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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19
why Are They Disconcertcd7

Did you ever notice the conduct of.
a man who is forced by circumstances
to. enter a fashionable millinery store
unaccompanied byafemalc, bodyguardP
If not it will be found entertaining.
His fellow-men will laugh at him. 1t
is one of the few positions in which
niasculinity is wholly-at the mercy of
the fair SEX. Said a wcll-known mill
iner the other day:
sit may appear Incredible. but |
have seen men-men who have led in
battle. who habitually mount the ros-
trum. who pass their lives in constant
friction with their fellows, or who en-
Joy a reputation as favorites among
women in society-enter this place
alone to execute commissions for their
wives, and fall suddenly into the con-
dition of great, bashful, overgrown
scholboys when called upon to face the
girls and speak a piece
why is itp" That's a metaphysical
problem. But there is always some-
thing in the atmosphere of q place de-
voted exclusively to the labor and
personal adornment of women which
painfully disconcerts a man unless he
Sis attended by his wife; and even then
.heis by no means atliis ease. As an
instance of this. a gentleman of &C.
knowledged nerve and prominent in
national politics came in here recently
'to order a bonnet for his wife, to be
sent home on approval. Before he left
] was really sorry for him. Anumbel
of sladies were trying on hats, and he
became SO nervous that | firmly believe
he didn't Know the colors or the price
of the bonnet he selected. He KEEP
sfdgeting and glancing about him likt
a thief, and when his business wa
concluded made a dash for the dool
without leaving the address, SO ! haC
to call him back. / shouldn't wonder
if he took a drink to steady himsel
when he got outside.
"Its queer thing, isn't itp"-
Chicago Journal.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19
Not Much OF a Success.

A Toledo man bought a shotgun, SO
cents worth Of poison, half abushel of
corn. aud spent three days time trying
to rid his place Of English sparrows.
He killed two, and twenty others came
to4take their place.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

Theremains ofthe ballclub which went
over to Spearfish yesterday to do up the
Normal School Kids, returned about 4
o'clock this morning coming into town
the back way. We were informed by q
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

"a picture of Japanese life drawn by
Prof. Morse shows such a pleasant re-
.lation existing between the human
and the brute creation that no society
for the prevention Of cruelty toani-
malls is'needed.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19
P0R 4 Nov DEAL.
The People Demand New Men
as Well as New Measures.
AlLyRINa PROMISES WON'T DO

NFl~ fEEM NAn
Why Et Is Easier to March the Reform
Army Under Its Own Banner Than to
Divide It Under Old Party Leaders.
The Old Parties May be Forced to
Change Platforms but Not Leaders.
copyright. 1901, by the Reform Press News
Association
The Vermont Farmers league held a
great meeting at Montpelier The other
day at which public grievances and other
political questions were vigorously dis
cussed. Some Of the demands which
were formulated were the same as those
made at Ocala and Omaha, and some
were different. The sub-treasury plan,
for instance, was not fayorably received.
But what of it? The essential fact is
that the farmers of Vermont and of New
England, yes, and the laborers of that
section, too, are sick and tired Of the
manner in which the public affairs Of
this country are administered They
have been robbed and deceived and bull
dozed long enough. They believe the
time has come for a new deal. And this
brings me to a point which is often lost
sight Of in the great agitation which is
arousing the country.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

The impending revolution is as much
a revolt against leaders as against mea
ures. Both the old parties have got out
Of the hands of the people. They no
longer represent the will of the majority
of their members. They are controlled
absolutely by rings Of politicians and
Office holders, who ignore or defy the
common people. The Democratic ina
chine and the Republican "machine'
are twin oligarchies. In slang phrase.
the people are mot in it" So complete
is the control Of both machines in the
hands of the money power and other
corrupt influences, that the only hope of
an outraged people seems to, lie in a po-
litical revolution. 1t appears to be cas-
Ter for the people to regain the scepter
Of power by the creation Of a new party
than by the capture of either Of the old
ones.
."-." 49,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

Gen. Booths efforts to establish in
dustrial colonies for the London poor
have been crowned with success and Il
practical test OF his project is soon to
be made. The first colony is to be es-
tablished at Hudleish, near South End,
Essex.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

London is threatened with q wide
spread strike OF busmen, cab drivers and
train drivers.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

Mcclure Bros. are making arrange
ments to enlarge and greatly improve
their residence.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

