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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

EVER day we are told that we are
living too fast for our health, yet each
the pace. Where the evolution will
cease it is impossible to foretell. The
pressure of life has increased enor-
mously in the last quarter of a CEN
fury. Every indication is that its
growth will continue at least to keep
pace with the adaptation of the human
frame, if it does not outstrip it and
lead to q general collapse in the form
Of greatly lessening the average
length Of life. and lowering the STAN
Gard of health.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

To RISE from the darkest ignorance
10 such a stage Of enlightenment in
one generation is an achievement
worthy of any race. The fact that
many negroes have made no progress
argues nothing against this record Of
development. After more than a GEN.
fury of favorable government and IA
voring conditions of all kinds there
ands OF white people ignorant and
vicious. To lift all of a race to the
same plane is impossible. The pro-
gress of a people is to be judged by
the advancing many. not by the lag
ging few.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

The kindergarten is no longer an
experiment 1t has been tried and
proved, in public and in private insti-
t%utions. until its supreme value for
the young has been demonstrated.
The private kindergarten exists every
where for the benefit Of wealthy par
ents who a afford to give their little
mes the advantage of this initiation
into the first mysteries of learning.
The only reason why it does not form
a part of public schools generally is
not because its value is not of the
highest but because it has been
thought a thing too rare and costly
for the general use. We might have
magnificent high schools, and labora-
tories equipped with costly apparatus
for the little contingent of culture.
but we could not furnish to the great
army of the people the training schools
that would best begin the fitting OF
their little ones for the serious work
of life.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

Az acre OF land at present devoted
to wheat or corr could, we believe.
by more careful farming, be made to
produce nearly onc-third more than
it does under the current Indifferent
methods OF agriculture. This better
farming. OF which we speak. implies
not only more careful and thorough
preparing of the ground and are Of
the crop while growing, but it also
means the use of a reasonable amount
of fertilization, which. even whore
our soil is SO deep and strong, is last
becoming a necessity, at least in the
older portions of the state.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

THE day of literary men and litcra-
ture is over. 1t is now the triumphal
hour OF the imoecile millionaire, the
rich society woman. who has nerves
hystcria. a vast deal of impotence, a
store Of proverbial p1atitude, and a
continual itch for notoriety; actresse:
who have more gowns than brains;
English lords and ladies, and some
asanine royalists. Every fool in the
universe, with money enough to pay
a printers bill, has published a book
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

one great u Of heavy Toss by
Ere. if not the chief Indictment to it.
is the. fact Of too high insurance
against it. The man who is allowed
to insure his property for fully as much
as it is worth is thereby tempted to
carelessness. In fact, it may be as
serted with no fear of successful dis.
pute that all the remedies the COM
panies propose to the president il
adopted. would prove Intellectual and
delusive so long as full and excessive
insurance is indulgedin by the in.
surance companies 1t would won.
derfnllys promote care and watchful-
ness il they would establish an infex-
tble rule not to insure any property at
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10
THE elf-centered isolation that di

THE se%lf-centered isolation that dis
tinguished the old-time saint is giving
way before the diffusive solidarity
that is the note of our democratic age.
To-day men do not most readily find
God in the darkness and silence Of Il
cell. but in the places where non and
m are most wont to gather, and
in wise and helpful plans for the pro-
gress and happiness Of the race. In
these latter years of the nineteenth
century a new and vibrant meaning
has been put into the words OF the
Apostle: None of us liveth to him.
self, and no man dieth to himself"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

EVERY wrong that has been perpc-
trated under cover of law in this or
any other country has boon cloaked
ny a p~retense of care for 'civiliZa-
ton" In some way it has been deemed
an aid to- civilization that nations
should resort 10 acts of barbarism and
injustice. lest some form Inherited
from the dark ages be endangered.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

How careful should mothers be to
make their homes sunny, joyous,
bright and attractive; for on them is
built the great fabric of the years to
come. The long chain Of lifc-eXper-
there. and thought retravels the path
30 often, lingering here and there by
the way, living over and over again
the sunny springtime memories.
Mothers too should instil into every
member OF their families not only a
love for truth, honor and virtue, but
also a love for temperance. correc'
living, and all the health command
nents-which ara nna1fn tn "a health.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

more than two.thirds its ascertalned
value. If they would thus throw on
the owner himself the remaining
third part OF the risk they would
make it OF vital interest," to him to see
to ii that they were not called upon
to pay fire losses. And not only
would this policy conduce to watch,
tulncss over existing risks. but il
would teud powerfully toward the con.
struction OF more secure buildings an:
more neurly fireproof structures than
those on which the companies nov
take premiums.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

In England. publishers derive a
large portion, if not the greater por-
ton, OF their revenue, not from the
sale Of their publications, but from
the unconquerablc aspirations Of their
aristocratic clients. There + hun
dreds of ponderous pads of fiction,
essays and poetry published by Lon
don firms every year, for which they
have not paid a cent
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10
Pc:chercn Stations.

