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The Portland daily press., 1891-12-18
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Beecham's Pills act like magic on weak
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-18
"JUST WHAT | WANT. ("

There are also a line of odd
Parlor Stoves, one or two of a
kind, little out Of date, but the
price will offset that part Of it.
HOusekeepers can do them
selves and us a great favor by
making purchases within the
next ten days.
We would certainly rather give
them the profit ON the goods than
move them second time.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-18
HOLIDAY GOODS
III ow Q o en-!
MILLETT, EVANS 6 CO.

We have now open for Christmas the finest vari.
ETY. of we have ever displayed, comprising Dress
Goods i'm all grades, Silks i'm CUlOrs and Black
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18

had been against her. She was so
pretty and sweet to look at, and appar-
emily SO fresh and innocent, that / felt
irresistibiy drawn toward her. and
watched day after day as she became
more and more accustomed to the un-
healthy moral atmosphere she was
breathing. 1t seemed to take the
freshness from her face, which became
flushed and red with excitement, while
her eyes lost their shy, modest look,
and met the eyes of those around her
unhesltatingly. How l pitied her, for
l knew that no girl could sit at the
gambling table, side by side and
shoulder to shoulder with some OF the
worst men and women in the world.
and leave the place as pure as she
entered.
Beside her was her mother, with q
face more like a madonna than a gam.
bier at Monte Carlo. And there they
were, day after day, and night after
night, and when Sunday came there
was not in church a more devout wor-
shipper than that young girl whom for
days II o'clock in the morning and II
o'clock at night had found at the gam
ing table, and, saddest of all, I heard
she was there again on Sunday after
noon, almost before the prayer she had
said in the morning had died upon her
lips. At Monte Carlo there is no Sun
day so far as the Casino is concerned.
The concerts, which are free, and the
play go on as usual. The trains come
loaded from Nice and Mentone, and
the tables are just as crowded with
anxious, feverish, excited people as if
there were no God and no commando
ment to keep his Sabbath holy
Springfield Republican.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
He Got the Tree.

Say, ma said Tommy, s'aren't.we 10.
Ing TO have q Christmas tree this year?o
NO. Tommy answered his mother, II
haven't time to attend to it this year, and
your father is 80 busy that he will not have
time to fix it up either"
Tommy was silent for some time. then
he went over and sat on q footstool beside
his mother, who was doing some fancy
needlework.
"Say, ma" said Tommy meekly, after a
long pause. Seeing that her son was not
inclined toefinish the sentence she said
kindly:
"We1l, Tommy?n
He rested his elbow on her lap and lean.
ing his head on his hand he watched her
fingers working dexterously for a few sec.
onds, then he continued slowly:
Say, ma, you told me / mustn't fight,
didn't you?"
"Icertainly did, Tommy"
well, say, ma, you know Jimmy Jones,
what lives across the street,"
"Yes,"
"Well, / was talking with him y~este'day
and he said It his mother was nicer'n mine,
an 1 sed It she wasn't, and then we got to
fghtin, an say, ma, you won't be mad If I
licked him, will you? An l told hint
my mother was the incest looking lady in
the street, an don't you forget it, an 1 said
t mother wasn't old and wrinkled like his
mother was, an he said It his mother was
more generous'n mine, an It she was going
to fix him up a nice Christmas tree, an
then | couldn't help it, ma, an 1 licked him.
some more, and just then a big policeman
came along an said It he'd run us both in
if we didn't stop fighting, amp
But his mother had got up from her
chair by this time. She called Bridget and
told her to go to the grocery store and or
der a nice Christmas tree-the incest one
they had.-New York Tribune.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
Rapid City, South Dakota.

