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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
The Name Marie.

In France every female who is
called by the name of Marie is en-
titled on Assumption Day, August Is.
to receive a bouquet The younger
girls are presented with perfectly
white flowers, while those given to
the elder ladies are not confined to
any one color or description.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
rnE NAN WITHOUT a SHIRT.


Il -
Successfully werked.
"Lady, dear, good lady, for PHYS
sake-not for the sake Of common
charity, not for common or ordinary
kindness, but for PHYS sake, can't
you give me q shirt"
This is the well-worded, 1mpas-
stoned pleaa big man with hard
visage, battered derby, torn clothes
and no shirt-made to the wife OF q
prominent downtown business man In
West Seth street yesterday.
In the temporary absence Of a house
servant she had answered the door
bell herself and was confronted by the
big tramp AS he spoke these words
he pulled out nail which answered
the purpose of q coat button and ex-
posed to the astonished gaze Of the
woman his nude body from collar to
waist
sFor PHYS sake, lady," he said. II
must have q shirt have been un-
fortunate and it would shock you,
lady, to tell how. / have too much
respect for q real lady to shock her
finer feelings. But just think what
fix am ina respectable man go
ing around without a Shirt"
She is a woman of good nerve and
she wasn't scared. InvOluntarlly she
broke into q laugh, which quickly
turned to pity. She said:
"Why, poor man; this is really
hard case. What size will fit you?"
"Any size; lady, any size" the fell
low said eagerly.
She laughed again, this time heart
lily, for he was so big that he would
need a No 10 collar at least, which
not one man in 10, 900 could I'LL.
"VerY well, said she, kindly. 'just
wait here and / will see what I can do.
In five minutes she returned, bring
ing a big linen night shirt belonging
to her husband. '.Here, poor man."
said she, compassionately, ''take this;
it's the best can do"
'God bless you, lady; by this act
you have laid up treasure in Heaven"
And having said this he moved on.
THE Lords sake, mem, and was
the dirthy tramp here, too-the dirthy
tramp wild no shirt?" This was what
the lady from below stairs said as she
came in. The tramp was just disap-
pearing. "Why, bless you, mem, he's
worked it all along the block, an as
you live he's got four shirts stuffed
inside his trousers this blissid mint.
sayin' naught of what he worked ye
| fer. men,"
"Ellen, you don't mean it," ex-
claimed the lady. "Why, what will
he do with them?" ''What will he
| do wild 'em is it? Well do l know
what he'll do wild 'em. Folly him I
will, sure as me name is Ellen Null
cahy. To the dago cast-offs will he
60, mem, as straight as tracks can
take him."
| And there's where he did go-as
straight as tracks could take him, for
the lady from below stairs saw itwith
her own bright eyes-to the head
quarters on Nineteenth avenue, just
a few blocks down, of the Italian
dealers in castroff clothing, who 60
about in that part of the town morn
ings droning out musically, but in
coherently, "Aye kaast ofe; kaast ofe
clo!" He probably got quarter
apiece for the shirts. 1t is new
phase of the ''cast-Off'' business
New York Recorder.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
TOO LATE.

Nhe lies % still the live long day,
She doth not move or speak;
The roses long have died away
Upon her dainty cheek.
Ispoke her harshly yestermorn-
Her agonized surprise,
It haunts me now-and for my scorn
The lovelight in her eyesl
And now each bitter word said
Accentuates my pain
Each taunt leveled at the dead
Has burnt into my brain.
Who is the wiser? I, whose feet
Must tread an earthly hell?
Or she who hears that welcome sweet,
'Fair spirit, all is well?-
Though God forgive me in His grace,
When have crossed the bar"
When shall meet her face to face
Beyond the morning star.
dare not think that even there.
Within the gates Of gold,
Ny soul will show to her as fair
As in the days of old.
The dear dead days of long ago.
Whose tale was told above,
When in on hearts we felt the glow,
The rosy dawn Of love!
Public Opinion.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08

later days, as he trotssl his grand.
children on his knees, he never tired
of telling over and over again into
their wondering ears the tale of the
spectre wedding. -Amherst Literary
MONTHLY.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08

MEN are so peculiar that as a rule
a man tells his wife the most when
she asks him the least questions. A
turtle will keep its head in il It is
poked and bothered, and yaan Is .
great deal like turtle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08