Louis Cnitcux has purchased the i'm
ported Pcrchrron stallion CHINA 1919
and will make the season OF 1892 at his
ranch on Elk Creek, twelve miles from
Rapid City. Post office address,
GrnshulI. S. y. emma was imported by
Virgin 4 Co OF F%airbury, III. He Is a
tine black, weighs 1,SOO pounds and will
be found registered in Vol. ., of the
Pertheron stud book Of America. Mr..
CniteuX also has II No. l scven-eights
Prrcheron, y dnpple gray and weighs
1850. THIS horse he has owned four
years and he can show some fine colts
Of his get.
CHINA and five OF his colts took FIRST
premium at the Fnlrbulv Fair in 1890
this being one OF the largest fair, in the
state OF Illinois.
Mr.. Ccixteux Offers IL prize i SIS,
for the best colt sired by emma and
$40 for the best one sired by Avalanche.
| will als,' allow Il 10 per cent discount
on al! stallion bills paid before March
1$t 1893.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

So LoNG as the race continues will
it be imperfect. for there is no life
without change. and a change for the
worst is in the direction of extinction,
while an achievement Of perfection
leaves no room for growth. Though
we are in fact less vicious, less
ignorant more righteous and more
enlightened than our f%orefathers, we
are by the last of these conditions
under an obligation to put forth moro
thoughtful efforts. The most hopeful
sign in the life of to-day is the atten-
ton which is paid to social problems.
Yet these have as yet been barely
touched upon. Man in the past has
achieved much, man now is doing
more. but there is ar illimitable field
still unexplored.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

In a recent sermon on missions Rev.
DR.. Beard. OF Now York, gave some
interesting facts concerning the pro.
gress of the colored people in the
South. On the abolition of slavery
the negroes were at the bottom of the
moral, Intellectual and social scale,
and their total taxable property
amounted only to $40, 900. At the
end of little more than one-quarter Of
q century we find them with $2j4,-
600, O0o of property subject to taxa
ton. There ~re is. 900 colored
teachers and l, 24O, 900 pupils in the
schools. There a"e also sixty SIX
academies and high schools and seven
colleges with colored presidents.
Their editorial talent is represented
by 154 newspapers and two mag
azines.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

MosT OF the wars Of the present age
arc wars for the extension or protec-
ton of trade. Tho warfare OF COM
merce is tho engrossing occupation OF
the century. 1t is a warfare, for
tunately, that does not always involve
oloodshcd. Tho underlying consider
alton. when its generals plan their
campaigns, is the answer to the ques-
ton, Twill ii pay?"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

WHAT science shall teach us when
to stop efforts at reformation and in
stitute only stern, bald justice?
What knowledge shall impart the
wisdom to draw the line between pun
.shment and restraint? How shall
the moral responsibility Of the chance
lnfringer of law and the irresponsi-
9llity Of tho moral malformation who
knows no right and was born only
~ith the propensity to evil be distln-
puiShcd,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10
THE UNION.

TsIEnE are no such periodicals in
the world ~ the best American illus
trated magazines The English aim
TO equal them, and they have been in
the nab..t of claiming superiority in
literature generally. but they arc SO
far behind US in the illustration branch
US TO be practically ont of competition.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10
COOP CROP DISASTROUS

In a recent circular issued by Henry
Clews. a Wall street banker and stock
broker, he speaks as follows of the com
ing cotton crop: "This is a factor to be
watched, as there can be no doubt that
another big crop would be a national
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

FAR from rue hat right Is alw,;ys
might in international %quarrels.
There are always two side to every
international question, and it may be
said thnt the great powers of the pres
ent day are not always to be found on
the right side.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

THE South Dakota Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union will meet in regu-
lar annual session at Redfe!d, Thursday,
10 a. M, June 23d, 1892. The basis of
representation is one delegate for each
twenty-five members or major fraction
thereof; provided, however, that each sub
alliance in good standing shall be entitled
to n delegate. II. w. SMITH,
A. LAWRENCE,
s.. j. HoFFMA,
Approved: Elk. Committee
FL. Il. LoUcKs, Pres't.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-06-10

Other medicines might help but to
make assurance douhly sure use De Wits
S,rsaparilla to enrich. purify and renew
| the blood.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-18
Stating the Problem in Plain, Every
Day English.

