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Tombstone epitaph., 1891-04-26

4 few dave ago while citing m Fl der Bros' drug store st Tiugley, Iowa, Sir. T, L. Dyer a well known citizen, came in and asked for something fer a severe cold which he had. Mr. Elder took down bottle of ChamberIain's Cough Remedy and said; "Hera Is % nething I can recommend. II commands q large sale and gives gen uine satisfaction. Ii l. an excellent preparation aSd chesp.' Mir Dyer purchased bottle and the next day when we saw him be said he was much better, and the day folioEipg appeared Q be entirely restored. This lisa s2eeimen of ihe effectiveness oi this prepsrstion.--lDes MOines Mail and Times
 PsTo. drJssisii ssiis tihs above mentioned remedy.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-04-26

The summer weather has evidently struck ns at last
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-04-26

Douglass Gray was passenger on the outgoing stage today.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-04-26
From TAsrsday'.Dasly.

,, g. Robbins and vile are visiting Tombstone
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-04-26

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Tombstone epitaph., 1891-04-26
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a MrETS THE THIRD SATUR ES-. day in each month at Masonic Hall A A Ali Visiting Brothers in good standing " are invited to attend. Special Ina ei. lgs Sheu the flag Is hoisied en the Hau.
 CHAs. SMITH, ". M. A. L. CROW. Sec.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-04-26
HORN.

FIFx--oa sunday, April l9. 10 the wife Of Walter Fife, son.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
Origin of Familiar Fairy Tales,

"The Babes in the Wood" according
to an English authority, is founded upon
an actual crime committed in Norfolk
near Wayland Wood in the fifteenth
century. An old house in the neigh
borhood is still pointed out, upon q
mantel-piece in which is carved the en-
tire history. cinderella" has been
traced to an Egyptian story. About
$40 B. c., Princess Rhodope was bath
ing and left her shoes upon the bank of
the river. An eagle pounced upon a
shoe and carried it off TO King Psamit-
ticus at Memphis. The King, struck
with the smallness and beauty of the
shoe, sent forth a proclamation for the
owner. In due time o marriage was
celebrated. Jack the Giant Killer" is
said to be based on the tradition of
Corineus, the Trojan King of Corn
wall, and Il of the companions of
Brutus. who amused his leisure by rout-
ing out the native giants. aBlue
Beard" was Count Conomor of Brittany,
who having murdered his previous
wives, married Tryphynea, the eighth.
She, having learned his character, fled,
but was pursued and slaughtered. "Tom
Thumb" Little Tom of Wales, no big
ger than q miller's thumb" was King
Arthur's famous dwarf, sometimes CON
founded with Tom of Lincoln, who
married the daughter of the mysterious
Prester John. "Humpty-Dumpty" was
q bold, bad Baron. who was tumbled
from power in the days of King John.
His history was put into a riddle, the
meaning of which was an egg.-Neu
York World.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
When and Whom to Marry.

As to the age when people should
marry, the lady should, in my opinion
(says Rev. DR.. McKendree), be twenty
to twenty-five, and the gentleman five
years her senior. Poor men cannot
marry extravagant girls, who expect as
good home as their parents were only
able to acquire after many years Of toll.
The deceit practiced on both sides is
very great: The ugly sutton gets q
tailor to hide his deficiencies; the I'm.
slightly maiden calls in the aid of her
rouge-pot and milliner. Until recently
marriage brokerage was carried on in
France. We Americans are guilty Of
the same thing in another way. Mothers
sell daughters to the highest bidders.
aud daughters sell themselves for gold
to men old enough to be their grand
fathers. Such women would no more
choose honest mechanics for husbands
than they would convicts from the peni-
Tertiary. There is no reason why wo-
men should not choose as we'll as men.
III Prosoat tlIo ..v. A~---.n- tho aauan-
tage. No girl is fit to be a wife till she
can, if necessary, cook o meal, make a
dress, and keep q house in order. Ac-
complishments are good, but q tired
husband would much prefer a good
square meal. ALI matches that are
brought about by selfish motives are
unholy, and women who marry for posi-
ton Or wealth are just as guilty as those
who sell their virtue for a given sum.
They, are, in fact. living a life OF legal
lied prostitution. Marriages in which
there is no adaptation are unlawful. AS
oil and water will not unite without
alkaline, so many a couple are united
by e a of gold. Such %artifciaily
made matches are often broken. You
may force alcohol and gum camphor to
blend, but at presence of water the
alcohol elopes and leaves the camphor
a grass widow. In like manner a third
party often steps in between q badly
associated pair, with what results can
be easily seen. None but those who
have been united through pure motives
and deep. abiding love. have fulfilled
the conditions under which q man and 6
woman may really become husband and
uifo
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
NIGHT WORKS.
Great Disadvantages OF Being an Early
5esaH44H ae4 nr~Ipg .FrEN4FsyE $780,

