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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

these words: aWe hold these truths to
be s~eif-e2ident; that 4 men ars created
equal; that they aare endowed by tHstr
Creator with certain %inalienable
rights; that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit Of happi-
hess; that to secure these rights govern
mcnts are ihstitutSd amehg men, deriv-
ing their just powers FROM the sHnsent
of the governed; that when any form OF
government is destructive of these ends, it
Il this right Of the people to abolish It
and to ihstituts y tkw government. But
when a long train of abuses 8na RsHrpa-
tions, pursuing invariably the sanfa Oh:
iects, evinces a design to reduce them
under absolute despotism, it is their
fight, it is their dtty, to throw off such
government and to provide new guards
for their future sHstrity:'' Just how our
fathers abolished their Oppressive gov
erEnent is d matter OF history. But
after they had Bverthrown that base
government they, in their Wisdom, pro-
yided that their posterity should lave
other and easier methods of overthrow.
They provide the ballot as a weapon by
which it should be accomplished,
The agricultural laborers of the land
who have been despoiled of their homes
have, by O system of combined effort, set
to work to accomplish that result by the
method as given to them by the fathers,
and during tbs last campaign cast up
wards of $50. 900 fotss lii that direction,
| which has resulted in the GlettinH to the
national halls of legislation of some If
teen members, who are pledged to vote
and to Work Iii season aud out of season,
to establish q better system Of govern
ment, by the repeal of special ana op-
pressive laws and the enactment of new
ones that shall be in the interest OF the
whole people and good government.
The National Citizens alliance has
been formed for the purI ose Of accom-
plishnent of that education and organi-
cation among business men and Others
who reside in our large cities and towns,
to the end that they may cooperate end
act with the great body of agricultural
classes In our land in their effort to re
lieve the people from bondage and the
restoring of good government among
men as the fathers intended that II
should be, as expressed in the words o.
the martyred Lincoln: "a government
of the people, by the people and for tho
people," g..
And to this end We solicit the aid ant
assistance of all citizens without reg1rt
to calling and profession. And all thos'
who are so inclined can receive the nee
essary information required for the for
nation of local branches, and the neces
sary literature to become Informed upol
the principles as advocated by the or
ganization, by addressing Ralph Beau
mont, secretary of the National Citizen
alliance, 2ao North Capitol street, Wash
ington. D. G.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

seived everalreplies.
Hon, Roswell p. Fowler, the million
airs member of Congress from the
Twelfth New York District sent the sub
loined:
aWere I in your position, then I
would buy some real estate in your city.
You cannot duplicate real estate.
You can duplicate any other kind OF
security, and as the country grows
real estate will improve in value.
"You could doubtless buy q small
piece Of property that would rent for
more than enough to pay the taxes
lpon it and the interest on the mort
gage you would have to give. The sur
plus you can save, in addition to what
you are now saving out of your wages,
and you could apply II to paying OF
the mortgage. My answer, therefore,
to the first question contained in your
letter, is that real estate is the best
investment for small savings to make
them the basis of a fortune.
"Iknow Of no better way for a young
man just starting in life to become
rich than to be always sober, honest,
Industrious and economical, to be true
to his employers and himself; to save
all he can without being parsimonious,
and to invest his savings iudiciously in
the way I have indicated"
Hon. Benjamin F. Butler, the mill
ionaire manufacturer. lawyer, soldier,
and statesman, comedies with MIR. Fow-
lcr's high estimate of real estate as an
investment. as will.be seen below:
Gall the improved real estate in Bos-
ton, asa rule, has paid its interest and
taxes and quadrupled in value during
the past fifty years, while during the
same period 80 per cent. of all the mer-
chants and traders in the city have
failed, and 80 per cent. of all the bust
ness corporations have either done like.
wise Or gone out of business, so that
their stock has been wiped out. In
view of these facts I think it may be
unhesitatingly asserted that nothing
else is so safe an Investment for small!
savings as improved real estate. Moth
ing is likely to grow in value faster.
"Tou had therefore better buy a piece
of improved real estate, however small
that is paying rent. Pay in cash wha
little money you have and give YOU
notes, secured by q mortgage on thu
balance in small sums falling due q
short intervals, and then use all you
extra income from the rent of you;
property in paying them off. You neve
incur any risk in discounting your owl
notes, and when your friends find tina
you are placing your money. where !
is perfectly secure, they will be glad t
F assist you if those notes should com
;. due a little too rapidly. Thus in
: thort time, and almost before 70
know it, you will have a considerable
t and safe investment.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19
TOWN N
Tie interests of All LabOring People Are
Mutual and They Should work Together.