pieces IS a neat card setting forth the
advantages of gum from a sanitary
standpoint. 1t reads: Dyspepsia,
which is so prevalent in America, is
caused solely by a lack of saliva as
simulated with The food, due to the fact
that Americans eat too much and too
rapidly. The act of chewing gum
stimulates the salivary glands, and, by
giving to the food taken its proper
quota OF saliva, greatly aids digestion
and positively prevents dyspepsia"
The lecture published by the emf
nent scientist quoted above refutes the
statements of the chewing-gum maker,
and asserts that the daily morsel is q
dangerous enemy to womankind, al
most as great an evil as rum is to man
kind. Fair maidens are turned into
human wrecks, and irreparable dam
age to the system is done by the con-
slant use of chewing gum. Rosy
cheeks are made hollow and sallow,
and cute dimples are transformed into
wrinkles, while deep lines are drawn
around the once beautiful eyes. The
lecturer says: 1.-The constant exertion
of the masseter muscle hardens it, and
removes the fatty substance which con-
duces to roundness. Not only is the
~fullness of the cheek destroyed. but
there is a great tendency to wrinkling
of the skin, a natural result of the fall
ing away of the parts beneath it"
The doctor uses many other argu-
ments equally convincing, and when
they are placed before the ladies;
properly the demand for gum will be
emf off very materially
The output of chewing gum is, ac-
cording to the Philadelphia Record,
very large. One New York house
turns out daily, in small parcels of one
dozen pieces. a quantity that in bulk
would make nearly three tons. This
house makes the brand which meets
with special favor in the eyes of So
ciety people. There are many smaller
manufactures, all located in Boston,
New York and Philadelphia, and the
entire daily production is between five
and six tons.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
Some Good Advice.

DR.. Lucy M. Hall writes: I wish thu
American women would do as the
European women do when they go 70
the theatre, and that is, get up and
walk about, chat, and visit with
acquaintance, and get their blood In
to circulation between the acts. Why.
it's perfectly abominable, this sitting
cramHed up in a chair for three hours
without stirring. To me it denotes d
lack of comprehension ofone's physical
needs. Ihave no words OF reproack
for those men who 60 out between the
acts. I know there are some men who
avoid as much as possible taxing i
lady to the theatre solely because they
dread having 10 sit still from the be-
ginning to the end of the play. But
if ! were present at the theatre with q
gentleman I should tell him to 20 ont
and get exercise. for that what Is j do
myself whenI go, which, however, Il
seldom.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
DON'T CHEW GUM, GIRLS.
1t Is a Silly Habit, Injurious to Health and
Beauty.

"Girls. if you would have plump and
rosy cheeks, don't chew gum" are the
opening words of a lecture just issued
by a distinguished professor on the
evils of chewing gum, Il habit which
just now has taken a strong Lold on
the girls of the land.
The fashionable young lady consid-
ers a package of daintily-arianged
chewing gum as a very necessary part
of her wardrobe, and when the .'in-
the-swim young man. wants to make
his best girl a present he gives her a
little silver box, more dainty even than
tie gum itself, and from this the miss
is pleased to hand around the gum to
her afternoon callers.
Ayoung lady and her tolu are in
separable. On the beach and in the
bath it is with her, and eye in the
folds of her scant evening dress it may
always be found. The gum habit has
spread over the entire land, and the
California girl uses it, as does also the
New York belle, for Dame Fashion has
deereed it. 4
The gum in attractive pack.
ages, tied in delicate ribbons, and CON
tanned in each bundle of one dozen
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
My Brave Soldier Boy.

ny t~hree-year-old Robert has eyes. so blue,
And soft siiken hair of a golden hue,
With which l love to toy,
While I tell him tales of the great and good,
And show him the picturs ri one who stood
A true brave soldier boy;
That he should have ever the courage to
AS well as tn" lesser COURAGE TO dare"
WUula I've his mother joy
mus IN earnest honght, as aF:iinst my knee
he lealis tni Listens, he says, Il will be
Your trhvc soldier 10y"
10 my heart ] cl"sp him. Then bid him run
His brother I" find. nrd have "some fun
With 'leir last rev l., ok or toy.
With n smile he goes. willie I. Lending low
Entreut our kind God he way to show
10 my W brave soldier boy.
The Romans loved war-and in days of old
When their lcgions went forth, meath their
eagles so bold,
The temple OF Janus stood open wide
That the world might know, So great was the
or the Roman soldier boyl
In Peace it was closcd-thcsc days were few:
Their arms would clash-and they never
True rest without alley
Sony nursery had peace-al sound was
hushed:
When-the door was thrown open, and out
there rushed
My angry soldier boy!
With a stormy brow-tHis !, rothcr came too
70 MOTHER" he cried. 'oh! what shall l do2
lie took my Inst new toy,
l struck him; you see it is mine by right;'
His hands We're c!ii.chell-he locked fun Of
fight.
My wrathful soldier boy?
10 the courage to hear no gave no thought;
Tbs courage to dare" was oil his-ho sought
Force only to employ
That wos wrong," l said,-"I'm sorry to
know
You're not what / thought you n moment ago,
My true brave so dier b0y!"
He quivered-he trembled-he cried aloud
II am! l ami" He paused and looked proud
AS he said-..You keep the toy
Dear Brother! I'm sorry? Now, Mother, III
try
Always to be gooa-so tell ,ne-am I
Still your own brave soldier boyv"
You are indeed, my darling child
Again to my heart'-it is tnrobiing wild
With a mother's Iurrst Joy
God give us all the true courage to dare
And what we need mo, G, tho right courage I o
bear"
Like my own brave soldier boy1r
Good Housekeeping.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
C. Haines, prop'r.