Some towns in Florida ship oyer 600
bushels of straw berries per day. They
net the producer about Sc per bushel.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

Prof, Edward Bemis, in the New York
Independent, discusses in a very practi-
cal way the question OF municipal gas
ownership. From a thorough examl-
nation OF nine cities where the gas is fur
nished by the municipality compared
with others. where gas is furnished by
corporations, he ascertains that a city
can furnish it's own gas from twenty-five
to fifty per cent cheaper than it can be
furnished by a corporation.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

So many paupers have been sent to
this country from Europe, that the
state department at Washington has
decided to act with decision and vigor
for the prohibition OF the immigration
evil. A commission will visit Europe
and submit their discoveries and trans
actions to the foreign governments,
showing the fact which caused our gov
eminent to return SO many immigrants.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

Do not expect the partisan to enact
laws or measures of relief in the interest
of the people unless they first serve his
party. Heretofore the worker has been
tied to the chariot wheels Of his party,
it's collar has enclrcled his neck. It's lash
has whipped him into servile OBJ dience
to the dictates OF the "boss', and as q
consequence, monopoly has fattened
upon the proceeds Of labor, while labors
hands have cast the votes that gave it
power to steal the earnings OF men.-T.
V. Powderly.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19
KNIGHTS OF LABOR COLUMNS.
Edited BY James H. Wilkinson.

d~isinterested party who witnessed the
game, that upon the arrivalof the would
be-ball-playersin Spearish, they went to
"a first-class hotel iubilant over doing up
the poor little Normal boys, but when
they wereintroduced to the Barnes Bros ,
the pansies, o where we're they? Ask the
little school boys Of Spearfish. Tlieir,
faces became so long that their BARRIERS
charged them an extra quarter for a
shave. But still they did not give up all
hopesSof winning the game, and sailed
forth to meet their foes in fear and trem-
bling. They managed to get in a few
talhes during the first fouror five innings,
but after that it was craps all the way
through the game, while the little boys
played ball and at the same time looked
over the afternoon papers in order to
interest themselves. The Pansles sue
ceeded in making their escape and re.
turned home, not flushed with the spoils
81 victory but full OF Disappointment,
lchagrin and stale beer.-Deadwood In
| dependent.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19
rHE MORTGAGE

taaNEt%sZsL INN IE1hS
We worked through spring and winter, through
But the mortgageW0fked the hardest and the
steadiest Of all.
It worked on nights and Sundays; 1t worked.
each holiday:
Whatever sss We kept from it seemed always 9
\ swatched y every minute and ruled US right
The rust and bright was with us sometimes,
and sometimes not,
The dark-browed, scowling mortgage was for
ever on the spot.
The weevil and the cut-worm, they went as well
The mortgage staid for ever, eating hearty all
the same.
II nailed mp every window, stood guard atevsry
door,
And happiness and sunshine made their home
With us no more.
'ril with failing crops and sickness we got
stalled upon the grade,
And there came q dark day OF rs when the In
terestrwasn't paid;
And there Game q sharp foreclosure, and the
tam was cheaply sold:
The children left and Scattered when they hard
ly yet were grown;
Ny wife, she pinned and perisheds and I found
What she died OF was q "mystery" the doctors
But l knew she died Of mortgase-ius as we'll
Tito trace . hidden sorrow were within q doc.
tors art,
They'd found a mortgage lying onthat woman's
broken heart. g.
Worm or beetle. drouth or tempest, on q farm
er's land may fall,
But for first class ruination, trust q mortgage
'ganinst them all.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

The failure ofcropsin Europe, and the
realization of bountiful harvest in the
northwest, will put that whole commu
nifty upon it's feet-business men as wei
as farmers.-Weekly Republican.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

Leslie Jacoby, formerly Of this city,
has secured a position in the First Ma
tional bank Of Chicago,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

O'Neill & Co., have arranged to build
a barn in the real of their grocery store.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

1iscnarge untalthfuI servants and en-
ploy new mes The old ones viii change
their professions twice day If necessary
70 hold their places That won't do.
The people Of this country demand q
new deal, or l misjudge al the signs Of
the times. a. r. CHAMBERLAIN.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

The increase OF the public debt during
May amounted to $622,915.57. Tota.
cash in the treasury is $697 OFT ,366.O7
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