1nter0St6 Oh AL AAUOElnS Icopic NJ
Mutual ana They Should Work. Together.
We have a great many readers. who
reside in towns that arc taking quite an
interest in the farmers rebellion. Why
should they not? The farmers are look
ing for q way out. The overprodtction
theory advanced by the politicians does
not seem to satisfy them. The tariff
question has two sides and settles moth
ing, the panic has struck the farmer
and the town people are feeling it, and
commencing to inquire if this movement
is for the interest of the whole people. The
politicians are crying class legislation to
divert tho attention of the town people
from the real issues. Our town readers
would do we'll to give the subjects that
arc being discussed in the alliance a
thorough reading. Too long has the in
tercsts of these two classes been kept
apart. Each has been fighting the other
because of imaginary differences. When
it is well known that the laboring classes,
whether in the country or town, are
alike \ affected by the depression
caused by the m~onopolistic ten
dency of the times. 1t is not
gaeeeeeassarv to be =snecifc; we have fre-
combines on the laboring people of the
! cities and towns; the small merchant, the
grocer and manufacturer are also
affected. 1t matters not how you stand
| politically, the depression visits you as
the rain from heaven falling alike or the
| just and unjust. viii our town people
commence to study these economic
problems as the country people are
now doing. Have you no interest
in better conditions? Is there ono
of our town readers who is not effected
and would not readily join hands with
the farmers if the way was open. Tho
work of the political leaders of the lane
will have to be overcome and the tow
people will have to join hands with tho
farmers in the overthrow of the polite
ians' rule. Let the town people com
mence to agitate as the farmers arr
doing and it would take very little tim'
to bring about a Union of the laborins
classes that would remedy the evil
from which the country is now suffering
-Tifin n PJ01y 0r1 Hummer.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

The unseemly wrangles that have
marked the preliminary efforts to organ.
ize the Columbian Exposition-an-
nounced to be held in 1893 instead Of
1892, as should have been the case
will certainly work against the inter
ests of the fair and may result in some
thing very near a national disgrace.
We, on this side Of the water, under
stand how largely the rival interests of
Chicago people are responsible for the
squabble, but it will not be easy to con,
yey to the mind of the foreigner an ap-
probation of this fact. Unless he has
made q study of the political system in
this country, he will hold the United
81 G''ttas st tav,sGf rfanoNsiIhAa 5ag tbs 5AfsBs esatfr
Chicago. In fact, he will be to a degree
justified in doing this, for the reason
that the Congress of the United States
designated Chicago as the place 70,
the holding of the fair.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