yere thinks he kin take the twist out
of my coat-tails!"
If there was he didn't come to the
front.
Hands down."
Every hand dropped.
"Im a taking up a collection fur the
benefit of Bill Jackson's wilder, any,
body who feels like contributing will
be afforded an opportunity"
We all felt like it. Indeed, every
mar was anxious to part with a dollar
or two. l saw four errors killed in that
town, each n dying with his boots
on, and ! was giving one of them a
drink of water when he shivered,
took a long breath, and died as he
said:
II was a-tryin' to git up to ten, and
hev stopped short at seven. 1 could
tally eight on you, but I've lost my
popper!"
/ followed the Terror to Laramie,
and many an evening as l sat in the
office of the hotel he entered, with
cat-like tread, and opened a sudden
fussillade on lamps, keyboard, cell
ing, and doors, observing at the fms:
"Scuse me gentlemen, but it's Just
my way. If any of you don't happen
TO like my way, please mention it!m
We always made haste to assure him
that his way was Al, full jeweled, and
extremely pleasant. and that we would
feel honored if he drank at our ex-
pense. One night Il boy from Ne
braska, who IA strange to our ways.
and who had his a barked by a bull
let, hauled out and plugged the Terror
plumb center. He expressed his sor-
row when too late. I had my coat
under the Terror's head when the DEATH
rattle came to his throat, and he
whispered:
'tIt's mighty queer, isn't itP i allus
I had dropped in tonight to fill you
full of lead"
followed the Terror up the Gunnison
valley. He was getting attenuated
and losing his sand. When he had a
street row he sheltered himself behind
a post. and when he 'let go' in a sa-
loon there was a suspicious uncer-
tainty in his tones as he clicked his
guns and said:
'.l'm just q waiting fur some kyote
TO move an eyelash or STIR his tongue!"
We not only moved, but we even
ventured to offer him advice, and by
and by the day came when l turned a
,orner to find him dying at my feet.
I was loosening his neckband as he
opened his eyes and said:
a4Downed by burned bullwhacker,
who didn't know which end of his pis-
toa went OFF,
I met the Terror for the last time at
Custer City. | was sitting in a saloon
when the door was kicked open with
a great crash. and he appeared with a
revolver in either hand. He had long
hair, a big hat, and a buckskin suit.
He hungered for gore-not the sort
a~dulterated with cottonseed oil and
warranted No. 1, but the red blood
fresh from the human system and
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
THE B~OYD-THAYER CASE.