Here is proposition for the farmer.
You own well improved farm of $50
acres-your home. Your raw land, al
the time you bought it, when the coun-
try was new, cost you IS per acre. You
have improved your farm and made Ii
worth s25 per acre. You pay taxes on
SIS land that has been made thus valua-
BILE by you industry and enterprise. On
the same day that you bought your
farm, Mr. Downtown purchased the re-
mainder of the section at the same
price per acre. He did not take off his
coat and go to work as you did and
make the land produce something to
sustain life. His land has produced
nothing; he has not given employment
to anyone; he has not made an effort.
All this time he has paid taxes on ''un-
improved" and you have paid taxes on
improved" land. You have paid vast
ly more taxes on your land than he has
on three times that amount. Mean.
while your improvements have steadily
increased the value of his land, which
of course he contemplated He does
not want to sell it He can afford to
keep it The taxes don't amount to
much, and he knows that in a few
years your land will need rest and you
and your neighbors will be glad to pay
more for his bunch-grass than old land
is worth. Now, Mr. Farmer, can jeu
see where you would lose if Mr.. Down.
town had to pay the same amout OF
taxes on his land which he is holding
on speculation that you pay on your
home? 1t may be claimed that it would
probably force Mr.. Downtown TO sell
to someone who wanted to use the land,
but you would not be likely to ohjecs
to that Think it over, neighhor.-
Washington Territory Eagle.
The Bee does not say that 1t will DC =
full-fedged single tax advocate. 1t be-
lieves in it in theory now; 1t panses only
on the threshold of doubt as to the ex.
pediency under existing circumstances
Sacramento tCal) Bee.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-18

Il have attended the most of the state
| conventions since 1872, and have never
seen anything like it. Never either
| have l seen so warm 4 fight wind up
with so friendly a spirit 1t was doubly
an honor to win the nomination over
such manly and honorable competitors
1t was the steadfastness of my friends
that did it Organization wins all bat
| ties nowadays
Il had been informed just before that
nineteenth ballot began that Galloway
county was coming to me. l knew that
would be the beginning of the end.
| You NAV imagine that | awaited with
no small degree of anxiety the uproar
| that | knew would follow the an
nouncement of Caliaway's vote. | was
| in the auditors Office when It came and
| assure YOU had no trouble hearing
''Gentlemen.- said Mr.. Stone. as we
allowed him to escape from his corner,
remember that you are TO take horne
dinner with me at noon. l Will call
for you And he picked up his straw
hat and departed TO work in his head
quarters
By buzzing around a little among the
Stone frienis-and they Were every
where-we found some new and inter
esting things about the next governor
which he would never have thought OF
telling us himself. Stone had said he
had always had large family, but that
ne had but three children. We learned
by little inquiry what this meant
William Stone has for many years
supported, single handed, twelve per-
sons thrown upon his care
Mr.. Stones father, his mother dying
early in life, married a second time.
His second wife became the mother of
six children. The elder Stone and his
wife died while these were yet young.
! The children had no support save W.T.
liam Stone. and right nobly did he
undertake the task imposed upon him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-18

Wherever the waving trees in the
yard gave room there were lccc vistas
of the fertile prairie fields green with
corn or golden with harvested wheat.
Within the circle of the view a dozen
squads of harvesters could be seen at
work Herds of fat cattle moved lazily
over the ridges.
Bv and by Farmer John Stone came
in and gave Us a courteous welcome.
He is half-brother of the ex-congress-
man and he runs the big farm. John
Stones wife and baby were away visit
ing a neighb Dor, and he and his men had
been out in the field stacking oats
That was why the house was deserted.
John Stone is about 81 years old; he
came in clad in hickory shirt, overalls
and Tapping straw hat-a working
farmer. He is successful farmer too,
an intelligent, well read man of modern
methods. and an eye for business. He
talked quietly and simply and intelli-
gently about his work.
William Stone bought this 1~rm by
bits. He first acquired the 16D acres
surrounding the house and the1. made
his home. Then he bought other
quarter sections and improved them un-
IL now he has $40 acres of as pretty .
fa1 N as there is in Vernon county.
OF this tract 200 acres are in cultiva-
tion-corn, oats, wheat, fax The rest
is given up to the Stone herd If Short
horns. His Shorthorns are his especial
pride Don't forget to take IL look at
my Cattle" he said rs we started for the
farm. Good cattle they are, too
. Every head Is duly pedigreed nd all
are registered in the Shorthorn herd
book. They are of the bluest of Short
horn blood and one of them is worth as
much as a carload Of range cattle. Mr..
Stone has fc. years made a study of
Shorthorns and has infused into his
herd the best strains of the breed. Just
now there are but about seventy cattle
in the herd, which is down to its mini
mum size Not long ago Mr.. Stone sold
bunch of the best of his cattle to Con-
gresham Dick Norton, of Troy.
Mr.. Stone spent much Of his time on
this pleasant farm until 1854 when he
was elected to congress. Then he moved
into Nevada and built for his family the
house on Cherry street, where Is now
his home. NAT p HUIroX
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-18