AT this time Of the year the chill
dren Of the poor must wish they we're
hydrantA 50 that some one would
wrap some old clothes around them
to keep them from freexin9.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08

A WOMAN too wise to remind a
friend Of the great things he intended
to do, will remind q man Of the prom
ises he made before he married her.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08

They looked exactly alike; he did not
know which was the bride and which
the groom. He wished he were well
out Of it, and the only way to gain
his wish was to proceed quickly with
the ceremony, and so he began at
once. In some way he managed get
through, although he could not have
told afterward how it was done. He
turned to the bride when he said:
500 you take this woman to be your
welded wife," and to the groom when
he should have addressed the bride;
but at length, much to his relief, the
81 do" was said by each, and the
Justice finished with the 81 pro-
nOunce you man and wife"
But all was not yet over. No sooner
had the words left his lips than one
of the beings before him threw aside
its ghostly robe, and there, in a beau
tiful wedding gown. stood-his daugh-
ter, Margaret. MI. Dupont started
to speak, but he only gasped, for
around him stood the other ghosts;
they too had thrown aside their robes
and stood revealed. Could he believe
his eyes? Yes there was no mistake,
he had married his daughter to
Charles Foster, in the presence of
his wife, his son, and three family
friends; and the Justice knew enough
of law to realize that the ceremony
was binding. The black curtains.
too, were torn down, and there they
all stood in his own parlor.
There was no help for it, conse-
Quently Mr.. Dupont submitted, and
someway & his friends thought that
he was very glad that the joke was
played upon him; Ut any rate in
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-29
"A / III

hydrogen. History, experience and
science verify this and show that from
the age of oxygen came the age OF hy
drogen, that our earth and armament
were balls OF fire, which have been cooled
OFF, resulting in a constant rain and from
this proceeds the age ofhydrogen. Then
came the age Of carbon, thatevaporat ted
all hydrogen and DIVIDED, that which
was dry was named land and the wet,
water. Oxygen is the consuming power,
while hydrogen and carbon are both
creative. Then all plants and animals
created in the sea emanate from the ele-
ment OF hydrogen and subsist on that
element, while all animals and plants
created through carbon, subsist on car
bon and hydrogen, which exist in all the
food we eat and without which nothing
could exist, for they preserve life in man,
animal and plant. They govern the in
crease OF growth in the mineral kingdom
also.
So il the making OF rain in the Black
Hills proves a failure it is not mans
fault. but because the air is SO full ol
carbon that it evaporates the hydrogen
and no rain can be preeipitated. Natnr-
lal philosophy teaches US that the strong
Ie power always oYerscomes the weaker
one, go il the rain makers fail fere, The
fault is not theirs, but must De attrib
l.uted to nature itself. ss
All who reside here, who take an ia
| terest in country and home, WHO 10y
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-29
stockmen Attention,.,

Realizing the necessity for concerted
action on the part OF Black Hills stock
men. ifcattlerustllng is to be checkmated.
Messr's Woods and Cannon. represen-
tltlve stockgrowers, haye issued the fol-
lowing call. 1t is needless to say that
every association in the Black Hills
should be represented.
The prevalence OF thieving having
caussd the organization OF several local
stock associations III the Black Hills
country, and believing that by united
action alone can the owners OF range
stock protect their property ther, fore,
we, the undersigned, representing two OF
these local associations, would, With
respect, request that each association
elect delegates to a meeting to be held in
Rapid City, on Saturday, February 20,
at which time it is proposed to form a
general organization of all Black Hills
stockmen, b=lieying that in this ws,,
they can best protect their interests.
The formation OF the proposed general
organization will in no wise conflict,
with the local associations now in ex-
i,stence, but will serve to greatly en-
large their work and increase their use
1uiness. 1t is earnestly requested that
all sNockmen who can will be present at
the meeting In Rapid City, February 20.
J. NJ. WOODS. Rapid City,
Pres. Black Hills Horse Breeders Assn.
j. p. CANNON Spearfish,
Pres. Black Hills Stock Ass'n.
Black Hills papers kindly copy.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-29
Governor Fletcher on Ram.