Great Disadvantages OF Being an Early
Bird.
The fact that q chicken goes to bed
at shutdown, says the Kansas City Star
would be proof positive that it has no
sense at all" if there we've any reason
in the world why . chicken should stay
up. On the other hand, owls stay up ct
night, and if the chicken has the ad-
Vantage Of the owl in the way of health,
recreation or longevity the fact has es-
capped the scientists. However, to re-
turn to human beings, it is not dis
puted that there are q great many peo-
pie in this world who are much better
off in bed at 9 O'Clock than out of il.
Their retirement to the sheets is dis
tinctly to the advantage OF society:
Among such people may be classed all
invalids and small children, men who
yaNn, and women who object totobacoo
smoke, the ill-conditioned Cassius who
Stoves &c plays" and "hears no music"
and the peevish Jacques, who sucks
melancholy out Of a song as o weasel
sucks eggs" AID who will sleep If he
can, and il he canrot, will rail against
all the frst-born Of Egypt" Commend
such subjects to the chickens.
But there are men, and women, too.
who could no moro miss the fascina-
ton of "sittiug up" than TSbt Belch
could resist the blandishme&ts o. Mrs:
Maria's punch OF forswear s a Up o.
canary. They grant you, if you Will
that they are shortening their iyA 8
couple Of years more or less, but ne
price is cheap, and they miss n:
They lhow that the charming hours On
all the tw~enty-four have come when
the lights are dim and half the world
is snoring, when the city has settled
down like a graveyard, and when o pipe
takes on that rich, rank flavor which
would not be tolerated. in the polite cir
cles of the business day. The very
stiffness of the night seems to lend NC
tivity to the brain. It is at midnight OF
thereabout that the best stories are
told, the wittiest epigrams are thrown
of, and the brightest thoughts are
flashed into expression. 1t is at mid
night that the two old cronies find
their happiest time for conversation,
just as two young girls will chatter oyer
the pleasures of the ball DON after ne
firing. And it is at night, and late SIT
night, that the student loves his book
and the good fellow his cigar, or what
ever else may be tolerated by s%umptuary
legislation. This is not the rule of life
found in medical works, but it is as
sumed for the moment that men axe not
chickens.
Leigh Hunt wrote page after page in
enthusiastic admiration of bed, but it
TRANSFERRED that the admiration was
particularly deepseated after Z O'Clock
in the morning. Picture the rare spirits
Of Miltre Tun going off to bed at
o'clock in the evening, or think OF the
good fellows who went around to cheer
up Goldsmith, preaching the hygleni<
example OF poultry. Let those who
will dwell on the health and wealth
Which follow the example of the birds
and the beasts, but do not deny to the
enthusiastslwho have tested the pleas
ures Of the 1ight hours their tribute te
the delights o.: Sitting up"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
8larh Hills Mnio,t.
RAPID CITY. .. D.
- -. ,T'yss
UNION PUBLISHING CO. PuBs.
TOO LATE.
BY JU1lAA \.
RAPID cry Z. D.
UNION PuHIIsH1No CO.

- aEA
Whea Twas young, and saw the kings Of men
eodss ths great lance that none but they could
I sa3d, .Foebesr awhile, my soul, and when
Thy strength is sfnn, thou too shalt win the
Aald,"
But when the awaited day -.
Arrived, q stranger gray
Laid hand upon my arm, and said: TOO late
Vain nov thy spear and shield" -
When I was young, I lifted up mine eyes,
And saw austere philosophy achieve
Ths victories that teach men to be wise,
Then said I to my soul, -Erelong, believe,
too shalt wisdom knowT
But while I waited loi
That hoary figure came and said, TOO lateI
Folly hath no repriye."
When / was young I was a maiden sweet,
Whose smiling eyes made sunshine In my
sBnild thou q temple without stain and meet.
o. SOUL" .quoth I, ito house this virgin
But when at last 1 sought
Tho maid, that graybeard caught
MINI eye, and frowning said, -Laggard! toe
Pass on, by love unblest"
When I was young. Code face upon me shone;
Whsreat I yelled mine eyes, and whispered
Soul,
It was . dreami God dwells in Heaven alone
But when to Heaven / came thaving paid
deaths tolD
The voice said, .Know, In Me
Love, Power and Wisdom be.
am the Lord! and thou hast learned too late
God only Ia mans goalt"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12