At a meeting OF the Normal board OF
trustees held Wednesday morning, a
majority OF the board being present, the
following faculty WAS elected for the Ell.
suing year: Prof. F. L. Cook, principle:
assistants, Misses Margaret A. Thomp'
son, Cheshire Gowdy, Martha NJ. Will,
Jams, Mona Culbertson, Myra Call and
Isabella Garghill. It will be seen that,
with the exception OF Miss Garghill, all
arr membere of the old faculty, whose
ability is unquesticned, unexcelled. The
school is to be congratulated on the re
tention OF these tried teachers, each one
OF whom has a high place in the re-
gard OF the students and friends of the
school.-Spearfish Register.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

Would it not have been better II ma
had been made q mere automaton, like
q piece OF mechanicism, = watch. or a
clock, to be wound up and run regu-
larry, without any will OF his own, until
he runs down and his existence ceases?
In Europe, and more especially in the
great manufacturing c%enters, man is be-
coming more and more a mere machine
and is employed solely because he iscap-
able OF working in certain lines where he
has not already been displaced by ma
chinery. As our country grows older
and our cities increase in numbers and
population we will gradually become
similar in condition and circumstances
to the more advanced portion Of the
old world, and it is only by having q
better system Of Jurisprudence, and
more intelligence among the masses, that
we can hope for any better social con-
ditions than now exist in SO many
European countries. The south before
the war did all in its power to prevent
the slaves from obtaining q an educa-
ton, alleging that a true knowledge o.
their condition filed their minds with
dlscontent and melted them to make an
effort to better their condition. So
there are capitalists today who care
nothing for their employees educational
advantages or their social conditions OF
surroundings, butmeasure their worth
by the amount OF work they can do
The more ignorant or degraded class Of
laborers they can import the better
able are they to keep them IN subjec
ton and trample down American labor
The distinction between classes is YET
scarcely noticeable in the Black Hills
but there are men in our midst adyo
eating principles which If carried to theil
logical conclusion will in time result II
the formulating OF laws that will plac
still further burdens on the lower classe
and the men who now advocate such
course may yet livetos see their daughter
saw wood OF work in our mines wit
men the same as in Germany.
We can expect no help or aid from or
pressors. Whatever is accomplishe'
must be done by individual ffortcouple'
with intelligent cooperation with thos
in sympathy with us. If we are to DC
come slaves let us iorego every effort q
enlightenment, because any amount 9
intelligence could not reconcile ns to
condition Of slavery, but il we are to d
our part in building up the great ives
let us improve every opportunity 70
advancement. remembering, that un
i'll we make the cause Of labor such tina
we shall be glorious in defeat, we shal
not be worthy OF victory"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

Florida truck farmers have been sell
ing cabbage at 81 per acre..
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

The running race last Saturday after
noon, between Red Bird and Black Hawk
was we'll attended. Black Hawk bao
the advantage in the start but this
made little difference as he easily outrur
the mare, passing the scratch two
lengths in the lead.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

Abe Boland has returned from his trip
to the Pacific coast perfectly satisfied
that the Black Hills can't be beat.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19

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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-08
How Electricity is STORED"

The energy which current may at any
instant be said to possess is Immediately
transformed into heat in the circuit,
which will under certain conditions pro-
duce light; into chemical energy into
motion, which may or may not produce
sound; or into magnetic and electrotonic
conditions. The last may either be per-
mancnt or have the same cvanesccnt ex-
istencc as the original current.
When electricity is employed to charge
storage battery, only that part which is
transformed into chemical energy is
used, The rest is dissipated. The bat
terry, then, instead of being place where
electricity is laid away, is place where
chemicals are left by the current, with
the expectation that they will in turn
produce a current when called upon.
This may seem fine distinction, but it
is only apparently so. For instance,
the current might be produced by a dy.
namo turned by Niagara water power.
The chemical left by it might be zinc
deposited from Il solution of zinc sui
phate. This might be transported. pre-
served, bought and sold, and finally be
employed by some physicist to produce
another current Were the electricity
itself stored in its original form, then
the imaginative reader can best tell what
would become of it and how it must be
handled. - Popular Science Monthly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-08
Suicide by Diamonds.