Ns!>aaska's Gubernatorial Contest Ar
gucd Before the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Into the hands
of the supreme court of the United
States the question of who is rightfully
governor of Nebraska was placed. The
arguments in the case occupied just four
hours. The argument was opened by
General j.. c. Gown, attorney for Boyd.
His presentation consisted largely in
citations Of constitutional and other
provisions under which Mr.. Boyd had
become a citizen by the natural opera
ton of time and the exercise of rights in
the duty Of public Office and citizenship.
He argued with great force the claim
that the admission of the territory Of
Nebraska into statehood made each in
habitant of the territory a citizen of the
United States as well as Of the state of
Nebraska.
Henry D. Estabrooke, also attorney
for Boyd, argued that Boyd became a
citizen through the relation back to tho
time of declaration of intention, of the
granting in 1890 of final naturalization
papers to Boyd's father, and that the
completed transaction takes effect as Of
the day drawn, 1890. Naturalization,
he held, was in the nature of a contract
in which the granting Of final papers con-
stitute assistance on the part of the gov
eminent. He also argued that the con-
scription act Of 1913, making all persons
who had declared their intention to be-
come citizens Of the United States
amenable to military duty, had the effect
Of comforting citizenship upon Boyd and
his father.
The argument in behalf Of Thayer was
opened by John l.. Webster, who was
followed by Judge Dillon.
Broadly stated they base their asser-
ton of want Of citizenship in Boyd on
the ground that an alien cannot grow
into citizenship by belief or faith and by
assuming to act as a citizen. They cite
the case Of Dreyden and Swinburne from
West Virginia in which the circumstances
are substantially identical with those in
the case OF Boyd and in which the court
ton was necessary.
Ex-Attorney General Garland, attor-
ney for Boyd, closed the entire argu-
ment. He pointed out the fact that
Speaker Crisp was the son of an alien
Englishman who had taken up resi-
dence but had not secured citizenship in
this country; also, the fact that Crisp
was born in England during a visit to
that country by his parents. The citi-
zenship of Crisp, through the long resi-
dence Of his parents in this country, had
never been questioned, although it was
not q matter of record that either the
father or the son had taken out natural
ization papers OF declared themselves as
DESTROYS Of citizenship.
A decision in the case is not expected
till some time in January.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
THE DECAY OF THE TERROR.
The Pop of the Il I'll Mans Gum Punetuate
Western Peace No More.

The Terror shows up once in awhile
in some of the small towns of New
Mexico. and is encountered in the cat
tie country at rar intervals, but his
occupation is gone. The march Of
civilization has been too much for
him. Tie once numerous and thrifty
class has been tilinned down until only
a l~augling-slock is left. | was in
Cheyenne when Speckled Tom, Big
Pete, or Wild Charley used to come
dancing into a bar-room with a ttgun'
in either hand and sing out:
Now, then, hands upI"
Every hand went up.
"Mebbe there's some catamount
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
senate Republlcan caucus.

WASHINGTON, Dec. ga meeting was
held by the senate Republican caucus
committee charged with rearranging the
senate committees. Although there
were reports of dissatisfaction it was
agreed that efforts should be made to learn
the individual wishes of the Republican
senators upon the question of their as
Segment and in pursuance Of that pur-
pose letters of inquiry have been adj
dressed to such senators as have not yet
verbally expressed their preference. The
caucus committee will be guided in its
work by the well established practice Of
promoting to chairmanships where va
cancies exist the senior senator in point
Of service.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
Christmas Notices.

Christmas Notices.
It is the blessed Cfristmastide,
The Christmas lights are all aglow.
Whittier.
Above u heads the joy bells ring,
Without the happy children sing.
Whittier.
Kindle the Christmas brand, and then
Till sunne-set let it burne.
-Herrick.
Give the honour to this day
Tha sees December turn'd to May.
-Herrick.
Let winter breathe a fragrance forth
Like as the purple spring. -
The neighbours were friendly hidden,
And all had welcome true.
Old Song.
nan might then behold
AT Christmas, in each hall,
Good fires to curb the cold
And meat for great and small.
Old Song.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
christmas, 8ol
a cHRlsTMAs PRAYER.
for the lonely heart;

tAAN.a-aa N1L1Url
Lord, for the lonely heart s
I pray apart.
Now, for the sono Of sorrow
Whom this tomorrow
Rejoiceth not, o Lord,
Hear my weak word.
For lives too hitherto be borne.
For the tempted and the torn.
For the prisoner in the. cell,
For the shame lip doth not tell.
For the haggard suicide,
Peace, peace, this Christmastidei
Into the desert, trod
By the long sick, o God;
Into the patient gloom
Ofthat small room
Where lies the child Of pain
OF all neglected mostAbe fain
10 enter, healing, and remain.
Now, at the fall of day,
I bow and pray.
Fol those who cannot sleep
A watch 1 keep.
Oh, let the starving brain
Be fed. and fed again;
At thy behest
Inc tortured nerve lind rest
Isee the vacant chair.
Father Of souls, prepare
Ny poor thoughts feeble. power
To plead this hour:
For the empty, aching home
Where the silent footsteps come, =
Where the unseen face looks on,
Where the handclasp is not felt,
Where the dearest eyes are gon
Where the portrait on the wall
Stirs and struggles as to speak,
Where the light breath from the hall
Calls the color to the cheek,
Where the voice breaks in the hymn
When the sunset burneth dim,
Where the late large tear will start,
Frozen blythe broken heart.
Where the lesson is to learn
How to live, to grieve, to yearn,
How to bear and how to bow.
oh, the Christmas that is fledl
Lord Of living and of dead,
Comfort thou!
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in Independent.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18