IF you had a rich father who would
furnish the cash to start you in bust
uess, you would probably do better in
he long run if you invested it in the
way I have pointed out rather than to
.isk it in trade, meanwhile earning your
living by working for a salary.
"For a young man just starting out in
life, whose ambition it is to become
rich, I would say never do a mean thing
for money"
The great Barmun writes:
"The safest plan andthe one most sure
of success for the young man starting
in life is to select the vocation which is
most congenial to his tastes. He
should then be careful to keep himself
in good health, for that is the foundation
Of success in life-the substratum of
fortune. Shun rum and tobacco. You
must have a clear brain to make money.
You cannot carry on business success
fully if your brain is mEddled and your
Judgment warped by Intoxicating drink.
Keep out of debt. Debt drags a man
down more than anything else. It de-
stroys his self-respect and makes him
almost despicable in his own eyes.
"Put what money you have and oil
you may save in the future at interest
where it will be we'll secured. Real
estate is the most safe Of all invest
ments. Money at interest, with good
security, will work more faithfully than
anything else in the world. Ii never
stops, day or night, 40 matter if the
weather be wet CT dry.
Engage in n kind of business
only, and stick to it faithfully till you
succeed, OF until your experience shows
You that you should abandon it. What
ever you engage in make it your con-
slant aim to be and to have the very
best in your line. When sure you are
in the right path persevere.
"To make money dishonesty is the
hardest thing in life. Therefore pre-
serve your integrity. Remember that
the road to wealth lies in expanding
less than we earn"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

The modern ocean steamer is an en-
ormous craft. Those of the larger
size have as many as ffty-four
furnaces, which create steam in nine
enormous steam boilers. There are six
furnaces to each boiler, and ten fire.
men to each furnace-or sixty fremen
in all. Only half of them are on duty
at once-thirty at a time-the shifts
changing every four hours. They feed
the furnaces with fifteen tons of coal an
hour-two tons for each fireman dur
ing his four-hours' shift, or $40 tons a day
for the steamer. The work of a fire.
man is hard, and not relieved by a sight
of sea, sky or land. He is a sort OF
prisoner in a heated dungeon. The
pay of a fireman is 500 a month. His
life-between heat, exposure and riot
GUS dissipation when ashore-is short.
The maximum age of the class is As
years.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19
Carrying Religion Into business.

Youth have called for the amateur
photograph Gamers l selected this morn
ing.
Photograph Supply Clerk "a member
of the Y, NJ g. A)-Here it is, sir, al.
ready for you. Takeit, my friend; but
remember that every profane word you
utter will be recorded aboye.-New
York Weekly.
THERE is q missionary work for every
one. The man VIII, has tailed at every
thing else might avepmTii j good by
going through lie wsrtd with the word
kFRiluyen painted on his back,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

IT has been estimated that the vol
ume Of water poured into the Rio de la
Plata exceeds the aggregate discharge Of
all the rivers Of Europe put together.
It's ordinary flow at some points is 10O,-
600 cubic feet persecond. The ordinary
volume Of water in the Uruguay
River averages II, 900, 900 cubic feet
per minute.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19
Lincoln as a peaocmaker.

The Rev. DIR. ". N. Miner, of Tren-
ton, N. j., relates an anecdote of Abra-
ham Lincoln which places him among
The peacemakers. DR.. Miner was q res.
ident of Springfield, and gives the mar
rative in the words of another resident:
II had some trouble with a neighbour,
and l determined to go to law with him.
When l got to Lincoln's Office I found
my opponent was already there and had
stated his ca:e. ! told my side of the
story, and Lincolon then said: You
have q good case to go 10 court; but if
you do you will lose all your money and
make yourselves lifelong enemies. Why
don't yon settle the matter right here?'
We argued for some time without COM
ing to an agreement, and finally
Lincoln said: Well, I'm going to dir
ner. Try and settle it before l get
back; and in order tiiaS you may not
be disturbed. I'll lock the door. He
locked us in and left MS there, but when
he returned We had compromised our
front. e."-Thitddelphid Ledger.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

IsMA1L PASTA, the ex-Khedive, whose
extravaganza ruined Egypt and neces-
STATED his recall, has now applied to the
Sultan for $50, 900 to enable him to buy
furniture for his palace at STEAMBOAT.
There is nothing close about Ismail Of
long as his friends settle the bills.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