wounded. The chief incident Of this
campaign was the assassination of Gen.
CANDY. Seventeen citizens were killed
or wounded. The record which was
sent. to the Senate by the. War Depart
ment says: *No Indians reported
killed"
So far as losses were concerned the
Indians usually had the best Of it
The Sioux war of 1876 cost, for the
actual field expenses, So, 531. But
the campaign was chiefly notable for
the Custer massacre. The army loss
was 2S3 killed and 1875 wounded. The
Indian loss was only IS. Had Sibly's
policy toward the Sioux been continued
Sitting Bull and other Sioux leaders
would have ornamented gallows-trees
and there would be no ghost dancing
to-day. The Custer massacre was
never atoned for. The guns which the
Indians took from the soldiers are still.
in their possession.
The Nea Percas war of 1877 lasted
three months, and cost $931,329.5 so.
The Nez Perces lived in a valley in
Eastern Oregon. They occupied land
which, from its extraordinary fertility
and a~daptabilitv for irrigation, is now
worth from $50 to SIS an acre. That
ought to be sufficient explanation Of the
way hostilities came about. Two bad
white men killed a good Indian. Two
bad Indians killed a good white man.
Troops were sent to the Nez Perces
ca1sp and were whipped, with the loss
ola lieutenant and thirty-three soldiers.
Then followed the Nez Perces war.
Geo. Howard followed the Nez
Perces over 1,400 miles and then failed
to be in at "the DEATH" Miles, who is
now attending to the Sioux, fell on
Chief Joseph and his band in the
vicinity of the National Park. He
killed six chiefs aud a lot of warriors
and captured all the others. The
wind-up was on the Both of September.
Howard came up with his advance
guard just after the victory was won.
In that campaign PAL officers and
soldiers were killed. The Indian loss
was 1853.
The Bannock war of 1878 was q small
affair. It only cost 1856, 636. 10. When
it was ended the record showed a loss
of twenty-four to the army, thirty citi-
zens murdered, and seventy-four Indians
killed.
The Northern Cheyenne outbread of
1879 entailed q loss on the army of
%thirty-two killed and wounded. No
Indians were reported killed.
Since 1882 the only Indian fighting
has been with the little squads Of
Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico.
For every Apache run down and killed
OF captured the Government is said to
have spent 800, 00O.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
A Young Lady Ellis II Cougar.

While a housewarming was in pro-
gress at Thomas G. McAdam's farm
house on the Noolssack, a tremendous
splashing was heard in the brook near
by. All rushed to the stream, where a
cougar was found eating o fine salmon
he had just caught. The men, without
alarming the great cat, went for their
guns, and when about to fire heard the
crack ola rifle, and the cougar leaped
high in the air and fell in the brook
dead. A bullet had passed through the
left ear into the neck and severed the
spinal cord. Miss Maud Burning had
done the deed from the second-story
window, at a distance of ITS yards. All
joined hands and circled to the left,
with the lion and the lamb in the CEN
ter. It is only a few days ago that Miss
Burning killed a huge bear, that is now
being stuffed.-WhatcOm ReyeiUe.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
An Did Ice Palace.

A remarkable ice palace was built at
st. Petersburg in the winter Of 1885,
40, says Spare Moments, and was thus
beautifully referred to by Cowper in
the fifth book of the Task"
Silently as in q dream, the fabric rose.
No sound of hammer OF of saw was there;
lea upon ice, the well-adjusted parts
Were soon conjoined; no other cement asked
Than water Infused to make them one.
The palace was 50 feet long, 16 wide
and 20 feet high. The blocks We're
from two to three feet thick. They
were colored different tints by sprink-
ling them over with water colored in va
rious ways. Six cannon made of ice
and mounted on wheels of the same
material were placed before the door,
and Il of them was fired and carried
a hempen bullet through a board two
inches thick at sixty PAGES. This is said
to have been done several times with
out bursting the cannon.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
Tive Atna lean Language.