Stone IS prouder of nothing more than
his intimate acquaintance with the
people of his section. He knows every
body aad is known of all. He has
grown up with his county.
when / came here in 1870" he said,
''there were about 500 people in Neva-
da- l opened an office in the back
room of Pruitt & Anderson's real estate
Office. Dr.. lockwood, now one OF the
wealthicst citizens of Nevada. came
soon after and we kept an office to-
gether. We had one of these old lounges
that push and pull out and there we
slept for two or three years A certain
Capt Sanders kept a restaurant in a
cellar-not basement-and there we
took our meals There were no rail-
roads in this country then and it was
very wild.
Il remember shortly after | came to
Nevada that one day 1 had to ride
to Montevallo, sixteen miles.
rode Texas mustang and the trail cut
right straight across the prairie. 1
think it is safe to say that not more
than dozen houses came within my
sight across all that open prairie where
/ could see for miles.
Il came back after night: it was q
clear night. The sky was heavy with
stars and the prairie was full of coyotes.
They fitted along after me on the trail
bowling dismally. 1t was most
ghostly ride-that trip across the
prairie. My mind was full of Tam
O'Shanter. / was ready to run at any
moment.
THAT trail lay for n good portion of
the distance along where is now the
road to ny farm 1t is all fenced now
and there are farms and farm houses
all the way. Nevada's population has
grown from 500 20 5000 and that of the
county from IS, 900 To b, 600
Mr.. Stone talked entertainingiy about
his town and Inodestly about the big
victory he had won at jefferson City.
1T was Il wonderful contest" he said.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-18
dent at Woodland college in Irdepend-

dent at Woodland college in Irdepend-
ence.
Few men have undertaken so strenu-
success of It He has given all his
brothers and sisters good start in life.
Then Mr.. Stone has of late been the
main support of his wife's father and
mother, Col and Mrs. w. X. Winston.
Col Winston's home when young Stone
married his daughter Louise was near
jefferson City. The Winston's were
widely known IN Cole county for gener-
Gus hospitality. Now the colonel and
his good wife are over 30 years of age,
feeble and broken in health William
Stone has for years made home for
them. They live now in shady little
cottage on Cherry street, close to the
Stone home, and their every want is
supplied.
The burden of providing for all these
helpless ones, in addition to his own
wife's three children, Stone has borne
with the utmost checrfulness. 1t was
his duty and he did It. Stone is man
of tireless energy, plain in his habits
and modest in his needs. His industry
Has OteH " COlliloI
for those under his care. He has en-
gagged in many enterprises and always
has met success He is a man who takes
no rest
Now that his hard campaign for the
nomination is won, friends have be-
sought him to go somewhere and rest
up for the struggle with the fellows
who are so noisy in their standing up
for Missouri. But he won't do it.
what good would it do me TO go off
to the mountains somewhere?' he says.
Il could get a change of scene there,
but can rest just as well here. Be
sides 1 want TO know just what is going
on"
This desire to know personally just
what is going on has made Stone sue
cessful. He believes thoroughly in the
perfection of organization in all politi-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-18

of lands, such rs these property owners
recommend, has no tendency either to
diminish house accommodation or to
increase its cost. 1t simply takes from
what the owner of land would other
wise put in his pocket, and, by making
it as costly to him to keep land idle as
to fully improve it, would tend to slim
ulate building and increase accommo-
dation- 1t would thus promote the
comfort and economy of citizesse Eesid-
ing in or visiting the national capital,
and instead of discouraging enterprise
and improvement would tend to dis
courage the business Of monopolizing
land that is needed for the purposes
for which the federal district was
formed.
Furthermore, the report points out
that the Identification of the district at
national expense benefits local land.
owners, and it is therefore expedient
that the assessment for local revenues
should fall upon the benefciaries. Then
says the report:
Out of the twenty-four millions q
year which the landowners of the dis
trict are already enabled to appropriate
to themselves, and til forty millions
year which is being added to the sal
able value of their property by the
growth Of the district, it is surely but
little to ask that they should contribute
less than $500, more than they now
contribute to municipal expenses. A
tax rate of 81 cents on the 500 is now
needed to raise the required revenue
from land and improvements, but a tax
of only SO cents on the 500 would raise
it from land alone, leaving all improve
ments exempt from taxation.
The report declares that to collect
only 1215 per cent. of the annual rental
value of land would suffice to raise the
districts proportion of the increased
sum of $4,000, 600 asked of congress by
the district commissioners, and % per
cent. would suffice to raise the whole,
so that not penny need be asked OF
the national government This could
be done without increasing the cost of
living in the district, and indeed, with
the result of checking land speculation,
and bringing land held for speculative
purposes into use, an effect in turn,
which would increase legitimate land
values and thus enlarge the fund to be-
drawn upon for the districts needs.