Ex-Lieutenant Governor j. III, Fletch-
er, in writing to the Aberdeen Sun shows
his faith in the new secret process for
rain-making. He says: ''Now whether
Melbourne can or cannot produce rain,
am not going to say, but happened
to be in Denver last September, when
that gentleman operated at Cheyenne
His claim was the theme of the hour
Everybody was talking about hlm. The
cunt be dones' were there as well as the
can be dones. The cant be dones'
had large majority in Denver They
denounced Mr.. Melbourne as a fraud,
and the people OF Cheyenne as fools.
The day for the trial at length arrived
Hundreds went up to Cheyenne. The
day was clear and cloudless. Not a
single Indication Of 81 cloud. and. let me
say, there never is in Cheyenne in Sep
tenber, and seldom at any other time
for that matter. At the time appointed,
10. a cloud the size Of u mans hand ap-
peared in the distant sky 1t rapidly
grew larger, and down came the rain in
torrents, and the Denver people who
went to Cheyenne to see the rain might
as we'll have renamed at home, for, the
shower that fell at Cheyenne, reached
the Queen City also-a distance OF
sevcnty-five miles. This happened when
| was in the mountains. On my return
every man with whom | conycrsed was
a believer in Melbourne. The universal
verdict was, he can do it, And this
not from ignorant men-not from the
easily dupcd-but from the shrcwdest
country"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-29
9. B. Argues That Rain Makers Are
Not Unnatural Beings and
Favors Them.
Ex-Governor Fletcher Believes Implicit
y in Mslbourns's Ability to
Produce the Fluid.
Louis Gathman Describes the Process
The Mass Meeting at Pied.
mont Saturday Next.
Opposed to Melbourne.

EDITOR Or THE UNIoN:-During the
past year have been greatly Interested
IN the discussion regarding the artificial
production OF rain. I have read, with
no little amusement, the reports OF the
press regarding the alleged success Of the
rain making experiments" Ihave also
read with much interest the opinions OF
our scientific men who have logically
concluded that it is practically impossi-
BILE for puny man to force the moisture
from the skies by any means within his
reach. Now as the rain making craze
has taken possession OF our farmers,
and they seem determined to be hum
bugged, l would like to submit few
facts to the sober considerable Of the
readers Of the UNION.
In the first place do not say that it
is Theoretically impossible to produce
ram artificlally, l do not assert that if
we had an infinite amount OF force or
energy at our command, that we could
not compel the great sea OF atmosphere
that surrounds this earth to give up
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-29
small Tarmcrs sbonlt .Io;u

Commenting on the UNIONS recent in
terview with Peter Duhamel on the ques-
ton OF organization among stocklnen,
the Spearfish Register says:
Every farmer who owns half dozen
head OF stock should become a member
OF the ASSOCIATION nearest his farm or
range, for his own protection; the COSTS
trlfing, compared with the benefits de-
rived, as has been proven by the exper-
lence OF a number OF our farmers within
the year. There is more reason for his
becoming IL member than for the large
owners, who can move their ranges or
have ample means to prosecute depre-
dations on their herds, while the farm
ers, nine times in ten must "grin and
bear it." The move is a good one, and
we expect to see it ma terialiZe.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-29
LOCAL BREVlTIES,

Remember the Masquerade ball Feb
ruary 22nd.
Jerry Kennedy OF the Exchange is
down with the grip,
Benn Nann and y. 7. Price who had
la grippe lately, are able to be about
again.
W. 7. Coad returned home Monday
morning. He says the d. 4 W. will be
built Immediately.
Miss Fannie Smith closed Il very sue
cessfui term OF school at the Summit
school house to-day.
II. ID. Dib!,Ie while working at the
Chlorination works last Friday fell seven
1eet and sprained his ankle severely
Judge Gardner and attorneys j. w.
Fowler, Chas. w. Brown and G. l..
Wood went to the Springs Tuesday to
attend the circuit court there.
w. A. Wager the popular manager OF
the Rapid River Milling company, re-
signed his position and left Tuesday to
accept similar one in Chicago.
r. B. Hughes, who went east last week,
III response to Il call from West Point,
Nebraska, where his mother lay i'll, re-
turned Sunday, her condition having
improved.
The f. E. and NJ. V. Il. 4. has granted
a rate OF a iare and a third. from all
points.on the road to the Knights OF
Labor Masquerade ball Washingt,.n's
birthday.
Little, the Indian, who was taken be-
fore the United States commissioner at
Deadwood, on IL charge OF rape, was held
over to await the action OF the United
States grand jury.
The Harney Peak Tin Mining company
| had ii mortgage recorded against it last
Saturday for & 900. 900 sterling. It is
a voluminous document OF sixty fou1
sheets OF extra large parchment paper
In the discharge OF his duties as regis.
ter OF the United States land office at
Sundance, Mr.. Stotts, publisher OF the
Journal, will necessarily be absent from
| Newcastle a large part Of the time. In
Ibis absence, the Journal will be in charge
/ OF John HI. Marble, formerly editor o.
I the Harney Peak Aining News at Hill
.5I|City. The j Journal bespeaks for hinl j
kind reception bsI the people d the CITY
Newcastle Journal
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-29
Believes on Melbourne.