"One COL" he b."usquely announced
as he entered q gem" furnishing store
"Cert," replied the gin in attendance,
as She took down a collar aid wrapped
it up.
"Much?" he queried, as he to, led with
u silver piece.
"Quar dol" she answered, as she
gave him the change.
20. H." he said, as he turned away.
"Tra la," she replied, as she Went
back to wait on an old man who had
been looking at neckties.
What sort O. language do you call
that?" he asked.
Shorthand, sir"
ooh, that's it. Sort O. saves your
breath, Doesn't it"
Course"
"Well, L don't think I could ever get
used to it at my age. 1t don't express
enough"
"How"
"Why, land o. love! I want to say to
you that I'll wear n of my sus-
penders round my neck for a tie before
I'll pay fifty cents for such a shoddy at
fair as this. How could you express all
that in three or four words?"
Il can do it in one" she replied
"How?"
"Git!" E,
And he amh1ad
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
outta-Pcrcha is Disappearing.

It appears that there exists a serious
risk of the determination of the plant
OF tree from which gutta-percha is ob.
tanned. This gum is used in many in
dustries, largely in the manufacture of
submarine cables, as it is capable OF
sustaining its insulating qualities when
submerged under water at great Depths;
in fact, the insulation of gutta-percha
actually improves with age when kept
continually under water. The disap-
pearance Of the curious tree from which
gutta-peroha is obtained would, there
fore, be a calamity Of worldwide i'm
portance, yet it would appear from a
report recently made to the French
Academy of Sciences that we are actu-'
ally threatened with such a calamity.
The French Government, recognizing
the Importance of possessing an intimate
knowledge of the source Of supply of
this precious material, intrusted to NJ.
Serullas. a distinguished scientist the
task of exploring the Malayan Archi-
pelago, which is the home of the ison-
andra-gutta, with a view to studying the
tree and methods employed in cultivat-
ing it and extracting the gum. NJ.
Serullas spent three years IN Malay ana
studied the isonandra in all periods of
it's existence. acquiring q complete
knowledge Of it's natural history and
physlology; but he reports that there is
absolutely no method in the ann
employed by the natives in robbing the
tree of its sap, and thatno Efforts made
to cultivate and propagate SO valuable a
member Of this plant world. The ma
tives adopt the wholly barbarous Gus
tom of cutting a tree at the roots in or
der to extract tho gum; thus each tree
only gives one yield, and is then dead
forever. No wonder gutta-perch is
rapidly getting to be worth its weight
in silver.-Electrical ReUieU.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
And he ambled.
Turn Of Fortunes Tide.


Considering the difficulties which
have always beset the path of genius.
people of less striking ability may we'll
be content to work and wait until their
efforts win recognition. When Sir
John Millais, the painter, finished his
ferdinand and Ariel" the dealer who
had promised to purchase it refused 10
complete the bargain. "Idon't like it
and I won't buy it," he said. Young
Millais, then a boy of 20, was obliged
to swallow his disappointment. He
went on painting. downcast but not dis
couraged, and one day another dealer
appeared at the studio, accompanied by
a pleasant old gentleman who seemed
to know q great deal about pictures.
This man listened alphabetically to
the story of Millais' disappointment,
and viewed the Ferdinand and Ariel"
with genuine appreciation. II want to
present you with a book on art, he said,
taking u small volume from his pocket.
"Be sure you read it now. If you'll
give me apen, I'll write your name in
it," As he retired to the window to do
so, the dealer took occasion to whisper
to the young man that his visitor was
Mr.. Ellison, a wealthy and intelligent
patron of art. Presently the two took
their leave, and Millais of course opened
his book to see what had been written
on the fy-leaf. Out fell q check for
$50 guineas. Thus was the rejected
picture sold, and the tide of fortune
turned.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
The stamp Mania.