Do you see that little wh~ite-laired
woman at the trante-et-quarante table.
with piles of gold and bank notes
scattered around her iH such confusion
that you wonder how she knows which
are hers and which her neiyhbors? She
wears the biggest diamonds in the
room and plays the most rccklessly,
undaunted by evil eyes or any other
eyes. She is a Duchess, who last year
lost 1900 francs in one night. This
year she will lose as much or more,
and next year come again, and keep
on coming as long rs she has any
money left or eau borrow any of her
friends.
That lady at the table near the cen
IRE OF the room, ut Wnom the Group
iers look disapprovingly, as if afraid
she will ''break the bank" must now
have IL piece of tho htiigtnan's rope
around her neck, although it is said
that last year she lost $4,000: but she
is rich, and it does not matter as much
to her as to the girl beyond, who risks
her all and loses, and then with a look
sad to see upon SO young aface search
es vainly in her purse for another five
franc piece with which to try again.
Will she learn wisdom from her defeat
of to-day? Not at all. She has tasted
the poison which is working like mad
ness in her brain, and if she cannot
borrow she will perhaps pawn some of
her jewelry or dress and come again
tomorrow, hoping to do better than
to-day. We're she a man she might at
last, when irretrievably ruined, posi-
bly, kill herself. But she is a woman,
and as such holds her life more sacred.
Down at the end of the table is a wo-
man SO old or blind or both that she
does not know when she has lost or
won, and has to be promped by her
friend, who tells her where to put her
money and when to take it up. Pitia-
bio spectacle of womanhood, with
bieared eyes and shaking hands, which
scarce can hold the gold she is squan-
dering so wantonly!
But to me she is not sopitiable as that
fair young English girl whom | watch-
ed for Il week and by whom l stood
when she made her first venture with
Il iiyc-frane piece and lost! But there
were more in her purse. and with the
exclamation, 81 must win!in she put
them down Il after another until she
had lost, while / could not help think.
ing that it would have been far bet
ter for her ii every drop of the ball
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
Indiana,s State Grange,

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 1.-THE Indiana
state Grange is holding its annual meet
ing here with 100 subordinate unions
represented by delegates. In his annual.
address President Truster took strong
ground in opposition to the proposed or
~ganization Of the farmers into a politi-
cal party and declared that snch action
would result in disintegration and tile
defeat of every measure advocated by
the farming classes.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
A S~easonable Sign.

About this season of the year you will
notice that the eastern girl wears a very
jealous expression when she cracks nev
jokes about the size of the western girls
stockings.-Life.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
Christmas Presents,

Christmas Presents.
A man may not be so badly off for pres
ents if he only has but presence of mind
New Orleans Picayune.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18

Up in puddirs on the mopping
floor. He whoopud. He yelled. He
cracked his heels together. He snap
ped his right-hand gun, but it was a
cheap cartridge. He snapped the
other. but there was only a dull click.
Then n small mar with a bald head
and bow legs and consu.nptive look
came out from behind a curtain and
knocked him down, and flung his
guns into the street. and wilistlel for
IA su.i.uIIau To come ana sing line
Cows are III the Glover" while his spirit
was slowly waiting H~eavcnwuId.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
The Price

Persons who may be undecided what to
purchase for a Christmas present will be
interested to know that a locomotive
which cost 100000 ten years ago can be
bought today for $4,000. A reduction of
SCI 600 is Il big item to consider when Sc
Letting a Christmas preseno.-Norristown
Hor.1J
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
Not That Kind.

Not That Kind.
Nobody should be hungry on Christmas.
1t is not that kind Of a hollow day.-Mer-
chant Traveller.