There is a tide in the affairs OF mrlI
Which. taken at the food. leads on to fortune
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in s h lllows and in miseres:
On sllch a full sea are we now af1oat:
And we must take the current when it serves.
Or lose our ventures. SIIAKESpEARE
EDITOR OF The UNioN:-The question
OF the day is, can rain be made artific-
Tally? There are many argument; for
and against the theory. Where success
hos attended rain making experiments,
it has been realized that one OF the
greatest discoveries OF modern tJmes,
has been made. Where they have prov
ed failures, people have not been slow
i'll declaring them the greatest frauds
ever perpetrated on Il community.
Two hundred years ago Melbourne and
Dyrenforth would have been considered
us associating with the evil spirits had
their experiments terminated success
fully and would surely have been burnt
to death. But III this enlightened age,
we know that the natural man is not
able to perform wonders that are super
natural, but that they must entirely
agree Win nature.
If the Creator had not created hydro
gen. oxygen and carbon, through which
all creation is made, to develop and
bring it to its proper growth, it would
be impossible for Melbourne to produce
rain. But then Melbourne, like all men,
is Gods master-work OF creation. He is
only q being to benefit his icllowman
and for that purpose all great scientists
and philosophers were born from the
time OF Patagoras to Capernicus. to
kepler, to Calico, to I-eipnitz, to Newton
and down to Edison. Dyrcnforth and
Melbourne are the Creators workmen
to benefit the world. All genius comes
from higher power, that is infinite and
omnipresent, without which nothing can
not an unnatural power but comes en-
tirely from natural resources and from
matter which may have existed from
time immemorial. Dyrenfortli and Mel
bourne conceived this idea, not OF them
selves, but from scientific research aided
by higher power. They propose to
better their fcllowman without the dis
tinction of creed or religion. They are
tiissinss y ing to be The greatest beneiactors
man has ever known.
The method followed by these two
gentlemen is, simply stated, toputdyna-
mite into batteries and let them explode
in balloons then the fearful heat CT the
power OF oxygen draws the hydrogen
from the earth,- and causes rain.
Now we l1now there arc three elements
The first is called carbon, which means
heat or dry air Carbon evaporates ;lll
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-29
| | K

change in temperature Or pressure, ex-
cept some substance be added to cause
it to throw down or precipitate the ma
terial it holds in solution. 1t would be
as logical to explode dynamite in the
sea expecting to preclpltate the salt it
contains, as to expect the air to give up
the moisture it holds under the same
conditions.
I have heard it asserted lately that
the Scientific American indorses this
rain making business to the extent OF
declaring 1t to be a success. This is
mistake. The Scientific American says
the artificial production OF rain is i'm
possible or impracticable. 1t saws that
one might as well explode dynamite in
Alaska expecting to produce drg weather
as to expfUrie IT here here se& the {lrnose OF
causing it to rain. AS to th, plan OF
Melbournes to make 1t rain y sending
up an unknown gas;it is too ausurd to be
considered. Think OF it, to send up
few cubic feet OF gas expecting to cause
the air which is not over saturated with
moisture to send down millions OF gall
Ions OF water. Why if Melbourne could
do this he would have the earth and
haye 1T fenced. In dry country he
could make the people buy his rain or
starve, and in q wet one he could make
it so doggon wet that the people would
pay him to stop.
am told by some OF the persons
anxious to be humbugged, that If he
does not make it rain he will not charge
any thing. Well suppose nature con-
cludes to give us plenty OF rain next
summer, how can the people tell it from
Melbourne's rain, will he have his brand
ON his? We have had number OF dry
years in succession, if few wet ones be
ahead OF us now will not Melbourne reap
a harvest? Is not this his scheme? |
know this problem OF how to secure
water for agricultural purposes is a
serious one, and one that must be solv-
ed soon or hundreds OF our western
farmers must give up their homes and
seek employment IN the over crowded
centers OF our population, but the prob
lem cannot be settled by jumping at
straws, if solved at all it must be IN ac-
cordance with natural laws. TO my
mind the proper plan was outlined by
\ S, E. Forsha in last weeks UNION. Every
spring great quantities Of water rush
down our mountain gorges and dry
1schannels TO be discharged finally into
i i the Gulf Of Mexico thousands 81 miles
4 away.
The only fatiOnal manner Of settling
i this proble@. and of 6nal ny causing al
4 Increased d, ia fall il by digging bitches
epresa Rg the water now going te
waste On 81 alleys and tables, and bs
building dai 1Ssy ore to store VI
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-29
Who Will he city Attorney