The London Standards correspond
ent at Vienna writes as follows:
The Stamp Exhibition is draw
ing a large number of visitors
e day. The collection is one
of the most complete that has aver
been got together, and the unlearned
in such matters are amazed at the divi-
sions and subdivisions that are neces-
sary for proper classification. Even
the rarities must be subdiyided, and
any collector worth his salt will prize
more the "errors," from their greater
likelihood of being unique, than the
class of ~rarities qualified rs such by be-
ing scarce.
Mr.. Giwelb showed me, for instance,
with as much pride as the occasion war
ranted, the "errors" of France, o stamp
Of Is centimes, printed in blue instead
of black, and with still greater sstisfac-,
ton, the "er1or" OF Afghanistan, q
stamp with q missing ornament in o
corner; and his voice was raised to the
pitch Of admiration when he spoke of
the rare "error" of Lubbock, and still
more of the two rare "errors" OF the
Cape of Good Hope, exhibited by DR..
Mailman. of Vienna, stamps Of n
penny and four pence respectively.
which ore blue instead of red, and red
instead of blue. Such "errors" fetch 9
very high price, kept down only by the
easiness of creating new values" by
wanton misprinting.
Great ~rarities are four specimens of
British Guiana and New Zealand stamps
of 1850, all with the signature of the
Postmaster, exhibited by Mr.. Douglas
| Garth, who values one of these stamps
(rose in faded COLOR at not less than
g76; another one yellow at EGO, etc.
Rare is also the black Canada twelve
penny stamp. exhibited by Mr.. Charles
Colmau, of Woodville, Kew, for which
the owner himself paid EOS. AS al
most "unattainable" are considered the
two first issues of Sandwich stamps, 5
cents and 10 cents, in the very rare col
lection Of Mr.. Giwelb, London; and
not less priced are two Tusmanian
stamps of the first issue, each four
lpeaeeraeclared to be nearly unique,
being printed on "laid paper" the for
tunate owner of which is NJ. p. Castle,
of Brighton.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
Cold Comes Through the Feet.

A noted medical author observed:
"No doubt n4uch Of 10 grippe comes
through the feet. Thin-soled shoes,
or thick %soles, sta ding on ice or snow,
or cold wood, ul:.ll the sole attains the
same degree OF cold as that on which it
rest.; then cold feet, cold legs cold alb
domen, cold lungs, cold in the throat,
in the head; the eyes, the nose, the
mouth, speaking witnesses, testifying
to the body resting on the feet and the
brain resting on the body, that a plain
violation of every reasonable rule of
health has been permitted, to be paid
in penalty OF suffering and pain; of lost
time, of care and anxiety of friends, it
may be of DEATHS not this and this re-
suit sufficient warning ?"-MacAias
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
The Biggest Texas wheat Field.

A company. of capitalists has pur-
chased 10, 1000 acres Of land on the rail
road at Vista, and will convert the en-
tire body into n immense wheat-feld.
Much Of tho land can be broken this
winter. Twelve gang-plows have been.
ordered, and the breaking of the land
will commence as soon as these arrive.
"A wheat:ield ten Thousand acres in ex-
tent is so far unknown in Texas. San
AntonSo Express.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-12
VIA Makes Raauty2

"Wha makes beauty?" is the ques.
ton asked by the London Spectator.
Beauty is a result Of race, Of circum-
stances, such IS personal freedom and
mode of life, and Of continuous diet, not
of intelligence, and still less of the &C
QUESTION of knowledge. which latter
a benefit only the individual whose
features arc fixed past serious change
before study is ever begun. A man or
a woman inherits his or her face, and
mental habitude, though it may affect
its meaning, cannot alter its shape. IL
may ven be doubted, strange as many
will deem the assertion, whether con
tinuous education will produce beauty,
whether the growth Of intelli ,ence will
even in ages yield the physical result
which we notice the authors OF Utopias
always assume, as if i, we're q scientific
ally demonstrable consequence of the
new society.
The most beautiful black race in
Africa. a tribe in NyassaIand, on whose
looks even missionaries grow eloquent,
and who are really as perfect as bronze
statues, are as ignorant as fishes, and
though they have discovered the use OF
fire, have never risen to the conception
of clothes OF any kind. The Otaheitan,
when discovered, was as uncultured as
the Papuan now is; yet the former APP
proach as nearly to positive beauty as
the latter does to positive deformity.
The keene t race in Asia. and, as all
who know them assert, the strongest in
character, the Chinese, is decidedly the
Hgllest Of semi-ciYflized mankind. while
the Hindoo, if sufficiently fed, is, even
when u ignorant as an animal, almost
invariably handsome.
The CIreassians. who know nothing,
and are rastef tupidt than exceptionally
race. far rn1.s 20 the Germans,
who thgugh IA hest sfsned people in
tiae world, dispio5 a romraou-
moss Of feature, as i the gas~ culptor,