1t is gratifying to see that some of the
pleasant old customs and incidents
which find mention in the "Arabian
Nights" still linger here and there in the
once gorgeous but now prosaic cast.
For some reason or other, the Maharajah
of Indore took it into his august head to
be displeased with his Dewan, the illus
trious Shamrao Narain. Now, the frown
of Maharajahs is SO terrible that people
have been known to die of it, with all the
appearance of being poisoned. =. Appar-
emily dreading some such fate, the vic
tim of royal dlspleasure determined to
be his own executioner. But he owed it
to his dignity to shuttle off this mortal
coil in more gentecl manner than by
pistol, or dagger, or even ordinary
poison. 1t is not stated how long the
desparing nobleman meditatcd on that
important point. Finally, however, he
came to the conclusion that, since he had
been diamond of the first water at the
court of lndore, his exit would also be
by way of diamonds. And it was hav.
ing obtained a number of small brllants,
he ground them to powder, he swal-
lowed the dose, and died like fine old
Indian gentleman, one of the olden time.
Il London Globe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-08
History of Opium.

Opium had its origin somewhere in
southwest Asia. The medicinal properties
it possesses were recognized from very
ancient period. Two thousand years ago
and for some time later it was customary
to extract the drug from the entire plant.
From the first to the twelfth century the
only opium known TO commerccwas that
produced in Asa Minor. The poppy
was carried to India by the spread of
Mohammedanism and in the provinces
of Bengal and Malwa the growing of it
became subsequently proprietary right
of the Great Mogul, who regularly farmed
out the privilege. The plant was intro
duccd to China by the Arabs later on.
In India, however, the monopoly of its
cultivation passed in 1867 into the hands
of the East India Company through Lord
Gives victory ut Plassey. From that
time to this opium has been an enormous
source of revenue to England from India.
The Emperor of China tried his best to
exclude its expectation to his kingdom,
even issuing edicts against the smoking
of opium, disobedience of which was
punishable by transportation or death.
Nevertheless, so rapidly did the vice
spread in the flowery land that, whereas
up to nearly the close of the eighteenth
century the importation of opium from
India into China amounted to only 200
chests, by 1920 it had amounted to II, 900
chests. In 1889 the Chinese emperor
made u proclamation threatening hostili-
ties in case English opium ships serving
as depots for the drug were not sent
away. At the same time 20, 200 chests
full were seized and destroyed. Each
chest contained about $50 pounds and
the value of the merchandise thus wiped
out was about $40, 900, 900. The British
tried to smuggle cargoes ashore and war
resulted, the outcome of which was that
Great Britain compelled China by a
treaty signed in 1912 to admit the drug
to Celestial ports. From that time until
to day, despite the protests of the Chin
csc government, exports of opium from
India to China have steadily increased.
Il Washington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-08
How Money Was Invented.

The familiar little brass cash, with the
square hole for stringing them together
on thread in the center, well known to
the frequenters of minor provincial mu
seums, are, strange to say, the lineal de-
scendants, in unbroken order, of the
bronze AK of remote celestial ancestors.
From the regular hatchet to the modern
coin, one can trac! distinct, if some
what broken, succession, so that it is inn
possible to say where the one leaves off
and the other begins-where the imple-
ment merges into the medium of eX-
change and settles down finally into the
root of all evil. Here is how this curious
pedigree first worked itself out. In
early times, before coin was invented,
barter was usually conducted between
producer and consumer with metal i'm
plements, as it still is in Central Africa at
the present day with Venetian glass
beads and rolls of red calico. Payments
were all made in kind and bronze was
the commonest form of specie.
A gentleman desirous of effecting pur-
chases in foreign parts went about the
world with number of bronze axes in
his pocket (or its subsitute), which he
exchanged for other goods with the ma
tive tratfickers in the country where he
did his primitive business. At first the
early Chinese in that unsophis;icated age
were content to use real hatchets for
this commercial purpose; but after a
time, with the profound mercantile in
stinct of their race, it occurred to some
of them that when man wanted half a
hatchets worth of goods he might as
well pay for them with half n hatchet.
Still, as it would be apity to spoil Il good
working implement by cutting it in two,
the worthy All Sin ingeniously comprom-
ised the matter by making thin hatchets
of the usual size and shape, but far too
slender for practical usage. BY so doing
he invented coin, and what is more, he
invented it far earlier than the rival
claimants 10 that proud distinction, the
Lydians, whose elcctrum staters were
first struck in the seventh century B. G.
Il Cornhlll Magazine.