IT appears from the souvenirs Of the
Baron de Barante which are about to
be published, that Talleyrand fed to
America menanced by the reign of ter
TOR, his worldly wealth consisting of Is
louis doris, aud that Nine. de Stael
prevented him from committing suicide
by obtaining for him a post.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

KoLIER-sKAT1Na is to be introduced
into fashionable Boston society. The
Hub evidently feels the need of relax
alton after the severe mental strain con-
sequent upon the Browning and Toll
stoi fads.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

A KANSAS man sunk a shaft on his
farm the other day, and in going down
100 feet it is said struck two fve-foot
veins Of mineral paint, a ten-foot stra-
tum Of brick clay, a twenty-inch vein
of coal, and a fve-foot stratum OF
~o,l1,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

ANEaaEss named Caroline jenkins,
living near Houston, Texas, is a verit-
able Samson. Four police officers
went to arrest her, when she took them
one by one and threw them out of the
house and locked the doors upon them.
She can break a half-inch rope with
ease by stretching it from hand to
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

The Detroit Press says: "If a boy
fifteen years of age should be left ten
acres Of land in Michigan, and his
guardian should cover it with hickory
trees, the income of the boy when he
came to be thirty years old would be
from $1,000 to $1,000 clean cash off
his little farm"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

UNCLE SAM is pretty liberal minded
in regard to names of towns and post
offices, but when the State of Wash
ington hobbed up with: "Caughtajack-
assrabbitthere" it was decided that
the name had better be changed to
plain "Hopeville."
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

DR.. HELEN L. Belts, of Boston, is
the first woman physician chosen to
visit the laboratory of Prof. Koch. Of
Berlin, for the purpose of investigating
his discovery. She has been delegated
by the Woman's Medical College of
Pennsylvania, of which she is a gradu-
otto .....
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

The people of Japan are not insen-
sible to the requirements of station in
life. A native paper proves it in this
news-item: A nun (Buddhist) at
Sin-hui, having had the misfortune to
be afflicted with twins, the Deighbors
compelled her to expend a small for
tune in frecrackers to clear the atmos-
phere of the scandal.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19
ANTIQUITY OF THE CORSET.
Ancient Danes Fully as Foollsh as Mod.
orns Ever Can Be.

Ahcieht OameS FuIIy as FQ0Ilsh rs MOu-
erns Ever Can Be.
The origin of that much maligned
femininity, the corset, takes us back
into ancient history. Investigation
proves that the taste for slender waists
was manifested by women and men in
athe remote periods of the worlds his.
tory. Homer appears to be the first
who describes an article of female ap.
parel closely allied to the corset.
According to u writer of the genera
ton Just passed, it was Homer who
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

A DROVE of hogs in Hudson, Mich,
became intoxicated by drinking the
scum from q sorghum factory, and in
the orgies which followed one hog was
drowned by the gay debauches.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

SOME New Workers in good standing
outside Of the 400 believe that Ward
McA4hster is . myth created by .
clever Bohemian. In this case fact is
stranger than fiction.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19
IT may be interesting to the "commol

IT may be interesting to the common
people to know that a syndicate OF
capitalists wv and manage a farm OF
extends 100 miles north and south and
aa5 miles east and west, and is operated
entirely by steam machinery. Each
laborer plows and cuitivates on an aver
age ten acres a day. for which he re
5ceiyas about - cents. Talk ahoat
Ireland!-HsR.nils 3 l(.lIe,l #E},f9a BE,
The i7.aeier issf I'd 10 haIanseot
pospI z, in ~ a.Slasitra dad |
MOB s ~ lied
atlE locks VI r & s,5or are worn perfsoily
plRip. II - tho Qo1s t.aAt u banged
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

In the last nine Presidential cleo
tions New York went Republican six
times and Democratic three times. In
the same elections Indiana went Re-
publican six times and Democratic
three times.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

The American Agr;culturist says
that seven out of ten barns burned by
tramps" are actually set on fire by the
pipe Of the farmer himself. He knows
the danger of working in the barn with
pipe in his mouth, but he risks it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

