dream.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
Mr., Fears.

The Prohibitionists think that prohibit
tion is the necessary thing, and T don't
want to lose their help just because 1
don't think as they do. They are helping
me, and we are doing good work, but if
you come out with an interview stating
that Murphy is opposedto the prohibitory
law and thinks it a failure, and all that
kind Of truck, these folks would drop me
like a hot potato, and I would be a dead
duck in this city.-Interyiep with Fran
CTS Murphy, in the Omaha Bee.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
Popular Relieien n Boston.

Before = dime museum on Washington
street, Boston, the other Sunday evening.
Was . sign announcing: aScientifc'
Church. Grand Concert and Lecture on
Old Maids and Prize Fighters. Coilec-
ton, 10 cents. A steady stream Of men
was passing the ticket Office, each deposit.
Ing his collection" and receiving q
ticket in return. Not far away was q
church In which was q service adver-
tised with an equally striking title.
There was good singing, too, md free
admission. But the audience was . slim
one. The contrast suggested that the
devil can beat the church as a drawing
power in concerts and entertainments; in
fact, in everything except pure religion.
As . steady going pastor once said: in
the long run there is nothing that keeps
up g church like piety."-Bostom Goagre-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
Breeding Young Heifsrs.

The earlier a heifer is bred the more
likely she is to become a good mixer.
The tendency to beef production is soon
established where the feed is good,
and breeding is the best antidote. The
good feeding after the milk tendency is
fully established will secure enough
growth, and if the COW is somewhat un-
dersized through life, from being put
early to milk production, she will be
none the worse for it. Besides, q breed
ing animal necessarily has q hearty APP
petite, and will not cloy on rations that
would put another animal off it's feed.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18

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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
A PENNSYLVANIA Convert.

At the temperance anniversary meeting
of the Philadelphia conference lately in
session at Pottsville w. W. Swindell,
DID,, reused the conference by the an
nouncement of his withdrawal from the
Republican party and his connection
hereafter with the Prohibitionists. He
gives as his reason for his changed po-
litical attitude the use of the Republican
machine to defeat the prohibitory amend
ment last June. The Prohibitionists are
daily receiving new men to their ranks.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
Now is the Time

To purify your blood and fortify your system
against the facilitating effects Of spring weather.
At no other season is the bitter taste in the mouth
moro prominent, the breath SO offensive, the
drowsy dizziness 80 frequent, or that extreme tired
feeling so prevalent. Hoods Sarsaparilla is Just
tile medicine to build up the system, purify the
blood. cure biliousness and headache, overcome
that tired feeling. and create a good appetite. The
peculiar medicinal merit of Hoods Sarsaparilla
Is shown by the many remarkable cures 1t accom-
llishes where others fail
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.
MsTRUorIvE SUGGESTIONS ron oUn
RURAL READERS.
SEINE Information OF vaIas to iii. rar.s,,
Stock breeder; Bes-kespsr. Housswils,
and Kitcllen-Maid.
THE FARM.
Solid Floors for Stables.

Manure is now of SO much more i'm
portances than formerly that the saving
by use of stable floors with wide cracks,
through whichthe manure teaches, is not
to be compared with the resulting loss.
The very best floor is one of cement,
and if under o barn, where it
can be protected against frost, it will
last Indefinitely. Many old barns have
under them the teachings of years, and
this, if cleared out, will pay a consider
able part of the expense for putting q
wall under the frame and a cement floor
on the bottom.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-18
No Longer the LATEST ON Earth.

1t is declared by a recent traveller that
the people of Naples no longer deserve the
reputation of being the LATEST on earth.
Il have spoken" he says, with architects,
engineers and other employers of labor,
who all testify to the willingness of the
Neapolitan to work. 1t is, moreover, self
evident in the hundred different street in
dustries which supply half the population
with a means Of livelihood. The Neapoli-
but they work we'll, with intelligence, be-
ing more tractable than the F~renchmen,
and not so slow of understanding as the