Going on the theory that the rcpub-
licans will not have the say it rests be-
tween Francis II. Clarke and Edmund
Smith, with Jim Boyd IL good third y
replied an Independent. "a. L. Wal
lace will be city attorney if Dr. MGilly-
cuddy gets the plum said Il good repub-
lican. The same authority comedies the
position to S. J. Parsons should A.
J. Wood control the appointment.
Edmund Smith will be our next clty
attorney" sad :, red hot Independent.
"Who does Grambcrg favor for city
attorney" quciried an innocent appear
Ing republican. ED Smith for ali
know" sald the UNION man.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-29
How To Make Rain.

Lonis Gathman OF Chicago, IN his
book on how to make rain, thus des-
cribes the method:
"Whcn my shells filled with liquifed
carbolic acid gas explode at a great
elevation the rapid evaporation OF the
gas creates an extensive current OF cold
alr Which, as its specific gravity is great
er than w.trm air, siuiSs rapidly 10 tie
earth, sets; in motion streams OF attnos-
phcric air, lowers the temperature at a
great altitude, produces clondsinstanter,
and all this with the bIucst OF blue skies
ut The outset and in the dryest desert of
u r;linless REGION
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-29
The Taxes of 1891

The following is the amount of assess
ment and taxes in the city and county
for the year 1891.
Value OF lots Rapid City 81 ,297, ,7l4;
total tax on same $40, ,365 .OS including
tux on railroad. Value OF personal
property in city, S477,114; taxes on
same, SIT ,S39.O5. Total valuation, 81 j,
IA, ,S2S: total tax $63 ,2O4.73.
Valuation Of county lots, S1O7 ,S73;
taxes on same. So, ,933. CT; valuation on
land in the county, SGI9, 9,432; taxes on
same S22,O1O.44; valuation of mining
property in county ,S66,SOO; taxes on
same, 81, ,54S.65. Value OF railroads in
county S155.3SS; taxes on same, 50,
olS.6o; taxes ON same, 5,156.23.
Total valuation OF real estate in county
outside OF Rapid City, 81 ,LO9 ,493; taxes
oil same, $33, ,64S.99. Valuation OF
personal property III county, outside OF
city, S5O7 ,0O1; taxes on same $50, ,25O.
80. Totalcltyaud county valuation SO,
291 ,'2S, total city and county tax for
1891 will amount to S117, 1O4.11.
Total school tax, including special tax,
S2l ,654.S0; total school township num-
Der four bond tax, 81, 1,1O6.42; total in
dependent county school tax, S6: 5S2 Sc;
total school poll tax, 81, ,2O2.OO; total
amount OF school taxes. $50 ,545.SS.
Railroads in Rapid City 3.2l miles,
valued at 81 $50; total amount OF tax,
S4o4.55. Railroads in county, 54.45
miles valued at Sl5l 1888; total amount
OF tax, 50, 56.23. Total 57.66 miles,
valued at S162, oh; total amount OF
tax, S5,56O.7S.
1t will be seen by the above that the
city treasury will receive S65 ,204.73;;
and the county treasury, S53 ,S99.3S.