Dh CARL E1GENMAFN has been col
lscting fish in San Diego for some
years. In making up q collection re-
gently for theBritish Museum he found
: new specimen Of herring that has
pocket membranes for slipping in the
dcrs ! pectoral and ventral fms. The
scsls. are large, the eyes have . CLASSY
coye-ing and most Of the head is trans
narAnk
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

A RICH man in st. Petersburg died,
leaving an order that his sealed will
should be opened twelve months after
his death. When opened it contained
smother scaled packet, with instruc-
tions that it must not be opened for a
year. The will had even seals, the
last one o (which has only been broken
although the testator died six years
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19
MILLIONAlRES AND PAUpERS

1t is a mercy that McAllister's book
descriptive of the 400 millionaires of New
York city-is too expensive for the poor
to buy, and that most of them are too
stupefied by poverty to understand its
significance, for it is a better revolution
airy document than Prince Kropotlkin or
John Most ever wrote. or could wNtc.
Some time ago a man threw o stone
through one of Delmonico's windows.
and when he was arrested he SAID the
sight of SO many persons eating crazed
him for the moment. OF course nothing
was accomplished by breaking the win
dow, except to get himself arrested, but
the incident shows what a hungry man
will do in the sight Of food that is no
for him.
McAllister's book might act that way
on the slaves who enrich the 400 mil
.lionaires if it eve should circulate
among them, for in that book. as through
a window, they could see what is done
with some of the money that is legislatcd
away from them.
Let US hope that the people will grow
sane enough to effect such changes in
our social arrangements that no man
can have much. without working some,
and that no mai who works even q little
shall be destitute. Then society will no
longer be infested with tramps or Nc
AlliSterS.-YUcrltiGub Century.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

EIGHT HUNDRED salesgirls in Berlin
belong to a union which has had re-
markable success. For ten cents a
month they receive medical care, medi-
cine, and help in getting work. The
organization was started by a woman's
club in that city.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

BEFORE the railroads and street cars
we're in use in India there were
v different castles in cities like
Bombay which could not ride in the
same vehicle with each other. This has
all been knocked in the head, and the
only struggle between them is to get
the best seat.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

The English dinner hour has been
getting later during the whole Of the
present century. When the Queen
married it vast o'clock. She now dimes
turn it back to 7:30is supplemented
by an appeal for dancing to begin at 8,
and finish at l.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19
More specle BASIS Money.

There is another trade dollar swindle
in the financial incubator. 1t is a plan
to coin a t:ran-American dollar for use
in the CentrH! American nations. just as
the trade dollars were made for nse in
Japan. 1t is not % be a legal tender
anywherG-oh. IL! that would spoil the
little gLme-but merely a convenience
Of trade. They might be paid out In
Central and South America for sugar,
coffee, ETC., but they would soon come
back in the purchase Of implements,
flour, etc. Once in the hands of the pub.
lie a discount of 25 or so per cent.
would be established and the ''hon.
est %tinancier'' harvest a few million more.
-OsWego (Kdn.) Statesman.
IF there is a starving child in the
country tonight; if there is a girl or
woman whom poverty has driven into
evil: if there is an honest laborer denied
the privilege of earning an honest living;
if there is a criminal made SO by stress
Of circumstances, a,large share of tbs
blame lies at the door of laboring men
who still continue to vote for a financial
policy. that has placed so per cent.
of the country's wealth in the hands OF
less than one per cent. Of the people
Winfield (Kah.) Nonco1Jormist.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-19

MILE given warn in the morning is
an excellent inyigorstor for laying
hens. II may also be given at any time.
and the skim-milk will answer as we'll.
All the soft food Of laying hens can be
mixed With milk in preference to-
water, and With advantage, as milk is
Q heterogeneous Substance, and assists in
providing this elements that compose